NEW WORKS
for collaborative album with Lucinda Grace, Tom Kneebone and Frank Giles.
Looking At You Through Water
I know that time doesn’t stand still
But sometimes that’s how it feels
Whether I’m walking in water or wading through waste
One thing is clear - I’ll have to wait
Sometimes your silhouetted
The moon hides its darker half
Sometimes your glowing for me
Light beams reflecting
I’m looking at you through water
Building wishing wells with the coins of my eyes
I’m looking at you through water
The memories of you stream down my face
I know that rivers shouldn’t stand still
I’m damned if I don’t - damned if I will
Fill bottles and barrels, baths and bores
Waiting for waves to carry me to shore
In my imagination
They wont sink heart shaped boats
Most times they're floating with ease
Then the plug starts to leak and
I’m looking at you through water
Building wishing wells with the coins of my eyes
I’m looking at you through water
The memories of you stream down my face
In my imagination
They wont sink heart shaped boats
Most times they're floating with ease
'til the plug starts to leak
I’m looking at you through water
Building wishing wells with the coins of my eyes
I’m looking at you through water
The memories of you stream down my face
The memories of you pour down my face
Eraser
There's something on this page I can't erase
To say I've tried too many times
I cannot understate, how many different ways
I've tried to tear it out, I've tried to start again
But slowly I know only I'm to blame
I relive time like I'm in yesterday
It seems there is no spare room, the words won't dare fit
our plot it just gets thinner, thinner, thinner
Your the ink unto my paper
I've tried, I've tried, I've tried
Your the ink unto my paper
I've tried, I've tried, I've tried
There's a look upon your face I can't shake
I've seen you smile too many times
Floating further into space, I cannot look away
I've tried to turn I only see your face again
Quickly you fall swiftly in the gaze
of your new found love, while I begin to fade
Standing on a new stage, and I haven't learnt the bit
My spotlight getting dimmer, dimmer, dimmer but...
Your the ink unto my paper
I've tried, I've tried, I've tried
Your the ink unto my paper
I've tried, I've tried, I've tried
F# G
I'll admit it's feeling strange
Bm A
that we believe a friendship may still remain
F# G Bm
An optimistic fool, wading in the deep end of an endless pool
A Gm
of doubt. Just swimming, swimming under clouds
There's something in how light creates the shade
how fast the dark adapts our sight
A call from you today, in such a sorry state
It's hard to hear you're heart, broke apart again
Being lonely shows you know a better place
One to go, makes space for one to gain
Let's say there's more to us than words, no longer dimly lit
Let's build upon a glimmer
Your the ink unto my paper
Your the ink unto my paper
Your the ink unto my paper
Shapes & Sizes
You are more than just my little one
with wide eyes to admire parental walls
Like ivy clings and ivy grows
You think their mustn't be a thing these walls don't know
They come in many different shapes and sizes
you can only wish to scale them all
Taking tiny steps you'll tumble older
Build your hunger, pushing bricks bound to fall
Find a means and find your voice
You'll begin to question just how much to place your trust in some
Who come in many different shapes and sizes
you will love and break them all
Through time, you'll keep changing
with all of my words over your shoulder
when I start complaining
consider me too far, too gone, too old
Your years begin to flow faster
Times the river twisting 'round the bend
Life can be both wide and narrow
You must decide the times you swim or find something you can hold onto
they come in many different shapes and sizes
you can never weigh them all
When I'm gone, meet me in your mirror
as you watch your saplings navigate the undergrowth
Their eyes will seek the lattice that they may soon cling onto
But you mustn't them, everything you know
and they will one day trust the walls
They come in many different shapes and sizes
Through time, you'll keep changing
with all of my words over your shoulder
when I start complaining
consider me too far, too gone, too old
They come in many different shapes and sizes
We can find a place for all
Riff is:
D, F#m, E, E
F#m, E, D, D
Part between verses is:
F#m, E, C, C
C, E, F#m, F#m
Verse:
D, F#m, E
Chorus:
F#m, E, F#m, D
F#m, D
F#m, E, D
That's My Daughter, That's My Son
Intro: G, D, C, D
Verse: G, Em, D, C, G, Em, D x2
Mum and I we say we're proud
between us, often talk about it
we wonder how we found a way
All those nights and all those mornings
now the phone is hardly calling
what I'd give to remember all a child can say
Pre-chorus: G, D, Em, C, G, D, Em, D, C....,
All that freedom, all that laughter
then the tears coming running after
I can see the things I've taught you
In what you say and what you've done
Chorus: G, D, C, D
That's my daughter, That's my son
Refrain: G, D, C, D
Verse:
I fear what faults lay in the mess
but mum and I we gave our best
with every tear in every birthday card
At risk of falling for cliches
but it truly feels like yesterday
you would crawl inside your fathers arms
Pre-chorus:
To all that comfort, all that laughter
then the tears come running after
I still see the things I've taught you
In what you said and what you've done
Chorus:
That's my daughter, That's my son
That's my daughter, That's my son
Instrumental: G, D, C, D
Pre-Chorus:
Once your youth has dearly parted
they'll look up upon their father
In their eyes the things you've taught them
And for all the times to come, you'll say
Chorus:
“That's my daughter, thats my son”
That's my daughter, That's my son
Con Artist
Ain't it strange I must find a way
to convince you
to convince myself
I can have the same conversations with my friends
they don't seem concerned
You can constantly try
To continue to connect our lives
As you conjure my world
and construct it in a different light
What if it all turns grey
what if it falls, this masquerade
revealing my contents
What if I change my shape
what if it's a whole charade
What will be the consequence?
