Just a rough and ready cover of a song I've always liked. I'm also singing what should be the female-sang section of he song, but I guess that fits the narrative. I could have done with a nice semi-acoustic rather than my old Yamaha Pacifica for the guitar parts. Maybe this song will encourage our lass to buy me one :)

Written by John Mayer and Katy Perry. Please listen to the original here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSRCpertZn8

Flexibility

Dancing to the Tune

Of someone like you

Creativity

Take up something new

Says someone like you

You mess around with me

And you mess around with all of us

You mess around with me

And you mess around with us

Message is adapt or die

Just become a bingo caller

Algorithm just says go away

Write the lyrics down

Use some clever words

For someone like you

Tell it like it is

We've had worse than this

From someone like you

ou mess around with me

And you mess around with all of us

You mess around with me

And you mess around with us

Message is adapt or die

Just become a bingo caller

Algorithm just says go away

Bernstein Johnny Marr Lennon and McCartney

Buckley Peter Green Dylan David Bowie

Two wrongs never made a right

So said my father

He said we would row a lot

I told my own lies

So I collect the reasons

I fantasise the feelings

Calling the man who will take up the slack

In the rope that is tied to my hands round my back

Take a piece of me tonight

Pacing the halls with his head to the floor

In the house that resounds with the slam of a door

Take a piece of me tonight

Meanwhile in my Mother’s house

No reason to hide

Dark rooms are a hiding place

For no one too bright

There is no mourning here

No rooms of guilty pleasures

Calling the man who will take up the slack

In the rope that is tied to his hands round his back

Take a piece of me tonight

Pacing the halls with his head to the floor

In the house that resounds with the slam of a door

Take a piece of me tonight

After all of the violence died down

You laughed at what you showed me

Funny shape to your hula hoop

I thought I’d write a song to represent the fantasy that all adopters have regarding a beautifully smooth parenthood and how thankful the adopted child could be. But it tends to be more difficult than that in reality.

Tuning is D A D F# A C# with capo on first fret

From the first cry out

To the final breath

I just belong to you

Once empty filled by love

From my tiny hands

To my restless feet

I’m made especially

For you to keep me safe

I would run and hide but I would always try to come and find you

In another world I wouldn’t be this lucky so I thank you

Trained my eyes to see

And warmed my heart to feel

I have your lasting love

To drive out all my fear

Cried myself to sleep

But never left your sight

You gave me all I have

A perfect guide through life

I would run and hide but I would always try to come and find you

In another world I wouldn’t be this lucky so I thank you

When the clouds came rolling in

And I was looking for the right direction

You were there to comfort me

And led me to the safety of your own home

I would run and hide but I would always try to come and find you

In another world I wouldn’t be this lucky so I thank you

From the first cry out

To the final breath I

Just belong to you

Once empty filled by love

When I wrote this song

Autospell was on

But I didn’t know

So I carjacked onesie

I was going to write

About celebrities

In their mansion homes

With their big tea leaves

All the words they could use

Will never change what we do

All we ask is just be kind to us

All we ask is just be kind to us

And understand we all

Will lose

I've not made my bed

Cos they’re all tucked up

As their words deride

We’ll just ride the tide

We’re not thriving now

Just surviving now

Cos what shapes our day

Are the words they say

All the words they could use

Will never change what we do

All we ask is just be kind to us

All we ask is just be kind to us

And understand we all

Will lose

Travelling around on our online existence highway

Purged of the words that can hurt if we’re seconds late

We’re just surviving in this

Broken world

All guitar stuff here is done on my nylon-stringed classical guitar - there might just be a smidgen of distortion on it 😬 Tuning is C, F, C, C, G, D. Yes, two strings are tuned to same note. Less to go wrong in theory - just in theory.

Lyrics:

Caught between your brother and his wine

You wanted to free your mind

Born between your sister and the dole

You wanted to cleanse your soul

Genotype

Gene I want to run with you to the playground

DNA

Dean I want to see you get diagnosed

Living with your ribosomes

All in your genes

Linking up the peptide chains

Your very being

All the busy RNA

Unzips and dies

Waiting for a mutant code

Genes never lie

The love between a mother and her son

I’ve never been so alone

A quiet rumination of ideas

But then you reject it all

Genotype

Gene I want to run with you to the playground

DNA

Dean I want to see you get diagnosed

Living with your ribosomes

All in your genes

Linking up the peptide chains

Your very being

All the busy RNA

Unzips and dies

Waiting for a mutant code

Genes never lie

Until The Thaw

Dogs that bark at shadows, Just

As the morning sun rays, Start

Melting snow to ribbons laid out

Decorating garden lawns

Out they come the children, They’re

Damning up the water, They’re

Straying further from their homesteads

Creaking on their rusted chrome bikes

A Winter Walk

Until the thaw

A Winter walk to clear his head because she turned him down again

He left his car beside the gate just as the snow began to fall down

Further out they cycled, On

Tracks buried for seven weeks

In a snowdrift something glimpsed, Red

Crimson glove that seemed to wave, Dead

A Winter Walk

Until the thaw (when they’ll find him in a prison made of snow)

A Winter walk to clear his head because she turned him down again

He left his car beside the gate just as the snow began to fall down

On the ridge he lost his balance

Tumbling over rock

As he fell his final thought was

Never waved goodbye

A Winter Walk

Until the thaw (when they’ll find him in a prison made of snow)

A Winter walk to clear his head because she turned him down again

He left his car beside the gate just as the snow began to lay

And when the snow is thawed his tears evaporate into the air

An unusual song for me to like, but there you go - that's music. The bit at the end is my doing I'm afraid. Apologies to the previous more competent singers who have done this song proper justice.

Good for nothing man

Wanted open conversation

Line drawn in the sand

Throwing things around his room

Reject philosophy

So never know what makes us tick

Down we go again

In the hit parade

Certified mind

That’s as broken as

All your dress code madness

I’ll wear a dress up there

Sometimes I stop

Look around at what

All the others got

Step back and look around

Nosferatu on the prowl

Sucking all the poison out

Open conversation

Honesty prevails

Look around you

Look around you

We are your dreams come true

Nosferatu

Nosferatu

Is it you’re human too

So have you really thought things through?

And is this what you planned to do?

It’s tough on me

It’s tough on you

It’s tough on us

Nosferatu on the prowl

Sucking all the poison out

Open conversation

Honesty prevails

Look around you

Look around you

We are your dreams come true

Nosferatu

Nosferatu

Is it you’re human too

Good for nothing man

Wanted open conversation

Line drawn in the sand

Throwing things around his room

Reject philosophy

So never know what makes us tick

Down we go again

In the hit parade

Let’s have some fun while riding on the bus

Have a little kiss just for us

Snowflakes

Snowflakes

The bloody messed up faces in their seats

An image of this blessed century

Snowflakes

Snowflakes

No two snowflakes are the same you know

Unique features purely superficial

Lost and confused like the first snowflake

But with others we will blanket the ground

Outside the school, they’re wrapped up gainst the cold

Their lesson learned is never to be told

Snowflake over snowflake

Snowflake over snowflake

Gives an avalanche

Snowflakes

Snowflakes

No two snowflakes are the same you know

Unique features purely superficial

Lost and confused like the first snowflake

But with others we will blanket the ground