Skyclad

A Badtime Story Look what I got for Valentine's Day: Lady Luck came along, took my dreams away, And the tears hurt more than a broken nose - I bled from the thorns of a barbed-wire rose. I know that I'm supposed to pray Thanking God for each new day. Would i...

A Bellyful Of Emptiness I'm twenty six years old - please tell me what have I got A monopoly on misery - I guess that's my lot Ten years of eating bullshit leaves it's taste in your mouth And I think the time has come for me to spit it all out... 'Cause at t...

A Broken Promised Land See the red "messiah" high upon a soap-box pulpit Agitating his apostles with the gospels in his hand While apprentice hitlers gather down in inner city subways To immortalise their ignorance with aerosol spray cans. Life is the lesson...

A Clown Of Thorns Walking my personal Calvary mile to a do-it-yourself crucifixion, It's a kingdom of clowns wearing martyrdom's frown - I must fight for my hammer and nails, We're an endless procession of lost, dispossessed unbelievers - Whose prayers go unh...

A Dog In The Manger 2 A.M. a southbound junction - innocence takes flight Common sense has lost all function - stranded in the night. The albatross has flown the nest - he's breaking family ties He recalls his mother weeping with her hands held to her eyes. H...

A Good Day To Bury Bad News Wall "the west' wakes up to a terror attack But they got enough muscle to give it right back Now the warmongers are happy they know that they can't lose They picked a good day for to bury the bad news And all the latest figures ta...

She came looking for position in answer to our need And she was a pretty flower fair as any in the field She burst into the room and we both did feel the rush Had young Rome in tow but we knew he'd get the push It wasn't very long 'til we found ourselves a...

A Near Life Experience Just a blank expression sitting in an easy chair The living incarnation of a world that doesn't care Mesmerized by media lies Now they're "New and Improved" by a cunning disguise It drinks their poisoned water And thrives off noxious ai...

A Room Next Door I stare at fading visions now much fainter than before Of the faces gathered round me and the clock upon my wall My loved-ones stand in mourning but the china timepiece laughs As it counts away the seconds (it knows all things must pass...)...

Welcome back my friends, yes, it's been to long I fear In these sad and stormy times, you'll find a place of refuge here I am your genial host, I trust, a narrator fair and true Though there's nothing new under the sun, it's a storyteller's moon Under the...

Wake up one and all, can't you hear the clock bird's call? Time has stolen a march on us, yes, he makes fools of us all We have to face the world now, pack up all your cares and moans We can't shrug off our duties in the cold hard light of dawn We danced t...

A Stranger In The Garden Silently gazing from the window - My mind detached from space and time. There is a secret only I know - A place where the city lights don't shine. Why don't you come up here with me? Let Aphrodite take you by the hand, And we can tel...

A Survival Campaign So we lie and wait for dreaded and demanding down Come wrest us from our safe and sleepy beds Over by the windown lie the raiment and the weapons That we need to take into this world today Armoured by opinion, with statistic and schoolboy'...

A Well Beside The River A song i dedicate unto those who share my need to give their all - and should they fall strive on til they succeed. though my belly aches with hunger - weary limbs tremble and shiver i'd rather go where waters flow - no well beside th...

A Word To The Wise From far outside Earth's fragile atmosphere It's clearly apparent that the end is near The sleeper wakens and removes His golden casque Vital signs return to his quiescent craft. He is truth - a word to the wise Gods children are so young...

Alone In Death's Shadow Carnal gladiators lie restless awaiting the dawn Slaves to their passion - so eager its will to perform They wrestle the "Double Backed Beast" face their foe hand to hand The arena was life but alone in deaths shadow they stand. You b...

Another drinking song Where they sit around And get a round in while the getting's good They'll make the most until the money's gone They're coming out to celebrate, to sing and dance and to escape A crazy world where everything seems wrong Drinking to forget...

