He opened his eyes Charged by the light Born by a spark in his head And scanning the room His circuits in bloom He saw her awake on the bed "Oh wonderful friend Oh wonderful friend" Segments of time Metronomed through his mind Things she called minutes and days He sang her his rhymes In binary chimes Set all his diodes ablaze "Oh now never end Oh...Learn More

I walked upon the orange sands Sifting grains of copper through my hands Found a lady standing there Skin of salt and pearl and charcoal hair She said “You know that if we take this chance Some sad embrace, some slow and awkward dance For fools not lovers let us hang The shallow song we thought that we could sing “Look out across these mermaid...Learn More

This was the house that we built Strong to the wind White in the harbour sun Our steps touched this ground Where weeds now grow And small staccato veins of raindrops run So long ago Arms on the wall We stood and turned our faces to the foam Out beneath the waves Boundless blue A million metal messengers alone When do you think they’ll come up for...Learn More

Water at sunrise, cliffs gave a view My father beside me, in silence we knew How foolish to curse some god who’s not there For crosses we never decided to bear No choice but to stand, two shapes on the sand As the strength left his hand and he fell to the spray And drifted away Another sailboat on the bay Sit not by my grave, son, gaze not to the...Learn More

Bright the dawn that breaks our eyes Wakes us under wondrous skies Kind the waves that take us to the shore To walk the paths our fathers walked before Sweet the sun that warms the land Sweet the rain that cools our hands Sweet the sleep that carries us away Sweet the nights that promise us the day Strong the wind that filled your sails Deep your...Learn More

There’s a fine white line Drawn between the ocean and the sky There’s a fine, fine sign A sinking sun, the stars roll in behind On Applecross ridge, I cast ashes to the sea On Applecross ridge, I set his broken body free What a thing to share Paper words, promises of air What a thing to be A lifeboat that won’t go into the sea On Applecross...Learn More

Do you remember how the sun beat from the sky And how we ran there - who was faster you or I? We jumped the sea wall, we couldn’t wait to be the one To make the first call and point the way to everyone Did we stumble, did we fall onto our hands Running circles round the statues in the sand Blue horizon, through the furnace of the light Sails came...Learn More

I was born under a northern light Peering through rooflights at the sun-lines at midnight Straining my ears to hear the distant horns of ships at night I was born under a northern light Come on boys you know you’ve got them on the hop Remember to stand tall when we send you over the top Walk slow put out your chest, better the bullets to stop For...Learn More

Turn your face unto the sun Light will die to bring another dawn Hold on, hold on Pull the stars into your eyes Raise you up beyond the rising tide Hold on, hold on Let the waves that break apart Wash across the oceans of your heart Hold on, hold on As long as there is life to live There is love that we can give to you Hold on, hold on...Learn More

The wind flew in Shook the skin we were growing in Tired eyes Fixed upon frozen granite skies The wind dug in Bit the skin we were shaking in Blizzard road Up ahead the never-ending snow And you said Nothing lasts forever Nothing lasts forever Nothing lasts forever Oh the lights In our eyes shining gold and white Oh the lights In our smiles...Learn More

Lost at sea, she gazed At the stars above, she prayed To no-one at all, she sighed Touching the waves That rolled through the night “Take my hand, my child” The old man smiled, “for my god Has spared your life, and pulled You up from the flood That drowned all of your world” “No, kind sir, I’ll stay As I am, for your boat, though great and...Learn More

Oh beautiful heart Still as a whisper moored to the shoreline Oh beautiful heart Washed in sun that clings to the treeline Oh beautiful heart When you were young Did you run through the fields in the summer? Oh song that you’ve sung Floats like a leaf to the mouth of a river Oh beautiful heart Go now where we will not reach you Oh beautiful...Learn More