Written & performed by Valerie Cutko & Michael Roulston
lyrics
When you are sick of sweetness come to me.
When summer fruits have curdled in your gut,
when peaches bore you, and you crave the cutting
acid that can sear complacency -
When velvet skin, and plums, and palmy light
have run their course with you, and when you thirst
no more for sickly nectar but for bursting
blood, and when your beachy sun’s too bright -
When all terrain’s familiar, flat and slight
and you recall how shadows too can thrill
and sudden, quick-eyed creatures of the night
stir in an inner field you swore was still -
Seek out the blade to cut you into life.
I am the loving blade. I am the knife.
credits
from Between Us,
track released June 21, 2013
Written & performed by Valerie Cutko & Michael Roulston
