Latvian Girl
(Lyrics and Music by Wayne Tallowin)

She started out so optimistically
Rigan nightlife is better than the poverty
Deceitful words of a promised land across the sea
Can’t hear her mother’s cry – come home to me

She staggers in and looks around the room
Invisible, she’s wrapped up in her cocoon
Tormentor’s taunts they leave her raw like an open sore
Can’t quite figure out just how she hit the floor

Latvian girl hear your mother’s plea
Latvian girl come home to me

With savagery she’s pushed against a wall
No escape she just has to take it all
Bruised and battered and shattered to the core
Can’t quite figure out what the point is anymore

Latvian girl hear your mother’s plea
Latvian girl come home to me

Another night a dozen men from somewhere off the streets
Suicide just seems like sweet release
But hope is a cloak wrapped up real tight, protects her from the sin
There’s always a chance for a different dance she just needs the strength within

Latvian girl hear your mother’s plea
Latvian girl come home to me
Latvian girl come home to me


Latvian Girl

Inside my head
(Lyrics and Music by Wayne Tallowin)

I see a face in the crowd, feeling strangely proud 
thinking it’s a joke
Standing oh so near you whisper in my ear
Dinner for two I’m so in love with you

So when will I belong to you I’ve done all the things that you wanted me to
When will I be carried through that door
Thrown naked on my bed 
Dreams of you and me inside my head

Champagne by the pool, mesmerised
And I’m drowning in your charm
Coming up for air I feel a distance growing there
What can I do, I’m so in love with you

So when will I belong to you I’ve done all the things that you wanted me to
And when will I be carried through the door
Thrown naked on my bed 
Dreams of you and me inside my head

I toss and turn all night and I wonder what it is I’m not doing right
I’ve laid it out for you I’d even raise your children too
So let me make this crystal clear
It’s just the fact that you’re not here

So when will I belong to you I’ve done all I can all you wanted me to
And when will I be carried through the door
Thrown naked on my bed 
Dreams of you and me inside my head

Thrown naked on my bed dreams of you and me inside my head 

Thrown naked on my bed  dreams of you and me inside my head 

Inside my head
Inside my head


Inside My Head

Doing Time
(Lyrics and Music by Wayne Tallowin)

Hiding on his bookshelf sits a statuette
A trophy for a lucky man he’d just as soon forget
He can’t recall just what he did, what was going down
But he must’ve done something right before life knocked him down


The photos on his wall are his windows to the past
But the person looking back at him was always gonna crash
He sees his wife, he sees his child all his hopes and fears
And he sees the grief locked inside their tears 


And he’s demonised and he’s outside looking in
He’s a bad man doing time


Bourbon and coke too much smoke he writes his blackest songs
His lyrics drown in darkness they’re clouding right from wrong
Standing on the platform his train’s not yet arrived
Leaning forward to take the hit and he’s struggling to survive


And he’s demonised and he’s outside looking in
He’s a bad man doing time
And he’s demonised and he’s outside looking in
He’s a bad man, he’s a bad man, he’s a sad man doing time


Standing on her doorstep hope’s packed in his case
Its way too late to set things straight he sees it in her face
Crushed inside holds out his arms in quiet desperation
What can he do to earn himself salvation


And he’s demonised and he’s outside looking in
He’s a bad man doing time
And he’s demonised and he’s outside looking in
He’s a bad man doing time
He’s a bad man doing time
Doing time
Doing time


Brave New World

Doing Time

Brave New World
(Lyrics and Music by Wayne Tallowin)

Born in a place before the anger and hate 
Two up  two down on a council estate
Six kids and a dog it’s time to vacate
Ten pound tourists trying to catch a break
A brave new world a brand place 
There’s tears of anguish etched on my parents’ face
Their money paid time to take their chance

They made their move to a brave new world
There’s nothing wrong with wanting more
Went through that door to a brave new world
You may end up with nothing if you just sit tight

Seventeen years and my schooling’s complete
I finally learned to stand on my own two feet
I married my girl but we didn’t relate
So I grabs me a bus going interstate
A brave new world a brand new place
It’s sex, drugs, my guitar I’m off my face
Accidental rescue I’m given one more chance

I made my move to a brave new world
There’s nothing wrong with wanting more
Went through that door to a brave new world
You may end up with nothing if you just sit tight

You’re gonna do this and you’re gonna do that
But you’ll end up doing nothing and that’s a fact
If you wanna move on then get on track 
To a brave new world

Who would’ve guessed I’d be mowing lawn
Working 9 to 5 near where I was born
I’m raising kids and I’m making some cash
Who would’ve thought I’d end up this flash
A brave new world another taste
Of a life I really can’t afford to waste
I’m making good time cuz this is my last chance

I made my move to a brave new world
There’s nothing wrong with wanting more
Went through that door to a brave new world
You may end up with nothing if you just sit tight




I can feel you breathe
(Lyrics and Music by Wayne Tallowin)

I can’t help the way I feel
Here I come again spinning on your wheel
Round and around until it slows
My head’s a mess but my heart knows that
You’re the one for me

