A town called Mallet

Looking for some life about

Walk up and down the road

Walking to the North or South

But all I see are frogs and toads

Oh it's a town called Mallet

Looking for some life about

Crossing the roads and paths 

Hearing the sounds of parties 

But I get lost walking in the park

In a town called Mallet

Falling out with everyone

Everyone I ever knew

Because let's face it, there is not much else

Not much else for folks to do

In a town called Mallet

Every boring evening 

should be filled with life and joy

But when it comes to believing 

I become your like your little toy

In a town called Mallet

Dum, dum de da, dum dum de da dum

Neighbours in their windows

As nosey as can be

Lookin' out at what the wind blows

Down the streets so ill-at-ease

Here comes the love again

Behind Shapes and figurines

Here comes the love again

Just daggers and smoke screens

In town called Mallet

Here love is just a dog's bark

That goes echoing down the alley

And the river flows in the dark

Down the Sheppey valley

In a town called Mallet

I should have left here years ago

No, I should never have came

But I followed where the wind blows

No I just ran away in shame

To a town called Mallet

I think I have to leave here now

It's broken and it's torn

And all the love is an illusion somehow

All love since I was reborn

In a town called Mallet

The right side of love

 Keep me on the right side

Always on the right side

Keep me on the right side of love

Don't want to be on the wrong side

The tracks bent, the rails rent

Black is every night I spent

Walking on the wrong side of love

So keep me on the right side

Every cloud has a silver side

Keep me shining like the sun above

I might walk in the moonlight

But never in the doomed delight

Oh keep me on the right side of love

Talking Willow blues

 Well the wild willow

Did whip me

Slapped me in the face 

Gave me a bruise

Well I should have known

What I was stalking

Now I'm talking about 

The wild willow blues

I went out hunting the tree monster

 A talking tree gave me the news

That there was this willow walking

Eating up people with its root shoes

So I put my ax upon my shoulder

I paid my tax to my muse

And took off a chip the size of a boulder

As I stepped out to hunt the Willow blues

This willow monster was a weeping

Crying out "I've been abused!"

By all the peat men who lie a sleeping

Down in the land where love is used

This willow woman went a whipping

all the men who she had confused

And lulled into her path by lovely lipping

Yet now she sings her Willow blues

Talking willow, do not trick me

I've listened to your sad song you've no excuse

To be eating your willow lovers in the lea

When they follow your song of Willow Blues

This Singing Willow then sang like a Siren

She sang of sallow hearts and sweet profuse

Of flowers growing in an Eden's Garden

Where two lovers Adam and Eve got the blues

She sang now I was there with the Apple tree

And I talked to her, she could not refuse

To join the poison snake of the Chapelry

And add its spice to the Willow tree blues

She was dancing in a river when I caught her

With the nymphs and pan pipes that they use

And she put up quite a fight when I fought her

But in the end I sung the ax swingers blues

I chopped up her branches and made logs

I burnt them on a pyre of refuse

But her trunk sang a song of howling dogs

As her salty bark sang her last Willow Blues

Willow Walking

 Take me where the willows meet the highway

Take me where the wind whispers my dreams

Take me on a walk for a while away

Take me to the other side of the stream

I'm in a land made of water

I'm on a lake made of reeds

And as the aspen shimmers I sort a

Know a change of scene is what I need

They cut heaven out of the skyway

They put it down on a lake of green

And if you are ever going my way

You'll know exactly what I mean

Looking upon a lake

 The spiders are weaving their webs

in the hide shutter window opened wide

Where the wind flows and ebbs

Like the haunted house of the jilted bride

The shield bug crawls on the side board

It thinks about hopping off overboard

Then crawls to my elbow, all is a rainbow

As varnish reflects the sun's glow

And the lake is a shield of glass

Reflecting the clouds as they pass

The greys and the blues of all different hues

These are the colours of time's mass

The shield bug has reached my wrist

he's climbed up my sleeve like a cliff

Will he reach my shoulder by the time I'm older

I really don't mind I'd give him a lift

The morning spiders are fishermen

Casting their nets in the wind

The flies are their fishes then

They'll catch them if visitors don't come in

I've come to see the fine lily

They're lying down in the valley

Like a Monet painting, but with no one curating

Unless the creator of all things

If my life is a carpet of lilies that I tread upon

It really is quite silly, to walk upon a duck pond

Now it could be a Marsh Harrier has come

She circles above everyone

The glassy lake reflects her flight

And I hope one day that I might 

Feel so graceful and strong

Ocean's end

 Take me to the ocean's end

I want to go to the end of the ocean with you

Let's go to the ocean's end

Let me go 

Where deep waters flow

Over the edge of the horizon

Take me to the end of the ocean

Take me to the ocean's end

Lift me up upon the wave

Of your becoming body

Let me sink in your grave

I don't want to be here

Without you

Without your love

In the whirlpool

Summer garden

 Another rose blooms in the garden

Another rose in the blue skies

And down the road the truth is hard

On the prisoners behind their bars

The truth is in the dark

It opens up the clockwork

Of the grandfather clock

Over the stile, over the hill again

And again

He walks, as the sun rises

In the summer skies