Night and Day

the face you make, night and day
rise and shine, come what may
is this all you would ask of me,
the low hanging fruit from the nearest tree?
I have my pride
tell me, what's your need

stars align, bold and bright

sirens wail, my body aches I
cannot fail or hesitate
this, my dove, my olive branch I
take my lead from given circumstance
 wind in my sail
as I take your hand

I cannot fail, you understand

jumping fences, the open field
no loose change to conceal
useful friend, my tiny empire
to defend, to move and inspire
me at your side
we'll survive if not thrive

taking chances, do or die

Day & Night

Planet Blue

Sing

West River Drive

Restless Heart

Written on the 35th anniversary, (1997), of that famous picture taken of Kim Phuc Phan Thi crying and running down the road, when my own beautiful daughter was the same age as 'Napalm Girl' in the picture. I cried. It struck me that crying and love were spontaneous in nature.

Tears and Love
Words and music Rob ellis c1997
Dedicated to Phan Thị Kim Phúc and my same age 9 year old daughter at the time 35 years later…
In the paper today
famous picture from Vietnam
nine year old girl running flesh burning
where is she now where is she now? Canada
No glands for sweat no pores for oil when the weather changes the pain comes…. cut … cut
Tears don’t come so easy
Tears don’t come so hard
Tears just come when I don’t really know how they start

And even if I could meet the man who dropped the fire from the sky I’d tell him it’S not in the past but in the future our hope lies and as I feel the burning embers slowly turn to flame as we hold onto the love we have there’s no one else to blame
Love don’t come so easy
Love don’t come so hard
Love just comes when I don’t really know how it starts
Tears don’t come so easy
Tears don’t come so hard
Tears just come when I don’t really know how they start I cry

The Spontaneous Nature Of Tears And Love

This track is about a man who can’t change his life because of loss. Many years later he thinks about what could have been. 
I was really interested to write a story for this song. 

Music video out on Friday - You Tube and TikTok

I play the piano on this song and it’s recorded on an iPad.
Copyright PRS Mia Wilks 2024 both lyrics and musical score 

Whisper Lyrics

Here is a man 
With his head in his hands 
Falls from his fingers
Golden yellow sands 
These are the grains 
Of his life passing by
How quickly it went 
And he starts to cry

His life
What had he done
Buried his head
Forgotten his son 
These years had gone 
Melted away
Held out his hand
For his wife to stay 

Here is a man
With his head in his hand
A life of pain
Full of demand
All he wanted 
Was a future of peace
His head hurt so much
When would it cease 

There was a man
Now just spirit and soul
Together again with his wife 
Now his heart is whole 

There was a man
Now just spirit and soul
Together again with his wife 
Now his heart is whole 

His life
What had he done
Buried his head
Forgotten his son 
These years had gone 
Melted away
Held out his hand
For his wife to stay

Whisper

Let’s find a soft soft safe place where we can be alone let’s find a soft soft safe place where we can be ourselves…  And I have been so unkind and I have been so unwise to try to change you to try and change myself.  
I know that there’s a soft soft safe place where we can be alone with each other and we can be ourselves… As we always intended to be   And I have been alone writing the words I sing to you trying to change the world to what I want it to be as we change ourselves into something we don’t want to be

Safe Place

There was a study done in Japan about bullying in the 90s which found that people who had been bullied often became bullies. It was a cycle. 

Expecting Normal / All the Times / Belated Sorrow(7/1/98)
words and music Rob ellis
And so as they walk away from the chance to say sorry again 
And so as they talk away about how we wouldn’t do now what we did then 
(it’s a lie if you cant say you’re sorry) 
And unlike a thousand promises made but never kept 
The scars that undermine our world push the victims to be bullies, push the victims to be bullies, oh no, no
AND ALL THE TIMES we’ve cried for you
You never realise the place we’re all coming from 
AND ALL THE TIMES we’ve lied for you…. just for a smoother day
And all the uncertainty of things you’ll never prove 
the doubts that gnaw from day to day that all sincerity can never remove 
Like twisted words from half closed mouths like twisted minds nurtured in unnatural worlds 
Our festering cultures have become the breeding grounds for an opportunistic loss of moral worth 
AND ALL THE TIMES WE’VE CRIED FOR YOU…
Expecting Normal is the deviation that spews all the others out onto the street to fight a war they never expected Expecting normal is the greatest abuse of civil rights(28/6/2019)
Expecting normal is all our cultures have to offer expecting normal breaks my heart (7/7/98) 
Well if it isn’t something you can touch well if it isn’t something you can feel well I know what you mean but here we stand surrounded by mystery (Mr E.) Look at you look at me we exist AND ALL THE TIMES WE’VE CRIED FOR YOU…hoping it would all go away
…wanting to look the other way
… without really knowing what to say

Expecting Normal-Remix

Sometimes you just have to start again...

So happy to be with Ralph Marshall on bass and piano and Mark Eliot on soprano sax after so many years.

Pick Up the Pieces
words and music Robelis

And we pick up the pieces
its the only thing we know
and we pick up the pieces
find somewhere to go
Our love doesn’t wait forever
My love doesn’t wait forever
We’re coming home
And we pick up the pieces
Find somewheere to go
And we pick up the pieces
there’s no more I told you so
Our love doesn’t wait forever
We pick up the pieces…

You said we could talk about it
You said there’d be time not now
You said we would go there soon now　
You said the times not now not now not now

Pick Up (with Ralph Marshall and Mark Eliot)

This is the vocal version of "It's Spring!" This is the version that appears on the new Wilfred N & the Grown Men album – "Passing Through Time".  You may have earlier heard an instrumental version of "It's Spring!" already up on my Soundcloud. That version is from my debut solo album of last year – "What's Gonna Become of Us". It's interesting to listen to both of them, back-to-back, to hear what I did to turn the instrumental into a vocal song. (well . . . 'I' think it's interesting!)  chrs,  Wilfred

Passing Through Time

It's Spring! (vocal version)

It's Spring! (vocals version)

A winsomg written in a King's Cross hotel room overlooking Sydney Harbour. Taken back to Perth and placed in the caring hands and additional backing vocal from Mark Fisher, and producer Russell Bell's finesse. Elizabeth Segal was there to add harmony and waltz around the control room. A little later, Rob Ellis added bass to give the song some ball, thus making it more of a ballad. Strings and keys arranged and played by the composer.

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