The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 152 On a Need to Know Basis

It’s a song about that time in the early morning

Winter with the vague sun and coming out of sleep

Eyes shut but you can see the room starting to materialise

The gap between sleeping and waking

What we really are and what we think we are

It’s not quite dawn and a wintery sun

Lies in wait to make the shape of the room

I close my eyes and feel the warm

Of your sl…