Victories

LITTLE VICTORIES

And on and on and on we go
Not understanding the word no
We travel history
We’re solving mysteries
We’re looking for a bit of victory

And up and down the land we drive
Not knowing how we’re gonna survive
The usual pleasant themes
Burst hearts and broken dreams
Sniffing out a smithereen of victory

So let’s go!
Let’s get it on
We get a hi from everyone
Sort out the gonnas from the wannabes
So gimme danger
Gimme some fun
From everyone to anyone
For you and me this little victory

And on and on and on we play
Another day another cliché
This hunt for victory
Quite contradictory
Cos what we really need is community

Gimme gimme rock treatment
Gonna show you my feelings
Let me let me let me hold your hand
Flying high ‘n never never land

So let’s go!
Let’s get it on
We get a hi from everyone
An SOS for mini symphonies
So gimme danger
Gimme some fun
With underdogs we champion
For you and me this little victory

HEY HO JOHN DOE

Climbing aboard another merry-go-round
And take the order for a shot of esteem
Prioritise the facile, sight before sound
Bend over forwards for a dance with a dream

Open up real wide

The leader of the lyric
The saviour of the song
If only it meant something
No meaning only preening
Nobody’s listening

At every turn another vacuous vow
Help fill the page, assuage with more vacant verse
You seem to think you’re in Apocalypse, Now
Leafy suburbia can be so dangerous

Life is suicide

The leader of the lyric
The saviour of the song
If only it meant something
No meaning only preening
Nobody’s listening

Well maybe you are right and maybe I’m wrong
I just think retrospective leads to regress
Perhaps the answer won’t be found in a song
I don’t exactly sail in seas of success, oh no

Bye bye, wise guy

REVOLUTION

I left a long time ago
My story’s over now
Promised land just second hand
My only solace sound

Used to be understanding
I gave all that up, too
My conclusion just confused
Daily deja-vu

Here comes the revolution yeah
Turn it up the resolution yeah
Arrival is vital
For everyone’s survival
Here comes the revolution yeah

Our future enters stage right
We don’t have long to live
Cos the old ones are so old
Something’s got to give

I read the news today oh
Boys will be boys they say
Crawling home to under stone
Shouting sobriquets

Here comes the revolution yeah
Turn up the resolution yeah
Arrival is vital
For everyone’s survival
Here comes the revolution yeah

It’s time for retribution
Twist tight the tourniquet
There’ll be no revolution
Baby, my baby
My baby
My baby
Don’t call me baby
Don’t call me baby

I left a long time ago

DANCING IN THE DARK

I like to turn around I like it upside down
Chaos disorder and unease are in my town
I like to put my stamp on everything I own
Feelings are forward and opinions abound

I’d love to love if love would love me back as well

Let’s go dancing
Let’s go dancing in the dark
Round and round and up and down
Never fall apart
Let’s go dancing
Let’s go dancing in the dark
Close our eyes and exercise
Undulate our hearts

Outside alright inside a fearful free-for all
We strike a balance ‘cept when one will not play ball
So get uptight or get onboard well it’s your say
We grip and grind and feel our dismay fade away

I hate to hate but sometimes hate’s the only way

And the question asinine
Why the world is so unkind
And the answer you might find is in your mind, in your mind

So we go dancing
We go dancing in the dark
Close our eyes and exercise
Undulate our hearts
Let’s go dancing
Let’s go dancing in the dark
Tame our tears and fool our fears
Never fall apart

MISERY

I’ve got a disease, got a disease
The cure is never coming
I feel the unease, feel the unease
The evil endless humming
My ups are my downs, ups are my downs
And heartache fuels my labour
I wear as a crown, wear as a crown
Ignore my misbehaviour

I bear my blues upon a badge
A patch to show my scratches

Misery
Missing another lesson
Misery
Wielding another weapon
Misery
Spirits in retrogression
Misery
Silence can often deafen

