Cry me, cry you

 Cry me with flowers

With hours of wasted love

Cry me with willows

Which sway

Cry me with your voice

Which breaks, gives way

Cry me, but cry you today

Cry me with ribbons

And Angels in towers

Cry me with Gibbons 

Cry me with all your super powers

To move the Gibbous moon

But Cry you as too, so soon

At home with the headless horse man

 So what is it like as a couple?

Well most of the time he don't say much

But that's just how I like 'em really

Yeah I mean we're into all the same kinds of things really

Same interests

He does like to read the paper on a Sunday morning

I have to turn it the right way up of course

Do we ever fall out?

Well, that's a hard one,

not really you know, but he is a bit clumsy at times

You know not having a head and all

He tends to agree with everything I say

Does he ever disagree with you?

Well, now I think so, it's a bit hard to tell

You know

Maybe he will cross his  legs or fold his arms

When he is a bit upset

Spilt Milk 1

 There's more to life than dreaming

Dreams they don't come true

Unless you hold onto the seeming

Impossibility of me and you

There's more to the neck of the bottle

Than all the wine that could flow

And if you run at it full throttle

Well the boiler surely will blow

There's more to life than dreams

Dreams they rarely come true

You think this knife is subtle

Well it cuts me away from you

Oh the wolves in the forest 

And oh the sheep on the hill

You cannot get back what you promised 

And this love has a license to kill

Finally she left without warning

Finally I got the final bill

I read the news in the morning

By the afternoon I had had my fill

There's more to life than dreaming

For dreams they rarely come true

There's no use in crying over spilt milk

that tipped over

There's no use in crying over you

I think in another life we were both cats

Maybe I've had eight or nine

But you had the cream of the takings

And now I'm going to get mine

There's more to life than dreaming

For dreams they rarely come true

You 've given me more than I'd bargained for

And now there's no use crying over you

Don't you see that it's useless 

to try to be more than you can be

I think that you should be confused less

As there's no use in crying over me

Be sure

 There're tears in your eyes

But don't ask why

When you're so sure of it

That you could fly

When you're falling down

Think you'll die

When you find your wings

And you can fly

Well you just better be sure

Before you cut the cord

that you don't want to speak anymore

When you're falling down like you fell before

When you're falling down like you fell before

But you cut the cord

You cut the cord

Snow drops grow in the foot prints of the saints

The pure white snow there's no darkness to taint it

And I would paint your picture, like you paint your toes

Oh you better be sure before you let go

Oh the snow came down, like it did before

And the paint dripped on the floor

Beauty skips away on the land

The beauty skips again with the springtime skin

And the lambkins sip down at the ford

And you better be quick when you cut the cord

It's all going now, it's all going

You can start your life again,

Start your life again

While it's snowing

Yes while it's snowing

And the wind is blowing

And the Rams are ramming

The Ewes are lambing

Spring is growing, and you must be going

You better be sure, before you cut the cord

That you don't need me no more

You don't need me no more

You better be sure

cut the cord

 You better be sure before you cut the cord

You better be sure before you cut the cord

You better be sure before you walk the boards

Before you jump from the plane

Before you go out into the rain

You better be sure before you cut the cord

Spring time is come

But it's not for real

The fingers of winter

They still can feel

The holes of the sky

Where your soul falls through

the rain comes down

And you turn blue

Oh you better be sure before you cut the cord

You better be sure

Before you close the door

You're falling down

Like you fell before

Falling down through the trap door

I look for you

In the empty house

I chase around the lion or mouse

And knew before you closed the door

That you better be sure before you cut the cord

Before you cut the cord, before you cut the cord

you cut the cord

Seeing dragons

 Well if you draw open your curtains

Will you see into the light?

And let all those mythical dragons

Go flying off into the night

And I hope you won't shed a tear

When you see those dragons fly

Each time they come by the same time of year

No don't regret we said goodbye

The carnival fills the streets

The flashing fireworks and white teeth

The river of time winds by

Like a thread that spools out beneath

A kite that you let fly

Don't regret the time we had together

Every balloon must soon lose its tether

Why does the child ask the parent

Will you ever die?

Why do they ever promise to stay alive forever?

Only in childish dreams

Can these things seem

Real

So when you let me go, don't cry

Cold winds of March

 Cold winds in March, you know how I feel

Cold winds in March, nothing seems real

Leaves on the trees all blown away

Catkins are growing but there are no buds of May

Snow drops on the ground yes they are real

But the branches I found, their bark does peel

All winter I know, feels like snow

Cold winds in March continue to blow

Dead leaves on the ground, this is all I've found

Cold winds in March blow all around,

Lean on the arch, look into the garden

See how your garden grows

Frost flowers harden, leaves covered in snow

Where did our love, where did our love go?

