Lantern Light

My heart jumps

Needle on a record

At your name

And my eyes find you

Still the same

And despite myself

I light a flame

And set those

Lantern hearts dancing

Under the sudden summer rain

Lightning and thunder across the bay

Light up what was a heavy day

And all across the verandah

The hailstones play

A light in my heart

For you

A light in my life

Was you

A light in this world

Will do

We're all lantern hearts dancing

In the sudden summer rain

My heart jumps

Needle on a record

At your name

And my eyes find you

Still the same

And despite myself

I light a flame

And set those

Lantern hearts dancing
Under the sudden summer rain

cities and small towns

My heart is a box full of insoles

For shoes that never quite fit

And I've bunions and blisters

And stiletto disasters
Running after a love I can't keep

Cities and small towns

It's always the same

They'll burn out your hope

By the hard light of day

And letters in the river

Are blurring the lines

Between what was a future

And what's on my mind

My heart is a box full of letters

For love I forgot how to write

And I've lived with those words

That nobody heard

Running after a shoe leather life

Cities and small towns

It's always a game

A balance between fortune
And only fame

Take it Slow

This life is a turn on the wall of death

We drive ourselves so hard

It all blurs into something else

And at the end what's to show
A ticket to nowhere fast so

Honey, take it slow

Take it slow

The last magpie on the traffic lights

Is watching you blinking twice

He knows

Like the crows

What to do

And where to go

Taking it slow

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