Smiles And Tears
Fairytale is broken
The man has spoken
And I know what comes next
The change is coming
The future is looming
The path is inevitable
My past and my strengths
I know them by lengths
And I know how far to go
Through all the smiles and tears
I find a place free from fears
Filled with shadows and stars
I love all my scars
If love is blindness
Does hate bring vision?
A callous contradiction that grows
The perfect paradox
The perfect life locks
Transactional emotions to trade
Now I can bleed
Now I can feed
The vampires inside my mind
Through all the smiles and tears...
I keep the secrets inside
Behind a smile I hide
Through all the smiles and tears...
Pride And Joy
From that first gaze upon your face
I knew in this world I’d found my place
For as you’ve grown into who you are
You’ve got my love in you
You are my pride
You are my joy
You are my girl
You are my boy
You are my pride
You are my joy
You are everything to me
With each new day as you make your way
You’ve got all my strength in you
As you shape the world make it your own
You got my positivity
You have taught me more than I taught you
You inspire me everyday
You are my pride
You are my joy...
From a seed an oak grows
Standing tall as wind blows
From the love a child knows
From the love a parent shows
From first gaze to the last
Love unconditionally is cast
You are my pride
You are my joy...
Walk With Grace
Here it comes out of the blue
Here it comes straight for you
All the trials all the tests
The daily grind that never rests
Every day brings new decisions
Every day brings brighter visions
In the chaos there is symmetry
All the beauty and the mystery
What’s meant for you won’t pass you by
This is your time
This is your place
This is the walk you take
So walk with grace
There’s a real synchronicity
A surge of electricity
As you search for the signs
Watch as it all aligns
You cannot grasp you cannot force
All things must take their course
Keep your intentions clear
Law of attraction is near
What’s meant for you won’t pass you by
This is your time...
In the vacuum of unanswered prayers There’s a place where no one cares
But I, I believe in you
I believe in everything you do
This is your time...
Get Me Out Of My Head
Now it’s time to take the time
Suffer all the fools and stories
Patient apathy is my crime
In this world of stolen glories
A catalyst I can’t resist
A firework in my mind
Incendiary of all I see
All that I find
Fear and dread of what was said
Get me out of my head
Had a chance a second glance
Get me out of my head
With a look so dark and craven
Hideous shadow of a smile
A false search for heaven
All the lies being to pile
A catalyst I can’t resist
A firework in my mind...
Beneath the facade
Is a cunning parade
A glowing summary
Of beautiful treachery
Affairs are fleeting
For the business is cheating
I could hang you on the cross
Drive the nails myself
A catalyst I can’t resist
A firework in my mind...
Gratitude Cloak
Far from the garden
Far from the fall
From the first bite
That marked us all
Now Eden lies wasted
Sweet apple tasted
Can faith get you through the day
As paradise gets in the way
Do you need to feel wanted?
Do you need to feel needed?
I got a gratitude cloak
It hangs around my hope
Never mind the happiness hoax
Where expectation chokes
I got a gratitude cloak
It hangs around my hope
Never mind the happiness hoax
And all that it provokes
Reach for perfection
Reach for it all
The illusion the defection
The warning call
There it is that discontent
That you cannot prevent
Now you need to feel wanted!
Now you need to feel needed!
I got a gratitude cloak
It hangs around my hope...
Comes a point nothing is concealed
Transparency is revealed
Consumed by scarcity
Filled with the empty
Will you need to feel wanted?
Will you need to feel needed?
I got a gratitude cloak
It hangs around my hope...
Survival Guide
Those merging moments beneath the sun
The world was new it had just begun
Now that sun is a furious star
With a blazing gaze near and far
You need your survival guide
You need a place to hide
In the ruins of all you planned
Now take that coin in your hand
Throw that coin into the fountain
And wish the wishes on your heart
Bring your dreams to the mountain
To view the view of where to start
A call comes with urgency
A warning call for me
From all that I’ve learned
I played with fire and I got burned
I need my survival guide
I need a place to hide
In the ruins of all I planned
I take that coin in my hand
I throw the coin into the fountain
And wish the wishes on my heart
I bring my dreams to the mountain
To view the view of where to start
Empty bottles on the floor
Drunken carnage from the night before
Tear stained pages that I wrote
Forgotten words that now float
They wheel, they fly, they spin, they steal, the lose, they win
Until they are free
Inside a new melody
Throw that coin into the fountain
And wish the wishes on your heart
Bring your dreams to the mountain
To view the view of where to start
Shape Of The Moon
July Twenty One, Nineteen Sixty Nine
You stood in wonder to stare at the moon
And far away
A man took a giant leap
For all mankind
From that night through all our days
You guided me on the path
Show me how to navigate
Chart a course through this world of ours
And find a way
I know the shape of the moon
I know each lunar phase
I know the shape of the moon
I know you shaped my life
February Eighth, Twenty Fourteen
You left our side
Your work was done
Your time had come
You had to go be on your way
Into the light
My mind it fills with happy memories
Family times that we shared
You loved each one of us
And as we part
You always said these words
Be good
I know the shape of the moon
I know each lunar phase...
And when a new moon fills the sky
My mind it turns to you
Recall as a child
How you taught me all the shapes of the moon
Oh shoot the moon
Shoot the moon
I know the shape of the moon
I know each lunar phase...
Blind Faith
Too easy to be the critic
Too easy to be the sceptic
Hardest thing in the world to do
Is to believe
I got confidence in all my doubts
Just got to work it out
Hardest thing in the world to do
Is to believe
So many choices get in the way
So many voices got something to say
There are none so blind
As those who will not see
Give me blind faith
So I can see
There are none so blind
As those who will not see
Give me blind faith
So I can see
Bring down the walls I built
Raise them to the ground
Tear down my echo chamber
Don’t need to hear that sound
It’s OK to be OK
It’s OK to be better
I’m not always right
I hope I’m always kind
So many chances just to share
Something good just to care
There are none so blind
As those who will not see...
And when the mind gets lured
The lines get blurred
Focus filters into fog
No way to see the way
Oh hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
There are none so blind
As those who will not see...
Let Love In
Those times opportunity knocked
And the door stayed locked
Inside a fur lined purgatory
Inside a false sanctuary
The fear of being vulnerable
The fear of being yourself
For you are beautiful
Just as you are
Pierced by love
Pierced by love
It’s not a case of lose or win
When you let love in
It must end for it to begin
When you let love in
You feel unworthy in your own skin
You must let love in
You feel consumed by sin
Just let love in
Take a beat
Take a breath
Don’t you know
Go easy on yourself
For you are stronger
Than you know
For you are beautiful
Just as you are
Pierced by love
Pierced by love
It’s not a case of lose or win
When you let love in...
Arrow Prayers
This is the perfect time before it gets too late
To capture now and seal these lines
There is an urgency for an epiphany
Like on the road to Damascus
I’m shooting arrow prayers into the Universe
I’m shooting arrow prayers into the Universe
For protection
For transformation
For restoration
For inspiration
In the silent space that these prayers create
This old soul of mine can find a voice
And when the answer comes it is a sacred whisper
Not from the outside it comes from within
I’m shooting arrow prayers into the Universe
I’m shooting arrow prayers into the Universe
For protection
For transformation
For restoration
For inspiration
I am thankful...
For my life
For my health
For my breath
For my spirit
For my family
For good friends
For food
For shelter
For sleep
For art
For rain . . .