Don’t Forget About Delight

Amid the rumours and the expectations

And all the stories dreamt and lived

Amid the clangour and the dislocation

And things to fear and to forgive

Don't forget

About delight

Y know what I'm saying to you

Don't forget

About delight

Y know

Amid the post-ironic postulating

And the poets' pilfered rhymes

Meaning feels like it's evaporating

Out of sight and out of mind

Don't forget

About delight

Y know what I'm saying to you

Don't forget

About delight

Y know

Though you find yourself alone and stranded

With no friend to take your side

On the endless road afoot and empty-handed

Where the wild-eyed Cossacks ride

Don't forget

About delight

Y know what I'm saying to you

Don't forget

About delight

Y know

Spring birds peck among the pressed-down grasses

Clouds like zeppelins cross the sky

Anger drips and pools and then it passes

And I say a prayer that I

Don't forget

About delight

Y know what I'm saying to you

Don't forget

About delight

Y know