Words and Music Dave Rose
Reloaded 19/12/2024

Lyrics

Coming up for air, find myself some time to escape somewhere
Perhaps a weekend by the sea, just you and me
We'll have fish and chips and stone skimming championships
The loser buys the drinks

It's just nice to leave behind 
the mortgage and the bills and the daily grind

Or we could steal ourselves a rocket ship and fly away to Mars
Stick a flag on it we'll call it ours

It's just nice to leave behind
the mortgage and the bills and the daily grind
To pack away our troubles and just leave them all behind
And unwind 

I'll let you into a little secret but you must promise me you'll keep it quiet
I've a perfect plan to rob a bank
All I needs a fast car and some dynamite

And then it would be nice to forever leave behind
the mortgage and the bills and the daily grind
Oh it would be oh so nice to forever leave behind 
the mortgage and the bills and the daily grind......

Coming Up For Air

Words and Music Dave Rose
Another song of heartbreak and unrequited love.
😁

Lyrics
There you go again
off to god knows where
chasing rainbows
it'll never end

If you find your pot of gold then let me know

I'll never understand
How you let love go
Just like grains of sand 
Through your fingers you let it flow

If you find your pot of gold then let me know

Was I ever on your mind
was I ever in your heart
Was I ever anything to you
But just wasted time 

If you find your pot of gold then let me know

I gave you all I could
I built a world around you
But it seems whatever I did
It was never enough or it was never good enough......

Chasing Rainbows

A song about a man who has lost his way.
Remixed and reloaded again. Apologies to people who have previously liked and commented.

Paul Wilson Piano and Organ
Paul Rose Guitars and Keyboard
Me Vocals, Drums, Guitar and Bass

Lyrics
Got myself ready for a big night out
Shined up my shoes a new Italian shirt
I see her across the room I try to catch her eye
She gives a little smile as she drinks her wine

So I move across and sit by her and buy her a drink
We compare our spray on tans and we compare ink
Get your coat you've pulled and we go back to mine
But I've drank too much so she finds it's a waste of time

When will I ever learn
I'm like a moth to a flame going back again and again

But like falling off a bike you get back on
So I'm out again for the same again and the search for fun
I hit 13 bars I drink in every one
So it's unsurprising that I finish on my own

When will I ever learn
I'm like a moth to the flame 
Going back again and again

It wasn't meant to be like this
I had a home I had a wife and kids
But the bottle took a hold of me and it never left
Unlike everything and everyone else

When will I ever learn
I'm like a moth to the flame going back again and again 

Woke up this morning on my own again
My head is gonna burst
And I feel like hell.............

13 Bars (Moth To The Flame)

13 Bars

A reload of a song about the passage of time and wondering it you have perhaps let life slide by. Melancholy turned up to 11.
Lyrics
I'm 57 years old now, its hard to believe I know
Where the hell did these years all go?
I hesitate and prevaricate, capitulate and procrastinate
Where the hell does that leave me now

They say that he who hesitates is lost
Well i have found that out and it's to my cost

Standing at the station with one foot on the train
But I step off and watch it roll away
Just watch the lights as they fade away

They say that he who hesitates is lost
Well i've found that out and it's to my cost..

I put off 'til tomorrow what I can do today
But today will soon be yesterday and tomorrow'll be today
So where does that leave me
Well somehow it seems
Between the devil and the deep blue sea....

57 years old now it's hard to believe I know
Where the hell did these years all go?
Where the hell have these years all gone.........?

He Who Hesitates

Words and Music Dave Rose
Reloaded after cleaning up a very boomy bass!

Lyrics
So your saying it's you not me
That you have changed and you don't want me
That all I ever do is bring you down
So your tired of me and you don't want me around

So your saying that your moving on
That that was that and you want your freedom
That all I've ever done is hold you back
So your moving on and you won't look back so I

Can wave goodbye to all of this
And then you say that you won't miss me
So wave goodbye to all of this
And you say that you won't miss me

Well I will pick myself up as I know I should
And come tomorrow you won't see me for good
By tomorrow night you'll be so last week
And by next week my dear, You'll be so last year

I used to think that we had it all
I'd look at you and think your beautiful 
But I have been your fool for far too long
So it's high time that I moved on....
So you can...

