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Lyrics (self-penned)

Yield to the night

29/09/201825/03/2025

Give into the night,
yield to the feeling
that fades in the light.

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Zero X

09/09/201825/03/2025

‘You wanna put a fruity
where the sun don’t shine,
tell me I’m a cutie
and that I won’t mind,
look upon a beauty
and you may just find
I care.’

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(Gonna make) time for us tonight

01/09/201607/11/2024

I know that you’ve been working every hour, every day, and taking all your chances, counting out your pay.

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Liquid sunshine

01/07/201607/11/2024

When it’s hot and what you’ve got is all you need to sow the seed, liquid sunshine (is all you

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Player’s lament

01/07/201625/03/2025

I’m on the sideline once again on a bench of boys and men, waiting for a call to come my

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A merchant of menace

01/06/201607/11/2024

In Room 505 there’s a man alive to the few things that matter to him. In the room next door a man

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East of Eden Park

09/09/201507/11/2024

East of Eden Park where the dirt glows in the dark you’d never touch the bark of the trees, there

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Every girl I knew (was wrapped up in you)

18/02/201426/03/2025

Every girl I discovered on my mind stole my heart and each in their own way, in time played their

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When the honeymoon is over

05/11/201325/03/2025

When the honey, honey, honeymoon is over, the days of wine and roses are to come. When the honey, honey,

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Girls, guitars and goals

01/05/201307/11/2024

Girls, guitars and goals on a Saturday, come on, come on, come on. Girls, guitars and goals on a Saturday,

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Voices in my head

31/12/201207/11/2024

Verse: ‘Beyond the front row is a place I don’t go, where shadows may stay whenever I play.’

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Jacquelyn of all trades

15/06/201225/03/2025

‘I’ve never been faithful to anyone in my mind.’ I hear your words again, the hurting kind.

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Virginia loves me

13/06/201225/01/2025

I had to come round here and see you Gini dear, ‘cos someone had to put the record straight.

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The other place

12/06/201225/01/2025

Heaven is a little time spent in the other place, an hour or two relaxing in the other place.

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See through me

08/06/201225/01/2025

If I could make money talk would you see through me? Make it stand up, stand up and walk, would

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Time is running out

07/06/201225/01/2025

Time is running out boys, you’d better find a wife.

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I see it (but I can’t believe it)

06/06/201225/03/2025

We used to be good friends before we were lovers, for me you’d say, maybe, you’d forsake all others.

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Three miles to go (three minutes to get there)

05/06/201225/01/2025

Three miles to go three minutes to get there, I know she’s waiting for me.

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True hearts and diamonds

05/06/201225/03/2025

I see her walking to work everyday, a slip of a girl in blue, white or grey. This job is

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Call me in the morning

04/06/201225/01/2025

You’ve gone to bed without me once more, turned away and shut the bedroom door.

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You’re late again

04/06/201225/01/2025

I’m standing on this corner hoping you will appear.

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The greatest joy

03/06/201225/01/2025

Step into the street, step into the night, where rain hammers down and mirrors white light.

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Falling prey

03/06/201225/01/2025

A girl is riding a northbound bus across the river.

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Flesh and bone

03/06/201207/11/2024

Under the intense glare of a spotlight a man can be seen bowing to stage fright.

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