Robber's Veil

Robber's Veil is a collection of poems and lyrics written by Dark Fair singer/songwriter Ramona Moore.

[robbersveil]

Drive In

Is that really her name?

A fabulous name

A pang to the heart and all those body parts

I melt and convulse

I think her name the greatest.

Was it?

I did for a while

at least think all that hype.

My heart leaped and transcended for her.

Easy to do when you’ve got a lover’s act of service before you.

Our happy lifetime was that lockdown.

We lived, laughed, fed each other our souls and visions, made out and made love ...

It never once felt like winter with her.

But we did not last

5 months of love and sex in tunnel vision

In a pandemic dream

A hope so confined until our world opened up again

The settled comfortable place in our hearts yearned for the outside world

We didn’t fit outside

The flow that had flowed

no longer nourished us

The gap had been filled

She fluttered away back to the life she had tried to begin before

Promises calling her

Better ones in her mind

Dirty gay

She just couldn’t put her finger on it

Sighs all round

I’m not in love

Thanks for letting me know

We had a momentary frequency

Once we left the drive in

it was over

fast romance

Now I understand her name.

Got to love Shakespeare.

Over and out.

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Ode to emotion for empaths

Immersed in emotion

Drowning in emotion

Find yourself in love emotion

In full bloom emotion

Repressed emotion

Defiance and emotion

Up late with emotion

Tell it all emotion

Out of luck emotion

Projected shame emotion

Fuck it all away emotion

Pull myself together emotion

Thank the stars emotion

The wonders of emotion

Running for the hills emotion

Glassy shards of emotion

You wish it were the beginning again emotion

Thank fuck for emotion

Music in free emotion

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Surfing

I’ve done it for so long

The high on the wave

the high for a few hours after I leave the ocean is keeping me here

On the road

The thinking in my head

Vibrations of somewhere and someone else’s body

Small capsule of memories

Real or echos or not even that?

Driving alone

Mostly alone

In nowhere land

Absolutely in the neutral zone of transitions

Surfing is keeping me here

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A recovery statement...

Poetry from 35,000 feet.

“Flowers with so many features call to us

Brace yourself

And accept the offer of an exit sign

Slowing and speeding up

Wish them well

Some have it and some just don’t

Don’t forget your parachute

All the best ...”

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Hypercritical

She has always talked to strangers

But when things get

Too sticky

She takes off her golden wings

I can’t keep feeling this way...

I can’t keep feeling this way...

I can’t keep feeling this way...

I can’t keep feeling this way...

In her precious

lavish domain

She has always been told

To watch out for mistakes

Hyper-critical

Of all my emotional ways

Hey!

I can’t keep feeling this way...

I can’t keep feeling this way...

I can’t keep feeling this way...

I can’t keep feeling this way...

So, while we are dancing it up

We are locked down

Deep inside our love

With our heartbeats intertwined

And our perfect bodies side by side

It’s the outside world

Calling promises that entertain her mind

I can’t keep feeling this way...

I can’t keep feeling this way...

I can’t keep feeling this way...

I can’t keep feeling this way...

Oh I can’t keep feeling this way

I can’t keep

Can’t keep feeling this way

I can’t keep

Can’t keep feeling this way

I can’t keep

Can’t keep feeling this way

She

has

always

talked

to

strangers

She

has

always

talked

to

strangers

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The dip in confessions

At 5.30 am People just can’t wait to eat at airports Hunched gorillas Slurping junk food and lard Plotting the next take over Others stare into nothing A void of smartphones

In my stage of remote association Logs tumbled over my mother Crushing her Injured or dead but laughing?

Linked through departures

I swoon for sax Concoction Butterflies mesmerised by mess and groove

White kangaroos queued

Men in towels Men stand and pace

Something is really troubling me

Don’t look at the spot The brain will remove it from my vision

I got fined for my soy milk No apologies Nobody needs help

At 0:48 seconds left in Confessions There is a dip A resolve Brings you back to mind

swoon for sax

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Distant sounds from the TV

I am so still inside or perhaps like a long sigh screaming through nowhere I am swimming up the lane Holding back Talking myself into breathing There are no people on the streets I repeat back the words spoken to me I tell myself I'll buy a piano writing Not seeking rebirth Not seeking earth I have seen nothing Blank Maybe I just woke up?

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The Distance In the Line

Hey Wait What you gonna do When they come Run Play dead Just try to breath

Hey Wait What you gonna do When they come Run Play dead Just try to breath

The logic in the symbol Bares no meaning to me Happy little trigger Kills indiscriminately

It’s a critical moment It’s a critical moment It’s a critical moment

My consciousness Is this really happening To me The birds they keep on singing

My consciousness Is this really happening To me The birds they keep on singing

Hey Wait What you gonna do When they come Run Play dead Just try to breath

Come through lightly Come through whole Come through lightly Come through whole

I want you Yeah, I want you There is distance in the line Distance in the line

I want you But I want you There is distance in the line Distance in the line

Save me The days keep moving forward Inside me it’s so different Save me

Hey Wait What you gonna do When they come Run Play dead Just try to breath

It ends with me It end with me

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Off Into My Head

Away Away I go Off into my head  Away Away I go Off into my head 

Say something nice to me nice to me today Try not to misbehave misbehave again Away Away I go Off into my head  Say something nice to me nice to me today say something nice to me today I’m lost  lost in mind Maybe I’m just, I’m just Off into my head 

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The Animal

Just shut your mouth relax Don’t turn around  What I’m going to do you to make you mine I light you up You light me up I am wolf  animal I am wolf animal that’s right What I’m going to do you to make you mine I light you up You light me up I like you you like me too? I like you you like me too?

