The Wrote & the Writ - Johnny Flynn

I'm waiting Waiting for the world to disappear And I see you pretending to be my friends But I'm not like you at all Because I get back to you And I talk to you But nothing echoes back Nothing echoes back

Oh, where is your inflammatory writ Your text that would incite a light, be lit Our music deserving devotion unswerving Cry "Do I deserve her?" with unflagging fervor Well, no we do not, if we cannot get over it But what's it mean when suddenly we're spent, tell me true Ambition came and reared its head, and went far from you Even mollusks have weddings, though solemn and leaden But you dirge for the dead, take no jam on your bread Just a supper of salt and a waltz through your empty bed And all at once it came to me And I wrote and hunched 'till four-thirty But that vestal light It burns out with the night In spite of all the time that we spent on it On one bedraggled ghost of a sonnet While outside, the wild boars root Without bending a bough underfoot Oh it breaks my heart I don't know how they do it So don't ask me And as for my inflammatory writ Well, I wrote it and I was not inflamed one bit Advice from the master derailed that disaster He said "Hand that pen over to me, poetaster!" While across the great plains, keening lovely and awful Ululate the last Great American Novels An unlawful lot, left to stutter and freeze, floodlit But at least they didn't run, to their undying credit

I've been thinking 'bout quitting I don't think I'm gonna do it But I've been thinking 'bout quitting 17-year-old me probably wouldn't believe That I've been thinking 'bout quitting After all of the hours that I spent getting good I've been thinking 'bout quitting I've been thinking 'bout quitting I used to love this, now I love this less And I've been scared to get this off my chest Afraid of who I might let down if I decide to put to rest The life I'm living But I've been thinking 'bout quitting It comes in waves, but the waves come stronger and more often I've been reading about how burning out is not uncommon But I never thought it'd happen to me So young and full of so much promise But if I'm honest I used to love this, now I love this less And I've had trouble filling up my chest With the air I need to live because I'm anxious, and I'm stressed Beyond my limits So, I've been thinking 'bout quitting And I tell myself I'm a loser Who can't take when things get hard I'm my own worst abuser But I guess most people are And I've already come this far It'd be a waste to not just finish But I've been thinking 'bout quitting I don't think I'm gonna do it But I used to love this, now I love this less I don't know what I would do instead So, I'll probably just convince myself that sticking with its best And try forgetting That I've been thinking 'bout quitting

You were every song I ever wrote Been wearing all the memories like a winter coat Holding on, now it's time to cut the rope There's only so long you can spend your days Picking, laying flowers on an empty grave And just holding on, now it's time to walk away I'm crying with a smile, now go, oh-oh I'm ready to let you Let you go, oh-oh Never regret you Never turn around just know, oh-oh Wherever you get to No one ever lives forevеr as long as you do I love, I love, I loved you You see nobody еver let me in I was running deeper underneath your skin Don't know where my hearts stops And where your heart begins Today I woke up and I realize I've been looking forward with my tears dry So I hold my breath and I wrote my last goodbye I'm crying with a smile, now go, oh-oh I'm ready to let you Let you go, oh-oh I'll never regret you Never turn around just know, oh-oh Wherever you get to No one ever lives forever as long as you do, oh I love, I love, I loved you, oh-oh, no-oh And I love, I love, I loved you, oh-oh, no-oh (as long as you do) You were every song I ever wrote

