Get Better

[00:03.15] Hallelujah, I'm listening to a recording of you sleeping next to me
[00:12.34] A cappella, I'm listening to you cover Elliott Smith's 'Angeles'
[00:20.38] It's these times I'll need if you go
[00:24.95] It's these times I'll need if you go
[00:33.00] So
[00:34.42] Get better, my darling
[00:38.98] I know you will
[00:43.03] Get better, my darling
[00:47.98] I know you will get better
[00:53.75] I'm drawn to the motorway
[00:58.03] The cold whoosh of trucks passing
[01:02.17] This nighttime under sodium light
[01:06.27] The orange spread is soul-quieting
[01:10.55] A younger you and a younger me
[01:15.06] Meeting at the serpentine
[01:18.66] I am yours, you are mine
[01:23.97]
[01:35.15] Happy birthday
[01:36.56] Stuff smuggled in a card I made
[01:38.82] It rests under your pillow
[01:43.59] When out of ICU, you'll cringe at all the 'I love you's'
[01:47.73] That card retired the life of one biro
[01:51.95] At this time I wanted you to know
[01:56.54] At this time I wanted you to know
[02:05.88] Get better, my darling
[02:10.43] I hope you will
[02:15.02] Get better, my darling
[02:19.64] I hope you will get better
[02:26.30] I'll start the day with tiramisu
[02:30.68] Raise a spoon to frontline workers
[02:35.17] An underfunded principle
[02:38.93] They risk all to be there for us
[02:43.44] A younger you and a younger me
[02:48.12] Meeting at the serpentine
[02:51.51] I am yours, you are mine
[02:57.17]
[03:07.79] You were the baker, I'll christen this new era
[03:11.91] With the smell of freshly baked bread
[03:17.03] Your Nutella, I'll keep it in the cellar
[03:20.87] You were always a fan of that spread
[03:25.15] Six months on, there's a car crash outside
[03:29.72] The fire brigade using the jaws of life
[03:34.52] No flush at night to sound your return
[03:38.58] I still pretend you're only out of sight
[03:44.29] Front garden bouquet, I threw it at the fire brigade
[03:48.40] I was admonished and told to go back inside
[03:53.13] From the living room window
[03:54.96] I stand and watch the white sheet go
[03:57.56] Over the family car and I closed my eyes
[04:02.29] I still pretend you're only out of sight
[04:07.12] In another room, smiling at your phone
[04:11.78] I still pretend you're only out of sight
[04:16.29] In another room, smiling at your phone
[04:20.46] I still pretend you're only out of sight
[04:25.13] In another room, smiling at your phone
[04:29.93] I still pretend you're only out of sight
[04:34.24] In another room, smiling at your phone
[04:38.67] I still pretend
[04:40.05] A younger me, a younger you
[04:45.10] Meeting at the serpentine
[04:49.29] The beginning of Spring, you wore those yellow ripped jeans
[04:53.84] Your look defined my 2009
[04:58.26] Your shyness stoked my boldness
[05:02.91] "Shall we go in?" I smiled
[05:07.38] Your hand warmed walking through the gallery
[05:19.68] "Get better!"
[05:24.32] I know I will
[05:28.77] "Get better!"
[05:31.20] My darling
[05:33.25] I know I will
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