Before we met
I lived my life, without the love that I should have known
Before we met
I threw away my time
Left far too many seeds unsown
Their was an ache I couldn’t deny
A space in my heart
I never tried to fill

Before we met
I wasted days thru wasted nights
Before we met
I searched in the dark
Before you became my light
I gave away the parts of me
That you somehow have retrieved
And now I stand up straight
Reassembled and complete

Before we met
I knew we’d love
I knew my heart would find it’s peace
I knew my soul would be released
I felt your arms, your touch, your breath.
I lay with you and gave my love
The love I saved
In a room in my heart.
The room that only you would know.
I kept it clean, and pure, you see
The better part of the ‘other me’.
I’ve waited alone in that room
For an eternity.
You were just outside the door.
And I felt you.
Forever,
before we met.

It's your smile
It's your eyes
It's your laugh
It's your cry
It's your touch
It's your breath
It's not knowing why
It's your past
It's your now
It's your flesh
It's your faith
It's your hand on my hand
When I'm all over the place
It's that look that you do
That makes me laugh like a loon
It's you pulling me back
When I'm peaking too soon
It’s the way that you know
That I can't let you go
And whatever it takes
If it takes all I do
It's the love in my heart
Tells me,
It's you.

So here I stand
Breaking all the rules
The master of his plans
A special kind of fool.

I held her in my arms
And watched her love grow cool
My heart was safe from harm
A special kind of fool

I could have kept it to myself
And never brought her tears
I should have realised
That I’d throw away those years

The years we could have spent
In love not self regret
Just her and me with only us
But I went and lost the bet

"Heartbreak isn’t beautiful. It isn’t ******* poetry, it’s not staying up ‘til 4 am listening to sad songs. It’s breaking down in the middle of a busy street. It’s seeing their face in all the people you pass by. It’s feeling okay for weeks at a time and then all of a sudden, you feel the ghost of their lips on your neck and their nails on your back and then you’re choking on memories of their presence. It’s waking up from dreams of them coming back and screaming in the middle of the night because your chest aches like a rotting tooth. Stop romanticizing pain. Stop using people like they’re objects. A heart isn’t a cigarette - you can’t just light it up and then stomp it out when you’re done. Don’t act like anything about heartbreak is beautiful, because I wouldn’t wish that feeling upon my worst of enemies."

8 minutes is how long the warmth of her takes to reach us
8 minutes to stop us dying in a frozen hell
She doesn’t know or care
She won’t always be there
And without her, we’d be gone too
But the chase for her goes on and on

You are 8 minutes from me know
8 minutes it would take me to be at your side
But you don’t know or care
So I’m here alone
And cold

8 minutes from the warmth I need
A 1000 nights from the sleep I need
A lifetime away from the love I need

And she imagined him.
On distant shores
Imagining her
Behind closed doors
Her finger circled round and round
Her passion rose without a sound
Until she sighed and hit the ground
Her river flowed and ebbed away
And then one thing
She heard him say.
‘Sleep softly. Dream of me.
And then your face again I’ll see’

‘Sitting on a shooting star as it dies away.
The passion was  too hot, could help but burn it out.
Left cold and alone
And there’s nothing I can say
Gotta face the emptiness ahead
And make it thru the day’

She’s all that I desire
All I’ll ever need
But I held her tighter than I should
If there’s a way back
Lord won’t you show me how
Cos I’ve killed our love
And killed myself
What’s left for me now

If she reached out her heart and let me in
I’d show her who I am
A scared and lonely, frightened boy
Just trying to be a man

All I have, she’s given me
My soul she saved, enlightened me.
The heart I thought was lost for good
She somehow brought to life
She’s loved me more than I deserved
Pulled me out of night.

Last night
The last night of me and you
Tomorrow, you’ll walk away to something else
How could we know
The way this was bound to go?
Last night
The last night of me and you

It’s done now,
The story book comes to a close
It’s over, the fairytale we’ll never know
It wasn’t meant to end this way
But nothing I could do
Could make you stay
It’s done now
The story book comes to a close

I fell so easily
You’re not to blame
But now it’s so hard for me
To hear you say

So long,
Wish me luck and happiness
Cos I need to know you wish me nothing less.
But I’ll be the one
Whose love will go on.
So long
Wish me luck and happiness.
I know you do.

It’s done now.
The story book comes to a close.
The fairytale we’ll never know.