Another Fine Mess A girl read my runes in the warm dressing room, It was then that I started to think There has to be something really worth hunting - I reach for another strong drink. For ten lonely years - that's my reward. My ego and I we have faced many...

Any Old Irony? At the vanguard of a juddering caravan, hurriedly galloping down a dirt-track. Six furtive figures, crooked as Caliban; Smuggling hope to the land of the claque. Weary, hoarse-riders; irksomely blistered. Spent from a decade a-roving the road....

Art Nazi Twist the truth - then twist your arm, It's the Emperor Caligula School of Charm, Don't take his word 'cause it's not worth having it (he's an Art-Nazi) He's a tinpot Hitler gone berserk, A self-made man from another man's work, More tonque in cheek...

Bush of ghosts is burning In the forests of the night We hear spirits call to move our souls Hear their voice in many things Animals and birds and trees Babakoto and his kind They will help us sing our song Reach across the gulf of time They will help us si...

Bewilderbeast See the brave toreador just look at him thrive Off the crowd as they roar. For death brings a thrill To the everyday lives of the "non-com" observers Who gloat and chastise My mind can't believe we maintain This barbarous blood thirsty game. I...

I understand this fault is mine I’m basking in reflected light Why should I run, why should I hide? Why should I take another’s prize? You don’t see it, you just don’t see it But you’re up to your neck in it now Black Summer Rain Black Summer Rain Black Summ...

Bombjour! Hello, bombjour! Good morning (good morning). The obvious drawback in building a bomb, is the needing somewhere (or someone) to test it on. What happened to European Community? Consciences with diplomatic immunity. Find a new toy that's more safe...

Those ghostly eyes burn in my mind Black days hurting deep inside So far I've been feeling my way blind Along this borderline Just wasting so much time… Grave thoughts fill my waking hours Bad nights clearly leave their scars And outside the beast that...

Brimstone Ballet "Though I may seem callous" cried old Thomas Malthus, "Paupers are better off dead. That we have to feed them is something we need Like a musket shot straight through the head." Not much of a smiler - our man Wat Tyler (Died for the working m...

Building A Ruin My life is a sentence that carries no pardon, I can't put you out of my misery now, So stunned by beauty of this madhouse garden - I've taken my chances (then lost them somehow). This body's a temple - a shoddy construction, I'm digging my gr...

Bury Me You came, you saw, you conquered as a woman of your word. so to say farewell like Judas is a thing i find absurd. You shook my world - (you sucked me in then spat me out in bubbles), the effects of your affections stay the cause of all my troubles. [...

Cancer Of The Heart There's a simple diagnosis for this vicious symbiosis feel the growth of rogue psychosis we are the cause - we are the cure Across each continent and nation spread without discrimination, we refuse our medication - yet inject the virus pur...

Cardboard City Hands locked in darkness - a nocturnal greeting We flutter like moths round the brazier's flame Shrouded in shadow - our clandestine meeting Here where past and present are one and the same. No-one dies in Cardboard City Faces only fade away E...

Catherine At The Wheel Her face caught in the headlamp glare, There waiting for a ride. Stood all alone - so far from home, He beckons her inside. A smile that has two meanings - slips his fat hand to her knee, But swiftly learns how quick to turn this woman...

After years of reckless living, for a century or more With a few who lived the good life, being paid by the poor Now they're fiddling while the forest bur, soaring through the poisoned skies Surfing in the plastic seas, we're adding our voices to the rising...

Civil War Dance While sons and daughters of the empire Stained the map red, white and blue Back at home the storm clouds thundered Dole queues lengthened - unrest grew 'til the tides of fresh opinion Washed away the world they knew. Exchange inhuman wrongs f...

Come On Eileen Poor old Johnny Ray Sounded sad upon the radio He moved a million hearts in mono Our mothers cried and sang along and who'd blame them Now you're grown, so grown, now I must say more than ever Go toora loora toora loo rye aye And we can sing ju...

