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  • BAD MATH
    Guitar Tuning: D A D F# B C# with Capo on 1st fret
    Oh No
    Another miscalculation
    White knuckles all the way
    I should have stayed in lane
    And recognised my weaknesses
    Are here to stay
    This town
    A parallel note of caution
    That was sorely needed
    To change the narrative
    But now there’s far too many words
    To place in the way
    Of us
    Add a little love don’t take away
    As they divide us from each other
    Multiply the positives between us
    Moderate the negative signs
    Smooth the wayward course of all the variables
    Measure underlying growth
    Oh God
    Another fiscal adjustment
    The very sort of thing
    Sneaked through at 5pm
    On a Friday fixed upon
    Death-bed tributes
    Just a ruse
    Add a little love don’t take away
    As they divide us from each other
    Multiply the positives between us
    Moderate the negative signs
    Smooth the wayward course of all the variables
    Measure underlying growth
    And if you loved me just a fraction more
    Then it would always be much more than I deserved it
    And if you cancel me out what remains?
    Well just an empty vessel with no chance to taste it
    No chance to taste it
    Oh No
    Another miscalculation
    4 min
  • Our Shore
    Our love was born upon the shore
    Beneath the dome of sequins
    Our hands compressed into the sand
    We slow-danced through the shallows
    And the stones that skimmed
    Were the ones we threw together
    We claim this shore for us alone
    A landscape crafted for our love
    As the sun sets on us
    As the sun sets on us
    This is our shore
    Our shore
    On our return we brought a friend
    Our first born’s cautious wading
    But soon he’s running from the shore
    Chasing dreams of his own making
    And the stones that skimmed
    Were the ones we threw together
    We claim this shore for us alone
    A landscape crafted for our love
    As the sun sets on us
    As the sun sets on us
    This is our shore
    Our shore
    The steady heartbeat of the waves
    The sinking sand of our past
    This is our shore
    Our shore
    Just as we’re on our own again
    An Autumn fog descended
    Your light surrendered to the sea
    A life so cruelly ended
    Now the stones don’t skim
    They just drag beneath the waves
    We claim this shore for us alone
    A landscape crafted for our love
    As the sun sets on us
    As the sun sets on us
    This is our shore
    Our shore
    4 min
  • Wind-up Toy
    It’s no good pretending
    Denying
    He almost crushed your soul
    With the weight of his wise wise words
    Just go on believing
    You’re happy
    He didn’t cling to you
    Like the smoke on his old clothes
    Like a wind-up toy
    Dead in bed and sick with the grief
    All joy stolen by a ruthless thief
    Just half a person fading thin air
    Late in the night
    Late at night when sleep suggested
    She stays up through the darkness
    With Angels
    Waiting in her mind
    Like a wind-up toy
    Dead in bed and sick with the grief
    All joy stolen by a ruthless thief
    Just half a person fading thin air
    Late in the night
    Late at night when sleep suggested
    See the fire that is in her eyes
    In her eyes
    When the demons left her terrified
    Terrified
    Harsh words result
    From lack of intent
    What’s wrong with you tonight?
    Just half a person fading thin air
    Late in the night
    Late at night when sleep suggested
    4 min
  • Heavy Metal Ambitions
    My Midas touch is turning your bones to golden rust
    Poured my heart and soul
    Till it overflowed
    And drowned you out
    We walk immersed in an ocean of chemicals we curse
    At the wretched moon
    Pulling on our legs
    Till we get home
    We never wanted to let you down
    We never wanted to rule your world
    We only wanted to make you feel you’re golden
    You little thief
    you knelt down to pray in your defeat
    And you made me king
    And you ruled our world
    Like nowhere else
    Summer song,
    I’m singing the words that made you strong
    It’s an ego thing
    That will curve your wing
    And make you soar
    We never wanted to let you down
    We never wanted to rule your world
    We only wanted to make you feel you’re golden
    We never wanted to let you down
    We never wanted to rule your world
    We only wanted to make you feel you’re gold
    But those moments were so rare
    Disappointment in your tears
    As the mist descended
    Dreams that wandered through the air
    Never fell back down to Earth
    Through the mist descending
    I won’t go back there until you say
    We never wanted to let you down
    We never wanted to rule your world
    We only wanted to make you feel you’re golden
    We never wanted to let you down
    We never wanted to rule your world
    We only wanted to make you feel you’re gold
    4 min
  • The Grip
    In the eye of the storm
    You retreat black and blue
    As the spark dissipated
    He’s still burning you
    But “I’m happy” you say
    Fill your world with excuses
    And pull down your sleeves
    To hide scars from view
    Then button your blouse
    To cover a bruise
    He is the poison that runs through your varicose veins
    Always in sight he is binding you tight with his chains
    You are a canvas daubed with paint
    His purple handprints decorate
    The marks that show how much he loves you now
    It wasn’t in your wedding vows
    Destroy, Destroy, Destroy
    “But every couple have their rows”
    Disloyal, Disloyal, Disloyal
    You’re never smart
    You’re never pretty
    He will always cut you down
    You’re never smart
    You’re never pretty
    He will always put you down
    At the start you were strong
    But then gradually worn
    By disgust in his eyes
    At the things you did wrong
    But just now and again
    He gives you some glimpses
    Of who he once was
    A smile at the bar
    He is the poison that runs through your varicose veins
    Always in sight he is binding you tight with his chains
    You are a canvas daubed with paint
    His purple handprints decorate
    The marks that show how much he loves you now
    It wasn’t in your wedding vows
    Destroy, Destroy, Destroy
    “But every couple have their rows”
    Disloyal, Disloyal, Disloyal
    You’re never smart
    You’re never pretty
    He will always cut you down
    You’re never smart
    You’re never pretty
    He will always put you down
    He smiles just enough to make you hesitate
    A rose on your pillow means he’ll maybe change his ways
    You’re never smart
    You’re never pretty
    He will always cut you down
    You’re never smart
    You’re never pretty
    He will always put you down
    4 min
  • Sakura Bleeds
    In shadows cast by his conscience
    He hides
    The dual embrace of regrets
    And lies
    A symphony of contrition
    Repeats
    His senses grind to a halt
    As he leaps
    Is he 4 Real?
