The Pebbles Love this, we've love to do a duet or something like that. Millie & Emily

This remains my favourite Al.C song. Miss you Al.

Lovely song, 'up the downs' is clever too. 

Olympic divers
On TV
In the cafe
Of a ferry
Out at sea
Please don't make me queasy
Please don't bring me down
I don't know where I'm going
And you're backflipping around
It's an epic journey
To the podium
Says the commentary
As I slip immodium
Endless blues around me
No dry land in sight
Might as well go on the deck
And try to enjoy the ride

Lost At Sea

Laughing gull
Doesn't read The Guardian
Lazy cat
Hasn't done his tax return
Funny fish
Forgot to update its feed
And here I am 
Gorging on my finger nails
Greying mutt
Doesn't have a pension scheme 
Silly waves
Have had a rocky career
Singing wind
Doesn't have a stable job
And here I am
Feasting on my stress

Silly Waves

I'm in a dream
Rowing my boat
Where there are no streams
Through the plains
The desert landscape
Of Bandcamp plays
And tonight
I'm freelancing as a bird
I'm off on tour round the world
Got a hit ear worm in my head
And I'm spread-eagled on my bed
I'm just lucid dreaming
I don't want to wake me up
But I've got a feeling
The alarm's in my gut
Got my own scene
I'm going down well
In my submarine
Making waves
On the radio
Of a naval base

(I Don't Want To) Wake Me Up

When you're The Rock
And you're stuck in your own head lock
Hanging to dry
Yourself out on your own clothes line
The only place to go
Is to Wrestle Mania
When you're your worst foe
And your only saviour
When you're on the ropes
And the punchline of your own jokes
Goading yourself
In the bathroom mirror does not help
The only place to go
Is to Wrestle Mania
When you're your worst foe
And your only saviour

Wrestle Mania

Chasing happiness like a butterfly that knows exactly where the good stuff is during a warm sunny day

Spring

Adam Velte's Album

Seaward Spinning

Give It A Try

There will be times little baby when you want to give in
Times when this town looks like its evil twin
Especially on a sunny day
When all you want to do is run away

There will be times little baby when you're sat on your own
Falling through Sunday like a sinking stone
And even on a sunny day
You'll never think you can survive the day

There will be times little baby when you feel no worth
Wishing you'd never been put on this earth
And somehow on a sunny day
It's harder to make the pain go away

There will be times little darling when you just don't fit in
No matter what you do you just can't win
And though it is a sunny day
Nothing can stop you from feeling that way

So when those times hit you baby and it's all not right
Even the sun is laughing at your life
Feels like it is the end
Feels like the dog is your only friend
You can turn it around
Get out of the town

Up the Downs

Up the Downs

This isn't my bed 
Those aren't my clothes
Whose on the wall are those holiday photos
Nevermind the cuddly bear, the floral dresser
And the drawer full of underwear?
There's the 'Be Happy' heart
By the window with the view of the bins in the courtyard
And the doormat of 'Home Sweet Home'
Where we barely wipe our feet before it's time to go 

And if you want to climb the ladder
We can sublet our rungs
You can rent my heart and let my bladder
You can start a lease on my lungs

They have no taste in furnishings
There's a big deposit so we can't burn everything
Or sell it to pay the rent
Even the rubber duck should be unscratched at the end
When the landlady comes to view any stains in the oven 
After her trip round Peru
And our journey starts where it began
Travelling round the city in the back of a transit van

And if you want to climb the ladder
We can sublet your rungs
You can rent my heart and let my bladder
You can start a lease on my lungs

Subletting

Original version released in 1979, written by Martin Rev and Alan Vega of the band Suicide.

Dream Baby Dream (Suicide Cover)

Al Chamberlain is a north-western English songwriter who lives in Brighton. Compared lyrically to Jarvis Cocker, Alan Bennett and the Montgolfier Brothers, he writes simple songs about the words that tell the stories that paint the pictures that paint a thousand words.

"...poised vocals, understated production, immaculate guitar technique and eloquent songwriting" - Tom Robinson, BBC6 Music

"Chamberlain’s lyrics are leagues above your standard run-of-the-mill singer-songwriter, with all of the wit and understated poeticism of Jarvis Cocker" - Sam Lee, Fresh on the Net

"Better 'n most stuff I hear" - Micah P. Hinson

Up the Downs

Al Chamberlain

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