Shadows fall heavy over Squires Row
A child of 2 summers provokes movement from a home made wooden train
A candle flails in the corner, the only sound the ticking of a clock residing over the fire place
And from the room upstairs, the final cries of a man haunt these brick and mortar
Benjamin Wyatt

A woman, stern in face and posture, yet broken in heart stares vacantly into the abyss
Silent in her words, yet her mind contains a pain too powerfull to evoke
A widow soon she will be, death has his grip and is merciless in his quest
And still, from the chambers above
The final cries, of Benjamin Wyatt

Unwashed Curtains hang, partly open
A single pane of glass shields us from the rain
A man lay on a bed, the worldly hands of a mother wipes the brown hair of her baby
He's 27 years, but should he see 40, still he's her babe
A gasp, a cough, the relentless buzzing of a fly pings against the glass trying to escape outside into the warmth
Decay is especially savage when attached to the living
A shhhh, her tiny palms rest inside his, those same hands that cradled him on his first day
Her eyes close.and she remembers it well
A teardrop escapes her and falls onto his cheek
One final gasp, the last stand, silence

A mothers scream pierces Squires Row
Outside, back pressed against the green chamber door
A greying father lifts his head to the heavens
His old blue eyes drowning
Knees kiss the floorboards
He sighs
What a sight to see a grown man humbled

Benjamin Wyatt is silent

Walk along with me
darling leave those thoughts behind
I've had them too you know
And i thought you might like to know
That i've been here a while now
with my ear pressed to the ground
I've had my eyes wide open
Been looking all around this town
for you

Look at the way
The way your eyes smile at me
Saying something like you want to
But there's still uncertainty
Looks like you've been hurt before
Well darling i've been hurt too
But together we could both try
To figure this thing out
For you

Your auborn hair is flowing now
As the wind brushes through
Your eyes a little greener
In the shadow of the moon
The bronze skin that's showing
Only makes me want you more
Now i remember the days
When my ear was to the floor looking
For you

Don't come closer
For i fear you're just a dream
And wouldn't it be cruel my dear
If you vanished infront of me
But you place your hand upon me
Like some long forgotten prayer
I found peace within myself
When my lips pressed to your ear
Comfort was a wonderful thing
When i finally found
The woman i was looking for
When my ear was pressed to the ground looking
For you

Septembers rain casts her shadow above the emerald painted Vardo
The sky hovers low on this day, and despite all her might the sun could not penetrate her clouded prison
Normal participants in this game of life would shelter in such circumstance
But the rain, she is the canopy of our life
As embraced by us as the stars which give us passage
Our children dance to her rythm as the limp fire desperately fights to provide warmth through the storm
We are Gypsy

Mary emerges into the darkness, from deep within the shelter the hands of her grandfather crafted
Her hair, coal black flowed more wild than any river
Her soul as free as a new born child
And her eyes, that colour is yet to be named
But to feel the touch of her cappuccino skin, that was the desire of all who's eyes bore witness to her beauty
Her heart a timepiece, each beat measured the seconds by which the world aged
For when her heart falters, i know my world shall cease
We are Gypsy

Our bodies are cleansed by the streams and rivers where the minnow dance
Our bodies dried by the air that surrounds us, and the sun when she finds us
We are as rooted to this earth as the ancient redwood
But, we are different
The only taste for our tongue is the creatures who once roamed this place by our side, and the produce provided by earth herself
Thirsts are quenched by the coulds and ancient springs

Our women hold a beauty unbeknown to mankind, and once the youth has wilted from their eyes
Then all of the beauty they hold is in the knowledge of the earth, and all of her worldly enchantments

