Let’s Build a Bonfire

Season’s changing, like it always has

Wrapping browns and yellows round me like a blanket

I want to melt into everything

Plummeting down, down, down, down

In a spiky jacket

Another message ends ‘keep in touch’

And ‘I believe in you’

It’s just one more thing pretending not to end

But I love this time of year

Stumbling forward

To where the river bends

And like a changing season - right on cue

Something’s haunting you

So let’s build a bonfire, burn these ghosts down to the ground

Like children, faces glowing round and round and round and round

‘Cause there’s too much stuff trying to crawl inside

I want to hit the ground and fling my spikes real wide

These days all you’ve got for the ones you love is defence and attack

And they’re so worried about you, they never hit back

So get the villagers ready for six, it gets dark early today

Let’s head out for the fields with matches, petrol and hay

Cos like a changing season - right on cue

Something’s haunting you

So let’s build a bonfire, burn these ghosts down to the ground

Like children, faces glowing round and round and round and round

‘Cause there’s too much stuff trying to crawl inside

I want to hit the ground and fling my spikes real wide

Season of mists and Thomas Kempe