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Keep What You Steal

Track 10 of Between Suns album

Excuse the rude interruption, but I've got to tell you
This thing’s sinking quickly and it’s gonna kill you
It's too late to solve it with an intervention
But there are some ideas we’ve yet to mention:
Sacred string of words, holy manuscripts
Healing energy fields, electromagnets
We’ve got to get you cleaned up and out of those dress clothes
I’ll explain to you now how the sickness will unfold

It starts with insomnia and a gradual pneumonia
And when you start to cough blood, they’ll quickly disown you
And you’ll have to be open to an uncertain surface
To put your tired feet on, while we perform the surgery

Let’s get you better friend
Let’s get you better friend

When your ligaments break and your anger is toothless
With Antigone’s shame, knowing you didn’t choose this
Some will kick out the ladders, but most are indifferent
When your ashes are scattered, they’ll quickly forget you
The other night I looked up at Orion, and though he has no eyes
I could tell he’d been crying...
Up in darkness undying, I recalled the time when
You held up a lantern to a face on some money
And with comic perfection, declared its bankruptcy
Friend, I wouldn’t worry about which direction
Waters are all murky and all connected
And I wouldn’t fret who comes to your shores now
The windows are blurry inside every lighthouse
But my God! I said more than I meant to say
I just get on a tangent, get carried away...
I shouldn’t worry you all about the future
So often I get lost in all the minutiae
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But let’s get you better first
Let’s get you breathing first
Let’s get you water for your thirst
You’ll be up and at it again
And the wheels will start to spin
And we’ll worry about this then

Then

LYRICS:

And I don't care anymore
You'll never knock on my door
Iceberg dead ahead
What's going on in your head?

It doesn't seem fair
How I'm here and you're there
You are the same girl
But now you're in another world
Blue roses left behind
It's good and bad at the same time

Garden made of stone
Something scary about home
Gardenias just won't do
Orchids remind me of you

Never felt so much pain 
Blue petals in the rain
You are the same girl
Trapped in another world
Blue roses left behind
It's good and bad at the same time

Blue Roses (Official Audio)

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The East and West Divide

I walked out on the moor
Out by old Hawk’s tor
Sat among the Stannon stones
To think of those gone before
Climbed the highest point
To see things from both sides
Where the ocean meets the sea
The east and west divide

I walked out on the moor
In the shadow of Rough Tor
Where Allen waters weave and wind
Sparkle in the light
Dymond’s on the mind
Sorrows of another time
Where the sun crosses the sky
The east and west divide

I walked out on the Moor
Across those old granite tors
To feel what others felt before
To bring it all to mind
Passages of time
Murmurations in the sky
I will never understand
The east and west divide

I walked out on the moor
Like so many long before 

Written by Jon Woode 3rd March 2025

Artwork: Original  painting by Laura Terry. Brooding Sky, Dartmoor, oil on canvas 80 x 80cm

The East and West Divide

A dreamy escape across sun-scorched landscapes where beauty blossoms in isolation.

Desert Bloom

So, Mi Amor

Take me away

This one’s for the spark
Inspiration that lights the dark
In the middle of the night
When it’s too late to get up and write
And something special slips
Gently from your finger tips

[Chorus] 
Somewhere you’re singing 
At the top of your lungs 
To a tune no one’s heard 
Karaoke for the never were 
Pick my favourite song 
You can never go wrong 
The words were momentary 
Royalties unnecessary 
This one’s for you
(Oh yeaaaaaahhhh) 
This one’s for you 

This one’s for the consciousness
That never had the chance to coalesce
We never met 
We never will
But you have to know 
I love you still 

[Bridge] 
You could have topped 
The streaming charts 
Ethereal and in the dark 
Serial offender of the arts 
Glimpsed at the bottom of a glass 
And I can’t compensate 
Feels like I’m missing the middle eight 

[Chorus] 
Somewhere you’re singing 
At the top of your lungs 
To a tune no one’s heard 
Karaoke for the never were 
Pick my favourite song 
You can never go wrong 
The words were momentary 
Royalties unnecessary 
This one’s for you
(Oh yeaaaaaahhhh) 
This one’s for you 

This one’s for the memories
Of things we don’t remember 
Picked a name, imagined 
But you chose another gender
In some alternative to this
Did we walk hand in hand? 
I wouldn’t change a moment 
Impermanent as sand

[Chorus] 
Somewhere you’re singing 
At the top of your lungs 
To a tune no one’s heard 
Karaoke for the never were 
Pick my favourite song 
You can never go wrong 
The words were momentary 
Royalties unnecessary 
This one’s for you
(Oh yeaaaaaahhhh) 
This one’s for you 




Songs That Never Were

A big ballad from Big Mojave. Steve Lewis sings a beautiful, Hank-esque, country ballad with guitars, cello and hurdy gurdy.

River River

The absence 
Of presumption
Is not
My gumption
But
To embrace
My function.
The introduction
Reconstruction
Induction
A conjunction
Past 
Obstruction
Construction
By abduction
The seduction
My divine
Hyperfunction
Becomes my
Redemption
The entrance
Into
Non-duality.
This reality
Of possibility
Illusionary
Neutrality
Representing
My mortality’s
Awareness
Of
Immortality.
In generality
The brutality
And liberality
Part of
Normality
Or some
Formality
Of equanimity

My reality
Is the expansion
Of my soul
As I become
A golden pillar
Standing
In the center
Immaculateness
To vacuousness
Just damn foolishness
The bliss
With my function
Of forgiveness.

To let illusion go,
Is 
the point
We should not miss.
Gandhi's passiveness
In the face of
What had to 
Be witnessed,
From light
To matter
It’s the duality
That shatters
The blockage 
Of the mind
From within.

My reality
Is the expansion
Of my soul
As I become
A golden pillar
Standing
In the center
Immaculateness
To vacuousness
Just damn foolishness
The bliss
With my function
Of forgiveness.

It’s not 
Where you go
Or
Where you’ve been
It’s just a mind
That sees no sin
Or
Time
Controlling
The light within.
It’s the universal norm
Not the perception
Of our forms.
“Through 
The transformation
Of awareness
Into form
Each thing
Attains
Its
Nature.”

My Reality

London born, Singer/Songwriter/Lyricist, based in Ireland . right from the heart and Soul.


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