I need a road less travelled
A book that’s been seldom read
A river not crossed too often
White sheets on a brand new bed

There’s a past in every heart
Memories and pain
And scars of the soul
And sorrow unexplained

The journey ahead will be strange and unknown
But the love that we carry will be smooth as a stone

So turn your head to me babe
And smile that winning smile
I’m never gonna let you fall girl
We’re doing this in style
I’d be the first to tell them that
It hasn’t been a breeze
But I’ve never been so sure of the love you show to me.

(I want your hand in mine as our eyes see the new
Your arms round my waist holding on like you do

So turn your head to me babe
And smile that winning smile
I’m never gonna let you fall girl
We’re doing this in style
I’d be the first to tell them that
It hasn’t been a breeze
But I’ve never been so sure of the love you show to me.

And now, nothing
Silence born of bitterness
Heart beats. Pointlessly
Just to keep a man alive
Mind whirling straining at the leash
Fingers drumming
Aching for release
Void and null
An ex kind of life
Staring at the future
Balanced on a knife

I’ve crossed the world a dozen times
By wing and wheel and wave
I’ve woken up in strange girl’s beds
Fallen asleep in caves

I’ve sung my songs in brothels
And watched rich men leaving poor
I’ve taken virtue in my home town
And I’ve taken it in your’s

Only that you came
But in every place I get to
Whether from below or above
I’ll ask the barman
‘Kindly sir’
For another shot
Another shot of love
Give me one more chance at love
Before my time has passed
I still believe she’ll come along
‘No need to wash my glass’
And if I end my time alone
And this guitar’s all I got
I’ll still be thankful for the life it gave
And for another shot

Only that you came
But in every place I get to
Whether from below or above
I’ll ask the barman
‘Kindly sir’
For another shot
Another shot of love

Springtime often turns up late
If she ever comes at all
Sometimes she warms the autumn chill
As leaves begin to fall

Her new embrace will take the place
Of summers spent in vain
And bring to life an ancient heart
And kiss away the pain

So lay awhile and let me see
What springtime has in store for me.

This autumn soul was weary
When you first embraced his arm
Too many summers burnt away
Had left life without charm

You looked on him with tenderness
In innocence and grace
And taught him things so long forgot
And hurt you have replaced

So lay awhile and you will see
Our season’s love was meant to be

And as the years go by
And other seasons die
This love we found will always be
It will not falter  

When winters cooling hand is near
And warmth is hard to find
I’ll turn to you, a summer new
And leave the world behind

So lay awhile and hold me near
And cast away your doubt and fear


And as the years go by
And other seasons die
This love we found will always be
It will not falter

A schizophrenic you will be a friend not there once said to me convinced we were that he was right until I changed my mind.
so what the hell is sane? I said to the universe inside my head supported by a king size bed they yawn, I fell sleep

She lives by the seaside
It’s good for her smile
She swims in the ocean
And walks for a mile.

She’s into her jazz and
Tequila and lime
She talks like a lady
She could have been mine

But, she’s got her thing
And I’ve got the other
So we sit and we chat just like
Sister and brother
And deep in her eyes there’s a fire
And I’ve got my stuff
But she’s got a small place
So we, sit and we chat
And I think about about her face
And deep in her eyes, there’s a fire

She’s not big on romance
It just leaves her cold
She’s been hurt too often
Or so I’ve been told.

But she’s witty and pleasant
And when she comes around
The boys all flock round her
To take her to town

And she’s got her life
And I’ve got mine
A few years between us but ‘hey, that’s just time’
And deep in her eyes there’s a fire
I’ve got the road and she’s got the sea
And we’ve traveled our paths but separately
And deep in her eyes there’s a fire

Then one day I noticed
A tear in her eye
She said she was leaving
I didn’t ask why.

I knew something drive her
I thought it was me
Then I saw a small letter
She’s left carefully
It said ‘Darling I love you, and that’s why I’m gone.
It’s taken me over  
And I can’t go on.
You see, you are the fire in my eyes’

I cried for a long time
Once more the fool
It was right there before me
And I know that you say that,
I should have chased her
And begged her to stay
I know the reason
That she went away.
Deep in her eyes there’s a fire
Deep in her eyes there’s a fire.

'And in growing up, I began to be more childlike,
Saw things thru more innocent eyes
My earlier cynisism dissolved away
And then love happened,
Much to my surprise'