Wednesday, 22 January 2014

NEW YEAR'S REVOLUTION (THE BEGINNING NOT THE END)

My new year's revolution
Is to become a Presbyterian
To live in the delirium
Of what's happening from here on in

Is this a long term stay we're in
Or just motel oblivion
When does the sanity begin
Or should we just survive?

And speaking of survive, I strive
To shake the trees and be alive
Stand on the cliff and take the dive
Into the water colder

Each nanosecond we grow older
Each cliffdive fugue becomes much bolder
But standing on that cliff grows mould
Though flying through the air is cold
Why should the chorus end?

Yet there is no chorus to this song
No one is here to sing along
Just switch the lights off as you leave
I have my candle, please do not grieve

So look up
Do you know why?
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a human high
It's superman flying in the sky

Faster than         a speeding bullet
But he's getting older
and he may not still have it
It's time to get the kryptonite
No not the green, he'll lose the fight

More powerful than a locomotive
But if Lois decides to get emotive
Try to leap a tall building, with a single bound
But with focus lost might trip and hit the ground
And scream the pain in movie surround sound

So that's the chorus we're not having
A lifetime's opportunity worth grabbing
Not giving up's the heart of the matter
Don't think about what might shatter, just scatter
like the bull in that China shop, don't stop, break chains loose, snap, crackle, pop

When you don't use it, you'll probably will lose it,
but why not then just choose it, refuse it
to let time just shrink your life
So keep your cape and fly, and be there in the sky
When they look up above manbuilt towers
No reason to lose your Superpowers

Don't let your evolution bring disillusion or dilution,
it's a New Years Revolution, and you're leading in the charge.

Insanity's a choice you make, if realities a thread you make, and break,
don't wait to take a chance and raise the stakes
your chance to be that speeding bullet, fill it like
a rocket that is launched to stars, don't settle just for nearby Mars
It's close enough to drive by car, and living's no more a bridge too far
Look you'll see it's around the corner

So now we know what's here on in, no need for Presbyterians
Your fate is yours, the fate within
And let your music free, begin
to play that music loud

And don't hold back and just be proud,
No need to be part of a brain-dead crowd,
Or hide behind a Holy shroud
And like I said, play music loud

So there is no chorus to this song
You need no one to sing along
But if you have a two part harmony, so much less the need for alarm in me
Remember don't switch lights off as you leave
There are now two candles, please do not grieve.






Saturday, 11 January 2014

THE SADDEST SONG - – FOR VERONICA GEURIN

PLAY AT 4/4 60 BPM AND BUILD TO CRESCENDO THROUGHOUT


THE SADDEST SONG - – FOR VERONICA GEURIN 

(CHORDS - SPARSELY FINGER PICK BUILDING ON CHORUSES -  & LYRICS)


G                                                         D
I’ve often wondered                             ‘bout my place in this
Am                                                       C
Should I cry out                                    Or should I kiss
G                                                         D
I’ve never known                                  What it is to die
Am                                                       Em                               D        
But now I feel                                       That I know why
                                   
G                                                         D
There are those                                     Whose life I feel
Am                                                       C
But I am one                                         Who cannot heal
G                                                         D
So I sit back                                         And say how sad
Am                                                       Em                               D
While others fight                                  No meaning lack

G                                                         D
NOW YOU ARE GONE                    BUT WHAT THE HELL
Am                                                       C                                             D
WHAT DID YOU CHANGE              THAT WENT SO WELL
G                                                         D
BUT YOUR SMALL CHANGE         AND COME WHAT MAY
Am                                                       Em                               D        
ALLOWS THE SUN                           TO RISE TODAY

G                                                         D
And then the saddest fate of all  Cut down in prime
Am                                                       C
While we who sit                                  And watch the time
G                                                         D
And upside down                                 the music rings
Am                                                       Em                   D
As right side up,                                    our material things
G                                                         D
So should I crave                                  a life that shines
Am                                                       C
Or should I course                                the path that sings
G                                                         D
And when I die                         What will I say
Am                                                       Em                               D
That I tried hard                                    For another way



G                                                         D
NOW YOU ARE GONE                    BUT WHAT THE HELL
Am                                                       C                                             D
WHAT DID YOU CHANGE              THAT WENT SO WELL
G                                                         D
BUT YOUR SMALL CHANGE         AND COME WHAT MAY
Am                                                       Em                               D        
ALLOWS THE SUN                           TO RISE TODAY

G                                                         D
A difference makes                               Those who stand and fight
Am                                                       Em                               D
After the fact                                        We feel the sight
G                                                         D
It makes far cry,                                   for to be brave
Am                                                       Em                   D
It takes far less,                                    to be a slave
G                                                         D
So when I see,                          someone who cares,
Am                                                       C
I think how brave                                  But I only stare.
G                                                         D
So when I see,                          someone who cares,
Am                                                       Em                               D
I think how brave                                  But I only stare.

