LYRICS

Fable (Bluecloak Records 2010)

Fable

There’s such little time
And so many things to find
Humility sleeps with our very peace of mind
Reaching for the sun
Easier said than done
What is it that keeps us from finding the love inside?

Is it all for the house on the hill
Just the thrill of the ride
Lost to desire
While destiny is longing to shine
Fire burning low
Following it’s glow
Because you know the remedy
Is back to the flame inside

The star in the fable
Come sing out your rhyme
Send it up on the wings of the angels
Now is the time

You that take solace in riches
And build the empires
Heavy the crown must lay
With all of that power
Is dignity just for you
You and the chosen few
No something is awakening
Something is on the rise

The star in the fable
Come sing out your rhyme
Send it up on the wings of the angels
Now is the time

Million to one

Everybody’s swaying everyone’s outside
So alive
Spirits are high and we’re feeling good just like we should

Not a cloud in the sky but the bright yellow sun
Days like these are a million to one

Out of the blue the blue nowhere
Without a care
I hear a mouth harp and whistle play the score of hard times no more

Not a cloud in the sky but the bright yellow sun
Days like these are a million to one
No one racing
Just everybody swaying in time

Tall is the tree line that leads to home
Silently alone
I greet the street that I barely know so maybe friendship sow

Not a cloud in the sky but the bright yellow sun
Days like these are a million to one
No one racing
Just everybody swaying in time

I shut the door undress lay down
With my smile and crown
To have seen a day through a child’s eyes
Filled me full of surprise

Not a cloud in the sky but the bright yellow sun
Days like these are a million to one

And now the rain comes to break in the night
While down below the streets alive
But I’m off to dream
And I’ll slip beneath this time line

Truth in your heart

Tired of waking up outside yourself
And none of the distractions help
You know that it’s come time
To break free from your mind
Truth is in your heart
As it’s been from the start

Heaven and earth in time
Brought song to your rhyme
To keep you safe and sound
When darkness comes around
Truth is in your heart
As it’s been from the start

Down to the core
Where it never is lonely
Fear no more in the one and only

Hypnosing times
Harder to see the line
As further goes the mile
That leads to all things wild
Truth is in your heart
As it’s been from the start

Down to the core
Where it never is lonely
Fear no more in the one and only

One of a kind
You and the stars have always been aligned
No they can’t make you blind
Never doubt that one day you will find
Truth in your heart
As it’s been from the start

Cast your line

We all live sunshine and sadness
They say that we’re a mere six degrees
That everybody is somebody’s story
We go home alone when we’re through

Cast your line
Maybe time
Will be good to you

Whatever desire or flavour
Whatever you fancy as true
And both with or without a saviour
We go home alone when we’re through

Cast your line
Maybe time
Will be good to you

You were wearing the suit of regrets
No one can cast the first stone
And reflection it just brings you deeper
To you going home alone when your through

Cast your line
Maybe time
Will be good to you

Oh what troubled times we live in
The fear it grows and grows
But we know since long ago
We go home alone when we’re through

Cast your line
Maybe time
Will be good to you
Come on and follow your star
Be what you are
Feel love in your veins
Don’t be estranged
There is only one we’re all some mother’s son

Motherless child

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Such a long long way from home

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Such a long long way from home

Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone
Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone
Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone
Back to the heavenly land

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Such a long long way from home

Together

It’s better the hard times when we share the load
Everybody sometimes has got to reap what they sow
Your all alone with your troubles
Come in from the blue

Together we can make something new

It’s easy to shut down, pack your things and hide
Give into the darkness that wants you by it’s side
But now ‘s not the time for your running
And you know it’s true

Together we can make something new

Have we found what we’re here for, or is just everything for sale
The why’s and the wherefore, the devil in the detail
But love is alive
Just waiting on you

Together we can make it through

Stardust

You woke in the abstract, the momentary
Where illusions fall
The faint light now blinding brightly above it all

Letting go was the way
Now you can feel it when they say
That we are all stardust from an ancient story
Beyond King and Queen
Stardust from an ancient story
In a waking dream

Like the big blue
Life’s ride
Of calm and stormy
Roll for roll
But Inside detaching slowly
From its control

Letting go was the way
Now you can feel it when they say
That we are all stardust from an ancient story
Beyond King and Queen
Stardust from an ancient story
In a waking dream

And is our time spent absorbing only
The shade of the sun
Blocked out from a finer glory
United as one

Letting go was the way
Now you can feel it when they say
That we are all stardust from an ancient story
Beyond King and Queen
Stardust from an ancient story
In a waking dream

If only for a day

If only for a day we take away
The need to be the bigger one
Face the fear and carry on
Just maybe we can grow
To know the knowing of the word
The river song the whistling bird

I wonder oh how would it be
To be more than just the bird and the bee
With a change of heart and mind

Do we no longer dream our dream
Will the pride of progress that shapes our way
Ever cease to be and rue the day
Oh our heart song
Where’s it gone
Was the cynics word so sharp for you
That one day the flock convinced you

I wonder oh how would it be
To be more than just the bird and the bee
With a change of heart and mind

So how was it run, your lifetime
Was it just round and round and round the sun
Or when seeing something wrong
You’d search so long
To find a way to lend a hand
Before the hour glass lost all sand

I wonder oh how would it be
To be more than just the bird and the bee
With a change of heart and mind

Promise

Daddy said son
Always know
What you reap son
Is what you sow
Promise me you’ll never forget
Promise you’ll never forget

Look at our boy dear
He’s grown up strong
Leave the nest here
But keep your song
Promise me you’ll never forget
Promise you’ll never forget

To be fair and truthful
Make your life full
And have faith when the colours turn blue

Then came the fortune
That the game
Can give a young man
To make him lame
Still he promises he’ll never forget
Promised he’d never forget

Years fly by now
There’s never time
All but memories have lost their shine
He thought that he’d never forget
Thought he’d never forget

To be fair and truthful
Make this life full
And have faith when the colours turn blue

Now from the ruin comes the man
With all the future in his hands
Promises he’ll never forget
Promises he’ll never forget
To be fair and truthful
Make this life full
And have faith when the colours turn blue
And have faith when the colours turn blue
To have faith when the colours turn blue

Need some time alone

All rhythm gone from bone
You long to be alone
Fire in your eyes
For the world of compromise
And when all is said and done
You’re always on the run
From the loneliness inside
The fear you try to hide

You just need some time alone
You just need some time alone

You can drink till you fall down
To drown out the sound
But the voices in your head
Are still waltzing with the dead
And who do you beseech
When all’s out of reach
But someone deep inside
That sleeps beyond the pride

You just need some time alone
Just need some time alone

Just need some time alone
Just need some time alone..

