Artwork by Jamie-Lee Love
1//Eastern Breeze
Like a flower, blowing only easterly
She moves, flowing in the eastern breeze
Like a storm, nestled on the eastern sea,
She loves. Loving on the eastern breeze
Like a photograph can change her
Home is pen to paper
And the call, of a distant shore can save her
Home is pen to paper
Like a stone, skimming off the coral reef
She floats, flowing in the eastern breeze
Like a soul, battered by the winter freeze
She warms, warming in the eastern breeze
2//Darlin
Can you stop these walls from closing in darling?
Maybe cure the itch beneath my skin darling?
Can you help me find some peace within darling?
Oh if you could only, rein me in.
I can feel the tide just pulling out you see
And I know the force that's drawing back, is me
So, if this perfect storm needs air to breath,
Darling, be my lungs, don't let me leave
Can you shake me up and sit me down darling?
Cause I've fought so hard I'm inside out darling.
Can you show me something relevant?
Maybe take away my urge to run.
Run darling, oh I run darling
I can feel the tide just pulling out you see
And I know the force that's drawing back is me
So if this perfect storm needs air to breath,
Darling be my lungs
Oh, I run darling
Could you stop these walls from closing in darling?
Maybe cure the itch beneath my skin darling?
Could you help me find some peace within darling?
Oh, if you could only rein me in.
3//Breaking Chains
Gone is the warmth of summer
Gone are the lovers
Gone are those lazy days in June
And cold is this darkened city
The sky round here, don't seem so pretty
Clouded by the Cloud
Slowly breaking chains
Slowly fading away
And so, from this street forgotten
The last brown leaves from bitter autumn
Dance into the sun.
And oh, changing faces
Changing times and changing places
Help me to begin
Slowly breaking chains
Slowly fading away
The places where our children used to play,
Used to pray
Sometimes throw their lives away
Take me to those cobbled streets
Where angels meet, meet me.
This is my city, bleak and pretty
Love it, hate it, clean and shitty
All rolled into one
So feel its pain and taste its poison
East to west, each heart is frozen
Winter leaves, the moment goes
And, smile, into the sun
4//Phuket Daze
Listen to the tapping of the rain on the window pane
The tapping turns to typing and I'm right in the scene again
A wooden room with blankets in some holy forgotten land
I came here with a back pack, but I'm leaving in a strangers hand
I've noticed that the ocean's getting wider since I met you
I'm not sure of the distance or how long till I'll forget you
I can't continue counting, oh the days are just racing in
But when I'm tired of exhaust fumes, well I'm sure I'll see your face again
And the Phuket sky is laughing
And asking me how I came to belong here
One with the rain, building paper planes
I don't plan to go back and fly around again
So I'll just push you away
I will push you away
And poof, you'll be gone
With the smoke and the haze
And I'll just push you away,
Yeah I will push you away
So let me return
To my, Phuket Daze
I awake to find the sky is upside down and orange
I saw this in a dream back when I couldn't face the mornings
And I cling to wooden houses and the water surrounding them
See, clarity is everywhere when the city isn't clouding it
Oh and don't believe the truth that we can't move beyond our shadows
My soaking skin is brimming in the bursting banks and barrels
Of a rich and promised paradise of love and life and laughter
The trees are my protectors, and my God is greener pastures oh...
And the Phuket sky is laughing
And asking me how I came to belong here
One with the rain, building paper planes
I don't plan to go back and fly around again
So I'll just push you away
I will push you away
And poof, you'll be gone
With the smoke and the haze
And I'll just push you away,
Yeah I will push you away
So let me return
To my, Phuket Daze
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5//Morning Dew
He's defenseless, in the face of her defenses
She's determined not to look back, and her suitcase is packed
He's awakened by her kindness, she contains him
In a furnace, scared to light the match, or take her kindness back
Theirs is a lifetime in a nutshell.
You can not crack her, she's contagious
Beautiful and courageous.
They get raggedy and reckless
Joined their hearts and joined their beds
Cause they're connected
Sharing every breath
He cocoons her, with his poets heart, dumbfounds her
Surrounds her room with song and flowers
His gift, the hours that his thoughts have pierced her soul
Better the angel that you know
Love's the Devils bow
Like the springtime, forged in colour
Lost in love and one another
He said 'you needn't look no further
There's only me and only you'
As the summer wind does blow,
She will change and she will grow
His hand in hers, their tears become the morning dew...
