DIFFERENTLY
Dance a little differently
A boogie or a jive, don’t take them literally
They stand to show what feet can do when the heart is listened to
But you must just trust your own feet
To show the world how your heart beats.
When the music sways your hips
Don’t describe their funky tricks
You might as well explain to lips
How to love a lover’s kiss
We are only one, we’re all unique
You cannot teach a heart to beat.
Dance out your days partnered or alone
In sobriety or haze, abroad or at home
Stand out or blend in but be led by your soul
And know that right there on the end of your toes
Magic colours glow and they paint rare patterns
Wherever you go.
MAN ON THE MOON
I am waiting for the moonlight to take me far from here
I am waiting for the stars to shine and light the way
Feel the night time wrap around me I’m safe within her arms
I am weightless, I am flying, I am lifted
Feel the wind rush in my ears and yet there is no sound.
(CH) Tree tops and roof tops, the village church spire
Leave them behind as I’m lifted up higher
I’ll be there soon Mr Man On The Moon
I’ll be there soon, Man On The Moon.
I am reaching for your beaming face, the smile that shines for me
Feel the twinkle in your eyes, I know you are waiting
I am freedom, I am moonlight, I am star shine.
(CH)
Ever higher, ever closer, see through my skin
Touch the soul within.
(CH)
HOLLYWOOD
I will leave this little town tomorrow, maybe tomorrow
Tomorrow, its true this time.
I said it all before, but never from the heart
And its a little hard to find, there’s no signs.
Imprints in cements, stuck there
Stuck there for eternity
Remembered, a name, a face a legacy
But what about me?
There’s no signs, there’s no signs.
(CH) Hollywood Boulevard littered with stars
Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, How I wonder where you are.
That’s how I want you to think of me
When you think of me, think of me
Its not a lie, I’ve been going all along
Packed my bags and said “So long”
It’s just a little hard to find, there’s no signs.
I might be in a bright shiny movie
You’ll see me in the TV, I’ll wave at you, you’ll wave at me from the TV
And I’ll be sipping cocktails by the sea
Walk on red carpets smiling for pictures I know you’ll see.
(CH)
And that’s how I want you to think of me.
GHOST
Sunlight catches on the leaves of red that fall upon my head as I stand by your door
The wind it blows my skirt and my ears feel so cold they hurt but I don’t move
The ice will not be melting on the ground or in this place on which I stand, or in my heart.
(CH) There’s too many kinds of love that kill you
I’ll be waiting for you
Take my hands I’ll walk right through you
I’m a ghost of who I used to be, you’re haunting me
Hear you on your answer phone your voice is saying you’re not home again
But its a lie!
I lay on your attic floor behind the little wooden door, my lungs fill with dust
Through the walls I hear you breathe and eat and laugh and dance and sneeze but I
Don’t make a sound
(CH)
I will follow in my car, even if you go so very far, I won’t mind
Here, there, anywhere, if you are going I’ll be there, I’ve lost my mind.
TRUE LOVE
They say that true love is blind
I say that’s not the only kind
It’s loving all the flaws they’ve got
Forgiving everything they’re not
Seeing them in everlasting moon beam glows.
True love whispers through your bones
Its in your veins, your blood, your soul
Its carried on the floating breeze, through the rustling of the trees
Its in the melody that lifts us when we fall.
(CH) Love you true, Angels I love you strong
All through the rain, a hurricane, in every joy and in pain
But this is up to you, Angels what will you choose
The light and the dark pull you apart
Think with your heart.
True Love’s the wealth that gives you worth
A glimpse of Paradise on earth
Though its nothing you can see, when our bodies cease to be
Unconfined by skin and bone it guides us home
(CH)
Gives you roots like the trees
When its time you will see who to be, what’s the key, and how to fly.
DON’T GET ANY IDEAS
Don’t get any ideas about who’s in charge here
He calls the shots and I don’t mean gin
While you’re talking he’ll be corking a magnum of fizz
While you’re lowing he’ll be showing you how it is
You’ll never get your way before he gets his
Don’t get any ideas about how to play me
I’m not a game and I won’t be won
While you’re flossing I’ll be choosing my very next plan
While you’re dreaming I’ll be preening and showing I can
Once I’m met no one ever forgets who I am.
Don’t know where I got this reputation
Why such trepidation in your midst?
I’m, Zap! just a pussy cat, beneath all this exteriorness
And while I’m nearly all Miaow
Some days and some how I can’t help settling the score
Sometimes I can’t help but roar
Don’t get any ideas about where we’re going.
You’re the whining sort so I’ll have red
While you’re sweating I’ll be netting and reeling em in
While you’re coding I’ll be posing and sparkling with sin
Don’t bet on winning me but bet I’ll win.
