Lansdowne Road

Took the boat to Holyhead, but couldn’t leave went back instead
Cause suddenly, suddenly…it wasn’t right
Sat on the couch with a cup of tea, Got up three years later
See, cause suddenly, suddenly I felt alive

I was stuck on a tune, wouldn’t go away
Which I was humming yesterday
Like the oldie hit parade since you replaced the melody

Now I know I’m not alone, I know how much you mean to me
Now if I could look inside, and be who I’m made to be
(Not alone…not alone)

Went to castle Malahide, couldn’t leave the more I tried
Cause suddenly, suddenly it looked divine
Went to Cork, before the sea, Saw the Corrs at The Marquee
My favorite was Caroline

I was stuck on their tunes, wouldn’t go away
And I’m still humming Runaway
The piano in six eight, the violin, the melody

And I know I’m not alone, I know how much this means to me
If I could look inside, and be who I’m made to be
Not alone, not alone

Took a turn in Ballymun, read some Joyce and felt the sun
It was like a victory won…Cause suddenly it was bright

Made my way thru counties green, wettest week I’d ever seen
But suddenly…I felt dry
But suddenly…I felt alive

One Umbrella

A chicken said the sky was falling, Could have been weather
Cancel all your plans and we’ll just stay home together
I think it’s time to just be alone with one another
Time to take our whole world and just remove the color
Oohh… Oohh…

So (now) Joel and Ginger will patter
Hail outside doesn’t matter,
Oohh… Oohh…
We won’t need an umbrella

Can’t believe the rain’s still falling with no end in sight
One more day our screen will take us both out of time
Eight o’ clock is time for dinner, Seven defenders
Six months until a reunion, Five to engender
Oohh… Oohh…

Four soldiers try for the mountains
Three coins thrown in a fountain,
Oohh… Oohh…
Two songs and
One umbrella

Toss the Feathers

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Laugh Clown, Laugh

Alone and in an empty room, that weighs of an unending gloom
The placards on the street outside proclaim the hope my act provides
I’ve worn this mask a thousand times, now serves to cover aging lines
A careworn brow, a sagging chin, a cap to hide the hair, now thin
This paint curves up to hide my frown, to fool those in another town
I weep yet still pretend to be the comic that you came to see
Yet in my head my love still sings to me…

Laugh clown, laugh though your heart breaks inside
Let them see the hope you give, not the tears that you’ve cried
May the strength the Lord provides you, take you through another night
So laugh clown, laugh, and everything will be all right

My true love rests below the earth, I’m now a husk, have lost my worth
Was once a poet, deft and sly, (now) reduced to rhyming “pie” and “sky”
So now for you the motions go, behind white face the great unknown
Through candy floss and other treats, tomorrow my charade repeats
I chose this life to make you smile, but my joy has been gone awhile
Convince you with my charm and wit, don’t let you know I’m tired of it
Cause jesters have their feelings too, not always gay, sometimes blue
Yet in my head my love still sings to me…

Laugh clown, laugh though your heart breaks inside
Let them see the hope you give, not the tears that you’ve cried
May the strength the Lord provides you, take you through another night
So laugh clown, laugh, and everything will be all right

Life Is a Party

People all across the globe, are you ready?
I want to take you to a scene where everyone’s free
Single, married, widowed, just going steady
It doesn’t matter ‘bout your age, don’t care ‘bout your pedigree

Come to the party, get to know your host and adore
Cause life is a party, when your love is bigger than before
And if you’re different, and you’re not perfect
You’ll fit in right next to me
Cause this is a party to see

Princes, paupers, sinners, summer or winter
Come any time cause lives are changing in this place
Though the door is narrow you can still enter
The Gospel truth is that we’ll just get a bigger space

Life is a party, get to know your host and adore
Yea, life is a party, when your love is bigger than before
And if you’re different, and you’re not perfect
You’ll fit in right next to me
Cause life is a party to see

High Harbour

Way up in the mountain tops
Touching the blue sky
There is a place I long to be
A little piece of heaven is there, nestled in the pines
And it’s a home away from home to me

