Live recorded with the first incarnation of Watchglass. This is the first track from our first, self-titled album, Watchglass.  Upbeat, catchy, unapologetically pop love song in earthy, acoustic goodness from the four-piece band that started this whole thing.
Vocals - Gina
Guitar - Mark
Bass - Chris
Cajon - Yoshi

Buy me if you love me

Catch My Breath

Ethereal, sparse but big. A haunting, eerie song of, well, love essentially, but as it may be experienced if you were just a ghost.
How could one keep interacting? 

No need to be afraid
A breath of air by your right shoulder
Trying to make you feel me
Let you know I'm there
Hear me 
See me 
Know me
Trying to let you know I care
Practising up my poltergeist tricks
But no body makes it so hard
Scratch the back of your neck
Blow a stream in your ear
Pull a single hair
Oh you will know 
I'm always there
I'll think your thoughts as you do
I'll give you mine to think to 
And you will know I'm close 
Through all of time
A breath of air 
By your right shoulder
Trying to make you feel me
Let your know I'm there
See everything
Hear every sound
Get the feel of your surroundings
Practising up my poltergeist tricks
But no body makes it so hard
Scratch the back of your neck
Pull a single hair
I'll think your thoughts as you do
And you will know
A breath of air
A breath of by your right shoulder
Trying to make you feel me
I'm just a ghost 
Behind your right shoulder

3 Just A Ghost

Serendipity and the Dog was written whilst Gina was feeling sad one Sunday at the local growers market in Marrickville, Sydney. Sitting, downcast with her coffee, a friendly little dog wandered up to her.... and so the song was inspired.
The serendiptous part is not referenced in the song but it's worth telling - Gina was driving a Toyota Tarago at the time and the front bumper was hanging out and down from an earlier bingle..... A removal truck backed into the Tarago whilst it was parked with Gina sitting inside.... On inspecting the damage she discovered that the truck had pushed the bumper back into place ! :0 

This song was live-recorded by the four-piece band.
Guitar - Mark, Vocals - Gina, Bass - Chris, Cajon - Yoshi

LYRICS
Today the sun is burning
Children are fighting
Parents are lashing out
The poorest stray dog 
Comes up and lays 
A stick at my feet
But I won't play

Oh hey
I'll see you any day
Up down high or low
And I can take those blows
I could be there
And ease it from you

I backed my car into a tree
And it was just last night
A truck backed into me
My second coffee
It's one too many
Oh I should really eat
But I'm not hungry

Whoa ho
I'll see you any day
Up down high or low
And I can take those blows
I could be there 
And ease it from you

Today did you go walking
Through crowded streets and malls
Today did you go walking
Was that your day?

.... enjoy

Watchglass

If you love me keep me

Serendipity And The Dog

Our first new song as Watchglass reunited. This started as a single idea that came to me through pondering another duo, Moon and Aries, who make music, separated by half a planet and yet not separate at all in their vision and shared passion. We hope you enjoy!  
PS Mark made a YouTube video for this one and we would love for you to stop by and let him know what you think. He's a quiet achiever but he's really proud of this and ought to be so.
https://youtu.be/sm6s5wXZqbw

It's not every day
It's not every lifetime
Something like this comes along
Hold it close
Feel it breathe
You have each other now.
She's come back to you.
There could be worse things
And better still to come.

Eons Romance

This song came about because I thought I'd try my hand at making my very own real-instrument percussion track, just for fun and to see if Mark could flesh it out... I think he may have had a go, bless him, but, even if my tapping and shaking didn't make the cut, we got this reggae-style thing as the end result.

I'm just trying you must see
To fit the pattern
Your routines
I'm just trying as I ever do
To fall into step
Inside out you oh oh oh

Watching stitches
Shades of green
Making time move rhythmically
It's been two hours 
An inch apiece
And thank god good love
Coming back to me

This is the roar of the roller coaster
Living breathing
I'd rather be riding than us flat-lining
This is the heady
Fall arrested
Sooner or later 
You come to the rescue
You're the rescue

Make with mind 
As with my hands 
The coffee scene
The waterfront
Walks along while dreaming of
Comfort days with you

Every Conversation in June

The Rollercoaster

The Rescue

I fell in love with this song when I first heard it sung by the beautiful Christine Anu. I taught it to my primary school class when we did indigenous studies. It is an ode to a different kind of Australian dream. This version has a very different feel to the Warumpi Band’s original and Anu's take on it. But I think we captured the yearning in the song. Hope you enjoy!

