Jonny Midnite from Middlenite by Phoebe Troup

I met Jonny midnite
melting in the half light
said you don’t need to feel alright
to catch up with an appetite

I don’t always feel fine
flinching in the half time
I try too hard to make things mine
I tangle up in fishing line

When Jonny’s gone d’you think I will have learned my lesson?
I don’t want your answer I would rather keep guessing
Quit telling people to count their blessings
I’ve yet to walk in on the emperor dressing

I asked Jon a question
he can’t seem to put to bed
I cannot take a lover
Who cannot take what’s in my head

how come all the neighbours take their cup of sugar
down to where they dump it in the local river
don’t we know we’re making that water sweeter
so it can flow to a richer man’s pasture?

then I was a pearl bead
sliding on to daystrings
but I don’t need to learn to sing
to make the noise of everything

When Jonny’s gone d’you think I will have learned my lesson?
I don’t want an answer I would rather keep guessing
hey don’t remind us to count our blessings
I’ve yet to walk in on the emperor dressing

Jonny, take and plant this
Underneath our last kiss
Cos someone taught you to notice
the way I look in my dress

• East Anglia
• Folk
• colorado
• feminist
• new folk
• rock
• Norwich