Friday 19 April 2024

All I Need Is Night

by Nick Gisburne





I bleed and burn the colour of my words.
They smoulder in the shadows, bloated, black.
Their tissues, torn by sacrificial birds,
Disease my dreams, a burden on my back.

As evil as the soul of any snake,
I twist in whispers, blasphemous, bizarre.
A crippled mind, a cancerous mistake,
I welcome every lesion, every scar.

What binds me to this bleak, appalling place?
The sight of it is sickening, obscene.
The painted shades of midnight flood my face
With dangerous delusions, cold, unclean.

When all I see, when all I need, is night,
In darkness I will never know the light.

As evil as the soul of any snake,
I twist in whispers, blasphemous, bizarre.
A crippled mind, a cancerous mistake,
I welcome every lesion, every scar.

When all I breathe
When all I feel
When all I want
When all I see

When all I need is night,
In darkness I will never know the light.



Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem All I Need Is Night