Wave goodbye......

Wave Goodbye

Words and Music Dave Rose
A love song as I am feeling in sentimental mood and why not? 
Lyrics
They fell in love at 16 years of age
When he kissed her cheek and she slapped his face

And though they fight like cat and dog and turn the air blue
When things calm down they feel the earth it moves

It's funny how their stars aligned
Built their own little universe
When their worlds collided

And though they fight like cat and dog and turn the air blue
When things calm down they feel the earth it moves

She is adventurous, he is more cautious 
She is generous, he thinks she's frivolous 
She thinks life is elsewhere
He says it's right now right here
She wants to travel the world
He is more of a homebird....

Venus and Mars
Such is love love love
Venus and Mars
Such is love love love......

Venus and Mars

Music Dave Rose
Here is a track I have just done today which to my mind sounds it like it could be off a detective show. Possibly :>)

Gumshoe

Words and Music Dave Rose.
A slow blues tempo for the current situation we find ourselves in.
Bit of a dodgy vocal unfortunately, I might do it again.
Headphones essential 🎧
Lyrics
How’ve we let it get to this, it really seems ridiculous 
These gangsters criminals fanatics and lunatics 
Drag us into the abyss 

So tonight let’s just put that all aside and let the music play 
And if this should be the last song for you and me
Then let’s just sway

Or am I just being pessimistic should I be more optimistic 
And maybe I’ll see that history won’t simply be repeating itself 

So tonight let’s just put that all aside and let the music play 
And if this should be the last song for you and me
Let’s just sway….

But the moon 🌙 still turns the tides
And day follows night
We awake to find a brand new day 
And this doesn’t have to be the last song
And life still goes on 
Life still goes on…….

The Last Song

Words and Music Dave Rose
Headphones best.
I read a book a few years ago by Robert Hughes called Fatal Shore. It is thoroughly recommended, telling the stories of so many of the people who were simply transported to Australia for the most minor crimes carried out largely by people who were poor and starving. Australia today has become quite fantastic but the conditions back in the day must have been horrendous and terrifying for those people sent there.

Lyrics
Doesn't matter what my name is or any of these poor souls
Transported to Van Diemans land for stealing coal

Broke a rich man's law and there's Hell to pay
Transported to this fatal shore to serve our days

Conditions are horrendous the work is killing us
Never enough food, the guards are brutal and cruel

Broke a rich man's law and there's hell to pay
Transported to this fatal shore to serve our days

What became of my family, they'll never know what became of me
Will anyone tell my story?
What will be my legacy or my history?

Now as ghosts we look across this harbour from across the rocks
All these people all these buildings its changed so much
No more this fatal shore......This is Australia

Fatal Shore

Music by Dave Rose
An aborted song turned into a little instrumental. It used to be called Used To Be but, I did a much slower version which I preferred. I put this out a few days ago with a vocal but deleted it and replaced it with this version.
I kept running out of breath when I was singing it as I just couldn't get the lyrics to flow properly :>)

Easy Does It

Hello,
Here are some songs wot I wrote. Mostly recorded at home as a sort of one man band set up.
Sometimes other musicians play on the tunes too.

A little stroll on the mild side 🎧

"Dave was awarded 4th best tambourinist in his cul de sac whilst still only 37, he still plays tambourine today whilst his peers have abandoned tambourine. Think that speaks volumes to Dave's commitment to his music". (Big Hits Magazine}

"Dave is a blues crooner who sings everything in B Flat" Rex Bone 



I have a tendency to remove songs to tweak them and reload. Sometimes they never return 🤔

Headphones recommended.

New tracks tagged #Light Alternative