Carry My Bones

My love was born in the winter sun
Her hair is dark and her skin is a mellow brown
She knows when I’m down, she shares my deep dismays
Though I’m just a middle child who’s feeling his growing pains

We make our own mistakes
Sidewalks and clockhands

My father was raised as a teacher’s child
Where learning was loving and reading would set you right
He tells us stories, stories of long ago
A young teacher’s child filled with a poet’s soul

We make our own mistakes
Sidewalks and clockhands

I’m learning how to grow I promise I’ll be okay
Sidewalks and clockhands, one day you’ll be archaic

Sidewalks and Clockhands

Still, swimming in the winter of our words
Tears rolling down the hardness of the walls

You smile, wrinkles on the contours of your face
And I,  I feel out of place

Tonight, you give up all hope
And I’ll find, everything we broke

It's time, we get rid of everything we bought


Everything We Broke

His name is Jacob, His name is Jacob. 
He’s 10 years old
He loves watching football
With dad at home
Oh Kenya, Kenya
Oh Kenya, Kenya

Her name is Miriam, she says call me Mimi
Or she’ll ignore
She‘s getting married tomorrow
He lives next door
Oh Kenya. Kenya
Oh Kenya, Kenya


Kenya

Promises keep me alive
When drowning in the 9 to 5s

Don’t you keep me blue, don’t you kill me
I’ve have all to live for, as long as you say so
Don’t you keep me blue, please keep me alive

The city with the sunken eyes
Blinking to the poor man’s cries
He holds his soul like it might let go of him
And float into the cold sunrise

Don’t you keep me blue, don’t you kill me
I’ve have all to live for, as long as you say so
Don’t you keep me blue, please keep me alive

Please don’t keep me blue
Please don’t keep me blue
Oh please don’t keep me blue
Please don’t keep me blue

Blue

You know my love and you know it’s solid
You know the world and you know it changes shape
Different every day
You know my heart and you know it’s constant
You know the earth and its shaky atmosphere
You’re never really here

I know the rain it falls, the snow it floats down
The sun it beams, the clouds they run by,
The wind it blows the leaves until they dance

We know your fear is the only reason 
Keeping you far from the things you live without
Loving knows no doubt
They know your fights and they know your struggles
Drinking at night so your dreams won’t trouble you
It aches to start anew

I know you fear, you run, you sleep out hungry
You only see your daughter monthly
You miss a word, a step, another birthday

You just need time you don’t need no hero
Breaking down doors while you blow your bubbles through
Now you’re sinking out of view


Painting: 'Back light' (2012) - Thomas Saliot

Time

Goodbye Caroline the soul I knew
The surface stayed the same, a powder blue
You fell down, and fell through
A fragile summer’s noon

Hello my latest love, a soul to learn
Fireworks in empty fields, some crops to burn
You call in, I let you through
But you’re still a growing thing
In my rearview

*painting: 'French girl bar' - Thomas Saliot

Anomaly

There’s too much darkness, where’s the peace of mind?
Flickers from the TV screen, sadness in the robe of daytime chat shows.
Blankets in an unmade bed, all time is a blur and a stretch of pixels.
My soul - it feels like smoke; my body feels like trodden ashes.
But if you're happy, I guess I'm happy too
There are things I’d like to do, there are things I’d like to do in this beautiful life
It's ok, they never looked below you, they never saw the signs, they never got to know you. Maybe no mistake, just a stranger walking by

Nebula

Ghost

Baobab Memories

Lyrics:
Rosie called her mother's door at 4pm,
And in her hands were tickets for the evening train.

Close all you've known, forget your sadness and lose your fear;
Ghosts, fairies and dragons are filling the atmosphere.

Rosie was a preacher's child with tattoos on her skin; her tight dress and a pretty smile, she let the lions in.


*Photo by Harpal Singh on Unsplash

Carnival

Lyrics:
Last night was cloudy, the moon was a headlamp covered in smoke.
Do you think about me, or am I a memory lost in your lobes
You don't get to say that everything's ok, I hope I left a shadow,
When morning comes to shine, I hope it rains outside your window.

