The Shape of Things to Come

She Was There
(c) J. Murdock McInne Vasey

She Was There (deep flamenco 2b)

[intro]

[instrumental]

The time came 
and she was there
Always there
She was there

She came alone
She came for me
Won't let me be
She was there

[chorus]
My life nowhere
Till she came
She came to me
Only then 
could I be

The time came 
and she was there
I was alone
Going nowhere

[instrumental]

[verse]
I live a life with no direction
Move through this world with disaffection
I hold on, don't see why
Nothing seems real
There is no kindness that I feel

[verse]
The people I meet, have little time
They live alone, inside their minds
I cannot share, nobody cares
My whole world 
Was going nowhere

[deep]
But then she came

[chorus]
My life nowhere
Till she came
She came to me
Only then 
could I be

The time came 
and she was there
I was alone
Going nowhere

[instrumental]

She came alone
She came for me
Won't let me be
She was there

[instrumental]

But then she came

[outro]

She Was There

I Don't Know You
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[intro]

[instrumental]

all we hear
all we see
all there is
and will be
It is all here
for you and me
but soon gone
and sooner forgotten
those born well
those misbegotten
those who yearn
but never learn
look ahead
nothing astern

[instrumental]

the waves will soothe
their gentle sway
all a ruse
something they say
it was here
but now gone
did not belong
not yesterday

[instrumental]

what we saw
before the dawn
it is all gone
not going on
the time comes
we must fade
our future now
in retrograde
not as expected
debts now collected
and pleas rejected
cares neglected
love is lost
letters pinned
the final post
for those who sinned

[instrumental]

did we not all
no not one 
name one
OOOhhh! you forgot
well I did too
I don't know you

I don't know you

I don't know you

[instrumental]

[outro]



I Don't Know You

Blow It All Down
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[intro]

[instrumental]

I feel alone when I’m with you  
There is nothing more to say  
Nothing here, not for us two
What we had has gone away

You hurt me one last time  
You took away all that was mine  
Like a storm that’s here to stay  
Won't wait for light of day

I have to roll across the land  
and blow down all that I see  
When I’m done, nothing will stand  
Not a trace of you and me

[chorus]
I must howl, lost in the wind  
hide my tears in the rain 
I have lost all that was kind  
and what is left is made of pain

Not a trace of you and me

[instrumental]

I must howl, lost in the wind  
hide my tears in the rain 
I have lost all that was kind  
and what is left is made of pain

[instrumental]

I feel alone when I’m with you  
There is nothing more to say  
Nothing here, not for us two
What we had has gone away

You hurt me one last time  
You took away all that was mine  
Like a storm that’s here to stay  
Won't wait for light of day

I have to roll across the land  
and blow down all that I see  
When I’m done, nothing will stand  
Not a trace of you and me

Not a trace of you and me

[chorus]
I must howl, lost in the wind  
hide my tears in the rain 
I have lost all that was kind  
and what is left is made of pain

[instrumental]

[chorus]
I must howl, lost in the wind  
hide my tears in the rain 
I have lost all that was kind  
and what is left is made of pain

[outro]


Blow It All Down

Long Enough
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[intro]

[instrumental]

mmm
mmm mmm mmm
mmm mmm
mmm mmm mmm 

Words flow unguarded
The meaning wanders off
Only sounds that seem to flow
With nowhere else to go

With no specific thought
And the days slipping away
I drift and lose all track
With nothing more to say

I no longer care for reason
I throw it all into the mix
I add more to meet a quota
To create sufficient substance
And consume the standard time
To call the words a song
But only 'cause they rhyme

[instrumental]

I think I've said it all
Thoughts seem to repeat
Rearrange the same old words
Lay them down to a new beat

The combinations may seem endless
But the ideas are very few
Like cards in an old game
New hands, faces the same

What I do seems like a game
At a table set for one
To play is my compulsion
Start again when I am done

Now and then, by mere chance
The patterns strike a chord
A brilliant moment in a dance
But to wait, I can't afford

[instrumental]

[outro]


Long Enough (Leni)

Out to Sea
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

Why did she have to be like that
What did I do ever so bad
Never deserved the way she was
She had been all I ever had

[bridge]

In a fog I could not see
A raging storm inside of me
I ended all she would ever be
And cast her body out to sea

And cast her body out to sea
Out to sea
Out to sea

[instrumental]

I saw her slowly float away
I saw the current take her down
Soon way below the waves
Where she never would be found

The sun had long gone down
And there was no one else around
I stayed, I could not go
I could not leave her cold below

oooooooh oooooooooh 

I cast her body out to sea
Out to sea
Out to sea

[instrumental]

I thought of going home alone
Of walking in knowing she'd gone
I saw myself growing old
While she lay deep down in the cold

It was all in my mind
I could not do it, it could not be
What she did, would never leave
It would always be part of me

I started in and did not stop
Soon the waves crashed over me
Then the current took me down
The only place where I'd be free

ooooooooooohhhhh nnnnnnnnnnooooooh

I cast her body out to sea
Out to sea
Out to sea

[instrumental]

I started in and did not stop
Soon the waves crashed over me
Then the current took me down
The only place where I'd be free

ooooooooooohhhhh nnnnnnnnnnooooooh

I cast her body out to sea
Out to sea
Out to sea

[instrumental]




Out to Sea

I write the lyrics; Mr. Alfonso Suno composes the music.  Working with the lovely Ms. Ai Ongaku, they create the arrangements.  Ms. Ongaku and her crowd are responsible for the performances.  My part in creating these tracks is very small. Nonetheless, I am to blame.  Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

The Shape of Things to Come

I and Ai