Entombing old heartache.

Missing simpler times.

I wrote this whilst on holiday at Bawdsey in Suffolk (the seagulls were recorded on the beach). I was thinking how the river and the driftwood have no choice where they go and what happens to them. We may think we’re the same but We’re not... It’s in dropped D tuning, the verse hanging on a sort of D chord and the end of the verse running down from C to A chromatically.

I have always loved songs about water - rivers and seas particularly. I've tried to be disciplined enough to hold a single chord in the verse to allow the lyrics to breathe. The song is essentially a bit of philosophy exploring the nature of free will.



I hope you like it.

A song about the beauty of unfinished business. (full story here: http://on.fb.me/1OwqbIW)

Local music group contest to get a producer. I wrote the lyrics and the melody and it was picked to be produced.

The invitation to a special someone

This is a song I wrote for my Daughter.

I think I picked up the title from a movie scene and instantly felt that it could be worth developing further. As I have two brothers of my own it as easy to imagine how it woul feel if one of them was in trouble and went missing. The lyrics are cowritten with a friend of mine (Ida Sköld).

Got this song on in my car
But I know we needed more
Shoulda never let it get this far
It's shoots across like a shooting star

Well this is not goodbye
I've just been spending way too much time
The world is mine
And that'll be my lullaby

Well I'm not sleeping
I'm awake but I keep dreaming
Hold the hands of time
I hold em tight cause it keeps leaving

We were young
Like loaded guns
You came in like the morning sun
You don't have to run

We only say a word or two
But there's a million thoughts from me to you
The words they must be skewed
And we've both had a drink or two

Well I'm not sleeping
I'm awake but I keep dreaming
Hold the hands of time
I hold em tight cause it keeps leaving

And while you're sleeping in your bed
And all those thoughts run through your head
Just realise how this ends
But we can fix it all instead

Don't let your pride turn it red
And just reject what we're all fed
The tide keeps moving straight ahead
But I'll move the earth for it instead

Well I'm not sleeping
I'm awake but I keep dreaming
Hold the hands of time
I hold em tight cause it keeps leaving