Stacey was a cigarette she was bad for your health. Sweet 16 given up taking care of herself. On the school bus singing of all the ways she might die. Long bittersweet nothings with a glint in her eye

Still the world passes by, and we try to pretend there’s nothing wrong in this life. There’s balloons on the bridge again

Mark was a Polaroid, he was fading to black. High school hero feeling like a panic attack. Carried on the shoulders of the famed cheerleaders. Wide Colgate smiles, waiting for his

Still the days do not slow - hard to keep what you cannot mend. Hollow words come and go. There’s balloons on the bridge again

Balloons

Year 3000

A medeley of the only three one direction songs I know

- One thing
- what makes you beautiful
- Best song ever

You Don't Know You've Got That One Thing (the Best Song Ever)

I am a sailors son 
Born on a lonely wave
Carry an empty gun
Keeping the town awake

I will define myself by high prose
Given by heavenly disciples

I was a lonely boy
Looking for happiness
Lonely and insecure
Nothing would quite make sense

I found a warm embrace
Inside the brightest house
The water would cleanse my face
The writings would rid my doubt

Finally I felt love again
Safe in the bosom of the selfless men

And it was all I asked for
And it was all I dreamed of
And it was all I neeeded

Im a better man
Than my neighbours around the town
And I know their sin will bury them and me down

And I will stay awake 
From now until Judgement day
And Everything exactly in its place

I am a sailors son 
Born on a lonely wave
Carry a loaded gun
Watch as the people shake

Sailors Son

Daughter 2024

Oh your daughter has gone, so dance in the mirror. Put your red lipstick on and sing for your supper.

Your day will come, but the night is young

Winter freezes the air, draw frost from your fingertips. Marry hope with despair, go paint the town with it. Teardrops fall from your cheeks. Red nose, Panda eyes. Walk alone down the streets you no longer recognise.

Your day will come but the night is young

I have seen the sun. It rose for me, but only once.

Oh your daughter is gone, so sleep by her windowside. Put your sad records on. And weep for your child bride.

Daughter

I've seen the sunrise in your come to bed eyes, and it's still a suprise when it touches the ground. Because you're always walking away from me - I'm tired of talking, the misery is all engulfing. From sky to sea. You're never around.

And all I want now is to dance through the night like tomorrow has no relevance. My voice isn't right, but I'll try and sing you off the fence. In two brittle arms we can swing around 'till the sun comes up in this humdrum town.

All your old school friends are hiding in dead ends and trying to pretend that they're happy with this. While the mid-20 somethings (like you and like me), with our hearts filled like dustbins (with things we don't need) are striving and struggling to be complete while falling to bits. So give it a miss

Dance Thru The Nite

Hotel

March 2014

Come take a ride, you can can see what I see, you can see what I see if you take it with me

Take A Ride

In a beggars purse I'm forgotten change
standing so still so dumb so estranged, 
and I kept it back in the depths of my mind
somewhere i'm scared of what I'll find
And I'm happy now, but i'll be sad soon, 
so let me howl at the moon

So i'm smiling laughing shouting fuck off to the universe
'cause sometimes i'm not sure i get what i deserve
and crossing my heart and hoping to fly
in the face of all the best advice
and i'm happy now but i'll be sad soon
so let me howl at the moon

I'M YOUNG. DUMB. FREE. ALIVE.


Howl At The Moon

Songs recorded/re-dicked around with in the month of March.

Songs for Death in the Key of E Minor

At the end of the day we had no way of knowing
What we'd been, what we'd seen, what we'd done to our health
I was born as an old man with no room for growing
Tired, barely wild, left on the shelf

Drink for the young soul for soon it is sleeping
And all that remains are fables and bones
Praise to the old soul, the thoughts it is keeping
Will keep you alive when blood turns to stone

One day we'll fall just as we born to do
Left to the heavens, left to the sky
Fill up your hour glass, it's all that's been left you
A blemish of nature, a footnote in time

Sing songs for death in the key of E Minor
With no one to listen but the ever ready moon
Prepare the ground for the old undertaker
Wed to the earth like an unhappy groom

I thought I knew
My friends did too
Though we may smile the widest of smiles
It's only to hide the gloom

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