Too many times I’ve let you down
Accusing you when I’m the clown
Upside down and inside out
My head’s a mess but there’s no doubt that
You’re the one for me

Cuz your the one who understands
What happens next is in your hands
Is it in your heart to take the risk
Temptations there can you resist
Please let me lay my head down on your chest
So I can feel you breathe

Nobody understands what happens to a man
As his life passes by he needs to question why
What am I doing here when the other side’s so green
It’s all meaningless just emptiness cuz you’re the one for me

I can’t help the way I feel
You and me together we are so unreal
Upside down and inside out
My heads a mess but there’s still no doubt
That you’re the one for me

Cuz your the one who understands
What happens next is in your hands
Is it in your heart to take the risk
Temptations there can you resist
Please let me lay my head down on your chest
So I can feel you breathe
Please let me lay my head down on your chest
So I can feel you breathe
So I can feel you breathe
So I can feel you 


I Can Feel You Breathe

My Way Home
(Lyrics and Music by Wayne Tallowin)

Staring into space trying to remember the last time I saw your face
Seems like years ago
A blood red moon on a cloudless night
That’s the last time I got things right
Then you turned out the lights
In your eyes

Now these four walls are healing me 
leading me back from my insanity
To my way home

You never did state your case
Enabling me to become who I am
But it’s my disgrace
And those at home who believed in me showed me the path back to my dignity
And my way home

Now these four walls are healing me
Closing in on my tragedy
And my way home

And I’m feeling your love
You’re my power above
And I’m feeling your love inside of me

The future I cannot see
Day by day that’s what they’re telling me
But I’ve no choice, but believe
With your NA books and your distrusting looks
I need to kill my doubts by digging in my hooks
If I’m to rescue me
From my island lost at see

Now these four walls are healing me
Leading me back from my insanity
To my way home

And I’m feeling your love
You’re my power above
And I’m feeling your love 
Inside of me


My Way Home

Stand Up
(Lyrics and Music by Wayne Tallowin)

The stains on the walls
The deafening silence from those next door
Whatcha gonna say when you see it on the news
Like a thousand times before

The anger finds its mark
But you’re blind to the pain that their kids endure
Whatcha gonna say when you see it on the news
Like a thousand times before

Stand up
And put them down
No more processions for those ignored
Got to close this business down

Stand up, stand up, stand up

Rosie and her boy
Just twelve years old with a million dreams
The spectators watched while the psychopath struck
They said it wasn’t what it seemed

Stand up and put em down
These perpetrators, these evil clowns
No more processions for those ignored
Got go close this business down

She stays at home just to hide the scars
Fading away from the fear inside
She’s got nowhere to run, she’s got nowhere to hide

There’s anguish in her screams
But you pretend you’re asleep cuz you’ve heard it all before
Whatcha gonna say when you see it on the news
Like a thousand times before

The silence cuts you deep
You had your chance to respond but you chose to ignore
Now whatcha gonna say when you see it on the news
Like a thousand times before

Stand up and put em down
These perpetrators, these evil clowns
No more processions for those ignored
Got go close this business down

Stand up 
And put ‘em down
No more processions for those we ignore
Got to close this wicked evil DV business down


Stand Up

Under the Bridge
(Lyrics and Music by Wayne Tallowin)

Barely 12 months ago I was under that bridge on my own
And I just didn’t care that you were in the traffic alone
And there’s a world out there that you were desperate to see
Just 28 days was all you asked of me

And it felt so wrong I could tell by your look
When I looked into your eyes I could see what my addiction took
With the sun on your face and that hope in your heart
Just four weeks away from a brand new start
Just 28 days was all you asked of me

I was under that bridge for 40 long years
I was centred on me kept ignoring your tears
I was under that bridge
I was hiding from the traffic above
I was under that bridge hiding from your love

I’m feeling sick inside on that airplane ride
It was time to swallow my foolish pride
Ten thousand bucks and whole lotta luck
Made me realise what you felt inside

The trees have gone from in front of my place
Now I can feel the sun shining on my face
I’m taking hesitant steps like a newborn child
So much wasted time but now I’m reconciled
Just 28 days is all it took for me

Cuz I was under that bridge for 40 long years
It was all about me I kept dismissing your fears
But now I’m out from that bridge 
And I’m driving in the traffic above
Yeah I’m out from that bridge on the freeway of love
Yeah I’m out from that bridge on the freeway above
Yeah I’m driving with you in the traffic above.


Under The Bridge

A Perth boy from his early school days, Wayne has spent over 40 years in the music industry as a guitarist, singer and songwriter. 
Having left Perth at the tender age of 23, he spent the next 8 years surviving in Sydney seeking his fame and fortune as the guitarist with many a fine east coast band.
Fame having deserted him, he travelled to Guernsey and, although qualifying as an accountant and earning a living from the finance industry, he continued to play guitar in various bands over his 21 year visit to the island.  
Now back home in Perth, Wayne has put together Tallowin Music in the hope that Perth audiences will similarly enjoy his music as much as those who have seen him perform along the way.


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