Things

Here is the evidence of human existence
A splitting bin bag next to two damp boxes
And I cannot find a name for them
They hardly show that I have lived
And the dust it settles on these things, displays my age again
Like a new skin made from old skin that has barely been lived in

I didn’t need these things I didn’t need them
Pointless artefacts from a mediocre past
So I shed my clothes, I shed my flesh down to the bone and burned the rest
I didn’t need these things I didn’t need them
Took them all to bits, turned them outside in
And I left them on the floor and ran for dear life through the door

The useless objects, the gathered a storm of shit
A dim and silent shedful of your life’s supplies
When all you need’s a coffin and your Sunday best to smarten up the end
At the front gate, what a reward awaits?
One bite of loaf from a holy ghost
An eternity of suffering the company of all those Christian men

I didn’t need these things I didn’t need them
Pointless artefacts from a mediocre past
So I shed my clothes, I shed my flesh down to the bone and burned the rest
I didn’t need these things I didn’t need them
Took them all to bits, turned them outside in
And I left them on the floor and ran for dear life through the door

I’ll never need these things, never need them
It’s just you I need
You, my human heat
For the things are only things and nothing brings me like you bring me
I’ll never need these things I’ll never need them
Never going back
So we can drop the past
And we’ll leave it on the floor and run for dear life through the door