Lyrics

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All the While © Adair Broughton

No one knows the day to say to comeback
All the while you looked at me and said that
And ill be someone else if it means
You will fall in love with me again

But I don’t know I can feel the same
When your eyes are as near as they are far
All this time I thought I had it all
When all this time I had nothing at all

And then your words of love placate my soul
And I don’t know where it is I stand
I’ve given up feeling guilty for truth
Can I trust you just to pretend to love me

Antinomy © Adair Broughton

One two oh yeah its building up in me
And the thoughts you had
And the words you said
Weren’t inviting me
It’s funny how this thing that is aching inside
Is teaching me
But you cannot tell what I have to sell
From bleeding me
I won’t compromise
But I might realise
The permutations on view
I won’t hold back from a heart attack
If that’s what it takes to know you
And you’re looking for fun but it’s not yet begun
To be a part of me
But I tell you now with the frown on your brow
That you’re melting me
I distinctly recall the two realms of thought
With solitude that’s not secure
Needless to say on a holiday
I had nothing to report
Considering this is bloody mindedness
From a dumbed down reticent sought
It’s no surprise that when you open your eyes
There’s nothing left to realise
That you are the one, the only one
Who could do this to me
Without letting go of what there is to know
Of what it means to be free

As A Leaf © Adair Broughton

Looking back
Thoughts left behind
What you are
Is not what you find
Disengage
From every little scene
Cause what you are
Is everything to me

Autumn fell as easy as a leaf
Took a cigarette to ease that bitterness
My box of colour couldn’t capture our moment
And now I know I’m gonna be blind to you
And now I know I’m gonna be blind to you

Neon lights stole your dreams
And I was left alone
Glitter ball gave way to the
Gypsy ball at home
White lies fell like snow
Left on your clothes
Strange names appeared on
My spaceship and your phone

Looking back
Thoughts left behind
What you are
Is not what you find
Disengage
From every little scene
Cause what you were
Was everything to me

b Flat © Adair Broughton

I am a man of the future
Don’t think much of the past
Cause I always find
It never seems to last

I was lying in my bed
Hearing about a strange sound
Couldn’t quite work out what it was
There was nothing around

Dark so dark so dark
Absorbing all the light from you
In space, in deep space
No one can escape

If its hundreds of octaves lower
Can it still be in your head
I guess its all one song
Although not everything’s been said

Its mostly dark matter does it matter
If we cant understand
Are we certain about uncertainty
With entropy our best friend

Dark so dark so dark
Absorbing all the light from you
In space, in deep space
No one can escape

Beautiful Stargazer © Adair Broughton

I’ve been everywhere with you inside my mind
Lysithea, my ocean, drown me tonight
Pulling on my life with your moon tide
As I long to stare deep within those mysterious eyes

And every day I dream of being here with me
Every day I think about how we are meant to be
And with the distance that keeps us both apart
You got to remember we are free to share our hearts

Beautiful stargazer
Will you ever understand?
Beautiful stargazer
Just how much you mean

Beauty is Pain © Adair Broughton

Every time I close my eyes
My thoughts always seem to turn to you
I just want to lie down and die
Because I don’t know what to do
All my understanding is that you don’t want me
But you’ll never leave
I guess I’ll just take from this what I can
It’s a shame your so beautiful because

Beauty is pain
Do you really stare at the sun?
As I drown in the rain
It’s not fair
But who is to blame
Is it circumstance or numbing penance?
That leads you to refrain from the

Beauty of pain
Have you really learned to smile?
As I’m stuck all the while
In your game
It’s all the same
I forget who I am and forget that you came
To show me the

Beauty in pain
Of your love so tame
I lay no claim
To cold fire
Where’s the desire
Of your fly by wire dedication to

Pain is Beauty

Every time I close my eyes
My feelings seem more real
Your thinking these words are so sad
Cause you don’t know how I feel
Every time I close my eyes
My feelings seem more real
Your thinking these words are so sad
Cause you don’t know how I feel

Because © Adair Broughton

Feeling like a bird that cannot fly
Should be feeling like a man that cannot die
Do you know the reasons, the reasons why
That all of my life I’ve been trying to hide

Waking with the dawn to a misty morn
Got me thinking to the time before I was born
I don’t know how you did it but you tore down my walls
Guess it was the sound of a distant call

Just because, because just is
Because, because just is, because

Sometimes there are no answers so you just have to live
But you cannot live if you cannot give
The fact that we’re together is all I need
Your love the silent moment that I was freed

Just because, because just is
Because, because just is, because

Binding Me © Adair Broughton

I said you and me
Like eternity
Could truly be
Fast asleep

You look for a spirit
When you don’t believe in soul
Crying out for freedom

I tied the laces of the devil
And he tripped and fell; I had to pray for faith
And still heaven never yelled

I killed a man
And ill kill one more
For sure

You cut me some slack
And put the noose round my neck
Binding me with your insanity

But it’s not like that
It’s not something to forget
And that’s the tragedy

As I said before, you and me
Like eternity
Could truly be
Fast asleep

Break the Circle © Adair Broughton

Why couldn’t you say
Why couldn’t you say
All those weeks ago
I kinda guessed though

Well I don’t care
I don’t need to care about you
Why should I worry about you?
That’s fucking yesterday

