LYRICS: 'A Statuesque Beloved'

She’s a rose in the shadows of weeds
A china doll in an empty playhouse
A Tinkerbell without a Pan
A flaming bulb calling me to the light.

Air-Con in an airless world
Colour in a sepia place
Music breaking silence’s scream
A perfect dreaming haunting place.

She’s an oasis in the desert of life
A blur in reality’s cold dark vision
I’m reaching out to touch her skin
Delicate and fragile porcelain.

Air-Con in an airless world
Colour in a sepia place
Music breaking silence’s scream
A perfect dreaming haunting place.

Take my hand and fly with me
Don’t look down, you’re safe, trust me.

Air-Con in an airless world
Colour in a sepia place
Music breaking silence’s scream
A perfect dreaming haunting place.

Can’t believe such beauty
A statuesque beloved.
A statuesque beloved.

LYRICS: 'Song For DJ'

We didn’t put a cigarette paper between one kiss ending and the next beginning.
All there was was us, but we were a singular term worth saving.
Like arriving in Oz, our relationship bursts technicolour
Before crashing down like stardust memories.

First cut is the deepest they say
It certainly won’t heal, I know that.
While she slips away to love a mortician
My love dies sickly on the vine
My love dies sickly on the vine.

So I write her another song
Imagine her radio picking up the static of my memories
Heartbreak turns to choruses
Malady to melody.
Malady to melody.

And with a flash of magic
She’s there in front of me
Perfection frozen in time
My heart beating like the fastest drums.
I try to speak
My mouth is sewn with the wire of her beauty.
My silence says it all
She’s everything to me.
You’re everything to me.
Where are you going?
Where are you going?
(Alone)

LYRICS: 'The Ballad Of William Miller'

I’m the boy the girls trust
Hanging out in the dressing room with the girl of my dreams
While she tells me about another guy she loves.
It’s not easy keeping up this façade,
I’d give my breath for just one kiss,
Just one look.
For her to think of me,
Not as ‘one of the gang’
But as ‘The One’.
The one she cant live without
The one she dreams of at night.
It’s never gonna happen
They never choose the nice guy.
I’m sick of being the nice guy
I’m sick of being the one left behind
With a kiss on the cheek that means nothing to her
But keeps me up all night.
I’m the shoulder she’ll cry on when he breaks her heart
And the first to know when she finds another.
And another.
And another.
And another.
AND ANOTHER.

LYRICS: 'Darken The Night'

Laid my head on the bed in the Chelsea
At 5am strolled the streets for a soda
Went back and sat on the sill
Mesmerised by the neon light.

New York City can be so calm
Quiet and breathless in the night.
Just a series of old bulbs flicking
Rock n roll ghosts darken the night.

Corner deli for the coffee blues
Locals love the accent, free eggs for all.
A taxi into the city’s heart
A party till it all goes dark.

New York City can be so calm
Quiet and breathless in the night.
Just a series of old bulbs flicking
Rock n roll ghosts darken the night.

“hey kid, you like rock n roll?”
Hidden artwork by The Ramones.
Tales of Burroughs, Dylan and Smith
Quite a team to be staying with…
Is this what Frey meant
When he said you could check out but never leave?
Once The Chelsea is in your heart
You’ll beat a little faster for all time.
For all time.

LYRICS: 'Love Takes Man Back To The Cave'

Where do you want this to end?
Two lost souls alone?
Or turn, turn, turn it around
And be together, maybe forever?

Don’t give me a sarcastic answer
When I’ve pushed the rock up the hill
Don’t paint the roses red
Don’t take the crimson pill.

Where do you want this to go?
One more chance, or no?
Or burn, burn, burn to the ground
Everything we built just dead dirt…ashes?

Don’t give me a sarcastic answer
When I’ve pushed the rock up the hill
Don’t paint the roses red
Don’t take the crimson pill.

I check my watch and it’s all frozen
Sometimes the best choice is the one you’ve chosen.

Don’t give me a sarcastic answer
When I’ve pushed the rock up the hill
Don’t paint the roses red
Don’t take the crimson pill.

You’re out of your mind, I’m out of time.
You’re out of your mind, I’m out of time.
You’re out of your mind, I’m out of time.
Love takes me back to the cave,
TO THE GRAVE.

LYRICS: 'The Machinist'

Too early to break my heart
But you obviously forgot to check the clock
A voice, once so pure
Now crackles like a de-tuned TV set.
The shadow of night
A blanket of comfort
I’m disappearing
Inch by inch.

Don’t follow me
The path’s too long
The thorns too sharp
The pull’s too strong.
So very strong.

Forgotten to close the door
But you obviously know the way to break me
You stroked, now you slice
A human knife cuts me so deeply.
The shadow of death
An obvious ending
I’m disappearing
Inch by inch.

Don’t follow me
The path’s too long
The thorns too sharp
The pull’s too strong.
So very strong.

One final fade,
Sideways, disappearing
Too weak to wave goodbye
Machinist becoming machine.
Machinist becoming machine.

Don’t follow me
The path’s too long
The thorns too sharp
The pull’s too strong.
So very strong.

Machinist becoming machine
Machinist becoming machine
Rusted and spent.

LYRICS: 'It Cannot Be Murder If I'm Already Dead'

I started to climb from the grave in the morning
The guests were all gone and the hounds were all yawning.
I brushed off the dirt and cursed their sweet lord
For sending me back and not cutting the cord.

I remember how it happened
I remember how she cried
She hit be with a rusted hoe
And that was how I died.
Revenge is on my mind
Though I cant take a breath.
I’ll find that dour woman
And I’ll clobber her to death!

I arrive at her door at quarter to ten
She’s a little surprised to see me again.
In bed with another, my beauty betrothed
I pull out a pistol and smile, kill them both.

Think I deserve a drink now
It’s hard work all this killing
I’ll go visit Uncle Jack
If my rotting flesh is willing.
I walk into my favourite bar
The people stop and stare
I take a shot of bourbon
And quickly lose every care.

I feel eyes stare at me and muttering begin
Hear someone declare I’m an unholy sin.
Before I am ready, I feel the attack
Broken hearted corpse with a knife in the back.

So that was my tale
Not another sound
They returned my frame
To a hole in the ground.
I heard their priest chanting
Sounded like a joke
Then ten minutes later
Again I awoke.
Again I awoke…