The Fifty-Fifty Affair

HUMAN RACE
Just when I think I’m gonna win
Lady luck runs out on me again
But I know the score
Cause I’ve been this way before
I’m rolling like a feather in the wind
Tonight the stars will shift and change
As the thoughts inside my head get rearranged
I’m keeping my eyes open and I’m waiting for a sign
There’s always something happening down the line
I’m running as fast as I can just to stay in the same place
This old world ain’t gonna get the better of me
I could bury my head in the sand
But until I find a better plan
I’m in the human race and I’m running just as fast as I can
I’m gonna take some time to work things out
So there’s no need to scream, no need to shout
The path of least resistance is the one I got to take
But I’d sell my soul to see my baby shake
It’s written in the ancient Chinese text
You never know what’s going to happen next
First there is a mountain then it seems the mountain’s gone
It looks like Donovan had the answer all along
 
FREEZE
You caught me out July
I wasn’t ready
Ready for the freeze
No misty Autumn nights
No gently falling leaves
We trace (chase) the hands of time
Winter’s coming
I can hear the snowflakes fall
If Winter’s coming on
There’ll be nothing left at all
Deep deep the hurt runs deep you know
Deep, deep the hurt runs deep you know
My heart’s as cold as ice
I’m unsteady
You gotta help me please
I just wasn’t ready
I wasn’t ready for the freeze
They turned you into dust
But I remember everything
And I’ll remember you oh I do
Every single song I sing
I sing them all for you
For you
 
LOCKED IN THE GROOVE
You might start out stumbling
Baby you might fall
You better lock it up tight then
Bounce it back off of the wall
Keep on keeping on
Keep on looking for clues
Got to move it on up to the top
When you’re locked in the groove
You’re dreaming of paradise
But walking through hell
The purer the water
The deeper the well
You’re never gonna keep it together
You ain’t got no clue
Just another new kid on the block
That got locked in the groove
Shake out those feathers baby
Reach for the sky
No use to sit around and cry cry cry
When you’re holding on to nothing
What have you got to lose
You better let the needle skip the groove
So now the light in your life
Is getting harder to see
Don’t blame it on fate
Don’t blame it on me
If you’re waiting in line
At the back of the queue
You could be in for a shock
If you’re locked in the groove
Now there’s a time to embrace
There’s a time to refrain
You’re gonna need an umbrella
To keep out of the rain
So keep your eye to the sky
Don’t get lost in the view
You’re gonna sink like a rock
If you’re locked in the groove
 
YOU CAME CREEPING
I thought I held the secret
The key to the master plan
But you came creeping
And snatched it from my hand
No more stolen moments
No more words to say
Cause you came creeping
And took them all away
You took them all away
Sneaking up behind me
Like a shadow on the wall
You came creeping
Now there’s nothing left at all
There’s nothing save the memory
Of what we had before
But you came creeping
And left me wanting more
There could have been so much more
Time is just a vampire baby
Time will bleed your soul
Time will heal the pain inside
Time will take it’s toll
Time won’t listen to these words
Time won’t hear your call
Time will give it’s life to you
Time will kill us all
Every day is darker now
The light has gone away
Since you came creeping
The sunlight fades to grey
The past is like a movie show
Playing in my head
But the leading man is weeping
And the heroine is dead
 
THE VICTORIAN PIER
The pier juts out into the hungry water
Motionless against the ocean’s swell
Barnacles and mussels cling to railings
An upturned crab has no more tales to tell
In days gone by the pier stood proud and regal
Before the wooden floor gave way to dust
Now seaweed wraps around the iron girders
As salt and water turn them into rust
And the sea-shell moonshines down upon
Rusty iron bones
Button up your coat let’s go
To the end of the pier show
It used to house a tea-room and a sideshow
Full skirted ladies parasols in hand
Would take the air and stroll along the boardwalk
As sunlight fell upon the wetted sand
The pier head now is severed from the centre
The centre piece no longer runs to shore
Three ghostly shapes stand in the evening twilight
Set to haunt the coast for evermore