    Yes he can view the world with wide open eyes
    Is he 4 Real?
    Yes he can be the child whose too raw to lie
    All the beauty of devoted butterflies
    They decorate the sky above the cherry blossom blanket
    The Sakura bleeds
    Bleeding pink and white
    Bleeding pink and white
    Bleeding pink and white to purge the demons out
    Is he 4 real?
    Is he 4 real?
    He
    A Cherry Blossom Tree
    That stands to reason
    Stands to reason
    All the beauty of devoted butterflies
    They decorate the sky above the cherry blossom blanket
    The Sakura bleeds
    Bleeding pink and white
    Bleeding pink and white
    Bleeding pink and white to purge the demons out
    4 min
  • Library Man
    Here is a new version of a track I wrote last year.
    Tuning is C G C G C D with Capo high up on 6th Fret. Song is in the key of F# alternating between major (verse & bridge) and minor (chorus).
    Lyrics:
    There’s a man I know
    Who likes to hide behind
    To tear the pages of the books he finds
    He is a man
    Of course a male disease
    That spoils the ending of the lives we lead
    As you read he will smile
    At the thought of knowing he decides
    See the man who hides
    Between words so wise
    He picks out the ones that are new
    He will hide behind
    Until he can find
    A life to unbind
    And ruin
    I saw him once
    When I moved a book
    He ran away before a second look
    Cursed his luck
    He was seen
    Terrified he’ll never tease and deceive
    See the man who hides
    Between words so wise
    He picks out the ones that are new
    He will wait behind
    Until he can find
    A life to unbind
    And ruin
    He hurries home
    The pages they are thrown
    Into the fire as he tries to warm alone
    So alone
    3 min
  • Huw's Easy Listen
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65308769
    Master of disguise
    I reach out in this easy listening style
    Cos I don’t surmise
    You’ll embrace Nails by Benefits
    Want to talk about the double standards
    So I need to know
    Oh do we really have a common foe?
    Hindering our growth
    Or is it just the usual lies from
    Thrones so well entrenched they stupefy us
    Stifling mists
    On lost horizons
    Flooding airwaves
    Always punching downwards
    Double standards
    All that he said
    Words as welcome as a hole in the head
    Easy to say
    Post fail lectures pay their way
    The need for change just withers
    If we accept it all
    Pushing all the blame
    Passing on the shame
    To us
    It’s not a hurricane
    A flood with only God to blame
    It’s not like it’s a natural disaster
    Shall we grasp your words
    And hope they drag us clear of all the dirt
    Who is really hurt?
    Who’ll sacrifice ambitions for
    A greater good defined by those who caused it
    Stifling mists
    On lost horizons
    Flooding airwaves
    Always punching downwards
    Double standards
    All that he said
    Words as welcome as a hole in the head
    Easy to say
    Post fail lectures pay their way
    The need for change just withers
    If we accept it all
    Pushing all the blame
    Passing on the shame
    It’s not a hurricane
    A flood with only God to blame
    It’s not like it’s a natural disaster
    The need for change just withers
    If we accept it all
    Pushing all the blame
    Passing on the shame
    4 min
  • 5v4
    My daughter plays a bit of Cello on this one. She’s a member of the Teesside Open Orchestra for children with SEND.
    We worry when the roots will grow back in the aisles
    Then terrorise the soul who’s trained to answer back with blatant lies
    My war - rages in between the hours of 5 and 4
    Your war - gets the better of me all the time it does it does
    Your War
    My War
    Your Five
    Against my Four
    When I see the Poppies bleed the Autumn hue
    Should I call for Mother or some morphine in my veins now that I’m done
    My war - rages in between the hours of 5 and 4
    Your war - gets the better of me all the time it does it does it does
    Your War
    My War
    Your Five
    Against my Four
    4 min

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