Constance Eternal On wednesday the seventh your flight departed, you waved us goodbye - we stood on the ground as one journey ended another one started - you passes overhead (your wings made no sound) This world's just a rock - mow a little bit lighter, for...

Crux Of The Message It starts as a faint purr, rippling, beckoning, stealing the evening's baking heat. It steps to the side, foot tapping, hop skipping. Without formation, no sense of the beat. And then comes the mean, heartrending echo. Low and beguiling, s...

Cry Of The Land Vibrant and real I lie Mantled by the open sky The wind and waves my lullaby I am the land. Why do you view me with Eyes unable to see The beauty in all that is pure When it's left to live free? So hot the fires within my breast Rock and ste...

Dead Angels On Ice Mother I'm so sorry for this thing I've gone and done, But surely you'll forgive me - after all I am your son. Live to race - thrill of the chase to me was all that mattered, As we crash I hit the dash - my baby face is shattered. We are d...

Deja-Vu Ain't What It Used To Be Have you heard the one 'bout when a most unlucky fella, Went visiting a fair-ground for to see a fortune-teller? She said; "Of all the palms I've read - yours is by far the worst. I'm duty-bound to tell you, you've been well-...

Desperanto (A Song For Europe?) This is our song for Europe, I thought we saw the borders fall? Guerre sans Frontiers - And it seems nothing changed here at all. They're building a Tower of Babel in Brussels - It's called the Euromisery, And once we're insid...

Do They Mean Us ? Dance 'round the maypole, rappers and mummers Stepping in and out of time Cockneys, Brummies, Tykes and Geordies Players in this pantomime From Notting Hil to Tyneside Mela Marching ghosts of colliery bands Farmers markets, high-tech sweatsh...

Earth mother, The Sun And The Furious Host He was just a lad of fifteen years Who barely fit his breeches A latter day Dick Whittington Who dreamt of fame and riches His teachers took him to one side And promised him the earth When all he really wanted Was a...

Eirenarch You say i'm a free man, But what does that mean to a social security number? A grey suit as sharp as a new guillotine, Bought and paid for while drugging us under Tell me what use is a citizens charter - When blood is the ink for the new Magna Cart...

Fainting By Numbers Number One - the only number I can really trust, Dual faceted - these people that I talk to when I must. In triplicate my body hangs - left drying in the sun, Four horses at the starting gate - their riders waiting on my gun. Misused just...

In with the old and out with the new The people you know should be people you knew The old stuff's made to last don't you know So forward into the past we'll go Out with the new and in with the old The next big thing's left in the cold Boldly going where...

Gammadion Seed The devil's circus came to town - we watched the freaks arrive en masse When they paraded through our streets, we turned a blind eye as they passed Safe in the comfort of our homes we all forget the need to fear This is the new "new Jerusalem"...

Great Blow For A Day Job Hear my tale - I'm norman normal, always humble, mild and meek. In my bank a lowly banker - run-down brach on nowhere street 'till one day a stranger called - a fetid bible black he laughed, said "Sonny I don't want your money, I don'...

Halo Of Flies All you needed was somebody with a dream, A fool to crucify or to put upon a pedestal. Only dead fish float with the stream - Compared with you I seem like an extra-terrestrial. I'm not your Robin Hood or Peter Pan, I won't play Jesus Christ -...

Helium Pray for my poor melancholy soul, I've cried so many tears inside - My head's a goldfish bowl. A mood so deep - so far above you all, With no one there to catch me if i fall. This is your man in the street reporting, And so far all we've got is that a...

History Lessens (The Final Examination) Look what you get for following leaders, who lead from the rear - where are they now ? What did we learn in history lessons ? How to sit quiet at the back of a class. With so many things open to question, it's too late...

History Lessons Look what you get for following leaders, who lead from the rear - where are they now? Look what you get for following leaders, who lead from the rear - where are they... Where are they now? What did we learn in history lessons? How to sit qui...

