if you find this song to be mysterious, simply put "Boxing Day Tsunami 2004" in Google. This is the first new song I've written in over a year.  Over the last year I discovered recording.  It's become my latest obsession.  It's extremely time consuming and there is an impossible amount to learn.  So lack of available time is one of the reasons for no new songs.  I've got...

Missing People Verse 1: Streets wind their way through places I called homeI didn't give them a second thought as I walked those streets aloneI'd register what and who I saw everywhere I'd goIf anyone ever noticed me I'd swear I didn't know Verse 2: For the longest time I couldn't tell what it was that seemed so strangeSomething seemed to be missing but I didn't know what had...

Once in a While Verse 1: Most of my daysLot like the day beforeI’ve taught my selfNot to expect anything moreCan’t complainAll of my days are fullBut they’re not particularlyMemorable Chorus: But then once in a whileComes a dayQuite unexpectedly - In my lifeA surprise, once in a whileBefore my eyesMagic finds its way back to me Verse 2: There’ve been daysLiving in shades of...

Couple of days Verse 1: Do you recallSo long agoWho we wereIt’s hard to knowI think aboutAll we sharedI rememberHow much I cared Chorus: They were justA couple of daysWe spent walking on the beach and talking in cafesAnd after that couple of daysWe just smiled and said goodbyeWe went our separate ways Verse 2: For so longI couldn’t findThe reasons IHad been so blindWhat is...

Equal Time Verse 1: We're singing songs in harmonyAll our voices clear and freeBut somehow something doesn't feel quite rightI don't want to be offensiveOr sound like I’m being defensiveBut there's something that I want to say tonight Verse 2: I'm a fan of gospel musicI love sound it makesBut I do not intend to deceiveCan't say that I feel proudSinging Gospel songs out loudI...

Talk About it Verse 1: One day they finally told me it'd be good for meTo come here and talk to youI didn’t take offence at all, i thought it was a jokeCus that’s the sort of thing my friends might doThey said there was no guaranteeBut it might somehow be good for meI didn’t understand and still don’t seeThe point of this and what the hell am I supposed to do Chorus: Cuz I, I...

Both Little Big C and Best That I Knew How were entered in the ROCK/INDIE category of the 2022 Australian Songwriting Contest. One of them has made it into the short list, but I haven't been told which one yet. The top 30 selection is expected to be announced by the end of June 2023. ================================ Little Big C was re-mixed and re-mastered June 2023....

5 March 2023Remixed to bring the vocal forward and to balance the instruments.  The piano was removed because it didn't seem to be adding anything and the end result was a bit muddy. ===== Eve and I were travelling in the Northern Territory a while back when the line "I'm not a love song kind of guy" came to me. I thought it was such an obvious title for a country song that...

Last October I wrote on this blog for the first time in 8 years.  I had great plans. I was going to post multiple times a week and build up a large enthusiastic audience for this blog.  I couldn't have been more mistaken.  (Which is the longer title for the song that is linked below.) I was going to direct my blogging energies towards music.  As pretty much anyone who is...

=====The Best was re-mastered in September 2022===== This is a song about forgiveness. Years ago a friend's father had died. He was deeply upset because he couldn't bring himself to respect his father saying that he'd failed as a father. It was clear that he did not believe that his father had done his best. I said 'maybe not, but he probably did the best he knew how". That...

Freely Flowing has been included in the shortlist for the Open Category of the 2022 Australian Songwriting Contest. The top 30 selection is expected to be announced by the end of June 2023. ================================ Freely Flowing was re-mixed and re-mastered 31 May 2023. ================================ This is the song referenced in "Blue Book", the story song I...

This song is simply a story, all of it true. It's about a another song called "Freely Flowing". The original music for "Freely Flowing" was written by Patrick Dietsch, a French guitarist I met at the end of 1972 somewhere in Mexico. He was travelling with another guitarist and they would pick up some travelling money by playing at whatever venues they could find. I only knew...

I'm not a performer, a singer, a musician, an arranger, a producer. I'm just not. I do what I can but I dream about what it might be like to work with someone who could do the things I can't do, which is quite a lot. Wouldn't it be great to have a collaborator?  Collaborator Verse 1: Last night I had a dreamI dreamt about a beautiful songThe words were deeply movingAnd the...

For the moment I think I need to just leave this song here. I wait and see how it lands. In the meantime have a look at the image above. What do you see?I'll Be There Verse 1: ’ll be there when you need meI’ll be there at the sourceOf strength and hope in the faceOf sorrow and remorseI’ll be there in those momentsWhen all you feel is painAnd even if I’ve been beforeI’ll...