Nerina Pallot album review

Nerina Pallot – Fires
'Everybody's gone to war' has that Alanis Morissette-like threat, although she remains calmer and overall the album is folky (in a good way). Stand out tracks: 'Idaho' and 'Geek love'.
Overall rating:*** ½

The Poet - 2004

The door clicks shut
There's a routine to your disregard
I waited for you,
Then couldn't wait for you to leave

I confide all
But you interrupt with tales of your own
Yes, you're sensitive
You've told me so, so many times

CHORUS:
You're a poet, a poet, a poet
You're only a poet when you want to be

The room is bare
I thought you'd stay longer tonight
I cling far too much
Leaving clues for you....in words

CHORUS

I'm just scenery in your world
Scenery in your world
Scenery in your world
I'm just scenery in your world


CHORUS

Heal me - 2004

City midnight streets
That will not guide me home
Left with all the demons
That haunt me alone

City Breeze is feeding
Music to the air
And I salt my wounds in
Your tears of despair

Never thought your words could
Save me here tonight
When you lay yourself bare
You strip me of pride

CHORUS
Heal me now
You always heal me when it falls apart
You always heal me when it falls apart
You always heal me when it falls apart
Now

Yellow morning rises
DJs free your songs
In my empty bed now
I turn you on

Never found a way to
tell you how I feel
I have nothing useful
to offer you

CHORUS

Our desert Forrest love grows nowhere
Except in my head – where it shall remain
Your tears have become mine

CHORUS

Cellophane delusion - 2002

your smile denies my darkness
brings to calm my frantic mind
where do you veil the dying?
i find some peace when i’m with you

make sense of a world together
even if it's delusion
where do you veil the dying?
i break through cellophane for you

CHORUS
don’t need me and we’ll make it
don’t need me and we’ll make it

you dance life far too lightly
too much thinking gets nowhere
so let us veil the dying
And forget what these burdens are

CHORUS

only jointly is there sense