Lyrics
Lyrics
Song lyrics by Stormcellar.
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2 week millionaire
What do you do when your friends gone mad And it’s the best time they’ve ever had She said she only dreamed she’d been awake Had to get up before it got too late So she kept on running and kept on running She rolled me over like a 2 week millionaire What do you do when the world’s gone mad And it’s the best time you’ve ever had saw myself walk out the door I kept on running and I kept on running Hey hey hey hey New arrivals Hey hey hey hey to survival hey hey hey hey my my my she rolled me over like a 2 week millionaire Pass me a bottle I’ll leave you the key You can tell them where I’ll be Somewhere in that high country Where the lovin’s easy and the living free Hey hey hey hey New horizons Hey hey hey hey Older wiser Hey hey hey hey My my my Hey Hey hey hey She rolled me over like a 2 week millionaire (c) 2024-25 barry/read stormcellar
7 Days
Once was a gambler Once as a man Lost it all in vegas Now I’m drifting like the sand Call me a dreamer Call me late at night Know I’m a night owl I never turn off the light Cos I’m looking for some honey When I call you on the phone Realise I spend my money Not to be alone I’ve got 7 lonely days 7 long nights to ride out 7 lonely days to redeem my soul Before the devil takes me Day one I’m cruising Day two I’m glad Day three I star thinking I sure got it bad Day four I start shaking Day five I don’t care Know I gotta have my fill honey Gotta have my share Cos I'm looking for some lovin When I call you on the phone Realise I spend all my money Not to be alone I’ve got 7 lonely days (to redeem my soul) 7 long nights to ride out 7 lonely days to redeem my soul Before the devil takes me Looking for my baby Looking high and low Looking for my baby With my faithful .44 Know I gotta have me that woman Got to have me that girl So you know I’m looking everywhere All around the world Cos I'm looking for some loving When I call you on the phone Realise I spend all my money Not to be alone I’ve got 7 lonely days (to redeem my soul) 7 long nights to ride out 7 lonely days to redeem my soul Before the devil takes me (REPRISE) 7 lonely days (to redeem my soul) 7 long nights to ride out 7 lonely days to redeem my soul Before the devil takes me (c) 2010 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
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Big Time in Newtown
Live for the weekend baby You know it’s the same I never wanted to be you honey I only wanted the fame Feet fill the pavement As they crowd in to the gig The moon is riding high I’m stepping like My names up in the sky I’m big time in Newtown I’m big time tonight Big time in Newtown baby I’m gonna get myself some trouble tonight Not what I wanted to be I was never allowed She said Fucked up and unhappy now still alone in the crowd I want there to be a shining lighthouse for my soul I want to light that lamp So I can try and find my way back home I’m big time in Newtown Bigtime tonight I ’m bigtime in Newtown baby I know I’m gonna find my way tonight Look in the windows at the things that people are in this immortal moment every single one of you’s a star You’re Big time in Newtown baby Big time tonight Big time in Newtown baby You’re gonna be a star tonight Big time in Newtown baby Big time tonight Big time in Newtown baby You’re gonna be a star tonight I said every single light’s a star tonight (c) 2026 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Brave with your Heart
Too late to believe in tomorrow not like you to live in the clouds too old for echoes of feeling's you've had too wise to hope for them now. brave with your heart. The gloss that's on the familiar might just be the gleam in their eye know that you can't kid a kidder can you learn a truth from a lie You know when to finish the party. Kiss each out the door, to the night. Pour out a last nagging finger, now pick up all the shards of your life. Brave with your heart. (c) 2017 Barry/Williams/Stormcellar
Broke for a week
Broke for a week baby know what I mean broke for a week baby ain't that obscene ain't got no money honey ain't got a bean broke for a week baby ain't got no green You think you're always on the prowl you think you're talking to me now but I ain't listening any how i sure just wish you would come out and say say what you gotta say and then be on your way cos I ain't got no time for listening to no gas light lines (c) 2017-2022 Barry/read/stormcellar/spa
By myself without you
As I walk the halls of memory Where the chiseled past is stone And the weight upon my shoulders Pressing me into unknown I don’t want the pain to tell me That I need the things I’m shown All these hand me down emotions That I still don’t want to know But I don’t feel the way you feel it I don’t feel the falling down I don’t feel the way it used to And I can’t say it out loud All the memories now are burning Leaving me to stop the hurting Am I by myself without you You can never leave me now Don’t wanna hear about it When it feels like it’s forever I know only here and now haul your ship across the ranges til you learn to put it down when you wrap your arms around me I wish I could feel them now all the times that you are with me and I’m still alone somehow But I don’t feel the way you feel it I don’t feel the falling down I don’t feel the way it used to And I can’t say it out loud To know the lessons aren’t the learning And the pain is not the hurting When I’m by myself without you I can never leave you now Don’t wanna hear about it Copyright Michael barry 2025
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Can't Tax Love
Let's talk about something so divine Its gonna last 'til the end of time Can't get this in no box or no can Have your head spinning like a ceiling fan So come on Baby sit back and relax We're holding something that they can't tax that's love Well you caught me off off guard just the other day found myself on my knees and ready to pray Oh yeah But I dont think anything can save me feel myself falling like a well cut tree So come on Baby sit back and relax We're holding something that they can't tax that's love Well I'm crawling from the wreckage at quarter three You're stil wondering whats happened to me Some nights are rough some nights are smooth Found our selves necking in a telephone booth So come on Baby sit back and relax We're holding something that they can't tax that's love (c) 2010 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Chalk Angels
Chalk Angels Can't come out to play Ma says he’s feeling poorly Put all his toys away He learned his lesson early The pavements in my neighbourhood Cross yellow lines Chalking angels on the kerb Telling me not to ask them why Don’t go outside today You know you make’em nervous Please don’t let them feel afraid Those who protect and serve us came into my neighbourhood, I don’t know why One more angel drawn in chalk One more monster in outline Monkey bars and swings and foozball games When it’s light out you can stay up late Mama’s calling better come inside don’t you hear Pavements in my neighbourhood Cross yellow lines Something that I thought had changed Is telling me I must comply Don’t go outside today (c) Barry/Read/Stormcellar 2015
Change your mind
I didnt know what else to say when you said goodbye and so I watched you walk away and told myself another lie Never looked before I leapt didnt hear no warning bells The promises that I kept you never kept so well and for the first time in my life I can honestly say I won't be waiting when you change your mind All the places we used to go Can't even bear to say their name and incidentally did I tell you that i loved you or did that just slip away Never looked before I leapt, didnt hear no warning bells the promises I kept you never kept so well and for the first time in my life I can honestly say i wont be waiting when you change your mind I didnt know what to say when you said goodbye You know I just cant tell if you mean it this time Never looked before I leapt, didnt hear no warning bells the promises I kept you never kept so well But you know if you look back as you're wakling away I wont be waiting When you change your mind Wont be waiting When you change your mind Always waiting For you to change your mind (c) 2010 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Chase the Dragon (to Be with you tonight)
Well I went to town I need the sound another day of low slinking 'round Well I left this town I left around hanging 'round the kind of people I should not be hanging 'round something else has changed all those things that lover's say but I don't know what I don't know I left this town I hate the way that people say that love has changed my life Well I left this town I won't be round Can't stand up and I can't sit down on a winner Go so far away to be near you almost ended up in Maine last winter tryin' to live in full tilt boogie you don't know just what I'd give to be with you tonight somethin' else has changed all those things that lover's say i will wait for i will wait I left this town I hate the way that people say that love has changed my life. Well I left this town I won't be 'round Can't stand up and I can't sit down on a winner Go so far away to feel near you and it's always from the heart greetings from San Luis Obispo, Know exactly what I'd give to be with you tonight to be with you tonight © 2016 Barry/Read
Cheap Hotel
Hope this is getting somewhere just wake me when we get there the scenes are changing colour as the towns go flying past another night another cheap hotel playing songs that we know too well now Homeward on a rebound swing you know new lovers never ask directions cos we both know how this has to go another night another cheap hotel playing songs that we know too well now Guided by a foreign tongue you think we'd both know our way by now cos we've both been where this story ends another night another cheap hotel playing songs that we know too well now Copyright 2010 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Coloured my world
Sun was coming up when we pulled in for a bite poured me coffee in my cup said see anything you like looked at both the specials 'would you like to try the pie? it isn't on the menu but I get off by five' Hey I thought I was the one who moved too fast but you put your foot down on the gas you made up my mind for me coloured my world and then you set me free you made up my mind for me coloured my world and then you set me free to love again and again and again Haulin down the freeway travelling to a show saw a pretty little thing there standing by the road pulled the tour bus over said hey you need a ride said she'd like to climb on board but she's gotta drive you know I've been 'round that block before you know I already told Muddy no but you made up my mind for me coloured my world and then you set me free you made up my mind for me coloured my world and then you set me free to love again and again and again Now she's got me howlin' out for more ain't you ever raised a huntin' dog before you made up my mind for me coloured my world and then you set me free you made up my mind for me coloured my world and then you set me free to love again and again and again (c) 2016 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Company of A Friend
Company of a friend Even in the longest of my hours Even on the darkest of my days When trouble seems to be my sole companion A trick of light reminds me that things change Seems I’m always seeing rainbows But I can’t say if that means That I’m as close to heaven As I’ll ever be But even when the rains come I know that there’ll be an end And when they’re gone you’ll find me In the company of a friend Sitting on the outside of the service Wrapped within my burdens and my shame Something still reminds me there’s a purpose In learning to accept what I cant change Seems I’m always seeing rainbows But I can’t say if that means That I’m as close to heaven As I’ll ever be But even when the rains come I know that there’ll be an end And when they’re gone you’ll find me In the company of a friend Copyright 2010 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Country Radio
Another dusty afternoon Another long day gone Put one foot behind the other sing that chain gang song And though I’m many miles from home Still I yearn for sleep yet so many miles to go many promises to keep Maybe some day Maybe we’ll see Maybe some day Picking up speed Headed down on a country road Not there yet but I’m getting closer Hear them on a country radio sing yeah yeah yeah Another useless day of trying The things you should foreswear You only laugh to stop from cryin make like you don’t care but when you peer into the distance It’s like it’s looking back To ask you what you’re waiting for When nothing's built to last Headed down on a country road Not there yet but I’m getting closer Hear them on a country radio Sing yeah yeah yeah Headed down on a country road just another bleeding soul singing on the country radio sing yeah yeah yeah (c) 2011-12 Michael JE Barry/Paul A Read
Crossfire
You treat me like I dont exist another number upon your list I'll tell you something that you might have missed that it's way too late to do a thing about it Always talking 'bout what you need until there aint no space to breathe! I tell you something you you might believe that its way too late for you to wanna hear about a crossfire is there really more that you wanted to say caught up in a crossfire if you knew the truth would it blow you away Can't believe that here we are again come back around to that same old everloving thing, Did you forget about the promises we gave? Another trip through every mistake I've ever made! Seems like you dont want to touch me any more. How would you know when you're too busy keeping score? Why wont you tell me what you really need? Keep it bottled up untiul it makes me want to scream into a crossfire is there really more that you wanted to say caught up in a crossfire if you knew the truth would it blow you away and I want you to need me the way that I need you and I want to believe you and I need it to be the truth (twin duet solos) and I want you to need me the way that I need you and I want to believe you and I need it to be the truth (02) 2019 Barry/ReadCry For you
Cry For You - Lyrics When you can’t feel, I will feel for you When you can’t tell I will tell you true Since you left theres but one thing to do If you won’t cry Then I will cry for you What you can’t know I won’t keep from you What you can’t see I won’t show to you What you can’t give I won’t hope from you And if you don’t lie I won’t tell the truth And If you won’t cry Then I will cry for you (c) Michael JE Barry/Michael H Rosenthal 2014
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Devils Preacher
Hard upon my journey I didn’t see the signs I brought with me a passenger I thought I’d left behind The mirror to my innocence My vanity and pride Fear foremost the dark companion of my mind Summoned to the temple, beneath the tomb of kings, I walked the empty streets beside a crystal pyramid I came upon a messenger who begged me for a meal sanctified in charity this is what he did reveal he said son you’re riding with the devil preacher your troubles just begun until you make of this your teacher Stumbling at the threshold For deliverance I cried And fled into the centre of the storm Where the tracks met the road I knelt and burned my pleas There between the iron and the stone by dawn I made my peace with hell and I dreamed that I was called before the lord on a moonlit night by a bayou bright I played my songs for him And in reply, this is what I heard. he said and the stage shall be your sanctuary from without and from within for those that hide the lie of endless night in sweet delight the lesson there to learn is to be lived knowing it is what it is the cup that has been broken cannot be refilled it draws no water from the well he said he that would seek to cast the devil out must first look inside to see the devil in themselves for the stage was made your sanctuary and the truth has set you free as dark within the light resides between both day and night the better to observe the lesson lived knowing it is what it is I said son You’re riding with the devils preacher You’re riding with the devils teacher (c) 2020-2022 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Don't Get Around Much