After all, We are Gypsy

David standing there watching his little angel child
Thomas was 3 and a half years old he looked up at David and smiled
“Daddy come here and play Daddy come sit on my boat”
David jumped in his bed and together across the oceans they floated
Daddy look at me I’m Captain Thomas, look at those giant waves
Don’t fall over board or they’ll wash you away into those darkened caves
In his room the two of them played, the daddy and the captain
Thomas fell asleep in daddy’s arms David tucked him in
Instead of walking away, he cuddled his boy and for a while stayed
Watching every breath that was made I could watch you forever and a day
He stroked the clothes on his back kissed the skin upon his neck
Rolled out of the bed kissed his son one more time and walked straight off the deck
The year was 1912; they’d built a titan of a boat a giant in the sea’s
Just for my darling Thomas, Mary and me
We don’t have much money, but  we’ll always have our dreams
We hear the sound of the engine and follow the titanic steam
Look daddy what’s that, it’s the boat I told you about
The one that’s taking us to that place we could only dream of, and the crowds all wave and shout
Here we come New York City we’re going to find our dreams
Leave behind the factory smoke filled skies and the filthy cobbled streets
I pulled out my ticket 3rd class, it cost every worldly possession I had
Staring down I see my blue eyed boy staring lovingly at his dad
I saw the look in his eyes, as he questioned which way should we go
But this floating city is a familiarity of which I do not know
Welcome aboard Mr Smith, we’ve been expecting you,
take your wife and child to the 3rd class deck room a hundred and twenty two
I held Thomas’s hand, the sheer uncertainty
in my mind I was also a child, but yet I’m twenty three
The first class man with a top hat, a cane and a beautiful wife,
Staggered among the 3rd class pilgrims to catch a glimpse of the other side of life
We found 122, Mary smiling; Thomas silently watches the walls of the white star line
We dine like never before, we never had no money
now we lay beneath millionaire kings, My god I love the irony
We spend our days, between the cabin and the sun,
Daddy, where did you say we were going?
4 unholy nights, a cramped room,
Thomas clings on tightly like the stars to the moon
We’re going somewhere special, somewhere we’ve never been!
They call it New York City, my boy the city of your dreams
It’s late on the 14th; nearly the 15th I take a walk, along the floating streets
Deserted deck floors and empty bars, water covered the empty seats
I gaze up at night, the sky was filled with stars,
a tiny voice in my head says Never forget who you are
Just then the earthquake came; we’ve hit an iceberg they said,
Blank looks in doomed eyes Mary and Thomas asleep in their beds
We’re in this field on fire, but there’s no water to put it out,
we’re about to be eaten alive, where no one can hear our shout
I hear some first class man, They say the ship is sinking,
Get your wife and child and find a boat to get in
Leave the 3rd class here, they aren’t needed,
maybe some women and children but the men are better off dead
Half the boats now gone, I’m back to room 122,
Thomas is crying he’s hungry, Mary asks what we’re to do
I place my hand on her Thomas is still shaking and crying
I’m scared daddy, someone said we’re dying
I close the cabin door, Thomas you’re the captain
Jump on the bed, he pulled the covers over and let me in
Mary darling you’re serving drinks, so let’s have one,
Water crawls through the door, she smiles, “it won’t be long
Look daddy it’s real, I’m really sailing,
the hysterical mothers from first class, a haunting wailing
Go on Thomas you’ve got this, I’m so proud of you,
Sit straight daddy and I’ll get us home, In the air was violin music
Water coming closer to the mattress where they played,
Look daddy I’m really doing this, for our boy Mary cried and prayed
It’s getting cold now, “we’ll be alright won’t we daddy”
just keep driving us home Thomas just cuddle daddy
In the end the three of them, jumped on the play boat,
the ship that could never sink, could never float
Cabin 122, that one fell silent,
the creaking of the wood, the metal giant bent
The ocean bed became a graveyard for the 3rd class;
the first class survivors to the dead each April 15th raised a glass
12000 feet to the bottom, there lies a captain,
3 years was all that he saw of this world he lived in
He wasn’t born with the privilege of the rich and famous
But he had the love of his daddy, and in his arms forever he lays, until the earth reclaims us
In 1985, the deep sea divers found us
Sent there machines to the depths of the ocean
Parted the muddy waters around us
A light shone through the round window
Thomas’s hair still golden, dancing in the water, caught in the glow
The divers said a prayer for the sight at which they saw
Me and Thomas still huddled together on the bed, Mary kneeling on the floor
They turned off their lights and left me with my son and bride
Rose back up to the sun thought of my Thomas and they cried
There’s a boy down there, lying in his daddy’s arms
There’s a woman still praying on her knees
Surely there was room for that child and his mother
But there they lay together in the darkness of the icy sea’s