There’ ll come Spring

Not long ago
Everything was gold
Yeah everything breathed gently

But oh of late
I can’t relate
And troubles seem to be a plenty

I’m all in my head
I’m turning in bed
And I can’t seem to make myself steady

So I throw my arms up to the King
Knowing things they’ll turn around
There’ ll come Spring
If I turn the way of my will back to yours

And oh come on
I’m here in song
And the absence of you defeats me
Eclipsed is the light
And there’s always a fight
Just to see things more clearly
I guess some get strong
And some pass on
Having never really known peace really

So I throw up my arms up to the King
Knowing things they’ll turn around
There’ll come Spring
I turn the way of my will back to yours
I turn the way of my will back to yours

The Backbone Flesh And The Fruit EP (Blue Cloak Records 2007)

 

The Backbone Flesh And The Fruit

When I judge no one
When I walk and don’t run
Do only the things that I know I ought to do
May I find the backbone, the flesh and the fruit

When I remember to share
And put faith in my prayer
When it goes wrong trust I’ll understand it in time
May I find the backbone, the flesh and the fruit

And I take all these things to the river
To take ‘em way out to sea
I’m just trying my best to be free

When it’s all about me
And I’m too proud to see
When I think I know everything under the sun

May I find the backbone, the flesh and the fruit
Lord, May I find the backbone, the flesh and the fruit
Oh, May I find the backbone, the flesh and the fruit

 

On And On

You came a long way
To find the right way
On and on and so it goes

And is this peace at last
Easy does it fast
On and on and so it goes

The wheel will stop when it’s done
To each his own everyone
The wheel will stop when it’s done
To each his own everyone

And what is this time
But you’re only time
On and on and so it goes

The last breath drawn
The new seed born
On and on and so it goes

The wheel will stop when it’s done
To each his own everyone
The wheel will stop when it’s done
To each his own everyone
The wheel will stop when it’s done
To each his own everyone
The wheel will stop when it’s done
To each his own everyone

You came a long way
To find the right way
On and on and so it goes

 

There’ll Come Spring

Not long ago
Everything was gold
Yeah everything breathed gently

But oh of late
I can’t relate
And troubles seem to be a plenty

I’m all in my head
I’m turning in bed
And I can’t seem to make myself steady

So I throw my arms up to the King
Knowing things they’ll turn around
There’ll come Spring
If I turn the way of my will back to yours

And oh come on
I’m here in song
And the absence of you defeats me
Eclipsed is the light
And there’s always a fight
Just to see things more clearly
I guess some get strong
And some pass on
Having never really known peace really

So I throw up my arms up to the King
Knowing things they’ll turn around
There’ll come Spring
I turn the way of my will back to yours
I turn the way of my will back to yours

 

Need Some Time Alone

All rhythm gone from bone
You long to be alone
Fire in your eyes
For the world of compromise
And when all is said and done
You’re always on the run
From the loneliness inside
The fear you try to hide

You just need some time alone
You just need some time alone

You can drink till you fall down
To drown out the sound
But the voices in your head
Are still waltzing with the dead
And who do you beseech
When all’s out of reach
But someone deep inside
That sleeps beyond the pride

You just need some time alone
Just need some time alone

Just need some time alone
Just need some time alone..

 

Numb

Despising fact and rule of thumb
Caution to the wind I follow some
Blind pride makes hollow toys
Turn your heart to stone
I don’t wanna be no hollow toy
All logic and reason just makes me numb

Ah civilized no we are not
So self consumed inside our lot
Blind pride makes hollow toys
Turn your heart to stone
I don’t wanna be no hollow toy
All logic and reason just makes me numb

Numb when my brother and sister cry
Numb to your sacred day
Numb when the love is in your eyes
Help me change on my way
Oh gotta change my way

So all that’s wrong begins in me
Lord give me the strength that I might see
That blind pride makes hollow toys
And it’ll turn the heart to stone
I don’t wanna be no hollow toy
All logic and reason just makes me…

Blind pride makes hollow toys
And it’ll turn the heart to stone
I don’t wanna be no hollow toy
All logic and reason just makes me numb

 

The Other Side

Pleasure won’t come out to play
It’s seen all it wants of the day
Heartless and wounded in your mind
When nothing rings true
But the big bold bells of the blue
And you don’t care for anything no more

Hush don’t you run
Look to the sun
Take it to the other side
From the empty wheel
To the child inside
Who’ll keep it real
Live for the here and now
Come on take a bow
You were never alone

Train of thought derailed
Wind caught all the sail
Dragged down to the depths of violet town
Oh Lord you’re the anchor
When the blind lead the blind
Can’t find the way onto the shore

Hush don’t you run
Look to the sun
Take it to the other side
From the empty wheel
To the child inside
Who’ll keep it real
Live for the here and now
Come on take a bow
You were never alone

Take it to the other side
From the empty wheel
To the child inside
Who’ll keep it real
Live for the here and now
Come on take a bow
You were never alone

 

Colour me Colourful (N4 Records 2006)

 

Shake The Devil Down

Knotted like a string
Wound up like a spring
Trying to shake the devil down

It’s a web you weave
That sadness cannot leave
Trying to shake the devil down
And put him back down underground

Half light burn away
To a brand new day
Trying to shake the devil down

A buzz is for the bees
The breeze is for the trees
Trying to shake the devil down
See he belong down underground

I trade ghosts for the lullaby
I see salvation in your eye
Shape shift me, walk with me, stay a while
Trying to shake the devil down
And put him back down underground

I wonder are you there
Now Spring is in the air
Trying to shake the devil down

Ah red young robin breast
Gotta do our very best
Trying to shake the devil down
And put him back down underground