Don't Get Around Much Aint so tired of walking That I’d spend my cash on gas My pocket's light It just aint right Don’t get around much anymore The stuff my friends been taking Is like a trip across the sea Small plastic bags Sure make me mad Don’t get around much anymore Don’t get around much anymore Don’t get around much anymore Well they say it gets worse Before it gets better Things will get drier Before they get wetter Take you to the door Say it aint as bad as that Until you see the pit Under the welcome mat I’d like to go out driving But I cant afford to pay no tolls The merchant banks Vikings Huns and Franks Took out a lien on my soul I ain't so tired of walking That I’d spend my cash on gas My pockets light It just aint right Don’t get around much anymore Don’t get around much anymore Don’t get around much anymore (c) 2010 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Don't Take It So Hard On Me
Don't take it so hard on me Like Lightning in the distance By the road side selling visions un-complicate your system in search of premonition A secret known to warriors whose company I keep you can be both fragile and be brave ridden hard without complaint unfairly burdened beast who'll never turn to you as if to say don't take it so hard on me. Anyone can do it don't you know that it's a fact there aint nothing to it well how about that whatever gets you through it thinking so dont make it bad depends on how you view it whatcha think about that? In a world that seldom shows a mercy to the strong surprised to find what I need to heal me like any wounded creature seeking shelter from the storm a simple touch is all I have to say don't take it so hard on me. (c) 2014 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Don't you know who I am
From our unreleased KC Underground Coming into town think i'd like to paint it red havent let my situation influence my head everybody loves me and if you dont you will now i'm a paitent man 'but I aint got time to kill but theres something 'bout this process I dont think you understand now give me my money don't you know who I am? I like my pillow on the left my swag bag on the right my laundry freshly pressed and my wine is sparkling white you ignore me at your peril I'm an important guy and if you want to roll with me some conditions will apply now i aint resorted to violence but it might be part of the plan so give me my money don't you know who I am? thank you for your service this place is mighty fine but I see my bus is leaving and i like to be on time so glad to have met you we're brothers in the blues we've made a real connection so here's an offer you can't refuse i dotn care if the cheque has cleared yet i just dont give a damn now give me my money don't you know who I am? Down & Dirty - Lyrics Sorry that I just don't see you Won't bring myself to take your call there's time enough to count the mumbles in your mouth fill the space between these walls Something lost in the transmission something I don't understand Has come into my possession Here's a list of my demands I want it all I want it down and dirty I need it all I want someone to hurt me Your most valuable possession Ruined castle in the sand Can you please repeat the question? All the world's at my command I want it all I want it down and dirty I need it all I want someone to hurt me (c) Barry/Read/Stormcellar 2018
Downward Bound
Downward Bound V3 Lord I’m going down Lord I’m Downward Bound Sins will pave my way Through that convict town Love don’t get no traction in Rum Rebellion city Charity don’t compromise And hope don’t show no pity Hard eyed women Stony po faced man Step to my connection with a razor in my hand Lord I’m going down Lord I’m Downward Bound Sins will pave my way Through that convict town Gambler tried to tell me pay attention to me son This cold and windy city aint like back down on the farm I shook his hand by way of thanks for all of his advice Relieved him of his pocketbook, his wallet slipped my number to his wife Lord I’m going down Lord I’m downward bound Sins will pave my way In that convict town A preacher tried to tell me Please Let Jesus be your friend He’ll help you lift the burden And absolve you of your sin or on judgment day you’ll find yourself locked Outside those pearly gates I said with a grin, they’ll let me in you;ve got friends but I;ve got Mates Lord I’m going down Lord I’m downward bound Sins will pave my way Through that convict Town (c) 2014 Michael JE Barry/ Paul A Read
Dreams of Better Days
All the times you looked back for what you thought were better days (redletter days) and now you wonder if they never were it's hard won, this run, soon as you're started it seems like you're done, mhm (not the only one) How does it feel to know you're not the only person to whom the rules do not apply? You know I'd like to be quite as certain, you can tell me where but you cannot tell me why. Drilling holes in the lifeboat to let the Jesus Water in. Seems like the windmills have turned to chase you right back. Rosy nostaliga will do you no good two and two won't equal four and maybe never could, mhm (not just anyone) And the sky is as blue as it's ever been and the sea is as deep as a mystery and the things that have been will all come again and you give to the world to remember them And the trees are as green as they've ever been and the things that are sweet are still very sweet and there's more to the meaning than what you give and the air is the only thing in between (c) 2023 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Drink U Off My Mind
Drink U off My Mind Dont you worry 'bout it baby I'll just take a little time Dont you worry about it baby everythings gonna work out fine Why I just need a little time at the bar to drink you off my mind Well I started out with Bourbon But that just led to misery So I followed up with some Rye Whiskey and it seemed to work for me but I just need a little time here at the bar to drink you off my mind Said I just need a little time here at the bar to drink you off my mind Well you wanted me to love you to love you good and true Said now you wanted me to love you and love you girl yes I do Said I just need a little time here at the bar to drink you off my mind (c) 2010 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
The Duke
The Duke Hear the footsteps in the servants quarters, preparation for the coming of the Duke. Quick to notice, that his iron grip has faltered, tell him anything as long as it's the truth. His teachings now are locked within his silence, to disregard every opinion of the world, who search forever for the sources of his laughter, yet to hear the sound and never find the cause. Behold the walls and ruins of his castle, Gold and silver now more common than the flesh. One last cry, a final gasp in anger break the Spears and lay him to his rest. Gentle soul won’t you fill his mouth with holy water One last drink To forever quench his thirst His sceptered hand His burning heart Have made a pyre of himself And shadows dance Where once the fire burned © 2023 Michael Barry
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Even In a Lifetime
Even in a lifetime It’s so hard to get a straight answer so don’t mind when I ask again You say that you don’t want Another lover But I don’t want to be your friend Even in a lifetime it seems You still don’t know what you mean to me Even in a lifetime it seems And by the time you wake up I’m outta here I can’t tell you how To make your choices I’d make one for you, if I could So tired from taking your pick of poisons Can’t tell the bad guys from the good Even in a lifetime it seems You still don’t know what you mean to me Even in a lifetime in dreams And by the time you wake up I’m outta here Even in a lifetime it seems You still don’t know what you mean to me Even in a lifetime in dreams And by the time you wake up Even in a lifetime it seems You still don’t know what you mean to me Even in a lifetime in dreams Of waking up to find you Still lying at my side morning on a day That never comes (c)2011-12 Michael JE Barry / Paul A Read
Everywhere Feels Like Home
EFLH is pretty much instrumental, except for the Yeti Mix and the Vocal Mix. When there are words, these are what they are: End of V1 The further you go the closer you get 'til all that you know is everywhere feels like home and at the end of the song The further you go the closer you get the more that you know that everywhere, feels like home (c) 2014 Rosenthal/Barry/Stormcellar
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Feel so blue
Feel So Blue Lyrics No one ever told me it wasplay for keeps No one ever told me what it's supposed to be Maybe its soemthing we dont talk about Maybe it's something dont come easily You and me How can I ever try to understand you when I'm feeling so blue Feeling like I've landed in a different atmosphere Maybe I'd be better off away from here Can't help but think what you're not telling me Can't work out exactly what you want from me need from me How can I ever try to understand you when I'm feeling so blue (instrumental) (bridge reprise) How can I know what you wont tell me How can I know just how you feel How can I ever try to understand you When I'm feeling So Blue. (c) 2011 Barry/Read
Firewater
I'm fire you're water no, you can't put me out my fire is your water why don't you drink me down into the place where you're feeling empty anything you want long as you are free I won’t feel afraid of what you show me you are not afraid of what you see I’m night-time to your daytime I open when you close you can't catch me when you chase me I’m with you when you take me to the place where you feel empty show me where it hurts so that I can soothe anything you feel is at your permission anything you want is what you choose (it's so lonely in the state of maine!) © 2022 Barry/Read
The Flood
The Flood She’s empty in the dry Shying from the sky Deep beneath her sands does she keep hidden The lone & single spark The secrets of her heart A piece of her to herself She’s forbidden But comes the time her seasons change The heavens open cross her plains And rivers She breaks her drought with flooding rains And riders, to a man lift up their gaze. So lay me down In the press of the waters No I won’t drown Float like a reed in her creek She’s not far now Though I fail at the borders of her If I wait until her rivers’ rise the flood shall carry me. V2 Through all does she endure heat and dust so cruel green and pleasant lands so long forgotten The sharpness of her gaze her azure skies inveigh fearless binding will that can not soften But you who do not know her well tremble ‘neath her tempest and her fury yet to her summons will I fly when the shadows grow longer than my days (c) 2015 Barry/Rosenthal
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Get On Home
Well I'm sixteen weeks to Memphis then I'm going back to Jackson make my way to Clarksdale on to Tupelo and Canton Been so long since I been gone and with God as my witness I been working on my mojo back to take care of my business while all the world's a burnin' going back where I come from so I am going back to jackson and it's time you came along Get on home X 4 When I was a young boy and I learned my shapes and letters teacher made to tell me not to talk back to my betters but I grew up straight and i grew up right talked when I could talked when I might i'm strong enough to win this fight this freedom walk my civil rights I'm on the road to glory and I'm holding out my hand I want to call you brother take you to that promised land get on home It's been so hard for so long dont know when the storm will end I know my way to freedom not too proud to start again so I'm going back to Jackson to the well from whence I sprung and we'll start this journey over in the way that I begun there aint no power stronger than to know your right from wrong So I'm going back to Jackson and it's time you came along. get on Home X 4 (c) 2019 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Giants Fall
Folded from one sheet of paper Leaving no trace of your maker And so without belief in Nothing You test the limits of your suffering to find again that there's no distance the world outside's the one within you Telling me to mind my place Kiss the hem of your brocade. this time All the kings and queens bow down before you to venerate the Portion you control it’s how we’ll keep yourself from ever looking down to the furthest recess of your soul go and break my heart go and break my heart go and break my heart when the wheel turns around and brings me where you lay this time and it cursed the eyes that ever saw you to frame your sacrifice in black and white with your hands and knees clasped out before you did they notice that you lay down like a child to die? tell me can you finally hear the silence? That’s the sound it makes when giants fall To see your innocence undone in violence when the sacred’s stolen from the world And it’s only when it happens to you you get to feel like everybody else and though I’m trying so hard to accept it all I want is to forget myself Barry/read 2022 Give Me Something I want - Lyrics Give me something I need (edited Dec 2014 cos I noticed v3 was wrong) V1 You keep waiting for you out in the car It seems like hours till we get to the bar don’t need no make up cos you look so fine Seems like forever ‘til I get what’s mine I aint no stalker or a love sick pup You talking dirty but you won’t give it up If you can’t give me something I want Just give me something I need. V2 Cause a commotion when you walk through the door All eyes are on you as you step to the floor Move to the rhythm cos you’re feeling so free But they don’t know you’re dancing only for me They still hope to take you home for the night you leave with me it might just start a riot So if you can’t give me something I want Then give me something I need V3 The bar is closing And the patrons have gone But you’re still dancing Like you want to kick on You’re looking at me like you don’t know the time you’ll make me chase you til the end of my life you say i got that loving look in my eyes I get you home you’re gonna get a surprise. (c) 2013 Michael JE Barry/Paul A Read
Goin' downtown
I'm going downtown to get what you wanted don't be disappointed if I steal what you flaunted I can't seem to find a way to make it easy everything I try turn out it's not pleasing me when I know you're just teasing me so I'm going downtown won't be who you wanted and if you don't like it well that's not my problem yeah. I can't seem to find a way to make it easy on you everything I try turn out it's not pleasing me when I know you're just teasing me so I'm going downtown gonna do what I like gonna take a little time gonna be who I wanted yeah I'm goin' down town so be who you are it don't make a difference if you're somebody else Yeah I'm going downtown (repeat) (c) Barry/Read/Stormcellar 2018
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Half Man Cow
Half Man Cow Traded all my silver dollars just so I could buy a wooden dime Swapped my genes for magic beans so I could grow a giant on that vine but that dog don't hunt that fish don't plow don't be trucking with no Half Man-Cow Man cow, bottled meat! Mooo!!! Everything I see's so shiny and I know there aint nothing I cant get Electrodes from head to toe make me so cool that I dont break a sweat but the reason I cant sleep at night is my friends all glow when I turn out the light Half life, thank you jesus! Talking heads with logos try to tell me everything to do and say attack the facts and paint white black until they get me thinking the same way but jump up jack here comes the Mack, swinging so far that we're on the way back Man-Cow, half man, half cow That dog don't hunt that fish don't plow don't be trucking with no Half Man Cow! Copyright Barry/Read/Stormcellar 2010...Mooooo!!!!
