Sunshine Blues V2 (Less Balues)

draws you in then hits you with a slap in the face bursting with energy, get off the couch and let's go!

lyrics:
Wake up sleepy head
Get out of bed
It's time to face the day ahead
There's things to do and places to be
Don't forget that nothing is free
Now get your arse in gear son
It's time to go and have some fun

The sun is up
The day is clear
There's nothing now to keep you here
Get your boots on and grab your coat
We gotta get ahead not stay afloat
So take a breath and let it go
It's time to shoot so let's go, let's go, let's go!

The clock is ticking
Time is running out
Get stuff done don't lay about
Prevarication is your disease
Bound to keep you on your knees
Make a choice and do it now
Worry later about the where and how

The sun is up
The day is clear
There's nothing now to keep you here
Get your boots on and grab your coat
We gotta get ahead not stay afloat
So take a breath and let it go
It's time to shoot so let's go, let's go, let's go!
Let's go, let's go, let's go!

Let's go!

J'arrive (instrumental)

Ronnie  n'est pas fictif. Il vient d'équateur, avec un fort accent, je ne saisis pas toujours tout. Il est tout mon contraire; il va vers les gens, il aime tout le monde, il est d'une grande gentillesse, toujours prêt à aider. Je devrais m'en inspirer. Bon, pour le moment il m'a inspiré une chanson.

Qui vient perturber
Ma grisaille adorée 
Mon quotidien morose

Bien trop poli
Bien trop d'empathie 
Pour être honnête, du moins je suppose

Ne pas s'attarder 
Ce faux air enjoué 
Non je n'ai pas confiance

Faut-il esquiver
Ou faire demi-tour avec prudence

Je regarde ailleurs 
Par mépris ou par peur
Pourtant

Il a ce sourire débordant de joie
Chaque fois qu'il t'aperçoit

Il voit la vie telle qu’on ne la voit pas
Vision très naïve parfois

Par quelle ironie 
Son accent pas d'ici 
Plein d'arrondis et de glucose

Atteint l’empathie
Sommeillant chez moi la porte close.

Saturne ou Lima
Lapz ou Proxima

De quelle pluie est tombé cet être étrange ?
Pourquoi sa joie de vivre me dérange ?
Ici c'est ambiance aime-haine, western,
Et chacun pour soi
Mais que s'écorne mon âme terne
Et que la couleur soit

Il cherchait l'ami, je cherchais l'endroit 
Où l'on ne me trouverait pas

Si tu veux t'enfuir, lui te tend les bras
Comment faire le poids, tu vois

Il a ce sourire débordant de joie
Chaque fois qu'il t'aperçoit

Il voit la vie telle qu’on ne la voit pas
Avec nos esprits trop étroits 

Moi qui ne vois qu'en gris 
Que la couleur soit


Ronnie

That's OK

Flowers At The Side Of The Road

Slow your breathing down
I don’t want to bring you this sad news
Oh you’re in my heart
I don’t want to break you, make your whole world fall apart

Flowers at the side of the road
Angels with their wings to unfold, carry you home

Maybe you’ll find love
Maybe you won’t
Maybe you need love
Maybe you don’t

Slow your breathing down
I could never hurt you, I know I will
Oh you’re my whole heart
I don’t want to bring you every parent’s worst fear

Flowers at the side of the road 
Angels with their wings to unfold, carry you home 

Maybe you’ll find love 
Maybe you won’t 
Maybe you need love
Maybe you don’t 

Who knows how the wind will blow for you

Flowers At The Side Of The Road

A song mourning the loss of Summer/youth/vitality

Autumn leaves are falling down
Heavy hangs my heart
Darkness closing all around
Slowly life departs

Cold and the dark leach the sunshine away
Colours fade and dim,turning to grey

Time is paused and life's on hold
Each day a waiting game
All the new is now the old
Different now the same

Cold and the dark leach the sunshine away
Colours fade and dim,turning to grey

Fading to Grey

A break up song written many years ago by me as a sad young man!

Don’t Explain

Thanks to @Jambrains for the fantastic guitar work and as always to the fab Bruce on bass!

My heart is breaking as I look at your face
Expectations, soured in the race
For perfection that shouldn't be attainable yet
But that’s what you seek so read failure instead

And you are perfect in every way that's right
You’re strong and you’re driven, a big ball of fight
You’ll pick yourself up and show us your might
And these days will be small against all in your sights

Today loomed large in your life
The hope of achieving a little respite
From uncertainty, that gets to sit with you a little more
You'll remember these days as stepping stones

And you are perfect in every way that's right
You’re strong and you’re driven, a big ball of fight
You’ll pick yourself up and show us your might
And these days will be small against all in your sights

I can’t banish the demons by holding you tight
But I’ll be the light in the dark of your night
It's the hardest part of letting go
Knowing that I can't control
The things that make you cry, but I'll still try

And you are perfect in every way that's right
You’re strong and you’re driven, a big ball of fight
You’ll pick yourself up and show us your might
And these days will be small against all in your sights

Stepping Stones

Roads

words and music K. Gennery
image not my own


I was stood standing there all alone,
in a room I assumed on my own,
except for the ghost of my past,
who asked if I cared for a dance.
Said that I'd give it a go, oh, oh.

We took two tiny steps forward and three long strides back,
said it feels like the tracks of my life,
I asked her if she would like to stay,
she just smiled and faded away,
oh my, how I wander.

Amongst the shadows, far from the spotlight,
in the quietness I exsist,
singing and playing, playing and singing,
my heart out.

I was strolling along on the beach,
she appeared again a stretch out of reach,
asked, how do you feel at this moment in time I said,
out of touch and incomplete.

Please tell me that you will stay,
she just smiled and faded away, oh my,
how I wander.

Amongst the shadows, far from the spotlight,
in the quietness I exsist,
singing and playing, playing and singing,
my heart out.

Ghost of my past

ghost of my past

It’s unmistakably original - Pompeyjazz doesn’t imitate, he distills and reimagines !!

John Bradley A.K.A Pompeyjazz is a Southsea based Singer / Songwriter, multi instrumentalist and producer who has released 16 solo albums together with other albums with collaboration projects Star XD and The Auditors. His music covers a wide variety and genres and influences based on a lifetime of playing music.

​These days, live performances are mainly solo acoustic interpretations of his catalog of songs.

https://pompeyjazz.bandcamp.com

Pompeyjazz on Spotify 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2QfDhSlidjwyONhk8Srbpe?si=7cb9610383b7493c

Star XD on Spotify (Collaboration with Ces Sile)

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4S34BGkchyjUwxETLKS3xf?si=0507552e86b14f53

The Auditors on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/artist/11SgWBQiUwBk84a5RZBEat?si=1b540475860349f4

Enjoy the music !

Roads

pompeyjazz

Recent comments

Phil McWalter

Related tracks