I trade ghosts for the lullaby
I see salvation in your eye
Hold me close and let me sleep
Into your arms my soul to keep

Shape shift me, walk with me, stay a while
Trying to shake the devil down
Shape shift me, walk with me, stay a while
Trying to shake the devil down
Trying to shake the devil down

 

One Of The Same

One goodbye two you cry
To soak your aching bones
Downtown spacing around the city’s lights
You see red cause you never said
All that was on your mind
But next time you’ll realise
Keep some of the find
There’s crazy racing in your blood
You’re gonna get on with it now
Like you know you should

I said baby we’re all one and the same
Together in joy, together in pain
I said baby we’re all one of the same
Together in joy, together in pain

Is it so all you know
Comes from where you’ve been
It’s a ride most of the time
Through thick and thin
Who’s proud, really proud
With all they’ve done
We’ll keep trying to make it right
Before the day is done
Oh no you’re not out there on your own
Because nobody’s got it stitched, or got it all sewn

I said baby we’re all one of the same
Together in joy, together in pain

 

Trailing The True Star

I for one have got eyes for you
All the promise of January and warmth of June
I’d been down
Down with the crows below
You came in the night, whispering of white
And God knows, God only knows

I’m sailing not failing
I’m trailing the true star tonight
High up on a crescent moon
Your name is spoken, a dream is woven.

Trailing the true star tonight
Trailing the true star
Trailing the true star tonight

You’re one of loneliness’s favourite things
Giver of great grace and joy
The first blossom of Spring

I’d been down
Down with the crows below
You took me by the hand, to make me a better man
And God knows, God only knows

I’m sailing not failing
I’m trailing the true star tonight
So high up on a crescent moon
Your name is spoken, the dream is woven.

Trailing the true star tonight
Trailing the true star
Trailing the true star tonight

I kissed the morning sun
I pray our lives will be happy and long
I’m looking down, down at the crows below
I’m not gonna fall in, cause I know what that bring
And God knows, God only knows

I’m sailing not failing
Trailing the true star tonight
You’re so high up on a crescent moon
Your name is spoken, a dream is woven

Trailing the true star tonight
Trailing the true star

 

Get To The Ocean

Might be that a storm is coming down
A fingerprint could bring the whole things down
Baby get it to the ocean

The coast is clear and I’m alone
There’s a sheepskin drum being played with a collarbone
Baby get it to the ocean

Back up man I think she’s gonna blow
Heart banging out rhythms that the mind don’t know
Baby get it to the ocean
We’ll sail for the spark
Night blind is fun when you come alive after dark

So tired of walking with a ball and chain
Brunettes just about to burst into flames
Baby get it to the ocean

You say you’re going out of town
There’s a flu going round
I’m gonna say im coming round
Baby get it to the ocean

Now that there’s a strong breeze blowing
I’ve cut the line, the crystal ball is broken
Baby get it to the ocean
We’ll sail for the spark
Night blind is fun when you come alive after dark

I read your note in the rain
What held me when I went insane
I read your note in the rain
That you’re never coming back again here again
I know love don’t grow on trees
Love don’t grow on trees

 

Home It Has Flown

Up the dawn it comes rising
East in the arms of loved ones
Watch as the light to the west run
Home it has flown

Pinched the violet clover
Sweet taste in the cool rain
Silence flown with the lone crane
Home it has flown

Wise and unfallen stars
Colour your mind
Wise and unfallen stars
Would never leave you behind

Time so fast blazing
Trails from day into nightshade
What of the castles our hands made
Home it has flown

When the iris hits the grave
Memories deep underground now
Home the soul has flown
Home it has flown

The wise and unfallen stars
Colour your mind
Wise and unfallen stars
Would never leave you behind

Up the dawn it comes rising
East in the arms of loved ones
Watch as the light to the west runs
Home it has flown
Home it has flown

 

Propellor

Free fall and slide
Away to the other side
Spiral spiral down the hole
To the naked things that shape the soul
Receiver possessed lunatic repressed
Wild as hares lasso us in
We’re all a little tapped
Just thicker skinned
Old propeller turning things around

Embracing the strange
Come don’t play games
Fluttering fluttering
Rush through you
Flap of the wing
And the bolt of the blue
No meat on the bone
We’re all together alone
The buckle of youth
That drinks the day
Soaks it in and stores it away
Old propeller turning things around

When the teeth of the clock
Has time stop dead at the door
It won’t stop to knock
Nor follow us around the bend anymore

So we free fall and slide
Away to the other side
Spiral spiral down the hole
To the naked things that shapes the soul
Receiver possessed lunatic repressed
Wild as hares lasso us in
We’re all a little tapped
Just thicker skinned
Old propeller turning things around

Colour Me Colourful

Colour me colourful me beautiful
For all I am not and yet to be
Lady Madonna I am so blind
Raise me up that I might see

Colour me colourful me beautiful
Asleep in blue awake in gold
Catch a ride on a chariot wild
To a place that keeps me from the cold

When you know you’re not alone
The stronger you become do you know
We learn to slay darkness down
And the stronger we become, stronger we become

Colour me colourful me beautiful
I see the bird above the flame
The caterpillar to the butterfly
Like hardened soil before the rain

Colour me colourful me beautiful
A great big star lit up your eye
I saw your dance your wonderful dance
And you filled my heart with so much joy

When you know you’re not alone
The stronger you become, do you know
We learn to slay darkness down
And the stronger we become, stronger we become

Colour me colourful me beautiful
Colour me colourful me beautiful

Ways To The Sun

Children stumble ‘round drunk on chocolate candy
They got bright brown eyes and pitch black matted hair
Under the eyes of a golden stare

Oh so many different ways to the sun

In this place of beauty
That makes little of troubles and woes
Medicine sound soothe the sacred soul
Under the eye of a singing bowl

Oh so many different ways to the sun

Fish silver from the blue
Your tear put out my fire
The prayer is old and the mouth is new
Like that which guards the flower is the briar

Oh so many different ways to the sun
Oh so many different ways to the sun

In a soft and simple silence
Thoughts they slipped away
For a second a glimpse of truth made it’s way home
Under the eye of the bird born fully grown