You can take years building relations
Then someone comes along in seconds
And meaningless wins the day

Well I don’t care
I don’t need to care about you
Why should I worry about you?
You’re someone else’s thoughts now

Anytime left for reflection
Not in a moments possession
Of memories drowned that day

Well I don’t care
I don’t need to care about you
Why should I worry about you?
That’s fucking yesterday

The story you told
Made decisions for me
You are not a curse on me
Now respect has gone

Well I don’t care
I don’t need to care about you
Why should I worry about you?
You’re someone else’s thoughts now

A last goodbye No more ties
Now you don’t care what’s in you or where they’ve been
I have to break this circle
And find the real shape I’m in

Well I don’t care
I don’t need to care about you
Why should I worry about you?
That’s fucking yesterday

Burning Our Bridges © Adair Broughton & David Crawford

Digging over memories,
Planting a new start
The plot is the future
Where no one steals your heart

It’s a beautiful day for burning

Nurturing the present
Planting out the seed
The past all forgotten
We got everything we need

Its a beautiful day for fire
For heating up the soul
The spirits in the garden
Where no one pays a toll
Looking at the sky
Feeling simple breeze
Not having to worry
About the rock with the roll

Burning our bridges
Is just something else to burn
Burning our bridges
Is just somewhere else to turn

Caught Between © Adair Broughton

I was caught between two things most people call love and hate
Funny how you get so much emotion when it’s handed on a plate
But you just want to eat it up like you should the fruit and veg
Where is the goodness in all this, can you send a vitamin straight to the head

Take a bite from me
Chew what you want
I hope I’m good for you
Like a peach in summer sun
Not the rotten apple
Bobbing in the barrel of too late
I’ve never tasted the fruits of love
Or wanted to participate

I was caught between two things most people call sun and rain
And funny how things when they dry up, you know will never be the same
And you had all the colours of the rainbow but you see things in black and white
I hope you had a hearty meal, when you left for a better taste that night

Change © Adair Broughton

I saw the change, the change in me
I saw you, restless and free
I saw your eyes close, with distant liberty
Thinking of more, than we will ever be

Shot Zeno’s arrow straight through the heart
And time had no meaning
But it wasn’t that which tore me apart
Just the lack of feeling

What have I done, you’ve lost your smile
I gave you pain, no time to think for a while
I went too far, crossed the big divide
Just another story, something else to hide

Shot Zeno’s arrow straight through the heart
And time had no meaning
Then something came along that tore it all apart
I think its called lack of feeling

Compromised Ideals © Adair Broughton

Same day
Candlelit dinner
Your eyes, pulled the trigger
I feel alive
Can’t even breath
Flickering with desire and lies

The noise, the noise, the noise
So far
As I whisper in your ear
How lucky we are
To care
For those no more

Dropping bombs
Or planting seeds
Can we really have
These separate needs

Reform, reform, reform
What do you mean
Don’t You realise
Faith Is on the scene

Compromised
Compromised ideals
Compromised
This is how I feel x repeated

Crash © Adair Broughton

I haven’t got a city I can call my own
Nowhere is somewhere I can call home
I’m chasing the streetlights, with the other cars no longer made of steel
In the night time of dream denial

I gave you a forget me not
The flower died
Forget you I got
Crash

The city lights hurt as I ran through your dirt
And maybe I’m too angry to touch this night
I closed my dreams when I opened my eyes
To the crash that put me out of sight

I gave you a forget me not
The flower died
Forget you I got
Crash

Different lights came but I heard no sound
My soul had decided to go underground
But being dead has gone out of style; I’ll take a deep breath
And think for a while

Crash

Crazy © Adair Broughton

I bred desire
Then you lied to me
I breathed the fire
Then you died on me

Interchanging with frustration
Pile on the sounds
Dancing on the souls

It’s so crazy
I love you
Maybe I am mad after all
But who cares
Only the voices
In my head

I felt alive
I felt surprise
When you kissed my mind
I wanted time
I wanted lines
Between the games you played

Oh it’s crazy
That I love you
Guess I’m mad after all
But who cares
Just the voices in my head

It’s so crazy
I love you
Maybe I am mad after all
But who cares
Only the voices
In my head

Days the Worlds Change © Adair Broughton

Where were you on the day the world changed?
What do you do on these days the worlds change?
Seeing things, so differently, forever
Where do you go on these days the worlds change?

And all that I believe in
Lost to what I’m seeing
Thinking of a cause without
Emancipating feeling
Understanding Is lost on me
Just realising I’ll never be free

Am I too naive to want to love, people
Am I too naïve to think that things will change
Understanding everything, is so hard
What do you think about the days the worlds change?

And all that I believe in
Lost to what I’m seeing
Thinking of a course without
Emancipating feeling
Understanding is lost on me
Just realising I’ll never be free

Am I too naive to want to love, people
Am I too naïve to think that things will change
Understanding everything, is now so hard
What do you think about the days the worlds change?

