And it’s such a beautiful way, how the rain hits the lake
And that smile on your face, has been melting me for days
And if I was dry land, and if you were the sea
Then I’d crumble at your side, and sink underneath

And if finding of pain, was forever today
It would break me in pieces to nauseate

The truth is and has been biting at me
So lost I have seemed loving hopelessly
And as you drift away towards a beautiful sea
I’ll be seeing you soon save a seat for me

So how long would it take? For us to run away
Over hills and through lakes, on a day like today
When the sun bows out we just watched the lake
Toasting to a memory we hope never fades

And after all, we'd sung and wrote
With neither wit, nor perfect note
I caught a glimpse of love and hate
Dancing politely, in the rain

Like casting stones, without sin
Like finding gold and cashing in
If I let you drift away
I'll never learn to love again

In truth I could never be in humbler shape
As I litter my path with trembling stains
So scared I am of a never-ending day
At least for now we could just watch the lake

I Was Never A Strong Swimmer So I Just Watched The Lake

Lyrics:

Come on I’ll take you to Scotland, and we’ll see a deluge of rain
Then as we dance in the hailstone, I’ll bellow from the bottom of my lungs
All the words of Robert Burns, then we’ll wring out our clothes
Making love on the shores of Strathclyde, and then round toward the Kingdom of Fife

We don’t need any money, just four walls and some hay
A cold stone floor and a stove, it’s not much, but we’ll call it home
So take your arms from around you
So take your arms from around you
So take your arms from around you, and I’ll keep you warm

I’ll show you summertime the Scottish way
It’s all cuddles in the wind and then kissing in the rain, in the rain
An overcast wedding day with our land strewn with thistle and heather 
I’ll be the Prince from the border, and you’ll be the Princess of Caledonia
I’m coming home, I’m northbound, and I’m coming home

Tangled ‘tween lochs and the highland, our bonnie home by the cove
We survived the harsh winter, just, and our first child was born
Another Andrew for old times, but he didn’t stay for long
He was our first and our only son, and all that’s all we wrote

The years had been kind for a while, but then a bad storm last spring
Damaged the thatch on our home, and now I’m too old to fix these things
We had a fine fifty years or more, but she couldn’t keep to going
I give them flowers each and every day at dawn, because I, I miss my wife and my son

So summertime in Scotland today
It’s beautiful and it’s alright and it’s okay
A lifetime for all time and his last words were...

...she would stand by the sea and watch the waves; she held a dress on her shoulders
Behind her was the strewn land, of thistle, thistle and heather
She said my god, this is all just so beautiful, and I still love her, I love her, I loved her...

...when I was just a baker’s son from the border, but she is and always will be,
The Princess of Caledonia


The Princess Of Caledonia

Lyrics:

There was a man, who called his woman Amsterdam
Said she had a fear of snakes and rats
But she could spin the world round and that's a fact
You should remember that

But this worlds over my head
Adding weight to my chest
I'll leave this world behind
I'll find my way back, in time

When drifting lands, she'd swim the ocean just to taste the sand
She knew her place amongst all the leaves and bark
But her Achilles heel was her weakened heart
For a weaker man

Where danger lies, three hooded men approach with three pair of eyes
She had choose a choice and a heart to find
But when she find her heart she knows her soul will hide
For the price of pride

There was a man, who called his woman Amsterdam
Said she had a fear of snakes and the dark
But nothing scared her more than a broken heart
How ironic's that?