Oh so many different ways to the sun

Fish silver from the blue
Your tear put out my fire
The prayer is old and the mouth is new
Like that which guards the flower is the briar

Oh so many different ways to the sun
So many different ways to the sun

Cat Gut And Wind

A break in the waves
A break in my lips that your name came through
Slap the tide lapping
Your eyes are entrapping my heart to you

I know you’ll be gone by morning light
It is what it is
I won’t try to fight it my love
My love

A privileged boy got no reason to cry
Hold your head up high
Better to have loved and so on you know how that story goes

Time doesn’t steal, it hangs in the air
It follows us ‘round and it has not a care for my love
My love

A wonderful night what a wonderful kind of anywhere
I’m out of my shell and I’m hiding away but I couldn’t care

With catgut and wind I’m singing your tune
With the silver wheel it’s autumns moon my love
My love

Yeah with catgut and wind I’m singing your tune
With the silver wheel it’s autumns moon my love
My love
My love

 

Endless Day

Erupting shoulders
Great mountainous wings
The good shepherd knows
A lot a little love brings
Both King and mouse in me, we bow to love
It all begun in you above

Father
Holy Mother golden sun
You my Father
Holy Mother golden sun

The rock says listen
To all that you know
From these desert sands to singing forest grove
All that rest in me
Rise above
Come to know
Only love

Father
Holy Mother golden sun
You my Father
Holy Mother golden sun
We bow to love

Got no more time for vulgar word
Just want to know the way of the bird
Been let astray
I’ll find my way
Back to land
Into your hand

Father
Holy Mother golden sun
You my Father
Holy Mother golden sun

You are the way the endless day
You are the way the endless day

 

Burdett Ballad

Restless heart trace singing stream
Dark of night find lucid dream
Tower block kiss pink cherry wild
Bravery lead the brand new child
Each new sun the soul greets alone
Silence swells beyond flesh and bone
All we fail to say and realise
Each freedom born bears no disguise

And what have we lost
What have we become
What have we lost
Who will we be when our race is run

Meadow gold born to sun and rain
Seasons change but the goal remains the same
One last dance and chance for the heart to be
The light of man and not the root of greed
Gentle ways that ask of nothing in return
Just to pray and only hope to learn
Amazing grace and space in place of time
A mother’s love is the bell with the sweetest chime

And what have we lost
Ya what have we become
What have we lost
And who will we be when our race is run

Restless heart trance singing stream
Dark of night find lucid dream
Tower block kiss pink cherry wild
Bravery lead the brand new child

 

Don’t Be Afraid

In these modern days
A troubled mind is all the rage
Oh please when you fall low
Know that I will hear you
Know that I won’t judge you

I am by your side
All of the times
That you can’t hide
Only too well I know the shade
Come don’t be afraid

When the cat has got your tongue
And the funny man is feeling strong
He’s making a big bang
In your ear drum
Hear my voice hum

I am by your side
All of the times
That you can’t hide
Only too well I know the shade
So come don’t be afraid

I am by your side
All of the times
That you can’t hide
Only too well I know the shade
So come don’t be afraid

Don’t be afraid
Don’t be afraid
Come don’t be afraid
Don’t be afraid

 

Only Love Is Real (Bluecloak Records 2004)

 

I’m On For Living

In the belly of the earth
Our hearts in time,
To the motion of
The sun and the moon
Only for the flame
And the soul of stone
So beautiful and blessed we bloom

I’m on for living
Not just surviving
Oh in my offering I call
Enemy teach me
Fear don’t cripple me
And past don’t you haunt me at all

Invisible line
Divine Mother shine
And vision of man Africa.
Bird stood still
Directing all will
To a new day in the depth of man

I’m on for living
Not just surviving
Oh in my offering I call
Enemy teach me
Fear don’t cripple me
And past don’t you haunt me at all

Sun shone down on us from above
All Brother, Sister, to higher love

Enemy teach me
Fear don’t cripple me
And past don’t you haunt me at all

 

Only Love Is Real

Mother’s smile, Father’s jokes
The unknown mile and the Holy Ghost
Don’t you love, you love
You love the way that love makes you feel
Only love is real

Bend your mind trying to get it in shape
Spend half your time trying to find the brakes
Don’t you love, you love
You love the way that love makes you feel
Only love is real

You can worry about tomorrow
Or throw it out on the wind
Abandon sorrow
Cause it can’t change anything

And I’m walking on the shore
And I’m letting go Lord
Don’t you love, you love
You love the way that love makes you feel
Only love is real

You can worry about tomorrow
Throw it out on the wind
Abandon sorrow
Cause it won’t change anything

And I’m walking on the shore
And I’m letting go Lord
Don’t you love, you love
You love the way that love makes you sing

Only love is king
Don’t you love, you love
You love the way that love makes you feel
Only love is real
Only love is real

 

Trailing The True Star

I for one have got eyes for you
All the promise of January and warmth of June
I’d been down
Down with the crows below
You came in the night, whispering of white
And God knows, God knows

That you’re one of loneliness’s favourite things
Giver of great grace and joy
First blossom of spring

I’d been down
Down with the crows below
You took me by the hand, to make me a better man
And God knows, God knows

I’m sailing not failing
I’m trailing the true star tonight
High up on a crescent moon
Your name is spoken, a dream is woven.

