Claudine says
come celebrate my birthday
come drink with me
but I decline

Claudine is hurt
it's been so long since we were together
dancing truly hungry under false light
but one by one
I shed my childish affections
and all my childish
affectations

But honestly
now,
in the aftermath,
butterflies in my belly
when I think about her,
which I so rarely do
It makes me realise how dangerous it would be
to drink with her again

So close in the same city
she is another world
I must leave at the edge of my galaxy

New light comes through my windows
and I will be free