Poles Apart

Lost our compass lost our way 
Lost for things to do or say  
Searching for comfort in our hearts

Times of trouble…times of pain 
Pressure points along this chain
It’s hard to compromise 
We are poles apart 

So many precious hours
Defending that ridge 
Building castles and towers
Instead of a bridge 

	Time is on everyone’s side
	’til darkness decends
	The Gods and the Angels decide
	Our time has to end 

	I would search everywhere 
	For the faith to believe
	Breathing in rarified air  
	Give and receive…. our love 

Lead me through an open door
Sunlight on the forrest floor 
A gentle warmth fills my heart 

All creatures great and small 
Cast to the wind…(our) backs to the wall 
It’s hard to reconcile 
We are poles apart 

Caught in the crossfire 
Of convication and truth
It’’s hard to discard our beliefs
Even when there’s no proof

Poles Apart (demo)

Half of Something

Vocal - Jacob Moon 
Written & Produced by Alan Whittaker

The Lord moves in mysterious ways

You and I (demo)

Favourite Chair (demo)

Latest Prog Rock Track from MORIARTY featuring the sensational Jesse Smith on vocals 

LOST  (a new state of mind)

See How The Time Is Flying

Lyrics 

DEEP WATER

Carry the burden of a thousand men 
The weight of the world on your shoulders
We pick up the pieces time and again 
The lines on your face growing older 

Drowning in anger, living in fear 
Faces like thunder 
Swallow your pride, there’s nowhere to hide 
This shit’s gonna drag you under

Woah….deep water…drowning in Deep Water

Conspiracies, secrets and heresy
Your finding it It hard resist them 
Daytime TV is our therapy  
Short, sharp shocks to the system 

A needle of truth in the haystack 
Sometimes I wonder 
Living a lie….counting out time …
This shit’s gonna drag you under.

Woah….deep water…drowning in Deep Water

Life ain’t so easy ….Time is a healer
The odds are against you  
When fate is the dealer 

Climbing the walls…the fear and doubt
and nobody cares  …no easy way out 
These sanitised halls…you scream and shout 
As panic / madness engulfs you 

Is this how it feels when you’re drowning  
Nothing is real… you’re surrounded 
Is this how it feels 

So long …the asylum is of our own making 
So long….who put the lunatics in charge 

Woah….deep water…drowning in Deep Water

Deep Water (demo)

Don't Throw Your Love Away from Janis Ian.

Don't Throw Your Love Away

Before You Came started out as an exercise set by Findlay Napier via his Patreon page. It was an exercise I had done with him and Karine Polwart during a wonderful week of song writing at Moniack Mohr near Inverness. I enjoyed it that time so thought I would give it a crack again.
The task is to write a song using no more than 30 different words - each word can be used more than once, but there can only be 30 different words.
This was in the middle of Lockdown 1.0 (remember that? Box set binges, toilet paper scarcity and the emergence of Zoom as the saviour of live performances.) Covid, and how it would change us (ok, me), was on my mind and I was thinking that some good had to come out of this; maybe I might become better and seeing what I have and living in the moment. Whatever, it was a good thought to seed a lyric - a kind of love song to a virus.
Part of the deal was that Findlay offered to set the lyric to music - which he duly did, making his usual cracking job of it and choosing to play it on a high strung guitar - and why not. While I have learned to play it, he does a much better job of it than me so it is Fin that you hear on guitar in this studio demo, my vocals and Chris Pepper casting fairy dust over everything with additional harmonium and stuff.
Hope you enjoy.

Before You Came

Singer-Songwriter from Hampshire, UK. Also performs as Me and the Koala

Before You Came

Mike Rawlins - aka Me and the Koala