"The Boss"

Slimey winters
Fight like ninjas
Shot and serviced in the head
Blood stained genius for the meaningless
You're the boss in your defence

Wide awake in our home land
Arise for the prize
Black and blue for the next round
Senile dementia wires up the wise

Spite for the spineless
We don't seem to mind this
Dragon Flies lead by the blind
The route we're bearing is hard of hearing
Teflon coating your defence

Wide awake in our home land
Arise for the prize
Black and blue for the next round
Senile dementia wires up the wise

Pardon me for breaking down the door
Pardon me for breaking your pause
Pardon me for breaking down the door
Pardon me for breaking your pause

Pardon me for breaking down your door
Pardon me for breaking your pause
Pardon me for breaking down the door
Pardon me for breaking your pause

David "Mr L" Laley

"A Convienient Truth"

Try now, forego, forget the first of everything
You're the incumbent of a never ending test
Signs show, lights glow, i'm told their swagger's an involuntary move
A convienient truth

Volley up a secret served
Teach us what they'll never learn
Shudder at the voice they've heard
Hypnotised by finding the profound

If the Bayeux Tapestry were to fall down, are we losing our touch or forgetting our words?
Let me pretend that convienience is natural progression making us worse

Rely now, smile proud, choosing is unfurling feelings stored
Unfurling feelings obscene and flawed
A plight's stroll, a fight's role
Write them off and reason with their pre-text

Volley up a secret served
Teach us what they'll never learn
Shudder at the voice they've heard
Hypnotised by finding the profound

If the Bayeux Tapestry were to fall down, are we losing our touch or forgetting our words?
Let me pretend that convienience is natural progression making us worse

David "Mr L" Laley

"Bad News"

Relive and prevail
A mind that's broken, banished by a winter's tale
Dynamite defused
Cherish the smiles
Covered by a coat of anger management prescribed
That isn't clue it's just bad news

Praise for the schools
They'll help you lose
Your gravel trapped
Cover up your tracks

More tempt than tame
Don't blame your parents for their burden or your games
Then bend the rules
Perished unsafe
A cataclysmic cauldron keeping us awake
Look for a clue but find bad news

Praise for the schools
They'll help you lose
Your gravel trapped
Cover up your tracks

Never call a bluff that's clear
Singled out and vexed with fear
Call

Praise for the schools
They'll help you lose
Your gravel trapped
Cover up your tracks

David "Mr L" Laley

"Seamless Sonnett Bursts"

Awake in the age of the unrelied
Caught up in Cat Skill pencilled climbs
Academic and drinking wine
All revved up with nowhere else to go
Blinded by an eclipse from head to toe
A world without walls fused by the Sun
Like a juggernaut passing we're sucked in

Seamless sonnett bursts
Seamless sonnett bursts

We just all moan when we're asleep
Lust for seminal visions we just can't keep
A momentary trick that's inked in our heads
Head, head, head

Swing, swing, sway through the bright lights of the lost
A night sky united by matchsticks and moths
All wrapped up in a twist of neon turns
Escape the gutter ghost's cracked bones

Seamless sonnett bursts
Seamless sonnett bursts
Bursts
If you feel mundane then start believing
If you feel worse then don't stop dreaming
If you feel better then let's go

Seamless sonnett bursts ( Don't go trapping everything )
Seamless sonnett bursts ( Don't go crashing into me )
Seamless sonnett bursts ( Don't go trapping everything )
Seamless sonnett bursts ( Don't go crashing into me )

David "Mr L" Laley

The Look Back Lists 2008

Having discussed, debated, argued and pontificated over everything music for the last fortnight it can only mean one thing:

January 1st has come around again and it's time showcase the good, the bad and ear drum bursting sounds I've allowed myself to listen to over the past 12 months; Quite a task with the amount of gigs, the odd festival and the sixtyfourhundred radio and tv channels i've enjoyed gracing my senses.

But here goes: "The Look Back Lists 2008"

Favourite Singles 2008
1. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
2. The Hold Steady - Sequestered in Memphis
3. R.E.M - Hollow Man
4. Frank Turner - Long Live the Queen
5. Glasvegas - Geraldine

6. R.E.M - Supernatural Superserious
7. The Airborne Toxic Event - Gasoline
8. MGMT - Kids
9. Lightspeed Champion - Tell Me What It's Worth
10. Alphabeat - Fascination

Favourite Albums
1. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
2. Frank Turner - Love, Ire and Song
3. R.E.M - Accelerate
4. The Music - Strength In Numbers
5. We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery
6. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
7. Weezer - Weezer
8. Subways - All or Nothing
9. The Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby
10. Glasvegas - Glasvegas

Favourite Gigs/Performances
1. We Are Scientists - The Duchess
2. The Music - Vivaz
3. Vampire Weekend - NME Tent, Leeds Festival
4. Eels - York Opera House
5. Mercury Rev - Manchester Academy II
6. Frank Turner (Supporting Evan Dando) - The Duchess
7. Sons and Daughters - Fibbers
8. Okkervil River - Manchester Academy III
9. Yeasayer - NME Tent, Leeds Festival
10. Lovvers - Basement Bar

Change the Station
1. Pendulum - Propane Nightmares
2. Coldplay - Violet Hill
3. Ting Tings - Not My Name
4. Snow Patrol - Crack the Shutters
5. Kaiser Chiefs - Good Days and Bad Days
6. Verve - Love is Noise
7. Kid Rock - All Summer Long
8. Nickelback - Gotta Be Somebody
9. Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
10. Killers - Human