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.