I grip hold of grief, grip hold of grief
My black my comfort blanket
The skin of my teeth, skin of my teeth
Tight like leather jacket
It’s hotter than hell, hotter than hell
My misery my fetish
Followed round like a smell, followed round like a smell
I bath in bleach a blemish

I advertise my axe to grind
Reveal my vapid vices

Misery
Missing another lesson
Misery
Wielding another weapon
Misery
Practising in your prison
History
Repeating and no-one listens

HOUSE OF BUTTERFLIES

Acute intensity
Is my identity
Yeah yeah yeah

Flattening battery
A form of flattery
Yeah yeah yeah

My heating getting hot
It’s subtle like a juggernaut

Fuel my deficiency
With great efficiency
Yeah yeah yeah

There is no dignity
In serendipity
Yeah yeah yeah

My heating hotting up
The eyes defy themselves to shut
Half asleep, three quarters cut
A hollow feeling in my gut

And I don’t know why oh why
There’s no method to my madness
Why oh why
There’s no reason for the sadness I despise
In the house of butterflies

Final solution
My restitution
No no no
Well I’ll try anything
Maybe psychotherapy
Okay then

My heating hot as hell
The buzzing rises decibels
My body says I live in Leeds
My psyche occupies Hades
Flew a little too close to the sun

And I don’t know why oh why
There’s no method to my madness
Why oh why
There’s no reason for the sadness I despise
In the house of butterflies

It’s when anxiety consipires to turn a squeak into a shriek
It’s when the insects can infest your book of life
Well is it irony when you find your paddle while drowning in the creek
It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a spoon

It’s up to you well if you choose to let one land upon your hand
And it’s your call if they’re your friend or enemy
A tiny butterfly won’t hurt you, this you have to understand
You shift perspective and you see they only
Now and then get in your hair, like everybody everywhere, on the ground and in the air

And I don’t know why oh why
There’s no method to my madness
And I don’t know why oh why
There’s no reason for my sadness

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ANIMAL

I been getting down
‘Bout the every day hypocrisy
And swathes of inequality

Try to get around
The streets are streaked with fearful feet
And metal tubes of talking meat

Sometimes I feel I’m alone
Human race doesn’t belong
Want to be

Animal
Awesome and adaptable
Human so irrational
Always I wish I was more like you

Animal
So much more dependable
Seeing you expendable
Make me feel so terrible
Wish we were like you

We are upside down
Intelligent anxiety
Of arrogant society

‘Cos we, we talk so loud
A commentary ’bout ourselves
The mercenary harder sell

No-one wants to be alone
We share what we don’t want to own
I wanna be

Animal
Awesome and adaptable
Human so irrational
Always I wish I was more like you

Animal
So much more dependable
Seeing you expendable
Make me feel so terrible
Wish we were like you

Casualties of appetite
The irony of bestial birthright
I will never understand
Agony for you for joy for man

I’LL CALL YOU

I never had no-one
One step closer to this
I’m proud as a loner
Hide me out of it
A wish for a human
Keep me on my toes
A hope for a reason
Put me on the ropes

Everything you wanted
Was everything I gave
Time and space and my good grace
For you to burn the bridge
Everything you wanted
No need to misbehave
But I got your number and I’ll call you

The mornings are hopeless
Shielding from the rays
But evenings atrocious
Every night a daze

Well I maybe should’ve called you sooner
But you never wanna listen do you
You’ve missed my calls before

Everything you wanted
Was everything I gave
Time and space and my good grace
For you to burn the bridge
Everything you needed
In everything you do
Hey, please don’t call me, I’ll call you

A CERTAIN SYMMETRY

Well it’s a week to the day since you went away
And I don’t think it’s battered me yet
And the words that you say really don’t explain
Might forgive but I’ll never forget

And the regular reminder
Of failure and regret
All alone and lying prone
A shameful silhouette

Well it’s a month to the day since you went all strange
And the bruises got a little bit worse
But with every other phrase I can see you’ve changed
Or you weren’t who I thought you were first

