I know a heaven on Earth
A little island in the sun
You can feel the plants growing
As the coloured birds fly overhead

This heaven is manned by a tiny angel
She walks on it’s wood floors on old t-shirts
Keeping up the shine
There are sets of tiny feet running
Over those floors sometimes

She says it’s so empty without me
This heaven on Earth
This little island in the sun

The night is a fortress
The million lights below
Sprawling in a frightening mystery
No man can divine

I never want it to go
Because it gives me life
How will I survive?

I’m far away now
And at my chest is handful of heaven's sand
I grip it fiercely

Everyday a grain falls
As the island moves
And the flowers hum

I know a heaven on Earth
A little island in the sun
It’s far away from everything
From everyone

Everybody knows the ship is sinking
It’s just that somewhere it isn’t

Every man understands
That she deserves a special man

I wish I could love that beautiful girl

She's a solid thing on this earth, forever beautiful
And maybe she'd come to see how far I'd fallen, but I couldn’t do that

I remember changing once. Turning into something hungry and emotionless.

It will never happen with this girl.

She’s bright and light
Like a torch

In this town she’s an institution
And on the other side of the world
I met someone who knew her too

It’s cool to be a part of the blue
Cloudless and sunny

Girl, I've alway had holes in my hands

When you came running
I wasn't there

It's funny how you're all the same
The world over

That same face, when something happens to your children
Just like when we were kids

You stopped waiting for me
Saw thru me

The world has taken my power
A power I know I never had

Girl, I've alway had holes in my hands

And still I want to catch you

The theorists
The atheists
Salvation, the war
What's going on?
Love and good vibes
**** and plastic gloves
Dream homes
Foxes in the garden

The monarch
Black women crying after bad news
The transvestite who walked you home
Aliens and cleopatra's throne

Sport cars, homelessness
Class wars, north and south of the river
Rhythm and dance
Humanity and kindness

Fine clothes
Darwinism, the big bang
5G, netflix and chill
Well worn doors, heirlooms
Green grass

Kissing
Roadworks
Abandoned buildings
Crane dare devils
Adrenaline

Baby talk
Baby speak
Ice-cream mountains
Rabbit, habbit, I've had it!

Awe of a generation
Death in a family
Ancient texts
Who's next?

Meditation
Looking after yourself
Good health
The uncontrollable
The simultaneous
The earth's population
Providence
Headaches and sore bones
Swollen ankles
White wine and wheelchairs

Cigarettes in the morning
Uselessness
The game
Will it ever be the same?

Mum's cooking
Getting head in the late night bar
Colonisation
Genocide
People and peace
Correcting wrongfulness
The downward falling knife
Good and evil
And the upward turning sword

A black girl
A white girl
Bali passion
2 at a time
And the long rolling oddball

Videos of your nieces and nephews
The grave
The cave
Home
And the change

The profound
The dumb
The round
Nutrition and junk food
Fresh air
Skin cells and hair

A flower is bright because it is
The morning sky says good morning in blue and orange because it does
The afternoon light slants thru the window because it does
The half moon rises above the roof because it does
The moonlight stretches across the floor because it does
And music sings because it does

I open my mouth wide
And there are things that are long finished
They are taking up space
They are taking up today

But the flower is still bright
Bright as a sailing flag
And the morning sky says good morning
The afternoon light slants thru the window
The half moon rises above the roof
The moonlight stretches across the floor
And music sings because it does

The water on the river shimmers because it does
The coral in ocean blooms because it does
The bird in the sky turns circles because he does
The trees stand and breath because they do
The rain falls because she does
And music sings because it does

The great wall diminishes
I can walk over it
With my head in the clouds
And the door stays wide open
Because it does

It was something a friend said
A passing idea that you could give yourself to
There were waves of change
So I go up early in the morning, like a kite off the floor

They were putting waves in boxes
In other parts of the world
But I could be only here
Living my life

As if this were the only time this has ever happened
We lifted our eyes and raised our hands
And tried to feel for the spaceship of revolution
Battling every kind of crippling resistance

I’ve never been here before
Same here I replied
The first few words of truth spoken in years

I could still break like a stick every day
But I wanted to make it true, and I could
To shake myself up like a cocktail
Of Kings and Queens and everyone in between
Of Beggars and Dregs
Of Blue Skies and White Streaked Fuselage

There's Something in the Air

I have no brothers
Only sisters

My blood is made up of cowboys and addicts in part
And strong men
And fierce women

