Friends, Lovers, Rivals

These are my words. The sentiment is all yours. NJM

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:50:10 -0500

These are my words. The sentiment is all yours.

NJM

Infidelity

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:57:20 -0500

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

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:51:00 -0500

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

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:44:00 -0500

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

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:42:46 -0500

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

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:28:00 -0500

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

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:10:00 -0500

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

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:01:10 -0500

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

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:53:00 -0500

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

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:47:00 -0500

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

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:37:00 -0500

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

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:33:37 -0500

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