May Friends

Mixed for Blank Shell Shutter

Produced, arranged, composed and performed by James Murphy - 'Byrdz'.

Lyrics :- All Of This Falls Away

All of this falls away,
But I want you to stay!
I like it where you are,
So near but so far,
But yet so far,
It's been great,
Hearing about you,
Carve out your way,
Not taking anything lightly,
Young and sprightly,
Nimble and slowly...
Yeah, nimble and slowly...
Making your way;
In this life,
Hopefully your happy?
And seeing how great,
This life is...?
It's not hard,
To make the best of things...
How they are, when they lie,
how they lie, when they do,
When they do,
When they do, when they do, 
when they do!

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Artwork credit to - Alan Davis

Cian's Song

All Of This Falls Away

Linia życia / lifeline

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I

Arrrrrgggggg

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I

Arrrrrgggggg

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I
Scream

I stick my head into my
My fucking pillow and I

Arrrrrgggggg

Pillow

Gray Ivory

Who I Am

Continuing the Jazz injected pop-rock theme of Collect the Moment and Better do SOME GOOD this one references AJA though it could easily be ASIA. My time spent in AJA (Steely Dan) was about the same time we were dissecting preserved bodies in Otago Medical School. Playing live then I was channeling more of a Neil Young, Bob Dylan and THE BAND pre Americana country rock thing. But jump ahead 40 years and here we were just this last Saturday night churning out JOSIE from AJA in a set of originals and covers full of Jazz Chords and RnB beats. So this new song absorbs a lot of that stuff. 

HR Kiosk

Next to you, I feel a hero
The maintenance of normal, while you’re a trip to Cairo
Circa 2023 I’d like to paraphrase
Cause cities like that and Khartoum
Once set a soul ablaze

So book yourself into an HR Kiosk tonight
There’s gotta be an on-line guru who could shine a light
Infiltate you with guile
Make you think there’s actually an I in why 
Yeah yeah yeah

Time spent in Aja did it make me cynical?
Made me feel ok to rave 
And pull you off your pinnacle
Of course it’s arrogant to judge, someone on culture
But I see you circling thru the sky, with the eye of a vulture

Know you kinda inside out
So I’d try it with a hundred grand
I bet you on your virtual couch 
You’re lying on a slippery Sam

Course you’re going even lower - way below zero
Sayin’ hey let’s all be friends
Like Ghandi and Nehru
Your time at the Taj Mahal, did us no favours
After breathing in the rarified shrine
Where’s your reconciliation pavers

HR KIOSK

OKAY-feat.TAKEOFFF

I think this is the cheesiest, poppiest thing I’ve ever written and surprisingly the lyrics were jotted down a few months ago after I watched the Netflix documentary “MH370 - the plane that disappeared” which is pretty heavy

Signal Me

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