You wanna call me up Get it off your chest But you broke my heart And you don't care less (Suddenly you've got) Up in the night Remember when you couldn't sleep without me And we were the best No other bed that I'd rather be In over my head Went over my head Like rolling thunder Now it's a mess Can you confess I was a fool for you I didn't see it coming Drunk on all this love Then suddenly I was sober Now it's too late for us I told you it was over So don't come around here Come around here You wanna call me up Get it off your chest But you broke my heart And you don't care less I've been moving on Done with all your stress Now I've found the next one Suddenly you've got Regrets you got regrets You got regrets regrets I'm not coming back now Regrets you got regrets You got regrets regrets Closing the door Our clothes on the floor We had it wild T shirts were torn We stayed till the dawn In such denial Denying the truth And keeping it cool You put me under Nothing to loose But me and you I was a fool for you I didn't see it coming Drunk on all this love Then suddenly I was sober Now it's too late for us I told you it was over So don't come around here Come around here You wanna Call me up Get it off your chest But you broke my heart And you don't care less I've been moving on Done with all your stress Now I've found the next one Suddenly you've got Regrets you got regrets You got regrets regrets I'm not coming back now Regrets you got regrets You got regrets regrets Now That You Made Your Bed Why don't you go sleep in it Finally Out my Head Now you gotta pay for it Wasted your time changing your mind crossing the line Now I found the next one... I've been moving on Done with all your stress Now I've found the next one Suddenly you've got Regrets you got regrets You got regrets regrets I'm not coming back now Regrets you got regrets You got regrets regrets

The grass is long in the valley, my love And there we'll go to lie When the hawk is high above the house for us And he guards all of the blue sky When winter comes and the nights are cold I'll take your hand to hold I dreamt I flew with the saints last night I know them all by wing size And up there it just doesn't count for naught Whether you're clever or wise When everyone is talking at the very same time I'll still hear your voice, my dear Genesius the actor and Agnes of Rome Are two of the truest who fly I know she's a stout heart And though he had a false start There's a promise of truth in his eyes And it's a stout heart catches the rain And it's a stout heart that feels the pain And It's a stout heart that loves again It's a stout heart Yeah, it's a stout heart Everyone goes against the wind sometimes When the shipping forecast's wrong Said we were landlocked and stuck to this soil Guess they never heard of us winged throng Let's gather us up to the heavens above We can always come back, my love We can always come back, my love

The day we met my life was changed I always heard that love was strange And painful Painful One night you slept upon your side Tangled in white you looked just like An angel An angel So why did you fly away? I've been dying a little death Since that very day I used to laugh, when you told me You must forget and forgive To be free Down by the water, dressed in black I swore revenge to get you back Hateful Hateful I made my camp upon the hill Drank whiskey from the secret still Blameful Blameful So why did you fly away? I've been dying a little death Since that very day I used to laugh, when you told me You must forget and forgive To be free And I never could admit The part I had in it So this is what I get, my friend Drunk in a field of scarlet snow I reconciled with your ghost In april April I stood before the hypocrite There in the mirror brightly lit Shameful Shameful Now, I know why you ran away And I've been dying a little death Since that very day I used to laugh, when you told me You must forget and forgive You must forgive just to live You must forget and forgive To be free

She's always got a lover on the B-Side So she won't mind if I walk away She's got another someone on the East Side She don't hold me like she used to tell me what's the story I can see that somethings going down, going down This will bore me, so let's draw the line and do some talking I'm not one that likes beat around, beat around yeah When it comes to me and you, yeah I think I always knew And now it's time to face the truth She's always got a lover on the B-Side So she won't mind if I walk away She's got another someone on the East Side She don't need me anyway And I won't call But she'll be fine, enjoy the ride She's always got a lover on the B side On the B side ay Karma, karma, every day another drama, drama I've come to realise that now's the time for me let it lie Easy going, all the while without me ever knowing If there was anybody else but I think you can't deny When it comes to me and you Yeah I think I always knew and now its time to face the truth She's always got a lover on the B-Side So she won't mind if I walk away She's got another someone on the East Side She don't need me anyway And I won't call But she'll be fine, enjoy the ride She's always got a lover on the B side On the B side ay Oh, you know our time is up Pack your things now 'cause you gotta go Sorry it had to end this way Maybe we could have done more somehow But you tore us down With another on the B-Side On the B-Side ay She's always got a lover on the B-Side So she won't mind if I walk away She's got another someone on the East Side She don't need me anyway And I won't call But she'll be fine, enjoy the ride She's always got a lover on the B side On the B side ay