Baby, let’s hit the town for a while Let me bask in your sweet smile while we’re dancing Show me that crazy step that is yours The way you move across the floor in the moonlight But baby don’t get carried away Laugh at what I say – take it lightly Cause I’m a […]
The city’s cold The wind whips wildly down the alleyways and the avenues The narrow streets are quite bleak in the falling night The café’s quiet The spy sits waiting for his rendezvous In a Burberry coat he jots notes in code in a little book Enter Cypher She stands by the doorway […]
What’s a guy got to do to get a little bit of tenderness? All these women are so cool like they’ve been through a holy mess Waiting Watching Listening Understanding (As best you can) Being mother to your man must be the hardest thing To have you love turned around is so disheartening Listening […]
A bridge is a crossing to the same end It’s people to people and then back again A bridge gives a city its sense of pride Be it over the Mekong or over the Clyde Bridges are stone wooden or steel To bear the great weight of the boot and the wheel A bridge […]
I rolled and tossed all night on a sea of battered dreams My spirit longed for flight, to sail off on the wind Been caught up in a chain of emails + deadlines Pressure, stress + strain, those petty thieves of time Is that how it’s meant to be? Oh for a timeless […]
It’s not the first time – it won’t be the last That I walk this broken line Between the darkness and the break of day Between the blessing and the curse Hanging by a thread Between the devil and the clear blue sky Between the fire and the storm Between the camel and the […]
L!LBURNE|RAY Present MYSTERY OF THE ROSE With special guest LEE BUDDLE WATERWHEEL GALLERY 8 Waterwheel Rd, Bedfordale SATURDAY 15 MAY 7:30PM L!LBURNE|RAY are the performance duo of songwriter|guitarist|singer !an L!lburne + singer|sound-artist Sam Ray. MYSTERY OF THE ROSE, L!lburne’s third album, is a song cycle eerily relevant to the Covid world. Produced by Lee […]
Reflecting on the last doubledup year, 1919, Prone to patterns and a facile fascination with numbers, Especially doubles, I wonder if these squared years may Symbolically bellweather their centuries? Needs be a better student of history to be certain But it’s an interesting thought Bear with me. 1919 The year of a pandemic, A first […]
Nabokov + Borges Over chess by the lake Oblique in their inventions The contiguous worlds they make An eye aslant in a mirror A hand caressing time Chequered memories prism’d Of distant richer climes Where butterflies go dancing o’er A bright imperious sky Heroic men act alone And the innocent always die Nabokov + Borges […]
Lest we forget But tell me, what exactly are we meant to remember? The tragic loss of a generation on the fields of war? The missed potential of their collective ingenuity? The mental and physical mutilation of those lucky enough to ‘survive’? Their quiet hours of anguish and PTSD Undiagnosed and untreated Suffered with a […]