Words by Patrick Kavanagh
Music by Thomas Connellan

Recorded by Mike Paterson

Cruxty - Raglan Road

Aisling

Where did it start?
This great longing of mine
To create something new
With every new moon
Something whole and alive
With the fire and a stride
In my room at 14
It began with a dream

A note hits my mind like a spark and I come alive
It’s growing and molding and showing
And the melody grows like a child from my heart and flowers
Where it comes I don’t know but I love it so

I Wish it was different
I wish I could change
I could grow, move away
Why should I have to stay
Why should I take a chance
Why shouldn’t I dance
To the beat of my own drum
Complete with a new sum
Of hopes and desires
Like firmly wires
To flicker and shine
What I wish I could find
To take me and make me
A creature worth living for

A note hits my mind like a spark and i come alive
It’s growing and molding and showing
And the melody grows like a child from my heart and flowers
Where it comes I don’t know but I love it so

And try as I might I could never let music die
And I’m holding on holding on holding on
I takes me away to the heavens where ealges fly
Holdin on holdin on holdin on


The Remedy


Written/Played/Recorded
by Mike Paterson

Cover design by Mike Paterson
Image by redgalla.deviantart.com

Time may change
I’ll stay the same
Haven’t aged
Except my body

Same blues eyes
That you’d regognise
In disguise
16 somewhere  

Nows the time
To wait in line
For a new sign
That it’s worth all this


Worth All This

Splinters Demo

McClorey/Paterson

Recorded at AM Studios

The Alterations - Darling If I Could

I gave up
A long time ago
All of my duties
All of my goals

So I started wandering 
Through the fields and the marigolds
And I came to a lighthouse
Had my fate and my future told

Went to sea in a sail boat
No compass or charts at hand
Which could point my direction
Take me to the promised land

And a wave broke my bows babe
I was thrown to the briney deep
Saw my life as a picture show
Cast before me and now I weep

I weep for the love I hold
I weep for the lies I told
I weep for my sins

For the beauty of harmony
For the beauty of destiny
For the beauty within

I awoke in a valley
No water surrounding me
My thoughts first turn to sorrow
Have I been cast to eternity

So I walked ran and stumbled
Tryin to find where I’m s'posed to be
And I came to a chapel 
No salvation inside for me

Only words from my brothers
Offering solace to others
But no solace for me

Ain't no cure of invention
Only Truth holds redemption
And it burns within me

Solace Demo

This song is for my friends, 
The best a man could ask for

Recorded at Displace Studio

Loose Change (Live)

Produced/Recorded/Mixed by Mike Paterson

Mastered with LANDR

Little Lonely Road

Strangers

Figure It Out

Open Up

Someone Else's Child

There are devils in the water, careful where you swim
Ask your mother or your father did they let them in
From which ocean comes such evil, is it far away?
Where’s the tranquil water mothers, let the children play?


Inside of every brother still a devil lies
You can hear him if you listen, if you close you eyes
And up until the moment he’s the closest friend
Till the devil in the water breaks the froth again


When the devil touched a daughter he took what he liked
Till she woke and saw the evil that was in his eyes
And it broke her to the centre of her shattered soul
There’s no moral in this story, for you all to know


But if you haven’t guessed it yet that there’s no devil here
Only brothers who our mothers and our daughters fear
Was it Adam using Eve to be the fall of man
When he took her from the garden, lead her by the hand

And if we
 say stop it comes
And still her sweet heartbeat drums
No answers from friends or peers
The judgement could last the years


Until she dies it’s done.

Devils In The Water

Produced by Mike Paterson

"Devils In The Water" EP 

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