And I remember doing things I thought that I could never do
I remember learning things I thought I’d never know
And I remember meeting friends I knew that I would never lose
And what they say about this place is true
High Harbour God has his hand on you

Memories surround me now
I look back on the times
Of being with my friends from morn ‘til night
Playing games and singing songs, and learning about God
Sleeping underneath the starry skies

And I remember doing things I thought that I could never do
I remember learning things I thought I’d never know
And I remember meeting friends I knew that I would never lose
And what they say about this place is true
High Harbour God has his hand on you

And I know, I know that I will leave you
Even though you never will leave me
And tomorrow I hope that I will see you
If not in person, then in my memories

And I remember doing things I thought that I could never do
I remember learning things I thought I’d never know
And I remember meeting friends I knew that I would never lose
And what they say about this place is true
High Harbour God has his hand on you

She Moved Through the Fair

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Lights of Eve

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Oceania

Under a cross of stars I flew with you
And to our hemisphere we bid adieu
Can this world amaze before the rains come in?

Where jungle mountains fall into the sea
I saw this in a picture show or knew it from a marquee
The sunsets said to rival Oia
The sunsets said to rival…

We had a picture made, The background was a soul’s parade
You’d have thought we had green-screened it,
Wouldn’t have believed if I had not seen it
Treasures pure we could uncover, We found a God we could rediscover
In beauty made from more than nature’s mother

This earth could crack today, All things would fall away
Remaining just the Truth for those who believe,
Oceania…You’ve played upon my heart delight my soul…Oceania
I love you…

With glowworms there to show the evening dew
We hike along Cathedral Cove, the natives ignore me and you
A hanging rock holds mysteries to this day

Mountain lupines bloom along a rugged shore
I swear I have been here and I’ve seen this all before
Or dreamed it from the lilacs by my bed
Or dreamed it from the lilacs…

We became one of the tribe, A Polynesia you can’t describe
White beaches, ebb and flow, The lorikeets putting on a show
Treasures pure we could uncover, We found a God we could rediscover
In beauty made from more than nature’s mother

This earth could crack today, All things would fall away
Remaining just the Truth for those who believe,
Oceania…You’ve played upon my heart delight my soul…Oceania
I love you…

The reefs could be the reason, Or just life’s changing season
At home they share our moon, but we know we must leave here soon…

We’ll drift away, that’s how our lives go, A fleeting dinner and a show
Until the gentle healer makes us whole, Surround my soul like Oceania…

Mockingbird

Mockingbird, mockingbird, up in the tree
What are you saying to me?
Go help the squirrel find his food for another day
Go away leave me alone

Mockingbird, mockingbird, too hard to see
In all you’re pretending to be
Have you heard lies, seen my pain, staring through the rain?
Or do I imitate more than thee?

Fly away now I won’t harken your call, you’ve not flown to lands near or far
Were you caged like me I doubt that you’d sing at all

Fly away now I won’t harken your call, you’ve not flown to lands near or far
Were you caged like me I doubt that you’d sing at all

When the day ends and on linen I lie, mockingbird huddled on straw
But I get no rest as the jester keeps taunting me
Til I give up once and for all

Fly away now I won’t harken your call, you’ve not flown to lands near or far
Mockingbird, loathe your world, go away leave me alone

Have you learned what you don’t know or why your world weighs so much?
Or who paid for your undeserved breath?
While you forage for wisdom, or another bird’s touch
And say we really aren’t much different at our death
So you cling to the ghosts of mockingbirds past
Don’t you know that you can’t harmonize with yourself?

Fly away now I won’t harken your call, you’ve not flown to lands near or far
Were I caged like you I doubt, I doubt I’d be singing at all

Mockingbird, mockingbird, up in the tree
What are you saying to me?
That I seem strange? There’s a change? Will you follow me?
Mockingbird, silly bird…
Pandora’s jar still had Hope
Now I understand you’re trying to cope…mockingbird
Mockingbird, hollow bird….is it true you’ve lost your song?