WOW! I am LOVING this! You have really pushed your creativity with this one, Greg!

Well, I listened to this one again today and once again I was inspired to pick up me guitar. I think if I can ever finish the track I am working on I would like to experiment with this brilliant one.

I heard this song on a bbc tees show I was on too the other day and it blew me away, and led me to come check your music out. Great work man keep smashing it. Jason.

I laid my shadow in the creek
It crawled out slick, began to speak
Said, “You’ve burned more names than graves could hold”
Then laughed and coughed up marigolds
The cactus bowed its blistered spine
The sky turned brass and tasted brine
A sunbeam slithered down my throat
And sang in tongues my lies once wrote

Don’t let the sun steal my sins
They’re carved in wax and wire and skin
Let the heat forget the shape I wore
Let the wind rewrite the metaphor

I kissed a scar that bled like rain
I lapped it up to taste my pain
Fallen men sang a hymn of rust
While angels coughed in desert dust
The sheriff sold his badge for skin
The priest just drew his sermons thin
The air was full with names unsaid
And every cactus bloomed with dread

Don’t let the sun steal my sins
It don’t know where the truth begins
I lit the sky with phantom flame
And laughed when echoes said my name

I dreamed in noise, in buzz and bloom
I found my guilt in motel rooms
The road rewinds where I once fell
The sun don’t judge — it just excels

My hat grew horns, my boots turned glass
I danced with gods of smoke and brass
The stars all blinked in Morse and moaned
“You’re not alone, but you’re unknown”
The morning cracked my crooked grin
I smiled like mirrors stitched in skin
And left my voice in ash and gin
Where silence ends and lies begin

Don’t let the sun steal my sins
They’re tuned to dusk and locked within
Let me blur, let me descend
I’ll haunt the edge and never mend

Don’t Let The Sun Steal My Sins

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Play-listed on BBC6 Music (“Carjacked Onesie” & “Brave Jamel”) & BBC Tees (>15 songs).

Most of my tracks are free to download. Please leave me any comment or criticism you want - these mean a lot to me as its the only way for me to improve.

Thanks for taking the time to listen and I wish you all the very best in your own music creation and listening. Please get in touch if you would like any track as a wav or mp3 backing track (without vocals etc).

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