It's a breakup tune, with angst, what more can I say?  One influence was The Police - So Lonely, early The Jam, and some Bowie influence as well, and some 80s influences, and some prog rock influences, and... and...  you get the idea.  Making music that is unique is everything. 

YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME
(c) JunkHeap Oct 01 2021 / Remix Sep 2023

It's such a nightmare being dumped, 
breakups are never easy. 
Insecurity feeds.
I know who I am,
I didn't deserve it,  
what you did to me.

The pain it turns, 
it's like a dagger twisted.
Til my heart bleeds.
I see your toxic,
convoluted optics.
So glad I'm free.

You're Gonna Miss Me.

Stone cold, not sure if you're alive.
Well, you made up your mind,
and it's goodbye.
I need to leave you in the past,
I must have been blind.
My soul gives me a high-five.

You're Gonna Miss Me.

You're Gonna Miss Me (Remixed/Remastered Apr 2025)

This is a song about finding that girl who you know is your life partner.  Such a cool feeling if/when it happens.  

LOVE NEVER-ENDING
(c) JunkHeap Mar 19 2022 / Remixed Sep 2023

So what you think when your day is so plain.
Looking out the window has the blasé.
I'm walking home and I'm thinking of you.

Chin on hand looking outside.
Unenthusiatically working through the  day dreams.
Don't you want to get away from the everyday?

C'mon on baby, join me on the street and dance.

I want to meet you at a coffee shop,
and pretend I don't know you.
flirt with you girl, like we first met.

Seasons changing, and reasons waning.
Forget the meaning, the deeper reason.
We keep on aging, our love keeps changing. 
A flower into a bouquet. 

I grab your hand and we go flying high over the city,
over the steeples and chimneys. 
Someone sweeping; 
someone sippin' a coffee on a balcony.

You and I smile at each other, 
with the wind in our ears, 
and we're changing gears.
No ones going to stop us...  
Our love for each other.

Love Never-ending (Remixed/Remastered Apr 2025)

DANCING WITH MYSELF – Billy Idol (c) 1982 
- JunkHeap (c) Feb 19 2022

On the floors of Tokyo
Or down in London town to go, go
With a record selection and a mirror direction
I'm dancing with myself

When there's no one else in sight
In the crowded lonely night
Well I wait so long for my love vibration
And I'm dancing with myself, oh-oh

Dancing with myself, oh-oh
Dancing with myself
When there's nothing to lose 
and there's nothing to prove
Well I'm dancing with myself

Ah, oh, oh-oh

If I looked all over the world
And there's every type of girl
ddBut your empty eyes seem to pass me by
Leave me dancing with myself

So let's sink another drink
'Cause it'll give me time to think
If I had the chance I'd ask the world to dance
And I'd be dancing with myself, oh-oh

Dancing with myself, oh-oh
Dancing with myself
When there's nothing to lose 
and there's nothing to prove 
Well I'm dancing with myself

Ah oh oh-oh
Ah oh oh-oh-oh
Ah oh oh-oh
Ah oh oh-oh

If I looked all over the world
And there's every type of girl
But your empty eyes seem to pass me by
Leave me dancing with myself

So let's sink another drink
'Cause it'll give me time to think
If I had the chance I'd ask the world to dance
And I'd be dancing with myself, oh-oh

Dancing with myself, oh-oh
Dancing with myself
If I had the chance I'd ask the world to dance

Oh oh oh-oh
Oh-oh oh-oh, dancing with myself
Oh-oh oh-oh, dancing with myself (sweat)
Oh-oh oh-oh, dancing with myself

Dancing With Myself - (c) Billy Idol 1982 - JunkHeap (c) Feb 2022 / Remix/Fix Dec 2022

These are difficult times (aren't they always).  We all depend on someone; the solidity in our lives.   ...if we don't, it's a sad life, because it's a tough life and we need all of the help we can get.  This is a song about those you depend on.

I LOOK FOR YOU
(c) JunkHeap Apr 06 2022 / Remixed Sep 2023

Sometimes the days wear me down.  
I'm looking outside,
see my reflection in the window.
Furrowed brow and worrying  
etching its lines.
   
The world it turns and burns,
seems like it'll always be this way.
Hope shines bright through the clouds, 
as we wish for a better day.

