Good Enough

Lost the Light
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

Was it fate and was it right
It was not wrong, you came along
The time it passed
with hope in sight
and now no more
I have lost the light

I’ve lost the light

We did so much

We did so much
so much to do
So far to go
We did enough
But we weren’t through

Our love intense
at times it flared
And then it cooled
It settled down
We simply cared

And then again,
things would change
and like before
we knew the why
passion in range

You stood beside me
all these years
I stayed by you
not always kind
and still regret your every tear

I know you’re gone
and still regret 

know you’re gone
and still regret your every tear

I know you’re gone
and still regret your every tear

I know you’re gone
I know you’re gone
I miss it all
I hope you’ll call
Tell me to come
My time is done

I’ve lost the light
No hope in sight
I’ve lost the light

I’ve lost the light

My time is done

“You were the love
For certain, of my life
You were simply my beloved wife
I don’t know for certain how I’ll live my life
Now alone without my beloved wife
My beloved wife”, Natalie Merchant

Lost The Light

Hopeless Mess
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

I woke up wondering about the mess we're in
How long we would last and where we had been
I had laid down thinking that the world would end
I looked at the shirt that I was going to mend
But it don't matter no more, I can't find my jeans

Yeah, yeah, oh yeah
What a hopeless mess we are in

I looked outside my soggy tent and nothing could be seen
It was all smoke and mud where my home had been
My car, down the field, upside down in a ditch
My senator came by, and said, "ain't life a bitch"
I got my gun and that bastard ain't been seen

Yeah, yeah, oh yeah
What a hopeless mess we are in

I heard the news and all the world is going insane
Everyone took their minds and shipped them on a train
While we die of thirst, we poison the water
Our children will starve, but it just don't matter
I would get up and help, but it is all in vain

Yeah, yeah, oh yeah
What a hopeless mess we are in

      --- / --- 

I looked outside my soggy tent and nothing could be seen
It was all smoke and mud where my home had been
My car, down the field, upside down in a ditch
My senator came by, and said, "ain't life a bitch"
I got my gun and that bastard ain't been seen

Yeah, yeah, oh yeah
What a hopeless mess we are in

What a hopeless mess we are in

      --- / --- 

I heard the news and all the world is going insane
Everyone took their minds and shipped them on a train
While we die of thirst, we poison the water
Our children will starve, but it just don't matter
I would get up and help, but it is all in vain

Yeah, yeah, oh yeah
What a hopeless mess we are in

Hopeless Mess

You and Me (resigned)
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

Why is it like this, when it could be like that
Is it just you and me, or are we all just as bad

We go to the market
Then we go to the store
We can't get enough
We want to buy so much more
For you and me

We get a new car
And we buy a new house
We ride on the train
so we can sit at the bar
Not you and me

In the winter a plane
We vacation in Spain
But we stay in the plains
Where we know it will rain
On you and me

In the winter a plane
We vacation in Spain
But we stay in the plains
Where we know it will rain
On you and me

Is it always a game, for you and me
Is it ever the place, that we wanted to see
Is it ever the way, that we wanted to be
Are we ever ashamed, us, you and me

[guitar solo]

We have beautiful kids
They go to good schools
They end up on the street
We were always the fools
Yes, you and me

We should have been home
But we left them alone
They are out on their own
They won't answer the phone
From you and me

We start drinking at 10
Under the table by 3
We spend our days in a haze
We dream of better days
Same you and me

Who can you blame, but you and me
Who is going insane, but you and me

[guitar solo]

Who can you blame, but you and me
Who is going insane, but you and me

[guitar solo]

We have beautiful kids
They go to good schools
They end up on the street
We were always the fools
Yes, you and me

Who can you blame, but you and me
Who is going insane, but you and me

[guitar solo]

You And Me (resigned)

Philipp and Sophia
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

They always lived together
about one block apart
In almost any weather
a distance they could travel 

They always lived together
about one block apart
In almost any weather
close enough for separate hearts

They met each day for coffee
talked forever on the phone
each in separate houses
they always lived alone

They talked about religion
economics and their books
they both always loved fiction
each read in their own nooks

Most of all they loved music
she could sing and play the piano
He would always sit and listen
wishing for some tiny talent

At times they each had lovers
but it never did work out
they always had each other
the lovers all had doubts

The years passed, they never moved
their relationship persisted
They world moved on around them
as if it never had existed

They were older, neither worked
they had more time to spend together
They still met every day
but then alone time seemed forever

And then one day across the table
she said without a warning
I want to leave, go somewhere else
If I could I'd leave this morning

