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2 Cents An Acre

MR. CRICK

Good morning Mr. Crick
And how's the world been treating you
Look outside - the sun has bought us another day
I know you're getting old
Laughing children make you cry
I wonder why you're not so well
Such is life

CHORUS:
Sorry
I didn't mean to do it
I feel so bad
Sorry
I really put you through it
And I'm so sad

Morning Mr. Crick
Well what do you know it's me again
The one who made you turn your head the other day
Good morning Mr. Crick
I just dropped by to say hello
Let you know
The mockingbirds have gone away

CHORUS

Good morning Mr. Crick
And how's the world been treating you
Look outside - the sun has bought us another day
Good morning Mr. Crick
I just came back to say goodbye
And tell you why
The mockingbirds have gone away

CHORUS

Good morning Mr. Crick
And how's the world with you today
I'm sad to hear you're not so well

Sorry that you're feeling not so well
Sorry

© 1999 Connah/Grayson/Wonfor

HELLBOUND EYES

Took a while in my bed last night
To find sleep for my head and make me feel alright
When it came to my dead beat brain
I got this strange old lady calling out my name
Don’t know why she crashed my sleep
But her pale yellow skin made my own flesh creep
She must have been from my dark left side
Cause she froze me cold with her hellbound eyes

She said
I’ll be there when your luck runs out
When it all blows up I will drop by
I’ll be in the wings waiting for the final scene
I’ll be there to see the well run dry

I wish the night was the day’s relief
And that sleep was the way I could be released
But every time when I close my eyes
She’s right there in the black at the back of my mind
If she’s young she’s so damned good
That I feel for myself & the heat of my blood

Sometimes she comes in a sweet disguise
But she just can’t hide those hellbound eyes

She says
I’ll be there when your luck runs out....

CALL ME BEAUTIFUL

You were the first to call me beautiful
Don't think I forgot
That at the time you called me beautiful
Plainly I was not
And if my mistake was letting go the only one who knew me
You were the first to get through to me

You were the first - you called me beautiful
Don't think I forgot
That at the time you called me beautiful
Plainly I was not
And I'm sorry now I let you think you meant so little to me
You were the first to see right through me

And baby I think of you every other day
Doesn't that give the game away
There's nothing that we can do
I only want to say
You were first....

TELL ME SOMETHING

You say you love the rain
You say it helps you cry
But you never explain
Just what you've got to hide
Oh baby I'm waiting
I wanna be surprised

CHORUS:
Tell me something I don't know
You've got me thinking that it's time to go
I just want you just one time just let it flow
And tell me something I don't know

Why do you get so mad
When I say you are wrong
And the best day of our life
Is out there still to come
Oh baby I'm still waiting
I wanna be surprised

Tell me something I don't know
You've got me thinking that it's time to go
I just want you just one time just let it flow

Oh baby don't turn your back on me
Don't tell me you think that I'm naive
Don't say please close the door when you leave
Oh baby don't turn your attack on me
Don't hit me with the things that you believe
I'm begging you please talk to me

CHORUS

THERE YOU ARE

<>I guess it's time to pace the floor
I just don't love you anymore
This time it's gone so far
That it's gone
And there you are

Some things are better left unsaid
But these thoughts are here inside my head
Well I know you feel them too
So what else is there to do
When this time it's gone so far
That I'm here
But there you are
This time it's gone so far
That it's gone
And there you are

© 2003 Connah/Grayson/Wonfor

EMILY HAS COMPASSION FATIGUE

Emily can you hear the dodo call remember me
See the doormat has a new disease
Pizza eats a million trees
Emily the sky is finished with us and the sea
Is bruised and swollen with the memory
Of every god-forsaken anchovy

CHORUS:
Emily I know you love blindly
Emily I know you think kindly
The gentle breeze of summer in your hair
And so to the news the world is dying
The pundits decree we all start crying
But Emily’s in love and does not care

Emily’s so in love the world’s not there

Emily, God alone in broken heaven calls to me
What in hell on earth is come to be
He weeps we leap to reap his prophecy
Emily, Emily, Emily
You know I love you too and that it’s killing me
Please give me strength to know a way to feel
I either watch the news or make the meal

CHORUS

I heard on the news the world’s undone
And we’re all on our way to kingdom come
But Emily just made a cup of tea
Emily can we live minutiae
I won’t believe the sky is holed
If you can disbelieve the poisoned sea
Emily I’ll love you if you love me

THE BEAR LIES DOWN

The bear lies down and the world exhales
A damn good reason it never fails
The bear stands up to the winter gales
Waving like he’s trying to fly
The bear lies down and the world exhales