A list of needs to get me started Help me organise my day Get up, get dressed and get reminded Exactly what I need to say Everything is architecture Everything’s political It’s all pride and prejudice Don’t tell me that it’s art! A cool head for calculation...

Hybrid Blues You think you come so far ? You think you learnt along the way ? You're better off by far Than where you were jus' yesterday You say you got your scars There's nothing left to say You got to look beyond Go make some ripples on your pond We are t...

I Dubious I am the king of all that I survey beware my son it could be yours one day. Hier transparent to a dynasty - dog - emperor of woe and misery. It sent me mad but now it makes me furious I'm shadowed by a doubt - I dubious. Too many handshakes - not e...

If I Die Laughing, It'll Be An Act Of God It's revelation reveals - divine comedy (and more), please welcome your four hosts - death, famine, pestilence and war. You say that we are all Gods' children, can you please explain - how any father could inflict hi...

Another dawn, another date Another meeting of the ol’ G8 To change the world, make history Not compromise or hesitate Try something, try anything Try help the situation Amidst the cries and demonstrations We hear the plans of favoured nations “If it...

Inequality Street Life's really a chocolate box - some do without - others have plenty. It sticks in my throat - my stomach's in knots, while your box is so full - mine's perpetually empty. From the cradle to the grave, point your ladle to the gravy. "Food c...

Intro: Pagan Man I am the Pagan Man--I speak for all my kind, When I criticise your point of view--your hollow state of mind. You say that I'm an animal--well this at least is true, I'm a thinking breathing human being--what the hell are you?  

Isle Of Jura All around me strangers scurry - In a crowd but all alone. Got to hurry - pack my worries, Feel the arms that I call home. I am lonely - I am lost, Inside my private holocaust. [Chorus:] O' steel angel please carry me - Fly me to my love, From...

It Wasn't Meant To End This Way Sometimes I believe that we're already dead Each day on the T.V. our last rights are read Some fair weather oil tanker bleeding its' load Powder keg powder plant ripe to explode. Mister Prime Minister hear what I say, Please M...

Jeopardy As the daylight starts to fade - Twisting shadows all around. Dead soldiers on parade - The ghosts of Porton Down. Hidden from the public eye, "A cause for regret" Wrote the Brigadier-General with the chemistry set. "Can't be more specific - the mat...

Jumping My Shadow ["And ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth] [until the hour of separation." - Kahlil Gibran] Maybe someday someone will love me for what I am (instead of what I should be.) Until that day I'll just sit here weeping, chasing d...

Just What Nobody Wanted Just what nobody wanted, I'm just what nobody wanted. I think that life has got it in for me, Can you please tell me who's to blame? For all the bills upon my mat - They breed and grow then eat the cat. Where they come from I don't kn...

Karmageddon (The Suffering Silence) Awake at the "Souls Midnight" I seek that I may find An amicable separation from this state of mind My sins so unoriginal they cannot be forgiven An overwhelming sense of doubt from me all hope has driven. Ships at night w...

Land Of The Rising Slum Show me a politician who's a man we can trust And if I ever meet him then I think I'll have him stuffed Look out of the window - see not one happy face The only splash of colour's the graffiti 'round the place. It's hard to even crawl...

Red flags, poor man's grenade Cool blows, blue serenade – remember? Comrades we said we'd stay – forever We used to gad about, getting smarter We used to wrangle with Marx and Sartre We used to live with inflated egos As for the state of the party – God...

Lightening The Load Now 'Man is born to trouble Sure as sparks to Heaven fly.' So said the man sat all alone In the corner of my eye. I said, 'Why the long face, why so sad? Things cannot be so bad!' He said, 'My aching bones tell of trouble on the road And y...

Like...A Ballad For The Disenchanted Like the promise of a grey day dawning Like all the dreams I've never had Like I'm working as the beast of burden Just like Sisyphus I know where I stand Like I need another rude awakening With all your caterwauling in my...