His heart stopped, he could not breathe
She said, I want more sun, maybe a beach
I want you, there by my side
I want your hand always in reach

They called their banks, doctors, and lawyers
This was not much too late
They met again a few days later
Both too early at the gate

Never again were either seen
As if they'd never been
They were just tired of the rain
They share a home somewhere in Spain

Philipp And Sophia

A Matter of Scale (short)
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

Could I be small
Smaller than me
Could I be less
Could I not be

Would you come too
Would you stay near
Share my dreams
and then disappear

A Matter of Scale
That's all it is
A Matter of Scale
Give me a kiss

What if I could 
somehow be
so very small, 
too small to see
What would I have 
the time of day
Would you still care, 
come out to play
Or would that change 
a new point of view
and would you say 
that I am not true

A Matter of Scale
That's all it is
A Matter of Scale
Give me a kiss

What if I could 
somehow be
so very small, 
too small to see
What would I have 
the time of day
Would you still care, 
come out to play
Or would that change 
a new point of view
and would you say 
that I am not true

A Matter of Scale
That's all it is
A Matter of Scale
Give me a kiss

Is size all that we are
Is size the only measure
When we are small
or not at all
Is our life
no more a treasure

A Matter of Scale
That's all it is
A Matter of Scale
Give me a kiss

A Matter Of Scale (short)

Why Not Me (bravo Ms. Ai)

A Knife or a Kiss
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

He is walking fast your way
and you can guess what's on his mind
There is nothing you can do
You can not put him behind

It's a walk with bad intent
He wants you to pay up
He is here for the rent
and he won't take half a cup

You are paying for past crimes
and you're paying for new thrills
They have taken every dime
and you still can't pay the bill

So you offer up your body
though it doesn't look too good
You offer up your service
and what he wants is understood

This life is all you've got
and a living hell it is
The choice has always been
take a knife or give a kiss

[instrumental]

When he's gone you just don't care
It always ends the same
You are in the same nowhere
In a place where there's no shame

You would end it all right now
if you could get up off the floor
But you don't care anyhow
and always want a little more

This life is all you've got
and a living hell it is
The choice has always been
take a knife or give a kiss

[instrumental]

When he's gone you just don't care
It always ends the same
You are in the same nowhere
In a place where there's no shame

You would end it all right now
if you could get up off the floor
But you don't care anyhow
and always want a little more

This life is all you've got
and a living hell it is
The choice has always been
take a knife or give a kiss

[instrumental]

This life is all you've got
and a living hell it is
The choice has always been
take a knife or give a kiss

[instrumental]

A Knife Or A Kiss

Stuck Forever In My Mind
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

I had waited for so long
pacing in the gloom
hoping nothing had gone wrong
hoping he'd come soon

The sly look on his face
and the silly little smile
he was daring me to leave
But he knew I'd stay a while

he always had a reason
he always got me to forgive
It always was my fault
And he had the right to live

I had loved him from the start
and I knew he was not kind
I now hear that last sound
Stuck forever in my mind

I had loved him from the start
he'd always had a cheating heart
I now hear that last sound
Stuck forever in my mind

[guitar]

I had waited for so long
pacing in the gloom
hoping nothing had gone wrong
hoping he'd come soon

The sly look on his face
and the silly little smile
he was daring me to leave
But he knew I'd stay a while

he always had a reason
he always got me to forgive
It always was my fault
And he had the right to live

I had loved him from the start
he'd always had a cheating heart
I now hear that last sound
Stuck forever in my mind

[guitar]

I had loved him from the start
he'd always had a cheating heart
I now hear that last sound
Stuck forever in my mind

His revolver in my hand
I hear the banging on the door
I don't care what comes next
I could not have loved him more

His revolver in my hand
I hear the banging on the door
I don't care what comes next
I could not have loved him more


[end]

Stuck Forever In My Mind

Watched You Walk Away
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

We were strong, and in love
Saw the world, rose above
We were wrong, never knew
Went too far, 
are we through?

[bridge]
We thought that we could do it,
We thought we were ok
I  could not hold you tight
and watched you walk away

and watched you walk away

[instrumental] [1:28]

We were strong, and in love
Saw the world, rose above
We were wrong, never knew
Went too far, 
are we through?

