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

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

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

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

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

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’m stepping off one island
Onto another
Reaching and feeling
Hanging in the air
So I just wanted to record some things here

I remember those spaces
When we use to sleep as a trio
In our parents room
The eucalypt humidifier going

Having mum rub Vicks on my chest
Closing my eyes
Enduring still
The completeness of her hand
Pressing down on every nerve

My sister on the red bucket
Playing drums
And me on the Tuba
Calling out music-less directions

Those spaces in my memory
Fruitful magic places
Alive and sunken
Whole, ethereal

I bought an easel for my sister
My father said I was rich
How I wish to be that rich again
My leg hanging in the air
Moving off an island...

I can't tell another lie
My teeth will fall out

Apologies to anyone who has waited up

But I have to get myself out of this for me

And to all those dreams
I let go


I can't tell another lie

I'm as low as the road
Listening to approaching cars
That don't come
That don't go

Time moves so fast

I can't tell another lie


I'll collect my thoughts
My sounds and ideas
I'll send them out
So that you can hear

I love the buzz

There are so many pictures
I stick to my screen
They cloud my mind with need

I need to get free
To get off on myself

I can't tell another lie

I'm moving slow
Re-charging
In a world moving so fast
Sirens in the distance
The calm sunset over a busy city

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

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

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