Venus from Secret Words by Brian Jin

13 steps to the gallows
These aren’t the roads that I take
15 gone and you’re mourning
For your own sake

First, you slay the apprentice
Then you take the fools gold
Lights go out and you’re standing
With nothing to hold

Nothing to hold you down
In the darkest of night
Bold, escapist lines that you write
I can’t sleep for Venus in my eyes

Don’t leave notes on my pillow
Don’t cry out for dawn here
Lanterns burn over London
Taking us home

Taking us home tonight
I close my eyes
On Hadrian’s Wall
I can’t drift off
I can’t sleep for Venus in my eyes

Sun can’t rise, it’s electric
Running past your window
Trailing ties to a Morning
Somebody stole

Somebody stole our nights
Four days and decades
We can’t keep on
Meeting this way
I can’t sleep for Venus in my eyes

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