Cannot Keep a Secret - Emma Pollock

Cross the water with me

And I guarantee by morning we will land

Your fingers stretched in sand

Staring out to sea

Walk the Crana and the Swan

Raising a half as night falls

To names engraved on windowpanes

To the patriarchs reclaimed

Will you dip your toe gently in the water?

Send the ripples home whipping up a storm

Will you make amends with the changing currents?

They eddy and they flow and bring your sisters home

You said «Look at my face»

Tell me the truth

I am not long for this world"

And our selfish ways are the source of much disgrace

Post a letter in the trees

Ask the enchanted

‘Won't you please give us more days like these?'

Chasing Emperors & Blues diving in the breeze

Will you dip your toe gently in the water?

Send the ripples home whipping up a storm

Will you make amends with the changing currents?

They eddy and they flow and bring your sisters home

She set alight all that was right

And basked in front of firelight

She spilled her guts that night

Left you for dead

Somebody hold me back

Somebody hold me back

Somebody hold

Will you dip your toe gently in the water?

Send the ripples home whipping up a storm

Will you make amends with the changing currents?

They eddy and they flow and bring your sisters home

I cannot keep a secret

Has anybody seen it?

I cannot keep a secret

Has anybody seen it?

I cannot keep a secret

Has anybody seen it?

I cannot keep a secret

Has anybody seen it?