Lyrics – Dave Scott-Morgan

Words by Dave

CD & digital, 25 March 2022.
Signz is enlisting rock n roll not only to the call of fun, but also to the call of defending freedoms fast ebbing away under the gravity of encroaching insanity. Wearing the mask of a court jester, Dave gets to say a couple of things which hopefully you can connect with (some more obvious than others).

‘TIN EYE’ (track 5) is written about TNI – The Trusted News Initiative, a conspiracy of protocols initiated by the BBC in 2020 to manipulate and censor news information to align with the given political orthodoxy.

TNI partners include: AP, Reuters, Washington Post, Facebook, Google,Twitter, Financial Times etc.

‘CROSSING JORDAN’ (track 7): One of the great thinkers of our time – Jordan Peterson, inspired me, nay egged me, to this, my soft insurrection against new normals!

DANCING TO A DIFFERENT DRUM

Everytime I look up,
I catch you looking down

Is it cos I live on the other side of town

Or is as I suspect that I do things differently

The truth is I can’t help it

I’m just dancing to be free
Yeh I’m Dancing, Dancing,
DANCING TO A DIFFERENT DRUM

I’m Dancing to a different drum so don’t get too upset
if you look from your balcony and see me out of step

Well I’m trying to be nice, I doing the best I can

But there’s no point talking
when you just don’t understand

that I’m Dancing, Dancing,
DANCING TO A DIFFERENT DRUM

Nothing at all like Ginger Rogers,

Nothing at all like Fred Astaire

Nothing on earth like the Mama Mia

Nothing on earth like the Dancing Bear

Have you seen the Queen of egg-nog

Making eyes at the Duke of pink

Well she aint the Mona Lisa

O but he’s the missing link

Everybody thinks I’m crazy, but I aint such a dope

To stand upon a soap box selling someone else’s soap

I am very very sorry if I step upon your toes
Oh but when you dance so close to me

my sense of rhythm goes

I’m just Dancing, Dancing,
DANCING TO A DIFFERENT DRUM

YOU COULD'T MAKE IT UP

What’s going on in our world

You couldn’t make it up

Seems like the news man isn’t happy til I’m scared

Just as soon as one disaster has gone
he’s got another one prepared

You couldn’t make it up.

No no not in a month of Sundays,

Not even if your name was Shakespeare

Not if you racked your brains,
sweated blood out of your veins

No not if you tried and tried again

I take a walk down Memory lane

Looks so pretty but it sure has changed

Folks walk by in fancy dress,

Wearing a mask for Sunday best

Monday to Sunday, I’m feeling roasted
Monday to Sunday, evenly toasted
Monday to Sunday, keep me posted now

What’s going on in our world

You couldn’t make it up

You couldn’t make it up

Some things used to be sacred, now they are not

Some people were worshipped, Oh but they got shot

All the world’s trying still to get to the top

And nobody knows where it’s all gonna stop

A carpet of fear rolled in from the east

And found a new way of stealing my peace

It came with an army of liars and cheats

And they’re all riding high on the back of the beast

Only the Rain knows the way back to the sun

Only the Rain holds the rainbow
Only a heart beats to destiny’s drum
and though heartaches will come
pretty soon they’ll be gone

Only the Rain knows the way back home

Some things are hidden way down deep

I can’t even find them until I’m asleep
and then in the morning those stairs look so steep

And the sky is so high and my coffee so weak

Only the Rain knows the way back to the sun

Only the Rain holds the rainbow
Only a heart beats to destiny’s drum
and though heartaches will come
pretty soon they’ll be gone

So Let those rainclouds come and wash my tears away

Only the Rain knows the way back to the sun

Only the Rain holds the rainbow
Only the Rain knows the way back home

SATURN HAS RINGS

Thought I had seen the ending of the story

Thought I had seen the writing on the wall

Thought I was in the land of hope and glory

Thought I was in the same place as before

But there’s Fire down below
Oh You say it’s not so

But this is no time to be hanging around

Watching the red light glow

Oh This thing’s gonna blow

As sure as the sun rises in the east

And SATURN HAS RINGS

The mice are running faster on the treadmill now

And as the camera passes they say cheese

Got to put tomorrow on the schedule now

Got to keep Big Brother pleased
Now there’s Fire down below
Oh You say it’s not so

But this is no time to be hanging around

Watching the red light glow

Bro Somebody must know
The earth has a moon and it’s beautiful
And SATURN HAS RINGS

Tin Eye can I trust you,

can I leave it to you? (What have I got to do)

Tin Eye can I trust you,

will you tell me what’s true (Tell me what’s new)

Now I’m sitting down tell me a story

Please don’t make it sad & don’t let it bore me

Tell me my friend, does this tale ever end

Or does it just go on and on

like the drip of a tap or the rat-a-tat tat of a gun

TinEye can I trust you?

