Address: IKEA Reading, Reopening, 20 October 2016
Words: Sabine Harnau
Music: Holger Schueler

The flags wave in yellow and blue, like they always do
Broke from the funeral, I’m back at the till
My eye catches you

in the crowd: you’re beaming and talking to
someone — I think I’m going crazy, and still —
The flags wave in yellow and blue, like they always do

I feel hot like the sun at the Costa de la Luz,
The jugglers throw skittles and catch them with skill,
My eye catches you

You were dead when I arrived at 2
I called your mother that night from the hospital
The flags wave in yellow and blue, like they always do

Nothing in the warehouse hydraulics review
“All safe, human error.” If we’d stayed in Seville!
My eye catches you

Smiling, having fun, the shoppers pass through
with their instant interiors: I never will.
The flags wave in yellow and blue, like they always do
My eye catches you