hearworms

oxygen

space cadet

bittersweet

dick magnet

summer song

leveller

humanity breeds hypocrisy

hearworms

oxygen

From the album Hearworms Jul 2019

Stone cold, stone heart

So much to tell you but I don't know where to start

Long game, masterplan,

Think about you all the time hoping that you understand

Pump up the volume, kick out the jams

Scream it from the rooftops, stick it to the man

Under control but I want to break free

If I could only breathe you in your love is

Oxygen

Your love is oxygen

About time, to come clean

Ticking like a time bomb, working in the big machine

Retrograde, stepping stone,

And I'm feeling so alone, lone, lone, lone, lonely

Get a grip, take up the slack

Hold on to reality but underneath it's hurting me

Bleeding fingers burning on the rope

If I could only breathe you in your love is

Oxygen

Your love is oxygen

Zut alors! Mon Dieu!

I need to fill the hole, the emptiness is in control

Scheiss Egal! What the funk?

Have you ever had the dream where there's bodies in the trunk

Of the car that you're driving, preying on your brain

Well you know that they are in there but you can't stand the pain

You can't open it, you can't look

If I could only breathe you in your love is oxygen

Oxygen

Your love is oxygen

Somethings coming but I can't see what it is

There's something messing with my extrasensory

Perception. Might be a monster.

Is it a monster? Am I a monster?

Somethings happening I'm floating like a leaf

In a stream of possibility, a river of the here and

Now is the time to cross over to the other side

If I could only breathe you in your love is oxygen

Something's telling me that this is not the way

That I need to hide away, take five, take one for the

Side - I don't need nobody to tell me why

Well this is obvious

Pump up the volume, kick out the jams

Scream it from the rooftops, stick it to the man

Under control but I want to break free

If I could only breathe you in your love is

Oxygen

Your love is oxygen

space cadet

From the album Hearworms Jul 2019

Transmission x 4

When I was just a kid, I was besotted with

Apollo's silhouette and the race to conquer outer space

My walls were covered with, pictures of rocket ships

And I was pretty sure that I would be an astronaut

I didn't know it but, my dreams would soon be crushed

It didn't take much just a trip to get my vision checked

It turns out my eyes are screwed, and there's some things I can't do

Like flying aeroplanes and boldly going into space

He laughed while he relayed this

Interesting diagnosis

How could he know that he'd just

Reduced my dreams to sawdust?

Transmission x 2

Assimilate the facts, move on and don't look back

I turned the other cheek becoming a computer geek

And I would spend my time programming line by line

Creating other worlds in digital computer code

A place where there's no one to

Tell you what you cannot do

A place where rules are bent and

Perfect vision is irrelevant

Transmission x 2

A string of data bits, in byte sized packages

Defining what I see in virtual reality

Uploaded to a place, somewhere in cyber space

Around the world they fly, launched at the speed of light

They take me with them to, new planets new horizons

Exploring virgin worlds, traversing through the worm hole

And with my hyperdrive, I cross the stars and time

Lost on forbidden planet, I'm just a space cadet

Out here in low Earth orbit

I look down on the planet

I see infinity

I find a better me

Transmission x 3

bittersweet

From the album Hearworms Jul 2019

When I saw you for the very first time

Took a chance and I asked you for a dance

Held you tight in the disco lights and I

Knew right then that this was meant to be

I can still see your dancing eyes

I can still feel the love that I felt inside

You know I can't ever think of a better time

And I told you that I was coming after you

Called you up, asked you out, you were pleased

In the dark of the Odeon I squeezed your hand

Running wild, laughing loud, loving long

Finding out all about you and your favourite songs

Walking round in a summer daze

Gazing up at the stars of the Milky Way

I was amazed that you felt the same

And I told you that I was always there for you

Bought a ring, asked you if you would be

Interested in exclusivity?

