Sidestep the mirror and break the glass
Wanting to be as bold as brass
Know one cares how you fare
Spinning bottles truth or dare

Always worse 
When somebody is watching you
Always worse
It’s painful when they tell the truth
Always worse
When somebody is watching you
Better to be honest
Always be yourself

Try to be cool balancing on a board 
Behind the facade I’m a total fraud  
Fumbling for words as I call the bird
She probably thinks I’m a total nerd

Always worse 
When somebody is watching you
Always worse
It’s painful when they tell the truth
Always worse
When somebody is watching you
Better to be honest
Always be yourself

Solo

Dungeons and dragons show and tell
Kissing me when I cast a spell
It makes her smile now I play the fool 
Loving life now we’re not so cool  

Always worse 
When somebody is watching you
Always worse
painful when they tell the truth
Always worse
When somebody is watching you
Better to be honest
Always be yourself

c 2021 Wells/Lowdnes/Connor

Always Worse Master 12 August 2021

Three wise men follow a star
Simon Cowell forces out a smile
Let the light in once in a while
It could buy - a brand new sports car

There is no room at the inn
Channel ferries on their day trips
Make it home for your fish and chips
Suntan changes - the colour of your skin 

Still waiting for a jab, situation normal, all fucked up
Food banks full to overflow, situation normal, all fucked up
We’re all fucked up

Shepard’s watch their flocks by night
Concrete reinforces the wall
There’s laugher as the fool takes the fall
Always someone - looking for a fight 

Believe in the double cross? 
Silly handshakes and old school ties 
Red top photographs show truth with lies
No one wants  - a puppet as a boss

Kids hungry in their schools, situation normal, all fucked up
Who’s on Top of the Pops, situation normal, all fucked up. We’re all fucked up 

County lines make your pain
Don’t know when to stop, or begin
Three wise men have a plan
But there’s no room left at the inn

Still waiting for a jab, situation normal, all fucked up
Food banks full to overflow, situation normal, all fucked up
Kids hungry in their schools, situation normal, all fucked up
Who’s on top of the pops, situation normal, all fucked up
All fucked up
We’re all fucked up

c 2021 Wells/Connor

SNAFU Aug 2021 - Warning naughty words

Born in Syracuse
A long long time ago
You don’t need to read history
To know this genius of antiquity 

He gave us that Eureka moment 
Just lying in the bath 
He loved to solve problems
He still solving them today

May the Gods be praised
His memory’s not erased 

Archimedes, if I may?
Whoa whoa whoa
Archimedes, he did it his own way 
Whoa whoa whoa
Archimedes, what did you just say?

Don’t disturb my circles, please don’t touch my stones 
Don’t disturb my circles, please don’t touch my stones

The gardens of Babylon
Couldn’t hang without his screw
So turn the taps on fully 
Coz they’re worth their weight in gold

Archimedes, if I may?
Whoa whoa whoa
Archimedes, he did it his own way 
Whoa whoa whoa
Archimedes, what did you just say?

Don’t disturb my circles, please don’t touch my stones 
Don’t disturb my circles, please don’t touch my stones

c N Connor 2022

Circles Master 7 Oct 2022

Empress
Give me adventures
Put me to the test

Temptress
I will do my best 
But it won’t be enough  

So play your cards right 
You might be her’s tonight
She’ll set you alight 
If you play your cards right
 
Priestess
Radiant in your red dress 
And all your finery

So play your cards right 
You might be her’s tonight
She’ll set you alight 
If you play your cards right

Empress
Do what you do, you’re the best
Empress
I’ll climb Everest for your love  

Empress 
Untouchable, sweet caress
Please give me your love

So play your cards right 
You might be her’s tonight
She’ll set you alight 
If you play your cards right

Empress
Do what you do, you’re the best
Empress
I’ll climb Everest for your love  

c 2022N Connor

Empress Master 6 Oct 2022

December Master 3 Dec 2023

Bumpy Track demo master 12 Feb 2025

The devil’s in the detail and the detail gets me down
I’m a blue sky thinker but the big idea just ain’t around
If the devil’s in the detail and I’m stuck here in the weeds
Forming, norming, brain-storming when what I really need
Is a straight talking, floor walking, help me if you can 