I’d like to think that I could (I’d like to think I could).

TinEye can I trust you?

Is your credit all good? (Is it good)

Look me in the eye and tell me what’s happening

Don’t leave the bits out if they’re not flattering

Tell me my friend where’s it all gonna end

Or does it just go on and on

Like a whirlwind that blows round and round
back to where it come from

My split screen life is at your beck and call

You read your lines off pat and I’ve heard them all

I’m eating what you’re feeding me,
I’m going where you’re leading me

it’s rocking horse manure to me
and solid state insanity

TinEye can I trust you?

So long, looking the other way

So long, hearing what people say

I hear them say It’s all right.
Don’t go making WAVES
(Don’t go making your waves)

So long singing a lullaby
So long keeping your powder dry
You hear them cry It’s all right.
Don’t go making WAVES

(Don’t go making your waves)

So long, taking it lying down

So long, looking for higher ground
You hear the sound It’s all right.
Don’t go making WAVES

(Don’t go making your waves)

CROSSING JORDAN

You don’t have to think about it
If you don’t like it, I’m not gonna shout it,

There’s no need to fight it, no no, no.

You can get a refund from Scott-Morgan and Co

You don’t have to think about it if you don’t like it, no no.

You don’t have to say who you are
You could be a star, a guy or a dame
Or a synthetic brain with no body hey hey hey

You can self-identify in any old way
You don’t have to say who you are
Now you can go far yes please go today

You don’t have to have right and wrong

You can say it’s a fiction, a big contradiction

Some kind of affliction – so please don’t come too close

If you want to kiss me put your lips in the post

You don’t have to have right and wrong

Well it used to be strong but now it’s just toast

It‘s a long way to England
It‘s a long way to England

STUCK INSIDE A MACHINE

Nobody hears me when I scream,

Nobody knows the fix I’m in

Thought I could make it to the end of the dream
but look at me now

I’m STUCK INSIDE THIS MACHINE

you know what I mean, it’s no place to dream

it looks like my life is going
from the absurd to the obscene

cos baby I’m STUCK INSIDE A MACHINE

Help me if you can, if you can, can you help me

Help me if you can, if you can, can you help me

Help me if you can, if you can, can you help me

I’m smiling but the fact is
I’m STUCK INSIDE A MACHINE

I’ve tried everything I know, but nothing will work

These knobs don’t do anything, not on Planet Earth

And now my hopes are shot,
I see myself for what I’m not

I might look the part, I might scratch the spot

But underneath the truth is
I’m STUCK INSIDE A MACHINE

Working so hard I get nothing to show it

Pouring my heart like a ragtime poet

Hoping to God I don’t mess up and blow it

I’m still smiling but now I’m freezing at the roadside waiting for a breakdown truck

To come and pull me out of this rut

I’m so tired, trying to figure the right button to press

I’m so wired, just gotta get myself out of this mess

But nobody hears me when I scream

I’m trapped inside a groundhog scene

Maybe it’s just my bad dream

Or maybe it’s really true
and I’m STUCK INSIDE A MACHINE.

CITY ON THE PLAIN

We’ve all gone down to the CITY ON THE PLAIN

To bang that drum and wear that ball and chain

Wave that flag, ride that train

Wrap my logic up in cellophane

Oh don’t it go like the tree tops swaying to and fro

It could be this, it could be that, I don’t know

Black is white and Jack is Jill

That’s okay just take the pill

It’s gonna be fine; it’s party time

Cancel all my history

Now Critical Race theory

Is the new paradigm; it’s a party line

Oh don’t it go like the tree tops swaying to and fro

It could be this, it could be that, nobody know

C’mon down sing the blues

Rock my cradle gently with fake news

No rules to play the game

Everybody’s riding on the train

To the CITY ON THE PLAIN

Now we’ve all gone down to the CITY ON THE PLAIN

Yes we’ve all gone down to the CITY ON THE PLAIN

Oh don’t you know, have you heard

There are words that can’t be spoke

Can’t be read, can’t be said, cos they aint woke

C’mon down sing the blues

Rock my cradle gently with fake news

No rules to play the game

Everybody’s riding on the train

To the CITY ON THE PLAIN

and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Gen 13.12-13

TRAVELLERS FROM CANTON

Travellers from Canton

What’s been going on?

