Popinjay - The Joy Formidable

It’s just a world apart, you said

It’s like nothing you’ve seen, this place

The fiction’s given, the ending bled

Into a space across your page

Why did it wrap you like

Morning fog chokes the trees

Believed it will — there’s something bigger than you know

Are you waiting on me?

Hold you deep and lonely

The centre’s here, you fill, you own it

Popinjay

Just say the word, and see clearly

We can stain/stay in time if we lose the beginning

The crooked leaves for favours dealt

The scared and greedy in the storm

Onto forgotten trust

Onto forgetting us

Hold you deep and lonely

The centre’s here, you fill, you own it

Popinjay

Just say the word, and see clearly

We can stain/stay in time if we lose the beginning

Of a start

It’s better than a fall

It’s better than not starting at all

It’s just a world apart, you said

It’s the pillars of your heart

That leave you lonely

It’s the pillars of your heart

That lead to loneliness