Live 2015

The Love Show

If I’d known
I might never have started
On my own
Though that’s where the road was
That made my heart flip over
That made my blood run hot
That made my legs start shaking…..

Fall into the arms of one who loves you
More than he can tell you
But knows
Where love flows he may follow
To the love show

If I’d known
I was not what I once was
Would I fall still
For the mess to abuse me?
I’ve got much better uses
Than what makes your thighs start aching,
What makes your blood run hot
What makes your heart flip over
Over and over and over and over
Fall

California

I do what I have to
You just look away
Strip away my sadness
Take away my clothes and then there’s who?
When I have to I walk in paper shoes

No more looking backwards
No more knowing things
Standing at the edge my
Meeting you was long overdue
If I have to I’ll make do with the blues

I want to feel the rain stop falling
I need a second chance
And join the flow, the rush of gold
In California
I want to feel the rain stop falling
Take my second chance
I’ll cross this land
And then I’ll stand in California

The wealthy getting richer,
Poor have ceased to dream
Soon they’ll come to hating,
Hating what they think they’ve got to choose
If I have to
I make do with the blues

Ashes of Angels

Did I do wrong
To hurry on…
Things moving so fast
I couldn’t hold on?
I’m the kind of fool
That gets offended when I’m lied to
Deep breath no shock
When everybody tries to

We could see stars
Walk on rainbows
And yet we drive through
The ashes of angels

Have you heard the one about me?
It’s not funny
And no-one’s laughing
But everybody knows it

We could see stars
Walk on rainbows
And yet we drive through
The ashes of angels

You didn’t know what you had
‘Til it was gone
How many times do
We get to hear that song?
That song that that song “I didn’t mean to do wrong”!

Charlemagne

Blind barking Bobby he can rage
The red mist come down and take centre stage
And if he could see he’d knock you down
And he may yet if you stick around

The sunlight only happens when he dreams
The cold light of day is how it’s gonna stay
Some thing’s only happen ‘cause it rains
It takes another kind for taking up the strain and
Be Charlemagne

He’s looking out not looking in
Don’t have to deal with where you’re looking
One more human face to fill your mind
And where the shadows fall…
You dare not find

Her Coat and No Knickers

You told a few lies and they came back on you
So you told a hundred more until she came back to you
But she only stayed a while
Just long enough to say the kind of things left to be said
In the cold light of day
And she smelled of Xmas trees, coffee and vanilla
Calcutta after snowfall, she’s no-one’s stand in mother
But I drifted into her like I could run myself aground
And keep her smiling at the sight of the blackness spilling out

And I don’t mind if you don’t care about it
I’ll get by without her arms around me
As long as I can sit on my own
In her coat and no knickers

I believe it doesn’t matter
So don’t look at me that way
Like I should notice how you look at me that way
That’s just the way you look when you look at me that way and I believe it
doesn’t matter
At least not much anyway

I never dreamed I could be lost in a place I know so well
But I was running on the spot in the darkness ‘til I fell
And then pulling off my clothes I want to step out of my skin
And paint a tattoo on my heart shows an arrow
Pointing in

Quinn’s Old Flame

she met him nearing easter with the
flowers coming through and
the rains start to recede
the sky to turning blue
she met him as a lover
the finder to the spark
he met her as the latest
lonely question mark

and so he wonders how he get here
and he wonders what he’ll be
he calls it fate, he calls it destiny
take any road and it ends the same
not strong enough to choose her he is
quinn’s old flame

he loved her in the abstract
each of her body parts
he loves her still: at night
he draws a mental chart
(and) puts the parts together
and smiling to himself
he draws her to him, he draws her to him

he wished he was handsome
or at least well read
that his name was rock or rocky
t-bone or red
he calls it what he wants gives it a thousand names
a born again loser he’s quinn’s old flame

he entertains a dream
of putting down some roots
in every place of business that
he’s passing through
he can’t forget what they could have been
she liked him as he came
quinn’s old flame

Cold Chicken Skin

Shirt’s all torn and I’m lame
If I try to smile (it) hurts my face
All I hear is complaint but who left this mess on my plate?

