Threads

[Verse 1] Shopping list falls from her hand Cabbage Sugar Curtains Pram Mushroom sun blooming over Woolworths Jimmy RUN! by the bus queue jam Beer taps hiss in the snug Someone jokes about the sirens again Graph on the telly climbs like a staircase Each step another skinless friend Ragdoll baby in the car park grit Glass in her bonnet like birthday glitter Tongues burned dumb in the blackout shelter White ash snow Taste of bitter [Chorus] We are threads Pulled out of Sheffield concrete All fall down Charcoal kids on the high street Mouths ringed red Like rust around the city drain We were threads Now we're maggots in the rain (hey!) [Verse 2] Basement wedding in a coal‑dust chapel Canned meat feast Party hats Stale bread They crown her queen of broken neon Honeymoon under a hospital bed Ward full of ghosts with melted faces Nurses counting needles Counting dead Teeth drop out in the soup line shuffle Hair in clumps on the unmade bed She gives birth in a vandalized market Rats as witnesses Feral choir Baby’s first breath Choking cinders Cooing soft at the barbed‑wire sky [Chorus] We are threads Pulled out of Sheffield concrete All fall down Charcoal kids on the high street Mouths ringed red Like rust around the city drain We were threads Now we're maggots in the rain [Bridge] Talk to the camera Ruth Tell it how the crops won’t sprout Tell it how the language shrivels How the vowels just flake And fall Out She can’t spell "future" Just scratches circles in the dirt Blank‑eyed daughter laughs at static Feral kiss that doesn’t hurt (oh) [Chorus] We are threads Sewn into a burning screen All fall down Puppets for a distant dream Mouths ringed red Chewing dust Chewing pain We were threads Tangled Snapped And swallowed by the rain