[bridge]
We thought that we could do it,
We thought we were ok
I  could not hold you tight
and watched you walk away

and watched you walk away

[bridge]
I am trapped by silly thoughts
I don't know what to say
The words I have forgot
My feelings go astray

I don't know how to think
I stay awake all night
I never sleep a blink
You are always on my mind

[instrumental] [2:37]

We thought that we could do it,
We thought we were ok
I  could not hold you tight
and watched you walk away

and watched you walk away

[bridge]
I am trapped by silly thoughts
I don't know what to say
The words I have forgot
My feelings go astray

I don't know how to think
I stay awake all night
I never sleep a blink
You are always on my mind

[instrumental]

[outro]

We thought that we could do it,
We thought we were ok
I  could not hold you tight
and watched you walk away

and watched you walk away

and watched you walk away

[instrumental]

Watched You Walk Away (new jersey)

Say So Long
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey


[instrumental]

How can you die without regret
Are you really that conceited
Do you think you've done it all
And in life you never cheated

How can you die without regret
Is your mind so very small
That you think you've seen it all
And there is nothing past that wall

[instrumental]

I well expect to have regrets
I could have done far more
I could have been far kinder
Never played only to score

Regrets I will have many
That is not the thing I fear
What I dread is not to die
And live well beyond my years

I would rather leave too soon
Than to linger long past time
When I die I want to know it
And for my mind to be all mine

[instrumental]

I want to die all on my own,
Not surrounded by sad faces
I want people to say
"But he was here just yesterday"

I want my death be unexpected
I want to feel and be OK
For one day to say "Enough"
And only give a little cough

Look away and I'll be gone
Know that this is what I want
I don't want to be a bother
When it's time, say so long

[outro]
[instrumental]

Look away and I'll be gone
Know that this is what I want
I don't want to be a bother
When it's time, say so long

say so long

say so long
[instrumental]


Say So Long (im astrud)

There Came Robyn
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

And there came Robyn
She was beepin and a-bobbin
She was moving to the beat
Singing words I can't repeat

She was spinning like a tool
And humpin' like a slut
Nothin' she learned in school
Just watch her swing that butt

[instrumental]

I couldn't help but look her way
Couldn't stop watchin that sway
I wanted to get near her
Say things I should not say

I put on my own groove
I was stylin' like a fool
I walked up and danced by Robyn
It looked like everything was cool

Jeff came out of no...
Jeff came out of no...
Jeff came out of no...

I couldn't help but look her way
Couldn't stop watchin that sway
I wanted to get near her
Say things I should not say

I put on my own groove
I was stylin' like a fool
I walked up and danced by Robyn
It looked like everything was cool

Jeff came out of nowhere
He said "What's up with you, dog"
What you doin' with my bitch
You gonna be dead as a log

[instrumental]

Jeff came out of nowhere
He said "What's up with you, dog"
What you doin' with my bitch
You gonna be dead as a log

Jeff came out of nowhere
He said "What's up with you, dog"
What you doin' with my bitch
You gonna be dead as a log

Jeff came out of nowhere
He said "What's up with you, dog"
What you doin' with my bitch
You gonna be dead as a log

I hot-tailed it out of there
Jeff was six foot eight
He was a big old bastard
And he carried lot of weight

I was runnin' down the street
When I heard the first shot
I never went back there
But God, that bitch was hot

[outro]
[instrumental]

I never went back there
But God, that bitch was hot

But God, that bitch was hot


[instrumental]

There Came Robyn (soulex)

A Storm Right Here Among Us
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

I am standing on our porch
I am looking at the sky
The world does not seem right
There is darkness near by

People 'round me unaware
All living day to day
They act like they don't care
No one believes that they will pay

They don't show what they are feeling
They've learnt to turn it off
Don't want to say they're scared
They've had far more than enough

It is not just one sole thing
It is many all at once
You take your eye from any
You'll never stand a chance

[instrumental]

Go outside and look around
It is not that hard to tell
Just look at people's faces
So many lifes not going well

Look at what they do
On what they spend their time
Everyone wants to escape
Another life not mine

Look at what they value
What they work for, sacrifice
Another shiny thing
That is never worth the price

Pay attention to their heroes
The lives they wish they had
More and more they are all empty
And many are plain bad

[instrumental]

Pay attention to their heroes
The lives they wish they had
More and more they are all empty
And many are plain bad

Pay attention to their heroes
The lives they wish they had
More and more they are all empty
And many are plain bad

[bridge]

Look at the stars at night
Look up into the sky
The world does not seem right
There is darkness near by

The world does not seem right
There is darkness near by

There is darkness near by

A Storm Right Here Among Us (B)

Time Is the Issue
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

When in time I find I'm lost
all goes by at such a cost
Every day a stronger dose
just the same or much too close

Each time I verify
once again I find the lie
All of time is passing by
All our dreams are going to die

[bridge]

Just a little bit more time
If I had just one more day
That is all I ever hear
That is all I ever say

