Jonathan, You are amazing! Your lyrics are excellent beyond adequate description. Your vocals are always song appropriate. Spot on every time.  And your instrumentation including spoken asides, dog whimpers and other sound effects are like diamonds in the path.  All of your songs and tracks are simply amazing.  ;-)

What is it about your voice? So loving and gentle, calculated, I could go to sleep listening to it :-)

Kingsmill soft white, Benecol Olive and Jarlsberg cheese - singing along "Barbara..."! Catchy as hell! Great start of the night! ;-) Do you refer to the Latin Quarters in Paris? You've been? Anyway great storytelling!!!

Your songs are totally addictive. I started to listen to this and had something to deal with but had to shelf that in order to give your song my full attention. Great story as always and some winning lines throughout. I think Amy would forgive you for such a good application of the drum loop. I'll have to dig deeper o your cloud or maybe just wait until you re-share the ones you're fondest of. I think I'll be growing fond of this one. Thanks and cheers Jonathan, Mark

Very nice Broker. I have to learn how to add these other elements you add. Great sound and lyrics!

Yes, I loved this all the way through as I knew I would: the nostaglia of the introduction sounds, all the lyrics (which are excellent), to the whole feeling of being afraid of someone without knowing why. A haunting song somehow.

teensy bit of theft going on in the drum loop - sorry Amy, you were still alive back when I nicked it.



Barbara

I don't mean to be a drag about my illness
Not the rowing boat motion, it's the water's stillness
Somewhere on the bottom I thought I saw a sacrificial lamb              
I don't have a clue why I'm still afraid of you
But I am

Careful up ahead, that's a water feature
If you start drowning on me, I'll never reach you
And I know if I did, you'd only haul me overboard too
I don't know why I distrust you so
But I do

Barbara, why am I here with you?
Barbara, it was only meant to be a beer with you

I should've walked away in Trafalgar Square
You were feeding the pigeons, I was standing there
From the corner of my eye I thought I saw a lion statue move
And I don't know what talking to ghosts 
Is meant to prove

Barbara, are you mad with me?
Barbara, after all the fun you've had with me

Let's go catch a ride to the Latin Quarter
Or the Giant's Causeway, whatever's shorter
We'll both stand in line and whoever blinks first gets the bill
I don't know how you'll destroy me now
But you will

Barbara, even now you're a mystery
Barbara, why do you want to do all this to me?

Barbara

My debut album, Time On My Own, is now available on bandcamp. You can find it at http://brokerjonathan.bandcamp.com There's a review of it here: 
http://www.folkwords.com/reviewarchive_90495.html
Long ago I wrote some songs which were rubbish so I tried some more. They were not much better so I kept at it. No one asked me to do this. The world was not short of good songs. It had shitloads already. It was only short of good songs by me. Other people didn't seem to mind about this in the slightest, but I found it bothered me, so I was trying to do something about it. I guess I still am. This page is where some of the more recent attempts to rectify an intolerable situation appear.

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