Yes we heard the gunfire from on top of the hill

and we wondered are you living still?

and we wondered are you safe?

Travellers from Canton

What’s been going on?

stories are flying in the digital blue

and we don’t know who to listen to

don’t know who we can believe

All the world is growing up in Canton

All the world is blowing up in Canton

Travellers from Canton

What’s been going on?

Yes we heard the gunfire from on top of the hill

and we wondered are you living still?

and we wondered are you safe?

We heard it on the Xinhua

we saw it on the screens

Yes we read the report in the government press

and it spoke about the ugliness

and it spoke as if today…

All the world is growing up in Canton

All the world is blowing up in Canton

The future’s not what it used to be

Only sure of uncertainty
I guess this is how life is gonna be

from here, here on in.

From the first moment I open my eyes every morning

Until I lay down my head back to sleep in the evening

God is hidden in mysteries

That’s the place where his magic lives

Who’s to say that He don’t exist

And look, look all around now

In every sight, every sound

There’s a message waiting to be found

I turn my back to the distraction machine

Facebook and Twitter they begin to scream

Look at me! –

I know just where you’ve been

And where you’re going to

and what you’re going to do

I know everything to know about you

I’m Watching the Signs

just Watching the Signs
can’t stop Watching the Signs

Watching the Signs

Oh standing at my door

The keepers of tomorrow say I can have it all

Oh just give a little more today

Don’t come knocking my door
You’re not welcome no more
you’re not one of us, you’re not on the bus

You’re not playing ball

You’re not wearing a mask
I bet you’re not even vaxed!

You’re not one of us, you’re not on the bus

You’ve not got a pass

Show me your squiggle and you can come in

If you aint got a squiggle, it aint no riddle

You can’t hang around with me and my next of kin,

No no no no

If you aint had the jab

Your credit is bad

You’re not one of us, you’re not on the bus

You aint in our bag

CD & digital, 08 October 2020.

Made in Britain.

MADE IN BRITAIN

Yeh I’m made in Britain

And I’m made for sitting

And I’m made for standing up

Yeh I’m made in Britain

And I’m made like flippin ‘eck

Aint that enough!

Yeh I’m made in Britain

And the words don’t fit

into this melody

But don’t get frittin they’ll get re-written

When I’ve had my cup of tea

Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh

Yeh I’m made in Britain

And the rain is spitting

down upon my head

and I’m either going to Heathrow

or I’m going back to bed

Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh

Yeh I’m made in Britain

And I’m made for sitting

And I’m made for standing up

Yeh I’m made in Britain

And I’m made like flippin ‘eck

Aint that enough!

Love is just a melody

A sunset over the sea

In its own special category

Nothing else compares

When my baby comes around

There’s no other show in town

I’m looking at her thinking how

Nothing else compares

When my baby calls my name

It does something up in my brain

And I got no words to explain

But nothing else compares

I guess it’s called destiny

It was always you and me

It’s so obvious to see

Nothing else compares

Love is like a holiday

From every grey and dark thought in your head

Turn around to see the other side instead

She loves me, she lovely

Love is just a melody

A sunset over the sea

In its own special category

Nothing else compares

Love is like a holiday

From every grey and dark cloud in the sky

Open up the door

Let the bluebird fly

Starry Lady

dreaming away

There goes another dream

And another day without you

I’m here on a stairway of blue

that’s not even real

Amazed at the things I’ve seen

And the way I feel about you

Starry Lady

Starry Lady

Starry Lady

Are the stars out tonight where you are

Love is a piece of eternity

a beautiful thought

it flies where the spirit leads

though it was never taught how to

Starry Lady

Starry Lady

Starry Lady

Are the stars out tonight where you are

Starry Lady

dreaming away

There goes another dream

And another day without you

Something’s calling me on

Over this big ocean

Some kinda homing beacon

Or just a powerful emotion

Ah

I wonder what I’m gonna do

When I get to the wall

And I stand at the door

And I turn the key

And I realise it’s me

‘cause nobody else can see

The truth of it all

Something’s calling me on

Over this big ocean

Some kinda homing beacon

Or just a powerful emotion

Ah

I wonder what I’m gonna do

I wonder what I’m gonna do

Somebody told me you’d be there

(waiting for me at the water’s side)

