Music
Above the Fray [song lyric]
Pick me up and dust me down
Find a way to wipe that frown
Off the face of Father Sun
Shining down on everyone
Why do clouds obscure the view?
Why the air ’tween me and you?
Why the tear ’tween I and me?
Why’s the news not poetry?
Framed [new song]
When all the cards are down
And with my feet firm on the ground
I can see the pack was never full.
Missing was the Queen of Hearts
Well it was pinned with feathered darts
To a half-done painting on the wall.
Hara Kiri Every Time [song lyric]
I have been here before…
Feeling I’m on a mountaintop and riding high
Though all my instincts tell me that it’s all a lie
This is the one I dreamed about my whole life through (yeah)
Thought I could breathe at last although it’s all untrue
Clinging to straws and roses made it seem so fine
Yet I committed Hara Kiri every time.
I thought I’d seen the light…
Flashing and swirling round me like a storm at sea
Warning me not to go there ’cause of where I’d be
Showing me how I’d fall into the poisoned tide
Tearing myself to pieces with that knife inside
But I was like an insect round a candleshine
And I committed Hara Kiri every time.
Extravaganza [song lyric]
The blossom blooms through frosty nights
Its show now tinged with sun
Each time it fills my eyes with tears
My heart is all undone
I’m sure that it did not design
To be so brightly made
Its luminescence makes me know
Our love did start to fade
Fragments [song lyric]
there’s a fire in the attic
there’s a furnace in the hall
and the restless heart within you
is a stone’s throw from the wall
there’s a hailstorm in the window,
there’s a torrent in your soul
and the fat cats in the corridor
are looking for the hole
there’s thunder in the chimney
there’s a desert in the bed
and all the strength has drained from you
through something that you said
there’s a typhoon in the windmill
and an iceflow in the bay
with a plot to tie your laces up
and take your toys away
Played and Lost [song lyric]
I played the game of love and then I lost
I knew not that it was a game at first
But now I paid the price at such a cost
All future close liaisons will be cursed
I loved a girl; she said that she loved me
She told me that she thought I was The One
But nothing in this game of love comes free
Especially living near the midnight sun
Till I Met You [song lyric]
Till I met you
I never wanted to fulfil
a woman’s every dream
to want to find solutions to
her every whim and scheme
Till I met you
I never thought that I could be
in someone’s company
and never want to be unhooked
and never to be free
Till I met you
I never talked on telephones
for timeless hours of woo
or till the battery faded out
whichever first came through
Till I met you
I never wished that I could be
forever by a side
I never wished my lover said
“when I become your bride”
Till I met you
I never had orgasmic waves
just looking in some eyes
or barely touching fingertips
(I swear I almost died)
[I will miss those timeless rides
to the moon and back again
Dazed that everything could die
With a dread dash from my pen]
Till I met you
I never thought that time would stand
as still as silent leaves
I never had a Golden Box
upon which hung two keys
Till I met you
I never saw a smile which burned
its way into my soul
while laughingly ensuring that
I never would grow old
Till I met you
I never thought that I would bring
an idyll to an end
but Ice Queen frolic freezer types
I’ll never comprehend
© 2011, Alan Morrison
Stockholm Cowgirl [song lyric]
I met a girl from Stockholm
A cowgirl (so she said)
Impressive in her rhinestones
She seemed a thoroughbred
But at the time I didn’t see
The spurs she wore below
Received her rattler snakebite
But I had no antidote
The Rising [song lyric]
Did you want to take yourself away in space –
lose yourself without a trace and be alive?
Listen hard with something other than your mind;
then so strangely you will plainly come to find
that you can hear the heartbeat of the world –
its secret soul unfurled.
It’s raw. What’s more,
you’ll ache for all the pain that power brings
and realise that you can simply sing
to heal it all –
just heed the call
to rise…
How did we come to reach this point
where everything seems out of joint?
The answer is discovered deep inside;
and then we have to swim against the tide
With courage we must act as one –
the power of words against the gun,
so we can look our children in the eye;
with love for every speck beneath the sky
Come with me and take my hand in harmony.
Make a stand and know you’re free to be yourself.
Do not fear the consequences of your deeds.
Now the time has finally come to fulfil needs.
You’ll find when you unlock the prison door,
the bird inside will soar
on wings and sing.
You’ll know in what direction you should go.
Towards your future you can truly flow
to heal it all –
just heed the call
to rise…
© 2011, Alan Morrison
Icebreaking Angel [song lyric]
I was waiting by a canyon
Never saw a rising sun
A cold wind wrecked my fortunes
Always went back to square one
Above me only dark night
And below me wasted earth
Each time I found the pieces
Every picture was absurd
All it took was one small phone call
And a voice to melt the snow
Bubbling from your radiant heart
With electric afterglow
You came right out of nowhere
On a mission with a plan
Then you said “I’m changing places
With a new me if I can”
The Naked Troubadour 