I look for you.
I see your face in the crowd. 
Her eyes call to me, 
and we meet and 
hold each other so close. 
I feel your warmth.
See the throngs of people
moving like a wake around us;
in the ordered chaos, 
we save each other from it all.

ch. / break

My pillar of sanity, is you.
I look for you 
to whittle away the time 
on this insane ride.
Laughter and I get you.
We're past the pleasantries.
So many great days behind,
so many ahead.
So many great days ahead.

I look for you.

I Look For You (Remixed/Remastered Apr 2025)

The tune has a bit of 60s psychedelia, some 70s funk vibe, and a tiny bit of the 80s.  This is about the everyday, a story to take you away.  The name is a double entendre.  

REFLECTION IN THE HEAT
(c) JunkHeap Jun 28 2022 / Remix Sep 2023

Some summers evening, with the feel,  
and the deal, going down on the street.
We're melting, but the warm
is a welcome treat.

My love looks at me and we make a 
hasty retreat to the a/c in the local cinema.
'Back to the Future',  
sitting back thinking 
most of us care about the future.

We walk outside after the show, 
and a world war could consume us.  
No one wants it.  Everyone avoids it.

I look down, and see 
rain ripples on a puddle.
I open my umbrella, 
and hold her hand...
 
I sure hope we get it together.

I get home and toss my keys on the table.
Someday I will be unable. 
For now, just making sense of the world.  
Maybe before I croak, sudden revelation.
I put up my feet and ponder.
 
Yet another year has passed, 
ruminating over it.

You did well, still work to do, 
but the last year has been 
a bit peculiar.
One year older, life is such a wonder.
Hard times, 
we come out somewhat stronger.

Ya.
Reflection.

All the people walking on the streets,
I'm thinking we're getting closer to
a precipice.
In this time everyone is trying to make
ends meet.
Change is up to you and me.

Reflection In The Heat (Remixed/Remastered Apr 2025)

This song was inspired from the movie 'Fight Club'.  When the buildings were falling.  I get the feeling some ppl who listen to this will think it's about destroying society.  No.

This is a song about doing something about improving the world,  each in our own way.  EACH of us has to do something.  With that belief, nothing will stand in our way.

NOTHING'S GONNA STAND IN OUR WAY
JunkHeap (c) (Dec 2022 / Remixed/Fixed Aug 2023)

Where were you,
when it was all coming down?
Where were you,
why did you run away?

All night we watched the city burn.
The world crumbling down into ashes,
down on the ground.

Through the screams, we see the people running.
Through the smoke we see how people really behave.
No way to stop the crossfire as hope gives away.
We have to take it all down, and start from the ground, 
yes we do.

I don't know what else we're supposed to do.
Another year of the same.
Time to take it down, 
time to turn it around.

Let's start over, it's such a dream. 
Now all is clean.
Nothing's gonna stand in our way.
We watch, helpless; the endless scene.
Take it into our own hands,
now!
Nothing's gonna stand in our way.

Let's start over, it's such a dream. 
Now, all is clean.
Nothing's gonna stand in our way.
We watch, helpless; the endless scene.
Take it into our own hands,
now!
Nothing's gonna stand in our way.

Nothing's Gonna Stand In Our Way

HINDSIGHT - (JunkHeap (c) Refixed Apr 2023 / (c) Aug 02, 2003)

Things could have been so different, 
if they could have been done again. 
Countless times we see the chance, 
and let them go, they wont come again 

He remembered the glory and strength of his youth, 
wasted his older years yearning for its return. 
Never realized that wisdom is more than a fair trade; 
Beauty in ones' own introspection.

Things could have been so different, 
if they could have been done again. 
Countless times we see the chance, 
and let them go, they wont come again 

They never will...

Hindsight

MAYBE SOMEDAY (c) JunkHeap Jan 26 2024

A song about a long-distance relationship.
Single cover done by Nelson Designs:  https://fiverr.com/s/yvd7Qb6

She loves him, he loves her.
Living far away from one another due to circumstance.
Occasions where they meet and their love blossoms.
The hardest time is being apart when you so want to see them.

She doesn't have the money, he's flat broke.
Travel seldom happens, but they won't flow apart.
So they speak through their phones;
work hard for the next time when they can hold each other, 
so, so close,
lost in the moment.

Their love it makes them work so much harder,
to live together and share their worlds.
Maybe someday, but not today.
 
The crescendo building 
near Iguazu Falls in Argentina,
that's where he wants to say the words to her.