Happily forever now – pyramids
Did you think that you'd get to live happily forever now 2.5 kids, a dog a house with a white picket fence reality comes when that all falls away and you choose between what you can carry and what you can save when it's four in the morning too tired to speak grief's no rescue tears won't run when it's four in the morning too scared to sleep for fear what dreams may come. Why don't we both take a long walk on the beach? Drink with the stars, there amongst all the ferals and police Ready for my close up now Mr de Mille I assume that you're looking and that if you don't you soon will when it's four in the morning too tired to sleep there's no rescue you won't run when it's four in the morning still on your feet and waiting for the sun We're all building the pyramids nothing matters the way it is Hard Rock & a Good Time - Lyrics Hard Rock and A good time She was a beauty you could tell she didn't care sat down right next to me and acted like I wasn't there no room to pick up no opening for a line keep staring straight ahead and wait for her to walk on by She looked in my pocket without a single word put her finger to my lips told me something that I never heard boy here's your chance if you got the mind you might change your plans 'cos I think you're gonna find you're caught between a hard rock and a good time Lord I think you're gonna find you're caught between a hard rock and a good time (c) 2016 Barry/Read/Stormcella
Hard Times
Hard Times Tell me the company's closing that's what they say there's been some money explosion but not in my pay words from the running man speaks of a promised land seem they don't understand difference between their God and Man When they tell you the things they believe in take a look at the company their keeping they'll take you to the hard times take you to the hard times Tell me they traded my future for a better yesterday their service keeps me a pauper to stay in my place 'til I wake to the freedoms I'm losing feel the vice of the future i'm choosing take a breath as you rise from your seat join the mob forming down in the street grab your torch to help light the way all the monsters are on parade take you to the hard times they'll take you to the hard times (c) 2011-12 Michael JE Barry/ Paul A Read
Heavy Weather
Heavy Weather I got so much lovin' that I got more than you need I got so much lovin' why won't you believe Coming down coming down hear the desperation in your sigh Coming down coming down let the heavy weather pass you by pay the devil for your sympathy and all the while it's slipping through your hands and you just can't make it stay I got so much lovin' that I got more than you need I got so much lovin' why won't you believe You see what you want to see believe in someone else's mental hand-me-downs weaponise stupidity learn to live in make believe and lies still grasping at the living and all the while there's nothing in your hands and you just can't make it stay I got so much lovin' that I got more than you need I got so much lovin' why won't you believe Coming down coming down see the desperation in your smile Coming down coming down let the heavy weather pass you by pay the devil for your sympathy and try to hold the sunlight in your hands and you still can't make it stay (c) 2015 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Hey Child
From the upcoming KC Undeground sessions. Remember folks, I post this stuff so I can look it up when I ferget them little word things. Hey Child Mama was a blackbird didnt know better than to do wrong repaired herself across every man she came upon when you're born to a Siren you know the music's in the call can't hear none from a woman but that theyre gonna make you crawl hey child help me child help me run help me fly hey child Blues aint nobodies business nobody look me in the eye they all clear my path like a black cat they can't cross by lying all to tell you things are better on the other side bad news dont travel so fast and it's a shame worldwide hey child help me child help me run help me hide hey child at the appointed hour at the appointed time i will come into my power and I will make you mine look for me among the tombstones cast no shadow in the light all the seals have been broken and the devil's on the rise hey child help me child help me live help me die hey child (c) 2015 Barry/Stormcellar
hey head in the clouds
Hey head in the clouds Live life out loud I Need you more than ever now Hey eyes in the stars Be who you are It’s time to stand out from the crowd When you forget that you have lived a life less ordinary A little comfort’s good to find You’re fifteen different people all wrapped up in side your hoodie But I like the one who drives Hey head in the clouds Live life out loud I Need you more than ever now Hey eyes in the stars Be who you are It’s time to stand out from the crowd It’s like a part of you that you told yourself was missing Was waiting for you to arrive Hey head in the clouds Live life out loud I Need you more than ever now Hey eyes in the stars Be who you are It’s time to stand out from the crowd (c) 2023 barry/read/stormcellar
Hollow Tree
Hollow tree No one knew when we were young Long after the setting sun Late at night that moon would shine from my window I would climb Turn the lock inside my door Creep across that creaking floor Slide out from my window pane Where I go I can’t explain They don’t know what they cant see Take me down to the hollow tree now 17 and 21 Waiting for that setting sun Late at night that moon would shine To my window he did climb Turn the lock inside my door Creep across that creaking floor Take my hand now don’t you fear Take me far away from here And they don’t know what they can’t see Take me down to the hollow tree Late that night no moon did shine From my window I did climb Turned the lock inside my door Creep across that creaking floor Found him down on bended knee Telling them he’d marry me Papa yelled and raised his gun How I cried for what we’d done But they don’t know what they can see Take me down to the hollow tree Gotta look after the family Put papa down in the hollow tree Put papa down in the hollow tree Put him down where no one see Copyright Barry/Read/Stormcellar 2010
How it feels to win
How it feels to win Standing at the bottom of the crater looking up you know that a cab ride's not so bad hold on hold on ride it out this can't last forever you know you'll be better when you can But here it comes again the mouth of cloth and steel your hands twist inside yourself and this is how it this is what it feels like this is what it means a turn on the wheel of sacrifice and one more inch of skin this is what it feels like this is how it feels to win Every single problem's a solution in reverse all you need is time to work it out all that distant screaming's just the pounding of your nerves walk the ledge but never look on down But here it comes again the last thing you forgave you try to swim against the tide but it's coming on in this is what it feels like this is what it means a turn on the wheel of sacrifice and one more inch of skin this is what it feels like this is how it feels to win (c) 2015 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
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I disappear
Staring in the casket at the funeral of a friend will you take me down with you as well? Sick from trying to live in all these four lives at a time programmed to be simple in myself I. Disappear I. Disappear without you I don't want you I don't need you I don't hear you I don't fear you On the way to mom and dads out in Macquarie Fields Hope that they don't try to raise the dead Virgin suicides will only cut until it bleeds as if the scars the only thing you feel I. Disappear I. Disappear without you I don't want you I don't need you I don't hear you I don't fear you (c) 2018 Barry/Williams/Stormcellar
I wanna be your girl
Thought about it thought about it took so long until I started I. wanna be your girl Don't eat Don't sleep Play to win scope the creep I. wanna be your girl Parking sign Can't stay here Hit me up I'm always near I. wanna be your girl Call me up you wanna play I'll be here night and day I. wanna be your girl (c) Barry/Read/Stormcellar
I wanna get next to you
I wanna get next to you pretty Baby Every day of my life I wanna be next to you pretty Mama Almost all of the time When you’re walking When you’re talking The way you play with your hair I start sinking My world will shrink in Til You’re the only one there one thing could take me higher As the man said – go and light my fire Why don’t you give yourself permission? Come on baby Get down and do it on the floor I wanna get next to you pretty baby Every day of my life I wanna be next to you pretty mama Almost every night When you hustle In the bustle When you’re making the scene In the late night Under bright light You got the world on a leash When I hear your thunder rumble I know the heavens about to tumble Why don’t you give your self permission Why don’t we do it in the rain (c) 2023-2024 Barry/Read
I'm better off without you
You don’t want me But I don’t care I’d rather be alone Than be standing here I don’t go out much That might be true Wherever you don’t go I won’t go too Maybe I’ll start shaving Maybe I’ll start a new career After all the talking maybe I’ve decided After all the talking baby I’ve decided I’m better off without you There’s nothing bout you That should cause a fuss You’re the prettiest girl On the shortest bus And way past midnight When the moon is new You’re not thinking bout me I’m not thinking bout you Maybe I’ll go bowling Maybe I’ll open up a beer After all the talking maybe I’ve decided After all the talking baby I’ve decided I’m better off without you Maybe I’ll get cable Maybe I’ll simonise my van After all the talking maybe I’ve decided After all the talking (repeat and out) (c) Barry/Read/Stormcellar 2015
Island Time
Island Time 6 O’clock and I’m going nowhere Traffic’s stopped and I’m thinking of her Miles away Somewhere it’s always yesterday She’d laugh at me in my foreign car Why don’t you walk, when nothing’s ever far way You can just go back to yesterday But she’s on island time 3 hours ahead and one day behind But she’s on island time Three hours ahead and I’m one day behind What’s the use she’d say in all your hurry There’s nothing that can’t wait ‘til tomorrow Anyway It’s only just another day Don’t think it’s you who keeps the world on turning They’ll still be spinning When you get back from yesterday and tomorrows always far away But she’s on island time 3 hours ahead and one day behind But she’s on island time Three hours ahead and I’m one day behind When I’m weary and the night is long I think about her where its almost dawn And I’m miles away Beside her back in yesterday The breeze is blowin’ but the oceans calm Why am I waiting when the waters warm And not far away I can just go back to yesterday But she’s on island time 3 hours ahead and one day behind But she’s on island time Three hours ahead and I’m one day behind (REPEAT CHORUS X 2) Isn't how i wanted it - lyrics Isnt how I wanted it So good to see you Has it really been so long I just love what you’ve done with the place hadn’t you noticed that we’ve been away such lovely flowers and I cannot remember why we came this isn’t how I wanted it Take a look round the garden The lawns been done Pruned the camellias They were getting in the way How about the weather Something to talk about You seem so familiar But I can’t understand a word you say This isn’t how I wanted it When you see me Look right through me The well of secrets Don’t dip so deeply I can feel it We must be going is that the time So much to tell you We must do this again We’ll come for a visit One of these days But who are these people And where are all The ones they have replaced? This isn’t how I wanted it (c) Barry/Read 2015
It does the heart good
It does the heart good lyrics It does the heart good To see you smile It does the heart good To stay a while Forever lonely When we’re apart My need for you only This space in my heart It does the heart good To see hear you sigh It does the heart good To say goodnight She lights my way To that temple within She blesses my shame Forgives all my sin It does the heart good To hear you sigh It does the heart good To say goodnight It does the heart good To see you smile It does the heart good To stay a while Barry/read 2022 Lady Grey - lyrics Lady Grey Tripping my way along William street coat swung about in the canyon breeze 50 cents in every corner time coursing out my pocket all the lights have been left on my electric city burns towards the dawn I can still remember things that might have been In some other world in some other way everything is here again in overlay high heeled marks where the girls once stood on the avenue soft boned tramlines hidden under skin Take them all in your own way Like you did for it always Fa la la la la la la la la la la la la la la I’ve been thrown out of better milk bars than this Heart and feet pounding down the alley in the days when we were kings Like all the purest things here grown in sin I’m another of her black haired scruffy ruffians Take them all in your own way Like you did for it always Fa la la la la la la la la la la la la la la Time will make of flaw a virtue You will sparkle in the day and to those who’ve truly loved you Know you wear it best in grey (c) 2017-18 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
