16 Feb 2022

Grey Lagoons

Blue suns and grey lagoons Silver starfish with honeymoons All these and more to choose If you Satin teardrops on velvet lights Morning sickness on Friday nights Heaven knows what others I might bring To you Broken partings making strange goodbyes Hopeless cases with fake alibis Even hoping will…

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16 Feb 2022

The bogus man is on his way As fast as he can run He’s tired but he’ll get to you And shoot you with his gun Focused his mind On something he cared about But it came out a shout Just like before The bogus man is at your…

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16 Feb 2022

In every dream home a heartache And every step I take Takes me further from heaven Is there a heaven? I’d like to think so Standards of living They’re rising daily But home oh sweet home It’s only a saying From bell push to faucet In smart town apartment…

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16 Feb 2022

Well I’m here looking through an old picture frame Just waiting for the perfect view I hope something special will step into my life Another fine edition of you A pin-up done in shades of blue Sometimes you find you’re yearning for the quiet life The country air and…

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16 Feb 2022

Before I die I write this letter Here are the secrets you must know Until the cloak of evening shadow Changes to mantle of the dawn Will it be sunny then I wonder? Rolling and turning How can I sleep? Hold on ’til morning What if I fall? Over…

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16 Feb 2022

Beauty Queen

Valerie please believe It never could work out The time to make plans Has passed, faded away Ooh the way you look Makes my starry eyes shiver Then I look away Too much for one day One thing we share Is an ideal of beauty Treasure so rare That…

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16 Feb 2022

There’s a new sensation A fabulous creation A danceable solution To teenage revolution Do the Strand love When you feel love It’s the new way That’s why we say Do the Strand Do it on the tables Quaglino’s place or Mabel’s? Slow and gentle Sentimental All styles served here…

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16 Feb 2022

Bitters End

At last the crimson chord cascades To shower dry cordials within Too late to leap the chocolate gate Pale fountains fizzing forth pink gin While destiny prepares to fly The farmyard chorus sings its wake Upstanding anthem to the sky Too soon to realise their fate Bizarre You were…

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16 Feb 2022

Sea Breezes

I’ve been thinking now For a long time How to go my own separate way It’s a shame to think About yesterday It’s a shame We’ve been running round In our present state Hoping help will come from above But even angels there Made the same mistakes In love…

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16 Feb 2022

Would you believe In what I do? When the things That I make Are all for you And in a while I’ll come to you Showing why What I think Will all come true Well I’m sure I’ll love you all my life And in the morning too Everything…

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