She’s out the door that she kicked and dented
Endless threats but this time she meant it
He lay so ill but he lied so well
And he justified the means in the end
The bear lies down and the world exhales

"Take her out and make her laugh and be like me"
So he takes her out and she makes him laugh enviously
She hesitates to think it
So she’ll raise a glass to drink it
Leaving others free to whisper on the air

The bear lies down and the world exhales
Bowls of cherries and beds of nails
His heart though still through a force of will
Was revealed in every note that he played
The bear lies down and the world exhales

The bear lies down and the earth is quiet
Pitstop bender and car crash diet
You were far too near to hold so dear
When we value what requires us to reach
The bear lies down and the world exhales

No symphony of grieving
No overture of weeping
My brother crazy mirror don’t despair
The bear lies down

WATCHSTAR

See the star in the northern sky
It’s the watchstar of the years and it’s not about to die on us
Come all ye faithless, all ye don’t know why
Let the star stay the tears for a while

I don’t know how to ease any pain
So I’ll not sing it out like I think you’re the same as me
One world between us until we believe
In the star and the gift of reprieve

Look to the north when the watchstar awakes
Gather of your soul from the light-years away
While the wind turns the world to a time yet undone
And the star sends you back to the sun

Oh come all ye faithless
Joyless and defeated

© 2004 Connah/Grayson/Wonfor

THE BINDLEY TREE

The Christmas tree took root and grew several storeys high
It pushed the walls of Betty's house a little out of line
Councillor Hall made a courtesy call with a view to cut it down
The smile that graced Betty's face was replaced with a cold stare and a frown
"That tree is like a child to me, you must not do her wrong
She grew up with my family and this is where she belongs."

But four and twenty men were sent to do the will of Hall
With their axes honed and all intent to see that timber fall
But Betty had braved her needled boughs and branches right to the top
Like an angel calling down from above she said "I swear I'll make you stop.
This tree you see is a part of me, I will not let her down;
She grew up with my children and I will not desert her now.
You can all debate, deliberate, quibble and confer
But you will not lay a finger on my conifer!"

Well the winter came and the cracks appeared in Betty Bindley's house
And the Councillor sneered, kind of cavalier, "There's no point in trying to get her out"
Well it sounded just like thunder when the walls came crashing down
Councillor Hall washed his hands of it all
And Betty was never found

Now that conifer is a shrine to her, standing to this day
They light her up in December and they dance around her in May
While some may call her the Bindley Tree, others wonder why
But they say that the breeze as it blows through her leaves sounds like Betty's cries

© 2004 Connah/Grayson/Wonfor

THE BREAKING

I don't think that you know what you've done
Breaking the one thing we could become
I don't think that you know the score
I don't believe in you anymore

So go my friend
Unhappy ending unassuaged
Look alive
Do your 9 to 5
Act your age
Then when you awaken
Pray it's worth this breaking

The radio singing I love you so
But it isn't me they're talking to
No love here
Nowhere near
More like servitude

Empty noise
From this unfinished boy
Singing I want you to know my name
Tell me how
Can you leave me now
Saying nothing changed

Goodbye old man
And all the understanding platitudes
You leave me with
The vicious nature of my mood
My faith in you shaken
Pray it's worth this breaking

© 2005 Grayson/Connah

YOUR FACE IS NOT ENOUGH

I have gone to town on you and you have let it be
I will not hold to love's old dream that I no longer need
So you don't get me wrong I said "So long"
Gone on to greener grass
I kissed our lazy life goodbye

And I'm so good to go that I think I'm about to cry

Back in the early days
Just your pretty face
Had me believe in a god
10,000 nights ago
What I didn't know
Your face is not enough

I am giving up the ghost and walking in my sleep
The thing that we both feared the most is what has come to be
Just so you heard me right I said goodnight
I might be gone some time
You know I might be gone for good

If someone else says take my hand I kind of think that you should

Back in the early days
Just your pretty face
Had me believe in a god
10,000 nights ago
What I didn't know
Your face is not enough

I've been sent to save myself by climbing back upon the shelf
I will not be the wallflower that blossoms at your finest hour

I have gone to bed tonight
I can sleep alone
I won't be calling out your name
It has really gone

Just so you've got this straight
It's way too late for this to be not broken in some fundamental way
And when they ask me what went wrong this is what I will say

Back in the early days
Just your pretty face
Had me believe in a god
10,000 nights ago
What I didn't know
Your face is not enough
Your face is not enough
Your face is not enough

© 2005 Grayson/Connah