So proud to have sang with Paul on so many  of his beautiful songs! Thanks again Paul!
I highly recommend you check out Paul's page: @paulmck

My collabs with Paul

Thanks to the supremely talented Amanda Sanderson for agreeing to work on this track.  Please check out her other great tracks at https://soundcloud.com/phoebeelena.  Also, thanks to Kev Pope for his patience and guidance with the track as well.  https://soundcloud.com/wiggy13

Pretty girl 
with the head
resting on ledge
the world we see through

Cities 
that never speak
fall to their knees
No skies to burn blue

What do we turn to?
What do we turn to?

Pretty boy
with the breath
held close to his chest
the ghosts we see through

Cold hand
clockwork connect
Stations we left
no time to turn to

Who do we turn to?
Who do we run to?

When we run in circles
I don't know
We're running out of road

Why we run in circles
I don't know
We're running out of road

The circle line (by Amanda and Paul)

Huge thanks to the very talented for singing through the lurgee and making this sound great.  Please listen to her other songs on @phoebeelena. Also, thanks to Kev Pope for his patience and guidance with the track as well. @wiggy13

I got 
no words
Every letter a reminder of your love

It's been so long
every second I unwind where I went wrong

We lay in ruins
The crying illuminating like the saddest moon
Heart beats in tune
While you were waiting 
I'll be wearing hesitation wounds

We only feel with the heaviest hearts

So come let's light up the dark
one glorious spark tonight
So hope, hold me in the dark
Arrow hit the mark tonight
So come let's light up the dark
one glorious spark tonight
So hope, hold me in the dark
Arrow hit the mark tonight

We lay in ruins
the crying stars illuminating like the saddest moon
Heart beats in tune
While you be waiting
I'll be wearing hesitation wounds

Hesitation Wounds (by Amanda and Paul)

Huge thanks to the annoyingly talented Amanda  for joining me on this song. Please listen to her other great tracks on @phoebeelena. Also, thanks to Kev Pope for his patience and guidance with the track as well. @wiggy13.  And also Pete for just being right about everything.

Girl
I adore
from the bottom of the heart
I implore

Pack a bag
take what yours
Abandon all your thoughts 
for there's no cure

Boy
I ignore
Won't you lift your head up 
from you bedroom floor

Pack your bags
Wear what yours
Abandon all your thoughts
til time endures

(Put me in the picture of your life)

Girl
I adore
Abandon all your thoughts
for there's no cure

Put me in the picture (by Amanda and Paul)

Huge thanks to the very talented Amanda for joining me on this song. Please listen to her other great tracks on @phoebeelena.

You with the face
far from a frown
to better days
And the hope that they might bring

In darkest hours
The long embrace
Hearts will tower
with their grace
with all their grace

May souls still whisper
and words be brave
Our hearts re-wired
for better days
for better days

All these little thoughts they crawl
they ruminate my brain
All these little thoughts so small
They find me once again

Storm clouds gather round
like all my little things around
and the hope that they might bring

Storm clouds gather round
Like all these little thoughts that sounds
and the hope that they might bring
and the hope that they might bring.

Little Thoughts (by Amanda and Paul)

Thanks again to Amanda for adding her talents to this song. Please listen to her other great tracks on @phoebeelena.

When
when did we get old?
From the bittersweet ache
Feathers fly the fold

Tell me how it hurts
To never make a sound
From the prettiest of perch
It's a long way down

Oh the weary that we wear so well
And the secrets we dare not tell
All our hopes and dreams alive

Tell me we did we love
on black blossom bloom
Silent every word
Drift slowly to the moon

On the words you sing
Heart leaps and bounds
All the pretty things
forever wear the crown

I'm ready
I'm ready
heart leaps and bounds
I'm ready
I'm ready
to find your safe ground...

When
when did we get old
From the bittersweet ache
it's a long way home

Leaps and Bounds (by Amanda and Paul)

Thanks again to Amanda for singing on this track. Please give your ears a treat and listen to her other great tracks on @phoebeelena.

Oh my life
where did it go?
Always
dreaming of old

And you sing
like it's your only line
always
the habit of a lifetime

do-do-do

And we run
like loneliest tides
and we run
on nothing inside

And we sing
sing endless lulabies
always 
the habit of a lifetime

All our gaslit dreams
turn to dust
Falling silently
I feel them running in my blood

And sing
sing to the brightest skies
always
the habit of a lifetime..

The Habit of a Lifetime (by Amanda and Paul)

Thanks as ever to Amanda for singing on this track (and for not punching me). Please listen to her other great songs at @phoebeelena.

