"Triple Tone Eyes"

Things you told to me
They play back in my head
You showed me myself
In the words you said
And I could not believe you
Your qualities unique
And I was enchanted by the way
You spoke to the strangers on the street
In many ways you save me
And keep my head above water
You know your own mind so well
And won't surrender any quarter
Well if this is a dream
I'll keep my eyes wide shut forever
If this is a dream
I hope I'm in a coma
cos

[CHORUS]

You kill me
And then you bring me back to life
You cut me
With the sweetest knife
You kill me
And then you tell me why
My baby
The girl with the triple tone eyes

I know you've been through it
And that I do respect
But if you can't let it go
How can we connect
I realise this is strange love
But we should let it flow
And you don't need to say anything
Cos I already know
Don't it feel right dear
Now we're making eye contact
And yes it feels right here
I don't ever wanna go back
Well if this is a dream
I'll keep my eyes wide shut forever
If this is a dream
I hope I'm in a coma
cos

[CHORUS]
Well if this is a dream
I'll keep my eyes wide shut forever
If this is a dream
I hope I'm in a coma
cos

[CHORUS]

"Ain't Too Sad"

She never said that she was going
And now I can't believe it's true
She could have left a note or something
Before she passed on through
Now there's a hole where she used to be
But I guess it's for the best
Now that my woman's out of here
I can concentrate on the rest
We had good times and we had bad
And sometimes
Sometimes she made me mad
And it sounds just like a cliché
But right now
That's the only way
I can get my message through

[CHORUS]

I ain't too sad you're gone
I ain't too sad you're gone
I ain't too sad you're gone
When all is said and done

Well you sang my favourite song to me
And I played my guitar
And then we shared a Kodak moment
Before getting back in the car
We had ups and we had downs
And she gave me the run around
And it sounds just like cliché
But right now
That's the only way
I can get my message through

[CHORUS]

I ain't too sad you're gone
I ain't too sad you're gone
Well you said I would not need you
And now I
Ain't too glad you're wrong

So why am I crying all the time?
Feels like I'm dying all the time
[REPEAT]

album: "Overtones" (2007)

"Writer's Block"

I get this writer's block, it comes as quite a shock,
And now i'm stuck between a hard place and the biggest rock,
In my own head consumed. I sit back in my room,
Its like the tapestries of life get tangled in the loom,
I'm like a butterfly, caught in a hurricane,
My pulse is quickening as my heart plays a new refrain

Im lovin' Mary Jane, flyin' with Lois Lane,
On board a bullet train
Don't know yet if i'm glad i came
Don't know yet if i'm glad i came
Don't know yet if i'm glad i came
Don't know yet if i'm glad i came

Sometimes at night i think too much,
About life and love and music and stuff

I'm livin' in the past,
My clocks an hour fast,
Should really go and make a coffee but i can't be arsed,
I've lost my mobile phone,
You'll have to call my home,
On second thoughts just leave a message when you hear the tone,
My grimy windows show the early morning glow,
Another day, another dollar in my one man show,

Im lovin' Mary Jane, flyin' with Lois Lane,
On board a bullet train
Don't know yet if i'm glad i came
Don't know yet if i'm glad i came
Don't know yet if i'm glad i came
Don't know yet if i'm glad i came

I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and i missed that bullet train
But now i know i'm glad i-
I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and i missed that bullet train
But now i know i'm glad i-
I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and i missed that bullet train
But now i know i'm glad i-
I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and i missed that bullet train
But now i know i'm glad i came
But now i know i'm glad i came
But now i know i'm glad i came

"Glory Days"

I'm feelin groovy
Kicking down the cobble stones
And there is music in every sight and every sound
No need for headphones
I'll tip my cap to the world
Even though I don't wear one
Grinning at the women in the salon
Getting their hair done
On the outside looking in
Like an aquarium
Spinning with the stars in the planetarium
Deliriously
Mysteriously
I'm feeling curiously marvelously
Super
Duper
Like Joss Stone
My heart melts like ice cream cones
Grinning like a dog digging up dinosaur bones
I used to be fossilized
But now I'm out of my shell
And I'm happier than whores with chivalrous clientele
This can't be real
I must be dreaming
Can somebody slap me
I'm feeling so mischievous
Original cheeky chappy
It must be ages
Since I felt satisfied
Just to be Just Jack
And just that, still in tact

Its just another one of those glory days
Jump out your bed
Shake your head
Clear the haze
Step out your house
And prepared to be amazed
It's just another one of those
Just another one of those
Just another one of those glory days
Jump out your bed
Shake your head
Clear the haze
Step out your house
And prepare to be amazed
It's just another one of those glory days

