This one incorporates sampled guitar from a certain Tim Jones - https://soundcloud.com/songs-from-the-light/worried-life-blues . Thanks and apologies Tim!

With a ten yard stare
On your street corner
You see him standing there
Like a new eras dawning

Smoking fags like Steve McQueen
Walking streets like Billy Jean
Yeah

So your eyes are blinded
For a boy so bright
But you must be reminded
He only comes out at night

Wears a suit like Frank Sinatra
Revolutes like Che Guevara
Ahu

For him it comes so easy
For him it comes so fast
Cooler, smarter, funner, better
Leaner, meaner, he makes it last

Fighting talk like Muhammad Ali
Travolta dancing at the party
Oh yeah

So his time has come
The time is right
A new dawn arrival
The second light

Throws a punch like Johnny Wayne
DeNiro's face and Einstein's brain

Across the earth
24 / 7
On omnipresent
Television

Something in the darkness
Always beckons for the day
But the coiled, poised, still unforgotten and unbeaten
Calls back the other way
The solitary whisper
tries to thieve away your mind
blind you to the world around you
But not today, today you are mine


Today I'm drawing you near
Today I'm coming to you
All the love that I have
I'm going to bring it to you
Though the damage is done
All the demons are gone
The world spins around us
I'll be there soon

But when the dawn becomes the day
And the day the afternoon
And now the nights drawing in
I might not make it to you


3 days since I've seen you
While a stranger takes your place
Same name, same clothes, same address
Something different in the face
With a breath that reeks of madness
Loveless, frightened eyes
The stranger isn't welcome anymore though
Not today, no, because today you are mine 

Yes Today

I always liked those short, simple songs that were placed at the end of albums. They always left you wanting more, but I guess the band didn't know where to take it. This, for me, is that.

Had a little fantasy
I was holding on to you
Though you know I liked it
I don't think it's true
Reminded of a photograph
That I looked on yesterday
But life's not like that today

Got a little memory
Played it in a dream
I hate to admit it
It's not all it seems
Maybe with a little effort
I could try once more to breathe
But I don't feel like it today

So we're holding on together
Separately thinking
"Has this all been left to me"


The vase under the mirror
It smashed to smithereens
A thousand little pieces
Scattered to the winds
Take a whole lot of filler
To sew it at the seems
And I don't feel like it today


Ditty of the nonchalant lover

The poet is coming
He hides in your skin
I know that you hear him knocking
So let him come in
He creeps around the corners of 
This place your living in
He'll steal you back again

A trembling fire
A groin ridden itch
The devil inside is riding
But the angel will snitch
He's seated on a throne 
Gnawing on a bone
An eternal twitch
He'll steal you back again

Your conscience is riding
Seeks out the prize
Mistook a promise of riches
Reclined for your eyes
Sleeps in a city of walls
Resisting sirens calls
Tells a lovers lies
He'll steal you back again

A grinning cadaver
A pulse that beats on
Your memory fades but for the
Opening line of the song
I'm on bus to the city of fools
It's gonna take us to school
It's gonna teach me to swim
Till he's steals me back again


The Poet

22:14

So we talk without instructions
No steps, no 1, no 2
No return and start again
Resist the urge to make reductions
Mere false deductions

I say you've still so much to learn
Shrug your shoulders, turn your head again
I speak and don't know why
All the battle scars you'll earn
Why don't you just take mine
Just words from the wise

So let's talk about how birds fly
While the trees you climb - limbs like ladder steps
I stand and stare to fear you fall
So let's talk about how birds fly
And there's another thing
But it don't mean a thing
You're on the wing

Don't live a life of near misses
Your broken hugs and stolen kisses
Oh your opportunity
Give me your eyes and see what matters
Avoid the maddest hatters

And now your oh so much like you
Just a small a part of me
But you keep on shining through
To walk now in your shoes
Why don't you just take mine
Some words from the wise

How Birds Fly

Down The Barrel Of A Gun

First Contact

High School Reunion Disco

I Need You (like  I Don't Need You)

So lets make a deal 
Sign a pact 
Dance, romance and interact 
And every day 
Will start anew 
I'll be waiting here, just for you 
Cos the beating heart of every day 
oh for the words you say to me 
 
Hand in hand 
Eye to eye 
Speak to me, hear me sigh 
It's all laid down 
All in place  
The dark fibre optic interface 
I'll see every waking thing you do 
And when you sleep, I'll be watching you 
 
So contract written and agreed 
You'll give me everything I need 
Don't miss a detail, or skip a beat 
Sit staring quietly at my feet 
Oh the beating heart of everyday 
Oh for the words you say to me 
 
So our interface 
Is pre-agreed  
Version controlled 
Government decreed 
You're  just a regulated licensee 
Obey the laws laid down by me 
Its so easy darling, no need to lie 
Pay your taxes and comply 
 
Your communication, send them all 
Over the packet transfer protocol 
Structured this way, yes, just like that 
Wait for confirmation, I'll send back 
You're the beating heart of every day 
Oh for the words you say to me 
 
There's a thousand others just like you 
Don't be selfish, join us do 
Sip on the Italian wine 
Come on, join the party line 
On the Mediterranean summer cruise 
Bask in the sweet primordial ooze 
 
So lets make a deal 
Sign a pact 
Dance, romance and interact 
And every day 
Will start anew 
I'll be waiting here, just for you 
Cos the beating heart of every day 
oh for the words you say to me

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Seems like time to make some songs. So let's do that then.....

seb_7