Hollow stones
and stacks, 
the air I breathe
Laid by bones
the picture of a scene

Rainy days
and nights to never soar
I'm afraid of shadows not my own

But I keep coming on home
to the picture of my dreams
High rise
we're on our own
or so it seems

Sorrow sighs
and light I cannot see
Haunts of old
my picture of a scene

We got days and nights
to hold onto 
I'm afraid we might
not make it through

I keeping on home 
to the picture of my dreams
High rise 
weighed by the world
I see

Hollow stones 
and stacks,
the air I breathe
Laid by bones
the picture of a scene

I keep coming on home
to the picture of my dreams
High rise
we're on our own
or so it seems
(or so it seems)*4

High Rise (by Amanda & Paul)

Thanks again to Amanda for her patience and lovely singing on this song.  Please listen to her other great songs at @phoebeelena.

Heave the outstretched lungs
Shiver, slowly I awake
Will I ever be young
again?

Put the record on love
Slow dance
singing in the rain
Still the words will be wrong
and fade

Will I see you once again?
Will I see you once again?
Will I see you once again?
Or fade?

So long swallow serenade
Still I stand, cold eyes agape
Lay me by the swan parade
And fly away

Will I see you once again?
Will I see you once again?
Will we sing in the rain?
I hope one day

May all your winters be right as rain
And all you fears take flight

Pour the winter sun
Shimmer softly til it fades
Dream when I was young
And start again..

Swan Parade (by Amanda & Paul)

An early slice of Halloween rock for your listening pleasure.

Huge thanks again to Amanda for her canny singing and lifting this older song up a few levels. Please listen to her other great songs at @phoebeelena.

Lyrics:

Get up
On your feet
Off the floor
You've been asleep
For far too long
Get up off your knees

Come on 
Where you been?
Are you afraid to make a scene
Don't prove me wrong now
Get up to your feet

You know you can run
But you can't hide

You try to resist
What's in your head
Just won't be missed
It's keeping you 
up all night

Don't try to dismiss
When there's darknes in your midst
It's eating you up inside

That's why it won't be long
til it starts to bite

So come home
I'll be waiting by your side
So come home 
I'll be waiting by your side

That's when it starts to bite...

The Beastie (by Amanda and Paul)

Thanks again to Amanda for making this a lot of fun to work on.  Please listen to her other great tracks on @phoebeelena.

I'm so tired of waiting
And I wonder under cold moonlight
With world still shaking
How I find myself up all night

Oh my sweetheart I'm fading
You don't fall back alone
Oh my sweetheart I'm waiting
For the one day that you're coming home

There's a slow train running
And it finds its way right up my track
Don't know which way it's coming
But I know that I'll be coming back

Oh my sweet heart I'm breaking
Don't you fall back alone
Oh my sweet heart I'm fading
But I know that I'll be coming

Whoaah

There's a hard rain coming
And it falls just as I hit the ground
Still the slow wheels turning
and I find myself back in this town

Oh my sweetheart I'm aching
Don't you fall back alone
Oh my sweetheart I'm waiting
for I know that I'll be coming home

My Sweet Heart (by Amanda & Paul)

Thanks once again to Amanda for making this song a joy to work on. Please listen to her other great tracks on @phoebeelena.

When all around the world
just casts out light
And hearts forever cower in the night
Folds that never show
just draw outlines
and memories
replay a thousand times

So if you stop for a minute 
from the rotten race
And I dream sometimes of the human face
Just a touch, just a feeling 
from the warmest place
someday

And if you feel nothing but the empty space
and I fall like a fruit with the bitter taste
Just a thought, just a beat
not a chance to waste
someday

A heart, a hope
a feeling out of time
Leaves its mark but slowly on my mind
so stand beneath the stare of your streetlights
and leave a little part of me behind

My weakness like the stars drawn to the night
a dreamer disappears before my eyes

do do do

Now this old time soul just can't let go
just a dream of a night at the old disco
just a stop of a heartbeat and a song on the radio

So if you stop for a minute from the rotten race
and I dream sometimes of the human face
just a touch, just a feeling from the warmest place
someday

And if you feel nothing but the empty space
and you fall like a fruit with the bitter taste
just a thought, just a beat
not a chance to waste
today

Thought for the day (by Amanda and Paul)

Big thanks to Amanda for lending her lovely voice to this kind of festive track. Please listen to her other great tracks on @phoebeelena.

For little stars somewhere in the world - Merry Christmas. x

Meet you at midnight
mass as the choir plays on
I don't know the words
but you still can carry a song

Come all ye faithful
There's hope at the end of the pew
I must confess it's the wine
I keep coming back to..

Whoaahhh

So here's to the night
Little stars looking down on you
Falling asleep but the dark's 
just a room with a view

Singout out lullabies
close your eyes
Lullaby

I'll hold you close
A snowflake on the Glasgow grey sky
I'll make a toast
and I'll wave at you under the night

Singing out lullabies
Close your eyes
Lullaby

Well the angels bring the skies out just for you 
(come all ye faithful, choirs singing out for you)
All the angels lift the sky up for you
(confetti dreams in the sky I'm still holding onto)
All the angels lift the sky up for you
(so here's to the night, little stars looking down on you)
All the angels lift the sky up for you
(falling asleep but the dark's just a room with a view).

