if you are lucky enough to have a loving relationship with your mother nothing can prepare you for her passing.
Pearse

Song For Mam

Nuthin left to say
I hear they're massing troops along the border
darkness on the outskirts of every town
women and kids on the first trains out of here
a fireball sun come flaming down.

Sometimes talk is cheaper than drinking
Sometimes brotherly love is not enough
Sometimes we dream in feather beds
Sometimes it's best to sleep out rough.

When there is nuthin left to say.......

I hear your brother is mad over how we split
I had  no   choice, I just had to go
you strip down too far you grow too cold
All of a sudden it's ten below.

Never cared two bits for the house and car
Never cared at all for what to wear
Never cared too much when you weren't around
How come now I see you everywhere.

When  there is nuthin left to say

I find these days I have less and less to say
Just noticed I've  no soles in my shoes
I wanna  go back and drink in Cannery Row
With  Mack and Doc in the Monterey ocean blues..
'cos there is nuthin left to say

Nuthin Left To Say

Before

Having survived a strict Catholic upbringing  I feel nothing but contempt for witch doctors of any stripe.... Life is a beautiful mystery, period. 
Lyrics;
Waltz For My Old Teachers

Everyone said I'd be happy 
Everything would always be cool 
So I kissed my Mom and  strapped on a bag 
And they marched me off to school. 

Nobody seemed to like it 
the nuns had a golden rule 
Be quiet don't fidget God sees you all 
Sit up straight on your stool. 

Well, I left it behind and went travelling 
I met people who thought it was odd 
To  spend your  life in fear on your knees 
Of an  imaginary fucking god.. 

So goodbye Brothers Bernard and  John 
It will bite in  before you die 
That you wasted your life in dry dogma 
That there is no sweet by and by... 

Gods are conceived by  fools 
Who claim they can read the clouds 
Cold comfort and  useless contrition 
And  selling rain to the crowds.... 

The years go by for all people 
they lose  all the toys that  they had 
In the dark shadow of a steeple 
I'm so happy and glad I was bad... 

I was walking home by the river 
One summer's day I was nine 
My face to  the sky and the swallows 
And I knew this world was all mine 

So goodbye to all of my teachers 
How could you have got it so wrong 
Life is a dream, not a crucified theme, 
Of love,  dance and song... 


Waltz For My Old Teachers

Lost Between The Rivers

Touch And Go

Dad
Took a cab to the train
in the cold Boston rain
to catch the  first plane
after I got the call
to come home...

going home

To see again the fields I knew
gilly flowers and the flax in  bloom
my siblings  half-sober all in one room
goin home

I'd been spinning between lost and found
but the world was gentler when he was around




Kneeling with my sister by his bed
All the things we could have talked about running thru my head
Mom told me the last words he said
ohhh I'm  goin' home

Sis took me to the plane
in the cold Dublin rain
quick kiss no time to cry or explain

folk rock, love lost and remembered sweetly...
 
Moonlit avenue
Yellow leaves are piling up outside the door 
looks like no-one's been here for awhile 
The neighbour waves, a woman we both used to know 
I wave back gaily too and try to smile... 

I've been down this road so many times before 
I remember how I felt the first time I came 
Looking for a number on a pale blue door 
Looking for the mailbox with your name.... 

And tho' I know you're gone 
And I should move on too 
I don't know where to start 'cos 
I left my heart  here with you.... 

Kicking through the leaves on a moonlit avenue..... 



I've often had this kind of dream before 
The heartbreak and the love still  feels the same 
I wake up one   morning to find once more 
We found our way back to from where we came.... 

The maples had all turned across our old hometown 
The images all  Fall of you baking bread 
These memories and feelings bring me down 
But  I still sleep on your side of the bed..... 


And tho' I know you're gone 
And I should move on too 
I don't know where to start 'cos 
I lost my heart  when I lost you...... 

Kicking through the leaves on a moonlit avenue..... 

the tourists and   closing fown 
I still sleep on your side of the bed 
I revolve in  the shadow of your memory 
and I still don't know; 
where do I go from here..... 
I know I've walked down this avenue  before 
the houses and the trees still look the same 
lookin' for a number on a pale blue door 
lookin' for the mailbox with your name. 
I know I've driven down  this road before 
thinking I had left you far behind 
I see the number written  on a pale blue door 
I'd love to  turn around  and change my mind. 

I know you're not here, 
and I'm wondering what to do 
chorus-- I don't know where to start 
'cos I lost my heart 
when I lost you...

Moonlit Avenue

Song by Colm O'Leary an old friend in NYC three hundred years ago,....

Daisy Chain

Around The World Collab With Heather

Of Salt And Wine - Pcob1993

pearse.obyrne@gmail.com
 Actor, writer, musician type.... have been known to paint and once did the Lindy Hop with a red-haired girl from Alabama.....

pearsechristopher

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