The Smallest Act Of Kindness

Nothing Going On

Ain't nothing going on
But the rain in the night
Ain't nothing going on
But the rain

The sound of the clouds
In the air passing by
The sound of the rain
In the sky

Nothing going on
Ain't nothing going on
Nothing going on
But the clouds passing by

The Hardest Heart

Let the morning sun proclaim
the light of the world
let the golden day unfurl
on every wave - on every hill

Each angered fist uncurl
Caress the hardest heart
stir the sleeping earth
each stone - each blade of grass

The soul of the world
ignite a brand new day
let the morning sun proclaim
a brand new start
a brand new way

Waiting

The wood burns warm
The house is still
The music soothes
and soon I will
Look for in another
what I found in you
What we had in each other
but you couldn't live through

Old love bums
My body aches
And I'm taking time
for as long as it takes
As the sunset fades
and the moonlight breaks
I'll try and put sight
all rny mistakes

A throwaway world
A throwaway life
I'm glad I'm by myself tonight
When all passion's spent
in the one you love
When there's no guiding hands
from a god above
When all that's left
is never enough.

But there was a time
that I can't find
Filled with light
from a love inside
Filled with love
it was a world so wide
And we'd run from one
to the other side
Filled with laughter
and a love so bright
Now I wait for something
by hushed firelight
Something that will tell me
everything's alright.

A throwaway world
A throwaway life
I'm glad Im here
by myself tonight
Where the wood's all warm
and the fire burns bright
And I tell myself everything

Know

All that is left
Is the saddest of songs
All I can try
Is to right all the wrongs

I cannot go
To where you have gone
Yet you were the place
That I came from

Something you told me
Stays in my head
Circles above
Like a bird overhead

Something we should have
But never was said
Goes on in the hopes
Of the living instead

Now all that is left
Is the saddest of songs
Now all I can try
Is to right all the wrongs

I watch the stars
And know that you're there
The space in the place
The foot of the stair

The light falling now
On the arm of the chair
The warm reaching sun
The chill evening air

If only we could do
If only we'd dare
To fill every void
With love and with care

Now all that is left
Is the saddest of songs
Now all I can try
Is to right all the wrongs

Off Grid

Just me, and this boy of mine
underneath a sheltering sky
by a railway line

Waiting for the wood to catch,
The damp twigs
The last match

Evening, passing time
Waiting for the moment
Waiting for a sign

Boys up close, pressed against my side
Daze of rippling water, glimmering with light
Stars up in the stillness,
to the quiet, to the night

Howl of the wind, cry of the train
Inky black above
writes the story again

Just me and this boy of mine

Boy Racing

Night
And my nerve endings
Coded messages they're sending
Twitch and tingle
Blink and twinkle
Restless as the million stars I've counted
Overhead tonight

Spinning
My head and stomach
All gravity and magnets
Each contrary, rotating planets
Pulling sleep away

With every hour making minute
Am I outside my life or in it
And all this music
That's making waves within it
Can I find one song to sing it?

All the words I've strung like beads
All the words that stung like bees to bring it
A little fruit, a hate or two,
A sign of something on someone that I knew
And this life feels like so many different fives
I'm falling through

Night
Dizzy night
I can't recognise the cycle of the years
The source of all rny fear
The source that led me here
Your boys' cologne, your been
The presence of our fathers ever near
Sacred secrets you whisper in rny ear

I'll rest tonight
As you move closer to me
Your light will eclipse and will absorb
The darkness that confounds my foolish all
Place harmony where them has been discord

Boy Racing

Night
And my nerve endings
Coded messages they're sending
Twitch and tingle
Blink and twinkle
Restless as the million stars I've counted
Overhead tonight

Spinning
My head and stomach
All gravity and magnets
Each contrary, rotating planets
Pulling sleep away

With every hour making minute
Am I outside my life or in it
And all this music
That's making waves within it
Can I find one song to sing it?

All the words I've strung like beads
All the words that stung like bees to bring it
A little fruit, a hate or two,
A sign of something on someone that I knew
And this life feels like so many different fives
I'm falling through

Night
Dizzy night
I can't recognise the cycle of the years
The source of all rny fear
The source that led me here
Your boys' cologne, your been
The presence of our fathers ever near
Sacred secrets you whisper in rny ear

I'll rest tonight
As you move closer to me
Your light will eclipse and will absorb
The darkness that confounds my foolish all
Place harmony where them has been discord

Full Moon

Far away a niche cuts itself in deepest space
We slip almost unknowing into a deeper darker place
Inside my dreams they build business machines
Nothing here is ever what it seems
In the land of haven't got a clue
I'm not to blame for anything I do
In the land of couldn't give a fuck
You pay your money and leave the rest to luck

The man in the Moon is watching you
And me and everything we do
Life on Mars, a stairway to the stars
Cheap flights, fast food, flash cars
Worlds collide, states divide
Choose your side, landslides
Third rock from the Sun, it's only just begun
For you and me and everyone

I push my head into a deep blue pillow of sound
Music's echo of time, resonating 'round
Comet trails like horses tails ride an endless night
Beyond the coming morning, beyond the coming light
All around us a great big book of wonder
The Earth we walk, the sky we're under
These moments are mine, they belong to me
I bathe in lunar waters, sea of tranquility

The man in the Moon is watching you
And me and everything we do
Life on Mars, a stairway to the stars
Cheap flights, fast food, flash cars
Worlds collide, states divide
Choose your side, landslides
Third rock from the Sun, it's only just begun
For you and me and everyone

The scorched Earth catches fire, it finds no relief
Can we find it in ourselves ever to conceive
As cities choke and islands disappear in smoke
That maybe what we're doing in some way could provoke
Although all forms are shifting as nature makes its way
The speed of change we're forcing team our souls away
The Moon is full, the river's high
What will become of you and I?

If

Imagine
Imagine if
What would happen
What would happen if
Running on empty
Seemingly forever
The car crawls to the umpteenth fuel station
Still out of sight
Joining the motionless caterpillar of cars
Traffic snaking
Tailing back for miles

Imagine
Imagine if the afternoon turned to evening
And as you approach the entrance
Fists fly as the green plastic can is wrestled over
And subsequently spilled across the great tarmac
Mixing blood and petrol

Imagine
What if the price became so high
It was only available to those who could afford it
Those who the governments decide take priority

Imagine it is rationed by the litre
Security guards, then eventually soldiers patrolling the pumps

Imagine

Then it all stops
...

Imagine
Imagine all the silence
...
After the rioting, the killing, the madness
Silence
... silence

What would happen next?