Blinding light (by Amanda and Paul)

Thanks to Amanda for being a pleasure to work with. Please listen to her other tracks on @phoebeelena.

How did we get here?
Falling to our favourite sound
We disappear
Crawling on a raincloud

Waiting by the unlit pier
watching the waves crash down
To former years
we are bound

Standing like a souvenir
Following the faded town
In all our fears
we will drown

And it won't take long

And we won't let go
(as we fall to pieces)
And we won't let go

How did we get here?
Crawling on a raincloud
We disappear
we go down

Souvenir (by Amanda and Paul)

Huge thanks to Amanda for lending her lungs (and eagle ear) to this song. Please listen to her other tracks on @phoebeelena.  Also, huge thanks to The Affectionate Punch for 'affectionising' another track and making this sound like it did in my head.  Please listen to his other great songs @theaffectionatepunch and check out the awesome video he managed to pull together in the blink of an eye.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbCQVZmeFhM

Image by Janusz Jurek

Lyrics:

Wake up
tell me your own truth
Litter the sky blue
fall then fade

I've been 
dreading the bad news
Maybe we don't choose
to be this way

We're people
in places 
we're not meant to be
Taking up spaces 
in light
we see the darkest dreams

I dream
of England
glorious failures
who ruled the waves

So stand still
here comes the new flood
tied like a lost love
All my days

We're running for what
just a life in between
Holding for Hollywood....

Dreams in the places
we're not meant to be
Taking up spaces with long memories
People in places we're not meant to be
Living the life in between
We see the darkest dreams

Wake up
Tell me your good news 
Maybe we don't choose 
to live this way..

Life in Between (by Amanda, The Affectionate Punch & Paul)

Thanks again to Amanda for agreeing to sing on this track.  Please listen to her other tracks on @phoebeelena. 

Danny's got the daydream eyes
Looking for a little light

Oh her heart
invades my soul
tonight

Jackie's go the diamond white
Looking just to be alright

Oh your heart
invade my soul
underlined 
like maps of old
still I can't let go

And all the words we never talk
hang like Dylan by the docks
they go 
on and on and on and on.....
in time

Look at me 
I stand in the cheap shoes
Look out at eyes
I see a different point of view

And oh my heart betrays my soul
And oh I can't let go

And all the words we never talk
hang like Dylan by the docks
They go 
on and on and on and on...
in time

and oh
I can't
let go....

Dylan by the Docks (by Amanda & Paul)

A really enjoyable experience as ever working on this with Amanda.  Please listen to her other great tracks at @phoebeelena.

(the title is from an interview with Michael Stipe.  Artwork by Tomas Saraceno)

Lyrics:

Lover of light
Swim to the tide
We live in a perfect
world
sometimes

We all make our mark
We all make our mark

It don't matter where you are
Fit the photograph
you fill an empty room
It don't matter where you are

Lover of light

We live in a perfect world
Sometimes
sometimes

We all make our mark
We all make our mark

Take the ladder to the stars
Be the filament
that lights an empty room
Take the ladder to the stars

It don't matter who you are
Fit the photograph
You fill an empty room
It don't matter who you are...

Be the Filament (by Amanda and Paul)

Thanks yet again to Amanda for breathing life into this song!   Please listen to her other great tracks on @phoebeelena.

Darling
You don't know
how I feel

I've been 
looking lately
for a love that is real

Been down in the firing line
Fell for the one without a spine
Been down in the firing line again

Don't say 
that you care
if you don't 
For I've been 
looking lately
for the door

Been down and beyond help
You claim a bleeding heart
But stone don't melt
Been down and beyond help again

Been lost for the last time
Fell down at the finish line
Been lost for the longest time again

Darling
You don't know
how to feel...

the last time (by Amanda & Paul)

Nuclear Girl (by Amanda and Paul)

Thanks yet again to Amanda for putting up with me (and keeping me right). Please listen to her other great tracks on @phoebeelena.

Don't leave me alone
tonight
My heart beats strong 
and true

Draw darkest scars
I wear the light
The skies they speak
to you

And we'll need nothing
in a room with a view
We can map the stars in time

Slow motion
Sail to the moon

And we'll need nothing
in a room with a view
We can map the stars 
in time

And we'll know nothing
in a room with a view
We can map the stars 
in time

Just wrap around
when we're lost in the fog
Just wrap around 
when we're nothing at all
Just wrap around
when we're lost in the fog
Just wrap around
when we're nothing at all

Don't leave me alone
tonight
My heart ran strong
for you....

Room with a View (by Amanda & Paul)

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