my first attempt at recording drums at home

Blame Game (demo)

A response to the way 'progressives' feel today. The loss of the very idea of progress.

History

A kind of Scottish "Romeo and Juliet" story. Mary Anne's auld man sounds like a bit of a nutter!

Mary Anne's Auld Man

Nature's Dream

Paul is a real person.  I met him on the 2132 from London Victoria to Bognor Regis one evening, where he broke my hand.  He burst into the train carriage where I was sitting on my own, and demanded that he sit in my seat. Paul was in his mid 60s, and bristling with anger, which he seemed to want to talk about.

Once I moved seats, he calmed down a little and told me that he’d just lost a lot of money gambling and apologised for making me move. He then told me that he had previously been a gangster, working in Charlie Richardson’s gang in South London. He told me his name was “Paul The Bag” because it was his job to carry illicit goods, and seemed genuinely surprised that I hadn’t heard of him.

Paul then showed me what a life of working in a gang had done to his hands. He had fingers like a pack of heavily scarred frozen sausages and noted that my hands had clearly never done a day’s work in their lives. He then showed me what they do to hands like mine in his gang, bending my fingers back until a metatarsal snapped.

I have no idea why I let him do this.

Empty Nest (AAC)

Paul The Bag

Yellow Moon     We're No Brothers

Old Man

Old Man
Waiting for his train
Smoking a rollie
Watching true lovers
As they wave
As if they're the only
People in the world
To know of love

He knew it once
A long time ago
When he
Was a young man
It left him
Feeling rather cold
Quiet the experience
It left a stain
Upon his soul
Like the nocotine
In his smoke

Nothing makes sense anymore
Nothing makes sense anymore
No more, no more, no more
No more

Old man he see's
A dog go by
He thinks it's a handbag
It was a wolf
In times gone by
He knows the feeling
It's fashionably dressed
To catch the eye
In a t-shirt and a tie

Nothing makes sense anymore
Nothing makes sense anymore
No more, no more, no more
No more

No more

Old Man (FAWM 2018)

Shining like a candle
Bring your light close to mine
When you light me up
We shine twice as bright
Just like when a raindrop
Coming from the sky
Opens up a flower
To grow and beautify

Dancing in the twilight
Singing with the fireflies
Walking in the midnight
Moonlight

Oh oh oh
Building on a rainbow
Making it by hand
Living in a daydream
Wonderland

Dancing in the twilight
Singing with the fireflies
Walking in the midnight
Moonlight

Starting with the body... oh oh oh
Moving to the mind.... oh oh oh
I love you

Old Man (FAWM 2018)

gerrybhoy

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