Pictures of you

Long it lasts
A song from a cage
Of sweet longing
Bitter with age

The feel of your kiss
Lingers ill
Your cold cold touch
Leaves me chilled

I close my eyes
Don’t do me no good
Frame by frame I‘m hooked  

Full moon shine
Turns night into day
Right’s on the left
Since you went away

Clear my mind
Still you’re on the loose
Bide my time
Nothing else I can do, but

Close my eyes
Sure feels good
Frame by frame I‘m hooked

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Give me time
I’ll get over you
Like the sun clears the rain
I’ll get clear of you too

I know I’ll
Face up to the truth
I’m walking away
From these pictures of you

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Meek and low
Is how you made me feel
Sold my soul
For your cheapest thrill

Fate’s long look
Will wither and dry
Every love that I owned
Every tear I’ve cried

Close my eyes
For one last look
Frame by frame I’m hooked

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Give me time
I’ll get over you
Like the sun clears the rain
I’ll get clear of you too

I know I’ll
Face up to the truth
I’m walking away
From these pictures of you

Missed a chance
And kicked it around
You gotta know
If you’re in or you’re out

Well damn you babe
I’m gonna will all these pictures to fade

and with time….


Pictures Of You

This is a song from my narcissist - he's pretty prevalent at the moment and probably my most prolific song writing partner.  i did a quick scat recording and pulled a load of words out of the nonsense i was singing and this was the result...hope you like it

Sweet Talking Man

Won’t be the same the truth will out
I done wrong on a path devout
Tension’s high and words are hot
Sweeten every chance I’ve got

Still I’m here and it ain’t lost
Up ahead more trouble’s along
Every day just like a war
I defused so many times before

Can I learn from the past?
I’m in trouble if I don’t think fast

I’m a sweet talking man
Doin it the best I can
If you don’t understand
Gotta love a sweet talking man

You heard the words
Don’t you call that lame
Let me talk you through your pain
If my intentions are not pure
Maybe I can soothe what I can’t cure

Hear my master plan
If it don’t work, well it’s been a blast

I’m a sweet talking man
Doing it the best I can
If you don’t understand
Gotta love a sweet talking man

I’m a sweet talking man
Doing it the best I can
If you don’t understand
Gotta love a sweet
Baby don’t you leave
I don’t wanna repeat
Gotta love this sweet talking man


Sweet Talking Man

Hi...this is one I got distracted by and just kind of came out in a rush.  It's pretty simple; 1 guitar, 1 voice, a harmony and harmonica...so pretty raw and vintage i think.  Hope you like it

Two MIles

Gotta make some changes in my life
I don’t know my wrong from my right
I’m either too quick or too slow
Either above or below 

Well I can’t even sleep
It’s all I can do just to breathe
When my girl hurls abuse
Anything I try, man it ain’t no use 

Someone call me a saint
I gotta a chapel that I gotta paint
White wash all of the stone
I can’t do it on my own

Repent for my sins
I been lower than I’ve ever been
Well look out she’s gonna blow
Oh sweet Jesus
Mind yourself below

Well I feared to get too close
Like thorns on a bloodied rose
They’ll cut you and leave you sore
Til you can’t bleed no more

As much as I loved her I left
Hardest thing I did yet

Cos if I was two miles from being home
Might just as well have been two thousand more

Two Miles

Don’t Give Up (on Love)

Skimming stones on a river
Trying to make the other side
One after another
Sinking out of sight

If all these years mean something
There’s one thing I know
Suit yourself in your own way
You’ll end this world alone

When love turns away
Find a reason to stay
And don’t give up on love

Willed the water take me
Like every one of those stones
Seemed that I was losing
What it was I came here for

This world is made on one thing
Sure as you and I
You’d better follow your heart
Cos it ain’t worth the lie

When love turns away
Find a reason to stay
And don’t give up on love


Don't Give Up

Where's a drummer when you need one!  Hope you get the idea anyway...comments and feedback, as always, very welcome  - rich

Fading Star

I wish that I could stop the sky from falling down
A faith amiss
And all of this done to myself
But don’t weep for me
Don’t weep for me

A lovers’ pain
A crying game
We don’t win
The love we made blown away, no peace within
No relief for me
No relief for me
 
Lonely the nights without you
Lonelier thinking of every sweet caress
Fading Star
Fading Star
How I wonder where you are

Let sorrow sing
But it won’t bring you back to me
This keening din
I keep it in 
So no one sees
It’s too deep for me
Too deep for me

Lonely the nights without you
Lonelier thinking of every sweet caress
Fading Star
Fading Star
How I wonder where you are

We make hills to walk among the stars
We make hills to walk among the stars

Fading Star
Fading Star
…


Now You're Gone

Tried to get a jam vibe to this.  speaks for itself i think...hope you like it

Amen

Never understood
Yeah I’m all beat
Never been all good
Bad’s in my genes
You ever needed someone take your trouble in life?
Amen

Done what I should
But there’s a line
I been across
Too many times
Never asked for nothing but I’m struggling now
Amen

I done wrong, I know I have
Shame on this imperfect man
Everyone I fooled somehow
They’re all coming for me now
Amen, Amen

I’m disturbed
Can’t get free
I got cursed
Geometry
If life’s a circle, then I’m in for a fight
Amen

My cheque got wrote
Yeah I got mine
No holy ghost
On my side
Said I’m damned if I don’t give it up now
Amen

Shaking this earth comes at a price
I know I’m paying mine
I got nothing left you see
Life just dropped me on my knees
Amen, Amen

If I could I’d make amends
Bring this all to an end
I pray one word will avow
Lord knows I’m using it now
Amen, Amen …


Amen

How Do You Feel Now

oh my

My Lover’s Gaze

My mouth’s dry as a salt plain
My eyes glazed and the tears came
I walked on and I cried a stream
Became a river of your mercy
Too long ago that I was seen, in my lover’s gaze

In there I saw a small flame 
From where unleashed a sweet change
In the air that I breathe
And where I ground my feet
My dreams are weaved with thread that came
From my lovers gaze

My heads on fire and I’m found
The stream I cried all dried out
I stand taller in the sun
Shadows purge, I’m light become
And my soul it dances in the flames
Within my lovers gaze

My Lover's Gaze

Managed to get the volume louder after doing a very unbloke thing and reading how to use garage band

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Maybe the next time you’ll listen to me

gotta say it
otherwise you'll suffer
work it out
whose side are you on?

Unwell
Sick to discover
You’re all
Out to get me

I go round and round
little voices talking too loud
doing their thing
doing me in

maybe the next time you’ll listen to me
maybe the next time you’ll listen to me
maybe the next time you’ll listen to me

maybe next time
maybe next time
all the voices
will listen
maybe next time
maybe next time

In a rush
Gotta get some cover
Coming at me
All at once

Wide eyed
And sigh
I find this
suffocating

I go round and round
little voices talking too loud
doing their thing
doing me in

maybe the next time you’ll listen to me
maybe the next time you’ll listen to me
maybe the next time you’ll listen to me


Maybe The Next Time You'll Listen To Me

Hi, re writing the profile...but regardless, hope you enjoy the tunes - that's the point right?

indigo pygmy

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