Moon Lemon Tangle

Single by Brendan Bonsack

At this hour of night

Leaned over the bridge

The river is that place

Where two banks never meet

The old bikes and trolleys

Gone the way of stars

Bitten by a singularity

This is how the universe speaks

In weak knees

And stomach lurching

The love of the fear

Of the love of falling

Look, somebody’s scratched

In the cold steel railing:

“I woz ere, so woz you”

I think I may have etched that

On some Summer eve

In the low of the moon

I think I may have etched that

When I was younger

And it was true

At this hour of night

Leaned over the edge

The mechanical click of the walk

Don't walk at the lights

It's ritual an echo

Stitching our breaths

Even when there’s

Nobody there

This is how the universe speaks

In hold please

Hold on to something

The love of the fall,

The fear of the loving

Look, somebody’s scratched

In the rust of the railing:

“Rest in peace, Break on through”

I think I may have etched that

On some Summers eve

In a winter's mood

I think I may have etched that

When I was younger

And it could be true

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/etched


© Brendan Bonsack 2024

EP by Brendan Bonsack

1. Half a Room Away

2. Something Something Something

3. The Way that it Goes

4. The Returning

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/a-gathering-of-cats-in-a-lane


© Brendan Bonsack 2024

Single by Brendan Bonsack

In the river

With my brothers

Playing sinking down

And shouting underwater

White teeth bared

Air enspheared

And spiral scrambling

Up towards the light

Understanding nothing but

The precipice of drowning

The long game

Stretched between our lungs

Playing water

With my brothers

Who can touch the

River's floor?

The magnet dark

Biting ice rush

Between our ears

We'll ever find it

Understanding nothing but

The precipice of drowning

The long game

Stretched between our lungs

In the water hole

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/shouting-underwater


© Brendan Bonsack 2024

Single by Brendan Bonsack

He brings a painting of a flower

To hook upon the wall

In the café, buys a coffee

It will probably never sell

But he loves it

It reminds him of someone

God will be calling him soon

To do the bidding of men

Ten thousand eyes

For a single tooth

For the King says

For the Rich say

Hang the expense

He makes a pastry for the painter

He says it's on the house

Just how his mother made them

And the pumpkins are in season

Smell the spices in the oven

That is love

God will be calling him soon

To do the bidding of men

Ten thousand eyes

For a single tooth

For the King says

For the Rich say

Hang the expense

He reads the paper

To his father

At the table by the door

Two pits behind his glasses

And he doesn't really talk

Describes the colours

Counts the petals

In the flower on its hook

Skipping over pages

God will be calling him soon

To do the bidding of men

Ten thousand eyes

For a single tooth

For the King says

For the Rich say

Hang the expense

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/hang-the-expense


© Brendan Bonsack 2024

Single by Brendan Bonsack

The woman with the turtle tattoo

Says you have not

Enough moon in you,

You need to shed

Like a creature, a pound

Of your fire

Tiny dark pearls of peony

Rose water glasses and poetry

In paper squares

On wooden pegs

And lights underneath them

High on the breeze

Lip cherry balm

Way past its season

Side here with me

You don't need your faith

You don't need your reasons

Says the woman with the turtle tattoo

Tea of ginger and

Cranberry juice

You're turning the vinyl

She's dropping the needle in

And her eyes say

You've been here before

We leave a little love

At each door

You're just thirty three

And a third revolution

The woman with the turtle tattoo

Says you are a little light

On your moon

Your sun is an anchor

Afloat on your water

Never ever ever going down

And her eyes say

You've been here before

We leave a little love

On each shore

Even even if we are

A little unsure

High on the breeze

Lip cherry balm

Way past its season

Side here with me

You don't need your faith

You don't need your reasons

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/lip-cherry-balm


© Brendan Bonsack 2024

Single by Brendan Bonsack

Oh Kenneth

Well he still won't tell you

The frequency

Rather Rather Dan

Though he was the wrong man

Faces are strange

Far from the future

At its zenith

Well we all got a thrill

From the mystery

Contra cartoons

Evil weather balloons

People are strange

Though they're not so stranger

Draw the stars

Interstitially

Why are we so confused by love

I wonder wonder wonder it

And frequently, Kenneth

Oh, Kenneth

Sneaky peaking underneath

The ferric curtain rail

His satellite jams

In unmarked cans

People are strange

Though they're not so stranger

Lucky Ken

They never ever got you then

Your kilohertz

Bleeding colours into VHS

And no-one guessed

Draw the stars

Interstitially

Why are we so confused by love

I wonder wonder wonder it

And frequently, Kenneth

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/frequently-kenneth


© Brendan Bonsack 2024

Single by Brendan Bonsack

My last coffee before

My next paycheck

Has a tiny crooked heart

The barista is my neighbour

With up all night eyes,

We talk about the birdsong

Swifty in the playlist,

Alexa play it louder,

Sunshine on the counter

Sixty seconds older,

I catch a breath of love

And then it goes

I catch a breath

And then it's gone

I catch a breath of love

And then it goes

I catch a breath

And then it's gone

My last coffee before

My next paycheck

Has a tiny crooked heart

They'll still drop bombs, y’ know

Just smile more and pet

Cute piglets while doing it

Circle table bursts of yellow

a boxer kissing gold

Cuts of wattle in glasses

No, No, No

No, not blooming early,

Just, my neighbour's saying,

Just doing what they do

Just doing what they do

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/sunshine-on-the-counter


© Brendan Bonsack 2024

Album by Brendan Bonsack

1. How We Go

2. Fewer Shoes

3. Ships and Goods

4. Lighthouse Child

5. Sparrow Rescue

6. You Know What We Are

7. Note to Self (Remember Your Heart)

8. Everything Creaks

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/how-we-go


© Brendan Bonsack 2024

EP by Brendan Bonsack

Animal Sun

The Crow Switch

Sleeper

Talking in My Sleep

Special Interest Flower

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/b-side-of-the-suns


© Brendan Bonsack 2023

Album by Brendan Bonsack

Other Impossible Things

Two Suns Once

70/30

Still the Feathers

Moonflowers

Blood Donor

Post

Trying Meditation

Measuring Permafrost

The First Day

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/two-suns-once


© Brendan Bonsack 2022