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The Kid Stays In The Picture
The Kid Stays In The Picture No looking over your shoulder All that's 'so' yesterday I'm not trying to be unkind but I simply dont have the time to play those game some people gotta play I got a part here for you you could have written it yourself your trailers already on the lot. This aint your first rodeo but you learn a thing or two every time you go around the block and you can hear them say the kid stays in the picture the kid still knows the score and all the things that he thought that he wanted well he dont really want'em anymore To the casual observer it might come as a surprise when you dont play the part as written but it seems that you've been getting kind of wise of late you're not shy once you've been bitten Looking like a fool while you're standing there standing there a pickin' and a grinnin' All the while she's not smiling at you she's smiling at the scene and you're in it and you can hear them say the kid stays in the picture the kid still knows the score and all the things that he thought that he wanted well he dont really want'em (SOLO) Been so good to have you with us you know we're all professionals here Kiss Kiss Mwah Mwah We don't pay you to play we pay for you to disappear and you can hear them say the kid stays in the picture the kid still knows the score and all the things that he thought that he wanted well he dont really want'em the kid stays in the picture he's seen this one before and though he no longer cries for the ending he still sticks around for the applause. (c) 2020 Barry/Coggins
The King Is Back (Return of the King) – Australian Wrestling Entertainment Theme Song
AWE Theme song from your friends in the Stormcellar. Psykotik made his triumphant return to the ring to the sounds of this song. lyrics Since we crawled from the slime Came down from the trees It took four millions years Until they made me No time to resign No time to retreat To win the ultimate prize you need the finest machine A-W-E, put you on the matt Aint nobody gonna doubt The King Is Back I hear you talking big Behind my back I ain’t been gone I’ve been out on the attack All you pretenders Stop wasting my time These aren’t my people They’re my partners in crime A-W-E, put me on the map Aint nobody gonna doubt The King Is Back (GUITAR SOLO) A-W-E, put you on the matt Aint nobody gonna doubt The King Is Back Cos I’m the top of the food chain The end of the line So many women So little time All that they told you Don’t mean a thing Prepare to bow down It’s the return of the King I’m the top of the food chain The end of the line So many victories So little time So zip up your mouth Or take a step In the ring Prepare to bow down It’s the return of the King The King Is Back ...and it's good t be king © 2018 Barry/Read
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Last Drinks at Glenrowan
Last drinks at Glenrowan Tell me now my brother what red glistens in the sun Bright as rises morning on the hills of Glenrowan That no man claim my liberty my brother he replied who never raised a hand against a man unless he tried for those who’ll not yield to the crown nor make to bend the knee and that may choose to live or die and yet still shall be free Hand me now my pistols dark Raise up my iron crown Cage me now in righteousness put not my burden down And yoke such Bullocks to the plow as make harvest of Men 'till weep the blinds from Justice’ eyes yet shall I be avenged If Man be but a breath in clay His passage pain and strife to yearn for freedom to his end and know that such is life (c) Barry/Read 2009
Last Man Standing
Last Man Standing (as sung by Millage Gilbert) Gonna be the last man standing baby They don't make my kind no more gonna be the last man standing baby know i'll be your boy gonna be the last man standing baby even better than before When all the others move in real fast know i'll move in real slow would take a lot of more years to forget all the loving I know when the wind blows through your orchard baby I'll make you shake and moan. Don't have to tell me pretty baby when your man is coming home i know when to be at your backdoor even when to be gone i'm gonna love you right even when the others do you wrong my mojos working baby come on slow come on strong. Gonna be the last man standing baby when the young men has lost his nerve when all the hard men have gone soft you can kick them to the kerb gonna be the last man standing baby give you all the loving you deserve. (c) 2015 Barry/Read/Rosenthal/Wanders/Williams with improvements by Millage Gilbert.
Lay Your Loving Down
Baby come on 'round Baby come on 'round lay your lovin' down on me That's close enough you know better when it's time to stop not too much maybe we can try again I'm 'out to lunch' over thinking every little thing ask me what haven't got a lot to say I start to wonder if you think I'm drinking and why I feel so sad and all you say is Baby come on 'round Baby come on 'round lay your lovin' down on me So here we are. I hope that one of us has brought the keys to the car. I think I might have lost my phone. All that stuff I try to keep track of in my head ask me what haven't got a lot to say all the times I think I've been so foolish and somehow done you wrong and all you say is Baby come on 'round Baby come on 'round lay your lovin' down on me All that stuff I try to keep track of in my head ask me what haven't got a lot to say All that stuff I try to keep track of in my head ask me what haven't got a lot to say (c) Barry/Read/Stormcellar 2018
Let me go down easy
'Let Me Go Down Easy', featuring elements of 'Burning the Meadow' by Rick Lyon. Until it fades like a memory There's a fire in the memory of the fire end of the night. Flames across the meadow, like a face you can't reprise. When Vanity at last deserts you, Find at last that nothing hurts you but I can see it written in your eyes let me go down easy let me go down let me go down free Maybe something's wrong with us, some immortal kink, that surges, cleansing, leaving nothing Of the life that's been. But I still feel you walk beside me skipping over oceans boundary Tiny hand, the firm rough hand within let me go down easy let me go down let me go down free (c) 2016 Barry/Lyon/Stormcellar
Light In the Distance
Light in the distance Should have been a winner Should have had more sense Should have made a better deal With my circumstance I’m still playing an unwinnable game No use in waiting for anything to change I' m still praying that what’s coming round the bend Ain’t the light of an oncoming train There's a light in the distance Can you tell me what it means Can't sort my fact from fiction Truth is stranger than it seems there’s nothing to believe in no one left there to believe If you can’t hold on to anything Then just hold on to me Be a go getter You know you Gotta give’em hell Should have made a bigger deal Should have made a better sell I’m still looking for someone else to blame For the choices nobody can explain I can see their faces still pressed against the pane In the light of an oncoming train There s a light in the distance Can you tell me what it means Cant sort my fact from fiction Truth is stranger than it seems there’s nothing to believe in no one left there to believe If you can’t hold on to anything Then just hold on to me (chorus repeat) There's a path of least resistance but I don't know where it leads, if you can't hold on to anything the just hold on to me (c) 2011-2012 Michael JE Barry/Paul A Read
Like A Stone (all thats right is beautiful)
Like a stone (All That's right is beautiful) crikey I hope this is registered correctly somewhere. My heart is like a stone washed up on the sand Waiting for discovery, waiting for your hand to uncover me Waiting for it all to be Shore to shore and sea to sea My love is like the bay that gives you shelter from the tides When all around you’s violence, oppression and intolerance Worlds of words that make no sense I will come to your defence Oh but take a care where you’re walking Or you might find your feet don’t touch the ground And all that’s right is beautiful My soul stands alone, like a beacon on a hill Shining over endless seas, Shining for eternity Waiting in the dark to see Another light reflecting me My arms are like the bronze, pouring from the sun Strong against the bitter winds, Long to keep you safe within Letting none but sunshine in And when you wake to the morning I am all around you as you walk And all that’s right is beautiful (c) Barry/Rosenthal/Stormcellar 2015
Little Big Bird
Little Big Bird HARP NOTE: Bb harp - Doink 4, 4, 3semi tone then slide 3-2, 4bend-4-4bend triplet Hey there little big bird See you standing next to me Hey there little big bird Know I come up to your knee Well I’d be me a mighty lumberjack If I could fell that swinging tree Hey there little big bird What you doin in my town Hey there little big bird Know you’re so far from the ground But there aint no tree too tall to be climbed when it’s a lying down Hey there little big bird know I aint seen you around Hey there little big bird hate to see you with a frown Though you’re so tall and I’m so small I can pick you up when you’re feeling down Though you’re so tall and I’m so small I can pick you up when you’re feeling down (c) 2010 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
A little too much
A litle too much is never enough a little too much aint nothing at all You can have your cake and eat it you can shake your egg and beat it no point at all in only hanging around yu gotta pick it up if you wanna put it down it's ok if I come on a little strong she said A litle too much is never enough a little too much aint nothing at all I like to see you swagger I like it when you take a little dip i think i like the motion of the ocean wanna take a little trip is this coming on too strong? she said A litle too much is never enough a little too much aint nothing at all (c) 2023-24 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Looking Glass
Looking Glass You know you got me hitting the books Trying to find the meaning to each of your looks But there’s one I just can’t seem to find A picture of your face that tells me what’s on your mind Only takes just a little hint One more message never sent Think twice before you move too fast through the other side of the looking glass Too bad you didn’t change your mind Can’t pickup on what you’ve left behind Because I’m moving on and those feelings Are not for sale I see your posters all over town Staring at my feet so they don’t bring me down smiling friends all want me to know you still talk about me after the show it only needed one little word say it soft so it’s not overheard Think twice before you move too fast Through the other side of the looking glass Too bad you didn’t change your mind Can’t pickup on what you’ve left behind Because I’m moving on and those feelings Are not for sale I’m not sad that’ you’re moving on I cant miss you when you’re already gone Think twice before you move too fast Through the other side of the looking glass A shame you didn’t change your mind Can’t pickup on what you’ve left behind Think twice before you move too fast Through the other side of the looking glass Think twice before you move too fast Through the other side of the looking glass (c) Michael JE Barry / Paul A Read 2014
Lucky Streak
Lucky Streak V1 You think that you’re holding all the cards But playing you my friend just ain’t that hard Cos the things that you forget Every time you raise the bet Are still true You always were a one to roll the dice So listen up now to some good advice Bettin’ the sure thing Don’t mean you’re gonna win More than you lose CHORUS X1 You’ve gambled all your money and your life away Seems kinda funny that you won’t take a chance on me V2 Don’t tell me you’re on a lucky streak When every hand you play just has you beat It seems you have misplaced That secret little ace you keep up your sleeve CHORUS X2 You’ve gambled all your money and your life away Seems kinda funny that you won’t take a chance on me BRIDGE So lay it down its time to go all in Sometimes when you lose a heart you win V3 Another day another dollar bet Chasing dreams that you might never get But if it’s all the same I’d like to change your game Deal me in CHORUS X3 + 3 tags You’ve gambled all your money and your life away Seems kinda funny that you won’t take a chance on me Wont take a chance Wont take a chance Wont take a chance on me Copyright 2010 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
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Mama Don't Mind
Mama Don't Mind Well your Mama don't mind well your Daddy don't mind Said your Mama don't mind and your Daddy don't mind I don't care what you're mama won't 'low kick out the jams 'cos Rosie's in the house (c) Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Minor Miracle
If you believe, if you believe it's only another minor miracle (repeat X 4) When we were kings the world was just the two of us when we were kings your eyes were wide and all was wondrous Now we're closer to the end than nearer the beginning strung out on your own no need to fall when you're caught between the gutter and the stars seen by light of different constellations caught between the gutter and the stars seen by light of different constellations the memory's upon us written where the body keeps the score what's the worst that they can think of you, my friend what's the worst that you could be? There but for this rogue state of grace go I and I am you are you are me. And you only want to live in one perfect moment no more to think than to feel seen by light of different constellations caught between the gutter and the stars seen by light of different constellations a reckoning's upon us brother, hope you're ready for the storm. (c) Barry/Read/Stormcellar 2018