Death Has No Opposite © Adair Broughton

Time is no mans friend
When love is so short and the memory so long
I have to interpret my own words every day
The weather is cold but you are colder

And I walk over the frozen lake
Until it thaws and I drown anyway
Death has no opposite
So don’t even bother asking why there is something rather than nothing

The word forever only lasts as long as its echo
We can all appreciate the moment in its flight
Bitterness, is only the ending of a misguided dream
And silence says it all

Dream City © Adair Broughton

Dream city
Chasing an idea
Dream city
Your phantom disappeared
Dream city
Walking through the walls
Dream city
I guess I missed that call

And I tortured myself in the city light
And it beggars belief that I thought things would be all right
Bringing me back and you didn’t even try
And I thought to myself there’s got to be a reason why

Dream city
Where angels turn to dust
Dream city
Too easy to get lost
Dream city
The ghost of an idea
Dream city
The only thing I fear

Dreaming Out Loud © Adair Broughton

I woke to the dark
Wanting to turn on the light
Knowing the real fear
Was it being too bright?
You gave him your number
Did he make that call?
Well there was always me
As a backup after all

Dreaming out loud
It feels like I’m dreaming out loud
Dreaming out loud
How I wish I’d never had that dream at all
Dreaming out loud
Now I feel so alone
How I wish I’d never had that dream at all

Love bites after all
That you had said
If you really meant it
We’d be somewhere else instead
Do you find it funny?
Cause I find it really sad
It hurts more than life
For what was good to be so bad

Dreams Are Lonely Shadows © Adair Broughton

Dreams are lonely shadows
Not reflections of what can be
Gone, gone, gone are my dreams now
Drowned in a wistful lake of tears
Do you think that people really care?
X repeat

Drifting Circumstance © Adair Broughton

There are no real secrets of the world
Just your own reality
And there’s no sense in feeling lonely
When you could have everything’s that me
But someday you'll wake up thinking
That you weren't meant to be this way
Tied to an ageing soul
That’s wishing to be free

Drifting circumstance
And romance
Are you the one
Or could you be anyone
Does it matter to me
That chance is all there is
To live for

I don't care no more for dreams
Or veneer of society
I belong but only to a race
I do no wrongs
But contemplate disgrace
Just let things be
Fate the key
You could be anyone
And you were to me
You could be someone
But that’s for them so see
Just don't become a no-one
As that’s what’s left of me

So if I blame my existence on you
And you take that with my touch
What will be left whenever
You feel you've had too much

Drifting circumstance
And romance
Are you the one
Or could you be anyone
Does it matter to me
That chance is all there is
To die for

Forget the Day © Adair Broughton

I’m running away
Today
From yesterday
I can’t say
The day
Is any different from yesterday

I’m standing still
I’ve found
My particular ground
And what we did
Your mum
Wouldn’t approve of what she found

I’m crawling inside
Your life
Hidden deep in thought
Now I’m thinking
We ought
To lay down to be caught

And what you say
No way
Is it the way
And who will pay
If I
Forget the day

I’m running away
I’m running away
I’m standing still
I’m standing still
I’m crawling inside
I’m crawling inside
Forget the day

Heart Don’t Beat © Adair Broughton

You told me that at night
So late the stars were sleeping
Maybe you thought I would forgive
Being so close in that embrace
But I found when the heart don’t beat
Still a drummer with a battle cry
Wages war on himself
With nothing more than a tear in his eye

You can’t say you didn’t know
That I would be this way
I’m sure you felt that I’d lost love
Or that you had lost your way

Sometimes this doesn’t seem real
The future is not a friend like you
You are as beautiful as autumn leaves
And as cold as snow that falls
I’ve been an enemy of candlelight
I’ve been the flame that burnt for more
I was a shadow dancing on the wall
As you waited for another call

You can’t say you didn’t know
That I would be this way
I’m sure you felt that I’d lost love
Or that you had lost your way

Holding All Command © Adair Broughton

Gotta raging storm inside my head
All the seasons here with you
Looking forward to the summer sun again
And the sparkling morning dew
All the places that we travelled
All the thoughts that ran askew
Nothing matters more to me you know
Than allowing the rain on through

In the valley of your conscious
And the mountain of your mind
How small compared to nature
But holding all command
Undressing life you seem to do it
A button at a time
Doesn’t matter how naked I feel
If you bare your heart like mine

Pushing your boundaries with a cut
Is that really how you feel?
I understand that you can’t talk sometimes
That pain absorbing all that’s real
But with every tear you spill today
It’s on that sea I sail for
Thinking that someday soon
I’m going to land upon your shore

Horizon Love © Adair Broughton

Above the clouds back from Milano
Kicking back thoughts
I still think of flights to another country
I should be there, still

Meant to fly on more than memories
Horizon love and dying sun
I see the cloud it fogs my opinion
Floating on and on

And silence was as subtle as the starts
Burning their lives far in space
Did you get that ass rocking good time promised to you?
Or was it all just thrown away

In my dreams you seemed like an angel
And for a time I had love
Above the clouds I felt like I knew you
But then attention became a flood

And silence was as subtle as the starts
Burning their lives far in space
Did you get that ass rocking good time promised to you?
Or was it all just thrown away
Did you get that ass rocking good time promised to you?
Or was it all just thrown away

How Come © Adair Broughton

How come you only seem to need me when I’m not there?
How come I can only love you in my song?
How come we can’t ever say what we really feel?
How come, undone, how come

How come we both pretend to want other things in our lives?
How come we can’t see the wood for the trees?
How come my are thoughts blowing like leaves in the summer breeze
How come, undone, how come

And then you say that the dream is coming back to haunt me,
Its not what it seems

How come we approach things now so differently?
How come we never have the time to give ourselves?
How come we could afford to let ourselves down?
How come, the undone, how come

And they you say it was all for tears that you swam with yesterday
Yesterday

I’ll Entertain the Moon © Adair Broughton

You force me open
Then refuse to look inside
As if I’m some sort of dying shell
And what’s your problem I hear you say
As if it’s me, as if it’s me
Who cannot see?

