Breakout © Chris Wiggs 19 September 2015
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 19 September 2015


Breakout

Daylight Fantasy © Chris Wiggs 15.01.16
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 21.01.16
 
V1
Pulling back the shade, a lush and verdant glade
Rides to the horizon, a pure and amber blade
A daylight fantasy, a coat surreal surrounds your waking daze

Lose your head in how it feels, music swirling from the heights 
Sit beside the minstrel’s wheel, spinning as it brings down, light
Pouring down from the skies, pouring down 

V2
Mystery unfurled, kaleidoscopic world
Finding in the meaning, gold within the pearl
A daylight fantasy, a fading opera for all to see

Rising in the air above us, floating in the azure sea
The many spoken sounds around us, 
Euphoria always was so free, always was so free


Daylight Fantasy

Cry © Chris Wiggs 21.02.16
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 21.03.16
Remastered 03.04.19

V1 
If you know the reason
We’re saying goodbye
Then would you tell me
Cos I wanna cry
I wanna cry

V2 
You’d be better off alone
Won’t be long you’re on your own
And you’re not the only one
Cos I wanna cry 
I wanna cry

M8
Why did we quarrel and wrangle
Nerves all got jangled
Tied up and tangled
Out of our depths, in over our heads
Yearning and aching and cut up instead
How could we lose what we had?

V3
Now that it’s over
Ashes just smoulder
The world has grown colder
And I wanna cry
I wanna cry

Instrumental, V3 repeat

Cry, cry, cry

The Phantom © Chris Wiggs 10.08.16
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 12.08.16
 
The Phantom

Verse 1
Day after day
Not a feeling that goes away
Not a page you can turn and 
Move on anyway

Verse 2
See what you say
It’s a mystery here to stay
Better curse it or you may
Face it one fine day

Chorus
Damned Wraith!
It’s a phantom you can’t escape
As it hides in the shadows 
Turns its face away

In the dark corners of your mind
Where it hides while it fools you blind
Just a glimpse in the dark
You’re blind to all its lies

Verse 3
Look in the past
For a truth that tied down fast
Would you struggle to solve
The riddle built to last

Verse 4
When, at last
And your tormentor lift its mask
Should you level your gaze
Or turn your face away
Chorus

Verse 1

Chorus


The Phantom

Southerly Breeze © Chris Wiggs 21.09.17
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 23.09.17

Southerly Breeze

Glass
V1
You’re on the other side of the glass
So how, has this come to pass
It’s a future that’s not built to last
Try and join the colourful dance
Not a chance not even a glance

V2
You’ve made some kind of mistake
And now you’re under the lake
It’s a glass that just won’t break
You can’t be heard or spoken to
Until it’s been broken in two

Ch1
Of course you’re here
It’s just that you don’t appear
You can’t be seen and you can’t be heard
Not a sign and not a word

V3
You’re on the other side of the glass
So how, has this come to pass
It’s a future that’s not built to last
Try and join the colourful dance
Not a chance not even a glance

Ch2
Of course you’re here
It’s just that you don’t appear
You can’t be seen and you can’t be heard
Not a sign and not a word

Glass

The Well © Chris Wiggs 09.12.17
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 09.12.17

The Well
V1
We draw from the well, you and I
Over and over, the well is soon dry
Every day is the same, while we wait
Wait for the rain
V2
The clock in the hall by the bedroom door
Unsettles itself and and tells us it’s four
While the night flies away, can you stay
One more day
Ch1 
Look in the well, see a face you know well
Can you resist the path that exists
The pull to the deep and the fall to relief
Without it there’s pain, so you fall back again
V3
We’re falling forever, you and I
The walls of the well and the vanishing sky
Disappear in the gloom of the darkened room
The screech of the owl and the howl, howl of the moon

The Well

Poseidon discovers Aphrodite
 © Chris Wiggs 16.03.18
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 16.03.18

Poseidon Discovers Aphrodite

Rearranged, remixed and remastered 26.02.19

This is how the song was meant to be, but when I first wrote this, a couple of summers ago, the vocals just weren’t working, so I posted it instead as an instrumental which can be heard here:   https://soundcloud.com/chris-wiggs/my-gaunt-eye

Through My Gaunt Eye © Chris Wiggs 03.12.18
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 08.12.18

Through My Gaunt Eye

Looking back through all the years
Broken hearts and breaking tears
Oh for a day back in the way
Of peace and harmony

How could I bear it, how could I care 
If all of the wrongs were right
All, all was meant to be, just see
The path ahead I’m walking
The past I left’s not talking to me now
As I look through my gaunt eye

My eyes are open and how I used to see
The world through my gaunt eye

You’ll have to face it, you can’t erase it
No matter if you try 
A world that’s passing by
It’s only when you see it
That you can then believe the world you see
When you look through your gaunt eye

Hard though it may be, truth will set you free
The things that just did, the things that didn’t
A world that you see, a world that’s hidden
The life I could see when I looked
Through my gaunt eye

Through My Gaunt Eye

Hideaway
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 29.12.2018
Re-recorded and remastered 22.02.19

Hideaway is a guitar player’s standard and many of us playing in the later 1960’s played our versions at gigs and for exercise. 
It seems to have started life a long time ago as a stroll through the guitar player’s bag of licks woven together into a natty little tune, passing through many hands and popularised by Freddie King whose version is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEZJvyLGdwg
This version is my take on Eric Clapton’s technically perfect, amped up and up-tempo version which was a showcase for his dexterity and earned him the gunslinger sobriquet ‘Slowhand’. It also established the sound of the Gibson Les Paul guitar.
The John Mayall /Eric Clapton version is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9N8Qi6zLSU

Hideaway

Eye for an Eye © Chris Wiggs 15.01.19
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 22.01.19
 
V1
Eye for an eye, the healer said
No one’s walking out of here until 
The day you pay your debt
A lie for a lie, must do instead
With the aching in our bones 
And sun beats on our head

Ch1
Many’s the day, I just fly away
To a place that’s soft and green
And so cool that I could scream
Many’s the day, hope just dies away
We didn’t know it’s wrong
What we were doing all along

V2
The way out’s to pay, it’s hard for some
‘Cause we signed away our times
For some cheap and easy fun
So, by and bye, it’s on your head
There’s no getting out of here
And the days are full of dread.