Morning Flame
I cant seem to see the divine I cant seem to see when I am blind I cant seem to see the divine I cant seem to know what’s on your mind But there’s fire on my window Might be the light before the dawn I cant seem to see the divine I cant see the things that make the mind I cant seem to know your mind I cant seem to know the things I find But there’s fire on my window Might be the light before the dawn There’s fire on my window Darkness on my days To read the signs, To know His ill opinion And all the while To hang your head in shame that I can’t speak your name And I can’t see any more, your morning flame Well I can’t see anymore Your morning flame I can’t see anymore (c) 2024 Barry/Stormcellar/SPA
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Nobody Knows Better Than Me
Nobody Knows Better Than Me Time's been my teacher along the great road his lessons are thorough but his methods are slow takes almost a lifetime to reveal what he shows and nobody knows better than me I've been a vagabond, I've been a Rogue, I've been pushed out and moved on and done worse I suppose but the strength of a man's in his depth of resolve and nobody knows better than me And I still believe the ideals of my youth let them call me naiive let them call me a fool if you don't believe doesn't mean it's untrue to learn that you rise as you fall the saint and the sinner in us all and nobody, knows better than me My journeys not over, though I've come quite a ways leave them all smiling as I exit the stage because truth and forgiveness are all that remain and nobody, knows better than me And I still believe the ideals of my youth let them call me naiive let them call me a fool if you don't believe doesn't mean it's ain't true and learn that you rise as you fall the saint and the sinner in us all and nobody, knows better than me (c) 2015 Barry/Stormcellar
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On The Low Low
On the low low Don’t ask me what I’m doing on my own time Don’t ask me where I been cos never you mind you’re always sniffing 'round the edge of my dress but I keep it on the low low and take care of business Don’t ask me how I been cos I’m doing fine You seem to think that that there’s Some deep hidden sign It's all the same no matter where you may go When you're taking care of business keep it on the Low Low Now when I see you dip the brim of your hat dont need to tell me now you know where it's at It’s not a secret when you already know when you’re taking care of business keep it on the low low (c) 2014 Michael JE Barry/ Paul A Read
One in a million
On and on forever first and last thought of the day a good day's one without you on my mind water drawn up slowly from the bottom of the well each sip one step closer to another ride on memory's carousel Here it comes; there it goes everything you thought or felt the endless talk about yourself the lonely hours of emptiness chewed coffee ground like bitterness three hands worth of trouble only two hands spare and baggage in the hall Lost in the horizon one in a million Rudderless on unseen tides we're adrift in our own minds. Consequences of survival to walk as if by lightning touched, bravely back towards the fire in that moment, who you really are Lost in the horizon one in a million On and on forever like the endless trips to liverpool cigarettes and liniment glassy eyes of wonderment within you still witness eternal hope beneath the bushel urging one more step take one more step beyond sky and horizon merging until you're lost in the horizon one in a million (c) Barry/Williams/Stormcellar 2018
Onward Traveler
For Kaye, For Nikolai, for us. Onward Traveler Ever forward Onward traveler Fortunes favour Hold you to her breast still will you venture Never ending Past the circle As the East into the west ancient doorways star lit causeways arch the vault above your head where you’ll find me Ever after Waiting in the hope to hear once more the sound of your footsteps on the path that leads you to my door Go on seeking Onward traveler grace of morning Bright shall be your guide Breadth of heavens Lay before you Stake your claim To the purpose you must find Windlashed shores and mountains ranging great deeps Resound beneath your feet worlds await you teemed with wonders of all the joys and perils you will know love that I bear for you will follow you wherever you may go Godspeed weary Onward traveler May the angels sing you to your rest Walked with bravery Held determined yet surrendered to that greater gentleness Halls of heroes of myth and legend Welcome you to their shining fields Arms of friends long Un-remembered Shall take you to a place upon your throne and all’s the stuff of stardust But the knowing That you’re coming home You’re coming home (c) 2013 Barry/Rosenthal
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Parchment Farm (revisited)
Parchment Farm Revisited Verse 1 Hey little darlin’ don’t you grieve me I’ll do things to make you sing But a combination of female planning Got me in the place I’m in Cos I’m the victim of a perfect crime She stole my heart now I’m doing time Chorus One night alone with that girl One touch of her sweet hand One night alone with that girl And you’ll break rocks on Parchment Farm Verse 2 Now something else has got thinking Why I’d hand my soul to you Can it be your charms and graces Make me young and act the fool I’m the victim of a perfect crime She stole my heart now I’m doing time Chorus Verse 3 I’m a writing letter to my baby From three stone walls and a jailhouse door Forty more years I got to stay here Cos she shot a man at her back door I’m the victim of a perfect crime She stole my heart now I’m doing time Chorus Now I break rocks on Parchment Farm Wake me up at the break of dawn Never did see that girl no more Cos now I break rocks on Parchment Farm I break rocks on Parchment Farm © 2008 paul read
Pirouette
Pirouette - Lyrics In dust, the realisation trains rolling by In dust, the realisation of you when you die and I sail on a sail on a wall and a man alone a man alone from all wooden fish in muddy waters rust carried all of it away from here ringing in high leather never far when I'm gone. drew a line in the sand 'cos my heart skipped a beat took myself by the hand learned to run hit the street realised in your life what your read what you heard and the only opinion's the one that's within you In dust, the realisation days rolling by In dust, the realisation of you when you die pirouette pirouette go to sleep with no regrets (c) 2017 Barry/Williams/Stormcellar
Psychedelic Surfer
All right Well I like the way you ride that wave I like the way you turn that phrase all right all right it’s all right alright well I like the way you ride that train I like the way you make it rain All right It’s all right It’s all right It’s all right Mama I can sympathise With all those things you push aside I know why you tell no likes I can feel the way it makes you feel All right There’s no need to compromise, hiding what you still can’t hide I know all the reasons why I can feel the way it makes me feel. All right Well I like the way you ride that wave I like the way you turn that phrase It’s all right It’s all right it’s all right it’s alright pushing buttons with you mouth swallowing your best foot down all you do is scream and shout nothing ever really makes you feel all right looking for someone to hold you to do those things they never told you all those myths they went and sold you only you can choose to make it real all right it’s all right, it’s all right Well I like the way you ride that wave I like the way you turn that phrase all right all right it’s all right alright well I like the way you ride that train I like the way you make it rain All right It’s all right It’s all right It’s all right (c) 2024-2025 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Put on your sunhat, Sweet Adeline
Put on your sunhat sweet Adeline We’ll go out walking down that long country run I’ll be with you in the By and by From noon until sunset from dark till sunrise You can tell everyone that we’re just out walking Put on your sunhat sweet Adeline We’ll take our leisure by that slow riverside You’ll be with me in the By and by From noon until sunset from dark till sunrise You can tell everyone you don’t Care if they’re talking Put on your sunhat sweet Adeline We’ll walk together on that unwinding road We’ll be together in the bye and bye From morning to sunset from dark till sunrise You can bless everyone with the light you’re shining Put on your sunhat, sweet Adeline (c) 2013 Barry/Read/Rosenthal
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Queen Above The Oceans
Queen Above The Oceans Hail to you my King above the mountains High and proud this pale tribute, at your feet I lay before you now Standing with the legions of Megido I have been A witness to damnation of a wild colonial boy Hail to you my queen above the oceans Forever cold your silvery shroud of wisdom only now do I behold Midnight’s softer word of prayer Spoke ‘gainst an early wind safe crossing and remembrance of a wild colonial boy Hail to you Beloved, cross dark waters Have I strayed Forever lost in distance still the song of you shall fade No more the mortal embrace of your arms about me now until the last redemption of a wild colonial boy (c) 2014 Micahel JE Barry / Paul A Read
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R U Ready For This
Are You Ready For This Verse 1 Gone out dancin’ on a Saturday night Not expectin’ much but feelin’ alright Could be the music could be the scene Might be your story cos now I know where you’ve been I came on strong with the same old lines but seemed to work, out work out fine Your girlfriends all say never trust a man But I’m gonna play this as straight as I can cos Chorus Sometimes love it feels like bliss Sometimes love it’s just hit and miss So are you ready for this Are you ready for this Verse 2 Coming down easy on a Sunday morning Something we got we can’t be ignoring Now I may not know the answer to the meaning of life But I sure know what we found last night Chorus Sometimes love it starts with a kiss Sometimes love it’s just hit and miss So are you ready for this Are you ready for this Verse 3 Called her on Tues and no ones at home Called her on Friday she (stop )…cut off the phone Went out dancin’ at same old place, Rolled the dice with some other face Chorus Sometimes love it can end like this Cos mostly love it’s just hit and miss baby So are you ready for this Are you ready for this Just never forget love is just hit and miss So are you ready for this 2008 © Paul read
Refugee (from the heart)
Refugee From The Heart Verse 1 I’ve been a travelin’ All over this godforsaken land Yeah I’ve been a travelin’ All over this godforsaken land A trail of blood and tears I’m leavin’ And they don’t lead to no happy home Chorus From my heart I’m a refugee So why can’t you just let me be Verse 2 You know I was a free man I could go wherever I please You know I was a free man Yeah I could buy whatever I needs But they took all my worldly possessions And left me in the street to beg Verse 3 Once had a heart and soul But you cut me down without a word Once had a heart and soul But you cut me down without a word A trail of blood and tears I’m leavin’ And they don’t lead to no happy home Chorus 2008 © Barry/Read
Replacement Heroes
Replacement Heroes You’ve been Down in the coal mines Trapped on the sidelines Victim of hard times We’re so happy to see you Don’t want to be you Who gave you that veto Come on Enough already Come on We know you’re ready Come on You’d never know Come on all the lies we tell to get you to the show We are your replacement heroes You’ve been Following white lines Paying the poor fines Squandering your mind We’ve been Doing the white crimes Plundering gold mines Having a fine time Come on My hands are steady Come on It’s mom’s spaghetti Come on The chicks are ready Come on Dead celebrity (chorus) we are.. Come on Where do you get it Come on It’s ever ready Come on The cash is steady Come on Dead celebrity We are your replacement heroes Might not be much but its better than zero Hi there kids welcome to the show Don’t you wanna hear all those songs you used to know Pink is dead like so many before him Stack the bodies up before it gets too morbid We are you replacement heroes (c) 2023 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Rest My Bones
Rest My Bones Too afraid to roll the dice when all you do is lose Heard somebody crying but they wont tell me the news head has started hurting from all that banging on the wall theres no one left to listen to and no one left to call I dont care what the legal borders say come on baby yeah we gotta find a way back home Take me home (take me home) Rest my bones (take me home) Take me home (take me home) Rest my bones Scribbled lines on paper red ink on our fate they tell us to be patient but how long can we wait say that theres a problem with lines upon a map they tell us they don't want us here but theres no going back I dont care what the legal borders say come on baby know we gotta find a way back home Take me home (take me home) Rest my bones (take me home) Take me home (take me home) Rest my bones Copyright 2010 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Road Rise Up
