Pure Sounds

1. Replica

He tries and tries and fails

No sympathy deserved

The lies line up in trails

One faked smile preserved

But he tries and tries to make the bail

One push of gratitude

The crimes of plain and grim betrayal

Don’t knock his attitude

This portrays my reversed reflection

I am a moderate man

Kind and gentle when I can – and recommended

Without a insolent hand

Not so many can be safe of their places

The claws and jaws and spikes

Catch up and sink in deep

Excessive lacerations strip the flesh

And leave the bones in heaps

The breeze, the freeze encompass me

In dark hooded sleep

The crack of reins across my back

Snap the ivory

This betrays my past reflection

I am a moderate man

Happy when I can and elevated

Beyond an ignorant hand

Only so many are safe in their places

Only moderation fills in the spaces

Only liberation comes into station

Only interested in fascination

Fashioned into an emblem of power

Made a model of an ivory tower

Not a replica of any old man

I’m a normal-minded moderate man

I’m an under-lighted slim-shadowed man

I’m an over-blinded short-sighted man

I'm a moderate man

Yeah I'm a moderate man

2. Race It Home

Oh for summers passed, how to make them last forever

And oh for summers gone, I wish they’d go on forever

Wishing I was gone, wishing I was gone

Oh for winters passed, thinking of the thaw at last

The freeze comes to an end, the chill, the frostbite

I beg send me home, send me home

I beg send me home, I’m not home

Looking at life racing by makes me sad

It makes me cry

There must be a brake somewhere

But I can’t seem to find it here

I must look somewhere else for it

And when I feel it coming

I race it home, race it home

Race it home, race it home

Now to winters come, feeling night draw on and take me

To a town so cold, through feelings and through times so old

Feeling old, I’m not old, I feel old

And now to summers come, feel the warmth in every bone

With summer in my mind, a greater warmth I’ll never find

A greater kind, and looking miles high and wide

I’ll never find

Looking at life racing by makes me sad

It makes me cry

There must be a brake somewhere

But I can’t seem to find it here

I must look somewhere else for it

3. Close Harmony

Well I thanked the stars for my melody to help make it sweet

And I lit a torch for my muse and laid lambs at her feet

And everything within my power

Was placed at her disposal to help my song

So all along the chords melt together in close harmony

So I thank her daily for giving me the role

To tell of her story and satisfy my soul

To demonstrate how I’m inspired

She made me whole

Well the rhythms and ripples that followed summoned up ghosts

And the fire in the pits of their eyes hit all the right notes

So the spirits all chanted a murmur

And I hummed away my fear of the gathering saints

And everything held together in close harmony

And all along the chords melt together in close harmony

So I thank them all daily for possession of a strange, strange kind

For tipping the scales in my favour for giving me peace of mind

To instigate a plan of my action a taste of delicious compound

To concentrate my conception of a poetry of pure sound

A poetry of pure sound

And everything came together in close harmony

4. Verbal Retentive

Here’s where we run out of words

We’ve come so far and heard

Of all the things to come

Speaking over one another

And back-stabbing your brothers

And sisters one by one

And listening to all the sins

And suffering for all the things

We’re expecting to take home when we’ve won

You know what we’re thinking of

Saved, saved, taken one by one

Saved, saved, and some deserving some

Saved, saved

And when we’ve had our fill

And slackened off our bulging belt

When we‘ve bagged our kill

We go to hell

I’m bogged down with reticence

For my intelligence has got the better of me again

So much for the synergy

I’ve got no energy to bother trying to win again

I look to the afternoon

When everything is cool and I can dwell on the twilight

The stars put out their brilliance

To make the trance go deeper

My crescendo is getting steeper

Hold on here comes that word again – ah

Hold on here comes that word again

Here’s where we go out in herds

‘Cause we’ve run out of words

Forgotten one by one

5. A Queue of One

Drawn, drawn from the memory

But warm, warm in the mind

The work, the work of a masterpiece

The frame and the centrepiece of a sensitive kind

The products of patience and care of retained

Comes, it comes to an audience

To love or just appreciate

The gift, the gift of intelligence

To consider the consequence and stand to contemplate

And high, high on a wider plane

We suffer a lonely pain, a queue of one

Deep, deep into the darkness

And back in the corner of the soul

The fear that there will be nothing left

The fear that it all may end in the blackness of a hole

The years, years of insignificance

We develop a conscience and the nightmares come

So tears, tears for our dying dream

And a comfort that’s never been the strength to carry on

And high, high on a wider plane

We suffer a lonely pain, a queue of one

Now I, I cannot be intimate

I over complicate, my fears overrun

Cause I, I never want to be

Without you next to me, my queue is one

6. Centrepiece

Within the middle of it all

Runs an underlying theme

Somewhere a murderer is waiting

And good things killed and buried in the day

But the sunset brings a sigh

From all avenues and the terrace

But even though their world is empty

The middle of it burns and rages

I’ve been to the middle of it

I’ve seen the meaning in it

I’ve left a bit of myself

In each and every corner of it

Especially in the middle of it