Ain't it strange I must find a way
to console you
to console myself
I need a contact too confide in
I'm slowly feeling more content
You can be so condescending
but I tell my friends your misconstrued
Though you condone my growing confidence
you keep me so well contained
What if it all turns grey
what if it falls, this masquerade
What will be my contents?
What if I change my shape
what if it's a whole charade
What will be the consequence?
What will be the consequence?
- BREAK -
What if I concede right now
what if it's contagious doubt
What if it's the concept?
What if I finally consign
What if my contrast dies
What if it's convention?
What if I concentrate
What if I confess mistakes
Is it just my conscience?
What if my need for tight control
leads me to contrived results
What if it's subconscious?
What if it's subconscious?
Pull Over
V: C, Em, D
Ch: Em, C/Am7, G, Em/D#
I'm just a warning sign
pass me by on your road ahead
It's dark as Japanese lacquer
I don't mind if you shine your headlights here
Don't mind if you shine your head lights here
You can make a call – from the side of the road if you have to
You can make a call
There's a reason I want you to stay
I've been biding my time, waiting for a give away
I need you more than to sit and to wait
I wanna see you pull over, pull over, pull over
I'm just a warning sign
throw what you will, if your passing by
I'm cold as your spare tyre
I don't mind if you bring your engine near
I don't mind if you ditch the keys right here
You can take a walk – to the closest town if you have to
You can take a walk
But there's a reason I want you to stay
I've been biding my time, waiting for the give away
I need you more than to sit and to wait
I wanna see you pull over, pull over, pull over
You can make a call – from the side of the road if you have to
You can make a call
There's a reason I want you to stay
I've been biding my time, waiting for the give away
I need you more than to sit and to wait
I wanna see you pull over, pull over
There's a reason I want you to stay
I've been biding my time, waiting for the give away
I need you more than to sit and to wait
I wanna see you pull over, pull over, pull over, pull over, pull over
The Colour Of Love In Your Eyes
Moving truck screeches to a halt
It's nobodies fault but I
Took two months today
to pack you all away
all on which you left your mark
all that's left me in the dark
all this time sat memories still
watching me from my window sill
time softly seems to accelerate
I watch them take their bins to the road
they are outside my window
It's how I know when to pick the time
To pick the fight, or to let it slide
It's how I know when to turn, left or either side
It's the colour of love, It's the colour of love
It's how I know if love is blind
When to trust the whites in your eyes
It's how I know when to stay, or too say maybe in another life
It's the colour of love, It's the colour of love in your eyes
Feeling stuck squeezing just ends
Friends of friends say move on
Mementos I kept
hide in a box in the shed
Now I've had to leave my mark
Now I only sleep in the dark
How I'd been making memories still
I wouldn't say it's fully healed
some perfumes and suburbs too, remind me of you
In the afternoons I'll take my bins to the road
As you're passing through, I'll watch you go
It's how I know when to pick the time
To pick the fight, or to let it slide
It's how I know when to turn, left or either side
It's the colour of love, It's the colour of love
It's how I know if love is blind
When to trust the whites in your eyes
It's how I know when to stay, or too say maybe in another life
It's the colour of love, It's the colour of love in your eyes
Everybody
Everybody says that things ain't what they use to be
You remember how the world worked better but can't remember where you put your keys
Just tell me now -----
Life, does it all seem better as a child?
Everybody knows what is good, right, wrong or bad?
I guess the mormons at my door will never know about the zoom call I said I had
Just tell me now -----
Life, does it all seem better when you're kind?
Everybody wants their freedom
everybody wants control
Everybody thinks if you give it all you get it all returned
Everybody wants to feel, feel like the original one
Everybody wants, what everybody wants
Everybody wants, what everybody wants
Everybody wants a life of love and a love life but you can't have both
Plan it out, make it perfect, love my life, drink more wine just so I can cope
Tell me now -----
Life, does it all seem better when you're blind?
Everybody wants to leave a good impression or a legacy
Won't admit mistakes, saving my confessions to be dumping on the clergy
Tell me now -----
Life, does it all seem better when you're right?
