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Sixty Minutes an Hour

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1.
60 Minutes an Hour Every moment is for living To feel the embers burning bright Yesterday is ashes Tomorrow may not see the light Is it so hard to understand? A precious moment in a hand Will slip through idle fingers like sand (Chorus) As time goes by and precious moments she devours For time she flies at sixty minutes and hour Every moment is for seeing The forest and the trees Have you ever seen dew on the tip of a leaf In a moment freeze All luminous and rainbow colours Then the moment flies And the leaf is lost in the crowd of trees (Chorus) As time goes by and precious moments she devours For time she flies at sixty minutes and hour Every moment is for loving What do you want to be fighting for? Don’t you dream of children born? In a world with no more war We’ve got to calm these stormy waters Make them safe for our sons and daughter Make happy waves with rhythm and harmony (Chorus) As time goes by and precious moments she devours For time she flies at sixty minutes and hour
2.
Chasing the White Dove Who am I that laughs and cries? With all my hopes and dreams And all the colours in between Cast like a leaf into the throes Of a river that twist and ebbs and flows to the sea Just blowing through the motions Like driftwood on a shoreless ocean Been drifting through these lazy days Always dreaming about tomorrow Or lost in yesterday I’m a castaway in a foggy haze I’ve seen boat and watched it sail away (Chorus) And I ain’t found no reason to believe in no God above No I ain’t found no answers blowing in the wind Guess I’ll keep chasing the white dove (Repeat Chorus) I’ve walked a thousand mile or more Always end up kicking pebbles On the same shore While the butterfly goes fleeting by Perfect symmetry and colour Lost in the blinking of an eye And it’s hard to see through frosted glass A world that’s spinning tumbling moving much too fast (Repeat Chorus)
3.
Parasiteful 03:39
Parasiteful Earth, air, fire and water Scoop it all up don’t give no quarter Who’ll carry the can any way? But our sons and daughters Forests green and deep blue oceans Bloom to feed the honey sipping notions Of glib politicians with their hazy green decisions For our children, and our children’s children (Chorus) As they scoop it all up Ain’t Mother Nature so delightful? Scoop it all up Go on take another biteful There’s more than enough Go on suck it all up There’s never enough; never enough For the Parasiteful (Repeat chorus) Sun is King and earth is mother We the pilgrim prodigal lover Insatiable virus Dangerously curious to know (Repeat chorus) As we scoop it all up Ain’t Mother Nature so delightful? Scoop it all up Go on take another biteful There’s more than enough Go on suck it all up There’s never enough; never enough For the Parasiteful Birds in their little nests agree So why, why can’t we
4.
Charlatans and Blaggers There’s gonna be big knocks in the yard Me I’ve had to learn to fall Only wish I’d learnt to play hard Wasn’t it a breeze in the hazy days of fun? When the future was no further than the setting of the sun Better step lightly in the dark Like a dog that’s free to roam Take a sniff at every stone Take piss on all the vermin For they’ll crush you for your bone (Chorus) All the Charlatans and blaggers With their thunderbolts and daggers They’ll do their damndest to reduce you To just embers in the ashes Of all you could have been All you’re gonna be ‘cos I know for certain you’re gonna be a better man than me You got the looks ain’t you got the smile You got the guts, you’re gonna need some guile ( Repeat Chorus) The fools and knaves and bureaucrats Suited and booted sewer rats with their wooden swords and paper hats They’ll sell you heartache with a smile And just when you think that you’re flying high They’ll clip the wings hope as you fly ( Repeat Chorus)
5.
Tumbleweed 03:22
Tumbleweed I’m losing my soul in this old town Been here too long now it’s dragging me down It’s got no get up and get down Too many pale wan faces with small town frowns (Chorus) And I’m deep deep rooted like an old dead tree Need some wind in my boughs to uproot me Said I’m deep deep rooted got to get myself free Ain’t nothing blowing through this town but tumbleweed And it feels like I’m treading water And my feet are made of lead I’m drowning I’m going under This old town’s gotten into my head (Chorus) It’s got me deep deep rooted like an old dead tree Need some wind in my boughs to uproot me Said I’m deep deep rooted got to get myself free Ain’t nothing blowing through this town but tumbleweed (Chorus) It’s got me deep deep rooted like an old dead tree Need some wind in my boughs to uproot me Said I’m deep deep rooted got to get myself free Ain’t nothing blowing through this town but tumbleweed (Bridge) Gotta find a road Cut the shackles shed the load Gotta pop the seed Or there’ll be nothing blowing through my mind But tumbleweed Small minded people and apathy Can suck the soul from a sensitive guy like me And I’m suffocating, procrastinating I need inspiration, rejuvenation (Chorus) Because I’m deep deep rooted like an old dead tree Need some wind in my boughs to uproot me Said I’m deep deep rooted got to get myself free Ain’t nothing blowing through this town but tumbleweed
6.
The Fly Catcher As I walked over north Botley copse I saw a fine lady ghost across the tops With a ring on her finger And the wind on her toes She can have music where ever she goes (Chorus)
7.
Lines On a Fisherman's Wife 'twas on a night loud blew the wind And dismal was the sky As thunders crashed and lightnings quick From rock to rock did fly Yet on that night a form was seen Upon that dangerous coast A female's too, ah female's heart Do ever love the most
