Lyric writing, making music and the creative process
The space between you and me
Our lost history
Our newest dreams
We occupy and inhabit
We dance to a pipers tune
Listen to the radio
On a sunny afternoon
A festival of colour
Splashing across our eyes
Isn’t life so easy
When worries are washed away
No shame
No dice to play the game
Just one beautiful morning
After another
We are blessed or
Lucky or we are both
Feeling unsure
Unconfident
Impure
Unsung
Like a forgotten song
With so much to say
So much to speak of
Yesterday, today
Where are we
Who are you
Why do you do
What you do
Industrialised, educated
To work in factories
Not an independent thinker
A pint drinker
Or needle sinker
A finger pointer
Just a disjointer
Love anointer
Plate spinner
White lie sinner
Sometimes winner
With eyes that see
And can’t understand
The back of a hand
The crack of the drum
The lack of the sun
The blackness to come
Feeling Meek
Another week
Another tweak
Setting out A system break
An earthquake of my mind
Well what did you expect to find
The blind man dreaming in black and white
Your sons saying good night
And God bless and love you
Go Go Go
Faster, faster, faster
Don’t slow down
Don’t stop moving
What is it about girls and cars
guitars and diamonds
Gold bars and jet planes
and money, money money
We used to dress up for Sunday
and going out at night
holding open doors
checking everything’s all right
A good heart is hard to find
in a world so full of cynicism
A true life is hard to live
When your phone is full of criticism
Facebook is graffiti
Twitter is just to flame
social media not so social
No more than being insane
Small mercies
Little wins
Take it as it comes to you
A touch a kiss begins
Sweet Dreams
Deepest slumber
All the while I’m watching you
Too much to risk your number
Half of nothing is nothing
Don’t give me that look
If I give you everything I can
It’s never enough
It’s never enough
Chasing Shadows
Never seen
Quicksilver
Running like a river
Green eyes
Soft thighs falling
It’s a shame
The way you live
Like life is just a game you play
Because your daddy went away
Why can’t you find another man
That makes you love yourself?
The patient kind of guy
Don’t mind if you take your time
I’ll enjoy the experience
Watching you put your makeup on
Watching you get ready
You’re picking out your dress
Do I like this one best?
Looks good with those shoes
Goddess goddess
goddess in a black dress
What’s the secret of your success?
F Me heels. For me, I guess?
We’re staying home
Day done
Small things won
War on words
Four Horsemen come
Take me to my slumber
I got up off my knees
I know I’m not a number
Just wasting all my dreams
A letter arrived in the mail today
From an old friend from back in the day
Asking me how I’ve been all these years
What I’ve been doing with my life
I told him it’s good to hear from you my friend
And I hope you’re well and fighting fit
And I told him I’ve been living well
Hey now can’t you tell
A Harley in the garage
Summers by the lake
the most important thing in my life
is a deeper love for my wife
We used to be drinking buddies
Living life for the weekend
chasing girls and starting stupid fights
playing cards and music through the night
I’m looking for you
Keeping you safe
Out of harm’s way
Watching out for you
Your beautiful face
What your lips will say
You’re all over everywhere
I walk 10 steps behind
While the lights flash across your eyes
Everyone loves you
Not as much as me
They only get the digital child
I see the woman behind
The pixelated eyes
Moving images forever ingrained
With you as a star
Stella on my mind
I’m watching over you
Until you’re coming home
I walk you to your door
Carrying your grocery bags
See you in the morning
Little do you know
I’m watching over you
From a distance is okay
Enough for me for now
This is not a question
This is not an answer
This is just a song
A song to help you through
to help you be you
to help you renew
It takes a long time
to travel around the sun
from 21 to 21
And what have I become?
Another year older?
Another solar flare
That will do me
nothing left there
No thoughts collide
no feelings rise
above the atmosphere
and travel through space
You never do what you say
You’re gonna do
That’s okay
Because it doesn’t really matter
In the grand scheme of things
Just trying is enough
I know you what you say
Is true
And that’s okay
Because it makes no difference at all
Down in the gutter
We’re all the same
When push comes to shove
Just trying is enough
Don’t stop trying
Until you start
To find something
Better for you
I’m watching and waiting
To see you fail again
To see you get back up and start again
I don’t know when
Or how you’ll do it
I just know you can
And today is the day
To show the world