Can't Believe You Wanna Leave

Romance Is Dead

First Love

In Too Deep

Tower Of Song

A little loop jam thing me n Alice French did one evening a while back... 

Havanajam!

Version as performed at the Classic Album night Graceland presented by The Awful Truth at The Wonder Inn, Manchester, September 2016

Boy In The Bubble

Wrote some miserable lyrics, so made it into a dance tune.

It left when we were kissing but our eyes were open wide 
It left when we were talking but the truth we tried to hide 
It left when we lay silent in the stillness of the night
It left when we were lonely as we held each other tight

Stay 
Yes we failed to make love stay

It left when we were listening but not hearing all it said 
It left when we were wishing we were somewhere else instead
It left when we were troubled but we didn’t care to say
It left when we fell silent yes we failed to make love stay

When we left it neglected 
When we left it ignored
When we left it for watching screens
It left us looking bored 

It left not when our heads were turned
This happens every day
It left us with a lesson learned
We failed to make love stay

(We Failed To Make Love) Stay

The Deal

He’s standing over your mother 
So close she can feel his cold breath 
He leans in and kisses her stomach
Lays his bony hands over her breasts
Her screams and her pain they remind her 
He’ll be there when her moment is due  
But today he’s not here for your mother
Today he’s come looking for you
So as you emerge from your hollow 
Your fresh skin all bristled and peeled
His blank face will be 
The first thing that you see
As he’s waiting to show you The Deal. 

And he takes you alone to his chamber
Where nobody nothing is heard
As he leads you by hand through the doorway
He offers no comforting words
He points with his hideous finger 
To a table and chair made of stone
Then he leads you along to be seated
And hands you a pen made from bone
He takes up the seat right across you  
And a manuscript he does unseal
The trace of a grin 
In his sallow white skin
As before you he places The Deal

Your promise to keep is demanding 
No option to end or repeal 
He’ll deliver with ease 
As you’re down on your knees 
And he’ll choose when to finish The Deal

As he returns you on back to your mother
And allows you to take your first breath
You let out a scream at what happened 
As she clutches you close to her chest
On reflection the terms are quite simple 
All you’re looking to do is survive 
And you know it’s your only commitment
Your sole obligation in life

But it’s worse as you start to get older
And the creases they start to reveal
And the winters are longer and colder
And you’re checking for signs how you feel
And your fire is starting to smoulder 
And your fear you find hard to conceal
And you’re constantly checking your shoulder
Every day that you manage to steal
‘Cause you’ll never be sure 
‘Til he darkens your door
That he’s keeping his side of The Deal

The Deal

Someone To Blame

Another man is gone
Another man is gone
And it is 10 years on
In this land I don’t belong

I watched him as he run
I watched him as he run
Beneath the solid sun
As the bullets left my gun

But it don’t lay at my door
I am but a soldier; this is war
I just can’t remember what we’re fighting for

They tell me God is on our side
They tell me God is on our side
But I can’t use that place to hide
God knows that I have tried

But it don’t lay at my door
I am but a soldier; this is war
I just can’t remember what we’re fighting for

Another man is gone
Another man is gone
But it don’t lay at my door
I am but a soldier; this is war
I just can’t remember what we’re fighting for


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