A Wasted Smile, Sent Back In Old Guitars Album (ARC/N2K 7980) Dec 2009
Fragment Of The Few
We don’t belong to the neverminds
We’re a fragment of the few
Left alone in our precious life
It’s all I want to do

When you wait for the circus it can
Spoil the better view
Wasting every moment waiting
A tangle of the truth

Lead me down to the river wide
And take me by the hand
We’ll find a space where there is no time
No spiral of the sand

We’re alone in the moment and I
Don’t know what to do
But as you’re starting to tell me I know
That all I want is you


Your Side
A wasted smile never came back this way so many times
A Dylan song, tells me of another tear inside
Where I belong, is talking through the tales I chose to hide
I’ll keep rolling here…nevermind…know I find

When I leave your side, I’m not eager to fly
I need your smile
When I leave your side, there’s no feeling inside me, cannot find me.

That special sign left a loneliness that I cannot disguise
It turned me on, to every other sweeter bitter prize
And if I’m wrong tell me that the years weren’t only mine
I’ll keep rolling you…all the time…knowing that

When I leave your side, I’m not eager to fly
I need your smile
When I leave your side, there’s no feeling inside me, cannot find me.

So I’ll refine, all the table talking teasing that I find
It won’t be long to the timing of another long goodbye
And with them gone, I’m breathing better and I feel so fine
And I’ll keep rolling on…down this line…knowing that


Trying To Do My Best
Six o clock in the morning
Trying to get some rest
Don’t really sleep any more just
Close my eyes and open again

And it’s all I can think about
And it’s all I can think about

I’m just trying to do my best
Look ahead, not look away
And I’m trying to do my best
All the time, every day to day

It happens every morning
Working to see some rest
Like a level of warning
Touching the light of red

And it’s all I can think about
And it’s all I can think about


Luck
I’ve been a devil and a dope
And I’ve wrestled with the knowledge
I’ve been asleep I’ve been awake
Beyond all reasons I can manage
I’ve been unholy, I’ve been pure
Above all my good intentions
I’ve been together and alone
Without you

And you will be married and I can take you home
And we will be gone, from what cannot be undone

Got a lot of love, if this luck will last
Got to be so good if this luck will last
Got to hope to God that this luck will last

It’s been so hard it’s been a breeze
And I wouldn’t have to worry
It’s been long time in a flash
I don’t have to say I’m sorry
It’s been together and undone
Never where I want it
I’ve just been waiting for the day
Without you

And you will be married and I can take you home
And we will be gone, through the pleasure of the sun


Not Leaving Alone
I give in far too easy
You’ve been a wife to Cesar
And I’m not leaving alone tonight

I’ve held the wall all evening
You’re spinning off the ceiling
And I’m not leaving alone tonight

When you’ve found all the world you’re looking for
It’s not the same from that moment any more

I’ve seen enough to lead me
Straight through this brushwood creeping
And I’m not leaving alone tonight

When the sounds of the future seem to pour
You’re not the same from that moment any more

You’ll give in nice and easy
I’ll be forever teasing
That I’m not leaving alone tonight

I give in far too easy
You’ve been a wife to Cesar
And I’m not leaving alone tonight


Nothing Without You Now
The coffee I made is cold but I’ll warm it by the fire
The devil is tired I’m told but the trouble intensifies
The magical tales of old, they can’t warm me up tonight
But I don’t mind

My love in a distant shore but I can see it in your eyes
I’d never amount to more. It’s the comfort in the prize
A view from a life before. All the beauty and all the smiles
And I’m so tired

I’ve thought about it a thousand ways
And it all comes back around again
For all the times I let you slip away
I want you here now

And I can see I’m nothing without you now
I concede I nothing without you now
I can see I nothing with you now

The coffee is in my hands as I reach amongst the files
Of pictures prints and post and letters of prose and rhyme
A terrible line is drawn that can never be refined
And I’m so tied

As I see you off along your way
I can smile ‘cause I can hear you say
“It’s just another dollar another day
And I’m still here now”

And I can see......

For G & A


Make Things Right
Forget the look, forget the light
Forget the darkest deep down difference tonight
Forget the reasons, you’ve got the chance (time)
To make things right

Forget the news, forget the fear
Forget the castles that we’ve all been building here
Forget the memories you need to fight
To make things right

We’re always waiting so long, worrying for life and
Feeling so wronged
Does all that negative, soulless energy, enlighten or frighten

Forget the blues, forget the pride
Forget all the hopeless mutterings inside
Forget the feelings that you despise
And make things right

I’ve been clambering on, crawling on the edges, of where I belong
Will all that positive, fruitful understanding take me, or make me

Forget the past, forget the lies
Forget all I want to leave behind tonight
Forget the reasons, to make the time
To make things right


Belief
For a moment I’ve been left feeling
How to know where I stand
So much, and so much more needed
So much more that I’d planned

But I’ll face the time I’m giving out
I’ll give the world again tonight
I try to stand, I won’t abandon us
It’s what I believe in

When I try and it just leaves you
I can only try again
Just remember when it feels easier
I’ve made it harder on myself

I’ll take my time, I’ll take my breath
I’ll give this heart again tonight
I run me down, I’ll stand this ground for us
It’s what I believe in

They’re smiling, dancing, twirling round me
Falling, fighting arms entwining
Crying, laughing, proudly prancing
With you my love, with me my love

We’re shouting, flying, fiercely floating
Flower painting, sky arranging
Birthday planning, bright lights hanging
For you my love, for me my love


The Rest Of The World
You never made it any harder
To make it clear so much farther
In every doubtless day of wonder
And I’ve been so proud to make them mine

And I returned to find the fire
To take a life of love and laughter
Turn the level even louder
And you been waiting for me all this time

For all the crowds on me
For all the clouds over me
And all the clowns around me

You’re the rest of the world…to me

Was the price not worth the paper
Or just a crooked ticket seller
Or a lizard to snake the charmer
And I was so proud to be so blind

And when the velvet curtain lifted
Couldn’t believe what I’d been gifted
My own skyline had shifted
Hold me in you arms tonight

For all the crowds on me
For all the clouds over me
And all the clowns around me

You’re the rest of the world…to me


Fragment
Irene Maud Rice (1908-2009)


River Of Time
You call, needing to tell me that
I’m so afraid of my feelings inside
You say nothing’s always the same
But I know you lie

You know, merely a moment of me
Kind words that can never combine
To teach me that I have been blessed
Best that you go home tonight

You see, I’ve been loving you, though you don’t know
Riding this river of time
Bound up by all my pride
You see, I’ve been loving you taking more blows
Riding the river of time
Now there nothing left to hide
You fall staggered and frightened to speak
So I’ll open the door see you home
And no one will ever be wise
To the love that I’ve shown

You see....


© 2009 Marcus Shelton
All songs published by N2K Publishing Limited