I knew in my heart of hearts

we’d have this time to share

Something’s calling me on

Over this big ocean

Some kinda homing beacon

Or just a powerful emotion

Ah

02 Oct 19 Carmathen

Big man standing there
trying to outstare us

We aint moving anywhere
Baby you can’t scare us

IN THE DARKNESS

In the darkness …

No light shines

No bell chimes

No dog whines

No light is seen no sound is heard

Not a flicker not a word

In the darkness

I’m Lovin on you – just Lovin on you

the days are few but they’re all brand new

and I’m Lovin on you

I’m Lovin on you, just Lovin on you

a dog with a chew, a kid at the zoo

I’m lovin on you

Somebody is speaking like a flower by the way

I can smell their fragrance but I can’t hear a word they say

Cos I’m Lovin on you – all that I do

You’re my cutchy-coo, and beautiful too

I’m Lovin on you

I’m Lovin on you, I love what you do

You’re my cutchy-coo And I’m Lovin on you

All I do, just Lovin on you

the days are few, but they’re all brand new

and I’m Lovin on you

Like a bird in the blue, a sail boat too

a dog with a chew, a kid at the zoo

I’m Lovin on you

There’s trouble on the tele, Fire on the wind

and even the Caped Crusader now is trying to do us in

but I’m Lovin on you – just Lovin on you

what a to do, you’re my cutchy-coo

and I’m Lovin on you

I’m Lovin on you, can’t stop Lovin on you, I’m just Lovin on you

Like a bird in the blue, a sail boat too

a dog with a chew, a kid at the zoo

I’m Lovin on you

Like a dog with a chew, a kid at the zoo

I’m Lovin on you

A DAY CALLED TODAY

There’s a day called today

It’s a day like no other

When you open your eyes

And the world is brand new

Don’t even think for a moment you can

turn back the hands of the dial

Nobody’s seen this day

Nobody’s been this way

Now it’s a day called today

and the past has no part it can play

now it’s a time to stand

with whatever’s in your hand

Time to get up and step out

of the footprints in yesterday’s sand

There’s a day called today,

it’s like no other before it

and all you can do

is hold on to love

What will become of the plans that we made

Only tomorrow can say

No eye has seen this day

Nobody’s been this way

Now it’s a day called today

and the past has no part it can play

yes it’s a time to stand

with whatever’s in your hand

Time to get up and step out

of the footprints in yesterday’s sand

She was only a girl in a red dress

She was only a girl in a crowd

But when it come to romance

she was wearing the pants

Yeah she knew how to lay the law down

Go–getter Lady,

Go–getter Lady

I remember the first time I saw her

So perfectly cute standing there

she turned on her light,

it was love at first sight

But it all went downhill from there

Go–getter Lady,

Go–getter Lady
Go–getter Lady

It’s Strange, what love does to the brain

It drives a man insane
but what can you do

when she’s turning that screw again

No, don’t let the feeling show

nobody needs to know

you’re under the thumb but still you just can’t let go

Now she stands on the street with a clipboard
telling the folk going by

Just how terrible she

has been treated by me

oh and here’s the petition to sign

Go–getter Lady

Go–getter Lady

Go–getter Lady (out to go get a man)

Go–getter Lady (out to go get a man)

It’s good to see you after all this long time

It’s nice to know that life’s treating you fine

How it all comes flooding back

As we sit and chew the fat

You and me, no mystery

There was a time when we were flying free

Out on a roll, cheeky and bold

Pulling the stops out for that pot of gold

We took our chances and we pushed out the boat

We burned the bridges and we filled in the moat

Like we were dancing in a whirl

Me and you against the world

Back to back, just knowing that

You’d always be around to take the slack

We played to win, sink or swim

To catch the moment when the wave comes in

Come a little bit closer to the heat of the flame

I hear you call out my name

Stand a little bit nearer to the edge of the cliff

I keep on wondering if

I suppose I should have read between the lines

I was a fool not to notice the signs

The truth was oh so bittersweet

The blood ran to my feet

When I knew that it was true

Your cheating ways told me a tale on you

And from that day, I turned to Grey

No doctor’s pill could take the pain away

Oh I turn to Grey, I turn to Grey

I thought it would never end

You’d always be my best friend

I’m turning to grey

I’m turning to grey

So here we are in Eden beneath a painted sky

with grassy slopes and mountain goats

and elephants that fly

Oh and Cindy’s on the cell phone

calling up the Prez.