I'm so warm
New dawn
Reborn
New forms
And I'm thinking about my boys
Joe le chic, and Freshly Sean
And I know you're underrated
But one day we'll all make it
And walk around naked with our bollocks platinumed and plated
Anyway I'm off track
Gotta stop that
And get back to the high street
I need something to eat
Stop at the caf'
Coffee and a salt beef bagel
Yea I know I'm caned/Cain'd
But now I'm feeling able/Abel
I used to get so paranoid in places like this
Stayed in my house for days with my weed psychosis
My neurosis was thinking everybody is staring at my red eyes
And shifty expression
But now I'm past caring
And I can feel that destiny is on my side
And by the looks of things
Fate came along for the ride
Behind green skies I can see my girl's eyes
Damn it I'm in love with this planet
You gotta realize

Its just another one of those glory days
Jump out your bed
Shake your head
Clear the haze
Step out your house
And prepared to be amazed
It's just another one of those
Just another one of those
Just another one of those glory days
Jump out your bed
Shake your head
Clear the haze
Step out your house
And prepare to be amazed

Its time to look to the future
Just when I was getting
Used to
The humdrum
I realized in the depths of my depression that I really wanted to be someone
So lets smash the past like a tacky figurine
On the back page of a supplementary magazine
But for the time being bump your head to the beat
Sit back, put your feet up
And relax'

Its just another one of those glory days
Jump out your bed
Shake your head
Clear the haze
Step out your house
And prepared to be amazed
It's just another one of those
Just another one of those
Just another one of those glory days
Jump out your bed
Shake your head
Clear the haze
Step out your house
And prepare to be amazed

"Disco Friends"

Shes got a whole lot of disco friends,

Shes got a whole lot of disco friends,
Disco ladies and gentlemen,
Eating their faces from the inside out,
Freaky dancing til the late am,
Music slipping down the wall of sweat,
Shes catching fishies in a disco net,
Throwing kisses in the powder room,
Slowly sucking on a cigarette

She knows an awful lot of disco kids,
Novelty sun glasses and mullet wigs,
She says she wants to be a sti-earl-list,
Or maybe something in the music biz,
Daddies rich, mummies beautiful,
They always said she'd make a top model,
But now shes hiding out in disco land,
A happy clappy trust experience

Disco friends

Disco friends

"Starz In Their Eyes"

They'll be making sure you stay amused
They'll fill you up with drugs and booze
Maybe you'll make the evening news

And when you're tripping over your dreams
They'll keep you down by any means
and by the end of the night you'll be stifling your screams

Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know

And they'll just put you in the spotlight
And hope that you'll do alright
Or maybe not

Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes?
Why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes?
So why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes?
Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes?
Starz in their eyes?

Remember they said you'd show them all
Emphasise the rise but not the fall
And now you're playing a shopping mall

Your mum and dad they can't believe
What you appear to have achieved
While the rest of these users are just laughing in their sleeves

Since you became a VIPerson
It's like your problems have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know

And now the tabloids use your face
To document your fall from grace
And then they'll tell you that that's just the way it goes
That's just the way it goes

Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes?
It's the same old story well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come from the dog and duck karaoke machine
And Saturday night's drunken dreams

Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes?
It's the same old story well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come from your private bedroom dance routines
And Saturday night's drunken dreams

Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes?
Why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes?
So why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes?
Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes?
Starz in their eyes?

Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes?
It's the same old story well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come from the dog and duck karaoke machine
And Saturday night's drunken dreams

(When I grow up im going to be famous)

Behind the steel barrier and sequence and glitter
Five inch heels still knee deep in the litter
Each of them a bitter bullshitter,
Wrapped up in the cloak of fake glamour, getting lost in the camera
Well footprints are fools gold, diamonds crusts on their one off plimsolls
So little time for these one off arseholes
Rigour mortis Ken and Barbie dolls,
A pair of big shades and a push up bra,
It's such a short gap between the gutter and stars,
That you've come a long way from the place that you started
So why'd you wanna go and get so down hearted

Welcome to the kingdom of the blagger
Uncutting you nose clean, coating you bladder
A whole lot happier a whole lot sadder,
Used to be satisfied but now you feel like Mick Jagger,

Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes?
It's the same old story well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come from the dog and duck karaoke machine
And Saturday night's drunken dreams

Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes?
It's the same old story well they just didn't realise
And it's a long way to come from your private bedroom dance routines
And Saturday night's drunken dreams

"Lost"

Picture this 2.30 on the hottest night in June
He awakes for no reason and checks his watch by the moon
And his mouth feels as dry as his eyes as he struggles to rise
And stops to contemplate his wife’s thighs as he does up his flies
He finds his slippers where he left them under the chair behind the 2 cups and an old copy of marie claire
He switches the on the coffee machine that of course works like a dream
catches sight of his reflection in the silver surface sheen
And It’s a face he knows well although it should look less abused
With all these moisturisers and the skin products he’s used
As he moves through the kitchen, his homage to brushed steel
Across the new pine flooring that’s plastic but looks real
Past the plasma with the widescreen and the cinema surround sound
And he stops on his favourite spot by the window and looks down
On the orange lit street at the edge of the private car park
Where his Audi TT is waiting safely in the dark

Keeping it all inside of you
Something will have to give
And if you could you’ll take it back
But you lose your way in the way you live