I tried my very best, to give you all I can
I was working in the lumber yard, trying to be a real man
The rain kept falling, not as fast as I fell for you
I told you tell me what you want of me, I’d do anything for you
You just smile while you stand there, in your pretty red dress
That ribbon ties your hair up real nice, I must confess
The thoughts I have of you in my head, aren’t those of a Christian man
But I may confess my sins, if you tell me we can
I will buy you a brand-new car, or at least that’s what I’ll tell you
I will build a house with my bare hands, I’m lying, can you tell
As long as I live on this green earth, I’ll never forget
The way you look, standing by the light beneath the rain clouds getting you wet
I went to church on Sunday, surely that means I’m good
I look down at my working hands, and dream of you … if only I could
I don’t think your daddy would like it much, if I took you out
I would lift you up over my boulder shoulders and we’d run into the woods as your daddy would shout
Drop you down gently, look around, I spend my life living like a convict, trying to figure out
What a girl like you, is doing looking at a guy like me
Maybe you’re a caged bird Maria, and maybe I’m your key?
I don’t have no money, look at where you’re from
I don’t have no running water, or a hook to hang my hat from
I ain’t washed my hair in ten whole day’s I bet that freaks you out
Then your hand ploughs through my hair, the lights go out
In the distance, I hear the screams, of your daddy’s house
In the distance, I hear my dreams, they’re getting closer now
The day’s sun hides out of sight and leave’s us to our peace
And there in the forest, amidst the trees
Your hand became lost in mine, your ribbon touched the earth
Your hair became as ***** as mine, off came my shirt
Then when I’d done those un Christian things, that I dare not speak of
I made a promise to you Maria, who’s skin is so, so soft
I’ll try my very best, to give you all I can
I’ll be working in the lumber yard, trying to be a real man
The rain may keep on falling, never as fast as I fell for you
I told you tell me what you want of me, I’d do anything for you

If only time stood still
Then nothing would happen in this world you may think that sounds kind of appealing
No babies born, no humans killed

If Billy had forgotten his lunch
Then ran back to pick it up
If he'd have left the house just a minute later
And into the traffic got stuck
Then he wouldn't have been driving his for
At 15:47 down Chahito Boulevard
Where on that saturday morning
Amy Rodriguez she crossed the road

If only time stood still
Then nothing would happen in this world you may think that sounds kind of appealing
No babies born, no humans killed

If Amy hadn't snoozed that morning alarm at 5:45am
Then 2 minutes later she rose up, slipped into her office dress
And if the rain she fell, then the car would've been a better way
To get her to the working station, that Saturday
Billy's phone rang out, his head bowed down
A big old bang on the hood of his car, Amy lay silent, people gather around
Fifteen seconds later she'd have crossed path to path
If the phone didn't ring oh ain't irony a funny thing, we'd still be hearing Any's laugh

Now all the guilt in the world can't change what's happened you live with what you've got
A second here or there can make a lifetime of difference, something i've never really thought

Now Billy's old and can sit on his porch with grandchildren dancing at his feet
But he lives with the thoughts that if he slept 2 minutes longer Amy Rodriguez would still be walking these streets

The summer of nineteen-sixty three
Cherry blossom in the tree's, just you and me
Birdsong, leave's blowing, your naked feet
Your eyes close, you sigh as my fingers caress your cheek
Your violin sleeps in her case right beside of me
And my guitar abandoned, you took my hand and guided me
Pushed back that hair that obscured your face
I unhooked the straps of your blue vest from your shoulders
And gently slide it right down onto your waist
The sun from the clouds came and covered you, your skin so golden in the early morning summer dew

Tilt your head back just a little
I've never kissed you there
Your eyes looked deep inside of me and ask me why i'm so scared
Beauty never tasted so sweet
We became one as i kissed your toes, rainwater fell from your feet
Rainbows and rainclouds watch over us, the wind rolled across your naked form
My hands fell onto you, held your waist tight, kissed you in places only known inside my wildest dreams each night
I pulled you closer to me, whispered something in your ear, but you were already asleep
Watch you rest in my arms, why have you chosen me ? Kissed you once more as i tried to find peace

So if i wake in the morning and you are no longer here i pray that you know what this day meant to me and that i'll never see life the same

So if you wake in the morning and i'm no longer here i pray that you know what this day meant to me, and that i'll never see beauty quite like yours again

Darkest thoughts inside my head, why would she stay with you they said
Threw my guitar over my left shoulder and left you sitting
Surrounded by the grass in the wheatfields and the spaces we made love in

And the pain of kissing your forehead and leaving
Was nothing compared to you one day leaving me grieving
I saw the hurt and pain deep inside your eyes
Kept on walking, in the distance your violin cried

It's been a few years now, i often wonder where you are
Me, i just sit playing my strings to passers by in bars
Every time a pretty woman comes walking through the door
Your besuty a marker to judge them by, my head lifts from the floor