And telling him she’s struggling

to understand a single word he says

Dee was playing guitar as the sun went down

And in the dark moon and stars

were dancing all around

Oh and Cindy’s talking money

like Texas people do

colouring the future in

a greener shade of philanthropic blue

When I get back to the rest of the world

and I hang up my hat and I tell what I’ve heard

Under a brand new sky I’m gonna feel it again

I’ll Climb up that grassy slope but baby until then
Oh and Cindy’s in the kitchen

cooking up a storm

Wrestling with a giant squid

that’s climbing up the drainpipe headed home

All these things are happening out at Cindy’s Place

It’s Sunday night, I’m feeling like

the smile upon her face

Oh and Cindy’s playing catch-up

running down the years.

Going back along the track

And picking up the laughter and the tears

CD & digital, 07 July 2019

Seven

There are seven wonders of the world, seven colours of the rainbow, seven seas and seven continents, seven days in a week, seven notes in a scale, seven deadly sins, seven virtues (yes and seven inches on an old 45rpm record!).
As numbers go, seven has a swish pedigree. Need I say more..?

Things could be better, Things could be much worse

I could get what I want I could get what I deserve

Well I could be a superstar –

This could be my number one

Or I could be selling matchsticks to a second city son
when THE WHEEL turns around

There’s faces at my window, voices at my door

I give them what they want

but they keep coming for more

It’s all so obvious, so plain to anyone

they don’t want meet my daddy

they just want to have some fun /meet his son

when THE WHEEL turns around

I stood before the people so perfectly alone

Just me and my guitar And this megaphone

I spoke to them with passion, with not a shred of doubt

Oh but the wind was from the North then

now it’s from the south

and THE WHEEL turns around

Well I turn on the tele, to catch up with the news

I could understand it if I wasn’t so confused.

But it doesn’t really matter, if what they say is right

Well I’ll be on the balcony

and you’ll be on your bike

when THE WHEEL turns around

DRIVE ON TO MOSCOW

Drive on to Moscow

Moscow be my friend

on you must go

you must go to the end

The year is Eighteen Twelve my General

Can you save yourself my General?

Can you look me in the eye

be prepared to stand or die

if your want to be

my General…

Drive on to Moscow

Moscow be my friend

on you must go

you must go to the end

Now it’s Nineteen Forty Two my General

Can I rely on you, my General?

Can you look me in the eye

be prepared to stand or die

if your want to be

my General…

Drive on to Moscow

Moscow be my friend

on you must go

you must go to the end

Tanya, we are a dark people
Tanya, we are a dark people

Tanya,

The world is very small

You’ll never work it all out
Your dreams are in the sky

Like empty years they cry out,
Tanya!

When you’re sad and you feel you can’t go on
Look and see how far you’ve come

Understanding who you are

And remembering the star you are to me

Tanya

The days are very strange
so full of dangers and doubt

But through the twists and turns

the candle never burns out

Oh Tanya!
There’s a whole lot of places you can see

A lot of people you can be
Understanding who you are

And remembering the star you are to me

When you’re sad and you feel you can’t go on
Look and see how far you’ve come

Understanding who you are

And remembering the star you are to me

and from the darkest day
there’ll come a better way
for you and your dream Tanya.

DON'T LEAVE ME NOW

Where tears meet the river,

where the rubber meets the road

I sit meditating on the good times we have know’d

while Romeo and Juliet pass by inside the fog

Peter turns to Jesus,

and says ‘boy it’s gonna be a slog’

But Don’t Leave me now

I’ve got so much on the burner,

so much I have to say

But every time that elephant is standing in the way

So I grit my teeth, I hold my peace,

I put my tongue into my cheek

I close my eyes, I count my sheep at the ending of the day

Don’t Leave me now

There was pride, there was passion.