Trailing the true star tonight
Trailing the true star tonight
Trailing the true star tonight

I kissed the morning sun
I pray that our lives will be happy and long
I’m looking down, down at the crows below
I’m not gonna fall in, cause I know what that bring
And God knows, God knows

I’m sailing not failing
I’m trailing the true star tonight
High up on a crescent moon
Your name is spoken, a dream is woven

Trailing the true star tonight
Trailing the true star tonight

 

Potosi Mine

40 years digging in the middle of the mine where the silver vein run
Underground down beside Tio,
Up above Pacha Mama and the sun.
Dynamite and the coca leaf
The challa make the whole thing go

A child’s childhood memory is of breaking stone,
Deep down, down beside the riches, the riches contained in stone
There not for me and not for my brother, away the wealth does go

And all of the fat cats they all get their lorry load
For a pittance of the price I bet their wives look nice
While young miners look so old
Exploitation, how the whole thing go
Exploitation, how the whole thing go

Your 40 years digging in the middle of the mine where the silver vein run
Underground down beside Tio,
Up above Pacha Mama and the sun.
Dynamite and the coca leaf
The challa make the whole thing go

Exploitation, how the whole thing go
Exploitation, how the whole thing go

 

Paperboat

I’m gonna fall
Anytime soon
The bow will break
And love will make
Room in my heart for you

Oh you bright star
In the darkest hour
Now I see, now I know
The world needs a lullaby

And you, you make up the most of my time
With all you do and say
You place all my troubles on a paperboat
And you blow em all away

And you warm the hearts
Of all those that meet you
Do ya realise that you never die
You’re only passing through

But I guess that you know
How much I adore you
Ain’t it funny what this live does bring
And love can do to you

And you, you make up the most of my time
With all you do and say
You place all my troubles on a paperboat
And you blow em all away
You place all my troubles on a paperboat
You blow em all away

 

Planets To Stars

Your love is what’s making me able
I thank you for my life, Queen of angels
Planets to stars, and stars to wishes

Your cloak it flows orange and silver
The moon upon your brow, Oh my Gabriel
Boulders to stones, and stones to pebbles

Romance she danced ‘round my door
The past is gone it is no more
Shadow to dream, and I dream of new beginning

Cause your love is what’s making me able
I thank you for my life, Queen of angels
Planets to stars and stars to wishes
Planets to stars and stars to wishes

 

Shadow On The Wall

When the time is right but I’m too blind
You may look for me
I’m just the shadow on the wall

When I’m saying things that are cruel and unkind
I’m so sorry
But don’t listen to me
I’m just the shadow on the wall

If you only knew, if you knew me better
So much more to me
Than this shadow on the wall

When rain gets wild and tries to act all clever
Shelter me
From the shadow on the wall

And if it looks like it’s the final tether
Remember
Light cast the shadow on the wall

 

Hell Bent On You

I’m hell bent on you
Angels are easy to loose
They say love is blind
Is that why I can’t find you

I’m polishing silver
I’m digging for gold
Laying to bed with the sun
Old bones and rosary stones
And all that was once said and done

Oh mercy me
The looking glass looked at me
And I saw magic that I can’t quite put my finger on

We got lost in the gale
And the wind ran away with our song
My heart went right off the rails
And it felt like it never belonged
A rock of a girl, a jasmine pearl
She glowed red from afar
Pierced my heart with her spark
Then she left of a shooting star

Oh mercy me
The looking glass looked at me
And I saw magic that I can’t quite put my finger on

Oh I’m hell bent on you
Angels are easy to loose
They say that love is blind
Is that why I can’t find you

I’m polishing silver
I’m digging for gold
I’m laying to bed with the sun
Old bones and rosary stones
And all that was once said and done

Oh mercy me
The looking glass looked at me
And I saw magic that I can’t quite put my finger on
I saw magic
That I can’t put my finger on

 

Palace Of The Heart

Palace of the heart
Though in a hidden place
Can be brighter than the stone within the crown

Big light shine from a little brave boy
I’ve seen your face
Among my dreams among the clouds

Oh I ask the softness in your eyes
Surprise the ghost in me once again
The soul of solo wants to cry
Settles for the paper and the pen

Oh, I gotta flame for somebody
But the wind keeps blowing it in
Oh, gotta flame for somebody
But the wind keeps blowing it in

Magic moments and big mistakes
Upon this wheel that’s moving spinning round
Dear comet, cometh, take me from this place
I have burned the bridge I’ve pulled it down
Can you hold my hands I’ve gone so dark inside
Can you help me to turn and face the sun
Big light shine from a little brave boy
Will you show your face
Cause I, I can’t finish what I begun

Oh, I gotta flame for somebody
But the wind keeps blowing it in
Oh, I gotta flame for somebody
But the wind keeps blowing it in

And certainly I’m uncertain most of the time
Don’t you waste on me
Cause there’s so much upstairs I can’t find
Certainly I’m uncertain most of the time
Don’t you waste on me
Cause there’s so much upstairs I can’t find you

Oh, I gotta flame for somebody
But the wind keeps blowing it in
I gotta flame for somebody
But the wind keeps blowing it in

 

Neon Lights

Through all the neon lights of Amsterdam
I wonder who the hell, who I am
When again comes the time that I can feel that I belong
But I know one thing for certain this mouth of mine was made for song

To brighten up someone’s day
Takes so very little
So why is there so much pain in this world
And so many tears trickle

Devious men send soldiers to fight their war
And the poor just flight out the cold
Tonight I’m sad cause I feel that we can’t change a thing
If really the truth be told

Running around in the melody
And sussing it out on the line
And of, Mother Nature’s recipes
I am sure she’ll find me all in her own time

Can’t be taking out more than that we return
Yeah you smother the throat that gives the earth it’s song
And just think, what makes you breathe
You chop the hand that feed
What makes you breathe
You chop the hand that feed

Silence is all that this world once was
Nature so vast and calm
Won’t you take your time
Take it all in and then you’ll see
Just how small is man

Anchor me away to the depth of love
In my fine blue silence I shall never go back above

I know that love is a fly kite
Love is a train
A one-way plane
Away from pain

Love is fly kite
Love is a train
It’s a one-way plane
Away

Running around in the melody
Sussing it out on the line
Mother Nature’s recipes
I am sure she’ll find me all in her own
Running around in the melody
Sussing it out on the line
And of Mother Nature’s recipes
I am sure she’ll find me all in her own time

 

Sober Clown

I’m glad you’re happy now
I know you did what you had to do
It’s just that,
My road is clear of traffic, I’m going walking
But I wish to God I was walking with you
And I’ve been spending too much time alone
I’ve gripped the fact now that I’m on my own
Brooding too much on memories
And I’ll admit that I was kinda bitter to the bone

Gifts of poetry lay suspended in the air
I watched them all go by
I didn’t even care
Gifts of poetry lie suspended in the air
When I’m back on my feet
I’m gonna strip that orchard bare

