Unkept Garden

Yes you’re right I need help. I can’t do it by myself
And if you ask me to change then just say
Let’s turn thoughts into words
Turn the map right out like that
And plan our exit from streets we don’t know

Good people turn our way
Hear the words we have to say
Don’t turn away and just show us your back (x3)
There’s a way we can go that’ll lead us all………… back

She says she’s got no time. He says “what’s it got to do with my life?”
We’re just a fish on a fisherman’s line.
He says God’s not entwined
The unkept garden may show you you’re right
But maybe right in a sense we must find

Good people turn our way
Hear the words we have to say
Don’t turn away and just show us your back (x3)
There’s a way we can go that’ll lead us all back

Good people turn our way
Hear the words we have to say
Don’t turn away and just show us your back (x3)
There’s a way we can go that’ll lead us all back…………. home


Words and Music Derek Corr


Up and Down

I’ve thought about us and the way you meet my eyes and make a shape
I've thought about us. You are the world you bring me hate and love again
I've thought about us. How I hurt and feel the pain it goes away
I think about much, but I still can tell you don't know what I say

Up and down..........we go we go we go we go we go.

Shut in. Squeaky clean bars so I'm stuck inside the pin
If I count to ten. Everything I want will appear again
And in a way this sentence I've been given is the test that life presents
But still I make a mess
Oh will I get it right, oh will I get it right again

So yea we crawl along. So don't make me run before I learn to crawl
When I hit the ground, I see more than you but see your view too
I bet you see me and see all those plans you let go in the bin
When you're older you'll see I'm not you and you're not me
We're just caught up in fantasy

Up and down..........we go we go we go we go we go.

Come in! You never seem to knock so you might as well come in
If I count to ten (2,3,4) Keep my eyes shut disappear again.
I must believe in past lives 'cause I feel so strong I don't belong within this suit of skin
We come again. I wonder does it ever end.


So yea we crawl along. So don't make me run before I learn to crawl
When I hit the ground, I see more than you but see your view too
I bet you see me and see all those plans you let go in the bin
When you're older you'll see ,you'll see ,you'll see ,you'll see............

Up and down...........................
We go, we go, we go!

Words and Music Derek Corr


“Deeper”

He turns her words to stone. “On your way, on your way”
She cries at home alone. “Its ok, its ok”.
“I didn’t mean to”. He always tells her.
“I’m falling deeper in your love”.
“If this is deeper, well you can keep it”,
She says holding to her bracelet heart

Deep deeper. All night. I won’t put up a fight.
I won’t answer if you call
Set him up for one big fall
To me it feels like dark angels hate our love
And no magic will be enough.

So now the rules have changed in this game, nowaday
You hunt as good as us. Riches, fame, all fair game
Now I call her, she ignores me. Get more looks at an all boy party
A deeper meaning is playing out now
And all future is a card game showdown

Deep deeper. All night. I won’t put up a fight.
I won’t answer if you call
Set him up for one big fall
To me it feels like dark angels hate our love
And no magic will be enough.

(Conversation)

Deep deeper. All night. I won’t put up a fight.
I won’t answer if you call
Set him up for one big fall
To me it feels like dark angels hate our love
And no magic will be enough.


Words and Music Derek Corr


Days They Say

Days, they say, that you’ve spent and just don’t go your way
Are worth solid gold they show ways how I try to not look at myself
Did I tell you I fall in love near every single time
I wake and find that you’re staring right back at me
I know it fell through bad the other night
I couldn’t help you

I’m not sorry that night begun was it the place that shunned my shining sun
The night was right. It didn’t mean I could have made it mine all mine.

Took this plane. Couldn’t wait for that sailing away type feeling
Nights, they say, are for the underworld that’s where I’ll stay
Did I tell you I fall in love near every single time I wake and find that you’re staring right back at me.
I know it fell through bad the other night could I help it.

If tonight brings the same light as if bouncing across some animal tongues
I’ll find some plan some lesson to be learned somebody to remain
A place I can stand and learn about myself just try and be a man
Some time, some night.

This time this night I find how terribly weak I fall but then I see how strong I feel inside my weakest hour when mind see’s everything there is to know. I find I know that everything is fine. Days they say.

Words and Music Derek Corr


Boat

As we sail along I can see the rocks on the shore
As you play your game I turn my mind to a song
You said you’d give the very breath of your heart
And I say that I’ll give mine to you too

I never asked for this. I only needed a sign. Only needed this sign
To show you how I feel
This place would make you dry. That’s why we went outside, dreaming of the shoreline that we would see again.
There’s more than that in here, so much of me in her
There’s no place as far away that can keep me from you
And then my heart will dock again anywhere it can, anywhere you are

Tell my mind that it won’t be that long
‘Till I see sunlight in your eyes
And chase across the shorelines following our hearts
Until we find the sun again

Words and Music Derek Corr


Exit Dark, Enter Life

Exit dark, enter life…..
Exit dark, enter life again.

Thank you mother for carrying me
A brand new year came running my first to me
The sounds that echoed my coming have tired and no longer sing
Your open wing is my first sheltering

I’m gonna eat you up, drink you dry, chew your fat again
I can’t see much but there in the sky I see that man again

He may not know that I’m the one after him
And I’m too young oh I’m too young too young to win

I’ll wait and bide time, stay by his side, make the first move, feed him the lies and then she’ll be mine. Then he can say goodbye.