Oh I will fade away on…watch my hair turn grey on
Cold chicken skin and dog tail soup
Tell me is that all I’m worth to you?
Cold chicken skin and dog tail soup
Is that all that I bring you?

Inside out from cocaine
Got a bird on a rush in your brain
Wild eyed singing your song
Calling out my name like you’re pulling it along

Yo yo look on your face
What you got in that bag,hair and nails?
What’s that splashed on the walls?
The top half of a dog
And that’s all… !

Stone Soup

Long on lonely nights
And wishing them over
With a short run
To the next one

These are magical lives we get to try
We get to run
But are we enchanted… no?
Then change

I change

Too long marking time
Living on stone soup
Can I do
What I have to?
I will change

What I don’t know of is
What I must let go of;
All that I should leave behind

I will change what I must let go of;
Every kiss you receive after this one
With everything else I wont do

Sunflower

Sunflower, the harlequin who can’t cry
The face upon the mask of time when
It turns to look at the sun
Moonshine… like Irish eyes unsmiling
Begging you to reach inside
And show what was before

When time overtook you
Pulled you and shook you
Revealing the acid, the seed of your secret heart
The sunflower

It’s time to forget him
Burn and regret him
Endlessly sleep in the heat of
A thousand suns

The sunflower

Cool

It’s just a trick of the night
How you set me alight
On the edge of the shadows curve
I’ve been learning to be
Like the people you see
Who get all the love I deserve
No, you won’t be sorry
I want you to feel me

It would be so cool to be your girl
It would be so cool to rule your world
I will be so cool when I’m your girl, will be so
Cool

Don’t be scared, you won’t have to care
I never leave a hair out of place
I’ll be shaving you bare tied to the chair
Licking the sweat off your face
You give me the hunger
I want you to feed me

It would be so cool to be your girl
It would be so cool to rule your world
I will be so cool when I’m your girl, will be so cool

I’ll only live to please you, make you so happy
And we could play blessings and curses, doctors and nurses
I’ll let you be king for the day
Any way you want it is fine by me
Any way you want it is fine
Take anything you see that you think you might need
Anything as long as it’s mine

It would be so cool to be your girl
It would be so cool to rule your world
I will be so cool when I’m your girl, will be so
Cool

It would be so cool to be your girl
It would be so cool to rule your world
I will be so cool when I’m your girl, will be so
Cool

Who You Are

As lovely as cold stars
Lonely as space
You take me to places
I can’t imagine any longer
So don’t you stop dancing
And I’ll watch you sleep
As yesterdays dormant and tomorrows far from forgotten

          I wonder who you are? I wonder where you go to when you want to know
Who fixes broken hearts

I want but don’t love you
I hunger too hard
My dream on a silver screen
That never seems like coming closer
I want what you’re wanting
I want what you need: a hundred years older
Than the dream of unforgetting

          I wonder who you are? I wonder where you go to when you want to know
Who fixes broken hearts
          I’ll take you as you are
And go with every moment ‘til you need to slow what wants to fall apart

Water On Snow

Did I sleep? Do I dream of cold, silent water
So deep and dark
And the wires are singing our song?
Our song

As we lay back and stared into cloudless skies
And the stars up there
The wires are singing our song
The wires are singing our song

Your face, now so plain, once was so lovely
A beautiful refrain, duet with stars
But your smile now in disguise became a flat line
And to never love again like you did before
Was all

Why go on with it, why go on with it?
Why, to let it flow, like water on snow?

I know what you want, what you are thinking
To drift beyond the pain and out of reach
To sit, be safe and warm inside your sorrow
And listen to the slow, slow morse tapping of the rain
But it says:

Why go on with it? Why go on with it?
Why to let it flow like water on snow?