5. Sometimes Love Takes The Long Way Home

The breath of a notion on a temperate breeze,

Stirs my emotion, it begins unseen,

Till the hunger grows and love starts to take hold,

In vivid reflections, see it all too clear,

Taint our affections, through our crystal tears,

‘Till a cold and frozen love has to let go,

Desperate dreams sail the ocean tides on long summer nights,

In too deep, pure emotion guides the way,

Our esteem for the laughter dies with tears in our eyes,

Sometimes love takes the long way home.

My faint recollections of a young boys dream,

Searching for something of sublime extremes,

“Why does everything I touch crumble to dust? “,

Love on its journey, crossing wild Frontiers,

We chase our adventures, as we face our fears,

In the fray we lose our way, stumble and rust,

Desperate dreams sail the ocean tides on long summer nights,

In too deep, pure emotion guides the way,

Our esteem for the laughter dies with tears in our eyes,

Sometimes love takes the long way home...

Desperate dreams sail the ocean tides on long summer nights,

In too deep, pure emotion guides the way,

Our esteem for the laughter dies with tears in our eyes,

Sometimes love takes the long way home.

6. A Smuggler’s Tale

Dusk fades as the moonlight greys,

Every man at arms like a beckoning shroud,

Cold eyes watch a crimson tide evolve,

She rakes through the rocks then breaks

As the thunder clouds take a merciless bow,

She climbs in the eye but then dissolves,

This Ship is riving on the reef,

Soon her cargo will release,

It pours like blood from every breach,

Through the water to the beach,

I race to the last embrace,

For the few who rise to the shallows are drowned,

Most souls who remain, the depths devour,

Laid waste in a resting place

Where the tide departs to the burial ground,

No rest till the dead man’s chest is ours,

Inside a cage I forged from tears,

Is a man who should be feared,

I prime the blade I call ‘Austere’

Like a deadly cavalier.

Stormbound, down we go,

Keep those cliff top pyres aglow,

Ghost-like figures in the shoreline mist,

Stormbound, down we go,

Shipwrecked silks and Calico,

Bludgeon drowned by the Smuggler‘s kiss,

Mistaking the fires we make for the ‘Harbour Mark’

Runs the money aground,

We pray on the lost, we take it all,

Gold braid for The Magistrate closes eyes and ears

To the deafening sound,

We slay any soul that drifts ashore,

These ragged marks show, wrist and shin,

Where the manacle had been,

This map of scars upon my skin

Is a chronicle of sins,

Stormbound, down we go,

Keep those cliff top pyres aglow,

Ghost-like figures in the shoreline mist,

Stormbound, down we go,

Shipwrecked silks and Calico,

Bludgeon drowned by the Smuggler‘s kiss.

7. It Ends This Day

I am your slave and your master,

I am of steel, straight and true,

I was the key to disaster,

I never stopped loving you,

Breathe, in my cave of wonders,

Crumble to dust as your colours unwind,

Cleave, tear yourself asunder,

Torn in the lust of this endless riptide, “Love”,

Talk, talk, talking in your sleep,

Caught in dreams that surface from the deep,

Haunting scenes still roll and then repeat,

So it ends this way,

It ends this day.

Walk, walk, walking through the streets,

Taunting, you don’t practice what you preach,

Flaunting all those secrets that you keep,

Oh it ends this way,

It ends this day.

I hear your heart beating faster,

I fear the stark, shameless truth,

I tear apart this Canasta,

I played my cards trusting you,

Breathe, in my cave of wonders,

Crumble to dust as your colours unwind,

Cleave, tear yourself asunder,

Torn in the lust of this endless riptide, “Love”,

Talk, talk, talking in your sleep,

Caught in dreams that surface from the deep,

Haunting scenes still roll and then repeat,

So it ends this way,

It ends this day.

Walk, walk, walking through the streets,

Taunting, you don’t practice what you preach,

Flaunting all those secrets that you keep,

Oh it ends this way,

It ends this day.

Talk, talk, talking in your sleep,

Caught in dreams that surface from the deep,

Haunting scenes still roll and then repeat,

So it ends this way,

It ends this day.

Walk, walk, walking through the streets,

Taunting, you don’t practice what you preach,

Flaunting all those secrets that you keep,

Oh it ends this way,

It ends this day.

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8. Die For Me

Godless, damned,

I’m a spectre,

Crossing this stark, baron land,

Lawless man and protector,

Facing the dark ‘best I can’,

On the black horizon

Shadows of death make a stand,

So I exorcise them,

Ashes to dust on the sand,

Lightning, rain and thunder,

Cut me to the bone,

Life condemned to wander,

This battle zone,

This life alone,

I’ll make you die for me,

In this world you’re not so tough,

I have come to lead you

Don’t you lie to me,

Demon girl you’re not so tough,

I will not deceive you,

If you try for me babe, you can fly for me baby,

We could go to hell tonight,

But if you die for me babe, sacrifice for me baby,

You can taste this heaven of mine.

‘Dead man down’

When she left me,

She crushed my world in her hands,

Darkness came to collect me,

And I made a deal with ‘The Man’

Looking back I wondered,

Prayed for a gun in her hands,

That this pain I’m under,

Might dissipate on command,

Lightning, rain and thunder,

Cut me to the bone,

Life condemned to wander,

This battle zone,

This life alone,

I’ll make you die for me,

In this world you’re not so tough,

I have come to lead you

Don’t you lie to me,

Demon girl you’re not so tough,

I will not deceive you,

If you try for me babe, you can fly for me baby,

We could go to hell tonight,

But if you die for me babe, sacrifice for me baby,

You can taste this heaven of mine.