Clear thinking, unblinking  - Big picture man

Well he’s deep into the detail and there’s detail all around
Gotta think outside the box and keep my feet flat on the ground
He may be into detail but with God on my side
I’m climbing up the ladder and leaving him far behind
With a straight talking, floor walking, help me if you can 

Clear thinking, unblinking  - Big picture man

He ain’t gaining traction. He’s not part of the team
Doesn’t do development, his leadership’s just plain mean 

Solo

The devil’s into detail, he’s still coming on strong
Thought some blue sky thinking but I guess I got it wrong

I need a straight talking, floor walking, help me if you can 
Clear thinking, unblinking  - Big picture man
With a straight talking, floor walking Help me if you can 

Clear thinking, unblinking  - Big picture man

A big picture man
The devil’s in the detail 
A big picture man
The devil’s in the detail…

c 2015 New/Connor

Big Picture Man July 2015

Syd read an article about the oldest living barnacle  
Just arrived upon our shore on a current from abroad
Totally unstable, was dissected on a table
They then attached a label and locked the door

Now Syd’s a Reporter and drank more than he oughta 
Saw Marine Science Sal across the bar
One hell of a gal. A drink? Yes what the hell!
She started to tell the story he knew quiet well 

We're so interconnected and if you inspected you’d see
All living things in air, on land and sea
And as to Darwin's dance, we can't leave it all to chance 
All living things in air, on land and sea
That's why Bill's important to me

She asked for another (would he’d be her lover?)
“Was Barnacle Bill, the last of his kind?
He wanted to see, did she have the key?
Needless to say, sex wasn’t on his mind

Indestructible Bill, had been lying there still
With one single thought on his mind
He knew he didn’t want to be, maybe very famously 
The last of his kind or his line

We're so interconnected and if you inspected you’d see
All living things in air, on land and sea
And as to Darwin's dance, we can't leave it all to chance 
That's why Bill's important to me

Sal downed and she fumbled, Syd though they were rumbled
When they noisily entered the lab 
Then she saw the label, unattached on the table
The drink must have gone to her head 

Bill chewed through the tag and fell to the ground 

He looked for a drain and the rain sluiced him down 
Like Tom Cruise via the mains to the sea

c 2017 bradley/connor

Barnacle Bill with John Bradley - May  2017

Continental divorce


You’d say it was a strange relationship
You’d never put us together 
Married in good faith, it was a real embrace 

So what went so wrong? Don't look at me
Our common interests were hard to see
We slowly grew apart, we need a brand new start

With heavy head and a broken heart 
With disbelief and an easy grief, we know we don't belong

So the ship has sailed for you and me
It’s listing, it’s heaving and we’re all at sea
All aboard the lifeboats or ignoring the reports? 
We’re heading for a messy Continental Divorce

You can't find a new life when you’re still stuck in the past
And you can't move on and nothing ever lasts 
The silly thing is that its all gone 
We’ll all be poorer, it won't be long

Coz it’s who pays for this and who pays for that?
We’re finding there’s no welcome on the welcome mat
Too busy slinging insults and character assignations
Which court will rule on our separation?
 
Coz there is no good outcome when we’re fighting in the yard 
And both of us will loose, will lose the very prize

So the ship has sailed for you and me
It’s listing, it’s heaving and we’re all at sea
All aboard the lifeboats or ignoring the reports? 
We’re heading for a messy Continental Divorce

C N Connor 2018

Continental Divorce - Jan 2018

Charing Cross

I never thought that you’d go
I never thought you would
Leave me standing on the platform 
You left me there for good

Eleanor, oh Eleanor 
Where did you go?
So in love, so in love, how was I to know?