You could be a little more selfless. Think more about me ‘cause I’m helpless
I feel ill just a little bit noxious see
This world is mine ‘cause I’m in it. You loose your world ‘cause I fill it
Say goodbye to you now it’s all about me

I bet he knows that I’m the one after him
But she still looks at me with eyes full of love and still

I’ll wait and bide time, stay by his side, make the first move, feed him the lies and then she’ll be mine. Then he can say goodbye.

You could be a little more selfless. Think more about me ‘cause I’m helpless
I feel ill just a little but noxious see
This world is mine ‘cause I’m in it. You loose your world ‘cause I fill it
Say goodbye to you now it’s all about me



Words and Music Derek Corr


The Man Who Didn’t Get It

You see the letters and now they turn to words and show their meaning
I turn my phone back off again
You see I don’t always read that well but you’re a book I remember
I need to study hard

Goodnight then we’re doing so well
I can’t find a metaphor to tell
I need to let you see where
We’re gonna end up if we don’t care
If you feel like it we’ll take a short break
And come back to it in a moment
Now I read you now I get it

You go away you turn away from me while I’m watching
You don’t know you’re beautiful
I bite my tongue and wait for your embrace
A smile that makes men shy
We turn another page

A loose sheet or a lost page
Or a strange book with the words arranged
Tells of how I feel how I run away
From these episodes these dramatic plays
Can I tease you with a new book
About a girl who fell in love when she looked
At the man who didn’t get it

Words and Music Derek Corr


Sound of your eyes

Don’t tell me I’m the last to know that there’s an angel down here on show
I’ve only got to settle my mind or I’ll get nervous at the stare of her eyes

And then next thing we’re dancing ballet shows to the sound of anything that goes
I’m transfixed dancing with this girl through the night through the never ending night.

Don’t say that you didn’t feel the same as me. If you were 17 you’d be ready you know what I mean.

I didn’t know my senses would alight. My satellite had spotted you alright.
And you there dancing in that dress set alight a magical surprise. I know why.

From the set go I think I had a certain feeling
I got to tell you something

I’ve been sent from above to tell you I love the way you make the sunny out of shade
Come back to sweet heavens ground and let the stars trumpet to the sound of your eyes.

Words and Music Derek Corr


[Re]evolution

We’re on the brink of re-evolution. A hippy flower with a gun
It’s not the same as an inner revolt in which the army equals one

Why wait to hear what they say. It’s just their way of spreading lies
Why wait I know what to say. Feeling like the party needs to stops

A second chance an only one a one and only
To make it work it’s gonna have to take an army
To open up and tell the truth and be a soldier
Who rescues heart and rescues mind from getting older
A second chance an only one a one and only
To make it work it’s gonna have to take an army
To make it work it’s gonna have to take an army


We’re on the brink of re-evolution a second coming first for some
We have to wake up and see what we’ve done
And not just let them off this once

Why wait to hear what they say. It’s just their way of spreading lies
Why wait I know what to say feeling like the party needs to stop

A second chance an only one a one and only
To make it work it’s gonna have to take an army
To open up and tell the truth it takes a soldier
To rescue heart and rescue mind from getting older
A second chance an only one a one and only
To make it work it’s gonna have to take an army
To make it work it’s gonna have to take an army

Words and Music Derek Corr


Your Hero Comes

I need today I want to feel
I’m asking me I’m asking you
In all the world what do we want
A superman a pretty girl
When he comes your adversary
Will you run back up to your tree
And pray the sky won’t fall
And hope your hero comes

I threw it into the sea and left a note for you
And hopefully you’ll hear my song
It’s all about when heroes come

I threw it into the sea with hope of getting to you
It crossed an ocean and still it tries to reach you
I hope a hero will come and save the day on his way
The kind of hero nobody pays for

He came from us a chosen one
To help us see the rising sun
And then he left but what he left
Distorted us and made us run
And so we choose to pick up guns
Forget to see the rising sun
And now when heroes come
We choose our weapons aim at the sun and hope for protection

I threw it into the sea.
It crossed an ocean and still it tries to reach you
I hope a hero will come and save the day on his way
What type of hero would make you pay for it

Like kids I wish I could fly and see through your disguise
Like kids I wish I could fly wish I wish I
Like kids I wish I could fly

Words and Music Derek Corr


Tell me I’m Right

Selling the earth would probably be more hassle than it’s worth
Imagine the fuss if no one bought it
If you sell the sea then who is gonna sing my soul to sleep
Cause I don’t think you sing that well

I’ve tried a million million times to get this straight one time inside my head
That if we don’t change our way of life then pretty soon we’re gonna end up dead
And telling me I’m wrong doesn’t make you right

Look at the sky and count how many stars you see go by
Imagine their size compared to you

Well I’ve tried a million million times to get this straight one time inside my head
That if we don’t change our way of life then pretty soon we’re gonna end up dead
And telling me I’m right doesn’t make me wrong
And telling me I’m right doesn’t make you wrong


Words and Music Derek Corr