V3
Man I could cry, a sky turned red
Not talking ‘bout the past 
But life gone lost instead
How many ways, a fool’s regret
Never’s when the time to grieve
And I’m still living yet

Eye For An Eye

Octavia © Chris Wiggs  15.02.19
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 15.02.19

Octavia

The Pass © Chris Wiggs 07.07.2019
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 08.07.2019
 
Thanks to Jeff Roberts and Bruce Conover for EQ assistance.

The Pass

Screen Time © Chris Wiggs 28.07.19
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 28.07.19

V1
How will we get through the
Thousands of hours of our 
Lives here on earth
So long since our birth
V2
What are we thinking as
Torrents of words pour all   
Over our minds, leaves us 
Dazzled and blind
M81
Got to look, see how the time flies
Got to look, laugh till you cry
Got to look, but it’s warm like a hug
Then, somebody said, “It’s a drug”
Ch1
Need, screen time
Plead, screen time
More, screen time
Roar, screen time
V3
Palms sway on breezes
Waves lap on beaches 
But they’re on their own
They can’t beat the zone
V4
Lost to the voice that’s
So better placed than
Poor reality
Poor reality
M82
Got to look, it might be for me
Got to look, it’s important, you see
Got to look, what did I miss?
Only a life, by an inch or a kiss
Ch2
Need, screen time
Plead, screen time
More, screen time
Roar, screen time
V5
Long in the future
When they come looking
To see where we went
All those messages sent 
V6
Over and over
Those voices in unison 
Crying out loud
The same feral howl
Ch3
Need, screen time
Please, screen time
More, screen time
Roar, screen time

Screen Time

Perfect © Chris Wiggs 25.09.19
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 26.09.19

Perfect
V1
Seems like I’ve been dreaming 
The whole evening
On a blue, far off shoreline
Glimpses stealing
The one true meaning
Seen perfectly

V2
I’ve been slow boat flying
The landscape lying
Smoothly to the skyline
Sun sets blazing 
The pale moon’s lazing
Goes drifting by

Ch1
So, if you should take,
Take for a moment, just a moment
If you ever wondered why
Why it’s so perfect, so perfect, you cry

The play we’re in today
Speaks our lines, writes our lives
It plays on perfectly

V3
You may waken going
The river’s flowing
The dream is passing by
Fortune’s favour is
Destined, later
When asking why

V4
There is no use trying
By word or writing
Reasoning those states so rare
Restless questers
Like courtyard jesters
So far away

Ch2
So, if you should take,
Take for a moment, just a moment
If you ever wondered why
Why it’s so perfect, so perfect, you cry

The play we’re in today
Speaks our lines, writes our lives
It plays on perfectly
Speaks our minds, writes our times
It plays on perfectly

Perfect

Crazy © Chris Wiggs 23.10.19
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 27.10.19

V1
All around, the crazy little changes
The air is full of thrill
There’s a kind of madness that found us
Endless days to fill

Calling all who remember
Feeling the strange new power
It seemed that our small horizons
Were opening up and how

Chorus 1
Life on the street
Friends that you meet
The ease and the freedom
The nights without sleeping

New clubs on old roads
Colourful clothes
Your hair’s growing longer
And longer

V2
We were a new generation
The world now goes our way
High, bright, life for the taking
Washing out the grey

Calling out to remember
The colourful nights and days
When opportunity called you
You grabbed it and ran all day

Chorus 2
The last gig was tight
The band was just right
That’s when it all comes together as ever

The end is in sight
At the end of the night
It’s work in the morning
Just crazy

Crazy

Free © Chris Wiggs 20.11.19

Artwork © Chris Wiggs 20.11.19

Free

V1
Roll back making tracks play it for free
No one’s waiting round to see if it be
A hit or miss baby oh that’s just so twee
Get a life or your going to die to hear the PB

V2
No luck make a buck’s no way to be
Play around making sounds the bitter to be
Better now baby cause we’re on the TV
Playing nice name your price 
We’re what you want us to be

Chorus
Three minute picture shows that’s what we’ve got
What are we saying? Whatever you want
What are giving? We’ll give you the lot
We’re going to give it out, all the lot

Free

Don’t You Know © Chris Wiggs 13.03.20
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 13.03.20
V1
Something happened in the dead of night
Crash of thunder and a flash of light
In the morning, cold and all alone
Your frozen to the bone
People look through you like you’re not there
Unaware at all
Scream and shout but no-one turns to stare
The truth, it slowly dawns
Ch1
Don’t You Know
You’re the lonely ghost, abandoned soul, an empty host
Existing in between their lives
Not really there at all
Just a shadow on their wall
V2
Flying high you take a look below
See them running, running to and fro
Chasing dreams of happiness to hold
And chasing dreams of love
Stagger on you know you’re barely there
Reaching, grasping on
Fading fast you must leave before
The day will see you gone
Ch2
Don’t You Know
You’re the lonely ghost, abandoned soul, an empty host
Existing in between their lives
Not really there at all
Just a shadow on their wall
A shadow on the wall

Don't You Know

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