Sun up and down
And then the moons around
And all the while they’re watching us
We’re in different towns
And you were a Christmas song
You made me merrily on high
But correct me if I’m wrong
Love will make you cry
My eyes were always open
But I had sleep in the way
Like webs of frost
On forests walks
On Winter’s day
And as a rain cloud paint
Mountain in my dream
I wanna wake as the mountain
So the mist will be my dream

Gifts of poetry lay suspended in the air
I watched them all go by
I didn’t even care
Gifts of poetry lie suspended in the air
When I’m back on my feet
I’m gonna strip that orchard bare

Through domino wind
Birds scream through the sky
He’s one tear away
And two from the reason why
And as the bird glides over
The water’s pulse
Into the mist I wish like it to be lost
We all get down
But the drunk band sound
Was just the sober clown
Love is a melody
Which can change so unexpectedly

Gifts of poetry lay suspended in the air
I watched them all go by
I didn’t even care
Gifts of poetry lie suspended in the air
When I’m back on my feet
I’m gonna strip that orchard bare

Gifts of poetry lay suspended in the air
I watched them all go by
I didn’t even care
And gifts of poetry now lie suspended in the air
And I’m back on my feet
I’m ready to strip this orchard bare

 

No more lie

I know I am the blossom
Of all that burns inside
I know I am the blossom
Of all that burns inside

I am walking
I’m walking
What I seek
I will find

If I tell myself
No more lie
No more lie
If tell myself
No more lie

I know I am the morning
That decides the day
I know I am the morning
That decides the day

When the night come
The night come
I need not be alone

If I tell myself
No more lie
No more lie
If tell myself
No more lie

The stone that shape the river
It softens then it dies
The stone that shapes the river
It softens then it dies

Walk on water
On water
And I will be home soon

If I tell myself
No more lie
No more lie
If tell myself
No more lie

The sun that lights the day
It shine on one and all
The sun that lights the day yeah
It shines on one and all

I feel the wind change
The wind change
And love blow through my soul

When I tell myself
No more lie
No more lie
If tell myself
No more lie

If I tell myself
No more lie

 

The Spirit Store (Bluecloak Records 2003)

 

I Wandered Out On A Star

From the Gods
That jump from stone
And the broken bell
That hangs on alone

I wandered out on a star
I swear I did tonight

Collided with the heart and core
That words could never explore

I wandered out on a star
I swear I did tonight

My world it looked bright and brand new
And the dawn was a beautifully blue

I wandered out on a star
I swear I did tonight

This dance of flames and embers
Like a merry go around
Just hope my heart can remember
All the freedom that it’s found

When my tower of Babel burned
I found you when I returned

I wandered out on a star
I swear I did tonight

 

The Swaying Tree

Under the swaying tree
I go mitching time
From time to time
And think about all kinds of mysteries

Why is it you’re the one
How do we move around the sun
Why’d I have to go so far
To cherish things here

Does a fool play a clever hand
Can he be man
Enough to say
That he’s scared of the world

Heaven knows how much I love you
My heart beats quicker
As a candlelight flicker
Makes you a halo
Of baby blond

And under the swaying tree
I go mitching time
From time to time
And think about all kinds of mysteries

Tell me what keeps us pushing on
Who keeps us singling along
Why does the better way
Have such a fine line

And did Noah sail the arch
With no stone left unturned
Why do my loved ones get
All my baggage and bones

Heaven knows how much I love you
My heart beats quicker
As a candlelight flicker
Makes you a halo
Of baby blond

But heaven knows how much I love you
My heart beats quicker
And candlelight flicker
Makes you a halo
Of baby blond

 

-12

It’s -12 December in hell
Voices are building and I ain’t feeling well
Sorry mamma, so sorry I can’t write
Fever rising
Woah my head ain’t right

I see the disguise
I know what you’re trying to do
You may be clever
But I’m faster than you
Sorry mamma, so sorry I can’t write
Fever rising
Woah my head ain’t right

Got the destiny dice
And the crystal ball
The cats on my path
And the whispers in the hall
Sorry mamma, so sorry I can’t write
There’s a fever rising
Woah my head ain’t right

I’m flustered in flight
I’m a swallow in space
My flowers are fresh
There’s just a crack in the vase
Sorry mamma, so sorry I can’t write
There’s fever’s rising
Woah my head ain’t right
There’s a fever rising
And my head ain’t right

 

Take it with me

Phone’s off the hook
No one knows where we are
It’s a long time since I
Drank champagne
The ocean is blue
As blue as your eyes
I’m gonna take it with me
When I go

Old long since gone
Now way back when
We lived in Coney Island
Ain’t no good thing
Ever dies
I’m gonna take it with me
When I go

Far far away a train
Whistle blows
Wherever you’re goin
Wherever you’ve been
Waving good bye at the end
Of the day
You’re up and you’re over
And you’re far away

Always for you, and
Forever yours
It felt just like the old days
We fell asleep on Beaula’s porch
I’m gonna take it with me
When I go

All broken down by
The side of the road
I was never more alive or
Alone
I’ve worn the faces off
All the cards
I’m gonna take it with me
When I go

Children are playing
At the end of the day
Strangers are singing
On our lawn
There’s got to be more
Than this flesh and bone
All that you’re loved
Is all you own

In a land there’s a town
And in that town there’s
A house
And in that house
There’s a woman
And in that woman
There’s a heart that I love
I’m gonna take it
With me when I go

 

Smothered In Light

I am blue
You are the moon
I’m smothered in light
Ah now isn’t that grand

Laughter sent from above
This magic stuff containing love
I’m smothered in light
Ah now isn’t that grand

Storm coming in
And I can take all that it brings
Cause I’m smothered in light
Ah now isn’t that grand

Every single living soul
Got pilgrimage to their goal
Smothered in light
Ah now isn’t that grand

Now I know there’s hope
Never again will I lose sight
Happier these days
I know things are going to be all right

 

Sister And Song

And there’s days you don’t feel all that strong
In the company of friends you can feel alone
And the light of your life is red
Even though you and the moon you’re happily wed