There was Bogey and Bacall
I squinted through a keyhole and I tiptoed down a hall

And I listened through a stethoscope

and I heard the rushing wind

I looked inside a universe where Judas never sinned

But Don’t Leave me now

– whatever you do

Do I, or do I not cast a shadow on this wall?

Is that the headless highwayman skiing down that waterfall

oh no, it’s just tomorrow playing for time

there’s gold down in the valley and a piece of it is mine

So Don’t Leave me now

LONG TIME COMING

I’m Lovin on you – just Lovin on you

the days are few but they’re all

Ring-a-ling-a-ling goes the bell
that ring-a-ling-a-ling I know so well
The deal is on the table

the map is on the wall

We made our plans, we shook our hands
now we’re waiting for your call
But it’s Long time coming,
Coming to me

He who picks a winner picks the strongest
He who laughs the last laughs the longest
When you call me from your private jet
flying coast to coast

‘The meat is in the oven babe

and the cheque is in the post’
Oh but it’s Long time coming

Coming to me

Something in the smells and bells don’t sit right
when you say we got to do the deal at midnight
it’s One, Two, Three and Four

I did it once, I can’t do it no more
So let it rock, Let it roll

My ship is on the way
Oh but it’s Long time coming

Coming to me

I’m Lovin on you

Red Rose she tip toes,

She hums-ahs, she yes no’s

she bakes pies, she housewives,

she bow ties, she tells lies

But she knows all there is to know about dying slow

does Red Rose

Well she writes plays, she acts parts

she’s a Lord Protector, she’s a Bachelor of arts

And she collects men like a connoisseur

And she hates them who love here

And I knows all there is to know about dying slow

for Red Rose

Red Rose,

cold as winter snows

and warm as the first light of spring

She knows

which way the river flows

But makes like she don’t know a thing.

Well she’s the only virgin outside paradise

She’s the only one who’s not been sacrificed

She’s a stone cathedral, she’s a patron saint

And she’s a Red Cross Parcel for those who aint

cos she knows all there is to know about dying slow

does Red Rose

GATES OF ETERNITY

Standing here at the gates

Face to face

hoping this scene is a dream

but I know it aint

cos they ask me why – why is it a secret?

But it aint no secret, no no no no no no.

It was writ, it was read, it was spoken, it was said
hung high upon a notice board and underlined in red

Here at the Gates of eternity

Watching the people go by

my oh my

With faces like flint,

there’s no telling what they think

but they ask me why? – why is it a secret?

But it aint no secret, no no no no no no.

It was writ, it was read, it was spoken, it was said
and high upon a notice board it’s underlined in red

Here at the Gates of eternity

With the Butcher the baker and candlestick maker

The Kings and Queens, movers and shakers

mothers and lovers and givers and takers

and all of them looking at me!

Here at the Gates of eternity

LOOKOUT ON THE HORIZON

When the trumpet sounds

It’ll be time to close the door

Meet me inside the city wall

And Lookout on the Horizon

Lookout over the sea

Only yesterday

I caught the news as it came through

I couldn’t believe they could be so cruel

And Lookout on the Horizon

Lookout over the sea

Say, do you know

If there’s a place we can go?
Say, do you know

Say, can you see

An end to all this agony?

Say, can you see

Stand on the wall and look for the light

And yell if you see it,
yell if you see it!

yell if you see it!

yell if you see it!

Is it over now

Can we begin to mend our ways

Could we in time believe it pays?
And Lookout on the Horizon

Lookout over the sea

CD & digital, 01 January 2017.

‘THE ROCKFORD BUBBLE’ (track 4) is a spoken piece written and performed by Alan Piano Smith (aka Professor Throovest). It introduces the song which follows ‘MISTRESS CAROLINE’,

