The Turning Swell

I lost it long ago
Not sure there isn't a road I don't know
Just moments of water off my skin
Just rolling water within

Back to front
Roundabout
Cry your words out
Spinning, nascent
The turning swell

There's a time of long ago
Echoed in my silver hair
Faint as footprints in the snow
That lead to nowhere

Back to front
Roundabout
Cry your words out
Spinning, nascent
The turning swell

Just moments of water off my skin
Just rolling water within
Not sure there isn't a road I don't know
I lost it long ago

Blue

You breeze in and you breeze out
With no idea what love's about
But like the temporary scent of blue
I'll soon get over you

Smoke curling from a flame
Moth to a candle, always the same
But like the temporary scent of blue
I'll get over you

a temporary scent of blue...

It's been a summer of butteflies and rain this year, of moments as fleeting as a beating wing. New set of words for a new cover.

Let's Sing Now

I won't be remembered for anything new
It's not what I've done, it's what you do
And those footsteps fade quicker everyday
Washed by the June rain, clean away

Oh, let's sing a song
Chorus and tune
Lost in the crowd
Let's sing now

It can be lusty
It can be loud
We'll stamp our feet
Let's sing now

You won't be wanting for anything more
It's all we imagined of that I'm sure
And my heart beats faster than the falling rain
Your arm around me, just the same

I won't be remembered for anything new
It's not what I've done, it's what you do
And those footsteps fade quicker everyday
Washed by the June rain, clean away

Head in the clouds
Heart in our hands
Everything to play for
Let's sing now

Off That Floor

Somewhere between yesterday and today
Somewhere between yesterday and today
The rules changed
Those lines blurred
Our shapes became a different word
Somewhere between yesterday and today
It's a whole new ball game

Don't throw me that curve
Because I've heard
It all before
Once, twice, encore, encore
Get up! get up!
Off that floor
But I'm not so sure now
And I'm not sure how
But somewhere between yesterday and today
Those rules changed

Somewhere between yesterday and today
Somewhere between yesterday and today
The rules changed
Those lines blurred
Our shapes became a different word
And you're not so sure now
And you're not sure how
But somewhere between yesterday and today
Somewhere between yesterday and today
It's a whole new ball game

Returning the key

This new light
Shivering and thinly disguised
As winter
Draws out the lines
On a now clean canvas
Like fresh washed sand
Stranded
As the sea recedes

What have we done?
But the rhetoric will not repair
The old guttering
Or save the bills
From piling up
Debt upon debt into a rotten heap
Kicked into the corner
To moulder in our absence

The final turn of the key
Posting it back through the letterbox
And we are gone
Just the bright sunshine in our eyes
To obscure the fact that
Once
We lived here

The View From Here And

There isn't much to see
If you're trying to look at me
And I'm sick of the reasons why
I didn't look
And I didn't try

And what do you want me to say
I didn't dare
And I didn't die
What do you want me to say
I didn't change
And I didn't lie

Oh honey, it was you
Who's looking at me
But I'll tell you now
There's not that much to see

And on the way here
I drowned in a ocean of tears
And on the way here
I burned in a wildfire of fears
And what do you want me to say
To give absolution
And tidy it all away

Well honey, it was you
Who was looking my way