Papa please send me the moon
The day is done, the night comes soon
I need a light to help me get back home

Papa please send me the moon
I'm feeling lonesome in this gloom
The grin of an old Cheshire cat would be just fine

La lune I will sing your ancient tune
Rest in your sweet melody

Papa please send me the moon
The children all have grown too soon
I'd like a friend to keep me company

Papa please send me the moon
I'm feeling lonesome in this gloom
I need a reminder that a new day will come

La lune I will sing your ancient tune
Rest in your sweet melody

Papa Send Me The Moon

I can only write these lines
When I'm drunk and blind
I wait by the window for the first sight of you

I saw you riding the night like a harlot in white
Playing games with the vacant moon

You were on your way to another sunny day
But your smile won't change

You sang 
Boy you better come back down to Earth
Oh boy you better come back down to earth

My heart's in bloom
Yours is blue
Your going round and round spinning upside down
Where you stop nobody really knows

I've heard of a place where a tall golden race
Build ships that can fly like eternal goodbyes
Though it seems right, one day I just might
Find that place to call my own

Until that time comes
Babe I must stay
In the arms of forever on a falling star

Boy you better come back down to Earth
Oh boy you better come back down to Earth
Your heart's in bloom
Mine is blue
I'm going round and round spinning upside down
I won't stop until you come home

Round and round spinning upside down
Please come home

Come Back To Earth

Do you believe in Santa Claus and mistletoe?
Do you believe in Mercedes Benz and rock n' roll?
Do you believe it's all for you?
Or are your eyes still looking through the window of the toy shop?

Are the kids the other ones with the good stuff on their walls?
Did you believe you would get fame or sit waiting for the call?
Do you believe what they said in school to me?
If you work real hard your sweat will set you free

Do you believe in the sting of the killer bee?
Do you believe your a slave to gravity?
Watch him come alive
Watch him fly

Do you believe that its over when you die?
Do you believe in the power to make your life your own?
Watch him go out of his band.

We've got mortgages, banks, loans, degrees
Middle-class homes, booze and weed
Cocaine, acid and exctasy
Council tax and policy
Two-point-five, dead or alive

Beautiful women, slappers and slags
Mind numbing jobs, one of the lads
One day he'll grow up it's all just a fad
Thanks for your confidence, thanks mum and dad

I want to get off this ride

Do You Believe?

It don't matter if the sun don't shine
Cos me and my baby gonna be just fine
Floating on our own little perfect breeze

On a summer afternoon gonna rest my back
On the broken fence by the railroad track
Dream a lovers face I'd like to see

Lucille, so real
Ain't gonna make no deal with the devil
Ain't gonna sell my soul to be a rebel in hell

Oh well
Ain't feelin no heartache, worry or care
Cos no one can ever compare to my lover Lucille

In the morning we go walking in the countryside
Where the chain gang sweated and the little girl cried
To see her daddys back stripped to the bone

But their ain't no pain, no trouble or strife
When the darkness falls and she's by my side
Ain't no blood gonna drip out of this stone, alone

Lucille, I feel
Full like the moon bidding us goodnight
Warm like the newborn bathing in the light of the sun

How come
A love can make a man change his ways
Wanna spend the rest of my days with my lover Lucille

Lucille

I havn't been here long
But I'm just visiting
Today I feel strong
On top of the world

The days can feel long
When your just visiting
I'll be gone in a little while
It's good to see you again

But who are you?
Why are you visiting?
There's too much to do
I havn't got the time

How long have you been here?
I don't like people visiting
It's strange and confusing
I don't know your name

Forgive me my memory's not so good these days
I keep leaving all the lights on
Your face looks strangely familiar
Like someone I knew one morning before the dream had gone

I like to keep myself occupied
It keeps the boredom at bay
Look the flowers are growing
I water them everyday

I like to keep my house tidy
I like to keep my house clean
In case someone comes visiting
I don't know what that means

But I know you
So lovely and charming
I've only known you a little while
I give you my hand

Why are you visiting?
Darling I'm so afraid
Please don't leave me along again
Please don't leave me this way

Forgive me my memory's not so good these days
What was the place and the time?
Who was the girl in the pretty white dress
Who said I will always be yours and you will always be mine?

