Slender

If you wait till dawn
The world will move inside you
Planets slide around you
the night will slip away

It’s crazy but the moon is tender
Crazy when the moon is full
It’s hard and our chances are slender
Hard to live through it all

If the sky clears you will see me
My arms stretched out in a cross
Counting gains and what I’ve lost
Like sand life slips away

Song

This life is a life of sorrows
my heart it breaks with pain
The one I love has left me
she won’t be back again

How sweet the kiss my lover gives
How tender her caress
How cursed and low this poor man
who one bright day was blessed

Oh love you do forsake me
to leave me here alone
inside my house of tears
deep in a world of stone.

How could you hurt me

how could you ever leave me when
no one knows how to love you but me
how could you ever feel you were free

and if you think it’s ok to cry, I’ll cry
I’ll weep the mountain down
but hushed up never to make a sound
if you think I should die, I’ll die.

how could you ever hurt me when
I never knew how to hurt you
and took the flowers of every moment I had
and tied them up in love for you.

and if you thought I would ever leave you
I will still be there in your sigh
and as long as there are stars and the moon to see by
I shall never die.

Stradbroke afternoon

Dolphin finding
the perfect rainbow wave
to surf and fall and kiss
in the molten gold
of Stradbroke after noon

Cocky gulls
marking out the beach
They know that man
can never own what’s good
It comes on a short lease.

And in the evening hiss
kookaburra on a wire
The stars above his head
waiting for a feed.

False face

cold heart
ulgy eyes
false face
to hide behind

So long you were a word
or a photograph
You once were a joke
someone laughed

old heart
Deep as a mine
worked out
running through time

It wont go away
It wont change
It wont move
It stays the same

You could laugh it off
Put it from your mind
a new false face
to hide behind.

My heart has flown

Baby
if the stars were crazy
And I wasn’t feeling lazy
maybe
you could build a bridge with words
If you wanted to be heard

Ladies
well they come & go
Never to be known

Baby
I was born to be alone
Because my heart has flown
maybe
Begin our lives without me
In my dreams I’m still free

Ladies
you have never ever hurt me
In my heart I’m still free.

Distance is time

Driven by the wind
the empty sea
Solitary in a desert
there is nothing to seek

In the darkest night
a planet passes by
a cloud drifts across
the bluest sky

No form no sensation
No word or rhyme
No relation just people
with no time

It would be like a dream
It would be a mystery
It would be like a tale to tell
The deepest sea

It would be a memory
Completely forgotten
An empty dark core
Filthy rotten

Everything falls
according to its plan
every woman child
every man
Everything falls
collapsing inside
Losing all heart
Everything dies.