Road Rise Up Come on Darlin now don't be sad (don't be sad) You know things just ain't so bad (ain't so bad) The better angels of your nature Will rush to help when hope has failed you when the darkness deepens and you're far away you're not lost but wandering and every road you take will lead you home may the road rise up to meet you each hand be a friend may the road rise up to meet you and even though the journeys long may each step bring you close to home again Angel sitting on my shoulder tells me that (ain't so bad) there'll come another chance to hold you (don't be sad) the light that's hidden in your eyes will shine like gold when fortune smiles when the evening closes and you're far way I know that tomorrow brings another road that homeward leads you now may the road rise up to meet you each hand be a friend may the road rise up to meet you and even though the journeys long may each step bring you close to home may the road rise up to meet you each hand be a friend may the road rise up to meet you and even though the journeys long may each step bring you close to home again (c) 2011-12 Michel JE Barry/Paul A Read
Rock River
Sliding down Rock River A feather past a log somewhere they won't find me find me a place to get me gone and Rock River keeps on rockin' on High above Rock River Hunter spies his prey in the Hush of the waters hear the spirit of the river say I will still be here when you are gone and Rock River keeps on rockin' on Down by the Rock River Feel my seasons change fill my eyes with water different each time, yet the same the only constancy I know is change and when you are gone I will remain Let the river take you where you're goin' Rock River keeps on rockin' on. (c) 2014 Barry/Wanders/Williams/Stormcellar
Roscoes Boogie
Roscoes Boogie V1 Well I'm sittin' in my living room playing shooter games whille Roscoe's out there gearing up and jumpin' out of planes Take him to my local pub and buy us both a beer but Roscoes already hookin up and getting out of here he tells me as he's leaving walkin' out a blonde you best be believing blink your eyes and I'll be gone V2 I'll write him a couple of lines say I'm going to the store he writes back a couple less and says he's off to war and as I'm driving in my car gone to play some Blues Roscoe's callin' in air strikes and dodging b52's And if they were to tell him he's a politicans pawn he'd just laugh and answer blink your eyes and I'll be.... CADENCE (Version1 - there are many. Create your own!) We like to work for Uncle Sam We Need a Better Dental Plan Its mighty Cold in Afghanistan We hear its warmer in Iran V3 (double verse) I can't say just rightly why He does the things he does maybe he just likes the sound of things a-blowin' up No flipping burgers on a grill or stocking Wal Mart stores Roscoe says that being killed aint as bad as being bored I ask him if he's happy jumpin' off at dawn but there's no one to answer blink your eyes and i'll be... © 2008 Barry/read
Running Jody
Running Jody 18 months of living like I'm dreaming and I wake up as the wheels are touching down I grab my only bag it holds everything I have and she's waiting in a pickup for me now When she smiles it hurts me to remember that while I'm gone its like she's doing time thought she wont ever say she wants me to stay i know she's trying I keep on trying but it feels like I'm always running Jody but I've spent my whole life the same way you know that I'll be moving on tomorrow it aint I want to leave its that I just cant stay it aint I want to leave its that I just cant Everywhere I go are flags and ribbons the people smile at me and shake my hand but the things that I have seen in the places I have been make my home feel like a foreign land so every day I face up to that real world and every night I sleep inside the Wire and I dont need forgiveness for anything I've done 'cos even when the shooting stops the battle's just begun and it feels like I'm always running Jody but I've spent my whole life the same way you know that I'll be moving on tomorrow it aint I want to leave its that I just cant stay (repeat) Aint no use in looking back Jody's got your Cadillac aint no use in looking down Jody's got your girlfriend now Copyright 2010 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
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Sail Away
Sail Away - Lyrics Missed the last train home again could have left her place at midnight too late to phone a friend take it east now alone in crowded company with each one there alone the same as me too broke to call a taxi guess I'll try to walk it off these talks I'm having with myself do nothing for my mental health don't you ever feel like this don't you ever want to just sail away leave it for tomorrow you can sail away leave it all behind sail away very little matters much and what's left only matters if what's left only matters if you mind. (c) 2017 Barry/Read/Stormcella
Same Old Blues
Same old Blues - Lyrics she said (softly, ahead of the bar) It doesnt matter what you choose to believe that wont make it the way it used to be still trying to work out was it something I said smiling at me while she's shaking her head she says Baby dont give me the same old blues not the same old blues I'm tired of you waking up on the wrong side of town you only pick me up when you put somebody down maybe one day you'll stop looking around searching for things that you've already found so baby, dont give me those same old blues (instrumental) She said (softly, before the bar) It doesnt matter what you take from me you cant steal something that I give willingly It took me so long to finally see I can tell you I love you but still set you free so baby, dont give me those I said Baby, dont give me those I said Baby, dont give me those same old blues (c) 2011 Barry/Read
Serves You Right
Serves you Right Got a twinkle in my eye winklepickers on my feet I'd trip the light fantastic but I'd need a longer street move to catch the signal still talking to my shrink they say 'what's happnin cap'n' and I don't know what to think I'm telling you brother I have truly seen some sights walking lonely laneways in the middle of the night wear your heart out on your sleeve ooo... it's gonna serve you right For those who will believe it they say that there's a plan when you've finally lost in love you become a man Wait till your heart is broke then you'll understand pick up the tiny pieces make an island in the sand coming up with aces when all you wants a Queen Dont get no explanations unexpected expectations may lead to revelations ooo.. it's gonna serve you right Sometimes dealt the jackass sometimes play the mule everbodys porter but you aint nobodys fool might need some fermentation before you start to lose your cool such useful lamentations squeaky grease for rusty tools I'm telling you brother it's enough to turn you white to act on circumstances to explain those strange advances will always serve you right it's gonna serve you right (2020) Barry/Read She Keeps You Moving On Lyrics She Keeps You Moving On Lyrics One night in Georgia thats all it took so wont somebody please, please please send my baby home. Broken down and busted still looking for a gig dreaming of those city lights where I might make it big Station master told me that there's money to be made son put down that there monkey wrench and pick up this here case You need somebody who will be your only friend walking beside you on a road that never ends She keeps you moving on Dressed her in her finest just to see that pearly smile she led me down the ighway but never led me down the aisle now she's gone and left me for some other lovers hands how he could steal my love away i just dont understand sometimes I cant believe there will be a brighter day whenever I was lost for words she knew just what to say She keeps you moving on (chorus reprise) Still I think about her and the songs we used to play and when I hear her laughing I know I'll soon be on my way She keeps you moving on. She keep she keeps (repeat) Keeps you moving on (c) 2011 Barry/Read
Slipping Through These Blues
Walked my expectations back So much for my reprieve When they’ve handed you your coat and hat I guess it’s time to leave Back to the clarity of four am confusion when it’s three thoughts that sleep can’t overtake and there’s no rest in the dreams. So hold me now while I’m tripping Hold me now while I’m slipping through these blues The door is open but it’s closing in The windows broke but not opening A fuse done blown but you put out the light The trumpets roar but don’t know who to fight It’s what happens when you stumble in on Someone else’s crazy only you can save me So hold me now while I’m tripping Hold me now while I’m slipping through these blues So hold me now while I’m tripping Hold me now while I’m slipping through these blues Hey, let’s hold this starry night Hey, make you feel all right now Hey let’s hold this starry night Cos there’s a whole lot of love in the room tonight Gotta make it last until the daylight finds us While we’re still slipping through the cracks There’s a light above my bed Sending thoughts into my head Little things seem so complex Now they’re causing me distress There’s no reason there’s no rhyme It’s not life it’s doing time Waiting for it to be clear How the hell did I get here So hold me now while I’m tripping Hold me now while I’m slipping through these blues So hold me now while I’m tripping Hold me now while I’m slipping through these blues Hey lets hold this staryy night hey lets make you feel all right (repeat until your guitarist gives you the stinkeye then let him finish the solo) (c) 2014 Michael JE Barry/ Paul A Read
Smoke on Horizon
Smoke on Horizon far as my eye can see Smoke on Horizon far as my eye can see Smoke on Horizon darkness over me memory's no virtue tired of living dread po' boys and churches floor laid for a bed sparks within my ashes cage my thoughts in raging red Smoke on Horizon far as my eye can see Smoke on Horizon far as my eye can see Smoke on Horizon darkness over me Lord Have Mercy Lord Have Mercy Lord Have Mercy (c) Stormcellar Collective 2021 Barry/Coggins
Snowy and the boys
Snowy and the boys are out tonight Between the beers and fading light Standing at the bar until they close But they’d rather stay here than go back home Lisa tends the bar behind a smile when they tell her its only for a while but she knows they'll stay the whole night through cos theres nothing better for them to do So play me some mandolin It doesn’t know where I’ve been So play me some mandolin take me home take me home Snowy's drinking off another working day Watching as some band sets up to play hoping that they'll play his favourite song so he and the boys can sing along So play me some mandolin doesn’t know where I’ve been play some mandolin take me home (repeat after solo) So play me some mandolin doesn’t know where I’ve been play some mandolin take me home take me home take me home Copyright 2010 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Solace
Solace lyrics VERSE 1 Leave the car with the engine running You know I like to make a clean getaway I got your ticket come if you’re coming you don’t need another reason to escape. A good decision made at the right time’s Like knowing when you drop your guard. VERSE 2 We’ll hit the ground with all feet running Until we get to where the accents change. Cool your jets, rest your heels my little friend We’ve only got the here and now who knows when we’ll be this way again I can’t believe you got inside you let you in did I decide? Or were you here when I arrived? BRIDGE You bypass all my defenses Maybe I don’t know what sense is All I know is you give me what I need CHORUS You bring Solace (RAP SECTION) When you wake up in the morning And you hear the coffee pouring And you dream someone is snoring And you finally realise it’s me And your cupboards are all opened And your secret’s safely spoken And the heart you thought was broken Is now sitting on the mantelpiece And the sunlight comes in streaming And your coffee still is steaming And the warmth that you are feeling Is the energy of you and me With your hand upon my shoulder As you turn around to hold me And remember what you told me: BRIDGE: We don’t have to wait forever Make this great escape together I could be the answer that you seek CHORUS You bring Solace (c0 2025 Barry/Read
Something to go by
If you give me something to Go by Then you’ll give me something to Know you If I give you something to go by Then I’ll give you something to Know me I don’t really care For the pace of living ‘pending on the mood Or the state I’m in It’s the kind of thing I can be forgiven Why don’t you just let me in If you give me something to Go by Then you let me know that you Want me If I give you something to go by Then I’ll let you know that I Want you I don’t really care Bout the state of living Chasing unicorns Kinda wears me out I don’t need to hear Other people’s business Why don’t you just let me love you If you give me something to Go by Then I’ll give you somewhere to Run to If I give you something to go by Then you’ll give me somewhere To come to You’re the kinda space that I’d Ilke to live in Spending all my days Baking in the sun Letting things float by Like a sleep river Time to let that river run © 2023 Barry/Read
Soothesayer
