A collaboration between myself and a very talented man called Simon J Pinto. A song of love.
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Free To The World
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Days gone by, don't hold me like they used to
But I still remember them well
And time's left me, surrendered and free
To the world, and the things I see
The world, and the things I see
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Waves of love wash over me
While I'm l lying in this summer breeze
Free at last, I've lost my past
There's no trouble left I can see
Oh this really is what living ought to be
Freedom from these
Bad day memories
Love is with me in everything I see, and
Time's on my side, no need to hide
Oh today is for me and my girl
No more loneliness
I'm free to the world
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Night's on fire, I'll hold you forever
I belong, and I am more when I'm with you
So let me be, all you people trying to sting me
There's no place, for your face in my world
No place, for your face in my world
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Waves of love wash over me
While I'm l lying in this summer breeze
Free at last, I've lost my past
There's no trouble left I can see
Oh this really is what living ought to be
Freedom from these
Bad day memories
Love is with me in everything I see, and
Time's on my side, no need to hide
Oh today is for me and my girl
No more loneliness
I'm free 
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I can feel summer breathe life on my face
Lighting me up and there's no hiding place
Bad times have all been erased, on this day
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Freedom from these
Bad day memories
Love is with me in everything I see, and
Time's on my side, no need to hide
Oh today is for me and my girl
No more loneliness
I'm free to the world
No more loneliness
I'm free to the world
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Lyrics by Alcuin Macdonald, Music by Alcuin Macdonald/Simon J Pinto

Free To The World

Telluride
Your band was playing as I stepped inside
I blended in while you shined hot bright 
My mind strolled back through the years

You and me
Each of us chasing down a different dream
I hit the road while you hit those strings
And now we find ourselves here

Can my Lost Dollar charms
Steer you back in my arms now
Will that chill hit my spine
If our fingers entwine now

Coming home
With all the places where I’d said “I’m gone”
My dreams had beaches while yours had songs
Turns out my paradise was here

Guitars fade
Your eyes find mine as you leave the stage
Are we still us or have you turned the page
The kick drum beats in my ears

Can my Lost Dollar charms
Steer you back in my arms now
Will that chill hit my spine
If our fingers entwine now

I packed up my belongings caught the first bus that I found
When I saw your tour was stopping in our little mountain town
Spent the whole ride wondering if I might have been replaced 
Then I saw you walking toward me with a smile on your face 

Yes my Lost Dollar charms
Steered you back in my arms now
Yes that chill hits my spine
When our fingers entwine now

Telluride

Millicent you came from small beginnings
A single drugstore town now look at you
Millicent they didn’t see potential
Yes the brightest minds were doubters too

Millicent you wear so many faces
It’s hard to tell which one of them is you
Millicent it’s half past nine, your hair looks great, your outfit’s fine
Millicent your ride is waiting too

All alone
All alone at home
In a dream house all alone

Millicent you’re PVC and pitches
All the little girls look down to you
Millicent sometimes you fall to pieces
Millicent the queen of Malibu

All alone
All alone at home
In a dream house all alone

make mad – EP

Millicent

TT: lyrics, guitar, bass, drumtrack
Rob: vocals, keys, washing machine
Debbie: accordion

C'EST LA VIE

The snow came down thru the lights of town
And fell without a sound
In the silence between us, waiting for your bus
Feeling every snowflake hit the ground 

Oh Marie, c'est la vie we never tried 
Oh Marie, c'est la vie that we denied .

In summertime with sunshine that blinds 
Burning memories from our minds 
Free it seems to pursue our dreams
You on your path me on mine. 

So now we meet on another frosty street
Faces we barely recognize
We seem OK with things that we won't say 
But we can see it in our eyes.

C'est La Vie  (Lewczyk/Tornblom)

Acid on the Dancefloor

Hollywood Ending

Chameleon

Stable Hand v2

We've been waiting so long,
for the clock on the wall
it controls our destiny.
We've been waiting so long,
and today's been hard
I can't wait til I break free.
And to feel the rush,
when I walk out the door
you can't stop me.

