Anne Clark - Dedication lyrics

In broad daylight And a familiar street The kind where gossips dawdle And nose-to-tail dogs meet Some ba*tard with no face lurched out From behind a tree And tried to k** me There was tooth flash Black leather The smile of a knife And I saw the terrified Puffed out bird of my life Fly from my hand So for a long second I knew I was dead Even though I was still fighting him off Even though I just said 'no, no' and then in a flurried muddle go on go on Meaning all I most wanted to do in the world Had hardly begone Before my heart started working again And I stood there alone Dribbling a little thin blood from one finger Onto a ringing paving stone I thought that was it But then night fell And the knife became an adder's tongue Bitterly licking me Slicing easily Stripping the brain from my open head Until all I'd begone, half finished or done Or wished to be true, was gone All except you But you were asleep and made no sound When I left your side without a word And slipped downstairs to my room underground A grown up, like a frightened child The fire is out at the heart of the world All tame creatures have grown up wild The lives I trusted, even my own collapse, break off, or don't belong I laid my head on the window pane And the hard edged garden lit with rain Shimmering a million knives The wind caressed them with its painful hand The fire is out at the heart of the world All tame creatures have grown up wild All except you, your life like a cloud I am lost in now, and shall never be found