Gravity lane

 Gravity lane

Fallin down

Down on my luck again

In gravity lane

Wishing well quarter

I threw a dime in the water

Gravity pulled me in

I forgot how to swim

Won't you pull me out

I don't wanna drown

In the town 

where it rains 

forever and a day

Down gravity's lanes

Gotta walk on the moon

I'm gonna leap pretty soon

It's gonna be like a swoon

But it might take me til June

Cos here gravity's thick

Just like your lipstick

And I could float on your lips

Only your rip tide rips

And gravity pulled me down

Don't wanna wear this crown

It's heavy as horns

My little crown of thorns

So won't you tear it off

I love you hard not soft

But I can't wear your cloth

It drags me down to earth

And I need to be free

Cos I'm made of gravity

The phases of the moon

She I can't follow

Up and down like a yoyo

There's the new moon

Better let her know now

She, I can't follow

Silver thread to her bed

The Waning Crescent

She's the lady in red

She, I can't follow

I'm like a rainbow on the blink

The Third quarter 

She gives me a wink, I think

She, I can't follow

Her summer swallow

The Waning gibbous

Her wax wings I kiss

In her wax work museum

And the full moon

Was I a loon crying at noon?

Was it a neap tide

Was she a true bride?

Had she lied? We all lie

It's just the phases of the moon

It's only true at that time

The waxing gibbous 

She was melting like a candle

Too hot to handle

I never tried

The first quarter hid us

Occluded from the light

I saw a polaroid flash

I saw a polar bear dash

Across a wire and I didn't care

The Waning crescent slid

Down our throats

Like a lemon slice

Like a glass of wine it disappeared

Brought into focus

The sharp taste

Bitter as leaving your lover

And that's how I follow her

like the phases of the moon

Lily

 C I give you all my love, F Lily

G I give it to you for C free

C I'll give you all my love, GLily

F Yes, your heart is the C key

C I'll give you all my love F Lily

G Without you F I'm all at sea

G Oh so give me all your love

C Lily

C I've seen you like a dove G

F In my dreams, in my C dreams

C I've seen you like a dove

G Who I've set free

C And though you're G flying away

F I know you can'tG stay

C But still I'll give you all my love

G Lily

C I've seen the stars shine G above

F And held your hand, C I held your hand

C I've seen the diamonds sparkle

F like jewels in the sand

G And you are quite remarkable

C Oh yes, my little miracle

G I'll give you all my love

C Lily

Reused love

 I used to love you

Like an American loves Paris

I used to love the allure

The romance of you

But now I am embarrassed

Because all you ever were was a false messenger

You told me straight , but I never believed

You loved not him but her

I used to love you

Perhaps I still do

Just like I love a mountain

I've seen while passing through

But now I don't want to walk up its paths

I don't wish to explore the view

I used to love you

But now I'm sure 

it's not true

You did nothing wrong

That was my thing, I felt too strong

It wasn't you but me

I loved someone who was

already free

I thought I'd save you, but he

He has been a slave to you

And you to he

It's not that I see a golden cart come round the corner

With all the promises you made to him

Look like a pyramid, but taller

I think you lied to yourself

That's all and I came along for the order

You served me a dish of cold radishes

And expected nothing but a mourner

Well I can't be sad when your relationship has died

Because in my eyes it was all lies

no matter how hard you've tried

If you think I'll mop up the pieces

Or offer pity to those who have cried

I couldn't be the man in that city

So lonely that I could have died

You've used and abused his love

He's used up now and you've sucker punched

The blues out of him

While he's mourning his system

Of doubts, and about that he's listing

Just look at the way you have kissed him

The back of the neck

Like you're paying his cheque

You better bet that it was love you missed in him

I cannot love you, I'm disgusted by this betrayal

It's all just a home movie portrayal

Of love gone awry

But I'm an honest guy

I'll tell you, I can't stand to see this low railing

It's better to kill him than help him

If you love me, then there's no sense in the whelping

He's a beaten dog, let him lie with the hogs

I have no more pity than is self effacing

I love you still it seems, but it's physical

It's not what it means

I'd love to be close to you

To know and play host to you

But the most of you

Is the tail end of what's been

If you pass her by

 If you pass by my love

Tell her it's she

I've been thinking of

If you pass by, if you pass by my love

I won't pass by your love,

I won't pass by your love

It is all I can do

To try and stop thinking about you

Oh I won't pass by your love

She loves you not

 She loves you,

She doesn't love you

I'm just another piece of meat

In the street

She loves you like a cider apple

