Sing me a song you're a singer. Do me a wrong you're a bringer of evil.
i’ve been writing and recording songs for ever and a day. maybe longer. some of ’em make their way onto youtube with clips from martin scorcese movies or from a video of an afternoon’s wandering in the rainforest. others are hashed out in the studios of Lotusland with various iterations of ‘the kings of kavorka’.
but of course the very best of them cry out in the dark of the dark of the night from a steel-stringed guitar playing all alone…
spaceboy blues
the song is of course about “spaceboy”, one of the key characters and trouble-makers in my upcoming novel ‘hotel amnesia‘.
but you won’t actually see spaceboy in the video. instead you’ll see zebedee and florence – he’s the out-of-the-box jack-in-a-box whose spring we hear a-springing at the very beginning of the song.
“you can’t catch the train if you don’t pay the fare. you’ll never get to heaven on just a wing and a prayer”
japhy ryder is dead
a requiem for my dharma bum friend
saw him on Hastings strung out like stardust
soup kitchen messiah
told me he got so loaded down at the Cambie
saw god who whispered, it’s time
time to die
time to die
titanic
thoughts and dreams harvested at an AA meeting
just saw deputy dawg on a gurney to the morgue
never thought he’d go out that way
andy pandy washed up on the rocks
they threw him out of detox
sooner or later you gotta pay
sooner or later you gotta pay
messiah
all he wants to be is free
rock and roll carpenter chained to a pole
they found him in the desert out looking for his soul
so let him seek
just let him seek
jubileee
a tribute to my home town
lizzie’s on a barge on the river in the rain
must be jubilee again
bad bone #7
lost in London on the way home from josie
only a loop from ‘kissing you’ offers any hope of escape
that and a herd of elephants…
gratitude
no love in a thousand girls
no peace in a hundred worlds
no truth in a billion words
no worth in a million pearls
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