Of all the precious things I’ve loved
And all that I have lost
I never thought you leave me there
At Charing Cross

Sitting on the underground
I’ve passed by many times
I never really thought about 
Those medieval lines

See the busy workman working 
With tools and hands
In black and white upon the wall
I didn’t understand
From Lincoln down to Westminster 
At places where she laid

Of all the precious things I’ve loved
And all that I have lost
I never thought you leave me there 
At Charing Cross

Eleanor, oh Eleanor 
You were my queen 
Eleanor, oh Eleanor
The only one for me

Of all the precious things I’ve loved
And all that I have lost
I never thought you leave me 
At Charing Cross

c N Connor 2019

Charing X - Jan 2019

Idiotic and patriotic. It’s hardly probiotic
Despotic and chaotic. Caught you playing with my sprocket
Hypnotic and narcotic. I wish you wouldn’t frolic
Ironic and hydrolytic. But you shouldn’t mock it

Exotica, erotica will I pass your test?
Playing with my myself? You can be my guest
Exotica, erotica, I know it’s not my best
What this mumbo jumbo means is anybody’s guess

Vitriolic alcoholic, going like a rocket
Psychotic and mnemonic. Loose change in my pocket
Moronic, iconic would you gin and tonic?
Gastronomic and symbiotic. Its all too supersonic

I wondered what the words were. It didn’t make much sense
Got me all confused. Was I being dense?
In my defence, with eloquence. Without causing an offence
Intense or pretence? I’m just sitting on the fence

If your old fella’s feeling baggy
And the blues have got you saggy
Desist and don’t resist as you listen to tune
If your old dear’s rather naggy 
And being somewhat craggy
Get underneath her bonnet and sing this little sonnet 

Exotica, erotica is more really less?
Put me on the shelf if I be a pest
Exotica, erotica, can you clean this mess
What this mumbo jumbo means is anybody’s guess

Exotica, erotica will I pass your test?
Playing with my myself? You can be my guest
Exotica, erotica, I know it’s not my best
What this mumbo jumbo means is anybody’s guess

Dock it, plug and socket
I wouldn’t snog it 

Iconoclastic, sticky backed plastic 
Feel the elastic, Its rather drastic 
Tied up with mastic, moistened with my chapstick
Thanks that fantastic 

c N Connor 2019

Exotica Erotica - March 2019

I was warned I should get back home 
Board up the glass and hope she moves on 
This woman leaves a trail of broken hearts 
But sheʼs beautiful I see no big bad wolf...only her

 Ivy come find me Iʼm flirting with disaster this I know 
But Something inside me 
Cannot resist the eye of a storm
The eye of a storm 

We made love underneath the stars 
She was my queen of hearts for a while 
But when I looked into her hazel eyes in the morning
 I knew right then that sheʼd already gone 
She was long gone 

Ivy come find me Iʼm flirting with disaster this I know 
But Something inside me 
Cannot resist the eye of a storm
The eye of a storm
 
She tore right through my heart
 I didnʼt stand a chance 
So beware, sheʼs a force of nature
 Whoʼs only gonna leave ya sooner or later

Ivy come find me Iʼm flirting with disaster this I know 
But Something inside me
 Cannot resist the eye of a storm
The eye of a storm

Bull/Connor c 2019

Eye Of The Storm - Leo & Neil

Kossoff and Free  inspired tribute - playing a bit ragged in places but hey ho.....
c N Connor 2013

Song for Paul Kossoff - demo Jan 2013

It’s not very funny
And it isn’t very kind
Being innocent and guilty 
Both at the same time

They locked you up and left you to rot
Then threw away the keys

Typhoid Jane, look what you done 
Typhoid Jane, you’ve gone and fooled everyone 
Typhoid Jane, stop hanging around 
Typhoid Jane, don’t you take me down

Sailed the great Atlantic 
So that you could be free
Serving wealthy gentry 
In New York City

Never sick, left no forwarding address
You never thought you were guilty  

Typhoid Jane, look what you done 
Typhoid Jane, you’ve gone and fooled everyone 
Typhoid Jane, stop hanging around 
Typhoid Jane, don’t you take me down

Quarantined, in North Brother Island 
Quarantined, they locked you up for life

Why cant you see
What you’re doing to me
Got me on my knees
Such a deadly disease

They locked you up and left you to rot
Then threw away the keys

Typhoid Jane, look what you done 
Typhoid Jane, you’ve gone and fooled everyone 
Typhoid Jane, stop hanging around 
Typhoid Jane, don’t you take me down

c N Connor 2021

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