Kae Tempest - To Blossom In The Shadow lyrics

Old friends with new faces - time don't heal
Time softens
Time just blocks out the problems
So why bother waiting when the drink
Does the same much quicker?
In the absence of a mic, I'll clutch liquor
And raise a salute to the three who
Gave me the strength to be Katie
Things change, yes
People make gravely damaging
Decisions that lead to mistakes
And now I'm sitting here thinking that it
Must have been a piss take a big old hoax
The elements cracking jokes watching us
Tie ourselves into knots
Like our ropes were enchanted last night I
Awoke in the darkness of
Predawn and watched as
The sky gave way to the day:

The moon sat peaceful in the West the


Sun sent emissaries to herald it's approach
And gradually he rose
To beam across the sky at his sister sent his
Colors out to whisper that he'd missed her
And for a short while the two shared the
Same sky - both of them glorious
Both of them perfect
I couldn't help but think of us lot
In the days gone by -
We didn't want to fit the Earth
And so we made the Earth fit us
Big souls in a small dimension our
Wit's told us to walk, direction
Unimportant, we thought we'd be safe, we
Performed with an awkward grace
We were sure there was more to this place

If only we'd known
(ah but the journey is paramount)
That behind our backs
Many hands had their daggers out
Still - days passed, we laughed, we
Made beats and drank dragon stout
And every time we had our doubts -
We made sure we had 'em out
We played a few shows, it weren't
Nothing much to brag about
But in within the grouping
There was some kind
Of solution that made us all sure
We were moving through confusion
To lucidity -
Made bigger by each other's abilities
Those days are the blood
In my lyrical capillaries
You lot are the blood
In my lyrical capillaries

Well - 'what happens in love
Occurs beyond good and evil'
We did what we did, we were people, truly
And as I keep progressing on my path
I often think of them: friends
That gave my own style to me
So I move through life
Every tiny little moment
Building on the others, contributing
To the now
And I get it: if we'd have stayed allies
Never shifted
To opponents, we wouldn't be the
People that we are
Anyhow, what I'm saying is -
Watching the sky this morning
I saw perfect harmony, and
It was so beautiful
And I thought about us, and
The nature of companions
And that day when we all piled
Into the mic booth for
That chorus on that old track
In that studio - no egos
Just childish enjoyment imagining
It'self as maturity
This morning it dawned on me
That I still feel
The foundations that we built
Then supporting me
And I still hear the words of
Our young raps calling me
As I struggle on to be what I
Was born to be - better

So when you rise, I'll smile
I'll greet you broadly
And for a little while, I will shine out
But shortly I'll start to sink
Slowly and happily away -
Coz every good Moon makes room for her Day
Every good Moon makes room for her Day

So yes, you do your thing, and I'll do mine
It's important we give each
Other space to shine
Coz when morning arrives, there'll be
A space in time
When we can shine out together
And glory in each other's glow

"How the human spirit seems to blossom
In the shadow of the abattoir" malcolm Lowry