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Later and Somewhere

Later Somewhere Later Somewhere Everyone’s a lier baby Everybody’s gonna lie to you Everyone’s a lier baby Everybody’s gonna lie to you Later Somewhere Later Somewhere Later Somewhere Took a while for me to recognise this Took a while for me to stand up Took a while for to me to learn to care less Took a while for me to give it up Took myself off to find reason Took myself off to find hope Took myself off to find reason I am a desert without sun I am a desert without sun Later Somewhere Later Somewhere Later Somewhere I use my mind I use my soul I use my mind I use my soul Took myself off to find reason Took myself off to find hope Took myself off to find reason I am a desert without sun Took myself off to find reason Took myself off to find hope Took myself off to find reason I am a desert without sun I am a desert without sun

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The Thousands

I light candles  for you everyday I’m just waiting for you to grow up I light candles for you everyday I’m just waiting for you to grow up Under the rubble  is where you lay suspended still in play I go to temple I go temple To rest my heart Under the rubble is where you lay suspended still in play I go to temple I go temple To rest my heart My heart... Count thousands Count thousands Not going home

Count thousands Count thousands Not going home I light candles for you everyday I’m just waiting for you to grow up just grow up My heart... Count thousands Count thousands Not going home Count thousands Count thousands Not going home Rest my heart Rest my Rest my heart

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First World Problems

Why won’t you open your door for me Why won’t you open your door for me It’s a world of opportunity It’s a world of opportunity And we’re still standing on the street With our eyes raised to the skies Waiting for an invitation Or some justification Lightning Thunder Big storm Earthquake You’ve got first world problems You’ve got first world problems  You’ve got nothing to worry for You’ve got nothing to worry for Why won’t you open your door for me Why won’t you open your door for me It’s a world of opportunity It’s a world of opportunity Lightning Thunder Big storm Earthquake I know life goes on  Life goes on Life goes on Life goes on Life goes on Big storm And we’re still standing on the street With our eyes raised to the skies Waiting for an invitation Or some justification Why won’t you open your door for me Why won’t you open your door for me It’s a world of opportunity It’s a world of opportunity Lightning Thunder Big storm Earthquake

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On The Big Screen

Catch me when I fall out of the plane Display my face on the big screen On the big screen

Contemplate how you divide an empire A Long time ago The old people say We were safe here Today we just disappear

Hold tight The tide It drowns us Hold tight The tide It drowns us

They say they do their best They lie Just look around We are blessed by death It’s not gonna change

We don’t dream We don’t dream We lose ourselves We lose our lives

Catch me when I fall out of the plane Display my head on the big screen On the big screen

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The First Thing I Become

It’s just like meditating You just stretch out your arms When things kinda get manic The first thing I become It’s benevolence  Inside so violent The first thing I had done The first thing I had done A sensation like loss deny all gravity Superseded by reality Give it all for adversity You look to me so ageless and young You look to me so ageless and young Desire comes at a cost What defines your imbalance At the mercy of a gaze The first thing I had done It’s benevolence Inside so violent The first thing I become The first thing I become

You look to me so ageless and young You look to me so ageless and young

This is my only time Don't you turn me to stone I turn away I turn away to home I turn away I turn away to home

The first thing I become The first thing I become The first thing I become The first thing I become

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Walking on the face of Pluto

When the fridge, it makes that sound Late at night Wanting for you In the dark corner of your kitchen

Climbed a mountain, I felt the earth Saw the snowman open up his window Thought I caught you in the daylight Walking on the face of Pluto 

Go like Ophelia Capitalise yourself on a death wish In a murky lake once blue once bright Don’t try to find yourself in a long long time ago 

See those goons come riding on their goats Always screaming for a showdown Don’t go naked in the classroom Teacher won’t swallow you 

Climbed a mountain, I felt the earth They plugged me back in And said “there’s nothing wrong with you girl” “There’s nothing wrong with you girl” “There’s nothing wrong with you girl” “There’s nothing wrong….”

Go like Ophelia Capitalise yourself on a death wish In a murky lake once blue once bright Don’t try to find yourself in a long long time ago

Go like Ophelia Capitalise yourself on a death wish In a murky lake once blue once bright Don’t try to find yourself in a long long time ago

 Thought I caught you in the daylight

Thought I caught you in the daylight

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BOOM

There’s a parasite inside Who is sitting to my right It is trying to be Christ It will speak to you through minds

It goes boom It goes boom It goes boom Boom…boom…boom….boom

The boy is riding on the bus The eyes shift from side to side There are people There are phones

It goes boom It goes boom It goes boom Boom…boom…boom….boom

Come on and take me to that place where we go Come on and take me to that place where we go We go boom

There are cats eyes in the sky The scientists keep on building The scientists keep on building

There’s a parasite inside Who is sitting to my right Who is trying to be Christ It will speak to you through minds 

There are cats eyes in the sky The scientists keep on building The scientists keep on building