RUNAWAY SWEETHEART 
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VERSE
Starry crystals lit the skies   
The moon was on the lake   
There was perfection all around to see  
T’was more than she could take  
She had a dream of stolen Summers   
In the midst of the Winter snow  
Of getting away from shadows   
A dream of letting go   

VERSE
For tangled webs and dark despair  
Was all that she could see   
Her lover left three years ago   
To live a life at sea   
Said he’d be back to marry her   
When the fields were ripe with corn   
But the ship went down or so they say 
And now she’s left forlorn

And she cried…

REFRAIN
Runaway, sweetheart
I love no one but thee
I mourn for you, I cry for you
I long to be so free
Pray tell me what to do my love
My heart is tired and sore
I want to plunge into the depths   
To be with you once more
I want to plunge into the depths 
To be with you once more

She walks the fields, along the cliffs
Stares out towards the sea
Her mother says she’s foolish
And to think no more of he
Davy Jones has got your man
He’s lying in his arms
You need to find another now
While you still have your charms

Though suitors came to win the girl   
Who looked towards the sea   
No man came close to wooing her   
While on his bended knee  
The time it came and then it went  
She roamed the bitter shore   
Until the day when all was lost   
And she could take no more  

And she cried..

Runaway, sweetheart
I love no one but thee
I mourn for you, I cry for you
I long to be so free
Pray tell me what to do my love
My heart is tired and sore
I want to plunge into the depths
To be with you once more
I want to plunge into the depths
To be with you once more

VERSE
With tears in her eyes she did dive
Into the churning wake
Where Davy Jones was waiting   
But it was no grand escape   
For all at once she realised   
As she went down to die
She’d be on her own forever
In the waters she would lie

And she cried…

Runaway, sweetheart
I love no one but thee
I mourn for you, I cry for you
I long to be so free
Pray tell me what to do my love
My heart is tired and sore
I want to plunge into the depths
To be with you once more
I want to plunge into the depths
To be with you once more

Runaway Sweetheart

FAWM 2022

Rosy Is My View (When I'm With You)

Lyrics © Lois Arrow (8yrs old!) and Duncan Arrow (not 8yrs old) | Music, arrangement and performance © Duncan Arrow | Vocals by Lois Arrow

It's Christmas | Lois Arrow | Duncan Arrow

Music, arrangement and performance © Katie Hadden (17 yrs old)| Recording, mixing and mastering © Duncan Arrow

Composition for 6 cellos | Katie Hadden | Duncan Arrow

Family

Lyrics: Geoffrey Matthews, Duncan Arrow
Music and arrangement: Duncan Arrow
Vocals: Amie Boyd
Performance by The Belladors (Duncan Arrow and Amie Boyd)
Recorded at the Beer Garden Studios
All Rights Reserved © 2015

Crazy You

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Twisted Hazel

Lyrics by Geoff Matthews

A ROCK IN YOUR RIVER

  VERSE
 You may think it’s easy. 
And for some of us this is true.
 But when you talk about me. 
There’s a different point of view. 
I'm always stepping sideways. 
While others’ look ahead.
 So I don’t have to think or care.
 About things I did and said.  

PRE CHORUS
 Will you take this advice, 
Don’t you roll that dice. 
Cos things won’t turn out right, 
Or just the way you figure.  

CHORUS
 When I’m a rock in your river, 
I'm a taker not a giver. 
An anecdote stuck in your throat, 
Some post you can’t deliver.

 Well I’m a rock in your river, 
Don’t lay it all down on the line. 
Then things you want might work out,
 Just the way they should.    

VERSE 

You can cry and you can scream, 
Yes you can spit and curse. 
Tell your friends about the dream,
 The bubble that was burst.

 But you don’t have an alibi, 
The blame ain't at my door. 
I gave you every reason, 
To paddle another shore.

  PRE CHORUS 
I said take this advice, 
Don’t you roll that dice.
 Cos things won’t turn out right,
 Or just the way you figure.  

CHORUS
 When I’m a rock in your river, 
I'm a taker not a giver. 
An anecdote stuck in your throat, 
Some post you can’t deliver.

 Well I’m a rock in your river, 
Don’t lay it all down on the line. 
Then things you want might work out,
Just the way they should.    

  BRIDGE
 They say diversity is the spice of life, 
And that opposites attract. 
They say we made it to the Moon, 
Well I don’t buy into that. 
And if you want it bad enough, 
Then it will just come true. 
But i've got a ceiling on my expectations, 
And windows I just won’t look through. (2)

  CHORUS (2)

Rock In Your River

Lyricist, UK Songwriting Competition finalist 2016 and also finalist in 2017

Rosy Is My View (When I'm With You)

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