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Tough Day Without Flowers

2025

Written and performed by me. Piano and production by Otto.

How shall I tell you this. This unheard entry. It doesn't speak from where Cobain left us or of the blending architecture of the modern overt. But mine speaks to the world from where no one thought to listen. I am old now. Have made a twenty album canon as I promised I would. I have held my ear at the harmonics of life and defied it accordingly. Nobody knows my name or has touched my curly hair. But I have been extraordinary. My reader can finish here I guess. For I've felt enough to no longer need. What I came to do.... I have done.

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Tough Day Without Flowers

Drove to the airport said goodbye
Last day end of the world
And you know you're leaving with all my feathers
Goodbye half my soul
And I know you gotta catch it
Tough heart after ours
But it don't matter where you are in a revolution
It's a tough day without flowers
Oh in my head the Spanish are singing their requiem
Welcome to the broken hearted planet of love
Drove home recorded the vocals for Fix Tomorrow
Bring flowers when music's not enough
But oh you got such a beautiful smile
Terms of laughter always been ours
But thank you for letting me in on your adventure
It's a tough day without flowers
So promise to tell me when you find love
I just need to know you're not alone
When we made music it was an honour to love you
But you can't hold back
That which was born to go
Take care of your baby
And your piano full of superpowers
But I'll always be here should you ever need me
It's a tough day without flowers

Mankind

I'm not writing prayers for no God
I feel both the peace and hate you bear
And when you hang your head and ask for better
I feel the weight of your despair
Mankind only you know what will be tomorrow
Not Earth but everything else you bring
Mankind sometimes I feel you beaten
But Mankind you make Mankind sing
You built a sailing ship and gone
Touched the moon and gave us wings
Look upon this creative beautiful heart
In the pursuit of unimaginable things
Mankind you crave and hate each other
Down here everything else you bring
Mankind sometimes I feel you beaten
But Mankind you make Mankind sing

ANOHNI

And I want to see you because
You make me unfrightened of love
And I don’t wanna be on anybody’s side
Music masquerades the camouflage of life
I wanna watch ANOHNI at the Barbican and cry
And I’m free to be a bird
I’m just another screamin’ hole in the world
You’re the feather
With which I write
And I don’t really understand the shit in me you evoke
Backdoor with the starfish and smoke
All my beautiful because a you
Gave me the abstracts a tyranny and light
I wanna watch ANOHNI at the Barbican and cry
But I’m free to be a bird
Every denomination of the world
You’re the feather
With which I write

Beautiful Man

And I wanna say wonderful things
But I’m not that man
And I want to enlighten the world
Like nobody can
Oh beautiful man
I don’t know how
Beautiful man
Hear me now
But I got this thing no one can hear
It’s the curse of this man
Cos you’re not beautiful or famous enough
You better stand down
Oh beautiful man
I don’t know how
Beautiful man
Hear me now
And I wanna say just what I mean
But I’m not that man
And I want to unite the world
Like nobody can
Oh beautiful man
I don’t know how
A voice in the dark
Take a bow
Beautiful man

Backstreet Mouth

Backstreet mouth
It’s humankind long
The dead judged by love
Devil by song
Beautiful boy
There’s no reason to cry
Dream like you mean it
Kiss like good bye
Wake up loud
Breast feedin’ balms
Mother calls to mother
Breath like psalms
And I’m re-writin' me
Caravaggio above the law don’t ya know
So I bow to no man
Blind chords take me home
We long for the kiss
Everybody felt the womb
She’s a victim full a baby
Everybody felt the boom
World’s gone mad
Programmed full a lust
AI gonna help itself
To the space between us
Some words cannot be undone
They breed you to work
It’s all in the magic
Mouth defines Earth
Backstreet mouth
It’s humankind long
The dead judged by love
And the Devil by song

Enough

And I shall call out no more
And I called out for love
And I screamed in the mens room
I think I called out enough
And I called out to the stranger
Pity my love
Acts of kindness are in me
I think I called out enough
And the starving call for food
Songs call for love
And I call out for a big heart
I think I called out enough
And I wished I was Elvis
Pity my bluff
People talk with lies
I think I called out enough
Everything calls to children
Death calls to dust
Peace calls for life
I think I’ve called out enough
And this call’s to you
From all of my blood
Need calls to God
I think I’ve called out enough