G                                                         D
NOW YOU ARE GONE                    BUT WHAT THE HELL
Am                                                       C                                             D
WHAT DID YOU CHANGE              THAT WENT SO WELL
G                                                         D
BUT YOUR SMALL CHANGE         AND COME WHAT MAY
Am                                                       Em                               D        
ALLOWS THE SUN                           TO RISE TODAY

G                                                         D
NOW YOU ARE GONE                    BUT WHAT THE HELL
Am                                                       C                                             D
WHAT DID YOU CHANGE              THAT WENT SO WELL
G                                                         D
BUT YOUR SMALL CHANGE         AND COME WHAT MAY
Am                                                       Em                               D        
ALLOWS THE SUN                           TO RISE TODAY

G                                                         D
So when I see,                          someone who cares,
Am                                                       Em                               D
I think how brave                                  But I only stare.

G                                                         D
NOW YOU ARE GONE                    BUT WHAT THE HELL
Am                                                       C                                             D
WHAT DID YOU CHANGE              THAT WENT SO WELL
G                                                         D
BUT YOUR SMALL CHANGE         AND COME WHAT MAY
Am                                                       Em                               D        
ALLOWS THE SUN                           TO RISE TODAY

G                                                         D
So when I see,                          someone who cares,
Am                                                       Em                               D
I think how brave                                  But I only stare.




Friday, 26 April 2013

BACKLIGHT THROUGH A HOTEL WINDOW




A stream of light cuts through the night
Reflected outline sways

Electric sheen a mirrored beam
That takes me into day

I know that now that fantasy’s gone,
Don’t make it stay away,

Please tell me it’s not just a prop,
this clarity will never stop,
That shadows won’t come today;
No shadows here today.

But it’s just me, that I can see,
In backlit windowed haze,
Though sometimes there, an image shared,
may just be there for me;

may just be there for you;
may just be there for me.

The Door


Your eyes are sad and wide I see,
And rimmed with tears, but stoically
You set the laughter lines for me,
And knowing that you’ve been set free,
I falter at the door.

Friday, 12 April 2013

ALCHEMIST'S GOLD



Live in the void
And I wish you well
Untouched by the sound, the peel-less bell,

But each of the levels of dante’s hell,
Just a door to open, gateway for the soul
And the golden alloy, is alchemy’s goal

And when the bells peel,
And sound is not pained,
By alchemist’s fire, golden life is attained,

The music will not be harmony drained,
But a symphony of dance,
No jackets restrained,

For only then can we know,
what’s lost is not gained,
And a single, silent, cloud, can still bring rain.

Older grows things that I’ve seen
Some places been
And others dreamed

There is a place that will be mine
A land of storms or sea calm brine
Yet in the end our fates all rhyme

I’d pick up my bags and go away
Though heavy bags may be a sign
Perhaps another place, another time

Another place another time
Another place another time
Yet in the end our fates all rhyme

So I see her face down from the mountain
The light her eyes, an aura surrounding
And laughter it is her youthful fountain

I have to rewrite
Some thoughts long owned
Experience must needs re-grow

 Like the day was dressed
in mourning clothes
The funeral’s past, the coffin closed

We walk along the potted road
Trip and stutter
the long wide holes

But someone said       
there’ll be a wake
Attended by smiles so often faked

We drink your health
oh, dear departed
But remember when it all started

So now rewrite
Some thoughts long owned
Experience has been re-grown

And I have learned, or at least there’s hope

Another place another time
Another place another time
Though still in the end our fates all rhyme







The Shoe


Your eyes are sad and wide I see,

And rimmed with tears, but stoically

You set the laughter lines for me

But knowing that you’ve been set free

You falter from your history

Yet past is past and present too

Your days have been far too few 

To let the blisters form a queue

Time now to try another shoe

Monday, 25 March 2013

But Embers Lose Their Glow


I want to laugh
I want to cry
I want to know if you know why

Across a room
I saw your face
I felt the warmth of your embrace

And as you smile
The sun did shine
Into your arms I’d lived long miles

But I know that you are fire and ice
I know your flame can be so bright

But embers lose their glow
Ice in Spring it melts like snow
And yet I said that I need you so

But I don’t know if that was right
A partial loss of sight
Full Moon surrounds this writing night

So tell me please
You walked away
I want to know was it with ease?

But at my door
You turned and saw
No future to explore

As you turned
The sun came out
And from my voice you heard no sound

For I know that you are fire and ice
I know your flame can be so bright

But embers lose their glow
And ice in Spring as water flows
Did I say that I need you so?

But now I know that that’s not right
So now I’m sure that that’s not right