Two Weeks in June

The summer lights are shining around the bay

Calling us to come and dance the night away

A warm breeze

Some pine trees

Music played loud

To the beach

Hand in hand

Through the crowd

Where summer lights

Illuminate

A high tide in town

Two weeks in June

It'll be over too soon

But until then I'll dance the night away

Under the summer lights around the bay

The summer lights are shining around the bay

Calling us to come and dance the night away

All for Love

Long after the roses have faded

You'll learn what love is

This night sky clothes your desire

Hides your eyes from your heart

Long after you'll remember

What we are

We are nothing unless it's all for love

All for love

And you can laugh and you can pour your scorn

And you can ask the devil what the hell it's all for

Long after you'll remember

It was all for love

All for love

I got your text and the crazy photo of us

Like we were meant to be together

And the view from the window

With the sun setting so many years ago

How we must have changed

And I hope you are well

As can be expected for someone

Who hides his eyes from his heart

Now you've remembered

What we are

And I could laugh and I could pour scorn

And ask the devil what the hell it was all for

If so long after you'll finally remember

It was all for love

All for love

Long after the roses have faded

You'll learn what love is

This night sky clothes your desire

Hides your eyes from your heart

Long after you'll remember

What we are

We are nothing unless it's all for love

All for love

The Muse

Leave your ego at my door

Along with your shoes

Tired of cleaning dusty floors

Leave your heart where I can see it

Lost too many

Hard to believe but

I need a reason for a rhyme

This time

Keep your eyes open honey

The truth never needs to hide

Why aren't your arms open darling

A hug won't hurt your pride

I've had to wash away the perfume

Of too many lies

Hard to believe but this time

I need a reason for a rhyme

One-Sided Coin

Love's not a one-sided coin

You can't always win the day

Love's not a line in a poem

Borrowed words aren't what I

Need to hear you say

You've got to feel me in your heart

This honesty is where love starts

Fancy words and fast moves

The hallmark of a lonely fool

Love's not a one-sided coin

So don't throw it all away

When all I need to hear you say

What I need to hear you say

Words from your heart

Why can't you say

Love's not a one-sided coin

You can't always win the day

Love's not a line in a poem

Borrowed words aren't what I

Need to hear you say

You've got to feel me in your heart

This honesty is where love starts

So don't throw it all away

Love's not a one-sided coin

And you can't always win the day

Lilac and Sweet Clover

Lilac and sweet clover

And damson red

Fireflies dancing

Way over your head

You can't catch the summer

And hold it to ransom

You can only run after it

As it dances away

In a cloud of

Lilac and sweet clover

And damson red

Fireflies dancing

Way over your head

And I think we were friends

If I recall those days

When the lights were dancing

Way over our heads

Tears teach us to be human

Laughter sweeter than wine

Years run like water

It's all just a matter of time

You can't catch the summer

And hold it to ransom

You can only run after it

As it dances away

In a cloud of

Lilac and sweet clover

And damson red

Fireflies dancing

Way over your head

Lilac and sweet clover

And damson red

Fireflies dancing

Way over your head

Last Chance Human

Starting a new set of songs/poems/words. Kicking off with Last Chance Human.

Last Chance Human

I've stood back

Didn't want to drown in your wake

Watched as your ships set sail

Counted in the flotsam and jetsam

On the return tide

When you won't listen any more

When the ego trip is all

Those bridges that you burnt

No lessons learnt

I've had it up to here

And there's something very clear

No matter how much you polish it

It's all still a crock of shit

So sick and tired of it

Well, here comes St Jude

Like the Ides of March

Here comes your future

A reflection of your past

Last chance human

Last chance human

I've stood back

Didn't want to drown in your wake

Watched as your ships set sail

Counted in the flotsam and jetsam

On the return tide

When a bullet is your reason

When war's the only season

When you won't listen any more

When the ego trip is all

Well, here comes St Jude

Like the Ides of March

Here comes your future

A reflection of your past

So very sick and tired of it

This is your last chance to be human

Ode to a second-hand book

In old pages unturned

Old words remain unlearned

And what wisdom

Might lie therein

Once an old book we begin

Read, not because you ought

But because so much less is taught

Than can be captured in a line of prose

There's where imagination grows

The poet's sorrows

And love defined

The hardest road

The sweetest wine

The fiercest fight

And battles won

The finest hour

The saddest song

And all of it waiting to be found

Neatly typeset and leather bound

In old pages unturned

Old words remain unlearned

And what wisdom

Might lie therein

Once an old book we begin