Kiss from Mens Rea by Obedient Hollowness

I won’t kiss you tonight
Don't you believe it's true ?
No, I don’t love you tonight
As I’m supposed to do.

You reached for my hand
But I pulled it down to an end.
There’s no comfort here
Just another white fear.

I could speak your language
But I forgot to manage.
I should have touched your skin
Or somewhere else in between.

The walls are calling your name
But now I won’t sing it.
The lights shine on a frame
But nothing could warm it.

The clock ticks spiteful
But I won't be the fool.
If You gave me your best
I should cry I suggest.

I won’t play the part
You rehearsed hard for me.
I'm a clown without heart
Who pretends to be free.

These dead sheets still carry
The shape of your side.
No I won't sleep like a birdie
With no more place to hide.

This is war in the mirror
Each morning I rise.
It borrows my wet eyes.
Like the whole day before.

I won’t open the door
No way, anymore.
You want a confession
But I lost some compassion.

The truth slipped out
While our silences shout
Let's leave what you broke.
I won't stay in this smoke.

Neither dance nor desire
I won't drown in your flood.
Your touch is a deep fire
That draws no blood.

I stare with the lights off
But the shadows still talk.
Everything I can remember of
Seems like a memory you stalk.

My breath is shrinking
It's not what you're thinking.
Your breath fills the room
Like poison in a bloom.

I broke every clock at noon
But time will sink soon
Even my poor blame
Sounds like your empty name.

I’m stuck in the static
With nothing left to prove.
So take what you think
Could reverse the groove.

I don’t kiss you tonight
Though the sky says I might.
No I won’t love you tonight
And that’s how I'll be right.

• CAN
• Experimental
• ambient
• avant-garde
• cluster
• electronic
• France