I havn't been here long
But I'm just visiting
I'l be gone in a little while
It's good to see you again

Forgetful In Phoenix

Like the picture painted on the wall
We could have it all
Like a letter sent back from a friend
From another land

One day these things we know as true
Will come down like a falling star
Promise me we'll find our way back home
Ballooning

Like the circles cut into the field
We made it real
When there's seven points seen from afar
On the evening star

Then we'll smile and try to hold a gaze
On a new found place
As people go about their days
Ballooning

As I sat on a summers day
Feeling warm and afraid
Someone said boy you'll find your way
Ballooning
Ballooning

Ballooning

Who writes the fate of the failed superhero?
Forgotton in pages of comic book tales
When every street light reminds him of the one he left behind
Who could forsake him?

I saw him drinking his bottle of 'Empty Heart'
Tattered gloves and faded cloak
Failure always looked the part

His trail of stars extinguished by the English rain
Washed up straight down the drain

Feel the magic!
See the man!
He used to be our Peter Pan

He said I'd really love to soar
I'd really love to come and save you all
But I've forgotton how to fly
I've found a new kind of high

Who knows the fate of the failed superhero?
When every day is lived by the hand that dots the end
When every line on his face is an estuary of faith
To the one who believes in forever

Feel the magic!
Love the man!
He used to be our Peter Pan

He said the old man you can see
Who left it all behind
Used to know a magic trick
That made you feel surprised

Used to try to tell you
Getting old was just a lie
Used to make you realise
It is now and we're alive

So go on without fear and try to live your life
For we are once..upon a time
Yes I was once..upon a time

Once upon a time..

The Failed Superhero

Your blue eyes fade
But words you spoke and love you gave remain
As real as the day you were born

Its getting dark
The air you breathe, the beating of your heart
Draws close like the dawn
As it slips away

I can't say there'll be a shining light or a friend to guide the way
I'll just hold to these memories

Like the kids in the park
Shapes in the dark
Talking till morning
Watching you laugh

Mum and dad
The good and the bad
Friends I left behind

First day at school
Last day with you
A boy and a girl
Who's daddy now?

My old rocking chair
Your long silver hair
The tablecloths are white

All these things will one day release me
And fall into the sea

Then we'll all dream of a new water world
Digging for treasure and searching for pearls
Hopes we left wash up on the sand
The first born holds the grains in his hand

"Play me a song....please play me a song"

Into The Sea

It's The Worst Possible Time Of The Year.mp3

Hey, your all here and I'm here
So let the tears fall
One and all

For the times we couldn't find
A very dear friend
To share a beginning or an end

Or to stay up all night
Putting the world to rights
Saying everything will be alright

Having fun
Welcoming the sun
Speaking of days that all roll into one

Of the distance spent apart
The laughter remembered
The aching of the heart

A reunion is on the cards
So fill your belly with laughter


Tell me of the things i missed
The burdens felt
The ones you kissed

Your eyes the same
Your face has changed 
Though it seems like I've known it forever

The wine is poured
We all applaud
The music begins and all shall sing

A song we all know
A welcome home
An anthem for this longing

May this feast of friends never end
Never get tired
Never feel spent
Everyday away was another day I waited for this moment

For a sailors lament
Is a tear that was wept
For the loved and the lost
For the distances crossed

To get back to the start
To get back to the heart
Of the place and the people who make him

May this feast of friends never end
Never get tired
Never get spent

Should we come, should we go
The sun high, the sun low
It feels like we've known it forever..together.

A Feast Of Friends

Chinatown

Gracious in white and
Out like a light
In heaven

Hearts torn apart and
Scared of the dark
In heaven

Eternity lies in your lips and your eyes
In the thighs of my sweet maid SOMA
Hug me till you drug me
Kiss me in a coma

Quiet as a mine
A face so divine
I'm smitten

Warm to the touch
I want you so much
Still smitten

Eternity lies in the words of the wise
In the thighs of my mistress SOMA
Hug me till you drug me
Kiss me in a coma

Take me away

Coma Kiss

The whores in this city
Have blessed their failed abortions
They're crying on the sidewalks
They're giving birth to neon

Rebirth

This pale pure horizon
Is beauty to trace
Lying soft with the sunrise
Caressing your face

This structural stranger
Gives birth to chrome
A mechanical mantra
To cage us alone

Yet here we unite
In our dawn dance of sight
Fresh as the first day in Eden

Green fields to grey
Garden to grave

In each ear the whisper
That talks of two and free
In every heart the pining
For one identity

Yet still the olds persuade
With words of certainty
That the animal within shall win
The touch of ones body

So should sanity sedate
Or talk trade my soul
I shall declare the one truth I have known