I’m bending over backwards
To alter and adjust
Seven years, six signatures
Forever broken trust

A certain symmetry
Leaves uneven scars
And I wonder if you’re happy where you are

Here’s another story about how my everything went wrong
(We are all behind you, we’ll support you our old son)
Here’s another loser who wrote another stupid song
(Sorry that you’re sad but you just got to move along)

Here’s a simple question which never got an answer yet
(Do give it a rest now, can’t you see we’re all so bored)
When the tide was changing well did you worry bout what’s next?
(Here’s a pound of salt for you to rub into the sore)

How you been, are you feeling good?
Working hard in your new neighbourhood?
How’s your friends and all your family?
Are you ok, are you missing me?

Well it’s a year to the day since you ran away
I still think about you now and again
Though the grip of the grey left me in a bad way
I’m bigger and I’m better than then

And every single cliché
A cliché cos it’s true
The gap beside it shrinks and dies
Don’t need another you

A certain symmetry
Leaves uneven scars
And I wonder if you’re happy where you are
Hope that you are happy, wherever you are

THE NEXT LINE

Now I got a feeling that the writing’s on the wall
And other clichés fit the gap so small

In looking for lining I’ve forgotten bout the cloud
And the crack inside lets in as well as out

Waiting as day turns into night
Holding your hand a bit too tight
Letting the planet write the next line
What’s the next line?
I don’t care

Sometimes a song reminds me of a souvenir
A hazy image of a distant year
And sometimes the words can mean a different thing each day
Significance in fragments thrown away

Waiting as day turns into night
Holding your hand a bit too tight
Letting the planet write the next line
What’s the next line?
We don’t care

Hanging out in the sun
Letting the seasons run
Hoping a melody will come
Ignoring the spinning wheel
Letting the feelings feel
Just being anyone we want

Waiting as day turns into night
Holding your hand a bit too tight
And letting the planets align for the next line
What’s the next line?
Yeah yeah yeah

Now I got a feeling that old feeling’s obsolete
And finally victory snatched from a defeat

MY ROCK AND ROLL IS DEAD

Punctured bicycle in basement damp and cold
Never growing out and never getting old

Hey, isolation never answers anything
Hey, but when the curtains closed I know it took the sting

My rock and roll is dead
My rock and roll is dead

In the bitter end you went where you came from
To see your Switzerland and watch your kingdom come

Hey, did you know you would be missed by everyone?
Hey, did you know that you’re my hero my old son?

My rock and roll is dead
My rock and roll is dead

Now I don’t think you wanted to end your life
I just think that you needed to end the pain
Now it’s over, over

As you felt your breath stagnate, your heart decline
Did you stop and think of who you’d leave behind?

My rock and roll is dead
My rock and roll is dead

IT’S GONNA BE ALRIGHT

On and on and on we went
With victories occasional
The summer of our discontent
Made winter reasonably seasonable

Don’t mind the cold but soak the sun
Then write it all down in a song for everyone

It’s gonna be alright
It’s gonna be okay
Won’t win at every night
But can’t lose every day

We point and laugh at stumbling blocks
Which strengthen our dexterity
Dance through the path of aftershocks
And temper our temerity

Through every low and every high
(Who we are, where we are, what we are)
Well, every moment of your life led to tonight

It’s gonna be alright
It’s gonna be okay
Can’t win at every night
But won’t lose every day

Never isolate yourself
A curse upon your mental health
Open up the curtain
Sharing is no burden
And if the hurt is on your mind
Please think of who you’d leave behind
Push yourself to action
Music my distraction

It’s only brainwaves playing a trick
Be proud to be a lunatic

We made a stand for newer sun
And things look pretty good again
We’re hand in hand with everyone
I’m proud to call you all my friends

With wherewithal to weather all
Pick up the fallen so we all can stand as one

It’s gonna be alright
It’s gonna be okay
We can’t win at every night
But won’t lose every day