Kate Tempest - 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 its 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 wits 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 itself 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
Cause 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
Cause 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