Working 9 to 5

Starting as soon as you wake with lessons in your head

Automatic driving wishing you were at home in bed

School gates closed waiting for the madness to begin

Preparing your face for the lasting teacher’s grin

 

Not just a teacher but a parent, carer, doctor or nurse

Trying to achieve while the government tightens its purse

After school club takes the pressure away for a while

But then back at the desk with work that stretches a mile

 

If you have a family then they take second best

Your partner and your children beg you to rest

The unseen hours that tick away at your life

Governments stabbing you with the education knife

 

If we only worked 9 to 5 the job wouldn’t get done

We put in the hours so your children can have fun

Children learning to be the best that they can be

Everyone of them developing is all we want to see

 

League tables and lists have spoilt the profession

Targets and levels have become an obsession

We all fight to keep the enthusiasm alive

That’s why we never will work 9 to 5!

Set me free

I felt trapped in a cage, I couldn’t get out

Unable to scream, unable shout

Then I found you and you had the only key

Now I can fly, you have set me free

 

The world is the same place, but I see it differently

You made me open my eyes, you have me completely

With you I can fly as high as a bird

Flying with someone who showed they cared

 

The world’s colours blinding my opened eyes

No longer saddend, only happy cries

The cage has been opened and we now fly as one

All those negative thoughts, wiped, finally gone

 

My freedom flight is going to be long and fulfilling

On the world’s stage I now have top billing

Freedom has arrived without me paying a price

Set free forever, I didn’t need to think twice

Sleepless night

Another sleepless night

What did I do wrong?

Fell in love with the wrong girl

This night seems so long

 

The empty space beside me

Where you once lay

How could I have been so stupid

Tomorrow’s another day

 

I always thought you cared

But I was just a joke

Using me for your selfish gains

Now I am broke

 

You’re now fixed inside my head

Over thinking crowding my mind

Was I just delusional?

Or were you that unkind

 

Where do I go from here?

Crying myself to sleep

Trying to figure it all out

Counting endless lines of endless sheep

 

Do you know you have done?

Heartbreak isn’t easy to get over

Crushed my simple life

The highs only come when I’m no longer sober

Why?

Why?

 

Why do people lead you on?

Why don’t they miss you when you’ve gone?

Why do they do it for their own personal gain?

Why do they leave you with so much pain?

 

Why don’t them make things clear?

Why do they turn their back and sneer?

Why aren’t they honest from the start?

Why do they set out to break your heart?

 

Why do they say it’s not you it’s me?

Why don’t they realise I can see?

Why do they say ‘You’re just too nice’?

Why don’t people look at me twice?

 

Why do they use me then throw me away?

Why do they only call when it’s a rainy day?

Why don’t the ever answer your call?

Why do they watch you rise then fall?

 

Why is it easier to write than talk face to face?

Why are you always looking a me to replace?

Why leave the truth and commit to a lie?

Why the brave face when I want to cry?

Chasing the unchaseable

Hard to understand why I do it

Why do I always fail?

Like a harbour that has everything

That ship has finally set sail

 

Lower your standards I hear you cry

But why would I do that?

Like wearing your very best outfit

Without the perfect hat

 

Chorus

Chasing the unchaseable is all I ever do

Living in my own dream world

A world that doesn’t include you

But how can I change this outlook

Chasing the girl again

Searching for the right one

Is driving me insane

 

Time to find that someone special

But who is this Miss Right?

Is she someone who I already know?

Or is she out of my sight?

 

Bridge

The dream I have is the life I need

Wanting it to happen, I now believe

I can no longer keep chasing the unchaseable goal

Another girl, my heart stole

Itinerary

When you’re a child you’re meant to have fun

Dancing in the rain and laughing in the sun

Teenage years upon us and tantrums all around

Feeling rebellious and listening to that sound

Chorus

When it all began, it was all ahead

Life with love life, life without dread

So many choices but how to choose

Some times you win, sometimes you lose

 

Meeting someone special, who blows you away

The dating game commences, then marriage one day

Children follow with so much love to give

A perfect life, a reason to live

 

Bridge

But the itinerary doesn’t happen to everyone

Sometimes you have it and then it’s gone

A moments hesitation and the opportunity passed

Why won’t this happiness last

                                                                    

Lives are mapped out by powers unknown

Some lives in couples, some lives alone

Wishing for the itinerary that other people had

Wanting the itinerary that makes me feel glad

Stringing me along

I felt an attraction that I’d never felt before

When you look at me I stare down to the floor

I dream about strolling through a park hand in hand

It’s the simple things you know, they’ll never understand

                                                                            

My conscience is being pulled for fear of being to nice

Why would someone like you look at someone like me twice

Have I got something thing that you want, something that you need

Will you get what you want then get up and leave?