Six years I've been in this desert
And every night I dream of the sea
They say home is where you find it
But will this place ever satisfy me

For I come from the saltwater people
We always live by the sea
Now I'm out here west of Alice Springs
With a wife and a family

My island home
My island home
My island home is waiting for me

In the evening the dry wind blows
From the hills and across the plain
I close my eyes and I'm standing
In a boat, on the sea again
And I'm holding that long turtle spear
And I feel I'm close now to where it must be

And my island home is waiting for me
My island home
My island home
My island home
My island home
My island home
My island home
My island home
My island home
My island home

My Island Home

My Island Home (Watchglass cover) The Warumpi Band, Christine Anu

This song is actually one long outro.... at least that's how it began.

So I said
Give me your sorrow
It is a beauty
That I want
And though it makes you fail
And asks for everything
I'll only tend it lovingly

oooh oooh ooooh 
oooh oooh ooooh

And with your smile
A tender twilight dawn
Step in the past
With hands to make
As we're returning
Give me your sorrow
There is a beuuty I will make

oooh oooh oooh 
oooh oooh oooh

So I said Give me your sorrow
I'll only tend it lovingly
As we're returning
Give me your sorrow
There is a beauty I will make.

Give Me Your Sorrow

From our 2017 debut album which will be released properly one day soon. This song is the story of making a rough time all better again, but then there is the matter of John, and who is he in the song? I thought it was most obvious when I wrote it and that everyone would get the reference, but so far no-one has mentioned the connection or had an "aha!" moment. Perhaps one of you will. ;-) 

Pictured is Yoshi who was our first and amazing cajon player whom we greatly missed when she left for Japan. 

Does all this silence give you space
To turn things over
I hope you get it bright side up
It was never meant to fall apart like this
O babe we were never really s'posed to

You know I feel with you
You make me laugh 
I make you smile
And there's no need for goodbye
I dig you out you lift me high
Oh high

Can I keep on running with you
Close by me
I never meant to say goodbye
I want you with me
Through all of this
Oh babe
We were never really s'posed to

You know I feel with you
You make me laugh
I make you smile
And there's no need for goodbye
I dig you out 
You left me high
Oh high

He told her in the beginning she was a gem.
They had a good thing going
Don't ruin it
But they gave a little more and more and more
Hey John is yes always the answer?
Look at this mess.
They said no first
And then yes yes yes.

Dont Blame John

Our band was named Watchglass just after I joined and one of Mark's science teacher friends joked that we may as well have called ourselves Petri Dish. This is the song I wrote to give our band name more deep and meaninglfulness. Oh and we will be recording a modern version of this soon! 

Lyrics:
If I could sift out
All the elements
Maybe I could find out
What it's all about
A grain of sand
Or beach in summer tones
An autumn leaf
Or an ocean to the depths below

Well I took a step back
Then I made it three times a million
And what did I see
I saw the thing that keeps us turning

A lover's glance
Or fans at a Beatles show
A drop of dew
Or an ocean to the depths below
A bird in fight
or just a wish for a higher place
A single step
On an upwards staircase

Oh I took a step back
Then I made it three times a million
And what did I see
I saw the thing that keeps us turning

Oh oh, keeps us turning
Fires burning, yearning or even hurting
Love
All that was left in my Watchglass after all

Love me keep me

This song was written about this lake, way up high, overlooking the sky. 

I could go anywhere
I could see all the things 
This world has to give
And at the end of it 
I just wanna come to your place

Can I stay here
Can I stay here
Can I stay here
Can I stay

She walks on the water 
He tries not to see
Her reflection
The glow 
But him tells him everything
She stands in the morning 
Her gaze far away
What I found
Do I touch 
Can I stay
Tell me everything

I could go anywhere
I could see all the things 
This world has to give
And at the end of it 
I just wanna come to your place
She walks on the water 
He tries not to see
Her reflection
The glow 
But him tells him everything
She stands in the morning 
Her gaze far away
What I found
Do I touch 
Can I stay
Tell me everything

Can I stay here
Can I stay here
Can I stay here
Can I stay

Heaven's Lake

oooh oooh oooh 
Love drives us on to find it
Love drives us on

What she did
Oh you wouldn't believe it
They tried to talk sense to her
But she'd made up her mind

Walked out the door
In the dark
Across the grass
Throughthe pouring rain
Up a winding forest road 
To the top
So she could make one thing clear
It was love
And she needed him to know
Through the ether

Love drives us on to find it
Love drives us on

What she did
Oh we had to believe it
Wet dress and dripping hair
Smiling from ear to ear
For she had
Walked out the door
In the dark
Across the greass
Through the pouring rain
Up a winding forest road
To the top
Where she could make one thing clear
It was love 
And she needed him to know
Through the ether

Oooh oooh oooh 
Love drives us on to find it
Love drives us on

She needed him to know
She wanted him to know
She had not let him go
She had to tell him so
Inbreath

Girl On The Hill

Ethereal vocal over soothing synth and guitar bed. I read a book by Patrick Rothfuss and there was this faerie in it who seduced the main character and it was all he could do to escape from her and her world.

