The Shy Retirer

Toy Flights

Bored at home, nothing to do but eat.. I'll give you a phone and you can come along the street.. You/I'll bring the junk food, I'll/you (can) hire the tape..

Trippy

How am I supposed to walk you home. When you're at least fifty feet ahead?. 'Cause you walked off in a huff. And I'm that pissed, I can't remember what it was I said.

The Long Sea

You've always thought the first time was that night on the boat. Cramped up in the bottom bunk while she slept above. I suppose it's more glamorous out at sea under the moon.

The Night Before The Funeral

The night before the funeral, I got some. I sneaked a young girl up the stairs and past my mum. I took her clothes off and I played with her bits. And she did the same but it took ages for me to come.

The First Time You're Unfaithful

The first time you're unfaithful. Won't be the worst time you're unfaithful. It will probably just be a kiss. With a stranger when you're on the piss.

The First Big Weekend

So that was the first big weekend of the summer... Starts Thursday as usual with a canteen quiz and again no-one wins the big cash prize. Later I do my sound bloke routine by approaching Gina's new boyfriend to say that he shouldn't feel that there's any animosity between us and then I even go and make peace with her. I shouldn't have bothered. Then on Friday night we went through to the Arches....

The Drinking Eye

It doesn't matter how hard you try to deny What I can see clearly with my drinking eye. You know I'd never stop until I see you cry, Make you insist through snot and tears that you'd never lie. Now my Friday nights have many uses..

The Clearing

Tanned

The Greek sun made you lovely. But attacked me with its rays.. I feel asleep and burned so badly. I could barely move for the first few days.. . The girls in front all lay topless.

The Tempest

I say!. Why do you grip so hard, that way?. Of what, is there left to be afraid?. Let the waves elope with your empty remains.. They erode your foothold, anyway..

The Mass Of The Earth

I just wrote to tell you this;. I did just my very best. I went far but got stuck there. I picked up the pieces, I was your vigilant soldier. but the mass of the earth just weighed too heavily on me.

Thank You, Pain

So, lowly criminal,. please tell me, how do you plead?. Now, honorable judges, ladies, gentlemen of the jury, please allow me to present my case.... Ha! What case can you possibly present.

The Escape

Memory is fiction, so the past is your invention. Catch yourself, self-dissect, how youth outlives age. How beauty shames skill. Prayer is for dependents and wish is for the will.

The Funeral (excision Remix)

I'm coming up only to hold you under. I'm coming up only to show you wrong. And to know you is hard, we wonder. To know you, all wrong we were. . Ooh-ooh.

The Winner Takes It All (in The Style Of Abba)

The Sun

Come back in the heart of the sun. Run the day and wait the night to come. Find out every end has begun. Waiting for the final day. I'm waiting for the day that comes the sun.

Two Weeks From Twenty

Jimmy wasn't really popular. He had a couple of friends back home. Sooner or later they're all gettin' out. So he had to join up alone. . He was dreamin' of the ivy leagues.

Trembling

Trembling, hold me now. . I'm torn between silence and violent expression. Tired of believing everyone wants to care. And cherish someone I'm so scared of never having anyone.

Twenty Three

I got to tell you that he waited all his life. For someone like you to come make the wrong things right. I know he didn't have the answers all the time.