Little Miss Take Thought I'd got it right - for once I'd sought and found perfection. when you said "I love you you addressed your own reflection. I'd prayed up to the heavens for a goddess of desire, the best they had on offer was one devil of a liar! You ca...

Master Race Well we all learned how to use a fork and knife How sometimes we have to wear a suit and tie And understand these things are what give us this right To go around the world acting superior We live with missles and the armaments cash With rewritten...

Men Of Straw I pray that soon the blessed meek their world shall inherit When all of these bastards are judged by their merits And called to account for the acts they've commited The jury their victims - no sins are omitted. I'd gladly burn these men of stra...

Lord knows I’ve been drinking again Caffeine and alcohol And taking of that opiate and where that leaves me ...I don’t know Asking all those questions ‘bout democracy Society and “all tht jazz” Go to run a check on reality Is anything just what it seems? We...

Moongleam And Meadowsweet See her face shine in the moonlight-- Soft as silk and white as cream, Silently I watch her slumber--gently kiss her cheek, Then I lay my weary head beside hers--close my eyes and dream. In the morning she'll awake-- Cast off the nig...

My Mother In Darkness Dance with the lilies in the shadows of the valley - my lily of the valley of the shadow of death. Her velvet shadow in the rain, disturb the stillness of the hour. Each crimson kiss a tender pain, like plucking petals from a flower. S...

My Naked I I wish that you could know one day the secrets I've been keeping, Of the demons I have locked away - they prowl a one track mind. If you had thought this tongue in cheek was just reserved for speaking one hour at my sweet mercy would be sure to sen...

No Deposit, No Return I remember my grandmother sat with her radio, tea cup and walking stick set by her side. As her old fingers reached out to turn up the volume, I learnt what it meant to be bursting with pride. She told me some tales of wars great and la...

No Strings Attached Now the final curtain's fallen, for no show goes on forever, if the world's a stage - mine's empty. whilst upon it you'll tread never. As the instruments lie silent in their coffins made of wood, i rest assured they'd say these words - If...

NTRWB (Not The Roman Wall Blues) Hey Mr Auden have you hear the news ? Seems they found a cure for your Roman Wall Blues Says on the tablets that they sent back home They got dates, wine and olives direct from Rome They got baths and medicines I've been told...

On With Their Heads! Here's just a few of the changes I'll make when mankind appoints me king of Planet Earth So pass me my crown (my scepter and gown) Hear the first proclamation of Martin the I Leaders who lied so that innocents died pretending to cry, the...

Our Dying Island I woke from my daydream--discovered my nightmare was real, At the altar of progress to gods of ambition we kneel, Our database deities--they cannot save us, Microchip miracles only enslave us. The high priests of high finance claim that their...

Penny Dreadful Forgive me if I'm out of order - this new "music" has no soul. It may be good for making money, (sadly that is not my goal). Integrity and honesty are words that you don't understand, but you're the best - it says so in the penny dreadfu...

Polkageist! One day whilst out exploring in some far-flung foreign corner, I took respite from my journey to admire the local fauna. When from the twilight distance a peel of bells and laughter, set my heart-strings fluttering like bats through chapel rafters...

Postcard From Planet Earth Sorry it has been so long since you received my last transmission, meanwhile I've studied them - learned about their strange condition. Now I think I understand why they live in such confusion, sadly they'll never change - I have co...

Quantity Time Yet another sluggard hour stumbles past, it's no wonder life looks better through the bottom of a glass. These bitter litanies you keep repeating, are verbal fingers down my mental blackboard screeching. Each moment in your company was of more...

R'Vannith I still hear the screams of my lover torn from me Still taste the salt of her tears on my face As they left me for dying my shattered corpse writhed On a pyre of anger - I choked on the stench of disgrace. Flint and bone are all we wield Against th...

Ring Stone Round An apple in the eye of the storm that's coming When winds of change sweep 'cross the land These "old grey men" have braved the weather Watched kingdoms fall while they still stand. Walk with me down moonlit ley-lines Farther than the eye can...

