I wanna walk along the beach with you Looking at the mountains Gazing out to sea I wanna know that I’m at peace with you And feel like you’re at peace with me
I wanna hold your hand I want to be your man I wanna see you smile in autumn and in winter I wanna hold your hand I wanna be your man
The sun is rising in the east now It should be setting in the west I guess I always tried to never really try But sometimes I did my best
I wanna hold your hand I want to be your man I wanna see you smile in spring and in summer I wanna hold your hand I wanna be your man
I hope the radiation in the water Doesn’t seep into my toes I hope the microplastics in my bloodstream Don’t make the flesh fall from my bones
I wanna hold your hand I want to be your man I wanna see you smile in autumn and in winter I wanna hold your hand I wanna be your man
I wanna see you smile in spring and in summer I wanna hold your hand I wanna be your I want to hold your hand I wanna be your I want to hold your hand I wanna be your man
Simpler Times
Well I know that it’s perspective And I know that it’s just age As the cold wind Begins to get colder
More years behind me now Than the years left to come And I don’t believe that youth is Wasted on the young
But I can’t help but thinking That those were Simpler times
Well, I got on my old Yamaha With the breeze in my eyes And a song on my mind Nothing cool about it Except maybe the breeze
Three pints of Dark at lunchtime And straight back on it at five When it wasn’t hard to find someone To share their simple time
As the cold wind As the cold wind Begins to get colder
Now I find myself Half a world away And thirty years of memories Are far from the same But I wouldn’t have it any other I wouldn’t have it any other way
Even all the moments That you’d have to call insane
But I can’t help but thinking That those were Simpler times
Those were Simpler times
Holy Sunrise
Holy sunrise Holy sunrise Are you in my eyes Are you in my eyes
Right Down to it
We got right down to it Right down to it in the end Might have taken thirty odd years Of slowly going round the bend
But if Einstein’s right And everything is happening at the same time I’m a thief, I’m a fool, I’m a jerk, I’m a lover I’m a gambler, I’m a sinner, I’m a stone-cold killer I’m a wild-eyed loon starting at the end As a black Cadillac slowly comes round the bend
I say hello to summer Why don’t you take what you can take If the scales are in your favor Why don’t you give yourself a break
We got right down to it Right down to it in the end Might have taken thirty odd years Of slowly going round the bend
But if Einstein’s right And everything is happening at the same time I’m a thief, I’m a fool, I’m a jerk, I’m a lover I’m a gambler, I’m a sinner, I’m a stone-cold killer I’m a wild-eyed loon starting at the end As a black Cadillac slowly comes round the bend
I heard you were in danger Of becoming someone else But they locked you up forever And you can only blame yourself
Guitar man sang about the heavy fuel But they were everything and anything but cool Did you give them what they took Did they play it by the book And did they have you fooled
We got right down to it Right down to it in the end Might have taken thirty odd years Of slowly going round the bend
But if Einstein’s right And everything is happening at the same time I’m a thief, I’m a fool, I’m a jerk, I’m a lover I’m a gambler, I’m a sinner, I’m a stone-cold killer I’m a wild-eyed loon starting at the end As a black Cadillac slowly comes round the bend
If I Get out of Here Alive
If I get out of here alive If I get out of here If I get out of here alive If I get out of here If I get out of here alive
We’re gonna do cartwheels on the shore We’re gonna make faces in the mirror some more We’re gonna eat ice-cream til your head explodes There’s gonna be some kind of pizza overload
If I get out of here alive If I get out of here If I get out of here alive
There’s going to be a world-wide jet ski ban Put em all on a rocket, send em to Alderaan Try to leave some room on there for the funny guys All the funny guys They never made me smile
All the funny guys How come they never the see the funny side I thought that they were the funny guys I guess I was wrong
Wouldn’t be the first time
If I get out of here If I get out of here alive If I get out of here If I get out of here alive
I’m gonna see that love light in your eyes I’m gonna see that love light in your eyes I’m gonna see that love light in your eyes
If I get out of here If I get out of here alive If I get out of here If I get out of here alive
I’m gonna see that love light in your eyes I’m gonna see that love light in your eyes I’m gonna see that love light in your eyes
If I get out of here If I get out of here alive
When they Come for You
Lock ‘em up Keep ‘em quiet Throw away the key Get someone on the phone They’ll take care of that for me
But who are you gonna call When they’re coming through the wall Who are you gonna call When they come for you
Let’s keep things nice and simple shall we I think that’s the safest way We can’t have more than one opinion in this place
But who are you gonna call When they’re coming through the wall Who are you gonna call When they come for you
When they come for you When they come for you Who are you gonna call When they come for you
We’re not worried about our sons and daughters They’ve been safely sent away To luxury apartments and fancy automobiles In some other kind of place
And they’ve got all the passports That they could ever need It’s a little bit ironic I’m sure you would agree
