11 Thursday Feb 2021
Posted in Uncategorized
Crazy creations
Laced with imperfection
Echoin dustbins
A voice from above
Crashed in your head
Says if that’s all you got
You might as well quit
Cause before you make a hit
You’re gonna be dead
No you aint got what it takes
So just forget the dream
Let the cream curdle
And skip the hurdle
Unclench your fists
And forget the wish
Lay the past to rest
And put this love to bed
27 Tuesday Oct 2020
Posted in ALBUM - Sunflower Soul
Got through their detour
With flies in our face
We’re divers sinking fast
Into everblue
Easy gets a groove on
Flat white back to back
Meets jazz on the horizon
A frenzied survival
Piranahs and bananas
Chomping something new
We’re 37 stars
Clinging to the clouds of love
Everything and nothing
All at once twice
We’re a night time dreamer
Flying through the space above
Everything and nothing
Happening before
Mopped in a corner
With elemental grace
We’re hard in a cast
Stuck into glue
Toying with eternity
Spinning out top to tail
An operatic revival
Spangled in pavillion
Bluffers and big spiders
Bumping as they chew
27 Thursday Aug 2020
Posted in ALBUM - Up Yours Systematic
PC Immi got me itchin for a bitchin
Rx medi better gimme a prescription
Somethin to calm the nerves
Before I start-a-pitchin
About the friggn curve ball
Flung from their jurisdiction
Oh yeah my father
My knight in shining armor
Met my mother in a milk bar
Fell in love n made a family
Brother sister n me
Had a chicken farm in Africa
Until we fled the bloodshed
Rocked up at the Aussie harbor
Back in the 80s empty-handed
Then IBM moved us to Karratha
Aunt n uncle followed soon after
Along with my grandma n grandfather
We all became Aussies True Blue
The Goodies MTV n mixed lollies
Pool parties roller skates n drive-in cinemas
Summer loving cousins
Finished school got degrees
Except for me lol
Our families all expanded
Years n years of memories
Yeah my boy was born True Blue too
You see my father
Built a life here for thirty years
Paid taxes, paid what’s due
Won design awards to name a few
Yeah his contribution
Deserves a standing ovation
But being an ex pat off he flew
Cause you do whatchya gotta do
And go where the crust aint burnt
Italian boots and a British rucksack
He’s now married to lovely Linda
Yeah his British wife
She has a daughter here too
Who’s married True Blue
And they have two boys too
But they’re caught up in a catch 22
So skip now to twenty twenty two
Thanks to friggn COVID
Citizenship denied
Cause you mute the voice with your multi choice
Impossible questions n sterile rejection
Friggn authority n red ink
No matter how you try
It’s always access denied
They didn’t skip the queue
But they’re jumpin through your hoops
While you’re munchin on ur fruit loops
But to you n you n you
Does it even ring a bell?
Ding dong let me remind you
For Christ sake you’re makn a mistake
Even his mum n dads ashes
Are scattered here True Blue
And a heart deserves the right
To be in two places can’t you see
Yeah who decides who stays
And who’s gotta go?
So if they gotta go, I think i’ll go too
Cause that aint True Blue
And it doesn’t feel like home
So go on tear our family apart
Cause if that’s the essence of being True Blue
I’m outta here too
16 Sunday Aug 2020
Posted in Uncategorized
You there didn’t you swear with only time enough to care
Left diamonds in the air before you pulled the lair
That taste of paradise still lingers on without you gone
But it’s a lonely place with a silent taste
Inside where you reside
Wrestling fears over so many years
Trenched through the mud drenched from above
With butterflied blood and suds of love
It’s never too late to see we burn alive
Big red heart banging at the door
Can’t fight it anymore
Thanks for slapping the hide and for the ride
Thanks for the healing and for not revealing
Thanks for the blue without a clue
Thank you for the feeling of Sweet Despair
05 Sunday Apr 2020
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Rain starts fallin
Leaves a pain in the heart
Aint nothin anyone can do or say
To take it away
Don’t wanna step on minds
Or trip a land mine
Just can’t help it
If your heart is callin
From every beat ignorin
Runnin and avoidin
Like a hound dog maulin
Stallin with fate
And never too late
Here to stay
Better make it…make it be ok
Take the dream of one day
Holdin love’s grenade
In open palms
Won’t let em close
Slippin in the mud
And grippin too hard
To stop the blood
When it’s already blown
We’re already sown
Never gonna be alone
Never gonna be gone
That blue rose bud
Was left in a sling
Off to be slung
From the bass clef
Of a lover’s song
Left in the hands
For someone else to sing
12 Sunday Jan 2020
Posted in ALBUM - Sunflower Soul
First draft of my latest song…
(Capo 3?)