And when all your smiles are worn
And the magic you once had is all gone
She’s far away, she has to be
But all you want is her company
Nights are so damn hard on your own
Rain cloud bring me away
Wash my shell give me back the light

I must have done something wrong in trying to make her mine
Cause stars disappear when you stare over time
But maybe that’s not it at all
I know that day I couldn’t stand so tall
I can wonder all I want and I’ll never know
Rain cloud bring me away
Wash my shell give me back the light

And the sun fall beds lightening strip on cloud
Early winter sky sulks in water blue
Tonight an orange stripe is the sunsets dying scene
Cold oceans blue horizon
It’s like a comet above the sea
Dear rain cloud bring me away
Wash my shell give me back the light

Cause there’s silver holes lying in the sky
Scribbled nests in the naked pose of the trees
Music sister and song
Tell me what went wrong
And if this is not where love is at
Then tell me where the hell can it be

 

Wonderful Life

I’ve been dragging my heals
Been a slave to my fears
Give me the strength to break away
And make a real change

As you live and you learn
You try make medals from the burns
What good is there in beating yourself up over your wrongs

This is no way to be carrying on
Time to walk my talk and stop going astray
A wonderful life
If you’re healthy and bright
With so many friends to love you on your way

You gotta love yourself clown
Cause self doubt is where they drown
All your possessions sacred and true

I know it’s easier said that done
But you’re the only one
That keeps on beating yourself down into the ground

This is no way to be carrying on
Time to walk my talk and stop going astray
I’ve a wonderful life
I’m healthy and bright
Got so many friends to love me on my way

For I know
I’m a lucky old son
That’s singing away
And living day by day

For I know
I’m a lucky old son
That’s singing away
And living day by day

Rain In The Deepest Root

Rain gone down to the deepest root
This façade is to a deeper truth
We have forgotten
We are all one eternal light
That’s just trying to go home
It’s just trying to remember
The road out of the night

Love of God and my fear of man
Deep down deep it’s much the same
Just that we have forgotten
In the eye of the hurricane
We’re just trying to go home
Just trying to remember
The road out of the night

From great extremes
To anchor dreams
A river all in flood
May I say aloud
In my final voice
I’ve done the best I could
I can stand the cold but can’t bare the bite

Time is now, there singin, don’t hang around
My guardian, God and this muse
I think I’m starting to remember
That we are all one eternal light
That’s just dying to go home
That’s just trying to remember
The road out of the night

From great extremes
To anchor dreams
A river all in flood
May I said aloud
In my final voice
Man I’ve done the best I could

From great extremes
To anchor dreams
A river all in flood
May I said aloud
In my final voice
I’ve done the best I could
I can stand the cold but can’t bare the bite

Songs Are Forever

I woke from a dream
In which I cried the whole way through
Cause everywhere was sadness
Loss of time, loss of love and loss of you

And the breeze these days
Don’t carry me along
I’ll crumble, fall apart
But I’ll always sing you a song

I seem to love the good times
Twice as more when I’m looking back
To give birth to your dreams is further from the elbow grease
And way on past their slack

And the breeze these days
Don’t carry me along
I’ll crumble, fall apart
I’ll always sing you a song

Let there be words not wars
Let there be clouds and not dust
See bodies turned to ashes
But souls the mother giver she’s the crust

And the breeze these days
Don’t carry me along
I’ll crumble, fall apart
I’ll always sing you a song

And the sea befriends the wind
And the wind helps the sea to the shore
Everything’s got give and take
Live life, live love more and more
And the sun’s back up
Gone the chains that held me long

Cause I’m stallion son
Cute fox run
There’s an angel on my side
On my side

And let the breeze these days
Carry us along
We’ll crumble, fall apart
Forever our songs live on

 

Sketch the day, paint the night (Bluecloak Records 2001)

The Good Fight

Step into the good fight
Sketch the day, paint the night
Hold onto your word
Weak or strong, small or tall
Summer sun, autumn fall
Know that everyone gets strange
It’s ok

To receive or give away
With lots to tell or nothing to say
When everything has changed
When your lowest of low
You’re on top of the world
Dreaming light or you’re ghostly cold
What goes up come down

How can I forever keep the morning’s fairytale
When awaits the midday blues

Like dry hosts the rain
Like fire stages it’s flame
Their both cradling time
Windy lanes and chair-o-planes
Corner boys
My mamma complains
Now how sweet that memory

How can I forever keep the morning’s fairytale
When awaits the midday blues
Not until my last thought goes down
The rain has found home
That old suns out shone
Will I go to where sight is not with they eye
And the wind’s all cried out
I know sight ‘s not with the eye

Hush little baby
Don’t say a word
Cause momma’s gonna buy you a mocking bird

Hush little baby
Don’t say a word
Cause momma’s gonna buy you a mocking bird

 

The Late Train

Let all your feelings through
The sun would never try to be the rain
In this great kingdom
Where no two flowers are the same
People are dream machines
Stop tryin to fix what is not broken

Lots of different people
Same frown
Dream of a better life
All wrapped up in the town
But it’s never too late to take the late train

Sitting by my window
Feeling grace as sunlight hits the floor
It’ll be that dust dance at the break of dawn
That I most adore
And I’d like to believe that someday
We’ll know the nature of all things to the core

Lots of different people
Same frown
Dream of a better life
Get all wrapped up in the town
But it’s never too late to take the late train

All aboard that’s going to board
All aboard that’s going to board
All aboard that’s going to board
All aboard that’s going to board

Lots of different people
Same frown
Dream of a better life
All wrapped up in the town
But it’s never too late to take the late train

 

No Time For Crowds

I’ve not time for crowds now
Nor the crimes they bring
No, nor for the games they wanna play
I don’t care to lose and I, I couldn’t care if win
Hit the nail on the head and don’t try to smooth out the ride
Cause both you and I know now that it’s high time

Baby you won’t break
You’ll just follow the signs

Get your things together
I’ve prayed for sunny weather
It’s going to work this time

I’m focusing on the mountain
And I’ve turned my back on the wall
Any given day, any given hour
I can learn from the waterfall
Hit the nail on the head and don’t try to smooth out the ride
Cause both you and I know now that it’s high time

