You Stayed / To Live Video (MV)

In 2016 we stole a couch
From an abandoned post office
And set it ablaze.
At late I watch videos of that day and make play you stayed.
Garda drove by 3 times but never stopped at the sight
As we carried that couch over head height
In the night.
Left it in a field to burn tomorrow
Or the next day in arts name.
Film the flames as they dance and swa.y
Repeat on film the makeup of our estates,
And like it always would
We returned
Two days after to charred wood
On the couch that had already been burned.

As I pen this,
Fire tears through a car parked
Right outside my window.
I push outside to the bright heat.
Sparks litter the street.
And to me
I just want to text you a photo
And say this looks just like that Mount Kimbie
Video we always watched.
Nothing is real
And you're not here.
Vacuous flames just tease.
How can this bring us to our knees?
Why do I think
To stand again with you
In front of an inferno and gaze
Could bring ease?
Answer my call,
Make these flames dance for me.

In 2008
We had a band called Plagues
Me, You, and the two Robbie's would play for days,
During breaks.
And then sit around my Ma's place on Myspace.
Pasta for dinner, as we filled the plates.
One of us got some idea,
Thought it'd be great to set a tshirt ablaze
Inside our wooden shed and instead learned our mistakes
With great haste.
And I blasted the kip with the spray
Of a fire extinguisher, til the sound of flames
Made way for the weight of
What the are we doing? F*ck sake.
The place looking white as Christmas day,
But this time in mid may.
We left that kip in some state.
And like some cruel twist of fate,
The loved memory of stopping flames,
Would make way for the welcome chase of the same,
Later down the line on a new date,
As we would lift that couch over the motorway
And into our estate.
It too to see the flames we never grew out of,
Just reshaped.
Fresh with a new weight.
Some things from our teenage days never changed,
As we'd burn to do something great.
As we laid the couch down in the backfields,
And then made ourselves away,
Fire walk with me,
I'd hear you say.

I have a love
And it never fades,
I have a love full of flames that rage
I have a love that never turns,
I have a love that burns.