Neck a whisky, swallow a gin, in my dreams i still feel your touch and hear your violin
Love songs i wrote about us
Play them to crowds who flock in the pubs
Men and women claim our songs their own, kiss each other
I watch on and just keep going
If i'd known the world back then as i know it now
I might have more faith in myself and in you i'd have no doubts
One night with you was never enough to let this old soul sleep
Maybe you'd have loved me some way
Maybe your love i could keep
But here i am, i walked away and now live in clubs and bars
Your beauty forever scarred inside my heart but by my side just my old guitar

I'm a boy, young healthy, fit for fighting they say
Send me away, i lay watching the stars, drawing pictures with them in my mind's eye
I stare at the moon, and reflect about my betrothed, I’ll make a good husband one day
An invisible string binds us when we both stare at her, hanging in the summer evening sky
I'm a boy, i should not be here! Glance across and see a man 15 years my senior who has my worldly experience twice plus 1 more year, the fear in his eyes as he gazes silently at an old family portrait tells me all is not well
We walk, the soles of these boots not made for this journey, nor were my legs
Through villages and towns, open fields and forests, women and children stare silently ... where are all the men ?
I'm hungry, given my ration and told make it last, my feet blistered and eyes sore, the anticipation just as exhausting as the treck
Rain, she falls fast, rolls down my helmet and hangs a second to greet me before dripping onto my nose and rolling onto my tongue, she is not rationed yet.
My clothes damp but we must proceed, the song of 280 marching boots in synchronised harmony dance with purpose
A rifle rests over my shoulder, the widow maker, so destructive but yet she feels no remorse
Onto the field we arrive, it's all gone well up to now, the sun awakens, birdsong settles in the open valley, butterflies hover amongst the flowers, gently kissing them goodbye whilst a city of beetles play neath the giant blades of grass that falter beneath our footprint
And from the tranquillity BANG, a single bullet propelled from a stream just north of us charges forth with a single purpose.
One returned by 500 then 500 more, men standing, men fell, the butterflies danced away, the beetles retreat, their homeland desecrated by craters and shells, we can no longer hear the birdsong in the valley
I rise like the sun, pushing myself up to gain position, I’m up, I’m numb, she found me! Everything is white but i know not what’s happening
I stare hard at the men whose feet danced with mine, they're further away than before, their mouths open but not a sound emerges
BANG again, I’m falling, my arms aren't working, my legs fail me, it's colder now
The clouds part and the sun finds me, she strokes this fallen soldier upon his cheek, her warmth is a comfort in the chaos that surrounds me
My head finds its resting place amongst a puddle, i hear the faint sound of water as it creeps into my ear and watch paralysed as the water becomes a beautiful blend of brown and crimson
The sound is fading, a numbness runs from the tip of my toes, and i trace it as it finds passage through my fallen body, it reaches my eyes, my eyes close
I can no longer move, the world is black, and I’m gone .....i was only a boy

The streets on fire, i stare at the liar and he's laughing at me
He could see my desire from the corner of my eye and i want so bad to be free
But you burden me with your beauty, and it's more than i can bare
You just walk around like it's nothing to you while men like me kneel down and stare
We tell you we're not worthy, and beg you please have mercy
You stare at us with that knowing look like you've heard that line before
We're just a line of men with our heads bowed in shame and our knees locked to the floor
In the presence of you


The liar tells me speak the truth and set yourself free
If you know your fingers arent good enough to touch her skin then pick yourself up and leave
There's nothing harder than a broken heart that's been beat before it tried
I smell the apple orchard and autumn leaves as you walk on by
I've seen beauty before, but nothing like this, i've made love before but never felt a kiss, like yours!
They say heros' are made by spending a day then coming back the same
In the presence of you

Slay me, i've been slain
Since i first saw you i've never been the same
Hunt me down i'm yours, ravage me like a pack of dogs to the floor
The liar's still watching from the city building rooftops
Church bells ring, congregations sing, my god she's a beautiful thing
On old man once told me there's no fate cruler than an untimely death
But it could be worse if you came over to me, then walked on by and left
What can a man do when he's a desperate fool with aphrodite in his eye
When every second i live is another second with you still on my mind
So when we're miles away i can still say i'm in the presence of you
I'm such a desperate old fool