Amsterdam

Lyrics:

Well now I know, when the moon strikes on the twelfth note
I can't see for nocturnal life
Your eyes ward off unwanted smiles

Where did you go? Up the left hand side of the whiskey wall
I can't breath in this oxygen 
Your eyes, I'm in love all over again

Point me out I'm the sugar rash kid
I'm Railway disguised in the eyes of all the hurricanes
Two times down, but I was never out
I'll race you from here, to four nautical miles outside Baghdad

Can you handle that?
Says the whiskey man

Shout for free, shout out my name just so people will remember me
I couldn't stand, how drunk I am
Nothing makes sense hand me a duck, then we'll fly to Japan, maybe Afghanistan

Here I was, slurring my speech who are you to judge
I never once raised my hand to you
My very best friend, my love, and my fortune

Girl I'd steal you the moon


 
 

Sugar Rash On The Whiskey Run

Lyrics:

Drifting oak, crass is the rising sea
Two of our own; as the arks headed east
Hard on the portside boys, for its land I see
Mountains of Ararat, well that’s all I need


Mountains Of Ararat

The Birth Of Noah

Lyrics:

When the wind blew our house down
The rain cried and the clouds clapped
Sarcastic applause
Sarcastic applause
Fuck them all

This is our wailing wall
This is our home from home
This is love and not just another poem

Silently waiting, with a smile and handful of the day
I’m waiting for you, not forever but for a while at least
So come home, so come home
Come home to me, before I take to irrationality 

Though I’m tired and flagging now
Though I’m lonely, but don’t tell my mam
Though I’m crying but hiding well 

Honey I can barely breathe
It’s cold now, so I’m going to sleep
When I wake I’ll be expecting to see
Your face and a smile for me

At least this water will keep rocking me
At least this over flooded sea will keep me clean
At least this water will drown me in my sleep
This grass isn’t greener, but it’s still green

Noah Loses Faith In God

Lyrics:

On the pebbled beach, I would run to you
Would you run to me?

By the old oak tree, I would marry you
Would you marry me?

Cold winters night, and I’m missing you
Are you missing me?

If I were you, I’d be forgiving me

Her aqua eyes of earth and sea
She sees the best in me
Caramelise this heart of sweets
She is my remedy

Then hazel eyes of lust and greed
Don’t know what’s good for me
Melt down my heart of sweets
There is no remedy
For what I’ve done
For what I did to you

On the pebbled beach, on my knees
I’ll wait for you, if you forgive me


Pebbles

Lyrics:

Poem:
Waves come down, on a battery crowd
Like moths people flock like the gathering clouds
Then the love between two, in the journey of youth
Will dance like moths, in the light of the moon

Song:
This adventure begins, on the banks of the river Thames
Such a place for drowning sins, as the fairytale descends
I stole the world for a girl such an honest thief, an ironic man, I am
Then in the bite of London’s night, she vanished with sleight of hand

Then on the merry-go-round
I’ll be lost on your playground
And you have your father’s eyes
As I grin my mother’s smile
And our crooked hands
Well these hands are tied, to my kaleidoscopic mind

If I’m butter and you’re the knife, then cut me down, to smaller size
But now I’m butter spread so thin, I fall, like leaves in the wind
You said take a second to see yourself, through the eyes of a friend
You’d never looked so beautiful, and yet so tarnished and withheld  

Then on the merry-go-round
I’ll be lost on your playground
And if you told your mothers lies
Then I’d weep just my father cried
And with our crooked hands
These hands would be tied to a horse that will never tire
This is my desire, may me and you make fire

This adventure began, when your world dropped in my hand
Such a place built on love and sin, would never float on the Thames
I stole the world for a girl, such a generous act, by a selfish man, I am
And in the bite of this London night, let us walk hand in hand

Once Upon A Thames

Lyrics:

I see you look so happy
In the jailers arms
Incandescently hating in the corner 
Drink your wine as a torture to hypnotise

Long is the night when it rain through an open sky
I see you cry out all the lochs and lakes
And again in turn dilute the taste 

So when she swings from chandeliers into the night
I’ll love her in ways in which I can’t describe

Then I hear you say
Grab my wrist and my waist
We’ll dance on the moon and with the stars we’ll constellate 

I see you look so happy
In the jailers arms
Like a hummingbird that flew into a cage and danced

Noah Aspen Lake