FALLON CUSH - BEE IN YOUR BONNET

THERE’S A DARK SIDE TO THAT MOON                             
My sister said there’s something wrong                                     
I can’t put my finger on just what it is                                           
But I know that there is
And I’m soaking it up like a sponge
Devoid of charm, a creeping alarm
Dawning once its begun
To alter the tilt, the tides eat the silt
All out of kilter, the stars seem to wilt


It’s been a week, continues to wreak
Havoc on everyone
A shimmering moon, wives tales ‘bout a broom
This aint noyhing like a fresh start 
Caught in a flow where no man would go
Willingly given choice
It alters the tilt, the tides eat the silt
All out of kilter, starts seem to wilt


Chorus
There’s a dark side to that moon
An unholy light, wrestling wrong from right
There’s a dark side to that moon
An unholy light, wrestling wrong from right
There’s a dark side to that moon


Hold on for all its worth
You know that its no curse
In time it will be gone and we’ll get on with it
Forgotten like a lovers tiff


The futures read, it’s plain to see
In the cards, stars and the leaves
Its set in stone, in marrow and bone
From the top of your head to your feet
Won’t be denied, that moon well he tried
As troublin’ as a wet week
It alters the tilt, the tides eat the silt
All out of kilter, but we’ll never wilt

Chorus


LESS YOU’RE NEAR
Was a time, yeah a time I couldn’t be told
I’d never reverse the poles
And found out how soon I come undone
Less You’re Near
Thought for a while it might’ve disappeared


Now afternoons, round about the time that it gets cold
Its a suffocating feeling
That I know I can’t overcome
Less You’re Near
Thought for a while it might’ve disappeared
Turns out it’s all just a front
Turns out you’re all that I want


Like a worm, hid in my apple my dear
Didn’t know its there up until I bit in
And found out how soon I come undone
Without you here I don’t want to be
That I know and can’t overcome
Less you’re near
Thought for a while it might’ve disappeared
Turns out it’s all just a front
Turns out you’re all that I want

Want you near
Thought for a while it might’ve disappeared
Turns out it’s all just a front
Turns out you’re all that I want

KINGS RANSOM


Mirror oh, mirror there on the wall
You’ll witness no fall
Playin for a kings ransom
It’s knock em down, it’s drag em out
Blinding speed
Punch drunk need
Of a sympathetic ear
For disaster’s, a recipe


Bored out of my brain with too much to do
I wish I had wings to sprout
Playing for a kings ransom
It’s no holds barred, nothing’s out
I didn’t blink, that’s a wink
But the truth is there’s a chink in my armour
And it looks like you


Mirror oh, mirror there on the wall
You witnessed the fall
Found out that a kings ransom
Doesn’t mean much, if at all
To my knees will I sink
Cos, the truth is there’s a chink in my armour
And it is you
You’re all I want, I got you
You’re all I need and I want you
You’re all I got and I need you

USELESS FRIEND



Would it take a photograph, jog a memory or two
A Parisian cenotaph and a sky that’s so blue
Under the arches, down by the Seine
A moment of truth when it came
A picture post card in need of a frame


So let’s not beat around that bush for too long
You got yours and I got mine and it’s there on teh tip of your tongue
I’d give you a penny, a penny for your thoughts
A slice of your dreams
I’d give that wish at the bottom of the well


Chorus
I’m too far gone, I’m a hopeless case
I cramp your style, invade your space
I hang around, like a useless friend
And for you and I you know that I’d do anything


It all started with you and you’ll be my end
Some things aren’t obvious or yours to defend
I’d give you a penny, a penny for your thoughts
A slice of your dreams
I’d give that wish at the bottom of the well

Chorus


FOR TOO LONG


Fought it for days, fighting
The good fight
Got something to say
When the time’s right


Yeah, I know that I should be
Out and about
Shoulder the blame as you know
No doubt


So when, it seems like I’m gonna get up again
You can’t help but take me down
It’s got to end


Chorus
For too long now I’ve been
Crushed by your good-byes
For so long now I’ve been
Trying to find life in dead eyes


Fought it for days, fighting
The good fight
Got something to say
When the time’s right
You seem so far away


So when, it seems like I’m gonna get up again
You can’t help but bring me down
It’s got to end


Chorus


DOROTHY

Like they hit me with a branding iron
It’s plain to see I’m your, you’re mine
And it wasn’t so much bated breath more like I always knew
As I watched you with that knife
Knife and fork pick around that tiny plate
As though you know you coulda been toying with someone’s fate


Talk politely without a trace
Of what lay beneath a familiar face
And we danced around the subject some and didn’t get too far
So I watched you with that knife
Knife and fork pick around that tiny plate
As though you know you coulda been toying with someone’s fate


