about the relationship between earth and the moon,also the moon being used as stepping stone to explore the galaxy

no wasteland

Tez Howes: Vocals, guitars, bass, keys
Alan Smithee: Drums

Holding onto Nothing
(words & music: t.h. gorman ©2021 teztunes)

Been holding on to nothing
Hanging on a prayer
This lonely lie, it leaves these lips
No-one to hear, so it don’t get you anywhere
Just holding on to nothing

They tell you to imagine
The dream you wanna be
But dreams a dime a dozen down
And a million more ain’t gonna buy reality
So you’ll still be left with nothing

Something’s gotta give, they claim
But most things never change
And time again you give your best
Get nothing in exchange
Cause you just get paid in pain

One minute or forever
Pretty much the same affair
When waiting’s all you wind up with
Don’t matter much if you don’t get from here to there
You’d only bring the same old nothing

Every night I hold your pillow
An exercise in vain
Both pain and pleasure palpable
A dream impossible forever to sustain
So you fall in love with nothing

Something’s gotta give, they claim
But most things never change
And time again you give your best
Get fuck all in exchange

I been holding onto nothing so long that it
Feels like a long-lost friend
It just occurred to me today you’ve been gone
For a year, I don’t have to pretend
Anymore that you’ll come back to me

As I smash this empty vessel
The shards what might have blessed
A failed and fake effrontery
When every action, word and deed is meaningless
And you’re finally left with nothing

Been holding on to nothing
Grabbin’ blindly at thin air
This lonely lie, it leaves these lips
No-one to hear, so it don’t get you anywhere
Been holding on to nothing
Been holding on to nothing
Been holding on to nothing

Holding onto Nothing

FATHERLAND

A Day In Your Shrinking World

© Copyright Andrew Dolphin 

V1
I watch as your star is fading
The sun setting in your sky 
Passing days that take your memories
And all those conflicts in your head
Maybe I would comprehend 
If only I could spend 
A day in your shrinking world

V2
What’s it like in your world
As it shrinks day by day
Cos’ I see distance growing in your eyes
Is it as painful as it seems  
Maybe I would comprehend
If only I could spend 
A day in your shrinking world

Bridge
Where is hope, when time is calling 
Only borrowed time to cling on to
Praying for another morning 
Another fractured day to get on through
Knowing someday you won’t know you 

V3
I can’t pretend much longer
The pain is for me to bear
Recalling the person that you used to be
The bond that cannot be repaired
Is what I cannot understand 
Surely I’d have to live
A day in your shrinking world
Ooh ooh ooh ooh 
A day in your shrinking world
Ooh ooh ooh ooh 
A day in your shrinking world

A Day In Your Shrinking World

lyrics,                                                                                                                 streets are deserted,been a long time gone,                                                 i hear no trains a running,as they stopped a long time ago.                              earth is a burning ,scorched to the ground ,                                                  real live pictures are in my head,                                                                    no power,                                                                                                         no water ,                                                                                                     no food, to keep us alive                                                                               landslides are next,earth piled high                                                             houses falling down,by the river side,                                                        they say  its our own doing,and thats whats going down,                          hell  fire rain,thats pouring down,mend our ways ,                                   but it just seems far too late.                                                                       industrial pollution is raining down,mans eternal greed                            is all around                                                                                                    the earth is a burning ,scorched to the ground,                                              real live pictures are in my head, always in my head                                  they say that its our own doing,and thats whats going down                    hell fire rain ,thats pouring down ,mend our ways,                                      but it just seems far too late                                                                  streets are deserted,been a long time gone,                                             i hear no trains a running,as they stopped a long time ago                          earth is a burning ,scorched to the ground ,mans eternal greed is all all all all around                                                                                       they say its our own doing,and thats whats going down                           hell fire rain ,thats pouring down ,mend our ways                                     but it just seems far too late                                                                         no power                                                                                                          no water                                                                                                         no food                                                                                                          to keep us alive                                                                                             no power                                                                                                      no water                                                                                                         no food                                                                                                                 to keep us alive

Streets Are Deserted

Produced by t.h. gorman
Tez Howes: Vocals, guitars, bass, keys
Drum loop by Drum Skin (https://www.youtube.com/c/DrumSkin)

Dominos
(words & music: t.h. gorman ©2024 teztunesmusic)

Captain on a sinking ship
Shinny up the gallows pole
Tattle tales and brinkmanship
Polish, polish til she glows

When you feel the comet hit
Gather round the guillotine
Make a mockery of it
As tribute to the fallen Queen

Put down stakes in middle earth
Send a message to the cloud
Round and flatulent its girth
Shout it out “Godspeed the plow!”