I’ll wait forever
At least until I fall asleep
I’ll entertain the moon
Because it also looks down on me
Am I forsaken?
Am I lost to somewhere else?
Just waiting to find attention again

Incredible © Adair Broughton

I feel
A piece of me has died
And I can’t understand
Why I’m too numb to cry
Now I’m thinking
About all the things you said
And I can’t comprehend
If all this is just in my head

But oh you’re so incredible
And oh you’re so beautiful

And you said you never
Felt the same as me
But I took that to mean
That you did not love me
Can’t figure out
My insecurity
Can’t get past
All the thoughts in me

But oh you’re so incredible
And oh you’re so beautiful

And love is not as simple as three words
Signed by the heart
And I’ve got to remember we have this time apart

I feel some good things inside
No need to draw a line
For us to abide
And if there’s emptiness
It’s going to learn to hide
And because we have love
We’ve got so much time

Indifference © Adair Broughton

Shamed by indifference
With just myself to blame
Is love really needed?
Or just a waiting game

It never feels like summer
Till the summer’s nearly gone
I can see you’re feeling good
Having a little fun

Laughin’ in the breeze
You know you make me smile
Sunshine in your hair
If only I could care

Indifferent © Adair Broughton

Yesterday, I was so far away
Fighting back all the things I had to say
Your face could placate a drowning man
My fate could predate this bitter man

How do you expect me to be indifferent?
When all you seem to be is different
Are you waiting for me to be strong?
To tell me that I don’t belong

They say there is no smoke without fire
But I was not burnt at the stake for being a liar
Are you ever going to see outside yourself?
Try and look back at the reason I never knew how you felt

Island © Adair Broughton

I’ve spent ten years drinking
When I should have been thinking
About my life
Mmmm
But time isn’t a possession
It’s just a memory
Time isn’t anything
That you can own
Is it girl?
Is it girl?

Hate was just an island
I was lapping at your shores
And I never knew forgiveness
And you wouldn’t sell the cure

I watched the flightless bird
And saw the flying fish
Lying on the beach
With a sense of what I’d missed

I gave you this greatest gift
And now we drift
Apart in life
Mmmm
But love ain’t a possession
It’s a bottleneck
Love isn’t anything
That you can own
Is it girl?
Is it girl?

Above the stars were moving
And I’m pleased it’s just the world
Restless youth and longing
Is just a momentary curse

I fear the difference
And what it means
I sense your reticence
To all I’ve seen

Well who won the day?
In finding the way
Was lonely
Mmmm
You can give reality
And I provide analogy
Doesn’t help I’m lonely
Are you girl?
Are you girl?

It Might Have Been © Adair Broughton

I’m singing the saddest words
The saddest words I know
I’m saying the saddest words
The saddest words I know
Now I’m playing the saddest tune
The saddest tune I know
I’m thinking, it might have been
Oh what might have been

And I don’t care for your dreams my friend
If you aren’t there I can’t pretend
I don’t; know what you want from me
I don’t know what I need from you
Maybe that’s why we should be
Together instead of you leaving me

I’m contemplating, contemplating
About return to my moon
I’m hesitating, hesitating
About doing it so soon
I’m disregarding, disregarding
That fact that life’s so cruel
I’m still thinking about these words
About what might have be

Last Night © Adair Broughton

Last night I put my arms around you
But it was only in a dream
Because last night I was not with you
And I fully realised what that means
Why am I so sad?
God damn why am I so sad

Last night I wrapped my soul around you
But you weren’t there to smother me
Last night my thoughts exhumed you
From the places that you used to be
Why are memories so sad?
God damn why are memories so sad

Light and Telescopes © Adair Broughton

I know, I know, I know what you want
I know what I want
But it’s not the same
I know, I know, I know what they want
I know what we want
But it’s not the same

I can see right through you,
Right through you
I can
But it also means
I see nothing, no I see nothing
Nothing at all
Just Look at the stars
And who would have guessed
That we now
Know them all
The secret of light
The big and small
Burning so bright
And what is right
After all
After all

I know, I know, I know what you want
I know what I want
But it’s not the same
I know, I know, I know what they want
I know what we want
But it’s not the same

I can see candela
Although I am blind,
Blind to her touch
She gave me some words
That got out of control
And I remind her
Of her future soul
She knocked down some walls
That I had built
Through space-time
The stoic’s crime
And where is she now
Except too far
Away from me

Losing You © Adair Broughton

I feel I’m losing you
I feel so cold
What happened to the blanket?
That you wrapped around my soul

Don’t wanna compromise the way I feel
Don’t wanna sit around and
Steal away the memories that fade into my life
With different reasons all of the while
I lie down and don’t wake up
Until I realise the dream was meant to
Shake me up and knock me down
Knock me down, until

I feel lost within myself
I feel I’ve gone
What happened to my best friend
That made me feel so warm

