This is an instrumental song I wrote for my son Stanley, played this time on a 12 string guitar.

Song for Stanley

When you see the colours glow
and flicker to and fro
Don't you worry now, you'll soon be floating down

Magpie number two
Come reveal yourself to me
I know you're up there somewhere
You've got shiny things for me
Magpie are you still in tune
With all that fate will bring to me

Magpie Number Two

As seen by Steve Davis!... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcyoKFNGwHc

This is a new one called Love and Hate from the recordings I did this year at Creative Studios, it will feature on my newly reworked album out this year called When Young Men Show the Signs of Times. I played my 12 string on this one and I also had the privilege of being joined by Chris Davison (Deferred Sucess/Silver Truth/Set Adrift/Ed Rome) on double bass. 

Lyrics.,...

You love and hate the world, you love and lose the girl
You live and love so heartfelt, you try and change the world

You see the fun in things, lately everything
You found a way to function, you've got a soul that sings

Long days we're absorbing sun rays
Treated to deferred success and feeling like we're free.....

Hey you! sign up, we're gonna change the world
Jump on a bandwagon or you'll be left behind
You'll be left behind...

Love and Hate

This is a collaboration with Muddy Summers and the Dirty Field Whores. The music is an instrumental song I wrote in November and dedicated to my dad, it was on the anniversary of his funeral... 11-11-2011. I sent the track to Gail who has since added vocals to it  which she wrote while her dad was ill.... I'm really happy with it see what you think...

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Words/Vox - Gail Something-Else 
Music - Lee Bowers 


I don't feel like scrawling words about love 

No-one ever really falls from above.. 

And I'm not getting the whole thing for hot looks 

Or playing along to find a really good hook.. 



I don’t have a partner who’s pissed me off 

Or done something stupid so I can point and laugh.. 

Don't get me wrong..I still get hit on 

But I don't want to write about the joys of being shit on.. 



So I guess these are words about nothing, 

But sometimes nothing is perfect, 

Well, nothing is perfect anyway 

So there's nothing here to regret.. 



I'm not feeling the urge to write about a hard childhood 

Or the death of a friend, though I'm sure that I could.. 

This planet needs saving, but this pen can't do that, 

And my political thoughts are feeling pretty flat.. 



I'm not into creating the latest dance craze 

Or rambling on about those oh so happy days.. 

Drugs and guns are off the agenda 

So why did I pick up this pen? I don't remember.. 



So what if it's words about nothing? 

Right now, nothing is perfect.. 



Words about Nothing - Muddy Summers and the Dirty Field Whores and Lee Bowers

This is another collaboration with Ms Something Else from Muddy Summers and the Dirty Field Whores. 

Ms Something Else & Lee Bowers - The Dress

The river's got a summer glaze and sometimes there's waves in Grays
There's views of Kent and industry, and ships that traverse the seas

My father used to bring me here, we'd walk 'til our minds were clear
I'll feel a strong connection soon and look up to find the moon

Well I've become a father now, together we'll make dad proud
He's looking down when I can see the river flow guiding me

The water and the genes they flow.... secrets and undertows
We'll spread the word of all we breathe and ships will traverse the seas

I'm the essence of him, he's the essence of me...
He's more me than I am, I'm more him than he was... dewdrops

The river's got a summer glaze and sometimes there's waves in Grays
I'll feel a strong connection soon and look up to find the moon




Dewdrops

That residential recreation ground saw the making of a man
Tear apart those reputations now..... she goes before she knows his name

Your mouth for trouble was beaten out of you, you're not the man you thought you were
Torn apart by expectations and he goes mad then...
Will he become a man (will he become a man)

There's lemons and asteroids, I'm knowingly paranoid,
This could be too much to hide
When young men show the signs of times...

Lemons and Asteroids

This is quite a brief song which I recently started playing live again after a long break!, I got some good comments about it so it's a regular in my live sets again now. There is a video on youtube of me playing this one in front of Steve Davis at a radio session recently. It is a rant about politics and apathy, by politics I am not talking party politics...

Lyrics....

The streets are lined, there's cries of revolution...
Soon I will wake up, a slave to the wage again
Enslaved by bankers and insulted by minions
It's time we woke up they're making fools of us

My head is filled with cries of revolution
The rich get richer and the system is evil.... 

Cries Of Revolution

Non radio friendly pop song about psychotic episodes, it's an old song now possibly still my catchiest. Sometimes I think the words are really nasty but then it could just as easily be about me as anyone else. 

Nut House

This is my rendition of Beethoven, the hopeless romantic! I've been playing more fingerstyles lately and learning some classical stuff I really enjoy playing this one now. It makes me think of recently reading the sleevenotes with the Siamese Dream reissue by the Smashing Pumpkins and Billy Corgan talking about the last song Luna.... "It is for the moon, it can never be for the one you love". I hadn't played my nylon string guitar for quite a while until today but it suits this sort of playing better. I've tended to avoid doing covers in the past but I've been working on a few so look out for my takes on Pavement, Ed Harcourt and possibly Bowie. 

Pathetique Sonata (Beethoven solo acoustic guitar)

This was one of my first songs and had a gauranteed place on my set lists for a long time. It's not going to be on my album so I've decided to make it a free download. It is a tale of modern life and it's symptoms like the vast majority of my earlier songs!. The guitar playing is mostly inspired by Jimmy Page and Billy Corgan and hopefully the words explain themselves ok!. Credit for the artwork here goes to my nephew Charlie....

Young cheated hearts need a start, need a sedative
Life got too much, cause a fuss... need a chemical
Your wasted mind, getting fried... feels so negative

Life falls apart when you can't live without a buzz
Soon you may find that your life's ruled by doctor's drugs
They're not the same just like you and they f*** you up

Chemical

"One man, some thoughtfully written and heartfelt songs and a gently grungy (think Smashing Pumpkins in their laidback moments) guitar." Kris Binker, Panic Magazine

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