Dance around the pyre bright
Pull a thread until the seam
Splits and gives up its birthright
In the splendid cavalcade of dreams

Fake it til you get it right
Follow your nose (Follow your nose)
Naked in the early light
The emperor's new clothes

Pick the middle of the three
Stand a candle on its end
Take a vacay to the sea
Play a game of Let’s Pretend

Lonely is as lonely does
You wonder if you’ll meet again
Smoke a fag and take a pause
Tales of mice and sad stick figure men

Stoke the fire, make the case
Find a church and slither in
Greet the priest and break his face
Desecrate the walls within

Fall onto a crystal knife
Check to see if you will bleed
Take a flyer, take a wife
Buy a thing you’re scared to death you’ll need

Fake it til you get it right
Strike a new pose (Strike a new pose)
Steady as a traffic light
Watch them fall, those dominos

Fake it til you get it right
Then slam it closed (Slam it closed)
Fade into the early light
Round & round these dominos

Squeeze a bottle til it breaks
Spend a penny, tell a lie
Contemplate the time it takes
Scratch your ear and slap your thigh

Gather up your dominos
Melt into your comfy chair
String a bunch of nonsense words
Like a whispered love affair

Count your blessings, count your faults
Wish an afternoon away
Clear your table, find gestalt
When you’ve got fuck all to say

Write a song that makes no sense
When you have to kill a day
Keep the listener in suspense
When you know you’ve got nothing left to say
When you know you’ve got nothing left to say
When you know you’ve got sweet fuck all to say

Dominos

101

Written, arranged and performed by Mike Cunningham. Drums by Dom Hardy. Production by Dom Hardy at Gracenote Studios, Dunfermline.

While I’m away
we’re on count-down every day
We need to put aside some time for catching up
It is so easy to forget
Sometimes we need to reconnect
We need to do away with time for ‘Mobile Love’


So no more surfing at the movies
No more WhatsApp, no more Facebook
No more drilling down through click-holes at your friends
No shaking phones for signal bars
No super-retina XDR
No changing background colours just because


		(Chorus)
		When I come home again I’m gonna make amends.
		I’m gonna cool my heels and focus on you.
		Gonna give 101 percentage of all my love
		Gonna make sure my time’s devoted to you.


We don’t do the things we used to
We need to change the things we do do.
The social-media stars will have to wait.
I want to show you that you’re special,
Tell you that you’re beautiful,
You don’t need online influence for that.

So no more texting at the restaurant, and
No more email in the bedroom.
No opening up attachments on the fly.
No more checking out that Twitter feed,
No pixel dust, no Tik-Tok need (ad)
No Instagram rendition of our lives.

		Chorus
		Organ
		Bridge1
		Chorus


Copyright  : Nov 2022 M. E. Cunningham
Written : Sept 2022/Jun 2023 M. E. Cunningham (Castlethorpe– Kirkcaldy)
Recorded :  2023 Gracenote Studios, Dunfermline

(Mobile Love – Banksy’s mural)

101 (No More Mobile Love)

The kind of omnipresent, chronic anxiety that lives like a ball of molten lead in the pit of your stomach, telling you you're no good, saying you won't make it, and that bad things might happen.
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Unspeakable dread busting down my door
What lies ahead, can't contemplate any more
Got to take a break
Catch a breath for heaven's sake
And just pretend to ignore 
Unspeakable dread

Unspeakable dread twists its dagger in my gut
Liquid lead... bloody red, flaming hot
Can't be what I'm not
Claw back the years I've lost
Or untangle the knot 
Of unspeakable dread

Fear wears many faces
Drives you through the paces
Lives in secret places under the bed, its name is
Unspeakable

Then they came, words that crushed my confidence dead
And the shame; absurd I trusted what they said
That all would be okay if I'd only learn to change
And kill the longings in my head
But I kept them instead

Acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocal: John David Lawson
Words and music: John David Lawson
Thanks to Andy Dolphin and Jim Barrett for suggesting tweaks to the lyrics

Unspeakable Dread

Champion of the World

Written, arranged, and performed by Mike Cunningham.
Drums by Dom Hardy.
Production by Dom Hardy at Gracenote Studios, Dunfermline.


