Morning Light

Huge thanks to The Affectionate Punch for taking this track and making it sound amazing - such a pleasure to work with someone so talented.  Please listen to his other great songs @theaffectionatepunch.  As usual, thanks once again to Amanda for her great vocals on this track.  Please listen to her other tracks on @phoebeelena.

Lyrics:

When all around the world
just casts out light
And hearts forever cower in the night
Folds that never show
just draw outlines
and memories
replay a thousand times

So if you stop for a minute 
from the rotten race
And I dream sometimes of the human face
Just a touch, just a feeling 
from the warmest place
someday

And if you feel nothing but the empty space
and I fall like a fruit with the bitter taste
Just a thought, just a beat
not a chance to waste
someday

A heart, a hope
a feeling out of time
Leaves its mark but slowly on my mind
so stand beneath the stare of your streetlights
and leave a little part of me behind

My weakness like the stars drawn to the night
a dreamer disappears before my eyes

do do do

Now this old time soul just can't let go
just a dream of a night at the old disco
just a stop of a heartbeat and a song on the radio

So if you stop for a minute from the rotten race
and I dream sometimes of the human face
just a touch, just a feeling from the warmest place
someday

And if you feel nothing but the empty space
and you fall like a fruit with the bitter taste
just a thought, just a beat
not a chance to waste
today

Thought For the Day (by Amanda & Paul - remixed by The Affectionate Punch)

I've created a video to accompany my latest Cloudlines tune.

https://youtu.be/Te_tOGD3MCU

It would be great if anyone gets a chance to watch it.
Any youtube follows, likes, comments etc would be much appreciated.
(I will of course follow back etc)
Cheers
Richard

Cloudlines No'7 (Towan Surf)

Tell me how to run
when I can't stand up straight
staring out the world
and hoping I don't break

Show me how to love
when all I do is ache
Maybe I dream in the dark
when the light won't stay

Hold me like I see you
when all the truth is told
I got a reason to live
and I won't let go

Though I may be see through
like sorrow's only soul
singing to the sky blues
mirroring the cold

Hold me like I love you
and little hearts that wake
I've got a reason to live
and I call your name
(and I call your name)
(yes I call your name)

Tell me how to run
when all I do is wait
I got a reason to live
and I'm home again..

Reasons for living

Don't Move Remix 2

Words, Music and Image © Nic Evennett 2019

For Fran - in the shape of a hug I never got to give you, but I am now. 
Sleep easy, beauty. xxx

Available on Bandcamp. All proceeds go to Macmillan Cancer Support. 
https://nicevennett.bandcamp.com/track/colour-of-weight-song-for-fran
~

I will sit here a while
We'll watch the world guiltlessly
It's wicked and beautiful
It's distance and sympathy

There are feelings they've never held,
The feelings that glued our bones.
They're hungry for everything
And eaten by nothing known.

The colour of weight - 
There's nothing left in between
But skies keep me straight...
Not wasting their time
The skies don't tell me they are wasting their time
Not wasting their time
The skies don't tell me they are wasting their time. 

There's a hole in the cloud
A trail that is left untold
With the curve of our arms
And the shapes we can never hold.

The colour of weight - 
There's nothing left in between
But skies keep me straight...
Not wasting their time
The skies don't tell me they are wasting their time
Not wasting their time
The skies don't tell me they are wasting their time.

Colour of Weight (Song for Fran)

If only I could dance...

Head full of dreams 
and I dwell
in myself
Hours become days become weeks
since I felt anything

In all the right places
by all the right hands
staring at spaces
where we would make plans
to the promised land

Holding for the flicker of light
Holding for the flicker

So put on your music
that old 45
we'll be wrong dancin'
we'll be wrong dancin'
to our own time

With all the right faces
and the right lines
staring stargazers, staring stargazers
to the skyline

Holding for the flicker of light
Holding for the flicker

I'm pirouetting with you
Unhesitating 
unhesitating
I'm pirouetting with you
my body's breaking
my body's breaking
to the wrong song
in our time
I'm pirouetting with you
Longing for the light

Pirouette

Another instrumental I've done to pass the time.

Bad Gateway

Don't leave me
hanging on my own 
tonight

I see you
swimming with the arms of flight

Swim a little slower in your lane
Tread a little water just the same
Swim a little slower in my lane

My heart's a drag that can't
be towed
I'm breathing
everything I can't let go

Swim a little slower in my lane
Keep a little courage just the same
Swim a little slower in my lane

Now that I see you
Now that I'm see through
Now that I see you
Now that I'm see through

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

Swim a little slower in your lane
Tread a little water just the same
Swim a little slower in my lane

Now that I see you
Now that I'm see through
Now that I see you
Now that I'm see through

ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh

swimming lessons

"A deluded wannabe musician/songwriter who struggles to play in time and sing in tune, but is otherwise reasonably average " - NME 

"Absolute shite. His songs are truly awful" 
- Rolling Stone 

"Do not waste valuable minutes of your life listening to this tuneless tosser" 
- Mojo 

"I don't know who this James L character is trying to kid. He should give up right now. Its a good job he has his film star good looks to fall back on" 
- Annie Mac, Radio 1 

"Don't give up your day job, you talentless prick" 
- My Mum

Bad Gateway

James. L