We shared some love and laughter Lived through some tears and pain Now that you’ve gone to hereafter Or somewhere I can’t explain I’ve searched in every empty room Every cupboard every case I know you’ve left a mark somewhere But…

Why write a lovesong? I could tell you my truth in three chords and some words But you’d be hurt and think of me wrong Now I’m done with explaining, the bruises, the pain and The scars are all down in this song Yeah I know I’m the bad guy…

In the tradition of old folk songs I stripped this song (Shed just one tear for me) down to the bone. I managed to write it within half an hour yesterday and I wondered why it hadn't been around for hundreds of years.....sometimes it seems like…

A song for a very special friend, and I'm glad she loved it. I hope I can soon post some songs of her and me together here.

I wanted a song that had the rhythm of aimlessly driving around.

As she fiddles with the folds in her skirt Her stare is off to unknown places out there While her gaze rests at the stain on her shirt Like a child, so oblivious, so unaware Her green eyes, her black hair, her pale skin, her dark stare Have wandered…

just a summer song

Here I stand before you, tell me what you want from me I’ve done all that I could but I don’t think I can make you see The crimes that you accuse me of are just a woman’s lie She imagined that I loved her while my only crime was kissing…

Just a three chord spring song!

this song was there......suddenly, and I haven't got a clue where it came from..

I've made three different versions of this song, but I think I like this one the most. Lyrics: She was stunningly pretty but confined to her throne Her beauty was praised but her feelings unknown To the peasants and paupers, the burghers…

A song about loss........

My closest friend Brenda McNeill wrote the lyrics of this song as a dramatic monologue, and once she showed it to me I just had to turn it into a song: She swept in, an hour late wrapped in her cloak that billowed behind her Lit the fire and…

A song about Starling Clouds, an intriguing show.