That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.

That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.

Let's pretend for just one moment that could actually happen. You close your eyes and I'll close mine and let's dream the same dream across the Atlantic, lighting up the darkness between us. Can you see it, Stu? Can you see us up there, shining in all the black?

Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.

In fact she was quite bad and according to Jas she was naughty at school, but no one seems to remember that now she is all dead and perfect.

I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.

We didn't speak, just drove out of the city into the countryside on our way to absolutely nowhere, and when we found that perfect spot among the trees, we stopped and looked at each other. Swallows swooped through the red sky, back from their adventure, and we held each other underneath the ketchup clouds, willing time to stop and the world to forget us for a while.