Tindersticks

Do you remember my sister? how many mistakes did she make with those never blinking eyes? I couldnt work it out. I swear she could read your mind, your life, the depths of your soul at one glan
Aybe she was stripping herself away, saying
Here I am, this is me
I am yours and everything about me, everything you see...
If only you look hard enough
I never could.
Our life was a pillow-fight. wed stand there on the quilt, our hands clenched ready. her with her milky teeth, so late for her age, and a stanley knife in her hand. she sliced the tyres on my b
Nd I couldnt forgive her.
She went blind at the age of five. wed stand at the bedroom window and shed get me to tell her what I saw. Id describe the houses opposite, the little patch of grass next to the path, the gat
H its rotten hinges forever wedged open that dad was always going to fix. shed stand there quiet for a moment. I thought she was trying to develop the images in her own head. then shed say:
I can see little twinkly stars,
Like christmas tree lights in faraway windows.
Rings of brightly coloured rocks
Floating around orange and mustard planets.
I can see huge tiger striped fishes