Dire Straights! Brilliant lyrical phrasing and lyrical rhythm! I could listen to this all day!

I am hearing Dire Straights as well. Good job!

Love ain’t hard to find

Copyright Andrew Dolphin

Love is song 
Love is dance
Love is all we need
To give this world a chance 
Take a look around
It’s part of cupids deal 
Peel back those layers to reveal
Love ain’t hard to find 

Love will laugh 
Love will cry
Love will always be 
The apple of our eye
A photo in a frame 
A celebration meal
Peel back those layers to reveal
Love Ain’t Hard To Find 

Love fights back when the battle comes
Sends out aid til the fightings done
Love gives hope to hopelessness 
If all we see is one big mess
If we don’t talk about love
As if it’s out of date
All we hear is bitterness and hate

Love is truth
Love can’t lie
Love is judge and jury
And It can testify
It can lift us up
When we’re down at heel
Peel back those layers to reveal
Love ain’t hard to find

Love Ain't Hard To Find

First track with Luke Blowing as lyricist.
Here’s to many more Luke.
GarageBand demo.

Lyrics

Sitting here patiently
Waiting on empty
My mind in overdrive
How will I survive
It goes round endlessly
Inside I'm hopelessly
Losing control I'm
Losing my mind

They sit there waiting for me                      
Never want me to be free
They are. after my eternity             
Consuming my reality

So Here we are now
Waiting for demons
Waiting for them to awake.     
And For me to lose control 
Lose control of my mind

So this is insanity
Way beneath vanity
Underneath my skin
Is where it begins 
No way up or down
So is this over now
We just go round an round
Over and over again

This is where the end
Meets the beginning
Where I lose it all
The Demons winning 

Here we are now
Waiting on the demons
Waiting for them to wake
For me to lose control
Lose control of my mind

Here we are now
Waiting on the demons
Waiting for them to awake
For me to lose control
Lose control of my mind

Demons

Together

The Surrender Flag. Written, arranged and performed by John David Lawson.

Lover, I have been stumbling
Covered in war field sufferings
Angry artillery is rumbling
Loudly within my heart a-thundering
Offers of help are muffled mumblings
When, to the sea, my thoughts roll tumbling
Over bodies fallen from the ragged crag 
Piling under a surrender flag

I feel the tides of distant memory
Taking turns loosening the sands of time
Returning back to you the good in me
Until we hear the bells of freedom chime
Courage is not what has us pressing on
Ah but the promise of a better path
As grains of healing trickle one by one
Down through the gauntlet of the hourglass

A rod of iron's woven through my spine
A steel trap is how I've set my mind
By this machinery I stay alive
But I can't tell you that I'm doing fine
In dreams I see you in the waterfall
Fountains of sunlight bouncing off your hair
Down through time immemorial beyond recall
Oh baby maybe one day we will get back there

Credits:
Acoustic guitar, bass, VST's, vocals - John David Lawson

Music and lyrics © 2023 John David Lawson. All rights reserved.

The Surrender Flag

Our dog is getting on in age and has some health issues. She sleeps and sleeps and sleeps and sometimes has little micro-seizures. She won't be around forever, and when her time comes, I hope she will pass at home, in her sleep. "Our Dog." Written and performed by John David Lawson.

Our dog sleeps and sleeps and sleeps 
all day long under the sun
I pray the Lord her soul to keep 
until her doggie days are done.

Our dog lies around all day, 
wags her tail and chases squirrels away, 
opens her eyes once in while 
but she's only half awake.

Ahh and I'm trying really hard, that's for sure
to keep my eyes from crying over her
but I've finally come to knowin'
can't stop the ones you love from goin'

Outside, puppies on the street
tumble playfully with one another
waiting to come in for a treat
and one last time, to see their mother

Ahh we will miss her when she's gone, that's for sure
I guess not so very long is left for her
Our dog sleeps and sleeps and sleeps
Lord, I hope she sleeps in peace
Our dog

Credits:
Guitar, synth and vocals - John David Lawson

Our Dog

Gone

Tony Hello was created at The Wildside on western Eyre Peninsula south Australia and is focused on presenting an aspect of the rhetoric on climate change by political interests ... 

Who Is Next [Single]

Tony Hello

Lyrics - Mick Dolinski
Music - Gene Pensari
Vocals, Guitars, Synth Guitars, Bass guitar, drum loop arrangement - Gene Pensari

Hyperion

HYPERION

Nashville Calling

I Know That One Is You
© Andrew Dolphin 

V1
I long to awake to the morning sun
Nip that problem before it’s begun
I need someone to help me pull me through 
I know that one is you 

V2
I try to find a chink of light
And hope to someday win a fight 
I need someone to help me pull me through 
I know that one is you 

Bridge
Relying on circumstances 
To hand me an ace high flush 
Instead of the joker in the pack
And when there’s a storm that’s coming
I can be sure you’re with me
I know you’ll always have my back 

V3
Caught in the trap of this mindless foil
Keeping us chained to this endless toil 
I need someone to help me pull me through 
I know that one is you 

V4
When I come home to smiles those fears
Suddenly seem to disappear 
I have someone I know will pull me through
I know that one is you

I Know That One Is You

Written some time ago. Tracks supplied by Marc Roberge who never had a drink in his life! Thanks for a great piece of music Marc. My voices, vocal recording, mixdown and lyrics.
 Closing Down

The bars are closing down,
 and at each end of the town
  the hostile hackles rise,
   and storm clouds thump across the sky.
	
    The half-pint screamer cries
     as something brave inside him dies;
      no matter what he wills  
       life seems a black and bitter pill.

        Somewhere in the hills,
         some old friend is standing still
          and thinking, still, of me~ 
           some old vision that he sees.

            All at once his eye is keen; 
             he looks at what he hasn’t seen
              and he knows me, instantly,
               as the man I aimed to be;

                and all the pomp and piety
                 that never meant a thing to me
                  shudders to the floor,
                   with an ostentatious roar.

                    Though pitiful and poor,
                     there are small truths you can’t ignore
                      when you see them in the glass,
                       so drink well, before they pass.
 
                        And when the brew fills you, at last,
                         you have to find the essence fast
                          for the bars are closing down;
                           the bars are closing down.         


24/10/99   
    Life is short forever

Closing Down

I started out as a poet, and that's what I am, essentially.

Closing Down

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