Restless Leg Syndrome

Again I tricked my body into dancing all night

Oh yeah, here we go again

I tell myself in the early daylight

The sky looks bigger and it's a different shade of blue

Miserable little England

Framed on the surface, skirting me and you

Couldn't quite get the last stamp off my wrista

And now look, I've got two

Not quite aligned, though I suspect the bouncer did try

Just like we all do

Left leg almost entirely numb now

Never wanted to play football more in my whole entire life

Laser quest, moonwalk, spin class - anything but rest

Trampoline, pedalo past Peterhead from Aberdeen to Inverness

Slide my hand from underneath her chalk

Coloured hair and move from the door to the stairs

I'm stretching my legs in the comfort of the darkness

And scratching the dry skin at the back of my neck

Unaware

Wide awake, laughable form

Purple light of the morning adorning the walls

I'm yawning

Outside a fox calls and the leaves continue to fall

Fall, fall away

Some people are still out I think

Some are jogging

Arguing

Fucking

Placing careful calorie controlled meal prep

Into a Tupperware box

And a branded rucksack ready to do nothing

There'll be a word for that in German

In the movies, people only use their inhaler when they're nervous

I hate that shit

If I wait another ten years to have children

Then I'll never meet my grandkids

Not sure if that's something I'm completely fine with

Never been that good at perfect timing

And that's me about to spiral

When out of the darkness

Your arms close around my waist

And you don't even notice the dry skin on my neck

Or the look on my face or

How sometimes I suspect I am

In fact

Just a waste of space

It's simply come back to bed

Okay, I said and okay I said again

Put me down

Take me to the vets

You know how it gets

I'm just stretching my legs

I'm just stretching my legs

I'm just

All the places I've been

All the times that I've been low

I've been feeling restless

But I'll never let you go

All the places I've been

All the times that I've felt low

I've been feeling restless

But I'll never let you go

All the places I've been

All the times that I've felt low

I've been feeling restless

But I'll never let you go