Chorus
Dorothy, the day that you met me
Well, I didn’t sleep a whole lot that night
Dorothy, noncholant and serene
Did you really think you never would meet me


I kissed your cheek but you not mine
And as we’d speak I’d read your mind
And you weren’t so much circumspect more you were in control
As I watched you with that knife
Knife and fork pick around that tiny plate
As though you know you coulda been toying with someone’s fate


Chorus


Like they hit me with a branding iron


THE HONEYCOMB

Can I steal a little of your sweetness dear
I’ll stash it away safe in here
Round it up, from not much
We build this stuff
Into something bigger than us
The honeycomb is where it’s at


And crumbling though it might be, it’s sweet
The honeycombs home, where we show a trick to the birds and bees
Crumblin’ though it be


Build it up whenever it gets too much
All we need is some more of that stuff
That we’ve got, our little secret building blocks
We’re far too old for a crush
The honeycomb is where it’s at


And crumbling though it might be, it’s sweet
The honeycombs home, where we show a trick to teh birds and bees
Crumblin’ though it be


HAUNTING

If it was easier for you and less for me
More about what you can’t live without, less what you’d lose
We might’ve thought a little more a little less


Now it’s all a cold sullen ground wedged between your toes
Dragged about inside and out, it just won’t let go
We should’ve talked a little more, a little less


You’re haunting me and I can’t get over you
You’re haunting me
I haunted you, you couldn’t get over me
You wanted to


If it was easier for you and less for me
We might’ve baulked, not buried those thoughts, not frayed at the seems
We should’ve thought a little more a little less


You’re haunting me and I can’t get over you
You’re haunting me
I haunted you, you couldn’t get over me
You wanted to, yeah you tried


You haunted you, you couldn’t get over me
You wanted to, needed to
You’re haunting me, oh I won’t get over you
You’ll haunt me the rest of my life


BEE IN YOUR BONNET

Are remedies a cure?
Don’t ask cause I’m not sure
Why does it mean that much?
You’re splitting hairs, losing touch
I never gave it much thought


Chorus
I can feel something here ain’t right tonight
You’ve a bee in your bonnet alright
And I’ve nothing to give


Are remedies a cure?
Don’t ask me cause I’m not sure
Are these questions all worth
The time they take, the truth they skirt?
What difference do they make?


Chorus


All those things you thought were said
The things you won’t put to bed
I never gave a second thought
Can’t we leave them in peace


Chorus


BIGGEST SHOW

When the flame went out and her stare
Fixed softly nowhere
She waited I swear


Well worn threads, a hand me down
the biggest show in town


As the clay held out it’s arns
Amidst tales and psalms
They played songs, just what I forget
Don’t understand last repects
Never genuflect
But I saw the comfort in believing


When the flame went out I wasn’t there
When She burnt out like a flare
It was meant to be you’d swear


Well worn threads, a hand me down
the biggest show in town


Well worn threads, a hand me down
And the biggest show in town


Well worn threads, a hand me down
And the biggest show in town

FALLON CUSH - APRIL



It’s A Line

Saw a movie on a plane not much sense could be made
Of a bunch of guys the best in their game
Sounding like Ruben Kinkaid

They’re the smartest guys go and ask them and they’ll tell you why
PHD’s and private planes, a microphone camera and lights
Makes them think they got it right

For the same reasons
They’d do it again
They’re men for all seasons
and they lend

It’s a line that at some point they crossed
It’s a crime they committed 
By design with weights and measures
As refined as a shotgun

Shut my eyes to wish them away yeah I tried and I tried
But the truth I have to say, there is no place you can hide
They’re a stain that will always survive

For the same reasons
They’d do it again
They’re men for all seasons
and they lend


Rather than lie to me and you they should all just bow out and call it a day   
But in their minds they’re wizards and we’re all factors of production
Not much more than their tools of trade

Got no doubts the professors books won’t amount to much more
Than a waste of paper used to hold open a door
Used to hold open a door

Forever After

I could be more like the moon every night
If you could be more like the wind
You could bend trees and I’d be the light
By which you would circle the grid

Together we
We’ll cross the nightsky
To crash and burn
Our way to exile

We could be more of a wish than a plea
With less memory than a liar
With no need to chase clues cause there is no crime
In wishing that we could be tighter

Together we
We’ll cross the nightsky
To crash and burn
Our way to exile

And we can talk all about
All of the things
That we know that we oughtta
Do, but we are like the moon and the wind
They might wane but not falter
They’re forever after


Honey Honey

Honey Honey why’d you kiss me short
I can tell by the way you speak and you walk
That you feel like we will always
Be akin to cheese and chalk

Honey Honey won’t you kiss me some
Ain’t got no doubt that we are much more than strong
But go the long way if you want to
Or come the short way back to me
Honey Honey won’t you kiss me long
While you and I wither on the vine