I’ve been living on easy far too long

And the ravens sent to feed me have all gone

And every time I see the sunset

I can hear you call my name

So I’ve made up my mind

I think that it’s time

I’ve got to get myself a seat on a plane

I was saying to life give me a break

Crying so hard like a child in the dark

Keeping everyone awake

Now I’m through with all that moping

All that walking in the rain

Will be history

When it’s just you and me

I’ve got to get myself a seat on a plane

ON A PLANE

I’m flying out across the blue

ON A PLANE

I’m coming home, back home to you

I’ve been searching -in red green and blue

But you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see

When it aint working for you

Or that only your sweet loving

Can make it work again

I’m scared of the drop

But ready or not

I’m gonna get myself A seat on a plane

Yeh I’m gonna get myself A seat on a plane

ON A PLANE

I’m flying out across the blue

ON A PLANE

I’m coming home, back home to you

Iris
Iris, I have a message for you
Iris, I have a message for you

And in the language of the day

I would love you if I may

I would give you my today, my tonight

So please don’t say you won’t accept

or I’ll have to take the next

and stand loser for the rest of my life

Iris, I have a message for you
Iris, I have a message for you

And in the language of the hour

I would friend you with a flower

I’d describe it to you how I feel I should

cos this confusion is my brain

and my attachment to the same

is as helpless as the grain to the wood

Iris, I have a message for you
Iris, I have a message for you

Hold your lamp up high

There’s a loner passing by

and he’s caught in your glow
he’s got nowhere else to go

every flower that you grow

just blows his mind

Iris
Iris, I have a message for you (yeh you!)
Iris, I have a message for you (yeh you!)

I can hear the telephones are ringing

and somebody is banging on my door
but I can’t face the message that they’re bringing

can’t take it any more

I just got to hide away

Like a squirrel in a dark place

it’s my Black Dog Day

I don’t think that I can take it,

can’t find the treasure in my clay

don’t know if I’m going to make it –

through this Black Dog Day

The life insurance man he knows my number

He’s pestering me every single day
he’s watching every ladder I walk under

but what’s he going to say

When he finds out it’s for real
There’s a monkey in the engine

And a penguin at the wheel

And they talk to one another

like they’re in a Shakespeare play

like it’s Hamlet and his mother

in ‘A Black Dog Day’

Now it’s a sorry situation –

but only yesterday

I had it all together

and let it all slip away

Now I don’t think that I can shake it,

please let me just fade away

I don’t want to have to fake it,

through this Black Dog Day

THE ROCKFORD BUBBLE

Thank you very much
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are gathered here for the reading of the final will and testament of one, Lord Rockford Moses, whereby his Lordship has instructed me to tell you as follows:

That I, Lord Rockford Moses, being of sound mind, do hereby bequeath my entire estate to one:

Caroline, Mistress.

(Got your attention didn’t it?)

– to have, to hold, to spend, luxuriate, squander or disperse in any and all ways she thinks fit.

Terra firma, ad hoc, de facto Magna Carta, pro rata Procol Harum, ad nauseum, Habeus Corpus, omnibus, terminus – Persona non grata
et Status Quo.

by Alan Smith aka Arthur C Throovest

MISTRESS CAROLINE

Lord Rockford Moses
being of sound mind

Left everything to Mistress Caroline

Stepped in his time machine

and disappeared from view

leaving the argument for me and you

And he wished he could be here

But he’s done the best he can

Yes he wished he could be here
and he hopes you’ll understand

that I, Rockford Moses
being of sound mind

Leave everything to Mistress Caroline

The five thousand acres

And all the precious works of art

wine in the cellar and the tigers in the park

And he says it’s okay

You can give it all away

I don’t care what you do

But just be careful what you say about my…

Sweet love child Mistress Caroline

She was my friend
she love me when I was alone without a dime

Sweet love child Mistress Caroline

She scratched my back she lit my fag,
she chilled my wine, she done me fine

Love her til the end of time
Love her til the end of time

Well all right, so I’m being foolish

Well all right let people know

About the dreams and wishes you wish

In the night when lights are low

Well all right, well all right

We’ll live and love with all our might

Well all right – well all right

Our lifetime of love will be all right

Well, all right, so I’m going steady

It’s all right when people say

That those foolish kids can’t be ready

For the love that comes their way

Well all right, well all right

We will live and love with all our might

Well all right, well all right

Our lifetime of love will be all right

Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, Joe Mauldin, Norman Petty

© Peermusic Publishing

THE QUEEN, PRINCE & THE DISH

The Queen, the Prince and the Dish

Came together on a day like this

crossing over boundaries

Suddenly the hand of fate

Has thrown them together on a date

Welded into time and space

Far be it for me to forget the good times

Far be it for me to stand in the rain

The Queen turned to the Prince and said I know you

but who’s that snazzy dresser over there?