I gave you back the only thing I have
To regret now is the fact that you won’t know
Don’t know how much I love and still care so much
I hate letting you down,
I let you down
I’ve let you down

Don’t wanna compromise the way I feel
Don’t wanna sit around and
Steal away the memories that fade into my life
With different reasons all of the while
I lie down and don’t wake up

Lover of Zeus © Adair Broughton

Dancing on a dream
Isn’t quite what it seems
When it’s not what I know
But what you don’t
If only life was timeless
If only you were near
I’d maybe say some more
Without the truth of years

Eyes of a lonely deer
Staring at the Stars
The first Rays of Sun
Striking from afar
Old man, young girl
It’s all the same to me
As long as you can smile
That’s all I need truly

It never feels like summer
Till the summers nearly gone
It never feels right
Till late into the night
As you lay down with your thoughts
And I lay down with age
Lost to time and distance
With the turning of the page

The suns rays in the morning
Evaporate the tears
Picking up the guitar
Just to strum some simple chords
The harvester of music
And the farmer of feeling
The need for ambiguity
Is to hide any real meaning

Old man, younger than your years
Living far away
The symphony with the moon
The distance with the day
Old man so wise and bright
With so much left to see
I’m pleased to see you old dear
So youthful and so free

Memories Even Now © Adair Broughton

Possibilities aren’t there for you
Just the fact they are all you have to lose
Please don’t regret regret’s my friend
When the season ends
How will you know you’ve changed?

Why do losers always seem
To be on the side that’s winning
And why do I always take sides
Of the same coin
That’s never spent

You take it out on me
Don’t you know I see?
You sold your love to me
Don’t you know it’s free?

And when the reasons have all failed
Will you tell me I was just someone out of a crowd?
Are you happy with memories?
Or will you think what they mean
Even now

Missing © Adair Broughton

Don’t wanna leave
I hate to miss my baby like this
She’s all I need
She’s the seed
That makes my life existent and real

How I feel
How I feel
How can I ever sleep tonight?

Don’t feel myself
Don’t feel right
When you’re not here
By my side

Don’t underestimate
How much I feel
Feel for you
And this loneliness is no bad thing
If it shows how much

I care, I love you baby
I long to shed some tears now
Thinking always thinking of you

I have to be with you
Even if only a dream
Seeing your eyes
For that first time

Motive © Adair Broughton

Searching the true night
I see your face some more
I hold your photo to my chest
As I close the door
Maybe I’m better on my own
I don’t want these feelings
Tearing through my soul

I’m not going to compromise
Not going to be a fool
And I might be a bloody hypocrite
In more sense than one,
Pains tool
I wanted you to be hurt
So you’d feel like me
Cause you don’t understand
And you never seem to see

You must be honest
Where your motives lie
Because silence is my only weapon
To use the day I die
What goes on when I’m not there,
I don’t need to know
But question how you really feel
And if need be just let go

Nearer to Yesterday © Adair Broughton

Lovers create their dreams
But lose themselves to memories
Changing patterns, chasing stars
And lost times, gone too far
Feelings for yesterday
But what is sadness anyway
Anyway x4

Being Friends just isn’t the same
We’re fooling ourselves with who’s to blame
It don’t even matter at the end of the day
Cause no-one’s coming to take the pain away
And you tell me there’s tomorrow
But who wants a love they have to borrow
Borrow x4

Not Really Dreaming © Adair Broughton

Complicated
Situation
No Supplication
To Ramification
And you surprise me with spirited words
And I’m so happy this world is absurd
You’re so pretty
An uber princess
A sensuous demon
About to redress

What are you thinking?
When you look at me
I’m not really sleeping
Just constantly dreaming
Your face is a story
A beautiful tale
Your eyes the narrator
Mysterious and frail
A sweetness to surrender
Beyond the pale
I want to love you
And then to set sail

October Dreams © Adair Broughton

Can you show me you still feel?
Becoming strangers
That leave

Don’t you think I had a war?
To try and keep you
But the devil He kissed you

Yeah and it hurt like hell
I was in this room
Burning up my angel

October dreams where did they go
October dreams
Something less than more it seems

Don’t believe the reasons that you gave me
Got fire in my soul
Again

Don’t believe the reasons that I gave you
Got fire in my soul
Pretend

Omphalos © Adair Broughton

The past is never open, the future is never closed
And the universe is evolving, and revolving around ourselves
As I lay in bed beside you, you’re still so far away
And where your thoughts are taking you, I guess I’ll never find the way

I’d give myself completely, and get lost within your soul
But with your words and actions, I’m not there at all
And despite my best wishes, and the seeds of love sown
Nothing strikes me more, that really I’m alone

If this is about feeling, then I’d be made of you
From the edge of possibility, to knowing what is true
That time is just change, and time is really still
Always while you held me, but you let go and so I fell

I think I’m still falling, I hope I never land
You made out you needed me, and I can’t comprehend
That I’d still give everything, if you held out your hand
My consciousness is fading, maybe dreams are grand

By seeking perfection, I made an enemy of change
And although its just not logical, why does it seem to me
That things just ‘feel’ as if they are meant to be

Photograph (Pictures in our minds) © Adair Broughton

The leaves were burning red
And autumn was your friend
I’ll guess I’ll miss the heat
If winter is the end
Please tell me
What will I be now you’re not there?
Please tell me
What will I be at all?