Ancient wood, weathered bricks, the ghost smoke of a thousand burning candles encircles us
The silence amongst a crowded congregation, my silk red tie to represent your love
Tears of joy, tears of sadness, tears for not knowing what the future holds
The doors open, cold she enters, the bell tolls in single chimes 5 seconds apart
But I dare not turn as I know what’s approaching
12 feet march by your side in synchronised harmony escorting you home
The altar where the crucifix was placed upon your head is now where you lay
But the only water today is from those you loved, who loved you
Kind words said, smiles, chorus song, heartache, but no black today please
There you are, inches away but so distant
Eyes closed, deep breath, it’s almost over
The bell still tolls, you are blessed, but we are more so for knowing you
And you are removed from the canopy of this house
Once more into the outside, and we follow, it’s perfectly choreographed
I succumb to the numbness, I know not what between here and there
But there I stand aside the earth which is ready to receive you
6 shadows carry you back to us, place you upon the wood and delicately lower you
You take your final breath of this worlds air as you reach the final place of rest
Only feet left now, and never again will you be above the earth
The bells still toll, the wind beats us, the white cloak of the vicar dances against her
His voice battles, and his defiant tone sends you to your peace
6 shadows stand in salute from the corner of my eye
Roses on the wood, soil from our touch onto you
And we take our leave, it’s over
But it’s only just begun

September came, and in the heat outside I hear the shouting of the children playing
Toy soldiers on the loose, the cops were chasing
in the shelter of the porch the poets were playing games
On Maddison Avenue

These streets don’t change; I’ve lived here since 14 years’ old
My father told me beneath the cobbles, a mine is filled with gold
I spent my childhood digging for something that was never there
While my mother watched on, with such despair
On Maddison Avenue

Woke up one night, and I took a walk to the window, whatever it was I saw, I don’t know
But it looked so familiar to me
Two lovers locked, inside their first ever kiss
It lasted a minute or two longer than it probably should have I guess
But who am I to judge,
On Madison Avenue

A house up for sale, a house here is brought, over the garden fence a war is fought
teenage lovers rolling on the porch, and the party’s over
Music is playing from number seventy-four, there are footsteps tapping across the old floor
The first love’s boy parents aren’t home any more, the girl she falls through the door and the lights inside sleep
On Maddison Avenue

A red ford rolls by, and into the outside steps a handsome guy, on his arm a girl with a spark in her eye, and I listened to the engine die
Up the path, to the door that read seventy four, the back window opens, from the top floor
of the house on Maddison Avenue

In her white dress she shone, fell to the ground like a shooting star, some lovesick boy blows kisses into the garden, then dashes away to the parents who nearly found them
The girl ruffles her dress, how beautiful your hair looks when it’s a mess, slips on her shoes, brushes off the green grass, she stands in th shadows, out of breath
I watch exhausted by what I’ve witnessed
The girl rushes off into the September night
On Maddison Avenue

The covers were pulled away
Do you like my magic the magician said
I've spent so so long
To create this illusion just for you
I stood and realised
That i'd been revived
Nobody told me i was dead
But when i saw your eyes i said
What is this magic, what have you done to me
Can you please take it back, it's impossible to believe

I've fallen victim of, a different kind of love
Just to look at you, makes me doubt myself
Faith is made from those who take it
The world is full of beautiful women
Placed on earth to keep men sinning

I took hold of your hand
Your stepped off your shelf
Fell into my arms, made me doubt myself
Magic man stood and stared
Do you believe in magic yet ?
I never ever knew, magic like her could exist
How could i not believe, then resist
I looked into her eyes, tried to read the magic signs

Then he called you away
You took your spot back on your shelf
Placed the cover back over your face
Please don't make her go i said
Women were made to keep men sinning
But the world is full of beautiful women
Your sorcery is unforgiving
Conjuring from me unknown feeling

The covers were removed, magic was gone from this place
I just stand and stare, at your empty space

And i fell victim of, a different kind of love
Just to look at you, makes me doubt myself

I was nineteen years old, those nights were getting cold
I was married in a town just north of here, now those warm feelings are growing cold
When I walk the town in the midnight hours and all I see is hope
I think back to myself and what I’ve become, all I have is hope
I see the drink fueled teachers, the mighty preachers, the paupers and the poets
I see the people who know me better than I do, and my god don’t they know it
They whisper you’re hiding now, and don’t be afraid to show it
There’s a girl walking through me, and we breathe the same air
She dances through my thoughts, like a mysterious, dangerous nightmare
Because a ring that binds my finger, keeps me from straying
And in the breaze beneath the church tower, she stood, her red dress swaying

