Into the light

on nights like these

what it is to have an appreciative audience

pastel skies

<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">ain't got no alibi</span><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">g f e &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; e f d<br><div>happy birthdayl in &nbsp;lo fi</div><div><br></div><div>e e d c c d b</div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">didn't have the time to choose</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">a better format for my muse</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">no stereo to give it shape</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">just mono hiss from worn out tape</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">-----//2</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">wrote this song while walking home&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">tapped this text into my phone</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">had some time at each red light</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">ti blur some meaning across my mind</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">hope this finds you fit and well</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">i skipped a verse cos someone pressed the bell</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">you know how it is</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">- &nbsp;you think that you're the biz</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">but when interruptions come</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">it's hard to get&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">anything done</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">oh yes and how's your day</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">a meal for two out in town did you say?</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">or was something</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">low key at home with a few friends you've known&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">for longer&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">than you care to ponder</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">more the light to shine the way</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I hoped that these few minutes might have</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">expressed&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">in music what the words have lacked&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">&nbsp;but such a dream</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">was much to hard</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">to realise</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">for this time-strapped bard</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">to you:</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">the usual hope for a wonderful occasion -</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">a smile that doesn't need persuading</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">maybe next year i'll get something together&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">the day before if i remember</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">but better off the cuff</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">than naught</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">so till next time&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">or rhyme&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">or thought</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">happy birthday 45</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">may all you hopes. be realised</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">and would that&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">fortune's scribes should rest</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">and inspirations be your guest</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I</div></div></body></html>

Neil McKett