Don’t get any ideas about why I’d need you I’m not to let but I’ll let you beg
While you’re losing I’ll be cruising with princes and earls
While you’re falling I’ll be crawling in diamonds and pearls
I’m raising up the stakes. I’ll do what and more than it takes
I’ll follow them to that place and protect my girls.
INTO THE WOODS
I led you into the woods, hid behind a tree
What became of me behind the tree
Looking at the autumn leaves falling all around
Fluttering to the ground, look at what I found
Piece by piece I lost myself, leaf by leaf I’m someone else.
Always felt like Winter, we deserve the Spring
All that it can bring, let go of everything
All of this discarded, taken by the breeze
Washed to calmer seas, no more need to please
(CH) Piece by piece I lost myself, key by key unlock the spell
See through me I’m just a shell of someone else
Leaves on a tree used to be joined, now are free
Seasons turn and so do we
(CH)
AUNTIE SARAH
I went up to the fish and chip shop
A wee dog stole a haddie bone
A big dog tried to pinch it so I threw it a tattie scone
I went to tell my Auntie Sarah but my Auntie Sarah wasny in
So I looked through a hole in the windie and shouted “Auntie Sarah Are You In?”
(CH) Auntie Sarah are you in?
Her false teeth were lying on the table
Her wig was lying on the bed
Her leg was stonnin in the corner
Her wig was lying on the table
Her false teeth were lying on the table
Her wig was lying on the bed
Her leg was stonnin in the corner
So I went off to find her in the shed
I thought she was hingin in the cludgie
Her big fit poked through the door
Her shudders and hons were shaking
She said “Don’t Be Comin Here No More”
(CH)
Are you there, Are you there Sarah, Are You In?
FALLEN ANGEL
Pennies and pounds, pass the cash round
Pledging my vows to the plastic economy
Down on my knees, forgive me please
Hand over fees to the God of Unlimited Beauty
Darling you look so divine, a miracle’s erased the time.
(CH) If all the angels came tumbling down from the sky
Would you share the air you breathe
Soaring, falling, flying, crawling
Would you believe in me?
Censor the lines, condition minds
Hope that they buy if you make them feel bad enough
Taming them thin, control the skin
Cleansing the skin of the real identity
Darling you’re looking so divine, a miracle’s erased the time.
(CH)
MONSTER
I’m staying in bed today
Shadows at my door won’t go away
Something’s lurking and I have to remember what my mother used to say.
Somebody’s at my shoulder
My little room’s getting colder
My body shivers and I have to remember what my mother used to say
(CH) Please don’t be scared of monsters that hide under your bed, inside your head
Sing you a love song, or a lullaby, la la la la, la la la la.
He won’t sit on my shoulder
My little devil is bolder
He creeps under my skin and I have to remind him what my mother used to say
(CH)
Like Humpty Dumpty I’ve fallen so far
See all the pieces that used to be part of me
Pick me up gently, I won’t feel pain
Maybe I’ll go back together again
(CH)
ROSES
I’ll meet you on the wall, there’s nothing left thats all
When life has made you fall, I’ll meet you on the wall
Every day the same, no sense of shame
Do I take the blame, when every day’s the same
Ring a ring of roses, a pocket full of poses
Ring a ring of roses, we all fall down
As the sunrise rips bloody streaks in the mist
Each and every brick grips me in its fist
Don’t want to be a fighter, there’s things to make you lighter
And feel a little brighter, we all fall down
Who sang you lullabies? Who cradle you at night?
Who’ll catch you when we all fall down?
There’s sorrow in my bones
A cold hand on my soul
This wall may be my home
I’m queen upon this throne.
GANDIEGOW
Gold is 100 colours in Novembered lanes
In remembered strains of song I walk and dance a little
Heavy with rain that soaks, dribbles, prickles
I laugh as though it tickles and I sing to the stormy clouds
And as crazed thunder bolts join in the symphony
A chorus on timpani, still steadier stride my steps
For my voice does not tremble amid tempest moans
But tilts its soaring tones to sail upon the winds like a galleon
MADE UP STORY
Angels can fall, ghosts walk through walls into your home the monsters roam
But now you are grown, make a made up story of your own.
(CH) Auntie Sarah fall to the ground
Murder Polis, draw chalk around
Pick her up, carry her away
Jump in jump out let’s hear you shout
See the weans play.
The world is a story we tell every day, one to another in our own way
The plot is a land, as yet unplanned, the pen is in your hand
(CH)
Once upon a line of a song, you are the time it is upon
You are just a kid, the possibilities are infinite.
(CH)
