You hate my face Yerunda
Can't stand this place Yerunda
It's just things we say
I'll send you back Yerunda
You will attack Yerunda
It's just things we say
We'll never die Yerunda
Yet never cry Yerunda
It's just things we say
Everything transforms 
All minds will rise
We'll stand forever 
And love never dies
Can't tell a lie
I am not wise Yerunda
We're hypnotised Yerunda
It's just things we say

Yerunda

This is one of my first songs from around 2006, silly but I liked the tune

Please Don't Play (Your games with me)

Marnisland

We're Just Daydreaming

When my thoughts scare me 
And strange doorways stare
Worldly forces threaten 
With indifference, without care
All that’s alluring isn't what it seems 
Have to remember that life is but a dream
When I am muted 
By uncertainty
Have to remember that life is but a dream
And all seems vain in light of our mortality
Have to remember that life is but a dream
And look past illusion
I'm light
I'm free
Love always near
I have no fear 
I'm free
Sometimes I imagine
I am all alone
Have to remember all existence is my home
All that comes to save us
Won’t be what it seems
Have to remember that life is but a dream
All that comes to save us
Won't be what it seems
Have to remember 
To wake up from our dream

Have to Remember

Four stumbling blocks in pursuit of the truth
Respect for authority
Next is custom then the opinion
Of the ignorant masses 
Lastly the display of psuedo wisdom
I have no desire to rule anyone 
Four stumbling blocks in pursuit of the truth
Respect for authority
Next is custom  then the opinion
Of the ignorant masses 
Lastly the display of psuedo wisdom
Ive got no desire to serve anyone 
The four chief sources of my ignorance 
God- the only authority
Dont trust the masters of pseudo wisdom
Ive got no desire to rule anyone .
Roger Bacon and I. 

Four stumbling blocks (In pursuit of truth)

From the outside looking in
The way you live is insane
I don't know where to begin
Lets put aside blame
Conformity is a deadly vice
That makes you think you're safe 
But the truths from which we hide
Become the horrors we face
On the Outside
It can be lonely
On the Outside 
You can be free.

On the Outside

I forget to wake up
Every day I break up
With myself from the night before
I forgot to wake up
When I'm gone, I don't want to be on
The wrong side of history.
I forget to wake up
Every day I make up
With a system I deplore
I don't want to wake up
When I'm gone, I don't want to be on
The wrong side of history.

Wrong Side Of History

These days are making a stranger of me
I can't agree with anyone because
These days are making a stranger of me
I wonder what will become of me
Where will I go?
What'll become of the things that we once knew?
Will you become a stranger too?
These days are making a stranger of me
I can't get on with anyone because
These days are making a stranger of me
I wonder what will become of me

Stranger Of Me

Tired of singing lately wanted to see if I could hold the interest with a couple of guitars even though my playing ability leaves me very limited

Quiet Return

You say you want the truth
But you don't want to face yourself
You say that you rage at the ones who enslave
You know you hate yourself
You tell me it's over
It's just begun
This is the age of redemption
The age of redemption
You tell me you want the truth
But you don't want to face yourself 
You say that you rage against the ones who enslave
When you know you hate yourself 
You say it's nearly over
It's just begun
This is the age of redemption

Age Of Redemption

I did the drawing 20 years ago

Imagine there’s a heaven
Invisible above the sky
Something worth dying for
Imagine all the people
No longer needing government
Living in peaceful anarchy

You may say you’re a dreamer
Yours is not the only one 
And I hope that don’t annoy you everyone

Imagine if truth was 
Valued more than vanity
And if everyone could be free
Imagine something higher
Something better than ourselves
Something to drag us out of hell 

You may say you’re a dreamer
Yours is not the only one 
And I hope that don’t annoy you everyone

I Hope That Don't Annoy You

Lost in a lie
I feel so good 
Can't describe 
Off sick from life
Feel so good
So sublime
I don't know where i'm going
Don't seem to mind
Lost in a light
I feel so good 
Can't describe
Off sick from life 
Feel so good
Good inside
etc

Off Sick From Life

Maybe all things won’t pass away
Maybe our minds are not in our brains
And after all is said and done
Maybe it’s true we’ll carry on
Maybe our lives do mean something
Maybe the truth of it all would end suffering
Wisdom come in the form of a song
Maybe I know we’ll carry on

