Needs reworking to remove Stripped drone/engine ... was enjoying myself too much! Let the storm break Let the storm break on me When balance fails Please stumble into me Let the storm break Let the rain fall hard on me Not all days…

Don't give me attention Don't forget your halo I will tip-toe 'til you're ready You're barred if you call me Don't like it when the bell rings Do we battle from the get go? You turn up: I am aching Are you better to ignore me? All…

There is no artistry The way that I am crafted Views from the Seventies My preference still to sound this way That formant dirtiness Is beauty, not of Frankenstein Branded as a charlatan Has anybody seen me? Branded [I choose to be…

Yeah, we are the commoners We work the land because you tell us so Yeah, we are the commoners We work the land because you tell us so Yeah, we are the commoners We work the land because you tell us so Yeah, we are the commoners We work…

There was a time when We'd be scuttling, running hard Cops on tail And grins on faces There was a time when We'd be aching Bleeding slow All worth the time incarcerated They said we wouldn't go far Looks like they got it right then…

Here's a mickle It maybe comes a mackle, aye Feel the pull Of diasporatic tendencies Take the train From Mile End via Livingstone Wheest yourself As yae dug is facing deport Oh Georgie Weir Come and see the beard on me Oh Georgie…

*Liner Notes* Was thinking of flexing the vocal synths -- rather than trying to disguise them -- but they just grated -- even more than usual! So went for a subtler, um, heavy breathing motif. Maybe I'll get bolder with the vocal gymnastics going…

*Liner Notes* "Curving and Something Else" has ended up being about memory loss, in the bleak, end-of-life, Alzheimer's way. I'm not a a sufferer (yet!), just an observer. I write songs in this melancholic style ... which requires an sympathetic…

Dance with me Ride out with me We are as one Now we're survivors Doubt with me Breathe out with me For I'm the one To free survivors Dance with me Spin around with me For we're the ones Who free survivors Dance with me Sweep…

*Lyrics* So look here An option So take the time to get it right They're held to the light If you don't bite that hand It can be right Things get tangled So take the time to get it right We've only got a dime Cast your eyes It…

I wear black It reflects on my mood Stirring, restless, unfulfilled I tell you, it's not being cool I still wear black It reflects on my mood Stirring, restless, unfulfilled I'll level, it's not for cool When I'm calling I'm falling…

Dec 2023 REM *Lyrics* Ask me, don't tell me I'm biding my time for now Since you took your leave It's vital then, vital now Since we departed Close up my door And block out all the "sorry for your loss, dear" Go now Are we…

Nov 2023 REM https://www.rpmchallenge.com/remchallenge Let's see Are we friends now? As I look in from the outside Fall out Trying to believe If what they say is real And so anxious You're cut adrift I understand You feel that…

Attention! All heroes! The poppies row on row We are the dead since Fourteen Gas, gas! We quarrel The poppies for your foe It's over: dying since Fifteen We die: the guns roar The people throw the torch to us We are since Sixteen…

'Miserere' is a melancholic song about the absence of god that sounds like synth pop but with harmonies from a church choir. *Lyrics* Miserere Have mercy on me So tenderly cleanse me though I don't believe Through your dark deeds you cannot…

It's awful quiet here In the graveyard Playing Hamlet to your ghost It's so healthy here To start a graveyard You need to shoot a man or two It's so idyllic here In the bud yard Flowers only fail when they are plucked So raise…