For the most part, we are winners

But like I said,
I have no brothers
Only sisters

I’ve made brothers along the way though
Each of them a dark force
Shaping me like a stone

I’ve looked into my own darkness thru them
Seen the light

I’m not the biggest
The toughest
Or the smartest
But there is one quality unique to me
And that is bravery

Sometimes my brothers howl like the wind
Or rattle chains of lies and deception
Filling me with a rage enough to blacken the sun

But my bravery has remained

Few men have it, few people have it

In the future, I’ll take on many more shapes
Places, peoples and race
Because I am brave

Because I am king

It's a mystery
Of who painted those elephants
In Technicolour
Young and old

Let the mystery live on
Alive as it is now

Who did it?
Asked the young lady
Whose painting tattoos my skin
Shining a light over my dying mind

Till death do us part
Let the mystery live on

Mr. Dread
In his palm
Holds my head
Like a sweet little baby

He makes the people around me
Look in the mirror
Scrutinising

Everyday it’s dread
Every minute every hour
It’s Dread

But when you’re there
With your voice like a magpies’
Cutting thru
To that sound of morning
Of newness
Of Peace

You take his place in my bed
There is no better cure for my head

Yeah baby that’s you
The one who

Makes Mr. Dread
Disappear from view

There’s fluid in Daniel’s chest
He wheezes and coughs
All day
But it doesn’t stop him
He said
You don’t have to have religion to have faith

I went to the Easter mass
And I had to leave
Those people were crazy

Mubi was saying some men
Pray 3 4 5 times a day, even more
That would leave out time to help around the house
That’s pretty much the same as a Catholic’s alcohol addiction

Who is religion for?

For the adolescent males?
Grabbing the fattest part of the wheel
To keep steering us down the drainpipe?
They got me too

Where is love?
Where is empathy?
Babies
Family
Community
Friendship
Self-love

Like what the ****?

We are on a rolling ball in the middle of no-where?
Really.
Have you stopped and looked?

You don’t need religion to have faith.
That’s right

I have faith in my life
That it will go towards something right
That I represent that fight
As all life does
I’m part of it
And thank you for it
Thankyou for all of it
Thankyou

All these lies, like steps

It's time for grain
And soft lines
And truth

Back to it
Like a well paced pilgrim

I’m in a place
Where I’m appreciated

I’m no demon here
I like this place

I could make a home one day here
A world

It's time for grain
And soft lines
And truth

The Animator
Made new characters
That moved in the spaces
Unfilled and unthought

So when a punch came in,
It didn’t come from
Before the colonists
And the centuries' long tired gaze
It came from today

A bright bud
Make you dance and move
Like a balloon
Make you feel like a loon

A modern day dinosaur
A minotaur
Shiny against the bleak

If you ever want to love me
I just want you to know
That there is a hole in my heart

When my dad died I didn’t go to the funeral
It wasn’t the pandemic
It was the hole

My younger sister organised everything
I did nothing
When I went back my other sister
Showed me where the grave was
I said God Bless him, and off he went

I went back another time to the grave but I couldn’t find it

If you ever want to love me
I just want you to know
That there is a hole in my heart

And it worries me
How deathly it is
How in control it is

I liked the way she rode the waves
They were waves on different seas
Places I’ve never been

And I could tell she was expert
The way she pushed and pulled
And the way watching her
Made it seem easy

I want to see her again
And to show her
The waves around here

She looked me straight in the eye
When we said goodbye
She said come out little boy
From wherever it is you hide

This world is a wide place
With many magical things
Guitar players from the time of Abraham
And waves
Waves
Waves

Ambition
You’re all I have

Mum’s sick on the phone
It’s warm here
Over there it’s cold

My wife and two kids
Are yet to come home

That middle man
To help execute my plan
Has yet to shake my hand

My sister’s kids are running
On new land
Dad’s gone
And I’m a man

All of a sudden
Out of my hands

Ambition
You’re my compass in this life
And if I didn’t have so much
Death wouldn’t be an obstacle

May no part of me die in the shadows
May no part of me go out quietly

I’m singing and each note is a victory
The flame I’ve been given is burning bright

Ambition
You’re all I have

The way she sings
Her commitment to the waves

And the way he plays
Knowing only how to be brave

It has inspired me

Smoking a joint
So I’m multitasking

Who knows where I’m going to be in 5 years time?
No-one knows the future, James
That’s ok
Live for now, don’t be heavy

Mad world
But you stay on top, much as you can

Live for now, don’t be heavy

What’s at the end of a rainbow
The opposite side of freedom

The opposite side of freedom