I had a goodbye song
But I can’t play that tune
The notes kill me
Guess I played them all too soon
Maybe I could write
Find a way to say
That this isn’t right
The world that died that day dies today

Found you out before you found me
That’s the way it will always be
When I lost you before you lost me
Guess we both know what it means to be missing

I sent you a photograph
Something lost in time
And now we’re just
Pictures in our minds

The dreams were friction burns
But something held you back
It’s like a little thought
Occasionally you had

Pretty Green Eyes © Adair Broughton

Pretty green eyes
I am not a rock
What a stupid thing
That would be to say

Pretty green eyes
I am not the sea
To wash over you
Or seek love unduly

Pretty green eyes
I’m compromised by words
But what I never say
I truly mean.

Ragged Youth © Adair Broughton

She came to me with her ragged youth
And tore me apart at the seems
I had been thinking where my life had been leading
And all that it can mean
The future was mine or so I was told
But it all seemed so unreal
And what can you do when they only care
To pretend that they don’t feel
I know this now with the beauty of hindsight
But it all seemed to happen so quick
She ran from behind and pushed me hard
And I fell into the deep
And at the time I felt so alive
Shame it was all over in the blink of an eye
So let me take you there to the day I cared
About the pretty girl who taught me to fly

Fly, fly away pretty girl
Don’t listen to no-one but yourself
So he’s gonna be hurt
But what about your dreams
Fly girl, it’s the only way to be

It’s not for her to ponder why
And the sensible man wouldn’t try
But what can you do with the thoughts that are begging you
To tear down all your hopes
What can you do with the thoughts that destroy you
Except to take the bow and shoot
And what can you do when theres nothing behind you
Except the laughable things like lies
Maybe time will tell what there is to know
Maybe time will have its demise
Maybe time will issue substantial decrees
Or itself break down and cry
But nothing can change the fact that’s its been
An unforgettable time of our lives
So these are the days that I still care
About a pretty girl who taught me to fly

Fly, fly away pretty girl
You said, you said what you had to say
So he’s gonna be hurt
But what about your dreams
Fly girl,

And give him the fact you
Can look back with a smile
Show him that nothing was in vain
Give yourself what you deserve
And he will look at you the same
With love, smile and pain

Fly, fly away pretty girl (repeat)

Reflection in the Puddle © Adair Broughton

The rain came, soaked me through
Dissolved me into your tears
I was reborn in the doorway
As the street kept moving by

It felt good not to feel a thing
Walking home to the broken sun
Teasing through the grey cloud
That nurtures the concrete yawns

It takes two hands to hold
But none to let go
Two feet to walk
The same to run

People passed by with their million lies
Surrounded by a truth
The reflection in the puddle
Stared at me as if I knew

Rainbows don’t see the night
Change doesn’t chase what’s right
Everywhere searching for a million truths
Surrounded by this lie

It takes two hands to hold
But none to let go
Two feet to walk
The same to run

Every face has so many stories
Every story something I can’t face
The end is in the nascent
Looking forward to yesterday’s

The rain came, soaked me through
Dissolved me into your tears
I was reborn in the doorway
As the street kept moving by

Remit © Adair Broughton

Soft subtle words, lost to remit
I must confess I’ll never admit
All my feelings for you
For what good will it do

I need to need to need
To show myself to you
To expose the world, the truth
It’s all wrapped up in you

Confused about confusion
When all I know is you
The crystal queen is beckoning me
And my heart is bleeding too

Never change with the burning bridge
That throws flames upon the floor
All because of a simple time
And an age that held much more

Confused about confusion
When all I know is you
The crystal queen is beckoning me
And my heart is bleeding too

And you deny my words tonight
And you falter in false pride
I’m confused with your confusion
I’m the drowning bride

I need to need to need
To show myself to you
To expose the world, the truth
It’s all wrapped up in you

She was the revolution on the street
She was the fight at the bar
Her hair was changing with the seasons
But she never changed her part

The questions made it to the future
But it was the past in charge
I can’t expect to have these feelings
A dying star with a broken heart

It doesn’t pay to think about her
It doesn’t pay to think at all
It doesn’t pay to think about her
It doesn’t pay to think at all

Her favourites changed with the morning
Her reasons only known at night
But I have no way to fault her
When all she brought to me was light

It doesn’t pay to think about her
It doesn’t pay to think at all
It doesn’t pay to think about her
It doesn’t pay to think at all

How I feel
I’d swap a secret for a suicide
Couldn’t get you into me
Can’t get you out of me
Rip Tide
How I feel
I’d swap hello for goodbye
Stumbling through the evening
For just another let down
Face down in Shallows
I once feared were deep
Is how I feel
I’d swap the future for the past
To take me someplace
Where my shadow can’t weigh me down
Contemplating a time
Someone really cared
How I feel
I’d swap life for an edge
With the pain to forget
Rather than hate and regret
But some things aren’t as simple
As letting someone down
How I feel
I’d swap a secret for a suicide
Couldn’t get you into me
Can’t get you out of me
Rip Tide

I have a lot to say about loneliness
For someone who will listen
I don’t want understanding
Just someone near me

Say it isn’t fair
And say you don’t need me
Say it all
And then say forgive me

And I believe you when you say you don’t love me
And you are surprised when I don’t care
Well that’s what solitude does
I’ve been in that way for years

