A recording I did the other day. Kind of about that feeling of you know, not being sure where your headed? Well that's me generally I guess. If I can get a few more songs like this one I may get some friends over to embellish them, as it stands it's just me with my guitar.

Lyrics

I was climbing up the family tree for miles and miles
they would grow old, I would grow old
and at the top of nothing much
I saw around the empty lot, and lost
you could say I was lost as the sky loomed over my head.

and you try to make out
what you understand is a dream 
uprooted from the best laid plans

you take a picture from the mantle-piece
it's what you imagine 
you see beneath

I was on a boat the other day I saw the sea
stretching out wide, and into nowhere
the more the tide was out 
the more the time was drifting by and I'd stop 
and stare, and I'd see you there

like a lie
that you don't recognize

and you try to make out
what you understand is a place
uprooted, and a rubber band

the more I'm with you
the more I plan to go further, further 
but I can barely stand 


Rubber band

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Where we are ghosts

There was a forest fire 
I heard about it on the wire
Everyone was going

And at the lonely tree
I swear I felt you underneath
Where the flowers were growing

The rain began to spit down
On the path below us

But if we dance again
Those arguments
Would never do us harm

And I would catch your fall
By the enchanted wall
Though we may never see the morning

Just where we are
Just where we are

I feel the evening time 
is always coming way too fast
Gotta make it last

What's that you said before?
I never called you that before
Unless you asked...

The rain began to spit down 
On the path below us

But if we dance again 
Those arguments
Would never do us harm

And I would catch your fall
By the enchanted wall
Though we may never see the morning

Just where we are
Just where we are

Where We Are Ghosts

Baby Let Go

Everyday your looking kind of nervous
Come around with us we can set you free
We'll raise your level of awareness
We can make you see

Your hanging out with the wrong crowd
And as much as you scream out
The don't want to know now

Baby let go

More and more you try to make your way now
Rattle off the lines you read in a book
Don;t you know those empty words can't save you?
You never understood

Your not a number in the line
Your not born in the wrong time
You've just got to make it right

Your melodies are all strung-out
And if you think they won't find out
You've song them already
Well baby they know

Baby Let Go

Lyrics

Wake up this morning I know
You tell me we've gotta go
And I'm not sure where

But I feel like myself again
As if it were years ago
And in St Petersberg

But there is only now
Like it has never been before
And it will soon run out
Like it was here and nothing more

Adventures not finding me now
Like in novels by Kerouac
I leave it all to chance

Bus through the valleys and towns
Your look is a ghost I need
To wake me from this sleep

But there is only now
Like it has never been before
And it will soon run out
Like it was here and nothing more

Dream, stay by me;
Just once more...

All music and lyrics by brown penny

Letter to Isabelle

What you do with your time in the city
I know.
I've been looking to settle
Somewhere with a view
From the rooftops I see they're all buried 
Below,
I was fresh as a daisy when I woke up
Alone.

What you do with your time in the city I know
In the lush countryside
I broke into a home, emptied out everywhere
And just took what they own

I believe there is peace 
In the valley below.

But oh! Where is my home?
If your not around?
Because I'd like... to know, to be safe and sound.

Vagrancy

Guess I'm fed here
alright, but I won't last 
another night, lock the gate
and bar the door
so I can not see you anymore.

But won't you come and be an exile too?
Where every passing day's an interlude
If I let you turn
Into a stranger
Would that make me a stranger too?

Home again, 
by fireside I feel you ghost into the light.
try and 
run to somewhere else
you can't escape, can't lose
yourself...

But won't you come and be an exile too?
Where every passing day's an interlude
If I let you turn
Into a stranger
Would that make me a stranger too?

And as the ship pulled away
I hadn't much to say

I will see you far from now,
but I won't know you anyhow
do you think we'd ever start again?
O the moments coming round the bend...


Exiles

Hey, I'm a singer-songwriter from Dublin Ireland. I like to record music myself which is influenced by Bright Eyes, Elliott Smith and other folk artists. My lyrics are inspired a lot by things I see in the exterior world, linked with whatever I may be feeling at the time.  And then there's the odd curve-ball where I might end up writing a metal song or something, but I promise to keep it light in general, I mean, if for nothing else than my own sanity. Anyway thank you for listening:-) Message me if you'd like to know anything.

Brown Penny

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