Is your name a pretence?
By you, but who are you?
You are, aren’t you?
A distinctive scowl and careless attitude.
That is in you.
Your song.
Why is your name so different?
Have you had enough of being yourself,
That you had to pretend?
Am I wrong?
Have I mistaken your character by appearances?
When I saw you as you are it was for the first time
Then I had enough already.
You call yourself 1980, but by many other names.
You are known as more and this we know well, so well, by your
Distinctive scowl and careless attitude
This blew me. 1980 is just a name, isn’t it?
You were more than
Distinctive
More than a scowl
More than careless
More than an attitude
For underneath,
You were saying,
“I come as a whist,
But also.”
I was never the same again.