Say it isn’t fair
And say you don’t need me
Say it all
And then say forgive me

Aaaaaaaaaaaaa
With the strangest voice, with the strangest voice
You call again
Oh how I can’t see, I can’t see
In the shallow waters I drowned
Aaaaaaaaaaaaa
I tried to save you, I tried to save you
When all you were doing
Was learning to swim
I hope you understand
I hope you understand
Aaaaaaaaaaaaa
I hope you understand
That when I fall back
It will be dry land

Every little thing you said is something I’ve lost
Every little thing you did was something that cost
Falling down is not a dream now
Waking up is not real life now

I guess I missed the road
Because I was looking at the signs
Giving me directions
To what I’d left behind

Force yourself to believe in the past
Hope to yourself that the journey won’t last
Know that the truth is something to grasp
That she could leave so fast

I guess I missed the road
Because I was looking at the signs
Giving me directions
To what I’d left behind

Crucify my life and call it religion
I lost my respect, for his lines that you believed in
If I could walk on water I’d still try to swim
I’d hate for my life to be anything like him

I guessed I missed the road
Because I was looking at the signs
Giving me perspective
To what I’d left behind

When the last leaf fell
I knew that a season had gone
I’m glad you found a new friend in this weather
It’s cold this time of year
So what you going to have to wear
I’ve found I’m not as tough as leather.
I’ve got winter flu
It’s given me paranoia
I’m afraid I’m not going to see the summer
I want to sleep in snow
So I can freeze a memory
Because then I can remember to forget

I remember taxi rides
A shooting star above a washing line
I remember holding hands
Something so simple I could understand
I remember games of chess
And waking so early I was already dressed
I remember wasting time
Being so sure life wouldn’t pass me by

But when the last leaf fell
And I knew that you had gone
My life felt more naked than the tree
So I kicked my thoughts
Splashed them through a puddle
Felt so good when the clouds cried on me
I want to learn to feel
Something more than regret
I want to be wise to infinity
And I set my clock
To a more difficult time
Stop and watch what I’m doing

I remember
Do you remember?
I remember
Do you remember?

Sometimes I think I think too much
Sometimes it feels its not enough
Sometimes I feel I could sell my soul
Sometimes I hate the fact I’m growing old

And peace is hiding away
And love, love is so far away

Sometimes I feel let down by the world
Sometimes I feel it’s me
Sometimes I wonder if things will change
Sometimes I wonder if I’d care

Reasons for believing fly out the window on a word
And treason for feeling just seems so absurd
And I won’t back down and I won’t turn around today
Just seek out the pattern in the memory for me to say

Peace is hiding away
And love, love is so far away

Sometimes I wish I could see from your eyes
Sometimes I want to run away
Always I need to be with you
Sometime, someday, someway

Made some plans in the sand
Got washed away, got out of hand
Sea is like it never was
See, it’s like it always was

Took that walk in the air
The daydreams fell and landed there
And I woke up just as you got home
Without your soul or your broken phone

I gave you a smile it was all I could do
Because we both knew what we were going to do

When we last spoke it was in my head
In a different world and a different bed
Can’t you see that the stars don’t shine?
When you lie awake in that space of mind

Spent the night talking
The time seemed to stop
Can’t get past this feeling
Of everything forgot

Spacing out tonight
Her halo slipped in the morning light
Everything’s going to be just fine

I never got to see the stars that night
Under the skylight
It didn’t seem to matter
She’d given me the twinkle in her eye

Spacing out tonight
Her halo slipped in the morning light
Everything’s going to be just fine

Take me away from all of this blood
Take me away to places where people love
A businessman’s missile, can’t shoot away guilt
As he does his child’s homework and watches them cry over spilt milk
Does he ever wonder what the dead child felt?

Maybe change would have come from the children who will never be
And where is this place where people love cause the government has stolen our society
That kills in the name of stopping some killing
And kills in the name of laying blame
Maybe change would have come from the children who will never be

Take me away to where there is no TV
Where I can read books and pretend the world is ok
Take me away to leave me alone
And sober up and call nowhere my home

I’ve been focussing on the pain
Instead of focussing on you
I know things will never be the same
Doesn’t stop me thinking of you

I am tangled up inside
I feel barely alive
Just show me one last smile

You look at me with the soul of your eyes
And I look back for every tear I’ve cried
You don’t know how close I’ve been
To forgetting I even existed

When there is only one thing you’ve ever wanted
What is left deep inside
Just show me one last smile

This is the only way I can say goodbye

I want to leave you with a message
I want to leave you with my dreams
I want to give you something you can have forever
And hold to your heart however hard it seems

If for whatever reason we can’t be together
Let us spend some time in each other’s thoughts
How can I tell you I am dying?
And making love with sweet repose

I want you to bite me till I bleed
I want you to fight me till I lose my need
I want you to hate me to give me so much pain
And so I can love you through a haze

I want you to own me and destroy my soul
I don’t think love is a lingering kiss unless it pierces my skin
Now you’ve seen my hell, tell me what you think of me
Oozing over me like a drugged drunken melody

Sometimes the greatest love songs are those hidden between the lines
Because love is about wanting to feel
Sometimes the greatest love songs are those hidden between the lines
Because love is about wanting to feel

There are so many things I want to say
There’s are so many things I won’t
There are so many ways I want to love
There’s so many ways I won’t

There are so many times I wanted to say I love you
There’s so many times when all I could do was choke

And beneath it all the scar
Will never be that far
Away

There are so many times I’ve felt so close
But so frequent the times I don’t
There are so many times I’ve felt invincible
But so many times I felt I could melt

And beneath it all the scar
Will never be that far
Away

I've spent ten years drinking
When I should have been thinking
About my life
But time isn’t a possession
It’s a memory
Time isn’t nothing
You can own
Is it girl?