I walk inside, from my thoughts again, I try to hide
I go to church to see, the devil and the priest
The priest grants me his blessings
And the devil throws me out, to my ***** release

I always thought I was a good man, but I no longer know what I think
I was always pretending to do good things, then into the devil I sink
I was too young to marry and now I must carry this gold that weighs me down
Sitting up on the hill watching my release wonder, our tiny town
Maybe if I’d have listened a little more at school
I wouldn’t be such a fool
The taste of chocolate is so good but they say it’s bad
You look so fine, in my minds eye, I must be mad
There’s an apple waiting at home, for me
But I keep tasting chocolate on your lips, that are forever sweet
again I go to church one morning, to confess my sins
Three knocks on the hard-wooden door, the devil lets me in
And you’re waiting outside to see if I’m alright
Still beautiful in the breeze
Ten minutes later the devil throws me to the warm embrace of my ***** release

I watched from up here in the rafters
as you pin your brown hair into place
I watch you as my light bounces straight from your jawbone
And those eyes a colour I have never seen
And I watch, I just wish for a moment,
it's like your body fell straight from my dreams  
Every night i shone my light straight down upon you
And you called me your following sunbeam
The music plays, the lights all fade the floor is all yours
Your body moves in ways which I have never ever seen
My light she follows, my eyes do too, are you an angel?
The room was empty, apart from all the music, me and you

And I watch you as you dance, watch you as you dance watch you as you move those tiny feet
They move on their own,
and I don’t know what to do my pretty little dancer
I watch you as you dance, tell me if I fell here would you catch me in those tiny arms
It doesn’t matter much I’m just happy here just watching what you do
Tell me how does it feel, just to be so perfect ?
what’s is like to haunt men’s dream and is it worth it ?
Just to live the way you do, slaying men like me and acting a fool
You dance over rivers, and rolling green hills, and then back into this room where in silence we sit

And when the show is all over my lights fade out
I climb down from my rooftop home
Then I unbandaged those feet that have worked so hard
And we just sit here all alone
You look at me, it kills me,
you’re so beautiful I could cry
I lean in for a kiss, you just held me
then you taught me how to dance too that night
The doors to the theatre were locked shut
there’s a smell of sweet sawdust in the air
I rolled my lips over your sacred body
9 months later we heard our baby cry
Then it all changed,
everything became so very distant
All except that fire I had for you had never died
Hold out my hand, you push it back
so I still watch you
Remembering the woman I watched dance every night

I watched her as she walked, watched her as she walked, carrying our baby in her arms
Wondering around, Looking kind of lost my pretty dancer
Now when you look at me the only thing I see is hatred in those pretty little eyes
Don’t tell me how you feel because I’m scared to hear those words
I just want to be, you ever following sunbeam
I just want to hold you again and make you complete
Inside the cupboard in a box under the stairs we’re 2 dancing shoes and nothing could compare
to how she would feel when she’d bandage those feet,
now she screams all that’s been taken from me

I watched her as she sat, I watched as she sat cradling that box  
She took out her shoess, slipped them on her slender dancing feet
I watched her as she stood silhouetted in the evening moon
Listening to the rain bouncing of the glass but to her it was just music
It had been a long long time, since I saw you smile
I don’t remember when but I know it’s been a while
She leaned in and then she kissed me
Opened the door and flew into the street,
danced again, beneath the clouds and the rain
All of the town men drew back the curtains will she come back to me ?
nothings for certain
Dancing into the distance women watch on envy
the beautiful bird had flown free ...

We watched you as you danced, watched you as you danced watched you as you move those tiny feet
We watched as you smiled, i still desire you my pretty dancer

We were in the same lesson
And i don't know if you knew
I'd sit at the back of our old classroom
Watching the way the sun shone
Straight through your hair
And the way his hand held yours
I'd whisper this life is so unfair
Did you not notice the way
My hand shook when i picked up those books that your dropped
Thinking you did that on purpose
Just to make me stop
But those days seem so long ago now
And all i remember is

Old papers and school books
Your name calved in some tree's
My god please take me back
To nineteen sixty three