6//Little Moth
Little moth, you kept me up all night
Little moth, your desperate plight
Wings of cloth blister
Little moth, you kept me up all night
Little moth, you barely had a chance
Little moth, your desperation dance
Wings of cloth blister
Pointless exister
Little moth you barely had a chance
Flutter, burn
Little moth, for you I dearly felt
But you wouldn't learn your lesson if I helped
Wings of cloth blister
Pointless exister
Little moth for you I dearly felt
Flutter, burn
7//The Beast Within
And so, we soared to brighter places
Where the sky was purple, and the sea sang
I prayed for love to spread, contagiously
Mad love, the darkest kind
And oh the wind did blow and burst
Over thatched roofs and farm lands
And you and I, we drunkenly took on the world
Ourselves, our demons
We lined the courts of ancient lovers
The arched walks of armed men
In holy shelters we took cover,
With tired wheels and liars hands
Behind our eyes we burst with colour
Us fading rainbows, bound together
And though our bodies shook and stuttered
We marched out and caved in
There's a mountain bleeding
Ripped from all its beauty
And the secrets kept and bereft of all their beauty
War torn and guilty
Just like this city
War torn and guilty
The beast, within me
My broken bones baby,
Your foolish heart, save me.
We lay in grass and watched the sunset
The stained sea and glass sands
And holding hands we counted bottles
Round barbed wire, we slow danced
And oh my heart did sink with worry
As the moon moved and the tides changed
And you and I, we drowned our sorrows
In song books and false friends.
8//Rats and Races
If I was wrong, then I'm sorry
True, I did not know what or who I was answering to
I swear, I walked straight amongst the crooked bunch
With my back to the wind and my hand on my gun
But the fault lines changed and I was bound to run
See I fled the face of the cornicing
My loved one.
I slept in your streets, when I was barely a child
And I wept in your arms, until they smothered my mouth
And I darkened your doorways, I figured you out
I took what I could and then I shut it all out
And I filled my blood, until I ran a drought
You see I brought you back bottles
I swallowed you down and out
And I covered your tracks,
Now I can't find my way back to your door
And I bet that you're lost
Between the rats and the races...
9//Air Pressure
And I think that I could know you
When soaring up in the sky
And I wish I didn't hurt you
From 30000 feet high
Where all the passengers fly
In the abandoners isle
And the hostesses are nosey
Reading my thoughts while I sleep
And I wish that you could know me
For all the secrets I keep
The air is thinning and weak
Life jacket under my seat
(For all the good it would be)
And my thoughts propel towards you
From my tin can in the sky
At 30000 feet high
Oh, Its high enough for me to know,
I lied...
10//Down Under
He wanders closer to the light
He fights the fear and flees the fire
Play your little heart out
Play your precious heart out
Down under furrowed brows
And old grey towns
Done and down under now
Down beneath the shards of glass
And thoughtless crowds
Done and down under now
I think of you in sunshine and smile
I think of you most days now
You saved my little world at times
Saved, brought my precious heart out
Down in that retched bar
With your old guitar
Done and down under now
Countless those open arms
And friendly hearts
Done and down under now
Focus, I must now
Focus and go down under..
11//Tran-Siberian Express
Whether a good man, or a good and lost one
Living your life's plan, if you ever sought one
Whether your mind's clear or fraught
With wild and wistful thoughts
Pack up shop, take stock of what you've got
If you're caught short, by a Bangkok waitress
In the cockpit of a grand hiatus
If you're running out of Yen
In a bar, in Ho Chi Min
Don't look back, just float across the wind
And if you see a sign, for the Trans-Siberian line
Tell me how to reach that love of mine.
Cause he's a whisper, down in Sydney harbour
A blood blister, from a thief in Zadar
He's the nettle in the grass,
He's an all-consuming ass
Where in these four corners does he abide?
Bye bye
12//Tiny Mortals
We, us tiny mortals
So important, so deranged
I am merely human
Skin and bone and cannot change
Falling from the sky
A swift reminder, we can break
Break, us tiny mortals
So involved in higher stakes
Love, love is the ocean
Love is air, my fingertips
I could write a mountain
I could move you
Telling fibs
Hope, hope is important
Tends my patience, helps me breath
These tiny emotions
Mend or tear our tapestries
Hope remains
Love is open, love is free
Love is you and you are me
Love is awesome, love is free.
We, us tiny mortals
So important, so deranged
I am merely human
Skin and bone and fear and rage
Planting down our flags
Our wars are spoken, words our wage
I, like you am passing
Passing places, placing blame
Love is open, love is free
Love is you and you are me
Love is awesome, love is free.