Everyone's working hard, for their 5 o'clock, especially me.
We'll meet down at our spot, and I'll take a vodka cranberry.
You'll have a beer and we'll laugh, who gives a f@#$ what comes next,
ounce by ounce we dilute our comisery.

Every now and then we,
get the feeling we need
to release some of this steam.
We all love two dollar drafts,
get some nachos and fries,
I'm feeling better after two or three.
We're just groovin' along, 
when the hit song comes on
and we all start to sing

Everyone's working hard, for their 5 o'clock, especially me.
We'll meet down at our spot, and I'll take my wine in a pint glass please.
Ready set and let's go, leave your cares at the door,
you can't be mad with songs like these
(break it down)
Everyone's working hard for their 5 o'clock
Everyone's working hard, for their 5 o'clock, especially me.
we'll meet down at our spot and I'll take a Long Island ice tea.
Everyone feels alive, you know this place is alright,
why don't we do this everyday?
Everyone's working hard, for their 5 o'clock, especially me.
we'll meet down at our spot, and I'll take that special martini.
Ready set and let's go, leave your cares at the door,
You can't be mad I got just what you need

Five O'Clock

First True Love

I made it out of Dublin
just before they locked it down
Caught the last flight out
and I slept until touchdown 
A place where men wear funny skirts
and nothing underneath
The heart of Mary's Scotland
became my new retreat 

One and twenty bottles
I bought in Inverness
And when the night is over
there'll be one and twenty less

Drink to absent friends we miss
who won't come through the door
Drink to better days we've had
they won't come back no more
Drink to all we thought we knew
that simply wasn’t true 
Drink to all that should have been
yeah, drink to me and you

MacLeod threw me a party
he was the perfect host
Men in kilts may scare some
What’s beneath them might scare more
But I was not so frightened
'cause of all the Finns I know
Who drink vodka in the Sauna
and then roll naked in the snow

They offered me a single malt
I thought, underwear or not
When in Rome do as the Romans do
I'll drink it like a Scot
Then I remembered words of wisdom 
when I saw water on the side
'The fish they f*** in water'
so I tossed the glass aside.

Drink to absent friends we miss
who won't come through the door
Drink to better days we've had
they won't come back no more
Drink to all we thought we knew
that simply wasn’t true 
Drink to all that should have been
yeah, drink to me and you

They did not take that very well
in fact, they went quite mad
Three or four Scots held me down
and I found myself unclad
Then they tried to throw me out 
naked and exposed
but the bastards had forgotten
that the front door was still closed!

No shirt, no shoes, no socks, no jocks
A doorframe round my neck 
I walked the streets of Inverness
A bruised and battered wreck
I don't mind being naked
I'm a child of 68
but the Scots still had me bottles
and I had to set that straight

One and twenty bottles
I bought in Inverness
And when the night is over
there'll be one and twenty less

Drink to absent friends we miss
who won't come through the door
Drink to better days we've had
they won't come back no more
Drink to all we thought we knew
that simply wasn’t true 
Drink to all that should have been
yeah, drink to me and you

Listen to me people
To this story’s tragic end
When I snuck back in the morning
not one bottle had they left
The bloody Scots had drunk them all
Yeah, that is what I said
And one was still there sleeping
with me Jocks upon his head!

A mass of beer, a sup of wine
O' whiskey, a wee dram
What you drink and when and where
No-one gives a damn.
But one thing that unites us all
underwear or not
The moment we begin to drink
we knock back all we've got!

Drink to absent friends we miss
who won't come through the door
Drink to better days we've had
they won't come back no more
Drink to all we thought we knew
that simply wasn’t true 
Drink to all that should have been
yeah, drink to me and you

Stable Hand v2

A Member of the Public

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