Adorable

Adorable Against Perfection & Fake

Libor Soural

Apr 16, 2024

Breathless

My eager eyes came stumbling down
Over this pristine view
My second-rate poetry
Just is not enough to describe you

I'm scrambling 'round the floor
Looking for some fresh metaphor
All the words to describe this just do not exist
I feel better than ever before

I'm breathless and speechless
But still, there is so much to say
In words with one syllable

I love you

Man In A Suitcase

A portrait of a life
Wrapped up in decayed paper tales
Telling half-truths and lies
Cigarettes, bourbon, and betrayal
He took a room with a view
Of the perpetual railway station
He'll leave in a week or two
Unearthed a few truths and a host of frustrations

Oh, he's our man
Oh, he's our man
In a suitcase
Oh, in a suitcase

A bottle of forgotten time
And a diary half remembered
Ringed photo of a ticket up-line
A drunken letter written mid-September
With autumn in his face
Like the battered book, he doesn't understand
Wearing his suitcase
Like a lover's ring on his left hand

Oh, he's our man
Oh, he's our man
In a suitcase
Oh, in a suitcase

He's moving on now

Still Life

He was born without a sigh
And she left without a fight
This is not God, it's just the way things are

Be still, my still-born brother
And be still, my still-born lover
And be still

He was buried without a name
She buried love very much the same
This is not love, it's just the way things are

Be still, my still-born lover
And be still, my still-born brother
And be still, my still-born lover
And be still
And be still

Vendetta

Well, I'm upside down and back to front
I really don't know where I'm coming from
I feel love has got the better of me
I've got stars in my eyes, scars in my mind
Sometimes, well, I'm star-blind
Okay, maybe all the time

I'm gonna come back soon in another life
I'm gonna cut up your words with my butter knife
So casually
And then we'll be free
I'm gonna come back soon in another life
I'm gonna cut up your words with my butter knife
So casually
And then we'll be free
For the next time

I'm wrong way around and split right through
I really don't know where I'm going to
I want to go down in history
I'm uncertain but one thing's for certainty
You're going to use these words against me
You may put it down to your vanity

A To Fade In

I remember walking home with my father from the station
Hand in hand, and all alone in silent frustration
And the words he said to me just drifted away in the wind
Like this memory, like the photographs in my father's house

I don't want to be faded skin
I don't want to fade out
I want to fade in
I want to fade in

Can you see me? I can't see myself
Can you hear me? I can hardly hear myself
And I don't want to be a faded memory
All I want is to be me

I don't want to be faded skin
I don't want to fade out
I want to fade in
I want to fade in

Have You Seen The Light

Half-blind, but knowing no better
Flicker in her moth-light
As she wrote in her loveless love letter
"These are the best days of our lives."

Have you seen the light shine through her eyes?
Have you seen the light shine through her eyes?
She's wants to burn your lights out
She's gonna burn your lights down

In a diary of days now blanked and lost
Within her perfect frown
On a hillside of mercy, counting the cost
As I watch my hometown burn down

Have you seen the light shine through her eyes?
Have you seen the light shine through her eyes?
She's gonna burn your lights out
She's gonna put your lights pretty low

Adorable - Sunshine Smile

And then she smiled
Just for fraction of a little while
And everything was warm again inside
She's got a sunshine smile
The kind that warms up the corners of my cold room
She's got a sunshine smile
The kind that makes you forget again
Sunshine smile
Sunshine smile
Sunshine smile
Sunshine smile
And then she said
"If I'm going to be someone else
I'd rather be somebody else with you"
That's exactly how I felt to her
How does it feel?
The way I feel
Doesn't feel quite real
How does it feel to feel?
She's got a sunshine smile
The kind that warms up the corners of my cold room
She's got a sunshine smile
The kind that makes you forget again
Sunshine smile
Sunshine smile
Sunshine smile
Sunshine smile
And then she said
"If I'm going to be someone else
I'd rather be somebody else with you"
That's exactly how I felt, uh-huh
How does it feel to feel?
And for that one short while
It was as if she'd only just learned how to smile

Lettergo

In a room painted beige and blue
Some fifty-odd years ago
I'm lying here, recalling
Holding her tight at a fairground show
She blessed me with fire and candyfloss
And her sweet-salted lips
It never tasted like this
It never tasted like this

In a hollow tree of childhood games
Of hopes and promises missed
She promised me things
I never could understand
It was a pleasure and a privilege
Then as it is now
It was a pleasure and a privilege
But I'll guess you'll never know

On a visit on a whim
There was nobody home
Save an old lady
That didn't speak my language
So my scrawled note
Stayed in my tatty hand
"It was a pleasure
It was a privilege"

Too many letters don't get sent
Too many letters don't get read
There's too many letters that don't get sent
There's too many letters

Too many letters don't get sent
Too many letters don't get read
There's too many letters under my bed
There's too many letters

Too many letters don't get sent
Too many letters don't get read
There's too many letters that don't get sent
There's too many letters

Adorable - Self-Imperfectionist

Then I spoke, not out of turn
But more out of hope that he would learn
My feelings for you
But my failing to

I didn't want to
I didn't need to
I didn't have to
I didn't mean to

But being human is just no excuse
For my hideous abuse of your love
Of your love

I want to touch you
So very much
But you don't hold that trust
You don't believe in us

I didn't want to
I didn't need to
I didn't have to
I didn't mean to

But being human is just no excuse
For my hideous abuse of your love
Of your love

I know I'm imperfect
I'm not just saying it for the fact
I don't want to sacrifice the only thing I've cared for in my life

Forgive me

Epiphany Beyond A Biblical Scale

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