Lost in the Marsh, where the cold winds blow

The cold winds of March that we all know

Cold winds of March are filling the tower

Where the seamstress sits sews hour onto hour

Losing the thread, somehow she still sews

Those cold winds of March that we must all know

Sugar and shit

 Sometimes gold it shimmers like spit

For all I'm told it's sugar and shit

Get back on your horse and ride like hell

Can you hear the church tower ring that bell

Town of forgiveness the red and the green

Can I get a witness for all that I've seen

Big boy coming barrels and wells

They dropped the bomb on Madams' hotels

Butterflies erupt like volcanoes

Better kiss a butter cup before she knows

But it all shines up like gold and spit

But I could sworn it looked like

Sugar and shit

All the rocking ships out at sea

Ringing their bells of liberty

Ringing for the broken chains of slavery

Lying on the rocks at the bottom of the sea

Hear them coming marching out the pit

Some are humming some they spit

The bitter rum, the tongue of flames split

But it's all the same just sugar and shit

If not you

 If not you then who?

If not you then who?

If not you, if not you, if not you then who?

Come on hear me cry, come on hear me cry

Come on hear me, come on hear me, 

If not you then who?

I am out of touch

I am out of touch

Swinging round, swinging round

Swinging around my hutch

Come and take your aim

Pull your trigger with your blame

Shoot me down, shoot me down

Shoot me down in flames

If not you, then who? 

If not you then who?

If not you, if not you

If not you then who?

Outer space

 I thought I was a saint

But it turns out I'm a sinner

Got this black taint

Can't remove with a thinner

I've got pictures I should paint

But I must sing for my dinner

And places that are so quaint

That I'll only reach if I'm a winner

Tell me why this stale mate

In this game of saint and sinner

Did I forget to close the garden gate

On my way to outer space, 

Should I have chosen inner?

The bread of life

 you can't give, more than you've

got

And you've got to live inside the slot

And life's a sieve

And the flour is hot

And it falls through the holes

In little spots

And you can't give more than you've got

So come on and fill up my cup

Oh you can't bake

If you shake the pot

Oh the cake won't rise

If the oven's not hot

And Life's a sieve

And time's flour is not

So let it fall through

And make your dough

And roll it around

be you fast or slow

So come on and fill up my cup

Oh bake your bread

Until it is hot

And the yeast is rising

Inside your pot

And life is to give

But take when it's not

So sit down and share it with me

Me too

 You who let sleeping dogs lie

And choo, choo the poo poo train

You who mew upon the morrow

Who sew up and borrow 

All things blue from weddings

Where you weed out the sorrow

And string it up on washing lines

Like the verse of the hearse

Or laugh at funerals

Or entice the Gods of war

To run amuck through the graveyard

Of second chances, 

You must blow like the wind through the branches

Of the Elder and the Yew

Yew who, like the owl, wearing a scowl

And a cowl ready to howl at the bowels

Of the Earth when they open up your plot

And find you forgot to love the things you got

Or you gave away what was given you

You owl ghost of the night post

Squawking and calling You who

Twit twa woo, twit twoo, you who?

Me too.