Music

Sat in this room for twenty-five years
Thousands of songs over puddles of tears
And I hope I give ya
Whatever that is
Beautiful music it can’t pretend
They speak for you and then you talk with them
And it’ll give ya memories
That you haven’t felt yet
It’s an old school curse beating in me
It’ll make ya feel and that’ll help ya see
And it’ll bruise ya soul
So beautifully
Moved in dance hands above ya head
Feel it in break up when everything’s dead
And it’ll stay with you when you’re lonely
Sing you to sleep
No poverty or privilege it levels the ground
It’ll take you where the lost get found
And beware he who hath no music in his soul
He’ll sell it to you

Write Myself to Death

According to life I was lost
No remedy for love
Grapevine on my breath
Ballad of a flaneur
Lose our reins on love
Stand around weeping
Callin’ on Lady Macbeth
We’re a cathedral to love
United will be enough
And on that day
I’ll write myself to death
The entropy of love is leaving
You better hold on
And I know it’s unexpected
But love’s nothing to do with your heart
Life’s not a warning
It’s the writer on walls
Politics exists when there’s not enough love
Humanity come on
Humanity come on
And it feels to me
There’s not enough love
Life is the pinnacle of stupendous things
And there are no remedies for God
We’re the writer of dreams
Let yourself go
Just the immense silence and us
Come on people love us
To be good at life
You gotta fuck with it
Fill your pursuit with love
So here it is
The pursuit of life
To stand up
When love is frail
There’s so many good people
In this world
Believe in that

Hymn to Whatever

Strung out here on the east coast
With details
Thinking about you
And our pre-eminent days
Latest craze of love
Still toyin’ with the idea of song
Hadn’t grown into it yet
Then it’s gone
Watchin’ TV in the street
People not enough to inspire your lies
Dumbed down and empty
Until the last of their light has gone
Hometown mystery
You gotta go kill it somewhere
Stayed up all night
Oh and I’ll tell ya
Still nothing there
Here ten billion people in the world
Nobody thought to call
And everybody’s left behind to hate ya
In worn out times
Leave and load your brain
And they still hangin’ on for that piece of cake
That never came
Cities where you learn to live
Blood on the streets
Europe in the air
Smiles enough to swallow you whole
People always gotta cry
They’ll be gentle when it’s you
Sometimes you gotta learn how to die
Bring me back to life
Empty out your heart upon the table
Fill it with tomorrow
Hold out for the taste of love
We’re constantly being born for sure
And I’d rather die a child
Than sell office furniture
Spike your lifeHomunculus reading
Love your internal beans
Empty out your bed
Then children
Let children be young
For twenty-six years it’s been the best day of my life
This is a hymn
To whatever revolution’s to come

Blood Oranges

And if you learn how to live round here
You’re doing better than most
And all the pretty girls
Are singin’ harmonies for the last post
They’re asking me to sing at the funeral
Of everybody I knew
And the blood oranges on the stairs
Remind me what we used to do
So come on little sister
Come blow me ya horn
The train of my life
Left long before I got on
Oh one shit heap of a town
My guitar’s a survival tool
Been this way since daddy left
And mama died givin’ me you
Hey pretty darlin’
I swear I saw daddy in his eyes
I got drunk dirty
Stood there and cried
He’s lookin’ at me
And my crying eyes at the floor
But I ain’t got it in me
I’m sorrier than I ever been before
And when it comes to feelings
I’ve always been a pitiful man
It’s twenty years of singin’
Songs they don’t understand
Little sister gone and got pregnant
Now she gotta go
Left my ass weeping over the
Shadow of ghosts we used to know
And if you learn how to live round here
You’re doing better than most
And all the pretty girls
Are singin’ harmonies of the last post
And they still asking me to sing at the funeral
Of everybody I knew
Oh and the blood oranges on the stairs
Remind me what we used to do

Mankind II

And I don’t know if Mankind is real
Learn to live round here you doin’ better than most
And I don’t know if we’re really here
We’re singin’ harmonies for the last post
And I don’t know if mankind is free
We’re extreme in most everything we do
We hate each other there’s no doubt about that
But there’s also the beautiful you
We kill ourselves
We’re so magnificent
And we love each other
We’re extreme in language and extreme in thought
And I don’t know if I like you or not
And I don’t know if Mankind is good
We fall for following and God
I don’t know what Mankind really means
You need each other to form harmony
But I don’t know if I feel you right now
I don’t know what mankind needs

Can't Believe I'm Singing This

But sex offenders are now leaders
And the soldiers insist
Break their arms before they rape them
Can’t believe I’m singing this
But Earth’s become a caricature now
But the planet too needs love
Careful what you believe in
The price for living is rough
But did you forget to be grateful
We got Devil and God powers
Look after the garden
Tough day without flowers