Verses:
F7 G Am G Am G Am G
F G
Chorus:
B? Em? G/B
C D(F# bass) G
B? Em? G/B
G G F# Em G G F# Em
C D(F bass) G
V1
If we could be just that
Inside a photograph
A snapshot of love begun
Lovers on the run
Holdin flowers to the sun
Maybe we’d be free again
If we could wear that hat
Of a soul broke in half
A white dress of a nun
Oh why did we run
From cupid’s gun
Where did we go again
Chorus
Black n white, sepia
Flashlights n selfies
Photographic Memories
We make it then we break it
Take it till we fake it
We rip it as we’re trippin
Then we slip until we lose the grip
Yeah we rip it as we’re trippin
Then we slip until we lose the grip
Photographic Memories
V2
If we could sail that ship
With hearts stowed away
Onto a desert island blue
Lovers torn in two
Always chasin something new
Maybe we’d be free again
If we could crack that whip
Across a horseshoe bridge
A night mare dressed in black
Oh why do we mess
With what’s been blessed
What the hell kills the spell
Chorus (x2)
31 Tuesday Dec 2019
Posted in Uncategorized
It’s hard on the outskirts
Watchin love fall apart
Hearts darting about
Bags packed like outlaws
Next train outta town
Easy come easy go
Souls lost and in doubt
Nothin we can do
To free their pain
Mistrust n disdain
Helpless on the sideline
Dusty roads windin
Winds blindin
Brings me back to you
Makes what we got
So much more
A solid core
Forevermore
Can never close that door
(tbc…)
20 Sunday Oct 2019
Posted in ALBUM - Sunflower Soul
He’s gotten too frail to stay
Body seizin up
But his mind’s still ok
No-one wanna see him that way
His eyes will soon close
To see a chateaux in the sky
And a bright bright path
Gonna lead the way
Old man he put his life on the line
Will never be forgotten
So don’t be afraid to go
She’s waitin on the other side
Hands held out to take you away
Heaven on the Horizon
Into a brand new day
Heaven on the Horizon
Shinin a forever ray
You’re there in our heart
You’re there in the stars
Just believe in love
Cause souls they always meet again
12 Thursday Sep 2019
Posted in ALBUM - Sunflower Soul
Girl you gotta pure soul
And I’m sorry if I made you cry
You leave a trail of petals
Everywhere you go
And I never meant to break em down
Or cloud the sun in your sky
I see the glimmer in your eyes
A love you can’t disguise
So new n divine
A beautiful sign
Hand in hand
You can go anywhere
On a natural high
Cause love will never lie
So with white wings fly
Angel lead when you need
Follow when you hear his call
And step away
To hear the words you say
You’re the missing piece
A dress made of lace
A heavenly reminder
To never give up
Never give in
Cause with a little hope
Sowin the seeds
Into strawberry fields
Love will always know
Where only love can grow…
25 Saturday May 2019
Posted in Album - LoveStruck
Capo 8
C, Am, G, C
Am, G
??
I’m tired of walkin down a one-way lane
While my love for you is pourin down the drain
Yeah what’s the point in chaste
When love just goes to waste
When all that I can taste is bein replaced
Like you stuck your hand into my chest
And pulled out the rest
Now if I’m ever gonna breathe again
I’m gonna need a Kick-Start
So why don’t you put them fears aside
And gimme what I need
Oh would you be so bold
As to give me your world
(I’ll give it back ten-fold)
And while we’re on the subject of love
Of heart’s rejected, deflected and neglected
Silently perfected n architected
Let me remind you of your deed
Cause you’re the one who planted the seed
Stamped out the sprout n made me believe
So please don’t set the blame on me
Cause it’s outta my control
What’s goin on with our soul
Yeah the only way to put out this red hot coal
Is to drop it down the hole of the cold North Pole
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