Within the middle of it all

Runs a current dark and deep

Somewhere the signs of life are raging

And good things torn and tortured in the day

But the sunset brings a sigh

From the gutters and the alleys

But even though their world is empty

The middle of it burns and rages

I’ve been to the middle of it

I’ve seen the meaning in it

I’ve left a bit of myself

In each and every corner of it

Especially in the middle of it

7. Please Don’t Shout

I am afraid of falling down

I am afraid of being shouted at

So please don’t shout, please don’t shout

That’s not what it’s about

Please don’t shout

I am afraid of crawling out

I am afraid of being pointed at

So please don’t shout

Don’t laugh and point me out

That’s not what it’s about

Don’t point me out

Please, please, please, don’t shout

I have a fear of being afraid

It makes me cling to everything and all of everything

So please help me out

To take my torment back on me

I wish they’d let me out

Please don’t shout

Please, please, please

So please don’t shout

Please don’t shout

That’s not what it’s about

Please don’t shout

I’m not afraid to be alone

I’m not afraid to be the odd one out

But please don’t leave me there

Don’t make me lose my share

Fair is fair but we’ve left fairness out

And I miss out

8. All for Myself

Now the days are passing so quickly

And the nights, they run and run

Must remind myself I am so lucky

To be who I want to be

I only care for me

See what I want to see

All for myself

Myself

All for myself

That’s all that I want to be

I’ve had time to make my mind up

And the lines on my face show what I am

They tell more than I could say

I ever want to say

Show how every day I live

All for myself

Myself

All for myself

That’s all that I want to be

Take time to mull it over

It’s not easy but you have to try

Consider what’s all-important

Consider yourself in time

Recognise inside and outside

Within you and without

Once reckoned and recollected

You’ll figure what it’s about

And through this process

And only through this process

Will you ever be, ever be, ever learn like me

Don’t forget to be who you want to be

Do it for yourself, for yourself

That’s how I think it’s meant to be

9. Ever Long

Well love rules my life

And I think that’s alright

‘Cause it all rains down on me

But she takes care of me. Of me.

In a healing sheet of light

I first saw love in my life

And the pains and aches subside

When she walks by my side, by my side

And it goes on, it goes on, still it goes on

Will a spear slice my side?

Will I be crucified?

If I said I’m alright

If I said it’s alright

Yeah, it’s alright

I cannot trade the steps I’ve made

To a higher plane, a lighter shade

I cannot stand or idle by

As she moves on and out of my life

I’d break my bones and cherish every crack

If I thought it would bring her back

But we don’t need that

If it goes on, it goes on, still it goes on

I’d break my neck, I’d break my bones

I’d break my neck to make it carry on

To make sure it goes on

10. Flavour Is A Weakness

Lemonade, don’t take it too bad

You’re not my favourite and that makes you sad

But cherry says that she is fond of you

She wants to mix and I can fix it

I need you to move on

The time has come

Honey dear, you know that I don’t joke

You’ve stuck on me for the last time I hope

But butter cup says she will take you home

And show that you don’t have to be alone

I need you to move on

The dream has gone

Meet my darling decadence, meet with boss

Meet the extreme of expense, meet with loss

Meet the maker of disaster, the prodigal son

I am the loser, I need you to move on

And frankincense, your lovely smoke

Has dried me out so much I want to choke

Vanilla says she’d love to spread you thin

And demonstrate the joy of giving in

I need you to move on

There is no sun

Flavour is a weakness that I crave

Taste and touch are all that I would save

Sensational is how I want to feel

A longing for the aptitude to heal

I have nothing to add

This I reveal

11. The Long Road Home

I just can’t help myself tonight

I keep falling any side up but right

And I can’t take another of these black, bruised eyes

So leave me by the side of the road tonight

If I get through just one more week I’ll be fine

I’ve got myself a new plan, a real crime

Got myself and gun and a clear sight

And I will take the long road home tonight

Because I will not roll over and cry

I will not give up any more of my own time

To turning back on every hurt and every lie

So swallow this and let me sleep, lover die

Bang! I think I fooled you this time

This isn’t quite the way I thought that things would go

If only I’d have though that I could have known

My actions may be wrought from the blood squeezed dry

It’s on my hands and all over my face and eyes

I’ve done the thing I most feared I would have to do

My final solution, not a dream come true

So don’t expect to see me much my friends

I’ll be walking down that long road home again

Because I will not struggle with the weight

I’ve carried so much more than I could ever take

I said I would and sure enough I had to crack

So swallow this and the get the hell off my back

Bang! I said I’d get you next time

So here I sit alone on an empty plane

With dust all over me and over all my pain

My mind is numb and settling to the fact

That now I have no option left to take it back

I’ve travelled over mountains and over sees

But nothing seems to take me far enough away

The vision doesn’t dim or fade away

And I’m walking down this long road every day

But don’t you worry I’m not about to cry

I’ll be walking on this same road until I die

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