"Kindness"

I lept down by the water’s edge
Where cajoled cowards kick the blues
They’re stuck with neglect surrounded by all of this respect, it’s just hate
The guests stand unatoned struck by the blue eyed and all of their glory
Jaded with the luck of the pirates and the reliance on your pain

Close the door to our destructive bubble, kindness is the biggest prize
Try teaching us to lift the sky and our confidence that’s scared
Close the door to this destructive bubble, kindness is their biggest lie
Try stealing us to reach the sky and our confidence that’s there

A glancing miss, a passing concern, divulging all the words
Defective admissions destroy the chosen ones
Cut them up and place them within your thoughts
So we’ll steal the tools to wreck the truth
What the fuck’s going on in this stately room?
Mentors cashing in on life
Trouble makers designed to thrive

Close the door to our destructive bubble, kindness is the biggest prize
Try teaching us to lift the sky and our confidence that’s scared
Close the door to this destructive bubble, kindness is their biggest lie
Try stealing us to reach the sky and our confidence that’s there

David Laley September 2009

"The Indivisible"

Below the silent strolling clouds
Whisper words that unify unconditional feelings and calming thoughts
Except we missed all of the hooks
Titanic traitors on the cusp of finding witchcraft for hours missing from the clocks
Flickering eyes, dilated dreams, dashing dials and subtleties
Keep confessing you’ll concede to imperfect tense
Write all the warmth into the snow
Have your hands ready to glow
In the harbours of charmers and their godforsaken dens

Although our generosity extends, the clever girls are sent to dwell
In our notes and names we’re the indivisible

Allowed to plaster plans of hope on the promises that we’d cope
Teach us to drop our dreams for simply getting paid
Why must your mind brag for the bleak
Tempting fate and then defeat
The incandescent are deceased, sucked into the ground in vain

Although our generosity extends, the clever girls are sent to dwell
In our notes and names we’re the indivisible

You can’t ruin anything that isn’t there in life or lovers arms
Crying ink instead of tears, help me heal your suffering spells
Defiance that didn’t care, left forgotten in the sand, crying ink instead of tears

Although our generosity extends i’ve invented all I can
And all the screams I couldn’t save forever forces me to dwell
When all is said and done they’ll declare a case of open hearted fun
And we’ll wake from tommorow no longer as invincible

David Laley September 2009

"My Fear"

Stolen adverts are cursed with a surge
Of cadence crushed verbs just like a kiss
Designing the rhymes so we can shoot to miss
Readjust what you see in the frame
Hold hands and understand this
It’s the dismal that demand this
Anulled, an incomplete and borrowed hymn
Behind the lights runs a river signposted death
A bittersweet vision sent to the innocent
A spectral wish for the strong willed
I dropped to an apparition weaker than the scattered
Bullets and fireworks flying past the disaster

We’ll drive around the streets thinking we know best
Arriving at a parallel of kindred calls
My fear

I’ve crashed and christened myself a new world
A verse of chemical clocks and thesaurus prayers
They collectively escape to the Devil’s lair
Autumn leaves hang biding their time
They hum in the wind as we’re walking past
Why does every start have to end so fast?

We’ll drive around the streets thinking we know best
Arriving at a parallel of terminal thoughts called
My fear

We know best
Find the right words
We know best
We can’t be replaced

David Laley September 2009

"Look In Your Mirrors When You Drive"

Break into a rage because i’m high
Look in your mirrors when you drive
And generate a style only one of us will mind
Sit cross legged in the stars
You’re not that bitter you’re just proud
Denounced amongst the sky like every sight and sound

Beneath your vain hope and brittle pout
I’ve always wondered if a fool could fall for another fool?
Isn’t that breaking all the rules?
Straight facts leading me to merrily spend
Was I really that keen to face such a punch-drunk pastime?
When we’re drunk we’re also blind
Grabbing onto blondes going off the rails
Would it be better if I just held you the same?

Don’t subject just change your name
To Midas or The Rain
And jump around in the puddles so you can hide the blame
Except that now i’m bloody soaked
You could have fallen in head first
That might have been fun
So much fun, fun, fun
We’ll tease until we’re stunned
Between the Lions, train wreck Tigers sent to lend their friends
Unable to find a four leaf clover
Bitten off before they can send
A message to every God that listens in
But they can’t tell if we’re sober or pretending

To be movie stills when fools rush in
I’ve often wondered how that song would go
Coy as we recall the words
Forget the chorus and that we cared
We’ll just stay for one more song
Whilst the narator ponders another scene
Cut to another theme
Our lives are being driven by the impaired
The director takes half a decade to repair
Seeing through the whispers in your hair
You were nothing but science
When that blonde girl became lost in your head

I’ve always wondered if a fool could fall for another fool
We’ll write our very own rules
Bowled over with tricks of denial
Am I really able to face such a punch-drunk pastime?
When we’re drunk we’re redefined
Send doggeral verse to St Valentine
And save your stories for another time
It’s almost the end of the night
We’ve found a four leaf clover
At least we can now say we both tried

David Laley September 2009

"Space"

Fun and games, if you win applaud them
Fun and games, if you lose adore them instead
Don’t hurry, just dare enough times
A fallen great in a mythical prison
A fallen heart descends to derision this way
Don’t hurry, just dare enough times

Find the space so we can fight
Find the space so we can unite
Find the space, space so vast
Find the space to lie
Find the space, space so vast
Find the space to hide

A trick of light or a seventh charm?
A happy family held in your plans today
Don’t hurry, just dare enough times