She has an aura
She has the bluest sky
For she has not faded
Back into this night

Long may you shine

Aura

Keep warm my little one
Our time is blowing cold
Suspend your youth in liquid life
Commemorate the old

Strange ways in future days

Vessels in the morning mist
Smoke signals at dawn
The chief or true love pax a plenty
Procliams there'll be a war

Strange ways in future days

We are nameless
We are alive

Sirens at the wailing wall
Prism in the east
Who could foresee the exodus?
When the numbers are the beast

Strange ways in future days

We are nameless
We are alive

The silver city shines so bright
When its flickering light
Through your tears tonight

Silver

Its twenty to nine
If you must know the time
In the abandoned ballroom

Though your sanitys at stake
There's still plenty of cake
In the abandoned ballroom

Spinsters with trinkets
Wrestle Pavlovian misfits
To secure their favourite tune
In the abandoned ballroom

Everyday is another sad parade

The Arkhan, Hokey-Cokey
The Yalli, Hully-Gully
A Charleston Ballet will suffice
(In fact its very nice)

When tubas made of yuba
Woodwind and strings
Are playing some of our favorite things
(Please dont complain
Less your name be above the door)

For the first dance I shall take the hand
Of the one who never loved me
I shall know where I stand
In a wedding dress fit for a princess
But made by a crone

For the last dance I shall take the hand
Of the only one who loved me and say
This is where I stand
With morals and principles
Percentages and decimals and a swig
I mean a sip

Everyday a little more decays

But my dears......

Everything's fine
It's only twenty to nine
We have sherry and wine
A little turpentine to soften your palette

Gotta get out of the habit
Of reciting those words I heard as a youngster
Pawning them off as my own to another
Though heavens above one should have something to say
Before you reach the grave

In the abandoned ballroom
Who is this black suit taking my hand?

The Abandoned Ballroom

I dont really know you and
You dont really know me
We're just two other people
Looking for some company

We both like a good time
Like to feel that we're free
Never turn down an invite
To another party

We're both searching for something
We might never find
So we just keep on looking
Enjoying the ride

But When the pennies are all spent and
We've exausted the thrills
We're just tired and start worrying 
About all the bills

But hey thats us humans
A strange crowd to say the least
Who'd have known you'd get such a laugh
From flesh and bone, from blood and meat

But you my dear are kindness
You smile and look alive
The perfect little broadcast
Of what we hide inside

Aint it so strange
How it all comes together
When your out on your own
At the end of your tether

Then again on reflection 
Its never really like that is it?
Imperfections always traided 
For another soul misfit

But here we are in this moment
The beauty and the beast
I won't start asking astrology
Or the five and the three

I'd like to make a propisition
From one stranger to another
That we hold this moment in our hearts
As to a best friend, as to a lover

For we all know life's a funny thing
Full of beauty, heartache and fear
We're all trying to find our place in the fog
Whilst retaining all we hold dear

On that premise lets not concieve 'alone'
For a shared heart can always be found
In that one piece we all feel we're missing
And the hope it'll one day be found

So if life ever gets too heavy and
Feels like its dragging you down
Dont get caught up in the feeling baby
Dont put on a frown

When you feel like you've lost your calling and
Its tearing you apart
Rest your weary head against my heart

When you feel like you've reached the finished line
But your head is still at the start
Just rest your weary head against my heart

Darling rest your weary head against my heart

Rest Your Weary Head Against My Heart

The building is an eye sore
A reminder of better days
The councIl said they'd tear it down
Another promise made
So it stays

The children play out late on the street
The only place they know they can meet
And not give thought to what it all means
Just dealing lifelines and trading dreams

I've been making plans to leave this town for years
But something always comes up, I wake and find I'm still here

That's ok, all is fine
It's good to have a friend on the end of the line
It's a comfort to know that when I put down the phone
I'm not too far from home
When we meet at the end of the road

Cos its a local town for local people
Who speak the truth and hear no evil
All our needs are met

Thinking back to when I was younger
The places I missed
A life that was fuller
I guess we've all got regrets

But that's ok
All is well
They've got karaoke tonight down at The Bell
Its a comfort to know there's still somewhere to go
When your tired and feeling old
Looking back at the end of the road


End Of The Road

Sign me in I'm going live
Wasting time is suicide

The birds are tweeting hello goodbye
Truth or lie
Their song is blind

Words will reach you just in time
I've got wings
Still can't fly

This black mirror says i'm alive
If you like then give a swipe


This machine's got evil eyes
There are evil eyes in this machine
This machine's got evil eyes
There are evil eyes in this machine