And i found you one day
Please tell me you atleast remember that
You were sitting with your hair messed up
Looking beautiful on the grass
But your face wasn't a happy one
So i sat beside you
All i remember of that day my love
Was the smell of your perfume
Rendering me quite simply
Unable to move
Do you remember i held out my hand
But thought you'd push it back
Instead you placed it on the space between your pretty cotton skirt
And your feet rested on the grass
Those days seem so long ago now
And it's easy to forget
But i could never forget you my love
You are always in my head
And those memories of

Old papers and school books
Your name calved in some tree's
My god please take me back
To nineteen sixty three

Then it finally happened one day
I placed all my bets on you
Invested my soul but i had no choice
**** a lovestruck fool
You agreed we could meet that night
Outside the Nevada State Fair
I just knew on my arms would be
The most beautiful girl there
Along to the music we danced
And i held you in my arms
Those lights all around us moved
In this storm you were my calm
The chaos all around us parted
As my hands rolled through your hair
My lips pressed up real tight
Against your ear
In my dreams i've been here before
So many a time
My lovely sweet Louisa, stay with me a while
Then i don't quite know what happened
But those years passed us by
Watched my sister on her wedding day
Such a beautiful bride
And my parents were laid to rest perfectly side by side
Me and Louisa we lost touch
But i still see her face sometimes
When i close my eyes and think of

Old papers and school books
Your name calved in some tree's
My god please take me back
To nineteen sixty three

I sit in a fire lit room
Listening to the sound of grandfather sleep
Every Sunday, with my brother I would walk to church
And hear the choir sing
Walk home down the lanes
Pull flowers, make daisy chains
I’d look up at my mother and smile
She would bend right down on one knee
Pull me close, so there was just her and me
And whisper One day, all of these old people will go
She said it’s just a fact of life
Listen, so one day you too will be wise
Because one day, all of the old people will go

Then I heard the Doctor speak
“There was no pain, now he’s at peace”
From the corner, my grandmother cried
He was all, she’d ever had in her life
I glanced across at my mother and sighed
she, came over to me
Said grandpa passed last night in his sleep
And whispered
Remember, one day all of the old people will go!
all of the old people will go

The black, in mother’s hair turned grey
The blue in her eyes now washed away
I no longer fit on her knee
Those arms that cradled me now frail and weak
What was happening all around me ?
The world was aging at my feet!
She kissed me on the forehead and before she found her peace
Said remember those words I told you
Back when you were young and sweet
And it happened again, and again, and again
One minute I was young and carefree playing with my friends
But then I turned around, and realise I was all alone
And the words echo in my head
One day all the old people will go

Walking through the town I grew up
Cars, where once was cart and horse
Walk on past the church, where mother and grandfather lay
And now it collects my friends too
Every waking day, my bones more tired
and in this world more change
But I don’t know what I’m to do
Sometimes when I’m home all alone
I sit by the fire, amidst the embers glow
And wonder where did all the old people go?
Faded photo’s so their face I still see
In my dreams, they still talk to me
And whisper one day, all the old people will go
All the old people will go

My Brothers obituary lands at my feet
He was born when I was fourteen
Placed it neatly on the side
Stare at myself in the mirror and cried
Pull the black hat from its box
The smell of lily’s fill the air
Pull his shirt to my face, close my eyes and he is here
Open them again but there was nobody there  
And it happens again, and again and again
One minute you’re surrounded by loved ones, family and friends
Gathered in the church yard, still surrounded by loved ones, but all alone
Remembering the fact that one day all of the old people will go!

As i walk through the city night
And think about all that's been left behind
You could forgive me for wondering why
Anything that happens, happens in this life
Mother made me promise not to think too hard
About what everything means and how to read the signs
That make me think too long anout what they mean to me
So that all the time i think, my eyes don't see
Everything beneath me that's at my feet
And all of the pain, in the people who walk along side of me

Walk with me through these condemmed streets, ribbons lace your golden hair
I look across from the old schoolgrounds, there's ribbons everywhere
I don't know what those ribbons mean, to mourn a loss or to hope for some freedom
Ribbons, ribbons, just ribbons everywhere i look
Ribbons, ribbons, just ribbons all around us
So let me take out those blue ribbons, that flow freely through your hair tonight
Tie them around a gate post and let mourners flock by candle light
You will still look as beautiful as the ribbon that once held hair from your face
And provide something we could never understand to the pople who flock to this place

Missing people posters
A face thats since been left behind
People knock door to door
Fromt pages of newspapers
Desperation of an unknown kind

If you walk past door at night, yellow ribbons are hope for those who have no hope
People scream lost names at night, their face veiled by candle light smoke

