Present Perfect by ron van der zwaag

We’ve used up all of our
Congenial ‘tell me have you evers’
All that’s left are all the
All the ones that I would never
Tell you about
Yes I knew that girl in the photo
We were quite close
Who nominated this Year Zero?
Oh. Perfectness
Mathematically, maybe grammatically it makes sense
But for us
I’m running for cover
When you throw me that……. Perfect tense
My heart is true. There’s no-one
No-one else with claims upon it
And those I knew before us
Their traces linger and show up
In words, thoughts and deeds
A remedy, or a line that I borrowed
A life, full and free
We lose if we declare this Year Zero
Oh perfectness………..
I’ll tell you about
Every page, every line that I borrowed
I’ll leave nothing out
If we’re declaring this Year Zero

• Alternative
• Folk
• folk pop
• indie folk
• singer-songwriter
• Bathurst