"In A Dark Room", year 2018. All instruments & vocals by Colin Clay
LYRICS:
two chessmen in a paranoid town
don’t fear the day when you lose your crown
and we‘ll dream of the sea air instead of the smoke
and we won’t let our souls deep inside to choke

so rise and sail, together we’ll float
’cause you are my poison
and I’m your antidote

I’m just a child of nonsense murmurs
a domed house of moan in a ramshackle park
no more saints and no more sinners 
from rivers so stark
to the ramshackle park

two chessmen in a paranoid town
don’t fear the day when you lose your crown
now here comes our train to oblivion
to let us surrender to last meridian

so rise and sail, together we’ll float
’cause you are my poison
and I’m your antidote

I’m just a child of nonsense murmurs
a domed house of moan in a ramshackle park
no more saints and no more sinners 
from rivers so stark
to the ramshackle park

there’s a place where we won’t get old
there’s a place where we won’t get old
there’s a place where we won’t get old
there’s a place where we won’t get old

Ramshackle Park

"In A Dark Room", year 2018. All instruments & vocals by Colin Clay
LYRICS:
you’re moving slowly
four cigarettes per hour
just because you’re lonely
and your tongue so sour

yes I set the house ablaze
but it just fell down on me
my nicotine angel of ashes
you’ll be my breakdown, you see

still no one’s driving this burning car
out of my consciousness
still no one’s driving this burning car
out of my consciousness

you’re moving slowly
four cigarettes per hour
just because you’re lonely
my only delirious flower

we stepped out of our own picture
collided and turned to stone
burnt all of our unread books
what now - to be or to be alone?

still no one’s driving this burning car
out of my consciousness
still no one’s driving this burning car
out of my consciousness
still no one’s replacing the city
with burning simplicity

Burning Away

"In A Dark Room", year 2018. All instruments & vocals by Colin Clay
LYRICS:
see you down there my friend
by the Skeleton Road again
where the dreams of lovers
fade away

hands that reach through the smoke
the mystery stranger spoke:
you have some guts to walk
down the Skeleton Road

ragged and forlorn I go and I go
I go till the sun rays will give up to snow
I walk by myself and my name is not Joe
so what do I know, tell me
what do I know?

I lay my head in the dust
of your false-hearted trust
and let the nameless nights
take command of us

but someday I’ll just have to stop
someday the world I know will drop
and then there will be
no more mile to go

ragged and forlorn I go and I go
I go till the sun rays will give up to snow
I walk by myself and my name is not Joe
so what do I know, tell me 
what do I know?

carefree as a devil-may-care 
good-for-nothing, that’s me
but in the end some things aren’t fair
and I will truly miss thee

see you down there my friend
by the Skeleton Road again
see you down there my friend
by the Skeleton Road again
where the dreams of lovers
fade away

In A Dark Room

Skeleton Rd.

"In A Dark Room", year 2018. All instruments & vocals by Colin Clay
LYRICS:
I still remember
our own age of reptiles
our own age of reptiles
soon to be doomed

when our worlds boomed
and we let ourselves marooned
when our worlds boomed
we let ourselves marooned

we made plans and thought about things
and things and many nice things to do
but they just went extinct
got lost in the wind
they went extinct too soon

I still remember
our own age of reptiles
our own age of reptiles
and from time to time

in a memory museum
we think of our sublime crime
now in a new aeon
we think of our sublime crime

we made plans and thought about things
and things and many nice things to do
but they just went extinct
got lost in the wind
they went extinct too soon

and I’m still haunted
by our own age of reptiles
and I’m still haunted
by our own age of reptiles

Our Own Age Of Reptiles

"In A Dark Room", year 2018. All instruments & vocals by Colin Clay
LYRICS:
there goes the nameless boy
a hero of a felony town
he’ll tell us his unknown story
of wayward justice and glory

there goes the nameless boy
one of the missing lovers
sleepwalking in time
turning blood into wine

there goes a hero without a name
there he goes, he brings the rain
there goes a hero without a name
there he goes, he brings the rain

he’s walking on the right side
and his shadow on the left
bringing the fallout of stars
which can’t be left to melt

he talks with the ocean
he’s in love with the storm
with all his devotion
from the day he was born

there goes a hero without a name
there he goes, he brings the rain
there goes a hero without a name
there he goes, he brings the rain

there goes a hero without a name
there he goes, he brings the rain
there goes a hero without a name
there he goes, he brings the rain

Nobody's Hero

"In A Dark Room", year 2018. All instruments & vocals by Colin Clay
LYRICS:
cheap wedding on rocky meadows
that’s you and your strange obsessions
please tell me that art is dead
this will be your song of confession

and our love’s like a gunshot
our love’s like muskets
let me bath in your hair tonight
where the drowned landscapes
have gone astray
like ships that went out of sight

out of the black into the rose red
will I ever sleep in your head?
out of the black into the rose red
like stories we read
and will never forget

drinks are on me but my heart’s up to you
I’m there in all maps of your body
in watermelon sugar we’ll live
and there we won’t be just nobodies

and our love’s like a gunshot
our love’s like muskets
let me bath in your hair tonight
where the drowned landscapes
have gone astray
like ships that went out of sight

out of the black into the rose red
will I ever sleep in your head?
out of the black into the rose red
like stories we read
and will never forget

like stories we read
and will never forget
like stories we read
and will never forget
stories we read 
and endings we dread
stories we read 
and endings we dread

Love Like A Gunshot

"In A Dark Room", year 2018. All instruments & vocals by Colin Clay
LYRICS:
here and there
here and there
in the middle of nowhere
winds blew my mind
like a smoke
from her cigarette

here and there
here and there
now and then
among the ghosts
and our hearts 
of worn-out leatherette

everything’s fine having
fun when I’m gone
with princess-of-anguish of mine 

you write and you tear
again and again
every last letter and clothes to wear
you write and you tear
again and again

here and there
here and there
there’s dirt on her skirt
and zip on her back
she’s waiting for heavens
to strike and attack

here and there
here and there
we‘re soaring through hollowness
of our small universe
where she‘s my little 
sweet shipwreck

you write and you tear
again and again
every last letter and clothes to wear
you write and you tear
again and again

Little Sweet Shipwreck

"In A Dark Room", year 2018. All instruments & vocals by Colin Clay
LYRICS:
she‘s up on her cloud
I’m down in my room
smoking in my bed
I still smell her perfume

pushing away
my sick sunny day
with my cloudberry doll
and lovely rust in her hair

she‘s up on her cloud
I’m down in my room
I want to be her bed
by the daydream lagoon

I write poetry for her
while lying on the floor
‘cause poetry is everything
everything and more

under the apple tree
she’s eating a pear
but one thing can set me free
it’s lovely rust in her hair

she’s immortal, unlike me
and that’s what I like the most
you could say that she’s unreal
and I fell in love with a ghost

and it’s that post-loneliness
when it’s just a faint gleam
and I want to stay with her
stay with her in my dreams

Girl From Nowhere

Alternative/rock/blues/folk side project of Colin Clay --- https://soundcloud.com/colin-clay-115212540

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