Carry On

All that's hidden will be revealed
No matter how well concealed
Every demon that is denied
Will grow weaker when recognised
All that's hidden, may it see the light
All that's hidden will find a way
Into the light one of these days
Every secret too dark to name
Will be exposed and put to shame
All that's hidden will see the light someday
All that's hidden will be revealed 
No matter how long concealed
All that's hidden will see the light someday

All that's hidden

Your words are seared into my soul
Everything I wrote could have been droll
You know I hate myself for being cruel
What can I say? I get so bored - without you
Got the Morbs 
The colours fade and I become a dullard
In every merry throng I see a graveyard
And you know I know just how you feel
And I wonder if you just got bored with me 
Getting the morbs 
Got the morbs

The Morbs

Just because he's unusual
And occasionally delusional
It doesn't mean that everthing he says 
Is unreliable
Amongst all the confusion 
He cuts through the illusion
And every now and then
Has the solution
Then he forgets again
Bad spirits enter telling him it's the end
Just because he's unusual
And occasionally delusional
It doesn't mean that everthing he says 
Is unreliable
Amongst all the confusion 
He cuts through the illusion
And every now and then
Has the solution

Benson

Amongst All The Confusion

samsung phone recording

When we've learned everything that we needed to
And been everywhere that we're going to
And we've lived every song that we wanted to
I hope that i'll see you again
When we've lifted each veil and we've sailed with each tide
Faced every sorrow put fear aside
When we've followed the light far outside the gloom
I hope that i'll see you again
For I won't forget you when we have overcome the world

I'll See You

Another phone recording

Don't worry this happened to me
I remember longing
For someone for far too long
And they would never be mine
That's the way it goes, that's just the way it goes
Waiting for the memories
That hold you back to leave you
Insisting on no one apart
From the one who's on your mind
That's the way it goes, that's just the way it goes
You saw her at the seaside she stopped briefly
Then ran to some guy
But you thought you saw her long for you
To take her on a ride
Don't worry this happened to me
I remember dreaming
Of someone for far too long
And they would never be mine
That's the way it goes, that's just the way it goes
Sometimes that's not the way it goes.

That's The Way It Goes

Thought i'd have a go at writing a love song

I must insist that you choose
For I will not wait too long
I feel sorry for the other guy
We both know that I am the right one

When you're in love with two people
Not many folks may understand
That you can love both equally
Believe me I have sympathy

When you're in love with two people 
You're going to feel so guilty
Even though you didn't intend it and it is so tough
You have to hurt someone you love

When you're in love with two people 
You have to let someone down
There's two people or maybe more
Waiting outside your door

The Right One

My thoughts were insane
So I wrote them again 
Now I'm lost at sea 
My love was in pain
My life was in vain
And that is what made me 
Shed my old skin 
And go searching for eternity
I fell back in line
But not for all time
Still trying to break free 
Ooo yeah
The world is insane
For we are in pain
From being the breathing dead
Those who are alive
Can see without eyes
And know without their heads 
I shed my old skin
And went searching for eternity
Fell back in line 
But not for all time 
Still trying to break free
I will be free
Ooo yeah

The Cobbled Moth

I know you’ve got the magic
Without being drunk
You’ve got the magic
Which cannot be debunked 
I see you’ve got the magic
The Blue Devils won’t refuse 
You’ve got the magic
You cannot lose
I see you’ve got the magic 
Not the Magic Circle Kind
You’ve got the magic 
Of the Single Eye
I know you’ve got the magic
We had when we were small
You’ve got the magic
And that’s not all
You are good
Because you know you’re not good
But you’re trying to be better
With no vendetta
You’ve got the magic 
Without being pissed
You’ve got the magic
With your own twist 
I say you’ve got the magic
Although you might be afraid to use it
You’ll never lose it
You’ve got the magic
You've got the magic
We had when we were small 
You've got the magic 
And that's not all 
You are good 
Because you know you're not good
But you're trying to be better 
With no vendetta 
You’ve got the magic
Without being drunk
You've got the magic
Which cannot be debunked 
I see you’ve got the magic
The Blue Devils won’t refuse 
You’ve got the magic
Got the magic etc

You've Got The Magic

Song set to a poem I rearranged by the multitalented Bethany Durrant
https://bootanypharmacy.wordpress.com/

Phone recording

You are a free a spirit aloof 
I want to adore you
But love would not be enough 
Uncouth for you the truth
Is enlightenment and that means 
No human attatchment
You cradle the Id to my thoughts 
Of the pacifier 
Sucking like the wet toungues of flames 
For passion and fire 
But never love 
You become a spirit 
Never belonging to any others heart
Except that of mother earth
I might be living in the dark ages 
But you are uncaged no shame 
As long as I have blood 
I am human and I love

