1 Tip Top
She’s the lollipop, gob-stopped Tip Top type,
Just a pleaser in a freezer
Laying cool and bright;
Got nothing much to offer
But a quick delight,
My little lollipop, gob-stopped, Tip Top type
2 Sending Out a Call
Shining eyes, you’re burning out of light,
Lets pretend you’ve always been so strong
Just because you’re strong
A bridge of lies you played the game life
Trying hard to be anything but wrong,
But you’re not wrong
Let the tower fall
Let it all stream into the river
Sending out a call
You’ll find your way back home
Set your power free
Let your song scream into the mirror
Sending out a call
You’ll find your way back home
Flash a smile, you’re churning up inside;
‘Lets pretend’ is the sanctuary at hand…
Built on quick sand
Standing tall even as you slip and slide,
You’re fighting hard to control the rolling tide
When it’s your guide
And I’m sorry that I hurt you,
The one thing I never meant to do
Was burn you with the burden of virtue
So lets pretend you’ve always been
So strong
Just because
3 Finally Bloom
It’s been a long cold winter without you
A real long slog on my own
Failed or delayed,
I can’t say that I doubt you
Met plenty of rubble on the road
It’s been an uphill climb but I’m out now
The sunshine’s glowing on my skin
But they all will warn
Just as soon as you sprout, how
The wind and the weather
Will drive you back in
But now we’re back on track
My love
Underground, trouble’s all that I found
Down here alone
But if we’re back on track
My love
Maybe I learnt
The hurt was the dirt that I needed
to grow
The beauty of the seasons
Is waiting for a lifetime for a single bloom
4 Monster
What she needed was your shoulder
Where your voice stepped in instead
Twisted lullabies you sold her
Trickle poison in her head
Hidden behind these shining eyes
There’s a monster at the foot of my bed
Every dream she makes is out of touch
With reality so vague
How to make waves or how to trust
Treading water in your games
Ripples that live on and tantalise
The impostor that you put in my head
Let me sleep
Slow some, you make me run
So dumb, you make me
Don’t you walk
Don’t you walk so fast
Don’t you walk
5 My Rock
I’m calling do you hear me
When I speak my name
These suffocated tears have been
Soaking up spilt blame
So flood me with your red light
Can we end this fight?
No way, now that the fire’s lit
You’d keep me in your dark and dry
You gave me breath, you gave me life
And all of your dreams
So I learned to be
Seen and not heard by your side
You made me strong
So strong I couldn’t reach
Far enough away to go making mistakes
That could bring me back to me
So I’m calling to you hear me
When I speak my name
These suffocated tears are leaving me
Help me on my way
You are my rock and I can’t break free
From the pull and the spin of your gravity
I try my best but I can’t get loose
With the fear looming so near
Of disappointing you
You…
You are my rock but I can’t break free
Let me be
6 Lost Again
I followed you blindly,
I followed you blindly
And now I’m lost without the map,
We twist and we turn,
You say stay right behind me
Now there’s no way I’m getting back
Save me, save me,
Sending up a flare,
Does anybody care there,
Watching from above?
Caught in the jungle
Trying to track down love
And it got me getting lost again
And it got me getting
I followed you blindly,
I followed you blindly
And now I’m lost without the map
Let you be first
And it thrilled you to guide me,
Now there’s no way I’m getting back
Never needed anybody’s care when
Knowing what and where comes next,
Except in love,
Caught in the newest whirlwind
I’m dreaming up
And it got me getting lost again
You only got me getting
S.O.S., please send an S.O.S.
To save a fool in distress
It won’t stop me getting lost again
Lost again
Oh you got me getting lost again
So you got me getting lost again
Somebody stop me getting…
7 Into the Light
There’s a mask she’s wearing
Let it slip, there’s twenty more
She’s too shy for sharing
So much safer to ignore
I close my eyes
To a fantasyland,
With a sword she’s so secure,
Place her hand on steel and
Wish the monsters from the door
I choose these lies
Do I have to step right out into the light ?
Can’t you meet me here
In the dark of night?
I need the comfort of the cover
Can we close our eyes?
Why can’t you see me
Without my fight,
And wash the wish away
To wish upon a white knight,
You swear you promise me your love
I swear I’ll stop the lies
There’s a mask she’s wearing
Been in place for twenty four
Half a life of staring
While she starves down to the core
I close my eyes
I’m all up in my head
All torn and tied by every word you said
And still my heart sings.
Won’t you release me from my doubt,
Can you grant me an easier way out?
Please.
8 Build Me a Bridge
The water is wide I cannot get o’er
And neither have I wings to fly
Build me a bridge
That will carry me toward
The land beyond my lonely isle
I fashioned a boat so sail the sea
I captained far that trusty tree
But floating free found danger and storm
That swept me home to my lonely shore
God give me strength to span the wide
A branch that bonds,
Thorough wind and tide,
And maybe someday when doubt is gone
A bridge that love can walk upon