Find the space so we can fight
Find the space so we can unite
Find the space, space so vast
Find the space to lie
Find the space, space so vast
Find the space to hide

Find the space, space so vast
Find the space to hide

Find the space, space so vast
Find the space to hide

This feels like a game
Fun and games
Fun and games
Fun and games
Fun and games
Fun and games
Fun and games
Fun and games
Fun and games

David Laley September 2009

"The Big Bang"

If I had my time over, i’d colour in the holes with a computer
Keyboard clicking through old grooves, all the tools, no idea how to use them
Just get up off the floor, detect a motion of mutual
I’ll justify all of the grooves and pause the clocks for a second to tell you

That they sometimes drive me insane, but life isn’t a sequel
Chewing on my toys in a world that’s so pissed off with how
People sit there mapping their lives before they’re gone
They’re not that strong, before, bang they’re gone

The fight’s off, why the fuck are living in this fear?
I could have fought further and driven further and still I wouldn’t dissapear

I’ve never been caught
Self-accusation will follow me like the law

Help me get off the floor, detect a mission that’s mutual
Please justify all of the grooves and pause the clocks for a second to tell me

That they sometimes drive you insane but life feels like a sequel
Chewing on your toys in a world that’s so objective with how
You’re sat there mapping out your life before you’re gone
Were you ever that strong? Before, bang you’re gone

We’re sometimes driven so insane waiting for life’s sequel to begin
Chewing on our toys in a world that isn’t immortal to
Us sat there mapping our lives, where on earth have you gone?
I was never that strong, before, bang now i’ve gone

David Laley September 2009

"Laugh Out Loud"

The words that they’ve took
And given them short cuts
They don’t belong in the books
They belong to the crooks
A defiant hatred
A fat zero
This isn’t genuine
Just a fear of

The words that they’ve cracked
Direptitiously attacked
Across liquid crystal screens
They belong in their genes
A fucking hurdle
I’m speachless
This isn’t genuine
Just a fear of life’s symbols

Laugh out loud there’s no dynamic
Laugh out loud there’s no dynamic
Laugh out loud that’s the trouble
Riled at your phonetics

The words that they’ve stole
And ripped out their soul
Disregarded for a phone
They belong to the clones
Another murder
I’ve witnessed
This isn’t genuine
Just a fear of life’s symbols

Laugh out loud there’s no dynamic
Laugh out loud there’s no dynamic
Laugh out loud that’s the trouble
Riled at your phonetics

Laugh out loud there’s no dynamic
Laugh out loud there’s no dynamic
Laugh out loud that’s the trouble
Riled at your phonetics

David Laley September 2009

"Call Me Crazy"

We’re the lazy daisies with the tumbling stares
The painted faces in the towns that don’t care
You’re not looking hard enough
Just call me crazy but are they not called clowns?
Dovetailing, docile in their pretty coats and gowns
The same preview only foolish

Happily smashed, young and free
You’re the twitter in the trees
Undercover but revealed
Happily smashed, nothing else to do
Affecting anyone who’s aloof
Pretending to be cool

We’re the hazy daydreams everyone likes to play
The beautiful angles of the patterns on stage
Stuck in the safety of the keep net
Just call me crazy but have we all gone mad?
The silent phases colour the gaps in our heads
Isn’t that our weakness?

Happily smashed, young and free
You’re the twitter in the trees
Undercover but revealed
Happily smashed, nothing else to do
Affecting anyone who’s aloof
Pretending to be cool

Happily smashed, young and free
You’re the twitter in the trees
Undercover but revealed
Happily smashed, nothing else to do
Affecting anyone who’s aloof
Pretending to be cool

David Laley September 2009

"Soaked in the Sunshine"

I rang you to say I was leaving
Distracted by oceans and mountains of glass
Clones without cupids are dreaming
Inverted, collapsed but relaxed as they lay
Soaked in the sunshine
An ode to the memories we’ve lived
In my boat i’m reminded of
A betrayal of the demands from our hearts

I rang you to say I was thinking
Of distracting the oceans and mountains i’ve smashed
Clones with our cupids deleting
Depart through the tectonic plates in your face
Unspoken in the sunshine
Falling over the side of my boat
And stumble on the sharp rocks
A trembling thought in the tides

Home and soaked wet through
Our trust has come completely unglued
A voice is happy to play the fool
Fool

The truth in the sunshine
Is it’s never quite as it seems
A justified stumbling block
Designed to crowd around our seas
Cold and soaked wet through
Our trust can’t come completely unglued
A voice is happy to stop being the fool
I can’t help but think of you
You wake up and hold your smile
You wake up and follow mine
Awoken in the sunshine without you

David Laley September 2009

"All My Fault"

The suffocation of the bearded man
The beautician and his dry wipe marker pen, and give a thought to Poo Girl
Have come to fruition because of a trawler man fishing for wellington boots
The Wakey lads, Liam, Danny, Dave and Lee will not escape either
This morning I might just jinx the stereo
Whilst Sambuca, Jaegermeister, Beer and Lambrini flows
And if you meet Harry Bowman don’t offer him sun cream for his skin tone
Just remember Jack needs his shoes back before he starts his next show

We’ve got ten more trips to accomplish
MKM bags filled with our sweat
And Ewan’s parked another week away
Just call upon the said quotation

We’ll just blister in the celebration whilst we dance to the good nights
And we’ll sing all of our goodbyes before it becomes daylight
But it certainly wasn’t all my fault
I had all my good friends to help me out

No it certainly wasn’t all my fault
I had all my best mates to help me out

David Laley and Stephen "Captain Slow" Caines (opening line) September 2009