Nobody's permanent, everything's on loan here

Song recommendation: Time the Avenger by the Pretenders

Nobody's perfect

Not even a perfect stranger

But oh what a gal

She was such a perfect stranger

And you're the best in your field

In your office with your girls

And desk and leather chair

Thought that time was on your side

But now it's time the avenger

Nobody's permanent

Everything's on loan here

Even your wife and kids

Could be gone next year

And with what you have left

You'll be forever under pressure

To support her

And a lover who looks strangely

Like time the avenger

Time, time, hear the bells chime

Over the harbor and the city

Time, one more vodka and lime

To help paralyze that tiny little tick, tick, tick, tick

Nobody's perfect

Not even a perfect gent

When your property took the a train

I wonder where your manners went

You were standing at the station

In your briefcase

Was your aftershave and underwear

Can you hear the whistle blow?

Sounds like time the avenger

Time, time, hear the bells chime

Over the harbor and the city

Time to kill another bottle of wine

To help paralyze that tiny little tick, tick, tick, tick

While the birds fly, I sink below

Song recommendation: Draw the Stars by Andrea Triana

[I can't find a video that works, try going on YouTube to find it.  It is a lovely song, I'm sure you'll enjoy it]

While the people sleep, I lie awake

Encased in dreams, That carry me

To a distant sound, To undertake

I feel it's way

Even though I am helpless of

The force above

And even though I Can't see far

I hold tighter and draw the stars

While the birds fly

I sink below

Into the cloth and weeping willows

Binding me to the wood

A shelter from a world of good

Even though I am helpless of

The force above

Even though I can't see far

I hold on tighter draw the stars

Upon my page

And while the wind blows

I open my arms

And just let them go

Even though I am helpless of

The force above

Even though I can't see far

I hold on tighter and draw the stars

You'll find your legs and go and stay gone

Song recommendation: Beg, Steal or Borrow by Ray Lamontagne and the Pariah Dogs

So your home town's bringing you down

Are you drowning in the small talk

and the chatter

Or you gonna step into line like your daddy done

Punching the time and climbing life’s long ladder

You've been howling at the moon like a slack jaw fool

And breaking every rule they can throw on

But one of these days it's gonna be right soon

You'll find your legs and go and stay gone

Young man full of big plans and thinking about tomorrow

Young man going to make a stand

You beg, steal you borrow

You beg you steal you borrow

Well all the friends that you knew in school

They used to be so cool and they just bore you

Well look at them now, already pulling the plow

So quick to take to grain like some old news

Young man full of big plans and thinking about tomorrow

Young man going to make a stand

You beg steal you borrow

You beg you steal you borrow

Dreaming of the day

You're gonna pack your bags

Put the miles away

Oh, just grab your girl and go

Where no one knows you

What will all the old folks say?

So the home town's bringing you down

Are you drowning in the small talk and the chatter?

Or you gonna step into line like your daddy done

Punching the time and climbing life’s long ladder

Young man full of big plans and thinking about tomorrow

Young man going to make a stand

You beg, steal you borrow

You beg you steal you borrow

Feels like I'm livin in the middle of doubt

Song recommendation: I'm Eighteen by Alice Cooper

Lines form on my face and hands

Lines form from the ups and downs

I'm in the middle without any plans

I'm a boy and I'm a man

I'm eighteen

and I don't know what I want

Eighteen

I just don't know what I want

Eighteen

I gotta get away

I gotta get out of this place

I'll go runnin in outer space

Oh yeah

I got a

baby's brain and an old man's heart

Took eighteen years to get this far

Don't always know what I'm talkin' about

Feels like I'm livin in the middle of doubt

Cause I'm

Eighteen

I get confused every day

Eighteen

I just don't know what to say

Eighteen

I gotta get away

Lines form on my face and my hands

Lines form on the left and right

I'm in the middle

the middle of life

I'm a boy and I'm a man

I'm eighteen and I LIKE IT

Yes I like it

Oh I like it

Love it

Like it

Love it

Eighteen!

Eighteen!

Eighteen!

Eighteen and I LIKE IT

Our best defence is no defence at all

Hi guys, just so you know, because of my job (and my best attempt at a better social life) I won't be posting daily.  Instead I'll try weekly.  Forget that, I'll post when I feel like it.  Hopefully that will be at least weekly.

Song recommendation: Love's the Greatest Instrument of Rage by Thea Gilmore

I heard the deal was done

That it was sealed last night

The red woman stood to take the oath

lt wasn't front page news

She wasn't pretty

These days things are either nothing or they're both

Another sip of wine another card

And then I really have to leave

They saved my place in line

The ugly anodyne

To beg another's master for reprieve

Uhuhuhu uhuhuhu woho.

Well is it just my ears

Or does that beat appear

Just a little quieter than before

I guess we knew the score

The centre couldn't hold

The ladies pearls will skid across the floor

It'll come from Albert Dock

It'll come from Tower Bridge

It'll grab our politicians by the balls

Our quiet stupor our broken culture

Our best defence is no defence at all

Uhuhuhu uhuhuhu woho.

And you can call it progress

And you can call it foresight

Oh I don't know its name baby

But it keeps me up at night

And I'm sure there's something coming

I'm sure it will be soon

That the devils of our time will slouch

Across a blackened room

So take this epitaph

Take anything that's left

I don't want to be here

Come the day

I did my best you know

I tried to swim the tide

But I am just as guilty in my way

For every beaten brow

For every heaving chest

For every shaky word on every page

It’s taken 30 years

And a little pill to learn

That love's the greatest instrument of rage

It’s taken 30 years

And a little pill to learn

That love's the greatest instrument of rage

Uhuhuhu

Uhuhuhuhuhuhuhu

Uhuhuhuhuhuhuhu

Uhuhuhu woho woho.