Nico's Children - Jack

Baby I’ve been waiting here for you

In the housing benefit queue

I’ve been waiting for the light

That’s set to end us all

I’ve been thinking

What these hands could do

Let loose upon you

Set free inside you

Honey, undress me for the last time

Put me to sleep in the daytime

Tonight you’re ugly and I’m worse

But we’re both victims of this thirst

When the sunlight turns to snow

When these lights are turned down low

It won’t be poetry

Just poverty

Like so

Nico’s children

Follow me like flies

Needlepoint arms

And nothing in their eyes

Come home to me early

Say that you’ll save me

So sunny and dirty

Oh swear you won’t spare me

The last in a line of beautiful mistakes

Together we’d never make it

Straight out of here

See I was never impressed

By their motives or their dress

But when the faith it turns to proof

In this the deepest heart of you

It’s not salvation, just desperation

My love, we’ve been lied to before

We’ll find the reasons, but never the cause

And in these days between stations

Yes, we’ll be free from their questions

Yeah, I was free to be

Whatever it was you wanted me to be

When the charity comes round

When you’re safe yet naked

In the crowd

It won’t be kindness

Just blindness

Like so

Nico’s children

Follow me like flies

Needlepoint arms

And nothing in their eyes

Come home to me early

Say that you’ll save me

So sunny and dirty

Oh swear you won’t spare me

The last in a line of beautiful mistakes

Together we’d never make it

Straight out of here