I don't sleep easy, I'm scared of the dark so I hide behind a candle  
Ghosts haunt my afternoons, they scribble your name in colours of the rainbow 
No I do not get by, I hope I'm on your mind and you remember all your feelings,
And if yesterday was cruel, i hope this year is full of four rainy seasons.

You left your mark on me, sometimes I find I smile without a reason.

Bloom (Demo)

Conrad (Instrumental remix)

I’ve got a secret to share, many sparks in my bones, i know i should be upset but I’m not.
I see you styling your hair, driving up something new, you got a look I don’t recognise.

As I stand my ground and watch you live, I come to realise:
All those times you stayed, I held you back, I was your kryptonite,
All the times we shared, I was bad for you, I was dimming your light,
All my silly games, all my “I love yous”, I made you compromise.

I’ve got a secret to share, many sparks in my bones, I know i should be upset but I’m not.
I’m so proud of you, I’m so proud, I’m so proud, I’m so proud of you;I’m so proud of you, I’m so proud, I’m so proud, I’m so proud of you.

Proud of You

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Proud Of You

Plains of silky waves in lands from far away,
Where I forget all about the pain that drew me out, 
Where I am just a young boy floating dreams into the sky

Now everything is slowly breaking down,
My father's father wants us all around, 
He's 94 and blind, getting wary of the time, 
Life makes promises it won't keep

It's time to sleep,
Rest your eyes from all the life that makes you weep, 
Night fades to peace, peace turns to dreams, 
Dreams like a cloud over the leaves, if I wake you forgive me

Suddenly I fall, I realise i've lost it all, 
My illusion starts to stall and I've lost all control, 
My demons ask me "why is no-one loving me?"
Maybe I'm a case of tamed insanity, a cold heart, an old heart
I wanna sleep so I can forget me

Cold heart, forget me, 
Everything I am, everything I've done, 
Throw it to the wind, let it mingle in the clouds

Sleep

Song playing in the station at the beginning and end is "The Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin, from their 1973 album Houses of the Holy.

Waiting On The Rain

September Rain

A song from a mother to her child.

Lyrics:
Should I close these blinds, reduce the lights,
You're sleeping like an angel just make sure I do this right,
I will be to you, your solitude,
When the world outside gets cold I'm in the warmth with you.

Yeah you're older now, but you're still my child
You can argue but i've been your age I know i'm right
I can see you cry, hurts me too inside,
But you'll grow, you'll live, you'll learn, you'll love, you'll have your fights.

Honey now you've grown, and you've had your own,
Worried creases on your forehead now your daddy's gone,
But he's all in you, In all that you do,
And since I saw your little face I've been so proud of you.

A Mother's Song

Verse 1
It’s cold in the city, so I kick hard to keep busy,
Ain’t nobody stare ain’t nobody care, they’re all in their heads, too busy
I’ve been waiting for this train long, 
Station signs tell me I’m on the wrong platform
I don’t even care; don’t know why I’m here and why for
I sleep while she’s sitting; she says she’s not here from the city,
Came to see her kid, coz of where she lives, she says it gets real lonely
She thought it perfect when she married young,
Now she is always travelling alone
I can see her tears, pretending I don’t hear, I just turn my head
And watch the rain fall

Chorus
It’s lonely in the world tonight
It’s lonely in the world tonight
It’s lonely in the world tonight
It’s lonely in the world tonight

Verse 2
The church is so quiet, for a man who lived like a riot
They all knew his name, but nobody came
Widow on the back seat smiling
He put his hand on her too many times
Till she was shattered pieces all inside
Now she thinks she’s free, till the day she sees, all that she could be
Is lonely

CHORUS (x3)
(Spoken)
When we’re lonely, where do we go from here? How do we fall asleep? When we’re lonely, how do we turn the world from grey to blue again? It seems everything seems to get darker, nothing glows anymore. So I hope wherever you are, you’re thinking of me, coz I’m thinking of you.


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