Salt On The Earth (Another Man's Poison) Out of the East a prince shall rise To summon fire from the skies. I'm lord of this wasteland - where my word is law My bedfellows pestilence, famine and war Turn children to orphans - make wives into widows Then laug...

Schadenfreude Moonlit faces - ghostly white Robed in midnight leather Death - heads adorn their necks But they have lived forever. Malign, nocturnal predators In search of human cattle Drawn toward their anguished cries Drowned by machine gun rattle. Compas...

Science Never Sleeps Science never sleeps - so I'm singing it a lullabye, of wolves in sheeps clothing - devils in disguise, and lab-coats draped over big black lies. They cover their stupidity by calling it "stupology", rearrange your world without one word...

Single Phial I have walked the earth so many times before your birth, Today is only yesterday's tomorrow. And as a Gardner in Eden it was i who sowed the seed then I've come to reclaim this life you borrow. Singing 'ring a ring o' rosies' for your final...

Sins Of Emission There's a beast in the cellar There since this building was made. He's lurked in the shadows From when its' foundations were laid. From my "double-helix" he taunts me His primal voice roars It mocks my humanity Turning the key in locked door...

Skyclad I'll sing to you of days departed, Times when men proud and stouthearted carved their names on history's bloody page, The corpse of chivalry long dead Is turning in his loamy bed indignant at your new 'enlightened' age White-collared knights at boardr...

Snake Charming You'll meet his kind in the strangest of places, great what you find if you turn enough stones. Legerdmain eyes wear the sweetest of faces - you're quick to invite into your hearts and homes. But the serpent and worms are his real kith and kin...

Something To Cling To Sometimes life feels like an ocean, cruel and far too cold to mention. Though you raise a great commotion - still no-one pays you attention There's no sail on the horizon, when the shark-fins gather near, you watch your chances of surviv...

Spinning Jenny She came down from the Western Hills when we were not prepared I turned deaf ears to words of warning now I'm running scared. Casting caution to the wind now that the cat's away I say my grace - fill my face (then for forgiveness pray). Gon kno...

So here they are, these heroes, these giants Holding there over our affairs, heedless to the human cares Like spotlights, a backdrop for performance Wishing I could be so clear, certain to shine and charge the night Where all these roles I play, whatever t...

The condition of the people and our national priorities Get broadcast across the country like a speech from royalty Speech, want and fear are the freedoms that we're fighting for The pursuit of happiness of course and who could want for anymore? Yes, the n...

Wake up Jacob now, wake up John Day’s a-wasting, great things to be done Super-highways don’t build themselves Estates and empires by the stroke of twelve Where we fit in the scheme of things? We’re just debris blown by the wind So forget your woman and...

Still Spinning Shrapnel All I hear are peace talks and battle cries. Everyone's losing - nobody's winning, So run for your lives when the shrapnel's spinning. Pictures of the crippled - wounded on the frontline Someone else's problem - you're sitting on a l...

Councillor, I love your city fair With its vistas and its good clean air that we all breathe Councillor, I love your city fair With its moguls and its gurus who sing “boom or bust” It’s okay because we’re free men and in God we trust Love your superculture B...

Swords Of A Thousand Men Deep in the castle and back from the war Back with milady and the fires burnt tall Hurrah went the men down below All outside was the rain and snow Hear their shouts, hear their roars They've probably had a barrel, and much, much more...

Ten Little Kingdoms 'One united kingdom the fancied wouldn't do To please some grumbling Irishme, they split it into two Two little kingdoms, but then the Scots, you see Claimed their anciant throne and rights, then they were three Three little kingdoms but t...

Terminus [Intro:] 'Megeddo's Gateway.' Hunter of the silent darkness-- Mighty steel leviathan, Rise from your nocturnal vigil-- 'Davey Jones' the time has come. Send spitting fires and roaring thunder--instigate Poseidon's wrath, Unleash the terrors of the de...

