Alice - Pig And Pepper

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From my first Christian album, "When The River Runs Dry" (1990), the song is an apocalyptic celebration of the Second Coming of Christ.
Produced by myself and Nigel Geden in his Sandton City studio, Nigel was "instrumental" ('scuse the pun) in developing my vision for each song and the album as a whole.

When the river runs dry

Behold the Lamb

Lyrics

Just an unknown boy from a small Texas town
Had no reason to feel unsafe or unwound
If you can't trust your family
If you mistrust your friends
Then the only way that you're heading is down

Doesn't anyone see my face when he's here
Is there no-one around to acknowledge my fear
The damage having been done
Can never be reversed
Then the only solution for you becomes clear

As I'm growing confusion is all that I know
The questions are endless the answers are slow
There's no-one to believe in
There's nothing here on earth
Now there's only one other place I can go...

Just an unknown boy from a small Texas town
Had no reason to feel unsafe or unwound
If you can't trust your family
If you mistrust your friends
Then the only way that you're heading is down

Ballad For A Forgotten Boy

Written when I was in the army in 1978 for Caroline De Witt (pictured)- about two months into our relationship. She got two songs out of me - must've been love :)

Clive Hay - More Than The Other Girls

My personal favourite track on "Selah" and like a few of the other self-penned songs on this album, "Rock of my Salvation" was an inspirational moment. It was also a time when my vision for "Selah" was conceived and one of the songs that prompted Bernie Millar to choose to produce the album.
Originally intended to be a male/female duet, Bernie was quite confident that I could do it alone and pushed me to deliver. The song features a sublimely crafted guitar solo by Nigel Geden and backing vocals featuring the talents Katie Pennington and Glenda Millar, who also did all the BV arrangements. 
Lyrics:

He came to set the captives free
The Word of God who died for you and me
I’m forever in His debt
A sinner released from captivity

He came to set the captives free
The Lamb of God, everyday I love Him more and more
He is my guiding light; I will serve Him day and night
Yes I live for

He’s the Rock of my salvation
Every tongue and tribe and nation
Shall bow down before His throne
And worship Him alone

He came to find and heal the lost
He changed the lives of everyone whose path He crossed
I’m amazed when I recall my life before and after
In His liberty

He came to find and heal the lost
I had a debt and Jesus paid the cost
An eternal jubilee, cancelling my sin 
On the cross of Calvary

Your Spirit sought me out
Convicted me within
Your covenant with me says
“You are Gods’ next of kin”

Selah

Rock Of My Salvation

One of our stalwarts for our opening set, not played as much at the moment. "New Kid in Town" is one of my all time favourite Eagles songs.In my mind an almost perfectly crafted pop song, with great interplay between the various instruments, interesting key changes and of course, Glenn Frey's sublime vocals, which I hope I do credit to.

New Kid In Town

The Labyrinth - I consider this song arguably the most interesting I've ever written, from a music and imagery perspective. All my influences came to bear here. you'll hear shades of Supertramp, Genesis and Yes in this song. Written in 1981 when Savannah was in full swing.

Who was Helvetia? Well, that would be telling, wouldn't it... Actually, aside from Helvetia being the "female national personification of Switzerland" - very apt when considering it's beauty, aloofness,  lightness and and coldness - the chorus of this song was originally supposed to be "Oh, Helena..." etc. 

Helena was a girl I quite fancied, whom I tried to woo at the time I was writing this song. Unfortunately, my efforts were rather one-sided, and in a fit of rejection I changed the name in the chorus to it's current form. I DID try and come up with another female name, and had decided the letter "H" had to be the first letter of that name. I liked the way "Helvetia" rolled off the tongue, and so it stuck.

The Labyrinth

Written for my wife Renata for our wedding, around 1997, I finally got around to recording and releasing it as part of my MusOz - nominated album Refugee, in 2001.  Our life partnership has truly been a God-ordained and led (albeit with me being dragged along at various stages) journey, particularly in this new land that we now inhabit (Australia. Three boys and 20 years on, with lots of ups and downs, I can say that the sentiments of the lyrics still hold true...

Refugee

My Love To You

Trip to Norway in 1981 inspired this track...

Clive Hay

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