Bitter sweet

She loves, she doesn't love you

Bitter sweet

How can the moon rise

How can it turn into nothingness

Before your very eyes

She loves you

She loves you not

Just like the knot in the noose

She loves you, she loves you not

Just like the cards fallen

Played out of suit

I am just a game to her

One she cannot lose

Because I am no flame to her

Just another guy who hangs too loose

will the winds blow her away

Will she peel the end of love

I wish she would die and go away

I have no more love to use

Provisional license to kill

I'm trying to find an enemy

It's the first time

But I've crossed too many lines

To ever go back

I'm learning to kill

But I don't want to turn black

She gave me a look

With her assassin's eyes

As I was chasing her across

The rooftop of the skies

Now I'm falling back down to earth

She shot me with a bullet from birth

Gave me a birthmark that glows in the dark

And I'm dying in her arms of mirth

They gave me a provisional license to kill

I'm a beginner in this love game

I never knew where to shoot her

And I need to practice my aim

I think I'm caught in her cross hairs

Because I can't remember my name

And when she interrogates me

I'm at a loss there

I say I'm only an agent for hire

I'm only a soldier of fortune

Seeking my fortune and fame

I dropped the document with the names of

All those other double crossing agents

She found it she took my statements

Is it true lies you can tell your torturers?

Is there anywhere left you can hide?

You can't stay dead your whole life

You've got to learn to hunt with a knife

I got a provisional license to kill

But I kept crashing and burning

There was nothing left in the thrill

The only thing I can do is keep learning

Try

 You say that it's the patriarchy

I say that it's the monarchy

You say that it's an oligarchy

I say it's a monopoly

Oh it's all just a theory

All just a pose

Position yourself in opposition

Of a loving dose

Give and take

But I can't forgive

Yet she says

It's better to act and ask forgiveness

Than to regret something

You've never done

I agree it's true

To try to live is better

Than never to try

And die

love traps

 I used to believe in love

But instead I see I'm in a power trap

I've fallen into the snare of

A woman who acts as a sly cat

You see that is feminism at work

The power dynamic shifted

Whether by subtle means and trickery

She has got her way

Behind all that must be feelings

But I am just a tool

For that achievement

A means by which she gets what she needs

In her own relationship

Extra leverage if you will

I've been naive it seems

And fallen for her innocent

Guileless demeanor 

When she is a cunning spider

In disguise

And I've been a gullible fly

More you than me

It's more you than me

Like the fishes in the sea

When they hold out for school

We better get back to the cool

Oh it's more you than me

I've got an African doll

It's a voodoo for the soul

I've been meaning to break free

Oh it's more you than me

Have you heard the church bells?

The virtues they extol  

so why can't you see?

That it's more you than me

To have and to hold

 I wish I had her to hold again

All through the night's bitter cold again

This can't be how our story ends

I wish I had her to hold

I wish I had her to hold

More of this and it'll make me so old

I wish I had her to hold

And let our story unfold

There are many ways I've been told

But there's only one way I want to hold

My darling in my arms

Keeping her far from harm

I wish I had her to hold

Falling

 My eyes fell, fell a sleep

My eyes are falling, falling into the deep

I fell out of bed

I fell down the stairs

I fell off the log pile of all my burning cares

I fell, I fell for you

Falling, falling waterfall dew

My eyes are falling

Falling water too

My eyes aren't falling

It's just the morning dew

When I rise the sun in my eyes does too

But now I must be falling

Falling in love with you

Island sliding

 D7The problem is C you're attached to someone G else

D7 If we lived on an island C nothing would matter

To G ourselves

D7           Am          Em

Ebdim      

D7 But we live in a world G where we see other people D everyday

D7 And you know what they say about C other people?

G What do they say?

D7 Well they will C say whatever they G say

D7 Let's live in a world C by ourselves, G Just for today

D7 I think we can do it, C Now what do you G say?

D7 If I knew you and C you, you knew G me

D7 Well I know you, and C you, you know G me

Am Em

D7We can do this thing and C make it work out G today

So come with me now, now what do you say?

My seven tomorrows

 Seven tomorrows

Are in my soul

Heated the sorrow

The bones of coal

Seven tomorrows

Count them all

One more I must borrow

Before I fall

I wait in the hollow

To hear your voice

Coming down the glen

As if it's your choice

To meet me in the woods

Where we'll live a life in green

But my seven tomorrows

What do they all mean?

