Future Tense - The Charlatans

If I stay here, I’m safe — safe from The Machinery

But then if I stay here, I’ll never find her again

And without her, I may as well not exist

She’s out there somewhere

Somewhere out there in the darkness

Avoiding headlights and horsemen

My client, My mission.

My not-quite-lover

We live for the night, those of us still left here

We move, commune, transact all business

Faceless and nameless in the dark

But I’m neither of those things now-

I’m a known quantity

Too well known for The Machinery not to be interested

They want me

The Machinery and the horsemen both…