Ashes, Ashes - Royal Canoe, NNAMDÏ

Ashes, ashes

Wake me when it passes

You can’t hear the flashes

Ring around the Rosie, Rosie

Pocket full of codeine

Thought you said you know me

Now we return to ashes, ashes

Wake me when it passes

You can’t hear the flashes

Ring around the Rosie, Rosie

Pocket full of codeine

Thought you said you know me

Half life

Dead in the daylight

Night, night

Living my half life

Ashes, ashes

Cover up the grasses

Who can run the fastest?

Ring around the Rosie, Rosie

The sky is growing moldy

Tell you what it told me

Now we return to dust

And we wait for the gust

Gimme something to feel

Nah, nah, nothing for real

I think I saw my replacement

Lying down in the basement

Am I getting complacent?

Am I the joy that you haven’t destroyed?

Hold it close to your chest

Oh, but don’t you feel blessed?

I hope you consider

You’ll have nothing to give her

If you fall in the river

Half life

Dead in the daylight

Night, night

Living my half life

Playing my games, nothing to do

Draw me a map out of here

I’ll bring a flame over to you

I’m feeling so, so cavalier

Tickle on my neck, a single bead of sweat

The beating heat recruited takes a tour of my chest hair

Trickled down, an unexpected redirection

Ripple out a sense of centre leaves me on a bender

Lackadaisical and lack of ethical emotion

Blowing through like shell in oceans, hear them vent

I cop some opiates to help me cope with this

They cut the ropes, won’t miss an open invitation out now

Ashes covered pasture, Gary Ross upcoming actions

I’m indifferent to the shadows getting cast

A coup d'état removing any thought of future you has sprawled

All useful knowledge will be severed off, forced stop

Cut short, old jeans, blood spots

Dead by dawn in a town of yawns and poor sports

Where the currency’s forced smug looks and slow shrugs

And we’re only currently corpses without a sense of urgency to indulge in

Half life

Dead in the daylight

Night, night

Living my half life

Playing my games, nothing to do

Draw me a map out of here

I’ll bring a flame over to you

I’m feeling so, so cavalier