8.
Love like Autumn So it seems we’ve grown apart The threads of our love are wearing thin Ain’t it hard when loves tapestry Is woven into your heart But you’ve blown your way and I’ve drifted mine And gone are the evenings of candle-light and wine (Chorus) We’re like the wilting of a flower Or the setting of the sun We’re like the blazing golden autumn Fades to brown until it’s gone Ain’t our love just like autumn It’s fair to say that we’ve read the signs Been riding the waves of emotion That love leaves behind and a part of me Is gonna love you forever But you’ve drifted your way and I’ve blown mine And gone are the evenings of candle-light and wine (Repeat Chorus) (Bridge) People come and go And lovers hold you sway But for reasons like the seasons Love blooms and fades away It always blooms and fades away (Chorus) We’re like the wilting of a flower Or the setting of the sun We’re like the blazing golden autumn Fades to brown until it’s gone Ain’t our love just like autumn
9.
Weightless 02:17
Ghosts of Young Lust The morning tide took me to the mountain Everything looks better from up there The days are getting shorter love; the leaves will soon be turning The birds will soon be heading south There’re better prospects there I took the old way up to the tarn And saw the ghost of young lust in that tumbledown barn And watched you in the sun again; your feet in the mountain stream Your smile was beguiling as you teased that I could dream How we chased and we laughed, and oh that dry stone wall Was it you were too short or maybe was too tall Didn’t we weave some magic in the barn And how we swam like dolphins in the cool sparkling tarn I was weightless again up on the mountain Floating onwards in space and backwards in time To see your face again And trace your every curve and every line You’re certain as a mountain in my mind
10.
Don’t Say Goodbye I feel a lot like yesterday’s news As screwed up as my paper thin excuses I’m losing grip on all I love and all I dread to lose Got one foot in the door of the hall of fame of loses And I’m waiting for a storm to blow in I can see it in your eyes And lightning’s gonna strike me When you say goodbye (Chorus) Don’t say goodbye girl For the tears I’ve made you cry Will rain forever on mind Don’t leave me drifting on the tide Of the ocean that you’ve cried No don’t say it Don’t say goodbye Give me just a little more time That’s all I need and I’ll make you smile again I know it’s been a hell of a ride And you’re bleeding inside but let me try again But I’ve got a sinking feeling That you’ve made up your mind Girl my head is reeling And I’m pleading one more time (Chorus) Don’t say goodbye girl For the tears I’ve made you cry Will rain forever on mind Don’t leave me drifting on the tide Of the ocean that you’ve cried No don’t say it Don’t say goodbye Don’t say goodbye
11.
Jessica 03:08
Jessica You are so beautiful my little one So I thought I would write A little song just for you The sun always shines when you are there In the silence of your sleep In your soft silky hair (Chorus) Jessica Hope the sun always shines on you And the man in the moon always smiles on you When you’re sleeping so all your dreams come true Daisy chains and dancing games that’s what it’s all about No troubles or strife Just the novelty of life So dance for me my little one with ribbons in your hair Round and round like a carousel Ain’t life just a fanfare (Chorus) Jessica Hope the sun always shines on you And the man in the moon always smiles on you When you’re sleeping so all your dreams come true
12.
Thomas Hardy Evening It was a warm and drowsy Thomas Hardy evening Out a-walking on a whim For to shake the dust from the rags of a working day That clutters my mind and holds me sway On and on in the glow of the westering sun Catching nature moments as they fly While evening’s bouquet leaves me stoned, sweetly blown away With a deep and easy feeling inside in a time out of mind I saw snap shots in sepia, sheaves of corn and reapers Drowsy dappled horses in glinting medalled harness The sweeping scything swallow weaving; the seamstress of the sky And as a yellow moon was rising I rested in the tall grass of the old wayside I watched a funny furry bumble bee foraging flower to flower The buzzing of his industry deepening the peaceful stillness of the hour And all my cares floated away Like funny furry dandelion seeds over fields of hay On and on while the woodland rings with evensong Through the creaking wicket gate into the leafy throng No need for church or tower beneath that sylvan bower For earth and roots and greenery speak louder than empty words to me 'twas a warm and drowsy Thomas hardy evening
13.
The Fledgling Where did all those sweet years go? How fast your wings have grown To take you away With new games to play As you fly When my heart can’t get no rest And I’m lost in this empty nest Sweet memories they flow With your afterglow To comfort and warm (Chorus) As you fly in your blameless blue sky For I know that by and by The fledgling must fly We’ve shared magic in raindrops In the wind in the treetops Laid down our happy heads to dream To lullabies of mountain streams And how we’ve dreamed So fly away with all goodwill And may your heart with pleasure fill And may your mind with wisdom see Your wealth is in your friends and family (Chorus) As you fly in your blameless blue sky For I know that by and by The fledgling must fly

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released January 6, 2017

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