[chorus]
Time is life and life is time
that is all there ever is
What do we ever hope to find
It is not eternal bliss

[instrumental]

My dreams are always false
they give me no new hope
They are guesses in disguise
I may never get the prize

Why do it once again?
What do I hope to find?
What do I hope to gain?
when the truth is never kind

[bridge]

Just a little bit more time
If I had just one more day
That is all I ever hear
That is all I ever say

[chorus]
Time is life and life is time
that is all there ever is
What do we ever hope to find
It is not eternal bliss

[instrumental]

time was never on our side
time flies while all else dies
time is laughing at your struggles
feels nothing while you cry

was there any time to gain
could there have been less pain
could our world have been better
did I write it in a letter

[bridge]

Just a little bit more time
If I had just one more day
That is all I ever hear
That is all I ever say

[chorus]
Time is life and life is time
that is all there ever is
What do we ever hope to find
It is not eternal bliss

[instrumental]

[outro]
Just a little bit more time
If I had just one more day
That is all I ever hear
That is all I ever say

That is all I ever say

That is all I ever say

[instrumental]


Time Is the Issue (C1)

Edna Fruhm
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[intro]

What have you done, oh Edna Fruhm
What have you done, 
Who do you fancy
What have you done
Did you hurt Nancy
Don't tell me that, don't you say that
If you did that, you must tell Clancy

[bridge]

You know that boy, he won't be happy
Next thing you know, he'll tell his pappy
You know that man, has no control
When morning comes, he'll kill us all

[chorus]
What have you done, oh Edna Fruhm
What have you done
What have you done

[instrumental]

This morning when I left
I thought things were Ok
Nancy would behave,
And you, you would just stay

And now I hear, you did this thing
Why would you do it, you are insane
Why hurt Nancy, she's not to blame
This is all a god damned shame

Oh god, it's just a shame

[chorus]
What have you done, oh Edna Fruhm
What have you done
What have you done

[instrumental]

What have you done, oh Edna Fruhm
What have you done, 
Who do you fancy
What have you done
Did you hurt Nancy
Don't tell me that, don't you say that
If you did that, you must tell Clancy

[bridge]

Clancy's at the door
And Nancy's all he had
I won't be the one to tell him
I'll be gone before his dad

You gotta tell him
It won't be me
It is you that's gotta tell him
May god have mercy on thee

Well goodbye, goodbye for me

goodbye for me

goodbye for me

[instrumental]





Edna Fruhm

Please Let Me Be Myself
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[intro]

I am tired of playing the game
My love was not about pretend
I don’t want for us to end
But things cannot stay the same

You are asking me to fake
something that I know is real
You don’t know how much it hurts
and the way it makes me feel

[chorus]
Please let me be myself
Take my love down from the shelf
Please let my life be true
I am always true to you

[guitar]

You are telling me to say
What I am saying anyway
What you want for me to tell
Is what I know so very well

I will tell you that I love you
Without any help from you
I will repeat these words forever
Something you need ask for never

[chorus]
Please let me be myself
Take my love down from the shelf
Please let my life be true
I am always true to you

[guitar]

I need to speak in my own words
Not some lines you may have heard
I need to tell you in the light
Not in some enchanted night

What I tell you is the truth
No need to fake the way I feel
No need to add the flashy lines
My love always has been real

[chorus]
Please let me be myself
Take my love down from the shelf
Please let my life be true
I am always true to you

[guitar]

[verse]
Please let me be myself
Please let my life be true
I am always true to you

Please let me be myself
I am always true to you

[guitar]

Please let me be myself
I am always true to you

[outro]


Please Let Me Be Myself (cry baby)

Nora
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[intro]

[piano]

Nora, ever in her mind
Never meaning to be kind
Nora's standing in the rain
Her thoughts are never mine

[instrumental]

Every Sunday with my gran
I walk slowly past her house
Her mother waves at us
Nora's quiet as a mouse

Nora never smiles
Her eyes they dart away
Nora's far away by miles
Lost is how she'll stay

Nora, runs away and cries
Her mother looks at us
She starts to say goodbye
Nora stops, she says "Hi?"