I gave the greatest gift
And now we drift
Apart in life
But love isn’t a possession
It’s a bottleneck
Love ain't nothin
That you can own
Is it babe?

Well who won the day
In finding the way
Was lonely
You give reality
And I like analogy
So save me

As I lay in my bed
My thoughts so far away
I’m thinking of a Journey
Where we merge the night and day
We’d be holding hands
Underneath the Stars
Just taking our time, you know
And every little sparkle that is your eyes
Draws me nearer to distant skies

And I Miss you so
But I don’t know
What it is you know
About me
And I’ll gladly wait
For you
Waiting for me

We met in a corner
The nerves of that first touch
And now we sit on the veranda
And kiss and laugh and talk all the time
With Vega on our minds
And life now so divine
The sweetness with which you hold me
The thoughts alone now yours and mine

And I missed you so
But I didn’t know
What it was you knew
About me
I’d have waited forever
For you
Waiting for me

Baby, do you remember when we first met and how you felt
And I think of yesterday
So I wont forget
All the things you said

I dream of tomorrow and I have no doubt
Things will be ok
When I hold you close to me
And you look in my eyes and see I love you

Thinking of yesterday and dreaming of tomorrow

You were my best friend
Now you’re resting in a different place
Did it have to end?
Why did this sadness even have to begin?
All those memories
No words or chord could ever show what they mean
Or still mean
I remember everything
I really do
Each wag of your tail
Each morning greet
And I swear I could see you smile
The fields our home for many years
You never strayed too far
You were ageless
How do I come to terms with that?

If only life was as black and white as you
We’d know the beauty and the good
If only life was as black and white as you
We’d know the beauty and the good

It was about trust
And companionship
I really believe you knew that
How can you miss me like I miss you?
That is your innocence
Did you ever reflect?
You lived so simply
I respect you for that
Lying in bed
Knowing you aren’t in the room
I don’t want a second chance to say goodbye
Just another chance to say hello
And see those cheeky eyes
Looking back at me
Full of surprise
How can you miss me like I miss you?
I just want to know you are ok.

Casting a glow in the shadow of the world
A wounded soul with a memory to hold
But sometimes its too late to care

Your stares and thoughts can't move that rock
That is as cold as the heart it tried to mock
Waking just to forget

To be strong
In a world you don’t belong
Could have been different
Different

Lying in the dark with a beating heart
Knowing the light will tear apart
Those moments of truth

Words only work for those that don’t know
Redeemed for trust now hurtful and hollow
This is not anger

To be strong
In a world you don’t belong
Could have been different
Different

The moonlight is falling, in this foreign sky
Daylight is asking if nighttime knows why
Under neon sign
I found out
I was life

I could see my breath, as cars flew by
Two people lost in each other’s lives
She’s so pretty
This girl
From the city

You got it wrong
Thoughts and feelings don’t respond
The half smile said it straight

You’ve got it all

That blue sky, kept the dream in your eye
The wooden sign pointed home
That’s the reason
We never said
Goodbye

But we never said hello at the other side
Cause something happened that tore my insides
It’s not so pretty
Seeing
The dirt of the city

Some time ago, with thoughts of you
Against the feelings that had said they didn’t know
The self-preserving monolithic
With thoughts desperate to reach out
From the hiatus of hurt

I longed to give you the world
But I couldn’t even give you a word
There’s no such thing as truth
Ain’t that the truth
I can’t sleep for fear
Of doing something right
Am I am I am I the only shadow cast tonight

Self-referential reflexive disorder of thought
Time to give up the nihilistic dance
After I dreamt I was underwater
My heart beating ripples of romance
How can you say its all to chance

With the eternal pre-determined stance
Can you improve on truth
Can you swear
That what they label you with is beyond repair
Its hard when forever is not enough

Why is the question on my lips today
Why to smile, to cry and then to fade away
Why is the word I can’t face today
Why

When will I see your face again
When will your arms fold into mine
When will I not have to pretend
When

I can see as far as a twinkling star
But the star casts no shadow
So bright so distant and so far
I can sleep knowing who you are

Where will we meet to sit and stare
Where will we share each others lives
Where will the ending just begin
Where

I see your predicament
And I know it’s the same as my hell
I saw you throw a coin
Then drown in the wishing well
So wishes do come true
But not how you believed
And that’s the trick of love
To make out there’s a need

You should have said
What you wanted
But I don’t think
You really knew
Let the stars shine on me
But let the sun shine on you

Blinded by a passion
Seeking illusion of truth
It’s all the little things you didn’t do
That became the burden of proof
You don’t talk to me
Or tell me how you feel
Then suddenly say to me
That none of this is real

You should have said
What you wanted
But I don’t think
You really knew
Let the stars shine on me
But let the sun shine on you