Got a place and we made it our own, made a home

From a house and filled it with our family

Happy days as we learned and loved

Through the hard times and through the good

And I never once felt it wasn't enough

And I told you that I was so complete with you

Passing years flying by so fast

Kids are gone, we're alone at last

And I still feel the same as I did back then

And I told you that you meant everything to me

There's a space in the bed, there's a hole

There's a tear in my heart that I can't close

Sometimes I could swear that I hear you say

That I have to be strong, when you have gone away

No regrets and I know that it comes to us all

That in every life a little rain must fall

And I cherish the days and I still recall

When you told me that you loved me to the end

Loved me to the end

dick magnet

From the album Hearworms Jul 2019

I can feel it with my fingers, I can taste it on my tongue

There's something in my cranium that tells me something's very wrong

Roaring like the ocean, it's ringing in my ears and I'm

Looking for the exit, trying to find the way out of here

Stop the noise, stop the endless drip drip drip

Of verbal effluent that's flowing from your lips

I didn't ask you for your boring opinion but

You're gonna give it anyway 'less I find a way to get away

Dick magnet, well there must be a sign on my forehead

Dick magnet, inviting them to come and bother me

I saw this coming when you walked toward my chair

Tried to make myself invisible, to merge into the air

If I could have a super power I know that I would like

To be a 6 foot chameleon, a master of disguise

Stop the noise, stop the endless drip drip drip

Of verbal effluent that's flowing from your lips

I didn't ask you for your boring opinion but

You're gonna give it anyway 'less I find a way to get away

Dick magnet, well there must be a sign on my forehead

Dick magnet, inviting them to come and bother me

My eyes are glazing yeah I've lost the will to live

You won't stop talking, you're a fountain full of shit

I guess I'm too polite to tell you where to go so I'm

Contemplating suicide, hoping for an asteroid to

Take out the bar, take down the city

Anything to stop you and your torrential ennui

Bring down the fire, flood or an act of God

Anything is preferable to listening to this boring sod

Stop the noise, stop the endless drip drip drip

Of verbal effluent that's flowing from your lips

I didn't ask you for your boring opinion but

You're gonna give it anyway 'less I find a way to get away

Dick magnet, well there must be a sign on my forehead

Dick magnet, inviting them to come and bother me

Dick magnet, well there must be a sign on my forehead

Dick magnet, inviting them to come and bother me

Aaaaaaahhh

Dick magnet

summer song

From the album Hearworms Jul 2019

The world keeps spinning on it's course

Around the star that is our source

Of heat and light and endless good times

Passed through the equinox and life

Starts springing back into it's stride

Emerging and we start to sing again

Changing seasons

Bringing reasons to be cheerful

Take pleasure in the summer weather

Drinking wine in the golden sunshine

I close my eyes and feel the kiss

Of sunlight dancing on my skin

I'm drifting, with the winter's lifting

A gentle breeze blows through my hair

The smell of cut grass on the air

I'm drinking, while the sun is sinking

Changing seasons

Bringing reasons to be cheerful

Take pleasure in the summer weather

Feeling fine in the golden sunshine

I love to spend an hour or two just

Staring up into the blue

Sunbathing, soaking up the rays and

These simple things can be the cure

To help you when you're feeling blue

Medication, well this is my prescription

Solar healing

Starlight feeling so much better

Take pleasure in the summer weather

Drinking wine in the golden sunshine

The world keeps spinning on it's course

Around the star that is our source

Of heat and light and endless good times

And so the Solstice brings the prize

Of longest day and shortest night

Enjoy it, as we start back round again

Solar healing

Starlight feeling so much better

Changing seasons

Bringing reasons to be cheerful

Take pleasure in the summer weather

Feeling fine, while the golden sun shines

leveller

From the album Hearworms Jul 2019

Here we sit on the perfect starship

A miracle of evolution

Oxygen from photosynthesis

Turning sunlight into life but

We refuse to see the

Simple truth that we are

Messing with the balance

Risking everything it's

(Time) to wake the fools

(Time) to break the rules

Vested interests carbon sharks are

Making money, it's the only

Way they know to put a value

On the planet, stripping assets

Make a difference where you

Can stop your reliance

On consumerism

Hit them where it hurts it's

(Time) to wake the fools

(Time) to break the rules

(Time) to make some noise

(Time) to make them realise if we do nothing then we (die)

In the White House there's a man who's

Not the brightest, not the sharpest

Propping up the old world order

Petrochemical overdependance

You can make a difference

When you place your X

Upon the ballot paper

Vote for change you know it's

(Time) to wake the fools

(Time) to break the rules

(Time) to make some noise

(Time) to make them realise if we do nothing then we (die)

(Time) to make some

humanity breeds hypocrisy

From the album Hearworms Jul 2019

Boys will be boys, and girls will be girls

They're genetically programmed, it's the way of the world,

And you can't hold the tide back, you can't stem the flow

When the hormones take over, there's a loss of control and the

Church tried to stop them, to fill them with fear, told them

Sit on their hands, cross their legs, say a little prayer

Perish the thought of the stain and the crime of

A child being born out of wedlock and in the wrong place and time

The times they have changed, now we understand chemistry

Take a pill, and control of your destiny

Power of choice is conflated with heresy

Wrapped up in ancient ideas of morality

And it seems like the Puritan ones can't

Abide the idea that sex might just be fun and that

Banging away can be great recreation, not

Just about honouring God with your body for procreation.

Well it's all about power and maintaining control as they

Shackle you based upon forgotten scrolls and the

Stories that men handed down through millenia

Who added their spin to promote their agendas

And so those that believe in Creation

Exclude the right to self-determination

You’re a pawn, you're a puppet on strings

A hostage to nebulous forces that no one has ever seen

Seems to me that a Christian country

Should care more about those that are here and not

Get lost in dogma, in Fundamentality

Look out for the weak, turn the other cheek

But we know that reality means

Christian Brothers and turbulent priests

TV Evangelists making a fortune from

Desperate people to fund their abortions

Humanity breeds hypocrisy

Humanity bleeds