I Prefer the Arrow

• I Prefer the Arrow

I Prefer the Arrow

Don't ever say you didn't mean those things
I prefer the arrow to the poisoned drink
I don't sleep so well with you inside my dreams
But I can't sleep at all when they're without

I don't know when I will see you
Maybe I'll never ever see you
These years just want to eat us alive
But please you know what to do
Survive, survive, just survive.

I see the numbers laid grim in the news
And they can't be you, no they can't be you
I know that archer, who draws the nock in sleep
To tell how it will be, but we've yet to meet

I don't know when I will see you
Maybe I'll never ever see you
These years seem intent on us to die
But please you know what to do
Stay alive, stay alive, stay alive.

I don't really want to hear you changed your mind
They'd never let you on the train, the desperate state, their angry lines
I prefer to think somewhere your quiver blooms
And you have gone, gone straight and true.

I don't know when I will see you
Maybe I'll never ever see you
These years seem intent on our demise
But please you know what to do
Stay alive, stay alive, stay alive.

© Brendan Bonsack
December 2020

1. Picking the Stitches (of a year that was)
2. Can't Fall Any Further
3. Nana Europa
4. A Penny Sonata
5. If You Should Find Your Key
6. Those Three Words
7. Graveyard Tale
8. A-tishoo A-tishoo
9. Smoke That Keeps the Fire
10. 100 Days
11. I Prefer the Arrow

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Released January 2021