If I tell you more,
If I tell you  less,
If I could describe all the ways that she makes me feel the best

If I tell you there
If I tell you here
If I could describe every pound and every ounce she means to me

   When she’s been with me, the wonders we’ve seen,
   Let me tell you about the way that she smiles with her eyes when 
   she looks at me
   And after all, the chances we’ve called,
   All I want to be’s her knight in armour, the champion of the world

When she makes me laugh,
And when she makes me proud,
Let me tell you about the way that she walks down the High Street looking so cool

The way she makes me think,
The way she makes me me
I ain’t ever seen anyone as beautiful as she

    When we’ve been in the sun, come in from the sea,
    I could tell you about the way that she tans and the white bits the 
    sun don’t see
    And after all, the chances we’ve called,
    All I want to be’s her knight in armour, the champion of the world

Guitar

    When she’s been with me, the wonders we’ve seen,
    Let me tell you about the way that she smiles with her eyes when 
    she looks at me
    And after all, the chances we’ve called,
    All I want to be’s her knight in armour, the champion of the world

The way she holds my cards,
The way she works my odds,
That’s the way she makes me feel that I’m the champion of the world.


Copyright : Apr 2016 M. E. Cunningham
Written      : Apr 2016 –Nov  2016 M. E. Cunningham (Sherborne– Kirkcaldy)
Recorded    :  Oct 2917 Kirkcaldy
Re-recorded : Jan 2024 Gracenote Studios, Dunfermline

Champion of the World

Written, arranged and performed by Mike Cunningham.
Drums by Dom Hardy.
Production by Dom Hardy at Gracenote Studios, Dunfermline.

I met a girl who’s driving me crazy,
beautiful body and beautiful skin
But when I talk to her she comes on all bitchy,
she messed with my mind, I don’t know what to think

I’ve lost my appetite, my stomach is growling at me
I have to somaticize, my mind is as sore as can be.

A pre-mortem proves that I shouldn’t pursue her
I must lose this part of my dream
I have to forget about my former future
My heart takes one for the team

My fingers are tingling, my knees are all trembling,
My tongue is too big for my face
I’m drowning my sorrows to kill my emotions
I feel that I’m circling the drain

My whole body aches when the powder of sympathy works
It always happens when she’s out with somebody else

A pre-mortem proves that I shouldn’t pursue her
I must lose this part of my dream
I have to forget about my former future
My heart takes one for the team

I think I’m allergic to what I’m addicted,
My heartache is worse when we kiss
Love sickness does not come on its own, but
Nothing good’s coming from this

I need to save myself, I need to find the door
My friends think that I should dodge the bullet and go

A pre-mortem proves that I shouldn’t pursue her
I must lose this part of my dream
I have to forget about my former future
My heart takes one for the team

Copyright : Aug 2014 M. E. Cunningham Written : Aug2014/May 2015 M. E. Cunningham (Kirkcaldy)
Recorded : 2015 Kirkcaldy, 2024 Dunfermline

My Heart Takes One For The Team

New Mix and updated Lyrics for YouTube video - out soon. 
Original song by dave croxford with additional vocals and guitar from David Hill.
Song originally 2008 credit crunch lyrics updated 2017.

Track also known as BossaNovaScotia

The Bottom line.
Latin/ethnic, bossanova, Var 10, Tempo 192
Intro1:
8 bars just drums
Intro 2:
 8 bars funky Bm lick
Verse 1
Bm                                                   F#                   Bm
The sun’s gotta shine , And the earth’s gotta roll
Bm                                                  E                         F#
There’s music in my blood but maggots in my soul                
Bm                                            G                      F#
What is the reason for my never ending toll?  (toll = strain)
Bm
No one knows, No One cares, 
     D               A            Bm
So go to the bottom line
     D               A            Bm
So go to the bottom line
 
Banks and the corporates take us for a ride
The government and industries are standing by their side
Where is the justice when we crumble and subside?
No one knows, No One cares, 
So go to the bottom line
So go to the bottom line
 D                                                 F#
Greed and survival are what separates our lives
G                                        E
No one expects to be stabbed with hidden knives
G                                               D
Deceit and corruption are rewarded with the prize 
              F#
What’s going on, what’s going on, what’s going on


Bm
We look out for our young and care for our old
It’s a modern social society, but are we being sold
The profit seeking individuals are not in the same mould
No one knows, No One cares, 
So go to the bottom line
So go to the bottom line






Greed and survival are what separates our lives
No one expected to be stabbed with hidden knives
Deceit and corruption are rewarded with the prize 
What’s going on, what’s going on, what’s going on

 Solo Verse

Well the sun’s got to shine , And the earth’s got to roll
The music is playing loud,  but it ain’nt got soul
Greed is the only thing that matters in this world
No one knows, No One cares, 
So go to the bottom line
So go to the bottom line
So go to the bottom line

Bottom Line v23, ft. David Hill - original song by Dave Croxford

I am an IT consultant trying to wind down my IT work to concentrate on my life time hobby of writing and producing music.

Bottom Line v23, ft. David Hill - original song by Dave Croxford

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