Walk with me through this strange world
There's sorrow everywhere
If it makes you feel better, tie those ribbons through your hair
Sometimes they are all that we have
To show we still think about those.we once had

When it's all over, when it's all said and done
They fly with the wind, like an unguided dove
Clings to branches and settles there
Let someone wonder what it's doing there
They can find in it their own meaning and let it bring what comfort to them they need this time

Walk with me through these condemmed streets, where ribbons lace your hair
I look to the sky each night, ribbons everywhere

Think you're alone, you look around at people doing
Those simple things they say will keep this whole world turning
And no one notices, the pain that they can't see
You heart is broken, you have a voice but cannot use it
The fires rage, but even the coolest waters cannot sooth it
And did i ever guess, the final page of you would end like this ?
I often wonder had i seen you what would you have said
And to me that final chapter would you give

They say the best, are taken way before their time comes
Shadows inside, that hold their tortured soul to ransom
Infectious laughs, and the smell of that aftershave you wear
In secret places, on holidays by the sea, just you, me and the tortured shadows that you keep
In a safe place, so you don't have to put them all on me

Now 2 days passed, i'm sure i still hear that laugh
But memories fade, and time these days just moves so fast
I lay awake and wonder if you were ever even real
Once again, an advert on the tv station
War and peace, money please to save a nation
But save the haunted, its something that you never really see
All the time those shadows they just keep on laughing
And your body wonders what it would like to be free

I'll never think that was the answer
But i hope now you have peace

Blue and pink toys, the worlds falling apart
From the outside looking in, it broke my heart
Four people inside and they’re playing family games
Everything’s changing, everything’s still the same

The blonde in his hair, her eyes were blue, his were too
And a tiny pink ribbon laced through her shoe
She goes to take her first steps; she falls then calls out his name
Everything’s changing, everything’s still the same

He’d sometimes sit there all alone,
acting out movie scenes with his plastic man dolls
to bring him back down to earth she’d sit right by his side
they were so happy and good, no one could deny it
a love burned brighter than the brightest flame
everything’s changing, everything’s still the same

at night mum and dad would lay them side by side
close the door, and turn down the light
a kiss on the head, smile and look what we’ve made
everything’s changing, everything’s still the same

Walking in circles
You were all i wanted
Just trap us in a snowglobe
Your the only comfort i need
So paupers all line the streets
There destitution is how i feel
As i watch you stranded between them
And you're out of my reach
Pick up our world and shake it up
Snowflakes from up above
I stumbled, you caught me
Are you a blessing or a curse

Two smiling faces
I recognise those people
You were my tornado came and broke me down
Inside this snowglobe
With little room to move
There's no escape from you
And that's alright with me

Look how your eyes glow
Red lipstick so beautiful
When i hold you close in my arms i know
A passion for you i can't let go
So trap us in this snowglobe
Minature people with endless love
We might be trapped forever
I can only hope

My body ran cold, you came and you held me, you stopped me from shaking
the doors are all closed, the conversations grow old, inside, two lovers, but one was faking
the stillness of the night, in my head things aren't right but when you came along I could see
That everything's a mess, in this world so confusing and in the middle, there was you and me
When you held me I cried, in the middle of this night, my head pressed against your chest
A whisper in the dark, as you hung onto my hand, said here's something I must confess

You said I'm sorry now, for the way all of this turned out, at first we were so so good
Then things got so bad, I was a fool who thought we'd last but we should have run when we could

In the doorway, a sleeping man with holes in his gloves, tell me what did he ever do ?
Holding on to you tight, in the glow of the streetlight what would I be without you ?
You just throw away your words like there nothing but there everything to me
You get up to leave, I beg you please don't go but you said "were poison can't you see"
It's been a long time coming so baby let's start running and make it all alone
We planted flower seeds but from those good beginnings tangled weeds have grow

You said I'm sorry now for the way it all turned out at first we were so so good
Then things got so bad, I was a fool who thought we'd last, but we should have run when we still could

Let's bite the bullet, don't say no more words because tomorrow's another day
Then in that new world I might find peace if we have the strength to pull away

I'm sorry now for the way it's all turned out at first we were so so good
Then things got so bad, I was a fool who thought we'd last, but we should have run when we still could  

Let go of me now, I feel the pull of something from my soul
We're still young and tomorrow's a whole new world, today's just a memory for when we're old.