Kate Tempest – People’s Faces
It’s coming to pass
My countries coming apart
The whole thing’s becoming
Such a bumbling farce
Another disaster
Catharsis
Another half-discarded mirage
Another mask slips
I face off with the physical
My head’s ringing from the love of the stars
There is too much pretence here
And too much depends on the fragile wages
And extortionate rents here
And then we smile at all our friends
It’s hard
We got our heads down and our hackles up
Our back’s against the wall
I can feel you aching
There is so much peace to be found in people’s faces
I saw it roaring
I felt it clawing at my clothes like a grieving friend
It said
“There are no new beginnings
Until everybody sees that the old ways need to end”

More empathy
Less greed
More respect
All I’ve got to say has already been said
It’s not enough
To imagine we’ll be happy, when we’ve got enough stuff
I’m neat with no chaser
I’m all spirit but I’m sinking
Beause the days are not days but strange symptoms
Now I don’t have the answers
But there are still things to say
I stare out at my city on another difficult day
And I scream inwardly
When will this change
Even when I’m weak and I’m breaking
I stand weeping at the train station
‘Cause I can see your faces
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