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All song lyrics are full versions.
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| Traditional Country | I started writing this in 1987 but didn't finish it till 2000 (obviously I did a few other things in that 13 years too!). | |||||||||||||
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banditos | Alternative Country | An everyday story of goodies and baddies. | |||||||||||
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down to the river | Alternative Country | Don't necessarily have to travel east to find the road to Damascus. | |||||||||||
| drinkin' to remember | Contemporary Country | This girl might have been running away, but isn't any more. | ||||||||||||
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fast lane | Contemporary Country | Inspired by a driving experience and tales of road trips to Mexico. | |||||||||||
| friendly fire | Alternative | Sometimes you have to watch your friends as closely as your enemies... | ||||||||||||
| georgia | Rock | Nothing to do with the other Georgia, this one's a sort of Bonnie & Clyde story, just a bit shorter than the original! | ||||||||||||
| hanoi | Instrumental | This has an ambient / jungle / eastern feel (well, I think so anyway!). | ||||||||||||
| highway blues | Contemporary Country | While it's probably good for the soul to have the occasional bit of solitude, a little does go a long way! | ||||||||||||
| huntingtower | Instrumental | I wrote this tune for a wedding in Huntingtower castle (just outside Perth, Scotland). | ||||||||||||
| i ain't drinkin' | Contemporary Country | Lack of consideration for your friends can lead to a shortage of refreshment! | ||||||||||||
| johnny's gone | Rock 'n' Roll | Schemer bites the dust as old rival hits the road... | ||||||||||||
| just one more time | Contemporary Country | Sometimes relationships come to an end when nobody really wants them to... | ||||||||||||
| just the way it goes | Contemporary Country | This guy thought he knew where his future lay till he met an old flame. | ||||||||||||
| ladies who lunch | Alternative | Probably the result of too much people watching - I really do not know these characters! | ||||||||||||
| nobody's fool | Contemporary Country | There's a good chance that we've all at least witnessed this happening - none of us would admit to committing the offence, though! | ||||||||||||
| party night | Contemporary Country | Can't put my finger on it (Dusk Till Dawn, perhaps?) but party night was probably subconsciously influenced by a film. Alternatively, if someone wants to use it as the basis of a script, please do call... | ||||||||||||
| player of games | Alternative | I enjoy the books of Iain Banks, and the title (but nothing else!) of player of games is a nod in his direction. | ||||||||||||
| playing games | Alternative | This is a song about a couple who are growing apart but don't want to think the unthinkable. Yet. | ||||||||||||
| private eye | Alternative | Just a little observational song that kind of grew... | ||||||||||||
| purple pontiac | Alternative | I'm quite partial to Latin / Mexican music and this song came from mucking around with rhythms and a spanish guitar. I don't know if you could buy this sort of Pontiac in purple, but it really should have been possible... | ||||||||||||
| reelin' | Rock 'n' Roll | A good ol' rock 'n' roll tale of a young man who's led astray (not entirely unwillingly) by his friends. | ||||||||||||
| road to louisiana | Blues | Another keyboard-based song; this story's main character is not very nice at all! | ||||||||||||
| russian roulette | Alternative | I still think this would make a great James Bond theme but, unfortunately, the Cold War's long over. | ||||||||||||
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saints and sinners | Alternative Country | There's good and bad in everybody, so they say. | |||||||||||
| saturday night and nothing to do | Rock | A short story of ghosts from the past. | ||||||||||||
| say goodbye | Contemporary Country | A song of post-teenage angst... | ||||||||||||
| should've stayed home | Rock | Driving along some back roads one morning, taking a can of petrol to a friend whose car had run out, I passed a village sign which had the spray-painted addition "welcome to hell". | ||||||||||||
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six o'clock | Contemporary Country | There must be a better reason for Fridays, but sometimes... | |||||||||||
| sinking fast | Alternative | Why has she gone? Where has she gone? Is she coming back this time? | ||||||||||||
| smoke and mirrors | Alternative | This
was the first song I wrote on the keyboard rather than guitar -
funny how using a different instrument changes things. |
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| telephone | Rock | Isn't it true that a telephone never rings when you need it to? | ||||||||||||
| the dance | Alternative | I was lucky enough to spend a few days in Buenos Aires a year or two ago - long enough to soak up some of the atmosphere and culture of that remarkable city. | ||||||||||||
| the fountain | Instrumental | Memories of a French village with lots of fountains. | ||||||||||||
| the line | Contemporary Country | Society's misfits aren't necessarily unhappy with their lot... | ||||||||||||
| they're still here | Contemporary Country | Sometimes relationships are so close that physical distance can't separate people |
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| what does it mean | Folk / World | The story of (and by) a man who can't believe his luck... | ||||||||||||
| wrong again | Alternative | Some guys do everything right, but it's still not quite enough... | ||||||||||||