I'm given this time

Is it on reprieve?

Am I criminal

Who must hold

My life out on leave

Away from the prison

Where the sun holds the key

Who only unlocks the bars

For me to believe in thee

Seven tomorrows

For my seven sins

One: I heard the cock crow

And followed her in

Two: I wanted more from her

Than I had to begin

Three: I turned black in mood

And turned her away

Four: the green eyed monster stood in my door

Five: I only wanted her

Six: I only ever wanted more

Seven: I lay in bed dreaming of her skin

When the judge comes tomorrow

Will he hang me or turn me loose?

Will the jury be holding the noose?

Will my seven tomorrows lead to her door?

Or will my trials end to come again no more?

Eldorado's moon

 Waking up in old Eldorado

To find you standing in my room

Waking up in Old Eldorado

And I want to dance with you neath the moon

Oh Eldorado the city of gold

But not until it got sold

Eldorado was a silver slice of the moon

And I remember a piece of me

Like a sliver that fell free

When you said you'd dance with me

In Eldorado

Oh and we have nothing to lose

Just our tangled lives

And these homesick blues

Well if you'll follow me

I'll follow you

And we can both dance neath

Eldorado's moon

Spinning

 She puts me in a spin

Don't know if I'm head or tails

I just know I should be coming in

But I keep going out watch the whales

It's a life that's a mystery in

What she means to me is like a hall of mirrors

And I get lost when I walk in

I think I'm seeing me, but it's her that's clearer

I would like a mountain scene

Or a volcano that's exploding

Then at least I'd know where I'll be

Instead of lost in this geography of despairing

Can you give me a golden key

One to the dress that you are wearing

Because I'd like to unlock the door

And then I'd know how we were faring

She's gone

 She's gone

The day is done

Who won?

Who lost?

 I've forgot

she's a ghost

It's just

I wish

I'd known

And was free from

repentance

Or guilt

She's gone

There's nothing more to lose

I saw a cloud

Pass by

And a trail in the sky

Say

I could choose

But it's not me

It's not my mind

It's my heart

And there's nothing

but the blues

She's gone

Now I have to 

turn her

loose

We had a field day

Listen to the birds she'd say
I'm listening, I'm here I'm very much ok
In your loving arms
The touch of your lips
Makes me feel good
Up from my toes to my hips

In this world of over confidence
Arrogance and harm
She walks gently like a healing balm

She skips like a child
She sips at flowers
She let's me sleep for hours
Until I forget I'm in the wild

In a field, just a field
With Oak trees
A little wood stretching along the lower perimeter
The best place in the world for me

The only place her beautiful face
Can be forever
Like an  imprint of our bodies
That we left in the grass
When we leave

French exchange

 Now I don't mean you're delusional

It's that you're diluvial 

In a manner quite effluvial of

Certain schizoid type

For your French exchange

When young, hung

Like a ripe

Plum around the gum

Of the girl on

The bike

Who you saw but did not like

Only the smell and the hum

Of Paris or a bum

Or a scent of the drum

When the sun beat its thumb

On the edge of your skull

In the bus where the droll

Hypocrites type

Their soul out

And write

I think you're delusional

Why'd you have to look like that?

 Yes I saw you have some new shoes

Well are they blues shoes or are they black?

Because one of them suits you

And the other one makes you look 

Like a cat

Well yes, nice to see you too

How do you like my new hat?

Well it could be from the top draw for sure

Or he fetched it from the back (of the store)

Well anyway, how do you do?

Oh, Why'd you have to look like that?

Yes it makes me feel so rich and then so poor

When I see you walking out of his front door

Because I know you're with him for sure

Or oh is it for the long haul? Baby tell me more

Why'd you have to look like that?

I could move to the other side of town

And you'd never see me kicking around

With a frown underneath my new hat in brown

And this top hat would have it's bottom turned down

Oh why'd you have to look like that?

Oh we fell out and he fell in

And I don't doubt that he'd like to win

But we've got about you've put me in a spin

Oh why'd have to look like that to begin

With or without, I need you like gin

I want to bake you like bread

In my heart's oven even

Because you've got dough eyes

That make me knead to grin

Oh Why'd you have to look like that?

Oh why'd you have to look like that?