The Antibody Politic 'Free citizens of Planet Earth'; The leptons in some base equation. Bound by swaddling-chains from birth, unto travail and assentation. Given what they're taught to crave; Denied the truths they sorely need. Shown a future new and brave;...

The Cradle Will Fall A species in its infancy--a living idiosyncrasy, This 'naked ape' believes itself divine. Assured of its supremacy--it dreams of immortality, The first words that it speaks--"This world is mine." But the time has come for us to realise, T...

The Declaration Of Indifference There's a "Fat Cat" sitting in a Caddilac Riding ten feet off the floor Who says "I used to do a little, but I couldn't get enough And so a little got more and more." Well I've nothing to show for all these years - But it still...

The Disenchanted Forest [The Farm Hand's Ghost:] "My kin and I had laboured hard to reap the yearly harvest. Lain weary on our gathered sheaves we cracked a vat of ale. Poured a toast; Began to boast of who could sup the hardest. Slumped in drunken slumber at...

The Great Brain Robbery Why do you still refuse to see, this vast global conspiracy, that's infiltrating lives and homes? (A race replaced by servile drones). Chips are down and stakes are high, milk-shake minds are sucked bone dry. If their fiendish schemes...

The Ilk Of Human Blindness Midsummer 2045 they lay upon The beaches burning Insects on a ball of rock Upon it's axis slowly turning Steel and concrete melanomas Punctuate the hot sunrise Spines now chilled by global warming Microwave their last goodbyes. For...

What you going to do when the problems mount up so high? Parking your bags in the hallway, ready to fly? What you going to do now your sugar fountain's run dry? Wringing your hands and trying to work out why? Never ever, ever fall in love, well this could...

The One Piece Puzzle Pick up the fragments and piece them together Tell me do you like what you've found? Are your thoughts like the earth spinning round? Existence is pure pantomime Why is life such a puzzle sometimes? Trapped in a world I no longer feel pa...

The Parliament Of Fools All the seats are taken in the house that makes the rules All the seats are taken in 'The parliament of fools' The discontented winter howeld, when I first came up to vote They swept in on a sea of change, but I'm glad I missed their...

Now Meg she was a gypsy maid, her house was out of doors She stood a tall as amazon, rare she was the queen of the moors Her apples were tart blackberries, her currants pods o'broom Her wine was the dew of the wild white rose, her book a churchyard tomb H...

The Silver Cloud's Dark Lining Sailing of the century - a human life raft floating the jaws of the void approaching - growing closer by the hour Played lottery with destiny - could not believe you'd lose Collect your one-way ticket for "the Good Ship Earth's"...

The Sinful Ensemble Are you ready... Are you ready for The Sinful Ensemble? Good clean fun - just a bit a rough and tumble. Dead dictators out on a "labs night". Then pints later you'll see a flashing blue light. Are you ready for The Sinful Ensemble? Good c...

The Sky Beneath My Feet O come ye young of Hamlyn--you who know my tune so well, Where it beckons you must follow--be it Heaven (be it Hell). Forget your mothers grieving as I pipe you down the street, With a shilling in my pocket--and the sky beneath my feet...

The Song Of No-Involvement We're building up to nothing Can make it last all day They're handing out the pitchforks To keep the tide at bay Through time and tide will never wait We'll stand our ground and celebrate : A song of no involvement A show of no-con...

The Thread Of Evermore Harbringer of death and slaughter - (next time round you'll be the slain) Refuse the dying man your water - (thirst when you come back again). Don't spare the rod don't spoil the child - (I hope you like to take a beating) Feed your fac...

The Truth Famine A red letter day for our nowhere industrial town A minister's heading this way - he's closing us down But what of my daughter - and what of my son Just how will they live when the factory's gone? Election day promises now null and void They'...

Seems so many years now since he set off down the road For the bright lights of the city and his story to unfold No strings, no family plans, no ties to hold him down His first avowed intent, to leave this dormitory town At first, he lay just dreaming till he...

