Author Archives: amcc1984

you can always wait another dayshe’ll come and see you off by the trainthe sweetest goodbye she’ll ever waveand off she’ll go, awayyou won’t be swayed by the city lightsyou won’t forget your friends or the good timesfor though there’s serious money to be madethis is your life and how can she ever forgetand notContinue reading “paper over cracks”

I knew a lad, TJ Mungalowehe was born in New Mangalorehis daddy used to tell him loads of lieshe used to live in a bungalowowned and run by the Mungalowesone day he came home sobbing and cryinghe’d just found out that his father’s words could not be trustedoh, what a woeit changed the complexion ofContinue reading “the sad story of t.j. mungalowe”

I could’ve written a thousand songs about my broken heartbut I could not let it be known that you’d torn me apartand on the evidence I hadthings I lived and died byif I remember, we did not… even say goodbyeI took a walk and never looked cos you cannot look backit was a long journeyContinue reading “conversations about god”

think of all the times you failed to turn up for methink of all the times when you should’ve stood up for meand then think think of all the times I lost my temper and broke thingsall that mattered to you, lifeless, costly thingsbut you never failed to remark upon my horrible sins and maybeContinue reading “maybe I lost you”

if this is to be the last time I see youthere’s not much point in making it countif you cease to be my nights and morningsthen what’s the point in making it count? cos I’ve found a way for me and the rainto make our peace and the memories from that pale blue fridayI triedContinue reading “pale blue friday”

we chose the wordsthe words chose uswe held each other, cried togetherand without a fussI buried youyou buried mewe turned our backs on years together and we just grievedbut I’ll hold you dear in my memoriesI know that you’ll come back to haunt me in my sweetest dreamsbut when daylight comesand you’re there no morethatContinue reading “never knowing”

you and I were never quite the sameafter we left scotlandin your eyes, I’d never seen the sorrowI saw when we left scotlandyou smiled and sighedand swore you’d never leave me though we’d leave scotland you and I were never quite the sameyour tears were drowned and concealed by the rainyou and I were neverContinue reading “on leaving”

well, I bought a bottle of gin for you and you drank your bottle of gin with me you needn’t worry for we all make mistakesdrinking and rock’n’ rollmy favouritemy favrouite mistakes you couldn’t walk in a straight line and I just passed out on my couch and dozed off—- previous titles: –references: – releasedContinue reading “a bottle of gin”

you weren’t looking at mebut you were smilingand I caught it on camerayou could hardly speak when you saw ithung in that frameand is any of that left inside your heart?well I don’t know youI don’t know you you’ll never last the coursean ever lasting course was put on you where is all the joy?andContinue reading “youth”

and maybe there’s a place where our purest souls still talka place they don’t get losta world where they still walk, still side by sideside by sidebut on this earth this is goodbyeand you’ll pick up the pieces and shine ever so brightand I’ll pick up the pieces and get on with my lifebut I’llContinue reading “kelly green shirt”