Soothesayer Cruel women beautiful men the price for keeping a lid on things (To want somebody, need somebody, want somebody, need somebody) Accept the pain to have the truth A sacrifice of you for you (To want somebody, need somebody, want somebody, need somebody) Soothe-sayer Somewhere in the high strangeness The great rearrangers Working in stages Something seen in the distance Scared to bear witness acknowledge existence Inside the sanctioned murder box you rest too long then you might rust (To want somebody, need somebody, want somebody, need somebody) Superstar, the next big thing, no prize to be the last one in (To want somebody, need somebody, want somebody, need somebody) Soothe-sayer Somewhere in the high strangeness The great rearrangers Working in stages Something seen in the distance Scared to bear witness acknowledge existence We're here in the high strangeness searching for dangers working for angels Release total disclosure what they havent told you the known and unknowing Looking for the explanation all signposts no destinations (To want somebody, need somebody, want somebody, need somebody) No schedule, save the one I keep Awake when all the world's asleep (To want somebody, need somebody, want somebody, need somebody) Soothesayer (c) 2023 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Soul Thing
As a wave to the water as the river to the sea as a tide within the oceans of myself as you are to me your love is making me strong keep on making me strong as a light within the sunrise as a flower in the field as the earth beneath me when I rise as the whispers in my dream you love as making me strong your love is making me don't worry baby everything's gonna work out just fine I'm here with you darlin' it's gonna be all right As a wave to the water as the river to the sea as a tide within the oceans of myself as you are to me your love is making me strong keep on making me strong (c) Barry/Williams/Stormcellar 2018
Southern Bells
Southern Bells Working hard the live long day step on up demand my pay know I'm going out tonight time to set this town alight Strutting down the avenue pockets filled with revenue The Devil he done tied my tie Angels give my shoes a shine so come on girl dont do me wrong I'm looking good and standing strong Gonna ring me some southern bells tonight Gonna ring me some southern bells tonight Cruising in my '45 mayhem riding at my side gone to go rip up the town 'til they lock me up or knock me down Know I'll wake up Monday morn my pockets light and my head is shorn Regret another lost weekend until I do it all again So honey now just jump on in you cant repent until you sin Gonna ring me some southern bells tonight Gonna ring me some southern bells tonight (bridge) Some people dont understand Just what it takes to please a Southern Man (solo) So jailor hand me back the keys and next time I'll take you along with me And ring me some southern bells tonight Gonna ring me some southern bells tonight Gonna ring me some southern bells.... Gonna ring me (ring me) Gonna ring me (ring me) Gonna ring me some southern bells tonight (repeat and jam until fade) Copyright Barry/Read/Stormcellar 2010
Stopping By
Stopping By Well it tastes like sunshine but it smells like rain I'll remember If I come this way stopping by hoping that you're in don't know when I'll be by again Well it's plain to see gonna be your man you might not know but that's my plan standin' at your front door whistlin' wondering if I should go on in Well I'm warm in winter and I'm cool in spring might have no money but I don't miss a thing stopping by hoping that you're in don't know when I'll be by again Strut Swagger Well the road's less weary when you are near I'll keep on walkin' 'cos I'm almost there stopping by hoping that you're in don't know when I'll be by again Well it's plain to see gonna be your man you might not know but that's my plan standin' at your front door whistlin' I've been gone but now I'm back again (c) 2016 Barry/Rosenthal/Stormcellar
strange pleasures
Strange PleasuresLord you know I’ve had my shareStrange PleasuresLord you know you’ll find me there Silver bird sings from high upon a shelfThere among the other long forgotten toysI believe that I can flyOne day soon I know my wings will growIt won’t seem so hard to tryAnd I’ll fly through the window like a bird from a cage Strange PleasuresLord you know I’ve had my shareStrange PleasuresLord you know you’ll find me there ‘Silver bird’ said the other broken toys‘what do you think you’ll find out there’‘I don’t know’Came the reply‘Suddenly, I feel my wings have grown,It seems easier to try’And they flew through the window like a bird from a cage © 2021-22 Barry/Read Liquidator English lyric by MJEB: I won't let you live it down I won't let you let it be. Borne upon a raft of bones through me now you hear them speak. Broken Games for Broken Toys broken dreams for broken things a caravan of wounded creatures entering uncharted territory. Standing in the dog shit with a flower in my hand you can give away your gifts become the leader of your band. In all the years of living, brown enough to not be seen, you're half the blinded acolyte and godless Indigene. call in a Liquidator I won't let you burn it down I won't let you make It pay I won't let you say it hurts I won't give you your own way. Staring in the darkness with a bible in my hand the danger of you knowing what you will not understand. the concrete walls enclosing now the crypt around your heart the whole world is exploding when your atom comes apart. call in a Liquidator I'll be your Liquidator call in a Liquidator (c) 2024 Michael JE Barry
Suit Yourself
Suit yourself (and) They’ll give you the best time to be had for the money that you paid When the clever conversation draws a little close to the bone You can shut it all out but you can’t make it leave you alone All the things you thought you wanted All that glittering and gold Throw them on the pile with things you have forgotten And if that dont please them go and suit yourself And you’ll give them the best time to be had for the money that they paid When all the concentration draws Another of those lines across your brow Hurts to hold it all in But you Wont let it show To the crowd All the things you thought you wanted All that glittering and gold Throw them on the pile with things you have forgotten And if that don’t please them go and suit yourself (c) 2011-12 Michael JE Barry/ Paul A Read
The Sun Shines On
The sun shines on Summon my ghosts of the morning Send them my early farewell A catch in my breath at a ribbon you left in a drawer But the sun shines on the sun shines on me the sun shines on me now And I don’t feel a thing Deep in the mundane and normal Keep the appearance that everything’s well Linger over each thing that still bears your smell But the sun shines on Still the sun shines on me the sun shines on me now And I don’t feel a thing Send me your strength of conviction Give me this moment a reason to bear Another reminder that seems to speak in your name But the sun shines on Still the sun shines on me the sun shines on me now And I don’t feel a thing (c) Michael JE Barry / Paul A Read
Sunshine In The Rain
Sunshine in the rain I’ll be your sunshine in the rain I’ll be your cure to ease the pain When it feels like everything In the world is set to try you And it seems no one is standing by you I’ll be your sunshine in the rain Until you find your feet again When you feel you can’t go on And you’re tired of deciding And it isn’t worth the trying I’ll be your sunshine in the rain Cos you know that hard times have and ending Even when I know you’re just pretending that it doesn’t matter much Anyway I’ll be your sunshine in the rain. When you find you need a friend When you’re reaching out for help And no one will show a kindness And there’s nothing to rely on I’ll be your sunshine in the rain Cos no one knows you more than I do And when it’s all said and done You’re gonna shine on through Copyright 2010 Barry/Read
Swamp Monster
Swamp Monster - first release SC0901 - SC3-EP1 'Spacejunk' V1 He said to his daughter Careful what you do Don't you go out walkin' by that old bayou See something out there hiding in the light look out girl he's gonna hold you tight he's a swamp monster baby Chorus he wants you, he wants you a swamp monster baby alone at night he's a swamp monster he wants you he wants you Swamp monster in the cold moonlight v2 She said to her papa you didnt raise no fool I wont go out walking by that old bayou see something out there shining in the light his suit so sharp and his teeth so white he's a swamp monster baby Chorus he wants you, he wants you a swamp monster baby alone at night he's a swamp monster he wants you he wants you Swamp monster in the cold moonlight V3 She was just a pretty little thing all bathed in white she shouldn't have been out walking in that dress so tight don't mean to alarm you or give you no fright but you gotta know you're coming home with me tonight I'm a swamp monster baby he wants you, he wants you a swamp monster baby alone at night he's a swamp monster he wants you he wants you Swamp monster in the cold moonlight (c)2008 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Sweet Misery
First Released on TripleJ Unearthed Website Feb 2009. First CD release SC0901 'Spacejunk' EP Note: This is a weird, rambling shambling jam of a song with 1 verse and random returns to the refrain. It is never the same twice. Verse: Sweet sweet misery so you finally found my name wrote it in a letter baby burned it in a flame all my friends tried to warn me said you werent no good thought I knew what I was in for darling hurts a little more than it should REFRAIN More than it should Little more than it should now hurst a little more than it should just a little more than it should now. END TAGLINE: Sweet sweet misery sweet sweet misery (repeat until drummer scowls) (c) 2009 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
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Tall Timbers
Tall TImbers Hey tall timbers Hey you rolling logs Hey tall timbers Hey you rolling logs If I had a dollar For every girl I kissed I wouldn’t need no captain To notice when I’m missed Still I’m splitting wood and chopping logs Break my back between the hogs Filling up them gunny sacks Just to hold that water back Cos its rained for forty days It’s rained for forty nights It’s rained for forty days So you better pay mind to the captain now Gotta build that levee fore the heavens come down Hey tall timbers Hey you rolling logs Hey tall timbers Hey you rolling logs Moses stood on the Mississippi shore Smoting that water with a 2 by 4 Watching all those paddle wheels Steamin on to New Orleans Fly away and leavin me Stuck here in this misery So if I could, surely would Stood on the rock where Moses stood Cos its rained for forty days It’s rained for forty nights It’s rained for forty days So you better pay mind to the captain now Gotta build that levee fore the heavens come down Copyright 2010 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Texas Rosie
Texas Rosie - Moses came down from the mountain A burning bush to fire his clay found the people were a doubtin' shook his head and walked away Aint no use in pretending everything you do's so hard Dealer says the bets are ending Nod and take another card Bodhi had himself a vision saw it on the late TV sent his cheque into the mission 'cos even sufferin' isn't free aint no use in complaining when all the people seem so mad they cry for water 'til its raining but now it's raining oh so bad Jesus rode out on the Prairie tried to love his fellow man Sherriff formed him up a Posse Put a rifle in his hand There's no riding to the sunset something every cowboy knows Only wind stirs in the heavens and there's no place left to go (c) 2011 Barry/Rosenthal
That Smile's Not For Me
That smile's not for me I fell in love with you I know its not your fault When I’ve fallen so fast and hard I really don’t recall I can see by the way you touch him now You two are in love It’s the kind of gladness I only can dream of Don’t even have to tell me Sure is plain to see Whatever makes you happy That smile Is not for me. Nights tender hours The blessings of the dark Lost amongst the sidewalks Still searching for your heart I’m caught by the moon Spurned by the sun A lesson unspoken A story unsung Cos even when you’re sleeping Sure is plain to see Whatever makes you happy That smile Is not for me Tell me you love me Sweetly you lie Whisper goodnight When you really mean goodbye Its nothing that you tell me Its nothing that you say I just get that feeling My heart has been replaced Don’t have to tell me Who you've been to see That smile on your face Is not for me. (c) Barry/Read/Stormcellar
Travelling Song
Hey You’re ready You don’t have to say a thing Hey You’re ready There’s nothing else that you need it’s time at last to sing your travelling song This is a travelling song Hey You’re ready It only takes that you believe Hey You’re ready First begun is halfway done The time has come to sing your travelling song This is a travelling song There’s nothing else that you need The time has come to sing your travelling song This is a travelling song We’re here now but we’re not here long Get onboard this is the travelling song (c) 2013 Michael JE Barry / Paul A Read
Twice Shy Girl
