I’m looking for a change
Future’s not what it used to be
Full of empty melodies
I’m looking for a change
Of scenery
I lost hope
Sick of life, sick of love
Sick Of everything
Shelling out for feelings
Two of these and I can run from anything
I’m looking for a change
Arrest me
Idolize indulgence
I Swallow inspiration from your vanity
You have got it all
Celebrity
I don’t know
Maybe I’m just bitching out of line
Pay no mind….
Feeling is believing
Desire burns a hole right through the clarity
I’m lying on the floor
Fisting apathy
Sell it to the masses
Little plastic packages our hopes and dreams
You have got it all and I am damaged
Lost,
broken,
Incomplete.
NJG 2004
You start a new day
A sun-ray melts your window
Shake the dreams from your sleepy head.
Catch the whispers (as they)
Fade into the distance
Pick up the pieces of what she said.
In a new way
Your stomach turns inside you
Like the memories of being 4.
Catch the whispers (as they)
Fade into the distance
Pick up the pieces of Chapter 4
And all the pages are torn
All except one
This is a single white leaf
And it's a window to the rest of your life.
You journey onwards
Step into the hallway
There's laughter and voices your head's spinning round.
Catch the whispers (as they)
Fade into the distance
Silence is buried deep under sound.
As you speak to me
I don't know where to look
I'm spoilt for choice
I can't hear what you're saying
Too busy listening
To your voice.
And all the pages are torn
All except one
This is a single white leaf
And it's a window to the rest of your life.
NJG 1995
I cannot give you the love that I used to
I think our lives have changed
I thought I'd paint you a different picture
I know it's not the same.
The colours flood free like a rainfall in autumn
Golden brown and grey
The leaves on the tree's catch your name on the breeze
Someones leaving me today.
The paintings that I gave you are the plans we made to save you
The watercolours ran in the rain
So I thought I'd paint you a different picture
I know it's not the same.
She dreams, I sleep. She's leaving.
You wanted me to hold on for the times we never had
I couldn't find the strength then or the courage that you had
You carried me right through this and I let you drown on the other side.
The paintings that I gave you are the plans we made to save you
The watercolours ran in the rain
So I thought I'd paint you a different picture
I know it's not the same.
She dreams, I sleep. She's leaving.
I cannot give you the love that I used to
I think our lives have changed
I thought I'd paint you a different picture
I know it's not the same.
The colours flood free like a rainfall in autumn
Golden brown and grey
The leaves on the tree's catch your name on the breeze
Someones leaving me today.
The paintings that I gave you are the plans we made to save you
The watercolours ran in the rain
So I thought I'd paint you a different picture
I know it's not the same.
NJG 1995
I've been high, Television..
Guides me through these lonely hours,
Teaches me to fight and lie and lust.
Bright Cathode, dark sermon,
Blind me with your rhetoric,
Like cigarette burns behind my eyes.
Like the dream
You think you know you had the moment you awoke
The images subliminaly scar
And settle in subconcious
Pieces of a jigsaw you will never solve
When the lights go down I hear this sound
... it echoes in my head.
I feel better now you know
We shared a secret
Holding onto esoteric thought, forms circles in my head
I don't want to let you go
There is nothing sacred
It's best to keep your secrets secret if you have a weakness
When the lights go down I hear this sound
When the lights go down I hear this gentle sound
And it echoes in my head.
NJG 2004.
I doused my light
In utero position
Fold me like a flower
Drowned in thoughts
My mind's a flood
I'm locked inside my neon womb
I hear you call
As I freefall
But I can't hear you through the haze
Northern lights
These silver days are melting
Through a silver haze
Clouds disperse
The ancient rain falls dancing
On the broken earth
I hear you call
As I freefall
But I can't hear you through the haze
NJG 1998
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