I Have a Love

I have a love, and it never fades

From red garden sheds

To watching lads on steds knocking heads

From the 2x2 fuck you punk stage

To a warehouse rave, with a bloke we met on the way

Dancing till day

I have a love, and it never fades

Full of plights and gripes, like Achilles

Who loves fights

Like you did, right?

Like we did, twice

I'll love you beyond life

I have a love, and it never fades

You are God's son across the belly

Remembered by pictures on your telly

Your body laying in its glow

Surrounded by those you know

Crying for you words, and your soul

And that final loss of your glimmer of hope

That we heard every time that ya spoke

And choked up rooms, and blocks, and venues

And lads and moths, with words that spoke soft of those lost

Now we send you off on funeral cloths

(Here I have so many doubts

Here I have so many doubts

Here I have so many doubts

Here I have so many doubts)

I have a love, and it never fades

From the space where we learned to be brave

And face guards, grief, and knaves

And late days that could shame and break saints

With the weight of the city's hate from the smothering state

Every cent we could take

Went on the art that we'd make

We'd go straight through the day on a rake of empty plates

Up to eight of us pooling ten quid to make something great

So our love will never fade

Our love will never fade

I have a love, and it never fades

Now a long way from school days

Sharing books at big break

With the two of us, and Barry and Craig

Talking tunes and poems with too much weight for our age

But the love that remains would shape the memory that stays

Even now I can see your face when those chords are replayed.

Arm around me shoulder in teenage embrace

'Tell all your friends," I'd say

And a year ago or so

I played this song for you on the car stereo in the night's breeze

This bit kicked in with its synths and its keys

And you smiled as ya sat next to me

You in the front, Gilly in the backseat going ninety

To the sounds as we roared down the street

The other boys stomping feet, and me in utter disbelief

From the joy in the break and the beats

We got out and stood, by that Kia Rio caged stage

And I felt like I had it all

'Cause I have a love, and it'll never fade

And either will you, Paul