Honey Honey won’t you kiss me long
Ain’t got no potion, spell or a magic wand
I just got us and I know that
It’s not a choice we belong

Honey Honey won’t you kiss me long
While you and I wither on the vine

Honey Honey why’d you kiss me short
Honey Honey won’t you kiss me long
Honey Honey why’d you kiss me short
Honey Honey won’t you kiss me long

In The Nick Of Time

We’d built a wall I’m not sure why
But I’d hoped it wasn’t as thick as it was high
We’ll pull it down one brick at a time
Chisel away at the sand cement and lime

We’d dug a hole that had no sides
It kinda just spreadout swallowing all in sight
We filled it in one grain at a time
Till we were back believing in you and I

And it was just in the nick of time
And it was just in the nick of time

And it was just in the nick of time
We stumbled onto the light in             
A harbour town

We’d built a wall I’m not sure why
But turned out it wasn’t as thick as it was high
We pulled it down sand, cement and lime
Slowly revealed what we knew all the time

And it was just in the nick of time
And it was just in the nick of time


Where You Name Is Carved

Remember when we would sit there
Whisperin’ till dark
Till we’d both run home
‘cross the park

Now I always find you there
Where your name is carved in deep
Into the seat at our tree

Without you now I watch the leaves
Continue their march
Through the seasons at our tree                
Where your name is carved

When it turns black I head inside
A well worn path once at your side
Is now walked looking over my
Shoulder for you

You know that I will always be
There till the last hint
Of sunshine disappears

Without you now I watch the leaves
Continue their march
Through the seasons at our tree                
Where your name is carved
Through the seasons at our tree                
Where your name is carved



Sight To Remember

I packed my heart in the overhead
And settled in to fly four thousand miles
To meet you in a hotel
To re-connect like you said
In your diplomatic way

Once counted days but spoke in weeks
You counted hours but spoke in sleeps
Now the petals here on these flowers
Are showing signs of the heat
But they still look a treat

I sat there waiting in the rose scented marble foyer
And when the lift door opened you were all that I could see
You were a sight to remember



When You Say
Come on girl let’s bust a move the communication jive
Put your arms around my neck conspire
To reveal a shocking truth lets tiptoe down the wire
To thumb our nose at those who would deny us
Oh, you can light up a room like a fire

Come on girl take my hand come on take me down
Down to where the word is desire
Oh, you can light up a room like a fire

But when you say that there ain’t nothing wrong
When you say that there ain’t nothing wrong
As your heart turns to stone
I can feel it in my bones



Renegade Blues

My brow is furrowed and my heart is in a sling
Was a time when I believed all these people were my friends

Now they say we’ve missed you it’s because they’re takin’ aim
I’m talking the talk but can’t walk the walk cause I know it’s all in vain

Seems like they all can’t wait to do me in
I’m a double dealing renegade with a bounty on my grin

How I wish I had 
Handed in my renegades badge

Now all us renegades are a bit long in the tooth
And nowhere as dangerous as we once were in our youth
We’re dodgin’ the dudes with the noose
Singing the renegade blues

They’ll stop at nothing these vultures overhead
Reducing a once proud renegade to checking under his bed



Every Waking Hour

Wash down the walls with turpentine
Rid every sign of you
From every crease and crevice
Of every room

Every waking hour feels like two
Sitting here surrounded by you
Every waking hour I can’t get through
Sitting here surrounded by you

Watch the clock as every tick
Is like an aftershock
Can’t drag myself away from it
I tie myself in knots

You once said that you would always
Be here with me all the way
Now I’m failing while you surround me
There can’t be a longer day

Wash down the walls with turpentine
Rid every sign of you



Frank and Margaret

Frank and Margaret met at a dance for folk of a certain age
Newly single they decided to take it slowly at that stage

But he went and complicated
Everything not long after that
She don’t want his name

Frank and Margaret then underwent a not so subtle change
With the upper hand she proceeded treating him with disdain

The lengths that Frank went to trying to avoid a pain he knew
A tangled web he’d weave as his head said Frank let’s leave

Frank found himself hiding in her roof after she’s said
That she’s had enough but he just had to be near her while she slept
Frank and Margaret met at a dance for folk of a certain age



Sleeping Giant

Was it real or is it make believe
Are they dreams or fantasies conceived
In the dead of night

Be careful they say
What you wish for
You’ll wake up one day
With a wolf at your door
Or a sleeping giant on your floor

Is it superstition or belief
That you cling to when you’re in too deep
In over you head

Once you’ve seen it all
You’ve seen it all
Can’t live on regrets
They’re for rubbernecks
Not for me

Some things sweet lead only to decay
One child’s sweet but vicious in their play
Have you heard it all