Patchwork Heart

from The Belgian Custard Experiment by Synaesthesia

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Bar tender calls closing time on my patchwork heart
Stories that have pages torn she sellotapes with smiles
The cracks within our crystal glass faced away from our guests
Silver shining cutlery we turn them stain side down

Two characters in a sitcom script
written for a black and white tv set
Like the split going up her sixties skirt
That she'll pretend was meant
I'm winding up our carriage clock
Its last tick long since gone
She's darning my last birthday's socks
To keep our heating on
I'll nail and stick the skirting boards
To hide the flaking walls
I'm using last week's Sunday times for the
Fireplace draught in the hall

White washed walls for family photographs above the mantle piece
Beneath the rug chocolate tea pot hiding from the lens
We're not that scarred when covered up with camouflage bandages
Zip them up with our last smiles showing off our sewed up silk

The anthems of our catastrophe sing from the stereo
Evenings on a corner couch in the middle of the floor
Poetry reads differently from a Torah scroll
Each holy book an epitaph by my patchwork heart

Bar tender calls closing time on my patchwork heart

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from The Belgian Custard Experiment, released January 29, 2021
Music/Lyrics - Colin G Pender

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