Performing "Firesmoke"
off her album,

"The Book of Traps
and Lessons,"

please welcome to the show
Kate Tempest.

My visionary
is a vision

I watch her dancing
by the window

And it rips my flesh
to ribbons

And the whole world
is just ripples

In the middle, distant

I listen to her hips

I push my kisses
to her lips

We move like
we were born to move

The night is teeth
and pistons

And there is something
in this tenderness

That makes me
want to live

It's Firesmoke

Her mouth sets free
this captive

Come close to me

Free me

Untangle the madness
that knots you

You drop to your knees

You crawl across me

You lick your lips softly

It's firesmoke

So, go on

Give me three days
of your body and mine

Time is a blind eye

And I see your mind
in my mind's eye

You make me immortal

You take me to space

You are a planet 
A place I've not known

Your body is home
to rare gods

I kneel at their temple

Blown to bits

Gentle, ferocious

We are open

Explosives have nothing
compared to these sparks

So, let's fall apart

And then,
lie with me

Breathing
in the den of the dark

It's firesmoke

Your mouth sets free
this captive

Come close to me

Free me

Let me untangle the madness
that knots you

I drop to my knees

I crawl across you

I tell you
I've got you

It's firesmoke 
The fire rises between us

It makes us get on
the wrong train

It makes us walk
the wrong way

It makes strangers smile
greetings on Lewisham Way

I bathe in this fire

It warms without burning

It compels without force

And it turns
without turning the world

So, please

Keep your purpose, your poise,
and your journey

I will be by the fire

Thinking nothing I've learned
can prepare me

For everything else
that needs learning

Is this how it feels
to feel certain?

I don't know

It's just that for so many
years my love's been a burden

But now comes this fire
to cleanse and restore us

To fuel us and calm us

And push us both forwards

Forwards

Kate Tempest, folks.

"The Book of Traps and Lessons"
is out now.