The Loveless Hippy (Words by Bethany Durrant)

For my son 

I don't want to force you son 
To live by my ideals
I don't want to be the one 
To invalidate how you feel
I hope one day you know truth and wisdom
And that without love there can be no real union
They want to coerce you manipulate and stipulate
They want to take away your will to be free
God waits for you to go to him
The Roman ideal can never win
I think I am starting to undertsand the Lord above
I think I am starting to undertand what it is to love

To Love

I was sad to see you were living your life 
In a multi level marketing scheme
Trying to sell me a false dream
There was something more in your strained smiles
Multimedia profile screens 
Always trying to sell a false dream
Sometimes I feel so sad
I might be glad if you join me
Multi level marketing schemes 
Always trying to sell a false dream
I'd feel quite glad if you join me
If you join me
I was sad becasue I'm living my life

With unasked for yet much appreciated help from my 11 month old son on the rattle 

All these years debating
Old friend what can we say?
The truth is still unproven either way
I'm not going to conclude that life's in vain
I'm prepared to take some things on faith
We know about 'divide and conquer'
You know we don't know how people feel
The truth sometimes turns out to be fiction
And fiction to be real
I'm not going to conclude that life's in vain
I'm prepared to take some things on faith

On Faith

You can lie to your family
Cover your tracks
Clean up quite nice 
Make secret pacts
Bury the ugly things you've done
But you can't hide for very long
Lie to the public 
Be above the law
Swear never to talk
Win the hearts and minds of everyone 
You can't hide for long 
From your own conscience 
If you have one

Conscience

I cannot play the *ucking bongos, yet I did it again

Don't trust your senses 
Don't trust your gut 
Don't trust in reason 
If it contradicts us
Don't trust your neighbours 
They might think differently
Don't trust anybody who doesn't agree
Just do what you're told
And think what you're told
It's easy all you've got to do is what you're told
We would never hurt you
We would never lie 
We may have the power 
Yet corruption passed us by
Don't trust your ancestors 
Don't trust yourselves 
You're not the monopolisers 
Of technology and wealth
Just do what you're told
And think what you're told
It's easy all you've got to do is what you're told
You've got to trust the experts 
That have been appoved by us 
They're bought and sold 
Just do what you're told
And think what you're told
It's easy all you've got to do is what you're told

Do What You're Told

My only cover shared here. Wish I had a bass

The Caravelles, Lois Wilkinson (born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England) and Andrea Simpson (born in Finchley, London), were a British duo girl band.  Their single  "You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry" peaked on the  US Billboard charts at no. 3 in 1963, (before the British invasion).

Don't Blow Your Cool.  Andrea Simpson/Lois Wilkinson. 1963
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y3-FbqGMMA

"Not being cool's not cool but being too cool's just cold" (The Happy Somethings,  2020). https://soundcloud.com/thehappysomethings/millionth-girlfriend

Don't Blow Your Cool (The Caravelles)

Last one due to the upload limit

Partly inspired by Gnosticism

If the root of wickedness lies hidden out of sight
It waxes strongly, yet perishes in the light
Ignorance is the mother of all evil and death
For every soul, there isn’t much time left

Living spirit, no more separation
I’m asking for regeneration

I am stripped bare and ready to be reborn
First I must die, burn up the cloaks I’ve worn
If you are not empty you can’t be filled with light 
I must surrender, say farewell to this long night

I’ve been a fool, this is no game 
All words have power, be careful what you say

Living spirit, no more separation
I’m asking for regeneration

Regeneration

Latest songs: The Cobbled Moth 2: Soundcloud.com/thecobbledmoth2

Outsider songwriter cobbling lo-fi demos (because I don't know how not to). Achieved solo with a Tascam pocket studio, acoustic guitar, Telecaster, tambourine and bloody bongos...not all used on every track. Some Instrumentals. 

"Compliance is a deadly vice 
That makes you think you're safe
But the truths from which we hide
Become the horrors we face" (Cobbled Moth, 2016 from 'On the Outside').

Double translated as:
"Compliance is a deadly defect
This makes you think that you are safe
But the truths from which we hide
Become the horrors that we come across" (Bulyznik Prays, or Cobbled Midge).

All tracks for free download (unless I forgot to change permissions)
Copyright - all rights reserved -
The Cobbled Moth

The Cobbled Moth

Popular tracks