James P Honey

DULL FAME HONEY

tall tales - short songs

- hack reports from no man's land -

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 1. STONE

when i die don't bury me let me sink like a stone unafraid
off the coast of brittany the sea i know you love the most

at least we own our very own mystery - the best thing for me
about feeling anything at all they can't steal that from me

there ain't no heaven, there ain't no hell in me

underneath a sulking sky i feel the world turn softly
every heart is half a whole so hold me close and sweetly


2. FATHER

my father he is old and i'm no longer young but i was once
life's a haze of roads and hotel rooms for hard to tell how long now

funny how a day can seem so slow
but a year - it's here then it goes

london in the cold is a still still storm yeh a sick horse
while away i force myself to think of home but the only thing i miss is
my ember

seems i fair well when on the move
hills on horizon looking blue

i've seen the seasons turn now near thirty-five years or so and counting
my brother he's a rogue and i love him so much feels like i'm dying
just breathing

seems i fair well when on the move
hills on horizon looking blue
funny how a day can seems so slow
but a year - it's here then it goes


3. OCEAN

there's an ocean inside me
that my friends can't see
and cold is the giant
and vast are its waves

they say a blue sky's dawning
and the grass is greener
and this shall all
and this shall also pass

the romance... why worry
the tail wags the hound


4. CHILD

watching our child while she's asleep
you reading woolf the silence is deep
the window is all pastel and plain
but framed how the trees lazily sway
your sister came round to visit this eve
we spoke for a while, drank fennel tea
stand far enough away from a life
the valleys and peaks are just a straight line
to strike a match is to make flame, to court shade
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