Part 1 A twice shy girl So bruised and battered A heart mistreated by anyone that mattered That she’s still going isnt so surprising even from the downside It’s only hope that’s rising but she keeps on rolling Just needs Just needs someone to take her on Too hard living when it's so mean and vicious Lit by the bonfire of your burning bridges but she keeps on rolling just needs just needs someone to take her on she keep on rolling just needs just needs someone Part 2 Bare are the memories of familiar faces funny pages Flash lit the times when life has eddied to those safer places Build high upon the ruins of old foundations Where nothing’s sacred but the memory of when She brings you to your heart again and helps you find the strength to keep on rolling, keep on moving, to keep on keeping on Part 3 Walking out into union station Standing still in the people moving Everybody is going somewhere in their own quiet desperation Staring out of the window and I’m fogging out the pane Don’t know where I might be bound but I’ll Keep on moving Keep on rolling Keep on keeping on Part 4 - insturmental Part 5- insturmental Part 6 - instumental Part 2 reprise Coming in on a greyhound I still see you on the platform waving Don’t know where I might be bound But I’ll keep on rolling, keep on moving Keep on keeping on Part 1 reprise A twice shy girl Will never be defeated she knows that it only takes a kindess To feel completed So she Keeps on rolling Just needs someone. Just need someone To take her on. She keeps on rolling, just needs Just need someone To take her on. (c) 2013 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
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Upside of Down
See her smiling in the queue today she'd wave me through if they'd but let her I want to tell her it's gonna be ok I want to to tell her It's gonna get better my friend takes it pretty hard They don't believe him for his art I don't care what someone else may say he leaves his paintings at my door i hang them on the inside of my heart Living on the upside of Down Living on the upside of this life I chose Living on the upside of Down Living on the upside of this life I chose Every night you try wish upon a star Every days another chance to play to find out who you are They can tell you it won't hurt they don't mean it when they lie. Spare yourself a little too much truth no one gets to ask why do what you need to get you by Living on the upside of Down Living on the upside of this life I chose Living on the upside of Down Living on the upside of this life I chose (c) 2021 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
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Verse 1
How come I am up here under lights so bright I guess I got a little story to tell y’all tonight About a sleepy town called Muscadene On the Mississippi delta that the river runs mean We got out the whiskey and the midnight oil Just gonna play some cards and have a drink with the boys Yeah forget all our troubles and our daily toil And don’t bring that gun Jimmy we don’t wanna make no noise Chorus A Mississippi meltdown is not what we need Cos everybody’s got a gun and everybody bleeds In a Mississippi meltdown Verse2 But Jimmy brought his gun down the side of his boot Never thinkin’ or dreamin’ he was gonna shoot But there was 5 aces high hidden in the middle of the deck Then there was two dead jokers lyin’ there with a hole in their neck Chief of Police said there was gonna be a price to pay Those two cold jokers good friends of the mayor they say Now the whole town is talkin’ and raisin’ up storm We’re gonna have the KKK puttin’ crosses on your lawn Chorus Verse 3 So if your playin’ cards down in Muscadene tonite Don’t you take you no gun or take you no knife And if the cards look crooked don’t holler for your neighbour Cos no ones gonna help you no ones gonna save you Chorus © paul read 2008
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Waiting on a message from Bob
I’ve been feeling Somewhat of a castaway I’m still waiting on a message From bob. Got some mojo that I bought on the corner I’ve been playing on a dead mans hand. People all say, I seem familiar ‘Preacher won’t you tell me your name’ But I’ve not been feeling myself of late Don’t think I can stand the change. When you wake up on your desert island Morning falling Through your hands Hold them up to push away the sunlight It’s all washed clean when it’s written in sand. One original cheeseburger for Jesus, A submarine in my life. Surface for barely a moment, break the waves of a world you despise. Be yourself, no one’s paying attention. Haven’t seen any here in a while. Loneliness is just a form of protection, And all the castaways live in exile. (c) 2024-25 Barry/Stormcellar
Walk into your heart
Don't go changing anything about yourself Don't change anything at all There's no need for explanation between you and me if the world was to end it'd be my hand in yours there's no place for your kind of gentleness here Wish I could put on sunglasses for your soul So long so cruel to drink so deep of everything in a glimpse from the edge of all that you cannot know and every time I walk into your heart I know that your arms are open wide and there'll never be a safer place than on the inside Every time I walk into your heart knowing there's no need to hide if you'd only see yourself the way I do through my eyes You hardly say anything about yourself wrapped in a pocket universe so self contained you think that no one gets just how far down the rabbit hole you go to conceal's to reveal it to those who already know every time I walk into your heart I know that your arms are open wide and there'll never be a safer place than on the inside Every time I walk into your heart knowing there's no need to hide if you'd only see yourself the way I do through my eyes through my eyes through my eyes (repeat chorus) (c) Barry/Read/Stormcellar 2018
The way that she smiles
The way that she smiles My toes are frozen early in the morning you know its not the little things I mind water's cold and the pipes are bursting but these things happen all the time nights are long but the fires burning and there's still sunlight in her eyes in the way that she smiles Those little things are always in need of mending Something else is always breaking down when I find myself in need of mending all I have to do is look around in the way that she smiles No use hanging on to memory of the things that make up a bitter past I'm not searching for another happy ending just give me something that will last in the way that she smiles (repeat) Copyright 2010 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
We The People
Written for Danny! Chorus: We the people are the true source of the power don't ever let them tell you that you're not We the people are the true source of the power Don't ever surrender what you got V1. Policeman with his gun judge with his gown politicians with their hand out from the president on down all you people who serve the Public Trust need a civics lesson your authortiy derives fromus because CHORUS V2. We the people are the true source of the power no matter what the polticians say we the people are the true source of the power the Bill of Rights is not for sale today To form a more perfect union we must all come together from all across the land every type of person no matter if you're rich or poor or the colour of your skin it's time we showed the powerful the power of the citizen chorus Breakdown You might be feeling powerless locked out and alone you might feel that there ain't athing you can do on your own. you gotta stop you gotta rise up stand up stand up and be counted Let them see your numbers if you believe in peace and dignity there's beauty in our liberty show them that you're strong show them that you're not alone show them that this aint no joke get up off your ass and vote (ed: that's danny's edit :-) Chorus (c) 2015 Barry/Read/Rosenthal/Wanders/Williams
We will not be forgotten
You turned so quick you gave me whiplash, who’d of thought you’d get so mean? Saw you headed for the car crash, didn’t want to cause a scene. Worried that I couldn’t find it, something that was always there. Didn’t need that much reminding, angry’s how you show you care. The only thing you ever taught me, how to do my deeds unseen. Look at what such things have bought you, I can only hear you scream, We will not be forgotten. I can almost hear them say. We will not be forgotten. Like a call from outer space. We will not be forgotten. And another thing to save. We will not be forgotten. Was I ever really brave? We will not be forgotten. I can almost hear them say. We will not be forgotten. On the other side of knowing. Too strong to need to fight back. The safest place to put your anger. Somewhere deep inside your whale. The only thing you’ll ever show me, a robin redbreast in a cage Be the one you need, who tells you everything. We will not be forgotten. © Barry/Stormcellar/Skypta Vind 2023
Whiskey Talkin
Whiskey Talkin’ Verse 1 When you come home late and your girl is gone And she took off home to where she come from Sunday comes and it now it don’t feel right It was the same old story on a Saturday night Chorus It’s the whiskey talkin’ boy You oughta know by now That’s the whiskey talkin’ boy It’s just the whiskey talkin’ on a Saturday night Verse 2 You wake late and you’re all black and blue And you try to remember why that cops had you You got a fat ticket and some broken lights It was the whiskey talking on a Saturday night Middle 8 You little brown bottle you burn like you should And just like woman you taste so good I took a little stumble through the neighbourhood An every gal I swear they looked so good Chorus © paul read 2008
White Fire
White Fire She said (angry lines encased) all the while she's screaming 'not the face'. Trying hard, complete the work of years in days, born to love, who cannot? In reply, the broken skin the long bright wire a million explanations and no one reason why. Don't let it burn Don't let sting To feel the white fire on your skin and when you touch don't let it hurt let it be gentle. Don't let it burn Don't let sting To feel the white fire on your skin and when we touch you'll let me in and i will be be gentle She said (she said) Angry lines encased, hard to trust these instincts not my own. Trying hard repeat the work of years in days. Born to love who cannot in reply. (this time, this time, not this time) The broken skin the long bright wire, a million explanations, no one reason why. (don't want to hear about a thing) Don't let it burn Don't let sting To feel the white fire on your skin and when you touch don't let it hurt let it be gentle Don't let it burn Don't let sting To feel the white fire on your skin and when you touch you'll let me in and i will be be gentle (c) Barry/Stormcellar 2022
Wine To Water
Wine to Water Standing at her riverbank see it running black and thin She’s telling me to cross to her But there’s no way back once you step in and on the other side a place where you’re not a wanted man and all the yearning promises of an undiscovered land an undiscovered land You can't touch her south of the border She's gonna change your wine into water knows the night becomes her Wears the darkness as a veil lips are running scarlet With the promises they entail And still you try to reach them and the troubles that await hear her name in legion call you closer to your fate Closer to your fate You can't touch her south of the border She's gonna change your wine into water Sometimes when I feel a little strange Sometimes when I’m feeling low I still feel her carving my name Deep in the wood Of a cross beside the road (C) 2012 Michael JE Barry/Paul A Read
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The Yearning
Maybe I don’t want the things That you chase in life Maybe I don’t need the things That you create It’s all in the time we’ve spent Between you and me And it’s all I’ll ever need. When you said that you were mine You never set a length of time And though I travelled round the world Youd be there for my return Maybe you don’t understand When you have your way A love without intent to change Did no one tell you of the yearning The yearning The yearning for you now And thought you’ve travelled round the sun To bring you back Where we begun On that forgotten shore Where I will wait forever more Forever in the yearning The yearning The yearning for you now (c) 2024-2025 Barry/Read/Stormcellar
You can't push me away from you
You think I need more than you so you're pushing me away But baby, don't you understand all the reasons that I stay I could never love a man the way that I love you and when you hold me in your arms you're the only thing that's real you're my centre you're my soul you're the one I need to make me whole I could no more live without you than to be without my heart You can't push me away from you no matter how you try because there's just one place in all time and space and that's right here, at your side You can't push me away from you my love will draw you back again because forever has no meaning if my love for you could end Darling you mean more to me than you could ever know I dont want you to leave but I'm telling you to go you've got so much life to live you've got so much more to give and I can't be the one to keep you from your dreams I want you to know I believe in you Everything good in my life I receive in you and to love you the most I just have to let you go You can't push me away from you no matter how you try no more than you could remove the sun and moon from up there in the sky You can't push me away from you can't tell the stars not to shine for as long as there's forever I am yours and you are mine. (c) 2014 Barry/Read/Stormcellar