Sonnet 40

Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;

What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?

No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;

All mine was thine before thou hadst this more.

Then if for my love thou my love receivest,

I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest;

But yet be blamed, if thou thyself deceivest

By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.

I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,

Although thou steal thee all my poverty;

And yet, love knows, it is a greater grief

To bear love’s wrong than hate’s known injury.

Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,

Kill me with spites; yet we must not be foes.

Text by William Shakespeare, music by Gavin Friday and Herb Macken

Machushla

Macushla! Macushla!

Your sweet voice is calling,

Calling me softly,

Again and again,

Macushla! Macushla!

I hear it in vain.

Macushla, Macushla,

Your white arms are reaching,

I feel them enfolding,

Caressing me still.

Fling them out from the darkness,

My lost love, Macushla,

Let them find me and bind me

Again, if they will.

Macushla! Macushla!

Your red lips are saying

That death is a dream,

And love is for aye,

Then awaken, Macushla,

Awake from your dreaming,

My blue-eyed Macushla,

Awaken to stay.

Words by Josephine V. Rowe

Music by Dermot MacMorrough

c. 1910, Boosey & Co., New York

Tenderness of Wolves

From Scatology, by Coil

Was all in vain? Or did you cry?

No need to ask, my tears have run dry

This is the end of my pity

I await to die

You now the living, me now the dead

To prove that you loved me

Mere words could not have said

Bitting into skin, into flesh, into me

Taking all you could

Oh, I’d still give you blood

Just to paint your lips

If you should wish them red

My desires your kiss completed

But only now I can see

The vicious joy when you took delight

Behind each kiss your poison bite

And when my all was given

And you had taken

Oh dog-like Judas

You did disappear

Was all in vain? Or did you cry?

No need to ask

You now the living, me now the dead

Blue Blue Moon

from the album No Talking, Just Heads – The Heads

Another Saturday night

And she knows where she’s goin’

To that small corner bar

On the far side of town

Folks call her Ol’ Faithful

‘Cause she’s always hangin’ aroun’

Dressed up shimmy-shammy

In her sequins and pearls

Hey, there, Moon

Blue, blue moon

I’m all alone

Blue, blue moon

Without a love of my own

A ‘Stoli’ on ice

Makes everything just right

She laughs and chit-chats

With whoever’s around

‘I’ve been there – done that –

Have you heard the one about -?’

No one ever listens

And they don’t hear the sound

Hey, there, Moon

Blue, blue moon

I’m all alone

Blue, blue moon

Without a love of my own

Just looking for a friend

Someone to dance with me

A little romance

Cheek to cheek!

Someone to hold

And dance the night away

‘Tick-tock’

Goes the barroom clock

It’s quarter past two

And the night’s wearing thin

She salutes the happy couples

Bids them all fond ‘Adieu!’

‘Barman, make mine a double!

Cinderella, here, has lost her shoe!’

Hey, there, Moon

Blue, blue moon

I’m all alone

Blue, blue moon

Without a love of my own

‘So, I’ll make believe

Someone danced with me!’

She used to sing, she used to cry

But, now

She doesn’t even try

Because she knows the stars

– Those bright & shiny stars! –

Have all fallen, fallen from the sky

The moon is blue

The moon is blue

The moon is blue

The moon is blue

The moon is blue

(G.Friday, C.Frantz, J. Harrison, T. ‘Blast’ Murray, T. Weymouth)

A Thousand Years

A sweet kiss said forget me not

when love spoke I knew no wrong

but that was once upon a dream come true

a long time ago

baby’s sick

baby’s cold

baby’s feeling blue

for what seems like a thousand years

dreams for those

who sleep at night

lovers kiss, dreams entwine

in the dark I wait at night

for your call

will you call

you never call (my name)

lying weak on my bed alone

moonlight keeps me warm

as I wait for a thousand years

???

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dreams for those

who sleep at night

lovers kiss, dreams entwine

in the dark I wait at night

for your call

will you call

you never call(ed) (my name)

love is cruel

love’s a liar too

but a fool can see no wrong

so I’ll wait for a thousand years

yes I’ll wait for a thousand years

The Road to Perdition
aka Wrecking Me

Torment and Argument will tell you what to do
This Love is Killing me the Road to ruin is You
Don’t try to Fake it ..The Heart is crying ..The Heart is Crying

Your Love is Wrecking me .. You Punch holes deep in my Soul
Things fall apart ..The centre cannot hold
The pity of Love you see ..depends how low you will crawl
This Love is Wrecking me … This Love is Wrecking me

This is Extraordinary .. like nothing I know
the cut is so deep …the blood can hardly flow

Your Love is Wrecking me ..etc…

And I can hear your Heartbeat like Thunder it calls …
La La La….

Your Love is wrecking me… Etc

Music RGP/ Words GF 2017