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No love In London Lights

City lights in London town, bedlam without rest
Times always ticking, cocaine in each breathe
Leaning on the steel rail, these days they seem so long
Don’t think I’ve failed to notice the winter since youve gone

I wait for my coffee, my early paper read
Hoping for some comfort in chocolate starbuck dreams
The cities stirring now, the trees alive with may
But through these footsteps, through the madness my passion starts to fade
Suited with a coffee, I realise I’m just a face amongst a train
Suited fools with a lonely hearts, the losers in lifes game

Stepping from the train, barely even six
Faces grim with rain and wind looking for a fix
Pubs, Bars and cities lights quaking to a start
Beaming through the darkness, the London deep at heart
No, not for me, no afternoon drink, no manic teatime rush
Is drowning out my sorrows of being blue in love

Wander tired along the pave to weeping tower blocks
Home sweet home they say
that’s a load of bollucks
See its cold and every inch within this space
Memories and notions, reminders of your face
It’s way past eleven but the radios on loud
I’ve put on Coldplay for you; I thought I’d make you proud
I wish id appreciated the times you’d sung to me at night
You lie with me, sing fix you, and hold me warm and tight

Dead on a bed now, nothing but a wine fuelled lullaby
Tears nervously fall;
they’ve done so well to hide
In one half of a bed, in a one half of a home
Another night in London, another night alone

Author notes

i read what you wrote, and I have recently had to let someone go, being on my own feels like being lonely in a huge city, I live and work in a Bath and its always chaotic. Being lonely is like lost amoungst thousands and thousands of people for me, all going about their buisness without realising theres anything wrong. I felt like I had to hold it all in, and the only times now I get upset is when the days up and Im home alone, without them. I knwo what your going through babe, this is my experience and thanks for inspiring it with the contest.
Written June 8th, 2006

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  • Sol
    February 13, 2007

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    Such a somber painting of London. I could feel a lump in my throat while I read this. Its so clear how this has shaped you. I'm sorry, love.

    At first the rhyme scheme caught me unawares. But it was never forced. Each lines was genuine.

    "just a face amongst a train"
    "nothing but a wine fueled lullaby"

    beautiful.

    hang in there.