I hold counsel with the friends of dwarves

And shadows under shelves of course

I carve up the lion's share and give away kingdoms

To Unknown warriors, and Unborn youth

To inherit the flesh and tumble

Yet nothing can flash and stumble

Like lightning on wounded knee

Or stills of scenes of tragedy

That play out here home or abroad

I must leave now before I get bored

I hear her voice

 I hear her voice

In my day between the sheets

That blow in the breeze

As I lie in bed asleep

There is a pain that doesn't ease

I hear her voice when I am going

Down the path

And into the deep

And I wonder will I ever see her

Is she gone forever from the watch I keep

I hear her voice

Across the waves

Across the waves of the sea

And as I'm standing on the cliff tops

I hear her voice when I am free

Just like a movie scene

 While I had the power

While I had the dream

I loved you in the tower

I loved you like a queen

But the snow kept on falling

And it was a snow white seen

It all seems like a movie scene

I should have seen you coming

You should have known where I'd been

But it doesn't really matter my queen

The dawn is early calling

And the night is so obscene

It all seems just like a movie scene

I feel I'm going somewhere but 

I'm so dirty never clean

With all this guilt I have known

Things I have done, things I say but never mean

Just like in a movie scene

Will you hold me once again

Or let me fall into the stream

It all is unknown in the falling rain

Can you light a candle, help me remember my dream

Just like in a movie scene

Not yet

The red night setting

The lights are getting dim

I'm like a field mouse 

And the thresher, the thresher is setting in

The storm is blowing wetter

And I'm soaked to the skin

Well I'm getting better, I bet

But I'm not there yet

The fireflies are fighting

With spitfires in the din

The kettle is testing the metal

Of the pressure cooker it is in

The tyres loose their fetters

And the wheels wildly spin

Well I would let her write me a letter of regret

But I'm not there yet

Don't forget me, I keep saying, repeating like a toy, 

like an action man my setter is set only to destroy

Build a thing, make a win

And hold me close don't be coy

But I ducked the daisy cutter

When she picked me out with joy 

Oh when I met her I was a debtor, 

I will forget her, I will forget

But I'm not there yet

Like a ball and chain

 Like a ball and chain

I keep carrying you around

Oh is it all in vain

That I take you with me 

Through the wind and rain

Oh like a ball and chain

You keeping knocking on my door

Keep knocking on my brain

I try to let you go but

In the end my friend

You know we're

Tied together like a ball and chain

I look left and you swing right

I invite a guest you say stay the night

I think you're mean, but you don't think I'm right

I haul you over the coals by the firelight

And if we can be examined, and it all proves profane

well we'll be standing at our trial like a ball and chain

Only you can set me free

I have the lock but you have the key

Come on now release us from this awful plight

If I am your ball tomorrow, you'll be my chain tonight

Just raise the hammer and strike against the steel

You know it isn't any wonder, to feel the way I feel

You cannot hear the thunder or see the lightning bolts reveal

The world ablaze, and cast asunder as at the turning of a wheel

Well turn it, drive it yonder across the harvest field

We'll collect the pieces fonder that fall like heaven's zeal

And I am left to ponder this shame over my pain

But it isn't any wonder when we're like a ball and chain 

beautiful hard

 Beautiful hard

Like a diamond, a gem

Sparkling in my palm

Oh who ever needed a friend

But diamonds, diamonds, rubies and pearl

All these are an infinity in the world of my girl

She is lost in the emerald sea

I search the doom bar

And the mermaid banks

I roll my R's and I give thanks

For small mercies of the gem stone planks

I'll walk for you across the sea

My hard hearted love

My dragons scree

My belief is love

Is hammer and tongs

Oh what does it matter

If I'm right or wrong?

I've been broken in the field of love

The warrior queen has

slashed my shield

She has broken free

She's sailing down the Amazon

At a million miles an hour

And I am like a falcon trailing in her power

The distance of my heart

 We got the news

On our island

From the rivers

Down to the sea

I am alone 

On my island of the self

I miss someone so much

She is like a ship

Come sailing passed my island

in the sea

So alone in the distance

Of my heart

So alone in the distance of my heart

I'm in the soup with you

 Farewell to Stroganoff

Hello Minestrone

Goodbye Tomato and Basil

Hiya Carrot and Coriander

Oh you soups

you soups

Vegetable and fruit too

Come dance in the balustrade

I'm in the soup ballet with you

Wrap your lovely slop all around

My bones

I want to feel you inside me

Like a warm wet tone

Ringing in the darkness

Yes you can ring my bell

Hello Minestrone

Stroganoff you can bog off

Tomato and basil go to hell

Scottish memories

 You left me just where I picked you up

A little tired

After the music had  stopped

And the merry-go-round took us

back to the start

Oh we had mountains to climb 

in the hills of our hearts

There were valleys of consequence

And hidden snow drifts of guilt

Holes to fall through

The frozen surface

On lakes of indifference

But ferries of respect

And reunification bridges

Where we dropped sticks in for a bet

And love lockets

And hearts on chains

And notes in pockets

Written on wild west steam trains

And seas so cold they froze our brains

Oh tell me what love is and is

This the same

I remember seaweed on shores

And little animals that slither

And crawling on all fours

And winds that made me shiver

And camping in the pinewood

Next to the Inn

And you being so afraid

Of the Wild winds din

And how we hunkered down in silence

And protected we slept

In each others arms

Like violence

In the arms and the neck

That hold tight yet don't let go the bow

Don't let the arrows fly yet

I have more to give

My heart wants to live

Before the final vet

I need you

But I don't need it

I want us

Without the fuss

I miss your tender kiss

And the way we fell in bliss

But the silence between us spoke volumes of trust

And the sea shore swelled and hushed

And I breathed

And knew you were there