Let Me Know

Oh Run rabbit run
You think you’re having fun
When there's a big train a coming
You don't play on the line

Oh Move make a move 
There’s nothing left to prove
You can make my world start turning
You got to do the right thing

I realise you’ve been telling lies
Those magic eyes they hypnotise
The way you smile still makes me sigh
So take me back don’t let me cry
Don’t say goodbye 

Oh Love crazy love
In this mindless push and shove
Still got this wild desire 
Want to make you mine 

Oh High make me high
Oh me oh my
To end at a beginning
Oh me oh my

I realise you’ve been telling lies
Those magic eyes they hypnotise
The way you smile still makes me sigh
So take me back don’t let me cry
Don’t say goodbye

It feels like I've been here before
Pushed onto an empty dance floor
I gave you everything you asked for
Just let me know that I can be yours

I realise you’ve been telling lies
Those magic eyes they hypnotise
The way you smile still makes me sigh
So take me back don’t let me cry
Don’t say goodbye

Oh Shoot you've got to shoot
From the hip you’ll look so cute
If we can only make it
Out of here alive

Oh Know let me know
Give me a chance I’ll let you grow
Let’s touch a new tomorrow 
Won’t you let me know

I realise you’ve been telling lies
Those magic eyes they hypnotise
The way you smile still makes me sigh
So take me back don’t let me cry
Don’t say goodbye

It feels like I've been here before
Still standing on an empty dance floor
I gave you everything you asked for
Just let me know that I can be yours

Oh Run rabbit run
Oh Know let me know
Oh Move make a move
Oh Know let me know
Oh Love crazy love
Oh Know let me know
Oh High make me high
Oh Know let me know
Oh Shoot you’ve got to shoot
Oh Know let me know
Oh Love crazy love
Oh Love crazy love
Oh no...

if only

Let Me Know

Sketched this out as No Simple Maker with the inimitable Sean, laterly of 'Folk Music Band' 

https://brackengeorge.bandcamp.com/album/folk-music-band
https://nosimplemaker.bandcamp.com/album/absolute-existence

Baby Bye-Bye 

Tears on a face fall like phosphorous rain
Narrow streets pounded all rubble and pain
Tombs once were houses where corpses are lain
A bloody perfection gifts terror for gain 

Nothing I saw 
I saw nothing
Nothing I saw

Bye-bye baby
Baby bye-bye

No respite the day no hiding by night
Innocence cold staring still in plain sight
Loss is the mother and darkness the light
Festering fortunes begotten by might

Nothing I saw 
I saw nothing
Nothing I saw

Bye-bye baby
Baby bye-bye

Baby bye-bye

Nothing I saw 
I saw nothing
Nothing I saw

Bye-bye baby
Baby bye-bye

Fizzling fireworks a poke in the eye
Deserve murder and mayhem and children must die
Incarceration under open blue skies
Petty and pitiless baby bye-bye

Nothing I saw 
I saw nothing
Nothing I saw

Bye-bye baby
Baby bye-bye

Bye-bye baby
Baby bye-bye

Absolute Existence

06/03/2020

Baby Bye-Bye

Sketched this out as No Simple Maker with the inimitable Sean, laterly of 'Folk Music Band' 

https://brackengeorge.bandcamp.com/album/folk-music-band
https://nosimplemaker.bandcamp.com/album/absolute-existence

Unstable

Where are we now
No use in pointing at me, brother
In this together, sister
As far as the eye can see

History distilled
The angel downed lives here
Loss without memory
Now she knows only fear

Want to hit the road
Need to find your way
We're dead men walking
It's the price you made us pay

Heavy and slow

Don't be looking behind
You're feeling uptight
Crawling over remnants
Not knowing this can't be right

Accumulated years
Of accumulated fears
Staring over dark pools
Of accumulated tears 

White sand, blue sea
Love is for lovers
Dark cloud, black earth
And grief is carried by mothers

Heavy and slow

Won't someone show me the way to go

There's a goodwill mountain
Just waiting and a waiting
There's a goodwill surplus
Just a waiting and a waiting

Something moving inside 
The belly of the beast
Must it always be said
That there's black man underneath

So smother the wreckage
A revolution landslide
And the grounded angel
Perhaps she will be our guide

Unstable

Sketched this out as No Simple Maker with the inimitable Sean, laterly of 'Folk Music Band' 

https://brackengeorge.bandcamp.com/album/folk-music-band
https://nosimplemaker.bandcamp.com/album/absolute-existence

Hearts and Minds

Looking out from my paradise
By a liquid jewel sparkling it’s price
Sunshine opened every pore
Feeding the soul and it was then I saw 
All the universe laid out upon her back
And drifting off, pulled down my hat
And lifted up fell into the stars 
While she lay there silent with me past Mars.

