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

The Longest Fall

It's the oldest story

And the longest fall

You think you've got away with it

But you've got nothing at all

All that glitters is fool's gold

And the silver lining in your pocket

Only weighs you down more

Love wasn't enough for you

Blood and bones for golden thrones

Now you're king of the castle

Practising what you preach

Love wasn't enough

'Get me more stuff!'

Bullets and brass

Bombs and glass

It's the oldest story

And the longest fall

You think you've got away with it

But you've got nothing at all

Now you're king of the castle

Sowing what you reap

And that silver lining in your pocket

Only weighs you down more

In a hell of your own making

It's the oldest story

And the longest fall

How it was

Listening to a ‘Lady in Satin’

Singing about how it is

Trying to work out why those words

Became how it was

Passed the green man miles ago

He said it was a lost cause

But never lie down and let it go

Because he doesn’t know

How words echo in the heart

So listen to a ‘Lady in Satin’

Singing about how it is

And tell me why those words

Became how it was.