Here's a game called hide and seek
I see you
You can't see me

Digging down and planting seeds
Going viral
A new disease

A cure for converse has one elated
Share the rated
Block the hated

I'd love to say how this is fated
But everyone's being investiagted


This machine's got evil eyes
There are evil eyes in this machine
This machine's got evil eyes
There are evil eyes in this machine


Evil Eyes

Fireworks and Dragonflies
(A Dream Of The Burning Thistle)


Boom boom heartbeat baby
Bang bang fireworks and dragonflies
Sledges and snow falling
Daddys tobacco in babys eyes

All together and warm
Mummy loves her son
I'm alive

Christmas eve pantomimes
Angels are watching at Easter time
The girl with the long brown hair
Climbs her tree, holds me without a care

I don't want to grow old
So I dance in the show and
The music carries me

A house by the sea and the desert at night
Cry for the clouds and the memory of flight
Basketball hoops and spaceships above
Home is a place so far away from here

I saw you sitting in the sun
Playing cards with the devil
Farewell the English rose
Sleep with the burning thistle

Your ashes we'll scatter
On the seeds of your sons
Who'll rise on the morning of the maker
Then the Earth will be one

But it was only a fantasy
It was only a waking dream
Little boy superstar feels a little blue
Wake up sleepy head we've got a party to go to

Fireworks and Dragonflies

I wouldn't die for love
Though I would lie to save my love
From the devil and the dark

Although we've had enough
He's still not given up

Please don't take my love from me

You've been breaking bread
With the sullen and unkempt
You have made your bed
In the stoic arms of regret

Still you see the warning
As the day is dawning
Take pride for hurt
But please don't take my love from me..

Devil And The Dark

Baby your glorious in the morning
When the sunshine starts to swoon
Baby your wonderful in the evening
When your laughing with the moon
Baby your beautiful when you look at me
Like I'm the only one in the room
Baby I love you

Baby your precious like the memories
Collected by the child
Baby your spirit's like the cheetah
Running free and wild
Baby your heartache is like sellotape
You stick back on your smile
Baby I love you

Baby your elegant like the mannaquin and
The touch she'll never feel
Baby your worth more than treasure
That any thief would steal
Baby your holy like the relic
To whom any priest would kneel
Baby I love you

Baby your love is  that one chance
That'll put a man to the test
Baby your medicine for the fever
The aching and the stress
Baby forgive me for my honesty
But I'd love to watch you undress
Cos baby I love you

Baby I love you

Baby I Love You

Wave goodbye to your beginnings
Cherry hearts are ripe for picking
Pulled out of the strangest dream
Shot back into the night

Farewell candy colours
Skin and smiles are soft like butter
Home is where the heart will lie
Legends of old

Tell your tale the way you want it told
Even when they say we all know how it goes
Sit and look awhile
There's always a little magic in a smile

Seen the light and seen the dark
Felt the fear and lit the spark
Traveled far yet only slept
Changed but stayed the same

Farewell night and day
In one moment we will stay
The boys and girls come out to play
In their city of hope

Lay your path the way you want it laid
Even when they say it's too difficult to change
The pieces move but the board remains the same

Sit and look awhile 
Through the eyes of a child
Feel the magic in the smile

It's been said many times before
So I think I'll say it just once more
His days were filled with joy and laughter
And he lived happily ever after

For the rest of his days

Farewell Candy Colours

Where is the sound of my old London town?
Said the man who was preaching to the crowd
It's not the same now our grand clock has no name
But his tune is still playing in a matchbox

There she stands with a flower in her hand
The last day of June seems to have come too soon
She greets it like a vision in white

There goes my lady..

Who would have known the way the wind would blow
When it carries all our wishes on a breeze
As we cry, afraid to say goodbye
Our tears are washed back to the sea

Still she stands with a flower in her hand
For those left alive a beauty will survive
In the form of the figure left behind

She is my lady.

Dance with me baby, dance with me girl
Through these crowded streets
Kiss me by the riverside
For we shall never meet, again

She threw her arms around my neck
As the flames were burning high
She said I'll love you till the sun goes out and
We're blackbirds in the sky

For London bridge is burning down and
There's no sign of the monarchy
When all the ravens flew away
So did my fair lady

My Fair Lady

Bristol based singer - songwriter

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