These are my words. The sentiment is all yours.
NJM
Infidelity
Sick and tired of feeling blue
Born from years of self-abuse
Waiting for the day to start
Sick and tired of broken hearts
Exploring other avenues
Helps to keep myself amused
It’s not my infidelity
It’s just you never suited me
Tears run and we keep falling, further apart
Catch a breath, there’s more to come
Anesthetise collapsing lungs
Behold my lack of social skills
My tired lines they’re over used
What if I were where you were?
So middle class it has to hurt
Ashamed of all these things I’ve done
Forgive me, I was much too young
But that was then and this is now
Tired from all these tales I tell
I’ve only come to tell you, it’s the last time
Once in a life time
Tears run and we keep falling, further apart
Shadow Kisses
A sleight of hand, in the dawn of treason
You were so easily consumed
An architect of your own destruction
You were surprisingly confused
By all these shallow graves
Laid by Chinese whispers
Through these sliding doors
Cursed with shadow kisses
In death, love and squalor the sordid details were removed
Straight from the heart of a suicide girl
You could not keep your dirty little secret
You swore you’d never tell a soul
The priest was shocked to the core by your confession
The gods were smiling from below
On all these shallow graves
Laid by Chinese whispers
Through these sliding doors
Cursed with shadow kisses
In death, love and squalor the sordid details were removed
Straight from the heart of a suicide girl
No I can’t explain all these shadow kisses
The gods look down on me
One Last Chance
Give me a reason, would you fight another war?
Give me a reason, are you tired of being ignored?
And there are certain things you can’t explain
Born in division, a child holds out its hand
We are the vision but supply can’t reach demand
Servants to our king and queen
We uphold a nation’s vanity
Surrender cos’ the writing’s on the wall
Give me one last chance
No, you can’t give it up
Fantastic vandals, masters of our trade
Envious rivals
It’s in many ways just a careless phase
I’m naive to your alchemy
A pariah with the tendency to wonder
Could you ever ask for more?
Give me one last chance
No, you can’t give it up
No one would ever know
And we break down
Just to rise with you
You Used To Be OK
Well maybe I’m complicated
But you’re over rated
It takes certain kinds in these incestuous times
To keep me onside
You always seem so uptight
You used to be ok
I’m watching your charms all fade to grey
Nowhere in the world’s too far away
From fools like you
Well if you’d paid more attention
During sex education
You would not have stretch marks
The length of Piccadilly station
You always seem so uptight
You used to be ok
I’m watching your charms all fade to grey
Nowhere in the world’s too far away
From fools like you
The Landlords Daughter
I took you out to the Curzon
I planned to take you home
But you weren’t so certain
I was looking well; I’d lost a bit of weight
But behind my braces I could not articulate
That women shun me because I lack life skills
I was just the ugly kid from school
I dreamt that we could be thick as thieves
I knew full well it would be bitter sweet
We went back to the local
Where we had a few, I began to get vocal
But your father was the proprietor
And when I tried to kiss you, he grabbed me by my shirt
He said “listen up son, I won’t sit on the fence
You’re a hideous pig of no consequence
Inside your head lies a cloud of dust
And your vile face offends the both of us”
Then they kicked me into the swimming pool
Around my neck they hung a noose
I scream bail out in futility
I scream bail out, they just humour me
And I’m overcome but I never ought to
Fall in love with the landlord’s daughter
I could not swim
I was crushed
My Words Desert You
I saw your face in a photograph
Seems forever since I saw you laugh
Read a story in a magazine
Didn’t help these insecurities
And when I try to talk to you
Seem to get nothing through
Hearts collide in the ashes of our time
Please don’t take me home tonight
My words desert you, they seem to blow away
They just confuse you
Not give it all away
Around and around and around we run
We don’t know our course
When it’s time to break your fall, my words desert you
Between the static of the TV screens
Above the panic of society
We kissed the way that only lovers could
I’m not the first to be misunderstood
When I try to let you know
Where do good intentions go?
And all along I thought you’d know
You can’t confide in me
Another promise that I won’t believe
Please don’t take me home tonight
My words desert you, they seem to blow away
They just confuse you
Not give it all away
Around and around and around we run
We don’t know our course
When it’s time to break your fall, my words desert you
Apologies
Well you and I
We seemed to flow against the tide
In black and white
And we didn’t mean no trouble
Over on the Thames, walking through the pouring rain
She’s so lonely
So I take another chance on you and me
I wait on your apology
Well you and I
We seemed to sink before our time
Two troubled minds
And we didn’t mean no bother
Shackled by the chains, distorted by the weight of blame
She’s so lonely
So I take another chance on you and me
I wait on your apology
You’re right; I could never tow the line
You’re right when you say I’d never take a wife
And it means nothing
Well it’s just an argument
It means nothing when you kick me out
So I take another chance on you and me
I wait on your apology
She’s so lonely
But her soul won’t see
The Auctioneer
Standing with your kids in the cold
Feeling like you can’t carry on
The Auctioneer puts a price on romance
To a cat walk killer
Takes the ghost of a chance
Don’t walk away, keep on running
Singing with the fools in the choir
Drunk without charm or desire
The Auctioneer sold the ground beneath his feet
In a shock, shock thriller
From the jaws of defeat
Don’t walk away, keep on running
Stick Together
Everybody’s looking for someone
Everybody wants to believe
Everyone is searching for answers
Everyone just wants to seen
But only I would die for your cause
And that isn’t worthy for us, anymore
It’s better when we stick together
I asked for your forgiveness
You did not say a word
I tried to be beside you
Not write it in a verse
But nothing was that open
We could not pay the rent
I tried to be beside you
I thought it heaven sent
But only I would die for your cause
And that isn’t worthy for us, anymore
It’s better when we stick together
Alone In Our Ideas
Distance, such a dirty word
And it kept us together, despite what you heard
And it never led me into temptation
I just lost my conscience
When she turned me on
We were alone in our ideas
We were just kids beyond our years
The trouble is, I can’t let you go
The trouble is, I didn’t let you know
Movement, such a loaded gun
And it blew your head off
In front of everyone
And it never led me into temptation
I just lost my conscience
When she turned me on
We were alone in our ideas
We were just kids beyond our years
The trouble is, I can’t let you go
The trouble is, I didn’t let you know
Hyde Road
I stay in, I go out
I’m convicted, much to the jury’s doubt
In a bankrupt town, fraught with danger
The Hyde Road Kids are contagious
I come up, I come down
Where politicians wear transparent frowns
In a cat suit kamikaze, a bulimic soap star crashed the party
And she cannot move, I doubt it would help to be calm
You cannot leave without her spinning her usual yarn
She said “you can’t see me without my make-up on”
I thought you’ve never looked better
Come on, come on, come on
Amuse yourself, it’s now or never
Chemicals, Bad advice
Stone cold reflections of unruly minds
She gets sea sick with anticipation
Falls victim of my cheap Persuasion
And she cannot move, I doubt it would help to be calm
You cannot leave without her spinning her usual yarn
She said “you can’t see me without my make-up on”
I thought you’ve never looked better
Come on, come on, come on
Amuse yourself, it’s now or never