The Wickedest Man In The World I stand here before you The way life has made me Ill mannered, foul mouthed Bad tempered and lazy I stare at your world Down the neck of a bottle Every day is a death ride When I hold the throttle. To the drowning I am water Fo...

The Widdershins Jig A wise man's son and Wednesday's child in each other found a friend, And searched together for the treasure hiding at the rainbow's end. To wise man's son and Wednesday's child all is white that is not black, They dance in symbiotic deadlo...

The Wrong Song Another bad break - burst another bubble Another lost cause - here's another trouble Another heart ache - one more chance gone Another lost chord in yet another wrong song. Sometimes I feel like I'm standing on a hillside - Screaming at the wo...

Think Back And Lie Of England (It's a load of old John Bull) Cruel Britannia ruled the waves, Empire oiled by toiling slaves. White flag stained St.George Cross red, and blues sung for the countless dead God save brave Johnny Company, stiff-upper-lipped he s...

Thinking Allowed My mind was a timebomb That was set to explode So I packed up my cares Into the sunset I rode A path to hell that's paved With good intentions. Well I guess you and I Will never see eye to eye But if there's one thing I'll be Glad to know wh...

Trance Dance (A Dreamtime Walkabout) Where the past meets the present we walk hand in hand, Barefoot and naked--but kings of our land, The souls of my forefathers course through my veins as I watch the sun sink 'neath these ancestral plains. Outcast in the ou...

Troublesometimes High above the sleeping city streets where we've all grown A silent evil Slithers through the dawn. Blissful in our ignorance - God how could we have known Today would be the day we learn to mourn? The Shades of old dictators rise, Impassive...

Turncoat Rebellion Drawers of water - hewers of wood, Biting their tonques as if they know what's good for them. Floating voters perched high upon fences in flame. Charmed by pipes - drugged with ale, Simple minds - born to fail, Father please tell a tale of...

Vintage Whine I'll paly Bacchus for the evening, pray, be seated, take your places Should my manna seem displeasing, offend your airs and graces, I've a list long as your arm, (The connoisseur's selection) such bitter whines -a quaff of qualms, awaiting your...

When All Else Fails To whom it may concern (whoever that may be) For I can think of no-one who has shown concern for me. My last will and testament I now bequeath To all those I trusted (to those who deceived me) Though by hope deserted of this I am sure Tha...

When God Logs Off Insomnia taunts me, I turned on my t.v.; Rapt in the arms of a galaxy spiral. Heard a sea-shell hid it's secret as well. This nexus is key to our planets survival. One precious moment it all became clear; Brain-cloud-haze lifted by euphoric...

You say that it’s good reason, “an eye for an eye” “A queer bird the fish, sir” must be my reply For fresh meat and lodgings I’ll stand by your side If wishes were horses, then beggards would ride All the days after, said all the days after All the days after...

Womb Of The Worm Black hat stranger - affluent as effluent Hides behind his mirror shades and crocodile smile Preying on the weak, the vulnerable and innocent All things pure and virginal he will defile. Shepherd of a flock of black sheep - he knows his char...

Well I woke up this morning with a head full of noise Down with all the channels the media employs A thesaurus for breakfast and a long list of aims Had to make a comment on the fun and games All sweeping statements, fine sentiments Like the decline and f...

With laptops made of calfskin, wrought to spread the holy will Disseminating dogma, using lapis, gold and quill And the word was with the few and the few were very strong A mass communication where you feel you don't belong Now the words that flow between...

Worn Out Sole To Heel It's a mountain that we all must climb, In giant leaps or one step at a time. I saw a fat, old money lender - shoes of silk and ermine, Laughing as they stambled on blistered feet rough shod. He never helped the poor and weak - viewed t...

You Lost My Memory Unstoppable force and immovable object, repel one another when by chance colliding. The Brownian-Motion within this love potion, ensures our opinions are always dividing. I am from Mars my dear; you hail from Venus. A meeting star-crossed l...