She dreams of the quiet of an old growth forest in BC, 
let the trees share their wisdom, 
while they stare in each others eyes.
She's not going to lie, she melts when he looks deep.

Br.

Maybe someday.
Sippin’ hot chocolate on a train going to nowhere, 
holding hands...
Sleeping in on a rainy day, making sure not to plan anything, 
so difficult these days.
Their hearts feel, and they can dream.  
It'll happen where they can both meet, and be together,
be together, forever.
Maybe someday.

Their love it makes them work so much harder,
to live together and share their worlds.
Maybe someday, but not today.

uh, uh, uh ohh...

outro.

Maybe Someday

THE LADY BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD
(c) JunkHeap Jun 27 2024

Video available at:  https://youtu.be/Y2Pm7CLIXdg?si=PVwoVMy9ZIYJXAh6

This is a tune that I put together based on snippets of ghost stories I remembered from the past.  

Artistry by nelsondesigns:  https://fiverr.com/s/jjexr8w

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Some time not too long ago, dashboard panel aglow, 
lonely road, he’s thinking about life and the everyday,
hands on the wheel...

In a time a few centuries ago, 
she worked selling flowers to feed her children, 
and provide a warm home.
Those were good memories she's keepin'...  

She was walking across the street, 
an out-of-control horse carriage 
came around the bend.
They did meet;
didn’t have time to run out of the way.  

She said she’d be home in a little while, 
but she never arrived to kiss her child. 
Her crumpled body lying beside the road, 
people surrounded her but there was no hope. 

Her flowers spoiled in the dirt. 
The day went on without her. 

ch.
The lady by the side of the road, 
never did she make it home.

Each mile turned into the next, 
until he couldn’t believe what he saw
at the edge of his headlights.
A lady in a flowing white dress off of the tarmac. 

Dandelions pushing up on the hem of her dress.
Why she was there was anyone’s guess.  
He stopped and got out of the car, 
and opened the back door, 
while asking her if she needed a lift. 

She didn’t say a word but got in.
He closed the door, 
and asked the obvious questions as they drove, 
and she never answered. 
The air became oddly cold. 

As they came into town he asked,
Where do you want to go?
She didn't reply, and pointed out her window.
So he started to pull to the side, but
in the rear view mirror, she was gone. 

He slammed on the brakes and jumped out of the car. 
Seems she finally made it home.  
He felt a soft kiss on his cheek, 
and could see his exhale turn into cold breath.  

The lady by the side of the road.

The Lady By The Side Of The Road

EVERYTHING AROUND YOU
(c) JunkHeap June 04 2021

This is a song about the nest around you 
- your mind; the people close to you;  
the neighbourhood you live in.
----

Making a nest in my head, 
thinking how best 
to build it all around me.
My half-empty heart it echoes;
Change it to full before I'm dead.
Familiar faces come to rest and say hello. 
Build a presence, build a presence,  
and stay for the show.

Lights above a corner shop flicker on.
Insects buzz, signalling.
People linger in the evening,
in the summer heat after the sun 
has beat us down. 
Hey the earth has turned away
and gives us shade,
only for a time,
only for a time.
Indifferent to you and I.
So we all rest for another day.

This is what happens everyday.
We spin around in the Milky Way.
Nice to settle in for the duration.
It's not a contest.
Build your nest.
Build your nest. 

Ornate silver cup of time,
reminds me of another day. 
So hard sometimes to stay
here in the present.
Sometimes I feel I'm going insane.

A buzzing menace intrudes
in my thinking, wait for it to go.
Dark clouds split open.
Green lights all the way down the road.
Sleep in late, 
I don't want you to go. 

Collect some straw to build my nest,
imperfection at its best, 
but it's ok, it'll do, 
we're all here together; 
stop and marvel,
on the blue marble. 


 




Everything Around You (Remixed/Remastered Apr 2025)

[May2025] Currently remixing/mastering my previous album FIVE, and next album - Dreaming of Better - content, then back to creating more songs!  

The name JunkHeap came from creating song ideas and leaving them for later, and then picking through the junk heap of ideas to enhance a new song idea.  Explore my discography, find something you like.  

All of my albums on Soundcloud have been reduced to a sampling of a few songs.  The complete albums are available on all streaming sites.

JunkHeap is a solo, alternative rock music project.  Unapologetic, thought-provoking, emotionally raw music for the masses...

It's about you, the listeners.  I hope you get something out of my songs.  The lyrics are in the song name link.

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