Medicine  

A single cigarette burn 
Illustrates the colour of the lessons that she learned 
A single blow to the back of the head  
Illustrates the probable cause of her premature passing  

Switch channels now  

Stuntmen leaping from speeding cars  
And shooting up the neighbourhood 
All in the name of protecting this  
Something called the common good 
Now I don’t know, but I’ve been told 
My TV set’s gonna change the world 
Watch them switch their religion and cut their hair 
While the chat show host pretends to care  

Gonna shoot’em up and fuck’em up and stick’em in a box 
You can switch it on but it never turns off 
You’ll know you’re there when you reach the top It’s a bad, bad medicine 
If Tuesday’s child is full of grace 
Then Wednesday just got her drinks laced 
She’s on the floor, man, she’s all over the place 
It’s bad, bad medicine  

A little, old lady from Ohio USA  
Won 5 million on the Thunderball and gave it all away 
To her charity of choice, World Worship TV 
And the Reverend’s in th Cayman Islands visiting his money 
Fox TV is proud to announce manipulation of election results 
One stayed in and the other stayed out 
That’s bad, bad, bad  

Gonna shoot’em up and fuck’em up and stick’em in a box 
You can switch it on but it’ll never turn off 
You’ll know you’re there when you reach the top 
This is bad, bad medicine 
If Tuesday’s child is full of grace 
Then Wednesday just got her drinks laced 
She’s on the floor, she’s all over the place It’s bad, bad medicine  

Yeah – yeah, yeah – hmmmm got bad, bad medicine 
Stick it to’em, stick it to’em one more time 
If they’ve got a dollar, must have one more dime 
So it’s sell, sell, sell through Christmas time 
Don’t need reason, no words nor rhyme 
You can switch it on but you’ll never switch it off 
See you civil liberties carried out in a box 
TV generation, what’s that you used to say? 
It’s better to burn out than to fade away 
Yeah!

MEDICINE

Henrietta

Somewhere along the wrong road
Not on my satellite picture, I can’t catch a glimpse
And I think you may be too far away

Been smoking them damned cigarettes, popping pills
Struggling down the streets looking for a place to get a bite to eat
I know you’re hungry for something

So Henrietta flash a smile
It’s for the simple things
It’s for the life enduring silence in your soul
Henrietta wait a while
There must be something more
Than your need to settle each and every score

I’ve got some information for you
I’ve got to leave but my soul’s set to stay
I’ve got a first class ticket, baby
Yeah

Somewhere along the wrong road
You sent me poetry
Gotta work out what it means to me
I left a track on your answer phone
Mailbox is full, empty out or get another
Left a message in the stars, sent an email to your brother but
I know you won’t hear me

So Henrietta flash a smile
It’s for the simple things
It’s for the life enduring silence in your soul
Henrietta wait a while
There must be something more
Than your need to settle each and every score

I’ve got some information for you
I’ve got to leave but my soul’s set to stay
I’ve got a first class ticket, baby
Yeah
Ba ba ba baaaa
Ba ba baaaa ba ba ba ba
Oh yeah
I guess I’m still here but
I don’t know I don’t know why

So Henrietta flash a smile


HENRIETTA

Butterfly 
Carmen sits upon the beach 
Casting shells all out at sea 
And scanning the horizon for the sun 
She don’t sleep at night no more  
And the wind whispers her pre-dawn fears away     

Picture perfect clouds across the sun 
Pin your hopes and dreams to a Butterfly’s wing 
Sand-filled shoes are sinking down with a feeling that we all could drown 
This sea of time leaves rock pools of tears    

As the first rays of morning  
Shine into your eyes 
Butterfly wing soring 
Let her rise    

Twelve street lamps light the way back home 
Down the empty road there’s a shadow in every house 
Twelve demons just straining at their chains 
And twelve ghosts dying to get out    

Picture perfect clouds across the sun 
Pin your hopes and dreams to a Butterfly’s wing 
Sand-filled shoes are sinking down with a feeling that we all could drown 
This sea of time leaves rock pools of tears   
As the first rays of morning  
Shine into your eyes 
Butterfly wing soring 
Let her rise    

So dare to talk about it all 
To learn to run first you must crawl 
Let it ride, let it ride, let it ride, let it ride Yeah, honey, I know - Let it ride   

So let it out and let it in 
Now seems a good time to begin 
Write your song, you’d better learn to sing 
So learn to talk about it all 

BUTTERFLY

Fade

Fade, fade, fade into me 
Like a sunbeam through a bolt of blue you’ll shine 
Maybe you’ll always live in part of me  
And if I never let it show it’s mine  

And even when it’s wrong it’s right 
I believe the stars will always shine for you  
Fade into you  

Way back, when the world and you were young  
And our time had just begun I saw your smile 
Spill out like a palette full of stars 
Warming all the hearts from London to the Tyne   

And even when the lights dim down 
I can see for miles when you’re around me 
Fade into me  

Throw your ticket out the window 
Leave your suitcase on a bus 
Cast your light this way  Come on, faaaaaaaaaade  
Throw your ticket out a window 
Leave your suitcase on a bus 
Cast your light this way  
Come on, faaaaaaaaaade  

And even when the lights dim down 
I can see for miles when you’re around me 
Fade into me 
Won’t you fade, fade, fade, fade, baby, yeah

FADE

Home

I guess you know you’re gonna have to just take it 
Easy brother
Been hoodwinked from behind
Call me a jester in the court of Battles Lost
But God knows I know how you’ve tried to get by
Man, come on
Yeah man, come on

Apple pies and riversides, you want the life you’ve been denied
And I know you’ll search all day
But when you’ve been born to a house full of mourning
The evening’s illusive and strange

