"Girl With Green Eyes"

Keep us from the threshold of going insane
It’s a constant threat followed by the rain
A vision of modesty seeks a stranger to many themes
My wooden heart waits
Strike up the match and we’ll test our fate

But then it all goes wrong in a land of illusions
We don’t act with mechanical parts
Or share romantic truths with our old enemies
For every bludgeoning force, there’s a negative response
For every hind sight heard, there’s another wishing you’d never learnt
Under glorius blue sky a girl with green eyes saved my life

So we’ll leave here
And take the train to nowhere, nowhere again
Cracked from one another’s crimes, we’re crushed then quietly erased
We were conceived to blow bubbles that collide
To keep our ancestors, mothers and fathers proud
A latent power that halts our heads
Stuck in the way of what you said

And then when it all goes wrong in a land tattooed with illusions
We don’t act with mechanical parts
Or share romantic truths with our old enemies
For every bludgeoning force, there’s a negative response
For every hind sight heard, there’s another wishing you’d never learnt
Every voice on this earth needs something they can’t ignore
Under glorius blue sky a girl with green eyes saved my life

A girl with green eyes saved my life
A girl with green eyes saved my life
A girl with green eyes saved my life

David Laley 2010

"Plenipotentiary"

The trick is lowering the tone with laughs
Plying our trade without being sad
In a truck stop filled with sound
Where the plenipotentiary stood her ground
So stubborn with her wooden maths
So stubborn on a molten path
Of destruction without cracks

They generated a creature
A sort of lamb with a lion’s wrath
As I stomped bare foot across the cinders
Plagued by a child like bubble hell bent on being the teacher’s pet
So stubborn stuck in a wooden trap
Of destruction without cracks

My soul departs as the pack turn to kill our visions
Lost with someone who won’t believe them
A hidden wonder in a lion’s lair
Bored from what we held before it was grabbed

But if the time comes
And we realise our emotional mistakes
At least i’ll stand up and admit them
Whilst you’ll stand waiting, for the significant other one
To be pulled alive from a wooden trap
Of destruction without cracks

My soul departs as the pack turn to kill our visions
Lost with someone who won’t believe them
A hidden wonder in a lion’s lair
Bored from what we held before we’re told

This isn’t a premonition
Unleash the believers
To find a wonder in a lion’s lair
Bored from what we held before it was grabbed

My soul departs as the pack turn to kill our visions
Lost with someone who won’t believe them
A hidden wonder in a lion’s lair
Bored from what we held before we’re told

David Laley 2010