Down below across the rolling slopes
Parcelled fortunes for the lucky folks
Thinking about the people on the lands
How they were made to move like the shifting sands
Driven away to more poverty
To feed the the smoke and the factory
Here now a man is sat alone
Tapping the keys of a fancy phone

How has the world we have come to pass?
And why can we never learn from the past?
Oh, but for those hearts and minds

And up behind in the woodland shade
We’d lie and rest in a flowered glade
And in her precious eyes I’d drown.
Saved by a kiss, slowly I’d come around
Here live the Roe deer, the rabbit and the quail
Forbidden fruit, that might have once mean’t jail.
And for peace always a noble war
That only builds upon the noble’s store

How has the world we have come to pass?
And why can we never learn from the past?
Oh, but for those hearts and minds

I hear a bird sing
A breeze caress the leaves
I see a cloud in a blue sky

How has the world we have come to pass?
And why can we never learn from the past?
Oh, but for those hearts and minds

2019

Hearts And Minds

Sketched this out as No Simple Maker with the inimitable Sean, laterly of 'Folk Music Band' 

https://brackengeorge.bandcamp.com/album/folk-music-band
https://nosimplemaker.bandcamp.com/album/absolute-existence

Counting On You

I was counting on you
On you to pull us through
I was counting on you
I was sure that you knew

I was counting on you
Waited ’til the morning dew
I was counting on you
I was here when the first bird flew

I was counting on you
I was counting on you

I was counting on you

I was counting on you
Hoping you would come to
I was counting on you
To see the world brand new

I was counting on you
I was counting on you

I was counting on you
I was waiting for you
I was counting on you
Realise now that my dreams were untrue

I was counting on you
One more carrot in the stew
I was counting on you
Now the wolves are driving through

I was counting on you
I was counting on you

I was counting on you
It wasn’t out of the blue
I was counting on you
I was waiting for you

I was counting on you
Thought I could count on you
I was counting on you
All I needed was you

I was counting on you
I was counting on you

Counting On You

Sketched this out as No Simple Maker with the inimitable Sean, laterly of 'Folk Music Band' 

https://brackengeorge.bandcamp.com/album/folk-music-band
https://nosimplemaker.bandcamp.com/album/absolute-existence

Departures

Painting by numbers can't you see
A desolation of brand new fantasies
Picking up where we began 
You seem quite happy to carry the can
Every moment exacts a price
As to what its worth let’s throw the dice

Give me coffee give me cake
Show me an image that can satiate
Give me coffee give me cake

Yes sir, please sir, three bags full
A white wine spritzer a tin of Red Bull
It’s said all eyes are watching you
That it could feel this good to be so cruel

Give me perfume give me fags
Show me an image with the right price tag

Put your arms up in the air
Make sure that you stay standing there
Won’t take your no’s won’t take your can’t’s
I can put my hands inside your pants
Maybe buy a phone might win a car
What you have now won’t take you far

Give me champagne give me escape
Show me an image I can look at agape
Give me champagne give me escape

A sentimental heart and an empty mind
Working hard to put it all behind
Seen them come and seen them go
I’m not so sure we can ever know

Give me sunscreen give me rum
Show me an image like bubblegum

Departures

Over The Hill 

Washed up, watch the ebbing tide
Knowing there’s no place to hide 
Boat’s tied by the harbour quay
My mind’s drifting out to sea
Twilight says the night’s not far
Wonder where’s my wandering star
Walking on the shifting sands
Feel the hard rock on our hands

I love you 
And everything that you do
Will you want me still
Now I’m over
I’m over the hill

Holding on, the wind it blows
Where we’re headed we all know
Nailed my colours to the mast
Long ago the die was cast
Red sky night will be gone soon
Reach for the melancholy moon
Taste the salt that’s on your lips
Trace your face with finger tips

I love you 
And everything that you do
Will you want me still
Now I’m over
I’m over the hill

Tell me that you want me
Tell me that you care
Tell me that you need me 
And we can have a world to share
Don't want to be lonely
Don't want to be blue
Let me know that your love will stay true

Washed up, watch the ebbing tide
Knowing there’s no place to hide 
Boat’s tied by the harbour quay
My mind’s drifting out to sea
Twilight says the night’s not far
Wonder where’s my wandering star
Walking on the shifting sands
Feel the hard rock on our hands

