ON

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I am on, switched on

A sudden clearness

A clarity

 

Hidden away in every locked toilet

I've been waiting for you

In the Joiners Arms

 

I know your name

I know your name

I've danced with you

We're all friends here

Silver slugs lined up like bullets

Rolled up twenties

They disappear

 

You make my tongue loose

You make my tongue loose

I am hopeful and stutter-free

You make my tongue loose

You make my tongue loose

I am hopeful

 

On Friday night

I do all the talking

A pint and a fight

The dance floor is mine

Truth serum

And limbs that won't listen

Drunken “I love you's”

On top of the world

 

And when it runs out

We're chasing something we'll never catch

And when it runs out, we buy more

A flatness so bleak

I've been bitten by a vampire

A flatness bleaker than the one it replaced

 

You make my tongue loose

You make my tongue loose

I am hopeful and stutter-free

You make my tongue loose

You make my tongue loose

I am hopeful

 

I can charm

I can charm them all

I can charm them all

 

I can charm

I can charm them all

I can charm them all

 

You make my tongue loose

You make my tongue loose

I am hopeful and stutter-free

You make my tongue loose

You make my tongue loose

I am hopeful

 

I can charm

I can charm them all

I can charm them all

 

I can charm

I can charm them all

I can charm them all