Lost I am for the way it was crossed
And the turns so tight
Lost you are for you followed me here
Under a white moon
Dazed by the moon as she tied up her hair
Falling

You took my hand 
For to lead us home
Counting the steps 
We take one for one
Don’t let me fall from this higher place
Or I’ll be searching
Take me everywhere
I’ll be searching

Should you fall in her opening arms
May you feel her breathe
And all the turns so tight and so crossed
With two not lost
Found you by white moon her hand in your hair
Falling

Moondaze

Very light, sweet piece of pop this... not recommended if you're feeling old and cynical... or then again maybe it will be just what the doctor ordered, not that being old or cynical is a disease of any kind, no.

This is song 4 on our upcoming album which will be released 22/05/23. Get it on Bandcamp. :) 
https://watchglass1.bandcamp.com/follow_me

What You Lost

Firstly I have to point you guys to the video because this is at least 50% visual experience. It is here: 
https://youtu.be/_dO6_wsRROw
I want to also explain about this song and us as artists. We have already made, and will continue to make songs in our genre of catchy pop, earthy folk and ethereal mystique. We are comfortable there, but we thought we would try something a little different, a little left field. This is arty and abstract, just for fun... but it was also kind of serious, inspired after having just finished reading Angela's Ashes.

LYRICS
It's a 21st Century malady
There's nothing really wanting at all
Hm
Let's try not to fall
Maybe we're poised for lift off
Maybe we should find the escapr route
Or a launch pad
There's nothing wanting at all
Agony of nothing wanting
Breeding malcontent
Breeding the wildest problems
No one in their wildest dreams
Could have imagined they'd have to solve
In the 1940s

Just last night
I was waiting for a thread
I had nothing wanting at all
Hungering after
The mere-est thread

Where are you?
Where are you?
You could not receive it
Could not receive it
Where are you now my love

I made a gift of a vow
Given freely as any vow should
But you could not receive it
You could not receive it
Where are you?
Just over the hill
In this 21st century

21st Century Melody

She was a siren to be sure
Saw it coming
And wanted to be first in line
A farer through the doubtful warnings
Oh you make it so
You make it so
You make it

Every conversation a work of art
Won’t hang on a wall
So back to the start
You like to feel the pull
But don’t fire it up
Fire it up
Don’t fire it up
Fire it up

He had to find his way in circles
The scintillation
Called to him so pure and clear
And then no ending
Only faring
O you say where
You say where
You say

Every conversation a work of art
Won’t hang on a wall
So back to the start
You like to feel the pull
But don’t fire it up
Fire it up
Don’t fire it up
Fire it up

Every conversation a work of art
He said what’s the point of all the talking now
Siren, scintillation
And all these circles
She’s going to
Fire it up
She’s going to
Fire it up

Every Conversation

After viewing an unnerving video of someone making their way down the stairs of a fire escape, I got the idea of making the person's hair stand on end. Imagining myself as a spirit being following this guy around and telling a story from that viewpoint:

No-one saw you enter here
No-one saw you leave
I'm your shadow
Always one step back
To mind you

Listen for my footsteps now
An echo of your own
I'm on your path
Like a whisper
To remind you

No-one saw you enter here
No-one saw you leave
I I came to find you
I'll be here to mind you

Will you find yourself this time
You stepped out alone
Ended up inside
You won't make it on your own
I came to find you

I'll be here 
The quiet one
To mind you
One step back
To mind you

Only Watching Clouds

One Step Back

Funk is not a tried and true genre for us... and this track, though funky in feel is pretty sugary in the vocal... hopefully not too sweet though!
Hope you enjoy :)
I wrote this for my husband - while he was looking for his estranged daughter and trying to connect and make everything ok again. 
It would also do perfectly as an upbeat torch song for girlfriends :)

The Girl that Ran

This one was originally inspired by a song by Ocie and Elliot who are a male-female duo and both singers. In one of their songs the female vocal harmonises over the male main vocal all the way through the song. I really wanted to try that too.
This is a duet.... my first duet. Mark 'doesn't sing' but here is this song! And for this one, Mark wrote the lyrics, also a very rare event.
Enjoy!

Into the Deep Blue

This is a super upbeat love song. Heads up, it isn't a deep, meaningful look at beliefs or believing, although the title may suggest that.... the impetus for the lyrics (and title) was my partner asking me what it means to believe. Well to be exact, I asked him for a song theme to write on, and that's the question he gave for it.