[chorus]
Nora, ever in her mind
Never meaning to be kind
Nora's standing in the rain
Her thoughts are never mine

[instrumental]

I run and say hello
But Nora does not play
Nora has a place
It's where she spends her day

Nora, does not know me
She is always looking down
Anything I do 
She looks away and frowns

Nora's in her garden
Does not care about the world
Nora loves her flowers
She could be there for hours

[chorus]
Nora, ever in her mind
Never meaning to be kind
Nora's standing in the rain
Her thoughts are never mine

[instrumental]

Nora, ever in her mind
Never meaning to be kind
Nora's standing in the rain
Her thoughts are never mine

[chorus]
Nora, ever in her mind
Never meaning to be kind
Nora's standing in the rain
Her thoughts are never mine

[outro]



Nora

We Play Our Way
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[intro]

We are running, running, running
We move fast, our engines humming
We are growing, growing, growing
We are big, and it is showing

We are taking, taking, taking
We need more, things need making
Talking faster, faster, faster
Never thinking 'bout disaster

[bridge]

We have one life, we gotta live it
If there's trouble, we gotta give it
We don't care, who was there
We're there now, might not be fair

[instrumental]

We come flying, from up there
We are above them, in the air
We got guns, we got iphones
We are tough, with big cojones

We will save them, from themselves
We will teach them, the true faith
They will help us take their wealth
We will put them in their place

We will take their riches home
They can't come it's all our own
Our land is just for us
They must stay, back of the bus

[instrumental]

We are Americans, we are the best
We always win, we won the West
We wear shorts, and fanny packs
There is nothing, that we lack

We are Americans, we are the best
We are bigger than the rest
We are taller, and much wider
We are nice, just like a spider

We are Americans, we are the best
What can I say, we came to play
If we can't win the local games
We change the rules, and play our way

We play our way
We play our way

!USA !USA !USA
!USA !USA !USA

[instrumental]

We Are Americans (A soul)

Looking for the Zombies
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

I'm am looking for The Zombies
I'm am looking for The Troggs
I'm not looking for a soul
Who's  played The Isle of Dogs

I am not looking for the big guns
The ones who made it rich
I'm not looking for the freaks
Or one more crazy bitch

[bridge]

When I think about The Zombies
whatever time whatever season
I have to hear she's not there
i tell her no, because I care

[instrumental] 

When my mind is filled with Troggs
Wild things come to the front
any way you want me,
a girl like you is what I want

If Kinks is what you like
I can play with with them all day
and all of the night, and on a sunny afternoon
till Lola comes to stay

[bridge]

Lola breaks the bank
and Wild Thing is in the tank
but i do not need a reason
to choose Time of the Season

The Zombies nailed that one down
I would see them one more time
If Mr Argent's back in town
You know that I am down

[instrumental]

The Zombies nailed that one down
I would see them one more time
If Mr Argent's back in town
You know that I am down

[instrumental]

[outro]

Looking for The Zombies

A Reason True
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[intro]

[instrumental]

I got lost on my back porch
I wandered off and stayed
I left the way I came
Like a dog without a name

I ran and kept on running
I was sure someone was coming
I never looked behind
They were only in my mind

There were demons in my pockets
They followed me around
Like your picture in a locket
Just something I had found

I had one more excuse
I had nothing left to lose
But that was never true
Just a story I would use

[bridge]

It made me sound a hero
A man who had survived
I loved to play the victim
Who barely 'scaped alive

[instrumental]

But the reason was always fear
I ran when time came near
You were the truth I could not face
You are the guilt I can't erase

I told you I would stay
That I would be there for you
I'd be there on the day
No one else, just me and you

But I left you all alone
The time came and I was gone
They said you cried on your own
This cannot be undone

[instrumental]

But the reason was always fear
I ran when time came near
You were the truth I could not face
You are the guilt I can't erase

I told you I would stay
That I would be there for you
I'd be there on the day
No one else, just me and you

But I left you all alone
The time came and I was gone
They said you cried on your own
This cannot be undone

This cannot be undone

This cannot be undone

[instrumental]

[outro]

A Reason True

Songs Without a Reason
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

Songs without a point
Songs without a reason
There is no meaning in the words
You don't know what you have heard

Just some sound, a melody
Could be birds up on a tree
They don't mean a thing to you
Did not mean a thing to me

I wrote them down as they appeared
The words straight from far behind
Things buried in my mind
Words that seemed to rhyme

[instrumental]

I reed them when I'm done
and try to find meaning, an excuse
Some reason that I wrote
All lies, it is no use

I was hoping to find feeling
To find a trace of you
I was hoping that by chance
I would find our old romance

Songs without a point
Songs without a reason
There is no meaning in the words
You don't know what you have heard

[instrumental]

I reed them when I'm done
and try to find meaning, an excuse
Some reason that I wrote
All lies, it is no use

I was hoping to find feeling
To find a trace of you
I was hoping that by chance
I would find our old romance

Songs without a point
Songs without a reason
There is no meaning in the words
You don't know what you have heard

[instrumental]


Songs Without a Reason

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.

Good Enough

I and Ai