Kae Tempest - Keep Moving Don't Move lyrics

Close the curtains, light the incense
Inhale the thick clouds with
Your eyes closed, your nose burns
On your knees in the corner
Of a strange woman's room
Her naked feet like tree
Roots in this undergrowth
Frankincense, Frankenstein, Francophile
Philistine frankly, we are killing time
Wake it, bring it back to life
Kneel, bathe in warm water
Your bodies dirt turns the bath tub
As grey as these walls
Notice, bathe at moonrise and sunrise
And when you switch off the telly
Wrap your head in clean towels
Curl up like a found thing
A dead insect collected
Between the pages of an old book written
In a language you can’t read
Now dry the inside of your


Elbows in painstaking ritual
Three times clockwise
Three times anti-clockwise
Don't breathe in until there's no
Air left in your lungs
Keep moving, don’t move
Keep moving, don't move

Seven point two billion humans
Seven point three billion humans
Seven point four billion humans

The rain falls like troops
Like troops, the rain falls
Open your coat in it, shiver and cough
Your skin's like a dead thing, dying
Your feet like pond weed
The rain falls like troops
Walk up the hill, post-pub trudge
Laugh to it, live to it it's coming to pass
My country's coming apart
The whole thing's becoming such a bumbling
Open the front door, your key is an arrow
Now turn three times in the hallway
Peel off your clothes, socks last, socks last
Stand naked and push your twig fingers
Through the wet bracken that
Storms by your ears stand naked and shiver
Now dress in warm things that
Smell of your body
Lie in a cross on the rug, watched by the dog
Let his mild concern be comforting
As you stare at the bottom of the chair
Drink rum from a curved glass
That you stole from a place that you hated
Eat raw food standing up at the fridge
Stroke the phone screen with your thumb
Like a mother trying to wipe clean
The face of her only child that blemish
That black dot that will not come clean
The first sign of the plague
Absorb the ache of all your friends
And sleep with the light in your
Brain burning UV all night
Wake tired, eat bread, eat oranges
Eat bus stops
Eat traffic jams, eat shoes, eat shop windows
Eat the chair you're sitting
On, eat the paperwork, eat the table
Eat the idea there was ever more than this
Eat the beer, eat the takeaway
Eat the toothbrush
Eat the boredom, eat the breakup
Eat the phone she's hasn’t called
Eat her ringtone six times, six times
And when she answers
Eat the scilence in your mouth
Eat the pillow, eat the blankets
Eat the Moon
Eat the screaming drunks, eat the bad dreams
Wake up eat the alarm, remember to chew
Are you doing this, too?

Seven point four billion humans
Seven point five billion humans
Seven point six billion humans

Open your arms and their legs
And your teeth and their jeans
And your ribs and their eyes
And your skin and their brain
And push two lonelinesses together
And create more loneliness
Or create god and come inside each other
Walk through the city alone in
A stupor of love
Create god, touch everything
Nod at strangers like a daffodil
With a severed head your face is a trumpet
Blow the futile brass part
Sit across your lover’s lap and
Scream into their mouth where's love?
Create god, but where’s love?
The last real pub in the
South is surrounded by wankers
And they're coming in close
With their cards out so, let's link arms
Be prepared to go down with your ship
Your ship's sunk be prepared to go down
Stick your hands out of the
Car on the motorway
Feel the wind pushing it's face
Into your open palms keep moving, don’t move
Keep moving, don't move keep moving