Shiver - Thea Gilmore

We are knitted like the wool of the sweater on your chest

Yeah, my body is a pillow where your eyes come to rest

In these times of temporary rhymes

Nothing’s endless

We are stitched like the skin across the bones of my thighs

I’m the soft scar tissue that you use to dry your eyes

There’s such precious little time

Honey let’s go break some paradigms

It’s a shiver

It’s a second

Just a grace note in the song

It’s a shiver

It’s a moment

Just a whisper and it’s gone

We are tied like tongues, we are locked as the land

We are bound in ways that we don’t understand

I don’t want to be discreet

I just want to drink this lifetime neat

So bring on the phoenix, bring on the rain

Everybody loves the sound of a speeding train

Pack up your apologies

Honey come and waste some time with me

It’s a shiver

It’s a second

Just a grace note in the song

It’s a shiver

It’s a moment

Just a whisper and it’s gone

And there’ll be hard lines coming up fast

And those bad times will get dragged from the past

But look forward that time is ours forever

And there will always be saboteurs

Plastic Venus in fake furs

From a wide angle we are just blurred

In the bigger picture

It’s a shiver

It’s a second

Just a grace note in the song

It’s a shiver

It’s a moment

Just a whisper and it’s gone

And it’s gone

And it’s gone

And it’s gone

And it’s gone