He said ma’am that’s the dish and he’s famous

for disappearing in thin air, disappearing in thin air

The Queen, the Prince and the Dish

came together in a way like this

crashing in to memories

Now for hopings sake
I’m hoping that the news is fake

but hearts that hope are hearts that ache

Far be it for me to forget the good times

Far be it for me to stand in the rain

Wild horses couldn’t keep him at the Maypole

and places to the west and to the east
mothers, sons and daughters searched for him

from the greatest to the least, the greatest to the least

The Queen, the Prince and the Dish

Came together on a day like this

shattering my certainties

Once upon a time the earth was flat

you loved me and that was that

but now is now and now I see

A subtle change in scenery, when you look at me

And I know it in my knower, something isn’t right

I feel it in my feeler, I puff it in my pipe

I run the movie backwards to the bit that makes me blue

Where you boil the hero in your verbal stew

Well it don’t taste good and it aint a pretty view

and I know it like I know it in my knower

Yeh I know it like I know it in my knower

Here inside these four walls

I sing my song to no applause

Searching for the smile upon your face

as my ship sinks without a trace, and nobody escapes!

There’s a pixie in my bedroom and I can’t put out the light
I just know its going to get me at the bottom of the night
so I’m staring at the ceiling, practicing my lines

I used to be Romeo but now I’m Frankenstein

I know it in my knower, I knew it all the time

Don’t I know it like I know it in my knower

Yeh I know it like I know it in my knower

it don’t matter what you say, I know it in my knower
You can cut it any way, I know it in my knower

Yeh I know it in my knower, when all is said and done

No I aint going to fight and I aint going to run

so I pay the man my penny, and I make me my wish

and the ship sails on to the edge of the abyss

and I know it in my knower on a night like this

Yes I know it like I know it in my knower

Don’t I know it like I know it in my knower

yes it’s a time to stand

with whatever’s in your hand

Time to get up and step out

of the footprints in yesterday’s sand

Gibraltar Farm

Violette came

She walked in its long green grass and left on an aeroplane

With all that she had

One summer’s night

Riding the clouds of England and France in the fading light

Oh and every night I heard her calling out

Across the wires

Oh I’m out on that long and lonely road I chose

And nobody in England knows but you, you, you

Oh let me go where the tears don’t flow

Oh let me stay where there is no war today

Gibraltar Farm

Violette knew

Every turn and glance of the dangerous dance that she had to do

With all that she had

She did it so well

With a fire in her heart

She played out the part til the curtain fell

Oh and every night I hear her calling out

Across the wires

Oh I’m out on a long and lonely road tonight

And nobody can see my light but you, you, you

Oh let me go where the tears don’t flow

Oh let me stay where there is no war today

Are you ready to climb up the ladder

Are you ready to see

What the view is like from up on the balcony?

Are you ready to step up to the wire

Spead your feathers and fly

Are you ready to climb to the top of the sky?

Nothing in the old, the oldie fashioned kind of way
Nothing too big-time this isn’t Broadway

Everybody got a new way of talking
Everybody got a word
Are you ready to run with the message you heard

Everybody got a piece of the puzzle

Just the one little jot

Are you ready to fly with the baggage you got

Nothing in the olde-oldie fashioned kind of way
Nothing too big-time this isn’t Broadway
Give me a break, I’ve got a deadline to make
We’ve gotta dance the night away

Are you ready to climb up the ladder

see the view from the top

don’t bother going up if you’re scared of the drop

Nothing in the old, the oldie fashioned kind of way
Nothing too big-time this isn’t Broadway

I was down in the boondocks

on the Edinburgh Road

banging on the door to the Mother Lode

when Ceilidh Al, as bold as brass

was coming down the mountain

on his Whisky Poet glass

And I‘m under the Big Brown Sky

watching the changes fly

and hearing them call out my name

as the wind and the rain go by

They talk up a future in poetic rhyme
standing on the parapet of Auld Lang Syne

feelings run high and faces are red

everybody’s shouting out but not a word is said

And I‘m under the Big Brown Sky

watching the changes fly

and hearing them call out my name
as the wind and the rain go by

So take a cup of kindness, hang it on the wall

don’t let nobody touch it no, no one at all

There’s only so much water can go under the bridge

before I get a molecule to pass down to my kid

under the Big Brown Sky

watching the changes fly

and hearing them call out my name

as the wind and the rain go by

Ceilidh light, don’t leave me lone tonight
Ceilidh light, come keep me warm tonight
Ceilidh light, I need you by my side