Everybody wants their freedom
everybody wants control
Everybody thinks if you give it all you get it all returned
Everybody wants to feel, feel like the original one
Everybody wants, what everybody wants
Everybody wants, what everybody wants
Everybody wants, what everybody wants
Everybody wants, what everybody wants
CAPO 9
V: E, E, E,E
E, E, E, E
G, G, A, A
Bm, Bm, Bm, Bm
Ch: G, Bm, A, A
G, Bm, A, A
G, Bm, G, A
G, Bm, A, A, G, Bm, A4
Tell Me Why You Love
Tell me why you love
Tell me why you love
When it hurts so bad?
Are you governed by the sky
Tell me why you love tell me why
Tell me why you love
Tell me why you love
When it turns you sad
And it took so long to find
Tell me why you love tell me why
In these arms you crawl and cry
A better start then to run and hide
In your grasp, you try, but nothing holds forever
ever, everything you have to measure
It just ain't long enough, strange what it does to us
It just ain't long enough, strange what it does to us
It just ain't long enough, strange what it does to us
Tell me why you love
Tell me why you love
When the guilt comes in
It's no respite to close your eyes
Tell me why you love tell me why
Tell me why you love
Tell me why you love
When the fade begins
Nobodies meant for surrendering
Tell me why the love gives in
In the past I'd laugh or sigh
I never read it as a warning sign
In your heart, you pry, yeah this wont hold forever
ever, everything you have to measure
It just ain't long enough, strange what it does to us
It just ain't long enough, strange what it does to us
It just ain't long enough, strange what it does to us
In Our Blood
I feel it in my finger
a lifelong splinter
smelling their furniture
only once a year
Mother slides out their card tables
Kept beside her cobwebbed cradle
There's something hiding in her voice
I can’t un hear
Her tears say the rest
As she speaks of grandmas kindness
And how she never had to leave
what she left behind
In our blood, In our blood
We are one, but
In our minds, In ours minds
come undone
Many years before
on a black and white floor
dressing dolls grandma gave her
suppressing how they raised her
she won't forget what that other half did
The past trickles out like
dirty drips through a worn out seal on a drain pipe
that she had buried in a ditch on the side of a road
With a note saying
‘one day you can know' that
In our blood, In our blood
We are one, but
In our minds, In ours minds
We come undone
Today the devil was buried like the pipes
that drank what she once had to hide
she could barely say her last goodbye
The coffin heavy in my hand
Dust settles on my cradle
back beside that card table
I remember all the furniture
but the smell I've now forgot
It’s no longer in the finger
that lifelong splinter
fears of returning there
her voice the air
breathing 'now your old enough to know' that
In our blood, In our blood
We are one, but
In our minds, In ours minds
We come undone
Invincible
F, F
Invincible, Invincible you said
Em Am Am/D7
You could be the poster on your bedroom wall, just get your mindset
F, F
All those other kids, All those other kids
Em Am Am/D7
Call you names now, but they don't know how kids grow old and regret the shit they said
G
I am smarter now
G E7
and the world is full of people who were one day left for dead
G, F
If you work hard
G, F
if you sweat
G, F
if you think fast
G, F
You'll make you number one
G, F G, F
Make you brave, make you invincible
G, F
Make you work hard
G, F
make you sweat
G, F
make you think fast
G, F
make you best
G, F G, F
Make you brave, make you invincible, Make you...
F F
Everything, Everything you said
Em Am Am/D7
I could learn all those words, to say something back to them
F F
Looking back, looking back
Em Am Am/D7
If we only treated strangers they way we treat our friends
G
It is clearer now
G E7
that the world is full of people that never meant the things they said
If I work hard
if I sweat
if I think fast
beat the rest
Make you brave, make you invincible
Make you work hard
make you sweat
make you think fast
no longer less
Make you brave, make you invincible
E Am
We all return to the place where we were born
G F
to reminisce or to mourn
E Am
so many reasons why we had to stray
E Am
so many reasons why we could have stayed
F D7 E7
so many dreams pinned into the back of bedroom doors
If you work hard
if you sweat
if you think fast
You'll make you number one
Make you brave, make you invincible
May you work hard
may you sweat
may you think fast
may you be the best
Make you brave, make you invincible, invincible, invincible
A Song Is Just A Song
A song is just a song
for those who will not listen
a grave is just a grave
until someone you know goes in it
A name is just a name
until you put someone behind it
and the word is cursed
'cause it's all fun and flames
'til somebody gets hurt
Wooah there's a battle inside of me
Wooah
Wooah Does it matter which side I take
If I won't make it out
If I can't break free
A war is just a war
if you're not sure what they're fighting for
A game is just a game
because you're keeping score
The light is just the light
if it ain't got no one to shine on
What's right is just what's right until
there is something else decided
Wooah
There's a battle inside of me
Wooah
Wooah
Does it matter which side I take
If I won't make it out
If I can't break free
A dollars just a dollar
to those who aren't in need
A life is just a life if you can't imagine
what that life could have been
Wooah
There's a battle inside of me
Wooah
Wooah
Does it matter which side I take
If I won't make it out
If I can't break free
A word is just a word
until it's meaning's given
A song is just a song
for those who will not listen