SHADES OF GREY

(Jake Watt / 2012 ©)

Black suits and telephones

Today’s news endless yawns

Is this you or just a clone

Heading back home

Thanks to you I’m not alone

Heading back home

 

In your eyes no longer there

That fairy tale we used to share

What if life was down to this?

Worthless pennies

The latest apple on a tray

They killed the fairies

 

You wanna be rich you wanna be fit

You wanna make love candle lit

You wanna be someone someday

You wanna be red when all is grey

Take my hand and pray.

 

Pack it up and start again

Everyday is just insane

Rush for your time catch up the days

We’re going nowhere

The weeks the months you give away

These take you nowhere

 

You wanna be rich you wanna be fit

You wanna make love candle lit

You wanna be someone someday

You wanna be red when all is grey

 

But your future's not to hire

Unfold what may

When your faith is no desire

Just shades of grey

 

 

GENERATION Y

(Jake Watt / 2012 ©)

If I’m better at home - If I don’t go out late

Is that I like to sit around alone

And hate the people I hate

 

I get scared of crowds - And to my shrink i swear

“Yet I know tons of friends I can poke

And I can like what you like”

 

I’m gonna comb my hair - I’m A-dress up tight

I’m A-walk the streets haven’t been out for weeks

I can feel I need some air tonight

 

Is this what I came for?

Did I have that in mind?

G-Generation Y

Is this what I crave for?

The life I had in mind?

G-Generation Y

 

If I can live a life - And live it day by day while

Strumming my guitar

A couple Grammy’s on the way

 

A man can have his dreams but - Still has to pay the rent

Seems like a plan to go for fame & recognition

When you’re broke

 

Now I have seven hours - In seven days

In which to prove the state is wrong

That I am on the righteous way

 

Do I still have to pay the bill

If it’s colder inside

I’ve got a couple cruise-ship tickets free

If you fancy the ride

Will I smoke them cigarettes

I’m told there’s cancer inside

Will I drink myself to sleep

And put it all on you tube

Get a million hits...

 

 

BY YOUR SIDE

(Jake Watt / 2012 ©)

Like a thorn in your spine

A grip you want loose

A fly in your glass of wine

Like a voice in your head

A trip you don't choose

A book you've already read

 

Like a shot to the head

The knot to the noose

A word you so dearly regret

Like an urge to a piss

Just a note on your list

Something you can easily dismiss

 

This feeling you get and you're too proud to wonder

How worse can it get and when will you scarper?

By your side

I've been waiting, fighting by your side

I’ve been painting my life in black & white

I’ve been fleeing deserting every fight

I’ve been waiting inside

 

If there's no one to blame

If it's nobody's fault

Then who made the rules to this game?

It’s a trap that you've staged

The decision is yours

A bird in an open cage

 

I’m the glint to your fire

I’m the price to the gold

The foundation below your empire

Either one of us quits

And if that should be me

I won't engage in this battle of wits

 

I've been waiting

I buried my soul deep underground

I've been hiding too long conspiring by your side

Raise your hopes and do yourself a favour

CASTANEDA

(Jake Watt / 2012 ©)

Sometimes I wonder

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like

Without those little voices in my head

I feel I’m drifting

The boat is rocking

My feet are tied and my head high up in the clouds

 

I guess there's always been that little angel

Speaking out loud

I could blame this on education if I wasn't so proud

 

Cause I wanna be up high where the eagles fly

Me and Jerry Garcia chillin' drinking whiskey and rye

Cause I wanna be up high where the eagles fly

Cause I wanna be high tonight

 

So many roads

Decisions linger with no excuse

But frankly Scarlett I don't give a damn

Sometimes I wonder

Sometimes I wonder how much

We really know 'bout our own inner-selves

 

I guess there's always been that little angel

Speaking out loud

I could blame this on education if I wasn't so proud

 

Cause I wanna be up high where the eagles fly

Me and Jerry Garcia chillin' drinking whiskey and rye

Cause I wanna be up high where the eagles fly

Cause I wanna be high tonight

 

I guess there's always been that little devil

Speaking out loud

You’ll never be seeing the big picture high

On champagne and wine

 

 

THE BETTER MAN

(Jake Watt / 2012 ©)

Baby

I was told once before

That maybe if I’d taken care of you a little more

We’d be laughing and holding each other

But “together” was taken all away

 

I’m crazy

But I thought I was here for more

And many oh many - Many women I adore

And feeling alive and sparkles and magic inside

Who’d give it all away?

 

I’m sorry I’m not the better man

It’s just sometimes it gets so blurry inside

I’m sorry I’m not the better man

Who makes you feel a little better inside

I’m just a fool...

 

Baby

The past few days have been a blur

And frankly I forgot your name and who you were

I was trippin’ and living a lie all over again

I wish I could take it all away

 

Believe me

Please just try to understand

You’d leave me - If I said I’m just a man

It’s just the way that I am I won’t change

I’m as stubborn as fuck - I won’t give it all away

 

And it breaks me believe me I’ve tried

To save myself from whiskey and pride

 

 

HOLY MOTHER

(Jake Watt / 2012 ©)

My lady dry your tears away

The Lord is weak so I’ve heard

And though I may be miles away

The heart speaks louder than words

My lady you are high on faith

When all around you comes tumbling down

I have lost my way so many A-times

But you without fear -  invited me in…

 

Tell me how to buy me some place

A place in your broken heart

Like a Holy Mother to me you will be

In my heart eternally

 

My lady cry your fears away

No word will help ease the pain

A hand to hold and tears of gold

In your eyes forever remain

An angel will come to lead the way

Over the rainbow far away

An immortal home a place to be free

'You will meet again' is for you to believe...

 

Tell me how to buy me some place

A place in your broken heart

Like a Holy Mother to me you will be

In my heart eternally