Head out the window
watch the world fill shadows
and the lights,
they just suck the life

City sleeps still
Like a smoke stacked landfill
rushing by
hold up weary eyes

So stop
unravelling
for you've got years
to work out

Stop
unravelling
You got light years
to work it out

So give me the weight you hold
Show me your blackest soul
Carry it far from home
So hold on

So give me the weight you hold
Show me your blackest soul
and let go

Last call
for the back seat of the greyhound
cos it goes round
Never to return
never to return...

Greyhound

One More Day

Hope
in the fading light
The small town love
burns bright
All the way back home
Hope in the fading light

Stay
You can stick around
and be
on this borrowed ground

Where nothing's ever happening
are we talking to ourselves?
Can you hear me out?

When you feel like a faded grey
And nothing will ever change

Oh
in the scream and shout
Oh
In the scream shout
Can you hear me loud?

Meanwhile in nowhere
somebody gets 
high.........

Meanwhile in Nowhere

One day
under the old grey
Oh still calling black and blue

Standing
quiet little earthquake
Oh 
wearing out the shoes

ICU

Were you dancing 
like nobody's watching
just for a second
the world see through

ICU

I was wondering 
if it was too late
sleeping still awake
How do you

See the world 
in seaside blue?

Come out in the wave
heard it's the new grey
throwing your own shade
face the world brand new
and
ICU

Rose
by the river
lifting shadows
long

Wishes for winter
seems like summer's gone

Liv
likes the water
Feels the shallows
fall

Watches the waves
disappear
in crawls

Waits all night
Waits all night

Stopping for air
Stopping for air

Filling up spaces
still going nowhere

Is someone drifting?
do you want to let go?
(Stopping for air)

* Painting by Isabel Enrich

Paul McKeever's Album

Stopping for Air

A song for Amy

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northern hemisphere
coffee warming
you are with me dear
misty morning
the news is dreadful
again
i’ve got a headful
but then
you and your crimson nightgown
from way back when


southern hemisphere
1990
you were with me dear
we were briny
the tanks were empty
again
we went to fill them
and then
a drive to Saba cliffside
with our new friends


we have memories           (we go way back)
but we’re not done yet
come ride beside me        (while we still can)
again
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Thanks to Janine Levinson, Wheelwright, and Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley for early listening.

Love Song #1000

Canopy of Clouds © 2010 Michèle Lane

Flick on your hazards
and fill up your empty tank
You don't have to hold your breath down there
and you don't have to rob that bank.
I don't know what we were talking about
I lost my train of thought again
I am underneath a canopy of clouds
I'm in a fog again.

wave your white flag my friend
we just might throw this fight
walk the wire hire over hell
and just take a dive

i don't know what we were talking about
i lost my train of thought again
i am underneath a canopy of clouds
i'm in a fog again
i said
create, love and make mistakes
create, love and create mistakes.

One More Day

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