Aura


Yeah you, 

Strut around in your three piece suit, 

kicked them down when you knew you could. 

And I was dancing in my docs and my black skinny jeans, 

and I never really fit in your messed up theme. 

I’ve got a pinned up smile and laced up skin, 

and a never ending vacuum that my heart sits in. 

And I can’t seem to scratch my way out of this paper house, 

you built it all on worry all my fears and doubt. 

 

And your aura was a haze of cigarette smoke, 

and you were all I lived for till you let me choke. 

Set fire to the tight rope wouldn’t let me stop, 

falling down. 

And your aura was a haze of cigarette smoke, 

and you were all I lived for till you let me choke. 

Set fire to the tight rope wouldn’t let me stop, 

falling down. 

 

Yeah you, pinned me down as I counted tiles, 

turned me into a helpless child. 

And I never understood the weird ways of the world, 

you see everything was in the form of strings and pearls. 

I’ve written so many songs you could fill a book on how, 

you can destroy me with a single look. 

On the way I put you on the highest pedestal, 

on the way you always told me how you had to settle. 

 

And your aura was a haze of cigarette smoke, 

and you were all I lived for till you let me choke. 

Set fire to the tight rope wouldn’t let me stop, 

falling down. 

And your aura was a haze of cigarette smoke, 

and you were all I lived for till you let me choke. 

Set fire to the tight rope wouldn’t let me stop, 

falling down. 

 

*Audrey Hepburn interview sample* 

 

And your aura was a haze of cigarette smoke, 

and you were all I lived for till you let me choke. 

Set fire to the tight rope wouldn’t let me stop, 

falling down. 

And your aura was a haze of cigarette smoke, 

and you were all I lived for till you let me choke. 

Set fire to the tight rope wouldn’t let me stop, 

falling down.