You’ll knock on my door
We’ll rattle round in the rain
If it rains on you  it’ll rain on the two of us again

I guess you know you’re gonna have to just take it
Slow and steady
One day at a time
When you cash in your chips on the wheel of fair play
How come you’re always behind on the night?
Man, come on
Hey man, come on

Nobody saw it coming 
Just a stab in the back and you’ve slipped off the track
We’ve got lazy days and daisy chains and places that remain the same
A pack of rats when you can’t get on back

You’ll knock on my door
We’ll rattle round in the rain
If it rains on you  it’ll rain on the two of us again

I guess you know you’re gonna have to take it 
Easy brother
Been hoodwinked from behind
The rattling of steel on the freight train of love
Just reached the end of the line this time

Rattling home
The two of us, we’ll go rattling home
You and me rattling home
Mmmmm, yeah, yeah
We’ll go rattling home, rattling home


HOME

Light

A White stone cross
Sleepy cemetery days
Share a bottle on the churchyard stones
Share a drink with the dearly bereft
Come on

Got a list of things I never really did let you know
Falling like the first wet leaves, drifting up like snow
There’s a wild wind running cold from the north
It cuts me like your butterfly knife
It cuts me to the core

You wrote, “New pils, getting better”
Jotted something down about the stormy weather
“It’s the island air in me, that slips my moorings out to sea”

You know I’m gonna leave a light on
Light a candle, maybe guide you home
We ate the summer fruit and drank the autumn wine
But this morning there’s winter on my mind

An open road, enlightening and enticing me to somewhere
Open barron fields, electric pylons
Where the crushing sky meets the horizon
I’m free falling, just surviving
Scatter and fly on the night
Howling through your empty house in the streetlamp’s amber light
The chilling air and your cupboards bear
No threads of you left anywhere
So cut the phone lines, remember the best times
Riding on the fresh sea breeze

You know I’m gonna leave a light on
Light a candle, maybe guide you home
We ate the summer fruit and drank the autumn wine
But this morning there’s winter on my mind

Now nothings going to break your heart
Nothing’s gonna rock your boat
Just one life-sick sailor who slipped off the radar
And never found his way back home


LIGHT

Cloudburst

Hey, hey Mama
You gave us all your soul
Couldn’t stop you getting old
You can’t break time

One day somewhere
I stumbled upon some lines you wrote
Soldiers filled the freezing streets 
A thousand miles from your sun-drenched home
Younger than me now
Younger than a breaking sun
Yeah, you carved a life from nothing
You carved a life for everyone

You’re a rainbow, you’re a breaking sun
No barometres show which way the winds are bound to blow
We rode out on the bridge on easter Sunday
Say a prayer for you loved-ones
Yeah, you know, you know we’re coming
Coming home

Hey, hey Mama
You’re in the clouds, on the fine spring breeze
You ruled us with a love 
As fine as Spanish steel
Hey, hey sweetheart
You’re in the names and every face
Yeah, I miss you just like water
There’s pieces of you all over the place

You’re a rainbow, you’re a breaking sun
No barometres show which way the winds are bound to blow
We rode out on the bridge on easter Sunday
Say a prayer for you loved-ones
Yeah, you know, you know we’re coming
All coming home, coming home

You’re a rainbow baby
Yeah, we’re all just coming home
You know that, yeah you know that
We’re all just coming back home
You know we’re coming


CLOUDBURST

Step  
One step, one false step  
Could have kept you from me 
One more drink or a taxi light at half past midnight  
Could have kept us from meeting  

One life, just one life 
We’re gonna make this good 
Against the odds 
Against just about everything T
here’s one thing that I’ve understood  

You’re heart and soul to me 
Your loving’s going to reel me in 
When the restless wind takes my arm 
Or whispers to me to be gone  

Three Cliffs Bay In the middle of May on a fleeting Friday 
Holding hands while the firelight grows 
Setting sun, acoustic hum and a vapour trail skyline 
I know we shouldn’t be in love  
I’ll be your bad penny and you can save me again maybe 
You just turn me on my head 
We’re down in the centre of the town 
Atlantic air is pushing us onwards 
We could only be in love  

You’re heart and soul to me 
Your loving’s going to reel me in 
When the restless wind takes my arm 
And whispers to me that my time has come    

One false move and you’re dead 
Got it right, yeah honey 
A sore sight for this aching head 
So much better since I’m with you  

You’re heart and soul to me 
Your loving’s going to reel me in 
When the restless wind takes my arm 
And whispers to me to be gone  

You know that I try 
To make the most of our time 
And even when I let you down 
You’ll come back round, come back round 

STEP

Soul

How it rained yesterday
Storm water stole the hope 
Bubbling drains and sewage mains
Cut off the main roads
How it rained yesterday
The pregnant clouds sat upon the bay
Please drag my demons out to sea
And send them on their way

You can turn the whole day round
Sunshine filters on sodden ground
A rainbow opens over town
Please turn me upside down

Babe, I need some cotton wool for my soul – digging it in
A little green jar with a little green lid
Filled with little white solutions for the days like this
Pack some more cotton wool round my soul – digging it in
Every day’s a happy day whenever there’s a glitch – man 
Mamma told me there’d be days like this

How you sang yesterday
Alone on the ground floor
Flowering dreams fold inside out
To scupper on life’s shore
How it rained yesterday 
A discord to my mix
Soaring up the stairwell
And sliding into me

Whoever you are, wherever you go, it’s plain to see we’re all still falling
Time waits like a shade in the night – invites you to come – join the other side
Whatever you’ve seen and whatever you know, the winds of change are always calling 
Time waits like a shade in the night – Come on through – join the other side


SOUL

A bonus track from the Easy album! Enjoy!

EASY!