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Kate Tempest

Kate Tempest (born Kate Esther Calvert, 22 December 1985) is an English poet, musical artist, novelist and playwright. In 2013, she won the Ted Hughes Award for her work Brand New Ancients. She was named a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society, a once-a-decade accolade. Her albums Everybody Down and Let Them Eat Chaos have been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. The latter's accompanying poetry book (also titled Let Them Eat Chaos) was nominated for the Costa Book of the Year in the Poetry Category. Her debut novel The Bricks That Built the Houses was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the 2017 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Breakthrough Author. She was nominated as Best Female Solo Performer at the 2018 Brit Awards. more »

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I came to under a red moon
Thirsty for water
My eyes were like shovels in the soil of the sky
Digging into the night to find solace
Burying emptiness

I was heart-broken
Vomiting memories
Because I'd promised her everything
Then I did what I could not to recognize anything

So, here I was
Marching the town
Like a priest in my rapture
Muttering spells

So desperate for tenderness
So raw from the grating of senses
The way the day drinks
Every drop of my strength
It's relentless

I was digging out pence for a length of bad whisky
Me and my friends
Or at least
The others who slumped at the bar without peace
They embraced me as kindred
But something is missing

So, I was sat there at the bar with my forehead on my wrist
Thinking I had given all I had in me to give
When I saw her, cross the floor like a
Firework exploding in slow motion
She touched me on the shoulder 
And I started to live

But I wasn't ready yet

I wanted suckerpunch and numbness
The chase and the conquest of dating by numbers
The safety of keeping my distance 
And feeding my hungers

She spoke of a truth that I could not confront
And she offered a peace
That my war didn't want

Because I liked being fangs and destruction
Suction and froth and disfunction

I was dreaming
Talking too much with my friends in the evenings
I laughed very loud as if I was extremely
Happy
You should have seen me

Now I knew she sensed a glory
I could feel it in the way that I was standing
Two feet taller like I'd never been afraid

I didn't want her to know I wasn't everything she saw in me
We walked each other home 
And didn't kiss

We walked each other home
And

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