Author Archives: amcc1984

you’ve created dreams for me to cling onfor me to cling onyou came back to me before the morning brokewith a weary smile and little time to talk you came back and called my nameand we agreed that everything must flowyou came back and just stayed silentyou said nothinguntil the morning broke you came backContinue reading “before the morning broke”

take me up this promenadethe one we used to walk alongthen we’ll go to see the planestaking people to their homesthe narrow streets of our youththey haven’t changed a bitthings we know and things we knewthe songs we used to sing sing them back to me the ‘chariots of fire’ themethe window left half openContinue reading “things we know and things we knew”

let’s catch up for a pintalright, let’s make it twobeen quite a while since I last saw youthe restless days were gonebut your habits never didyou ran, you cried, you smiled, you hidand I’m one of those who rarely believebut one thing I know for sureyou should’ve lived you and I lived just eight doorsContinue reading “eight doors apart (on glanaman road)”

so we took our car and drove it far, to where we were fromand counter the mileson our journey along the roadand I came to knowyou came to know every passing placein our own timein our own speedleaving our trailswe sang to let them knowwe sang to let them know… that was the afterglowthat wasContinue reading “you were my afterglow”

I broke our car in belfastyou didn’t say a wordthough I knew how much you wanted to travel onand rain was our companionand those irish always knowjust how to brew their beers and sing their songs I broke our car in belfastyou didn’t say a wordbut I could read so well into your soulI prayedContinue reading “belfast”

take it to your house up the mountainsand you’ll maybe believe that your angel existsthis book’s made of everyone’s talemade of fallouts and prayersin the end made of thesewhen I found you back after long timeI could not even tell who was in front of me but I knew all the talesand I knew allContinue reading “silk tales”

we used to ride in a broken down old cartalking until the sun took over from the darkthen it was us, then it was ustelling each other ‘gonna be alright’sooner or later we were going to have the kind of lives we wishedwas that a wish? we can find a way to beat the rainweContinue reading “we can find a way to beat the rain”

Amberher name was Amberher hair was blondeher eyes were blue… AmberI’ll see you tomorrowforget all the sorrow all those years brought meet me at the viewing pointthat’s where I will join youand I will make it work you still shine like a diamondif anything, you’ve wisened into something more and if there was a chanceContinue reading “amber”

put a letter in a box as stars were watching over medrowning, caught with my old thoughtsand the shadows in betweenit’s easy to write to you nowas I am a world awayas I listen to sweet sounds along boscombe promenade do you remember anything about me?the tales I told you when you were fifteen?I needContinue reading “boscombe promenade”

I left and never called a single daydead, for you could’ve known from farawaywith nothing to live forand everything left to sayI’m fine most of the days in between sundays and scotland wouldn’t be the samebeautiful nuance of blues and greys without her rain… and scotland wouldn’t be the samebeautiful nuance of blues and greyswithoutContinue reading “in between sundays”