With indifference to us A melancholy light The ghost of Summer past The moon relieves the sun Across the evening sky And here we come undone And here we say goodbye Take the last kiss from my lips Take the last look at my face And then surrender all we have Or I will never walk away The whispers in the bough Are but rumours on the wind This love was never ours And yet we took it in The headstones mark the lost Erased by time and tide Ashes cast to sea Blow back as memories THE CANADIAN BROUGHT US SNOW (Words - GA Johnson) The Canadian brought us snow and Lucky Strikes for John to smoke/A Thursday night with powercuts, in mountain socks, burning books/We watched the Jetsons for too long -saw robots in our sleep/Naval lights from Amsterdam through the kettle steam/The Jesus glow of Calor Gas illuminates the frosted glass/The windowsill, a battle scene of Airfix kits and Disney Queens/Born too early, wake up too late/Minds of Chomsky but low birth weight/Sleeping beside, treat us like eggs/Box-jellyfish light; tinsel legs CERTAINTY (Words - GA Johnson) There are more people alive now than have ever lived - I read that somewhere and instantly thought it impossible but if it were to be true, I wonder that, if we keep living this fast, no-one will have time to die/I've met people whose lovers died in war and I've wondered what this helplessness could be like - one minute