Lyric writing, making music and the creative process
Where are we now
You said what you said
Did you think of me
How it would go down
It’s only a game
Why are you so serious
Righteous to the bone
Hold on to your crown
When I needed help
I asked you
Made it easy
Easy on you
Do I turn away
When you call to my door
Looking for a helping hand
Do I settle an old score
What you done was good
Misplaced just a touch
I won’t call out
It’s the doing means so much
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On the railway bridge
We watch the shimmering lights
The beach is full of souls
Trying to take flight
We can see their reflections
On the full moon glassy sea
Not a wave is crashing
Just a gentle autumn breeze
There’s a flash of silver a lash of skin
The fire and the heat
Now you take shelter
As your eyes retreat
I love you in this moment
Then you’re lost to me
I’ll join you if I can
It’s the least a man could do
I’m watching you find comfort
I am your protector
I am your protector
When morning light arrives
The souls have the sound
The colors have all faded
The cold bites your hands
I look for your attention
You’ve fallen for the ether
Like driftwood on an endless ocean
Never finding safest land
We’re all trying to escape in our own way
Sometimes we will make your loss is my mistake
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You get up
You wake up
You put on
Your makeup
Brush your teeth
Tie your hair up
Get ready to face up
To the world outside your window
Take the bus
From the station
With the rest
Of the nation
We work for the capitalist
Organisation
To pay for our
Itemisation
To free us from and keep us in
Isolation
We are the makers
We are the buyers
Who are the takers
And the high flyers
Where are the breakers
And the naysayers
The unions of people
The socialist destroyers
Imagined companies bigger
Than a nation and its people
Ones and zeros in the ether
Worth more than stone and steeple
Paper notes in the bank safe
News and new media spinning yarns for entertainment sake
We’re lapping it up
We’re lapping it in
We are just an experiment
Lab mice in a wheel
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Polly’s tiring
Jack the lad is climbing up again
And she’s been hiding
Behind the iron and the washing up when
He walks in
Says his overalls are never clean enough
This dinner’s cold
The floor is dirty woman clean it up
Sha la la lah
Then it all falls down
Sha la la lah
Then it all falls down
She’s been drinking
Gin and tonic in the afternoon
It’s got her thinking
Silly thoughts about going back to school
At a makeup party
She tries the latest deep red lipstick gloss
He says she’s tarty
Woman you will never be what you are not
Sha la la lah
Then it all falls down
Sha la la lah
Then it all falls down
He takes the throne
Just like his father did
Well it’s his home son
You haven’t worked until your hands have bled
He sees colours
Red and black and white and black and white and red
She feels colors when the lights are down
Not a word is said
It’s not so easy living on your knees
It’s not so easy when you just live to please
Take a stand now and vent your spleen
This dirty laundry just won’t come clean
These words written with Dave Kenny
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I’ve been waiting
for a long time now
For a girl like you
To hear my song
My words and my melody
Listen to them all night long
We’re together now in harmony
Rise and fall through our story
You know this song is yours to sing
So let the echoes ring
I’ve been dreaming
For a long time now
For a girl like you
To be my muse
I can write these words
To lift you high
A rising line
A rising line
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Late Night Music
Keeping us awake
Late Night Music
We can stay the pace
Late Night Music
Take us higher than the Empire State
Late Night Music
Get deep into the bass
Late Night Music
A love that seals our fate
Late Night Music
Opens up the gate
Late Night Music
Pushes through your waist
Late night music
What you cooking up to taste
Late night music
Now there’s no mistake
Late night music
We’re waiting for the break
Late night music
This feeling isn’t fake
Late night music
Cause a big disgrace
Late night music
Feel the dance floor shake
Late night music
Writhing like a snake
Late night music
Now we’re face to face
Late night music
We’re lost without a trace
Late night music
Stop put on the brakes
Late night music
Someone’s on the make
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I’m an inside man
Keep everything behind a wall
Won’t let you in
I’ll keep you out
Don’t even hear your call
I’m an inside man
My emotions I keep in check
Won’t dance won’t sing
Underneath my skin I’m a nervous wreck
I’m an inside man
Been a long time living like this
Won’t hold Her Hand
Or buy her flowers
Won’t let my lips and hers kiss
I’m cold inside
Like something died
What gives a man
A heart of stone
I’m lost in space
Don’t know loves taste
What leaves a man
A heart alone
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Along the banks
Of the canal
Walking home
Where raindrops fell
In and out of sodium
Yellow light washes down
Cigarette burns a hole
Warms a heart at 4am
We can’t go back
We can’t change time
All we have
Is in our mind
And love it fades
Like autumn leaves
Blown away
To dust decay
How could we live
If I was here
All we would say
Was that a good good year
And what would I say
If I could speak
A word of love
Above beneath
Now you can dream
A good good dream
I’ll meet you there
Every single time
So think of me
As I would you
So think of me
As I would you
You can choose
Somewhere wonderful
Just sit and think
For a while
When I must go
It’s not goodbye
You’ve woken up
I’m still yours and you’re still mine
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Be a good man of the north
When you travel take the high road
Know your journey well
Make your weight a light load
See you the next time
We all eat and talk some more
The food of the gods
At the table we are friends
It’s a long way home
Been travelling so far
I’ll remember the road
A good man travels north
I’ve been fighting all my life
For a cause I don’t care
I’ve been risking wrong and right
For something thats not there~
When we talk you understand
You calm me with your kindness
You separate the darkest dreams
Recover me from my blindness
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We could with a break
Get away together
Drive across another state
Watch the stormy weather
Orange citrus in the air
Dust along the track
You read the map to take us there
We’re here no going back
Forget the housework
Forget the kids
Forget your job
Lift your lids
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