You ask me
What it means to believe
But all I ever give you is poetry
A sighing heart
A yearning glance at the view

I give you my endless words
All my walks, talks 
And over-blown thoughts
And you ask me
Do I believe in you

Something strong as the day it was made
The one that gets an instant yes
Senses alive and the joy that you find
Oh do I believe in you
Timeless time
And zero distance
A deity's word that binds us in it
All these things and non-things
I believe in you

You ask me what it means to believe
I paint pictures
From the things we feel
With these words
I'll make something for you to see

First you harken to the silence
Give a chord to a dying flame
Just as though we're starting over
A song brings us home

What it means to believe

What it Means to Believe

What if the stars
And cars
The oceans and hills
The moon
And houses
Were all just 
beautiful dust
What if all these things 
Had just
Grown too huge for us
Now impositions
Making all the rules
Where once it was said
By you 
By me 
By us
What if the stars and cars
The oceans and hills
The moon and houses
were all just 
Beautiful dust
I love to gaze up high
I love to drive real fast
I love to dive deep in 
And climb up hillsides
I need shelter from storms
And from the night
And i love to watch the moon
Mocking in her flights
What if all these things 
Were only beautiful dust.

Beautiful Dust

Off our forth-coming "grunge album." I wouldn't normally post a song until the album's been released.... but normally things are more normal.

Say something
It's your turn
Breathe
Where you have not breathed before
I'm here
I will receive you
I'm here
I will receive

Any time
Any thing
Any where
Any any any 
You know what I mean

Say something
It doesn't have to be bright
It's your turn
Or deep or anything much at all
Breathe
Take in something fresh
Where you have not breathed before
Learn some new lines
A different view

When you will
Be it deep or insignificant
I don't mind at all

Say something
It's your turn

Say Something

This one was inspired by the soundtrack to a TV series MArk was watching at the time - Annika. The lyrics are nothing to do with the show though.

These minutes
Feel like months of mire
What's to be undone
I can't untie
More than I tied up
And yet I fail
To see a setting sun

No-one is here but us
No-one to break us up
No-one to feed their lies
Or steal away what's ours
No-one is here but us

It must be burning
As embers burn
It must be burning
As embers burn
It must be burning
As embers burn
It must be burning
It must be burning

It Must Be Burning

Not so serious now ... love can endure over practically anything - distance, time, personality differences and opposite ideas. It can be given in a total way and it can understand almost anything.... maybe even anything unqualified. This song has a lofi feel, I believe, with a slightly distorted, I think, and in my opinion, very earthy and melodic guitar base..... Gina

Lyrics 
Just take it as it comes 
Wield it as you must
When it’s yours as much as his 
Don’t be surprised when things go right 

When he looks you in the eye 
You wanna flinch or turn away 
But ohhhh ohhh it’s yours as much as his 

When a step can lead you down 
And pretending you were blind 
You wanna say that down is up now 
Don’t be surprised if it looks like it 

Fumble in the dark, stumble for the door 
Oooooh ooooh pretending you were blind 

I won’t be the one to break you 
I won’t save the best till last 
I’ll try to keep on shining here
On and on 
I won’t be the last to call you 
I won’t shut down in the night
Throw me a line 
I’ll catch it every time. 
Throw me a line 
I’ll catch it every time.

I'll Catch

I'LL CATCH

This one speaks for itself really. I wrote this from a probable viewpoint of many cityzens, but in fact I love the beat and hum and pulse of the city. Of course, driving out into the country for a while, there is a bounce out to the greater space that brings a new perspective on things that were more worrisome before. Recommended. But not to shun cities, find something to love, there is much to.

City Fever

Bouncy, cheeky, quirky pop. Some people just don't seem to have any limits, sometimes, and can't take no for an answer. And sometimes it works out very satisfactorily that they don't...Gina

Give me an Inch

GIVE ME AN INCH

Watchglass are a duo. We like exploring 
musical directions and having fun making songs and albums. We have been working as a partnership since 2017, or most of the time since then. Gina is the singer and lyricist. Mark is the guitarist and everything else and makes the songs and is the one who Gina will forever hold responsible for showing her she could not only sing well enough to front a band but also write passable, and sometimes even excellent songs.... Happily we found each other again after a longish split. 

Our 3 albums since reuniting in June 2022 are:

Every Conversation in June - ( featured in Bandcamp’s Best albums of Spring)

Only Watching Clouds. 

Beautiful Dust (also featured in Bandcamp Daily)

￼ Both available on Bandcamp.

Watchglass

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