No no, you won’t break
You’ll just follow the signs
Get your things together
I’ve prayed for sunny weather
And I believe it’s going to work this time

Here the world feels like paradise
Today I want nothing better
No smell sweeter, there’s no love stronger
There’s no music more moving
No silence more soothing
Today I am just happy to be, here in paradise
I am here in paradise

 

Night Hawks

You stole things from the night
Told lies when on all fours
I sang and bluffed my way
I get along very well, of course I do

The night sky is almost finished
Nighthawk’s dreams have just begun

My favourite jacket is dead
I’m gonna find me new moves
Who’s gonna draw the blinds
I’m easy where it goes from here, you choose

The night sky is almost finished
Nighthawk’s dreams have just begun

And now all trace of you is gone
But a wind pocket of your perfume
Good come to those who wait
Only reality is not real anyhow

The night sky is almost finished
Nighthawk’s dreams have just begun

Desperately trying to find
A moment of yours and mine

The night sky is almost finished
Nighthawk’s dreams have just begun

Night sky is almost finished
Nighthawk’s dreams have just begun
The night sky is finished

 

What Would I Know

There is a laughter, drowning in the breeze
It’s a poor thing your momma’s gotta cry
A 5.30 magpie shouting from it’s tree
I see this summer undercover
I’m blowing it’s disguise

I don’t know
What would I know?

Prayer flags prayer gallops on wind
Temples children journey in light
Our missionaries mission is to win
But I know that true fighters swing not swords but kites

I don’t know
What would I know?

I heard the wind and it had me dancing nice and slow
I vowed my very best, I’d take a stand
Who knows how the time works
Or where it all goes
Why everyone wants happiness, but not everyone is holding out there hand

I don’t know
What would I know?

 

Lily

Your smile is so refreshing
You’re a comedy wrapped up in a lesson
Footstep light as light
Bless you in your good fight, Lily

It all boils down to wind
But where the sail lies that’s the thing
Amid the scribble and the noise
And our need for bigger toys, Lily

When I feel it freezing over
You here and you make me feel at home

Not even a dandelion skeleton
Could have brought around this wish
No dream nor falling star
From the mother ship
Somewhere a perfect day
Aware of all we do and say, Lily

My happy place down the red bridge lane
Watching me grow while it remains the same
There I find the force
Where things just run their course

When I feel it freeing over
You here and you make me feel at home
What are the secrets that you bring
From the darkness you raise your head and sing, Lily

Not even a dandelion skeleton
Could have brought around this wish
Not even a dandelion skeleton
Could have brought around this wish

 

Hairpin

There’s a stone in my shoe
And I’ve had quite a few
The party’s long over
The walk ’s knocked me sober
I see you at the hairpin
Dancing in a drain with the moon

I stop dead in my tracks
And crouch hunker low
There’s two lights ‘round you dancing
My heart’s quick time marching
I see you at the hairpin
Dancing in a drain with the moon

Deep root notes on a bass baritone
Shake the leaves where I’m standing
Rain drops abandon
I see you at the hairpin
Dancing in a drain with the moon

There’s mornings I don’t even wanna tie my laces
I know my walking be outta time
Tonight will end I know
Just pray tomorrow won’t blow
Ill wind that squanders the light

There’s a stone in my shoe
And I’ve had quite a few
The party’s long over
The walk ’s knocked me sober
I see you at the hairpin
Dancing in a drain with the moon

There’s mornings I don’t even wanna tie my laces
I know my walking be outta time
Tonight will end I know
I pray tomorrow won’t blow
The ill wind that squanders the light

Cause there’s a stone in my shoe
I gotta stone in my shoe
There’s a stone in my shoe

 

Life Is More Perfect Than Gold

Invite me please to the fairy dance
I’ll write a song for the ball
You can teach me how to make those rusty leaves
How do they swirl in the fall

Fire me from the mouth of a cannon
Pixie land that I long to see
Where Tom Thumb caught wind about the riches
Of one Jack and a bean

The sky she’s in her evening attire
There’s hallelujah etched in my soul
Your love and the night breeze
Is taking me higher
Man, why can’t you see
Life is more perfect than gold

Single me out of this maddening crowd
Fling me into the hands
Of wizardry and sorcery
Just for one night make me anything but a man
Cause most times I catch a glimpse of the fire
But these days my spirit’s on hold
Catapult me inwardly I wanna know everything
That my vessel holds

The sky she’s in her evening attire
There’s hallelujah etched in my soul
And your love and the night breeze
The moon is taking me higher

Man, why can’t you see
That life is more perfect than gold
Man, why can’t you see
That life is more perfect than gold

 

In You Come

The salt west winds and the brazen boys
Come young lovers, let your drums make noise
In you come
Boy you don’t need to run

I’m gaining speed as I, I make my way
With two clenched fists that are raining clay
In you come
Boy you don’t need to run

I tied a wish upon the Hawthorn tree
In hopin all the other wishes would be achieved
In you come
Boy you don’t need to run

Blue tongue tide meets the silent shore
With no worries, players, games and no score
In you come
Boy you don’t need to run

No worries, players, games and no score
With no worries, players, games and no score
With no worries, players, games and no score
With no worries, players, games and no score

In you come
Boy you don’t need to run
In you come
Boy you don’t need to run
In you come
Boy you don’t need to run

 

Delaney Lied

In that mind of mine, so long ago
I swear there were lightening
There seemed to follow me wherever I did go
This great rainbow yawning
But Delaney lied, he said ‘Santa Claus is dead
And there is no man in the moon’
The little dog laughed all out of his head
When he heard the dish, split up with the spoon

And I seem to try
Be it right or wrong
To find the little boy

Now it’s high time for dawn to break
Jingle jangle shake the hue
The worm, the early bird and the snowflake
Will only hang around till noon

But Delaney didn’t lied, he said
‘It’s tough to get a kite
Up and moving in the rain
This mouth of fire met a head like a clock
Never again would things be the same

And I seem to try
Is it right is it wrong
To find the little boy
You gotta dig deep for some colour
And at first it’s a shock I know

I seem to try
Be it right or wrong
To find the little boy