../melody in chaos
my most spun track on Spotify from my former days as The Reflectors. Written in 2008. Released in 2009 on my record Goodbye Monday Blue.
It’s all still true lol.
https://thereflectors.bandcamp.com/track/long-road-ahead
we got a long road ahead
settle down. settle back. settle in.
don’t you know that we’re gonna have to work until we’re dead?…
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Some people can turn their conscience on and off
like Ray Davies’ Yo-Yo.
Not me. You?
…we got a long road ahead
settle down. settle back. settle in.
don’t you know we’re gonna have to work until we’re dead?
we’ve got such a long road aheadfull of naked feelings
illumination
you know all those things you just can’t teachThere you go again
laughing at real life
I guess that’s the way things will always beit’s been a long slow descent
energy lost.
have you ever been really really far away
from your lover for a really really long time?
…I know you’re lonely
I’m waiting here for you
Baby, nothing changes
When you feel like I doSo now you’re far away
You got a job to do
So, baby don’t get desperate
Don’t be blueI see that exit sign
The one you take tonight
The one you take to know you’re homeSo many freeway signs
An exit for every life
Remember there’s one can take you homeOther people
They don’t have a clue
They drive on by
Like they doI see that exit sign
The one you take tonight
The one you take to know you’re homeSo many freeway signs
An exit for every life
Remember there’s one can take you homeWhere’s the love in a freeway sign
That’s got nothing to do with your life?
written and recorded in a 72 hour flurry.
have you ever had to re-write a memory?
No one told me about what happened
To you for a couple of years
Had to rewrite all the good times
Had to rewire ½ the gearsGoodbye Monday Blue
Goodbye I did love you
You had nothing left to lose
Save goodbye monday blueIt takes all your will
To draw with your eyes closed
And it takes all the energy
To recreate this worldGoodbye Monday Blue
Goodbye I did love you
You had nothing left to lose
Save goodbye monday blue
07.02.2008 1:15a
©2008 Sock Drawer Studios…
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this song was written in 2000, back when you could live in the future.
call it a love song to a pub song.
find me an after-hours London club
one where the taps don’t close up
from 11 o’clock until the sun comes up
‘cause I got 2 friends, baby, who just won’t shut upcognac & polyester are best friends to me
and neither of ‘em thinks the lesser to be
the fabric & the drink of high society
sounds like best friends to meit’s all the fault of this woman faulting out of her dress
close enough to spill, but not to confess
my brood & I, we just gotta laugh at all this decadence
times are not good, until you live them to excesseverybody’s drenched
seconds get stretched
the least likely combination
is never that far fetchedcognac & polyester are best friends to me
and neither of ‘em thinks the lesser to be
the fabric & the drink of high society
sounds like best friends to metwo me
mmm. mmm. mmm.
…I don’t ever want to get like that
How’d you ever come to get like that?
I swore I’d never want to get like that againKicked out of the house and shown the door
Forgotten twice by the side of the road
2 nights coatless
in the bitterbitter coldI don’t ever want to get like that
How’d you ever come to get like that?
up then down then down then
I had it all then I had nothing
just like Job traded to hell from heavenWouldn’t you know it I was done in
by just one careless hand
Simply screwed up one little thing
got handed my hatAnd now I got nothing but love
to get us out of here
I got nothing but love
so there’s nothing to fearAfter a few lost jobs I had a few lost evenings
I felt betrayed by some pretty good feelingsFortune just kept turning the corner
She kept turning away her head
She kept turning me into a shadow
under that empty hatSo now I got nothing but love
to get us out of here
I got nothing but love
so there’s nothing to fearThere is nothing to fear
We have nothing to fear
There is nothing to fear
When there’s nothing left but loveWhen there’s nothing left
Nothing but love
I’ve got nothing left to give but loveThere is nothing to fear (when there’s nothing but love)
03.06.2008 3:32pm; 9:20pm; 12:50am
03.07.2008 11:44am; 04.05.2008 10:50am
Written in 2002. Finally recorded correctly in the key of B.
I know you’re in my mind
I hear you if I sleep
Lying awake in the dark I feel you deepInvisible girl – don’t get lost in your
backgroundI’m gonna dream ‘til I know you’re mine
I’m gonna dream ‘til I run out of time
I’m gonna dream unfinished songs
I’m gonna dream on and on and onI know you’re in the room
Your body rise and fall
Interrupting all the light dancing on the other wallInvisible girl – don’t fade into the
backgroundI’m gonna dream ‘til I know you’re mine
I’m gonna dream ‘til I run out of time
I’m gonna dream unfinished songs
I’m gonna dream on and on and on
New track for a new year. The dove and the hawk are clawing at each other again.
Hey
I need you to bail me out again
I don’t know that I can
I’ve got artifacts from a war I need to give to a widowHey
You said you’d be waiting home for me
Now I don’t know where you are
And I can’t tell the distance from the echoes(I’ve got) Words of love
(I’ve got) Words of peace
And when she hears these words
They will be her releaseYou
Brace for the future you don’t know
Long ago you told your friends you’d never changeI
Carry these remains
Rushing forward on a train
I can’t say that they’ll ever reach their destinationNow
I’m leaving once again
Papers have been sent
Time has been spent(I’ve got) Words of love
(I’ve got) Words of peace
And when she reads these words
They will be her release
Cult status
Don’t have to watch what I say
Cult status
Not too much in my way
I’m gonna be the biggest thing in small town
And when you’re not looking
That’s when I’ll beCult status
Travel by subway
Cult status
Goin my own way
I’m gonna be the smallest fish in the big big pond
And when you’re not lookin
That’s when I’ll be headed forCult status
My foot in the door
Cult status
Don’t want no more
Gonna be the first one in and the last one out
And where you’re not lookin’
that’s where I’ll be