Now he can hear wind chimes tinkling out on the balcony
And his phone beeping out a text message in the same key
He checks it and it’s Jill who used to be his secretary
Before they started an affair and things began to get really scary
Now his wife Mary is getting weary of his lies
Like she’s read the whole sordid story in his eyes
It doesn’t help that Jill’s now saying that she’s 2 weeks late
His mental state is really starting to deteriorate
He never knew how he got so out of his depth
Or why he’s broken more than all these promises kept
And it’s been ages since he slept
Properly, his sleeps now broken by these dreams of extra-marital activity
Trying to recapture the rapture that he used to get from his material possessions
And endless retail therapy sessions
Shoulda listened to what his dad said before he died
The best things in life are the ones you can’t buy son

Keeping it all inside of you
Something will have to give
Wish you could buy a ticket back
But you lose your way in the way you live

He used to feel so safe up here in his shrine to Ikea
Away from the shouts and the louts and the girls with the over-painted pouts
And the queers and the dykes and the kids in their box-fresh Nikes
Delivering rocks to the house across the street on rusty mountain bikes

Aah aah
Aah aah aaahh

He used to feel so safe up here in his shrine to Ikea
Away from the shouts and the louts and the girls with the over-painted pouts
And the queers and the dykes and the kids in their box-fresh Nikes
Delivering rocks to the house across the street on rusty mountain bikes

Aah aah
Aah aah aaah

"I Talk Too Much"

Sometimes I don't say the right things to make you love me even more than you do.
Though I try, I just can't apologize for all the things I'm putting you through

I talk too much.
And that's why I'm doing in your head (tonight).

We talk too much.
Some things are better left unsaid (that's right)

My evil tongue,
does seem to run,
with a mind of it's own.
I must be cursed,
I always make it worse,
you may aswell just take me home

Sometimes I don't say the right things to make you love me even more than you do.
Though I try, I just can't apologize for all the things I'm putting you through

Well I know that you've been through it and you have your scars.
All the women are from Venus and the men are from Mars.
I could tell you everytime I admit the charge (so wrong).

Last thing I want to do is to cause you grief.
When I hide your clean soul from the dark beneath.
When it comes to the feeling I can make this brief (so strong)

Below the horizon suns dip.
We're playing our hand with one chip.
How could we think we had so little to lose.

And in the flights of fireflies.
There is a pattern recognised.
How could we think we had so little to lose

Sometimes I don't say the right things to make you love me even more than you do.
Though I try, I just can't apologize for all the things I'm putting you through.

Sometimes I don't say the right things to make you love me even more than you do.
Though I try, I just can't apologize for all the things I'm putting you through

And the breath I waste,
just to fill the space,
it has built a taste,
in your mouth everytime,
and yes I'm blessed,
and self-obsessed,
she gives you more,
but I give you less, and less

Well I know that you've been through it and you have your scars.
All the women are from Venus and the men are from Mars.
I could tell you everytime I admit the charge (so wrong).

Last thing I want to do is to cause you grief.
When I hide your clean soul from the dark beneath.
When it comes to the feeling I can make this brief (so strong)

She says I know you know what you do but you still keep doing it

"Hold On"

I'm not a young man anymore
But i've got the face of a
19 year old
Probably be a dad soon
Sitting in my front room
With my kids, playdoe mold

But i just hold on to
What ive got
Right now

Im not who i used to be
Trust me
I've got plans everyday next week
You know your getting older
When the kids on the corner
Have you baffled everytime they speak

So lets just hold on to
What we've got
Right now

Looking round at my friends
And i see that the end of an era
Has come to pass
The fun and the games
And the fluid in our brains
Have all been reduced by half

So lets just hold on to
What we're got
Right Now

Im not a young man anymore
But I've got the face of a
19 year old
Everythings changed
But i can't complain
Cause i'm doing pretty well all talk

"Symphony Of Sirens"

Your two eyes they speak to me
Special treats and delicacies
In your velvet corridors
Sticky walls and sugar floors

Your fingers they speak to me
Butterfly wings on a slender tree
You can take a walk down my avenue
Sorbet sunshine melting through

There’s a symphony of sirens in the air
Tiny diamonds fall like rain upon your hair
Got feeling completely beyond compare
And I don’t care, no I don’t care

You’re the kinda girl I dreamt about
But I had to do without
Now I’m simply ravenous
I just need a little push

Your mouth it speaks to me
Flicking tongues so sneakily
I don’t want this night to end
Close my eyes and count to ten
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10

There’s a symphony of sirens in the air
Tiny diamonds fall like rain upon your hair
Got feeling completely beyond compare
And I don’t care, no I don’t care

My girl she’s luminous
She gives me such a rush
Feels like a teenage crush
But I just can’t get enough
My girls a genius
She knows all kind of stuff
Feels like my head might bust
But I just can’t get enough
[x2]

There’s a symphony of sirens in the air
Tiny diamonds fall like rain upon your hair
Got feeling completely beyond compare
And I don’t care, no I don’t care
[x2]

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