I love you 
And everything that you do
Will you want me still
Now I’m over
I’m over 
Yes I’m over the hill

Killing Time

Over The Hill

Slow Train

They can come at you fast
Then be gone in a flash
You can be twisted around
And what’s up can fall down
Be shown it’s like this
Then be told it’s like that

Get on the slow train
Get on the slow train

We’re on the right track
Never ever gonna go back
No, we’re never ever gonna go back
Come on climb aboard the slow train

They got us rushing to fail
Got us chasing our tails
Running to get there on time
Cos there’s a ladder to climb
They’ll be driving you crazy
Til we’re pushing up daisies

Get on this slow train
Get on the slow train

We’re on the right track
Never ever gonna go back
No, we’re never ever gonna go back
Come on climb aboard the slow train

Get on this slow train

Get on the slow train

The slow train

They got us rushing to fail
Got us chasing our tails
Running to get there on time
Cos there’s a ladder to climb
They’ll be driving you crazy
Til we’re pushing up daisies

Get on the slow train
This slow train
Get on the slow train
Get on a slow train

We’re on the right track
Never ever gonna go back
No, we’re never ever gonna go back
Come on climb aboard the slow train

Slow Train

An old one of mine to which I finally added some bass guitar - trying to channel Link Wray I think

Each And Every Moment With You (Sets Me Free)

Been building my walls
Brick by brick
All this sweat and toil's
Really making me sick

Been building it high
Yeh, making it strong
I can only cry
Been a fool all along

I Lost the keys
A long time ago
Been pacing the yard
With no place to go

Then you knocked on the door
Showed me a kiss
I Fell to the floor
Just to feel your bliss

I’m seeing the light
Letting it shine
I’m breaking the bars
Don’t need a sign
Each and every moment with you sets me free

Been hard to find
Given no one the time
yes, I’ve been blind
In a world without rhyme

Been lying low
With no reason I know
I’m black like the crow
In the cold winter’s snow

Tired and empty
All worries and woes
But no one gains entry
That’s just how it goes

Then you stood by the window
with the smile of the dawn
Asking me to follow
Giving me your horn

I’m seeing the light
Making me feel fine
I’m breaking the bars
No more walking the line
Each and every moment with you sets me free

My heart is aching
I never found love
Body’s always shaking
With a fear of the above

Maybe I should’ve prayed
Or read The Book
Maybe I’d have been saved
And not forsook

Distant storms are pounding
Dreams of the promised land
Carry stones to the mountain
Or a prison built on sand

Then walking through walls
You asked me to climb
To your heavenly curls
And to a love sublime.

I’m seeing the light
Knowing that your mine
I’m breaking the bars
Been found just in time
Each and every moment with you sets me free

Each And Every Moment With You (Sets Me Free)

You Are Not My King

Never felt more free
In this landlord democracy 
Never been this fine
Since before the Maginot Line
You are not my king

We’ll have another war 
On some god forsaken shore
I'll spin you on your dime
It’s gonna cover up my crime
You are not my king

Soon our day will come
(It’s gonna be our time)
Soon your day will be done
(It’s gonna be over for you)

You are not my king
No, you are not my king
You are not my king
You are not my king

Soon our day will come
(It’s gonna be our time)
Soon your day will be done
(It’s gonna be over for you)

Never felt more free
In this landlord democracy 
Never been this fine
Since before the Maginot Line
You are not my king
No, you, you are not my king
You, you are, you are not my king 

You Are Not My King

Tear Drops

I’ll kick the can along the road
So many stories now untold
And in the ruins of each life
Lays the truth for which we strive

Each and everyday
I cry
Everywhere they say
Dry your eyes 
It’s just another day
So they say,
But I can’t stop these endless tears
They keep on falling

I’ll rest here a little while
Might find a reason not to cry
And looking up into the sky
I see a bird fly way up high

Each and everyday
I cry
Everywhere they say
Dry your eyes 
It’s just another day
So they say, 
But I can’t stop these endless tears
They keep on falling

I’ll keep on counting the tear drops
I’ll keep on counting these tears
I’ll keep on filling an ocean of tears

Each and everyday
I cry
Everywhere they say
Dry your eyes 
It’s just another day
So they say, 
But I can’t stop these endless tears
They keep on falling

I’ll keep on counting the tear drops
I’ll keep on counting these tears
I’ll keep on filling an ocean of tears

Tear Drops

simple stuff. still trying to work things out. you can find a more coherent archive for 'The Interminable' on bandcamp - find link below.

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