JESSE MARCHANT - Brightest of Feathers (EP - 2017)
Brightest of Feathers
They say the brightest of feathers
Win often in love
And I have seen it go that way
When all the trials and failures
In the gloaming light fall
And the feelings die away
I'm holding on to you
But living it like a child
Playing a part
Get no rise
Unless it's something new
Well if it's 6 miles you grow
From your parents
For you that don't seem far enough
It’s tearing up in you
I can see it in the way you cry
All the times you were blinded
By a pain you knew
But you'll go telling me
How the waves fall and rise
Like it's nothing more
But I've been having my doubts
That these things abound in you
Won't finally overflow
Well there is much in a man
That stands to be broken
Fucking around
With the one you love
How do you take it back
Living life a porn parade
I was always proud
To be leaving in the past
Did I go telling you
Half of the ways I'd fallen around
When you'd open your door
Or that I'm having my doubts
That this pain abound in me
Hasn't finally overgrown
Here I am letting my guard down
Will you stay around me now
Or will your fright of it overflow
Bulls Lie Down
Do your brawling in the light
Steady arm
Lay it bad onto me
Loose endgame
Faces lying in the shadows
Dogs are barking in the rain
Still life in park
Storm rushing I'm in a wave
You bet your life
You bet your life it cost
More than you’d pay
When the bulls lie down
With the fog sitting low
I will rise in a fire
In the face of love
From beneath a life
In the shadows
From all that is haunted in me
End of your life
Maybe a pawn
Maybe a fat lion
Out in the sunlight catching rays
You built your life
You built your life a con
But it's over now, ain't it
Thinking About You
The air is thick
In the presence of your soul
With other ones I left behind
Though they don't bother me
They won't let me alone
They go on shaping me
In all of my time
Thinking about you
All of my life
What am I gonna do
If it don't ever feel right
Is it not a sign to wear
Or a pain not left its time
Always covered in another coat
To look the same but it's wrong inside
What I am I gonna do
With it all to myself
Statue of mourning
In light in a hall under a veil
Center of all of my thoughts
Pinned up by the tail
What am I gonna do
In the lonely desert
Is it really gonna straighten out
Have I really come to blame you now
Love When It's Easy
I'm going down with what fate had in line
Tried my best in a free fall
Never beat what the house put down
On my feet but I've been taking falls
Lead the way
I'm blind and impatient
All my love is unguided
Help me through
Leave to wait the rise of faceless fears
Of falling down and letting go
Or you can sit on a mountain
Nearly your whole life
Alone up there
With your heart in a safe
I've done that too
This goes out to the one I love
For her patience and sincerity
For it is easy to give
Under a firework sky
A heart that bleeds
Will always pay in full
Silhouettes, blurry faces
Empty lines from a mouth
Of a bag of bones
Tired of being around
All these places
All of my life
I’ve been trying to feel at home
Well in a full moon rising
My headlights died
In a crash I was blinded and saved
Come what may
All busted up
Everything untied
I’d ever wanted to keep
I got the sun in me
I Wish it Could Have Been More (Instrumental)
Wings Cut / Fingers Cut
Still of the night
Still of the night
Under my breath
When it was still in me
Endless dream
Endless dream
With the fire out
Can it still be seen
Every thought in a cell
With my fingers cut, living hell
Cut me deep
Cut me deep
Wish I knew in my bones
If it will ever heal
And what will stand
What will stand
If I get out of the swamp
But live still in its heat
Which is sand, which is salt
Every late night rain almost gone
All just sliding away
With a will for life
Always fought against
Oh how this life can be pained
Love is a wave
Love is a wave
I held my breath
And it took me deep
If you can dance
If you can dance
Over my cracks, will it help me heal
It all gets in, but you know I
Never take it for what it is meant
No, it just lies in the way
A bird's wings are cut
And it's put in a cage
All of its life, what a waste