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James Daniel Jun 2019
The First Stone
Makes no sound
When it floats in the air
With Love
James Daniel Jun 2019
What is right?
What is wrong?
Are the words to this song

What is good?
What is bad?

The kite flies up
The reels spin out
They go and don’t come back
Or they haven’t yet

The Prayer leaf flies
Where does it go?
What is there to hold onto?
Nobody knows

It will run like horses in the clouds
With heavy thunder on the ground
Or it will disappear
While it’s here

What magic do we play with?
Spinning like dreams
The gathering leaves
Going round and round

There is the sad and senseless
There is heavenly matrimony

There is the world of doubt
And what’s it about?

Get what you want
I say to myself now

There’s a lump in my throat
I still have to do something about

Prayer Leaf
Tell me about you
Tell me what you want
Tell me as much as you can
James Daniel Jun 2019
She’s made only for love
She’s into horses
She has a unicorn tattooed on her arm
She’s the prettiest
And soft spoken

She says it’s her dream to go to Australia
Where I’m from
How long are you going to stay here? She asked
She had dreams to live on?

I’m going to kiss her hand before I go
I said to myself
And the women are smiling at me
With her around
Even Maya Angelou
On the cover
Know’s what it’s about

I invited her to the show
Let’s see, you never know.
I’m a unicorn
Maybe she knows

A house on Kinglake
Overlooking the city
Horses in the paddock
And once a year,
A festival
Under the stars
People to meet, people to know

One thing's for sure
She’s made only for love
And I kissed her hand
Before I had to go
James Daniel Jun 2019
Walking up the hill with Amy
The party has finished
It’s a small town
So not many people are around

Over the bridge with the steam train
And the hill is steep
You can hear it when it’s there
And when it isn’t

O.K. up we go
Choo-choo under the stars
Muscle to hold up the cliffs
Against the ocean
And the small houses

What are you doing here?
I just want to feel you there
This is everywhere
This is who we have come to see
Dancing and disappearing before our eyes

Say something
Love  Family  Will
James Daniel May 2019
Slow Moon
Distant pull
I'm thinking about you
As I levitate
Slowly

I want to stay with you
The cracks
Are showing thru
Silently I howl
for you

I feel there is nothing you wouldn't do
No time you couldn't see thru
The ocean stretches on its shores
And the lands rise to become mountains of you

Slow moon
Whistles a tune
Deep and true
And the earth
turns calm
wonderful
subdued
James Daniel May 2019
The youth got on the tram
Was he coming up or going down?
Why was it so hard to smile
Was it the billions they’d spent on fireworks
Was it the famine?
Was it the lovin’
Hey Lawman, he said
Come May, don’t talk so loud, don’t talk so proud


Always will be always was


Seizures are so quick
Mine were the worst
I’m going to have to do something atomic
To kick the dead where it hurts


Always will be always was


And now that we’re are talking
How tough do you have to be?
To get free these days.
How much for a stroll on the highway?

Ever heard the story of Hammer Arm when he came to town?
They said the sight of him
And the streets would turn around
People spat out petrol and drank in sun
It was a weapon of choice
It was a day of fun


Always will be always was


What did it mean to teach the world how to be a world again
To teach the world about wonder and about peace
How to dream?
James Daniel May 2019
We kissed once
And we were legends
They couldn’t see us
Not at all

Take me to the new Church
The one with the swimming wall
I want to see it
See it all

We’ll take hold for a moment
We’ll seize control
Till there’s nothing left
Till there’s nothing more
One kiss to finish it
One kiss, that’s all

The war will run and hide
Either that or we’ll fly
And your peacefulness
Will be my bride


We’ll take hold for a moment
We’ll seize control
Till there’s nothing left
Till there’s nothing more
One kiss to finish it
One kiss, that’s all

Your smile shakes heaven from its high nest
Borders collapse and borders fall

One kiss and we were legends
One kiss, that’s all


We’ll take hold for a moment
We’ll seize control
Till there’s nothing left
Till there’s nothing more
One kiss, to finish it
One kiss, that’s all
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