Freedom notes

 I met her at a party

I didn't know she was your wife

I only kissed her partly

It was once and never twice

She was leaving as it was ending

But the dancing carried through the night

I thought I was expending 

So much energy on living this life

All the parrots they are flocking

Across the rainforest canopy

I can see it now my head unlocking

That I just wanted to be free

I saw her much later on

And she recognized me

But I had already sung my song

Like a bird trying to be free

She was sitting up at the bar

She looked lonely to me

What was it that had gone wrong so far

She said the night was setting her free

I regret I should have spoken some more

I should have helped unlock her with my key

But I was already heading for the door

And my momentum was carrying me

There's a place and there's a silence

You must find within yourself

If it comes it ends the violence

And it's a key to your mental health

I can't be the one to save you

You must rescue you

But the world is full of charlatans and fools

Who will try and lead you away from truth

So what was she doing there

Hanging out in a crowd like that

They were all lost in their own way

Playing at life's blackjack

I want to tell her not to gamble

When she's feeling so vulnerable

The road is long and you must ramble

Along it, but it's understandable

I caught a feather in the air

The bird had already flown

I wish I knew if she was still sitting there

While I had already walked home 

Frog chorus of the river bank

 Coming out of the blue

I saw you in red

Coming out of the fog

I raised my head

And leaping onto logs

I said

I'm out I'm alive

Don't make me go 

Back down that pithole

I don't want to work underground

It'll destroy my soul

But likewise

I don't have the energy

To rise above this dull chorus of frogs

Who ribbet and bekekex bekekex

koax koax

croak their throats

At river boats

passing over

Coming out of the blue 2

 Couldn't hide my hand as I was talking to you

I said I'm coming out of the blue

I had no idea on earth what I was going to do

I was just coming out of the blue

And I needed you, do you need me too?

Well I'm coming out of the blue

And I hope you find your peace of mind

As I'm coming out of the blue

I held my hand up to the sky

As it was coming out of the blue

I can't find the words or even try

As I was coming out of the blue

Another world

 In another world we could have been fine

In another world you could have been mine

In another world and time

In another world we crossed over the line

In another world of music and wine

In another world and time

Oh why can't that world be like this

All I ever wanted was your kiss

All I ever seem to do here is climb

Into another world and time

I'm in  luck there's heart I can find

another world and time

I got stuck up in a grape vine

about another world and time

Coming out of the blue 1

 Coming out of the blue

I can feel it too

I'm coming out of the blue

I know where to go

Know where I'm heading to

I'm coming out of the blue

I didn't say much 

I didn't say the time

The time you were mine

I didn't ask for your touch

But you asked for mine

Coming out of the blue

It's a land of hope

It's a land of crime

I'm coming out of the blue

I'm at the end of the rope

And at the end of the line

Coming out of the blue

Coming out of the blue

I'm standing up and walking outside

To the land of the pines

I've got to hold onto the hope

Of a new time

Coming out of the blue

Yes I'm coming out of the blue

I see people can cope

Time after time

Coming out of the blue

I've got more life left in me

Still in my prime

I'm coming out of the blue

So don't you worry, don't worry

I'm doing fine

I've got red, white and yellow flags

On the skyline

Coming out of the blue

Being out of love

 I wish I was in love

I've been in love before

But love has always been

A way out of a door

I've never really loved

Only images in my mind

Only mirages in the desert

Where an oasis I might find

Some water in the dryness

In the heat of a barren land

If you will be mine your highness

I'll gladly take your hand

It's only a golden cocker spaniel

It's a cockatoo in a cage

You don't need a training manual

Before you step out on its stage

But I've never known how to do it

I've never understood the rules

Love is just a kung fu kick

Love is made for fools

Though I am nobody's fool

But I am my own

I trick and trip up myself

On my way back home

Come don't give me a hard time

It's as cold as an icy stare

I think I saw you give it me

But you after claimed it wasn't there

I'm fairly sure you don't lie

But I maybe misread your face

I guess the truth of it was, 

I wish I'd never been in love

I wish somebody else had taken my place

Folding maps

 Folded Paignton onto Bodmin

Cullompton onto Carhampton

And river Erme on the Avon

The Dart landed on me

Folded jenin onto Jerusalem 

Palestine onto Israel 

Folded new York on Denver

Canada over north America 

Wisconsin onto Colorado 

The farm landed on me

Folded paddington on Croydon 

Liverpool Street onto Leicester Square 

The whole of Whitechapel onto Soho 

And the Thames landed on me 

I've got wet in these rivers

In the creases of maps

In the increases of maps

 in the changing lanes

In the border bending

In wires and fences breaking

In the walls coming tumbling down 

I'm so tired of seeing destruction 

So tired of territories changing hands

I'm looking for a new map directory

To follow the contours of a promised land

I'm folding up my map of the world 

I'm putting it away

The world can wait

I'll visit it another day