But who are you gonna call When they’re coming through the wall Who are you gonna call When they come for you
When they come for you When they come for you Who are you gonna call When they come for you
Raw Materials
They don’t care about you son
They pretend that they do But they don’t They don’t
And they’ll squeeze every mercenary dollar Out of every one of your honest songs And they’ll secretly be delighted If you’d just die suitably young
Then they wouldn’t even need to ask permission To use every one of your honest songs
For the car ads The cosmetic lines Make some greasy politician shine
Ain’t that Just what You had in mind
All the aristos The landed gentry They still need farm hands
And you’ll do nicely Not entirely metaphorically
Yeah they’ll flatter all your sincere charm Every second twisting your arm And when the money’s in the bank And they’re lying on the beach in the Bahamas
No one’s gonna take your call Anymore
Cos there’s a new kid in town He ticks all the boxes We’ve done the research He reaches demographics
That we’ve all been We’ve all been hunting for
When the raw materials are heaven sent It’ll show you just how bent Every operation is Shhh don’t tell the kids
Diamonds or coal Flesh and blood It’s all the same sifting through the mud Making all the money Watch it turn into dust Watch it turn into dust
You ain’t a fool You know the score You want the adulation Then you gotta play ball But
Who do you think is paying for it all Who do you think is paying for it all
Yeah they’ll flatter all your sincere charm Every second twisting your arm And when the money’s in the bank And they’re lying on the beach in the Bahamas
No one’s gonna take your call Anymore
Yeah they don’t care about you son
They pretend that they do But they don’t They don’t They don’t
Could we hold on through the summer rain Could we let go of all the pain
The waves are crashing on the northern shore And I couldn’t love you any more I couldn’t love you anymore
Darling cariad sweetheart sweetheart
Could we rise above the sky Could we Fly
It couldn’t hurt to try Surely it couldn’t hurt to try
The waves are crashing on the northern shore And I couldn’t love you any more I couldn’t love you anymore
Could we hold on through the summer rain Could we let go of all the pain
The waves are crashing on the northern shore And I couldn’t love you any more I couldn’t love you anymore
I couldn’t love you any more I couldn’t love you anymore I couldn’t love you any more I couldn’t love you anymore I couldn’t love you any more I couldn’t love you anymore
Realpolitik
There are killers on the loose This might not be our finest hour There are killers on the loose In the corridors of power
Yeah they came round here before Just a stone’s throw from my door I might have wished to put a spell on them But that would just be fool’s talk That would just be fool’s talk
At the country club they sip their wine I heard that it tastes good The fairway’s smooth Yeah, it’s running just fine Watered in blood
But we got the deal done We got the deal done We got the deal done
This is real real Realpolitik son Real real Realpolitik son
So don’t lecture me about the wasted lives Don’t come at me for all the lies I do what I do And I get it right
What you never heard of compromise
I got the deal done I got the deal done I got the deal done
This is real real Realpolitik son Real real Realpolitik son
Dark Horizons
Dark horizons Hard decisions
Are they the wings of ravens Covering the sky
There’s a whole lot of living you can do Before you die But now it’s time to face the music It’s time to do the time
It’s time to do the time
Steps have been taken Footprints in time Will you recognize the limits That your conscience has defined
There’s a whole lot of dying A whole lot of dying on my mind A whole lot of thinking And nothing but time
Will you come to some acceptance When your soul is on the line Will there be forgiveness When your soul is on the line
Or will there be nothing Nothing but time Nothing but nothing Nothing but time
She’s A Superstar
She’s a superstar She’s a superstar And she’s got one thing on her mind She’s got one thing on her mind
She’s gonna be the best there is She’s gonna be the best there is And she makes me smile
She’s a superstar She’s a superstar If you get in her way She will make you pay She just makes me She just makes me smile
She don’t hear the words Meant to put her down You can try and break her Well good luck with that Good luck with that
Cos she’s unbreakable She’s undefeatable And then she smiles
She’s a superstar She’s a superstar She’s a superstar
My Love
My love my love Will you take me by the hand My love my love Will you try to understand
All the madness in my mind When I’m raging at the sky Like a mad dog howling at the moon Or when I take it out on you My love
When there ain’t no liquor in the land That’ll help me understand The cruelty of man The stupidity of man The arrogance of man The hypocrisy of man
When there ain’t no liquor in the land And I just can’t seem to find The humanity of man
Could we walk along that golden shore One more time Could we walk along that golden shore One more time
Could we see the blossoms and the changing of the leaves Could we see the sunlight through the trees And in the eyes of an innocent child
Could we see the blossoms and the changing of the leaves Could we see the sunlight through the trees And in the eyes of an innocent child
My love
All lyrics written by A.J. Jenkins Copyright 2022: All rights reserved