 

Chorus

Are you just stringing me along?

What you’re doing to me is wrong

Once you’ve got what you need you’ll be gone

I’ll be left feeling like you were the one

(So I guess the question is are you just stringing me along?)

 

People have used me before and I promised never again

Maybe I’m too naïve wanting sunshine when all I get is rain

How is this situation happening? Why is it always me?

What is the secret answer?  Is there a magic key?

 

Bridge

Can we just be honest and tell each other how we feel

Then I’ll know once and for all if this relationship is for real

No Return

It started as a comment that I thought was a joke

The fire burning inside didn’t need a another stoke

The flame between us once burnt so strong and so bright

Now the troubled relationship has become another fight

 

Chorus

You were too blind to see

That my love for you was free

Your life no longer included me

There was only you and not we

 

You wanted some time to be alone we gradually drifted apart

Didn’t you realise that this would break my fragile heart?

The distance between us grew bigger by the day

My life a wash with colour has suddenly turned grey

 

I had no where to turn and the dark nights became long

But I survived those nights and came through very strong

Now I’m getting my life back on the relationship track

You’ve sent me a message but now I don’t want you back

 

Bridge

You hurt me more than you could ever know

And now I’ve moved on you won’t let me go

 

You are trying to mess with my emotional mind

I once loved you, you were so beautiful and kind

But now I see someone who is manipulative and fake

You’ve had your chance so leave me for goodness sake

One Day

If you feel like I’m forcing your hand

It’s because I want you to understand

I’m running through sinking sand

Just to be with you

 

If you would give me a relationship sign

So I could cross the friendship line

I want your body next to mine

I want to be with you

 

Chorus

One day my dream will come true

One day it will just be me and you

One day you’ll lie down next to me

One day I hope you’ll finally see

 

You know you could mend my fragile heart

You certainly stood out from the very start

We would never grow old apart

Together with you

 

Bridge

Open you eyes and see what’s in front of you

Take a risk in me and let the sun shine through

Feelings

A simple text that makes my day

The smile you give that never goes away

A question to ask that we both hide

Not wanting to dent our precious pride

 

Chorus

I can’t tell you how I feel

People will judge me, saying I’m wrong

But I know these feelings inside me

They just keep burning,  getting strong

 

The night time calls just to hear your voice

If I was creating the perfect woman, you’d be my choice

Lying awake with your picture inside my head

Wishing you were here lying next to me in my bed

 

Bridge

Will you break me so I can be your perfect man

To make you happy, I’ll do all that I can

 

Do we just sit back and let fate take the lead?

For me to have happiness you are all that I need

A secret wish, that some day, may just come true

For I doubt there will ever be another perfect you

Love You

If I could tell you how I feel I would, but I have a fear of rejection

A special friendship I won’t put at risk for a romantic connection

Keeping my love inside is the hardest thing I have had to do

Being around others, when really I only want to be around you

 

The feeling in the pit of my stomach when I see your beautiful smile

A recognisable scent that partners your own unique style

I love you more today then yesterday, and will love you more tomorrow

The endless love I have for you will not bring you any sorrow

 

To be able to walk proudly down the street holding your hand

Such a simple thing that many people won’t understand

To be able to wipe away your tears when you need someone

It would be an honour to hold you close when the working day in done

 

These feelings inside may only come around once in a life time

Two of us together would make this wonderful world sublime

In a perfect world I would ask you out and you would say yes

I fear the answer will be no but please don’t accept anything less

Not As I’d Planned

Do we all have a plan?

Who sets it out?

How do we know

What’s all about?

 

Chorus

Not as I’d planned

What went wrong

Sitting here alone

Writing this song

 

All that has gone

I haven’t a chance

The moment has past

To have a first dance

 

Bridge

It should have been me with the children and wife

It should have been me living as a family, loving life

 

A second chance

Doesn’t come along

Have I failed?

Is something wrong?