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Tea Song

from Roll as a Hexagon by Helen Bell

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about

2011

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Running out among the jackdaws in the unrepentant mist
Until the city sounds as distant as your transient kiss
Through deadlines and river mud
And open-ended dreams with no momentum
And shoelaces undoing
Shrugging off February
In the hope that some kind of spring is brewing

And by turns
Each of us would fill a cup
Draw a circle through the spiralling tea
With our chances and collisions and our fears stirred in
By turns
Sometimes you turn to me

I know that you won’t love me
You say you can’t love anyone
And I will love too much
As I already love too many
Handing out my precarious heart
To all of my beloved melancholics
And you, just as each of them,
Could crumple it like paper
With your name still freshly inked on it

There is room for more than two cups in the pot
And I intend to pour out six at once and drink them all hot
And you intend to keep all of yours warm
Just for one and one
I guess it saves on cleaning up
And though we don’t buy each other’s paradigms, perhaps
I’ll half-delude myself a while that our convictions overlap
Though we both know that really we’re just filling in the gaps
But meanwhile, why not pour another cup?

I got up this morning, since you’ve given me those back
Made the tea and lifted letters from the mat
There’s a postcard from Persephone
The Acheron by night, it says she’s packing
She’ll be back for us to see soon
I’ll keep shrugging off this desolation
Rowing through the flood using just a teaspoon

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from Roll as a Hexagon, released July 7, 2018
Helen Bell – vocal, clavinet, viola, violin, bass guitar
Tom Drinkwater - drums

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Prog/folk/pop singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist specialising in viola and keyboard instruments.

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