Week 52 – 26th December 2014 – Hard Wired

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2iGa3ZGZ1w The last song of 52 Fridays song project sees me singing uplifting Christmas songs with friends and family from the same sheet music I have used since I was four years old and reflecting on finding light in the dark.  It’s been a tricky few months, recovering from glandular fever, illnesses and deaths of […]

Week 51 – 19th December 2014 – The Secret To Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye0pvciKSL0 I wrote this song for my son, Archie.  He is now almost 2.  This is me not resisting the (probably) impotent urge to give parental advice. The Secret To Life I feel it’s time to pass on to you everything I’ve learnt in my life No, it won’t take long, it’s a tragically short […]

Week 50 – 12 December 2014 – Widower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdTP-UKeyNg A trip into the recent past for me.  I took a fragment I wrote in the early days of being widowed and made them into this song.  I wanted to capture something of the moodswings, the serenity and the panic, and the wry humour that I remember from that time.   Widower If I […]

Week 49 – 4 December 2014 – Wild Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI8OlJkDaoU This event took place in a park in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia a couple of years ago.  I was feeling very sorry for myself for some reason that I can’t remember now, and I dragged myself out from where I was staying in the closest I could get to a hopeful gesture.  This song […]

Week 48 – 28th November 2014 – Just Another Wave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf7C7lpflfw After big changes in your life its easy to think that everything has changed.  But I think the key to making peace with change is to realise that its just another wave. Just Another Wave It seems my story is no more than this The sea at 17, the sea at 26. The sea. […]

Week 47 – 21 November 2014 – So Close

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1hYXdn0eU0 This song is not my story – but I always like a ‘love gone wrong’ song and this is definitely that.  I like the tune a lot.  I’m happy that new songs are still popping up stronger than ever as we get towards the end of the year. Lyrics: So Close All this time […]

Week 46 – 14th November 2014 – What It Is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hWHUJOPtrw I wrote a fragment of this song in the early days of being widowed.  I found it the other day and decided to finish it.  It was a good message from me then to me now – I’m not sure I always remember that there is always the option to breathe deep.   What […]

Week 45 – 7th November 2014 – Ebb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNp9dp1x-qI   I haven’t written about giving up drinking before. A lot of my experiences around addiction I have put into my Prurience play which is set in an addicts support group. This song seemed to come from nowhere although it was inspired a little by watching my favourite one-person theatre show, At Liberty by […]

Chords for Mercy

  I had a request for the chords of Mercy.  Here they are as a jpeg to download.  Let me know if you want chords for any other songs – or you can’t print this image.

Extra – live version of Mercy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpfP0x4aQUI   Song starts at 40 seconds in. Here is a live version of my song Mercy which was performed at a Tea Dance at The Albany Theatre which I curated with Entelechy. So wonderful to have these great people sing with me on a song about being kind to yourself and looking to the […]

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