QUICKSAND


They wanted to see me on the pavement
And I am
They wanted to strip off my feathers
And they have
They wished for my fire to quench
They hoped that my nails would break
Easily

They have won, I lost,   more...I fell
I am on the floor, I don't
Think that I will ever
Crawl out of this quicksand

If you want a cheerful tale
All I got is pale and stale
Don't mind my fucked up mind
Replete with loose bolts and u-turns
Everyone around wants a crown
Everyone around seeks titles

They have won, I lost, I fell
I am on the floor, I don't
Think that I will ever
Crawl out of this quicksand

They can kill each other
Over offices and desks
I will go outside and
Sit on that green bench
And have a bite off this
Ripe pear

They have won, I lost, I fell
I am on the floor, I don't
Think that I will ever
Crawl out of this quicksand  less

Do you mean to slash my hands
With your impassive eyes
Do you mean to drink my wine
Without enjoying every drop
Or is it natural

Let’s go for a ride
I’ll drive you can make me laugh
Let’s go for a ride
No rain   more...is supposed to land
On this side of town

Do you mean to shield your face
From any kind of showdown
Do you mean to tip toe over
My try to mend this right

Let’s go for a ride
I’ll drive you can make me laugh
Let’s go for a ride
No rain is supposed to land
On this side of town

No more question marks
Faith is enough at this time  less

You always wear a smile and
Behind it is a mind full of
Excrement
You fed me those white lines
You poured gallons of wine
I’m an experiment
To you
You wanna save the world
By making them your whores

You wanna   more...see how long you can play
You wanna see how long it would take
To destroy someone’s life
To polute someone’s heart
Then bring them up again

The one inch of me that you couldn’t infect
Will affect the rest
Soon I will be ten thousand times what I was
Without your help
You’re mad cause I left before
You could add my name

You wanna see how long you can play
You wanna see how long it would take
To destroy someone’s life
To polute someone’s heart
Then bring them up again

You’re trying to clog all the holes inside
This sick hobby of yours has made you a swine
Yes, I’ve seen you cry

You wanna see how long you can play
You wanna see how long it would take
To destroy someone’s life
To polute someone’s heart
Then bring them up again  less

NOT TONIGHT


Don't know if I have
The energy tonight
Don't know if my mind
Can resist the bite
Of another fight

This tiff swallows time
I can't afford to blow
I yield I give up
My guitar and I need
To be alone
  more...
Yes, I am
Asking you today
To hold your disparaging
At least until I
Finish this song

There's nothing else to break
Nothing else to braid
These walls are wearing scorn
Instead of paint
They're full of contempt

When I open that door
My new hands will come out
They will not fix your mess
But at least they will bear
More patience and strength

Yes, I am
Asking you today
To hold your disparaging
At least until I
Finish this song  less

I AM NOT


You wanna believe that I am a flower
But I am nothing than some dry grass
You wanna make me promise to love you forever
Forever is a word that only lives in fairy tales
Let's not dream and take this   more...for what it is

I am not a thought that makes sense
I am just an aimless body on the road
I am not a clock that will make you feel rushed
I don't like to walk with weights

You wanna lean against someone who is concrete
But I am nothing else than a floating leaf
You want me to become a net for you to fall in
But I can barely lift up my bones and clothes
I don't think I am what you're looking for

I am not a thought that makes sense
I am just an aimless body on the road
I am not a clock that will make you feel rushed
I don't like to walk with weights

Blow all the pressure out
Delineate the good for now

I am not a thought that makes sense
I am just an aimless body on the road
I am not a clock that will make you feel rushed
I don't like to walk with weights  less

KISS


I should kiss you until
I run out of breath
Until I run out of tongue
Until I run out of strength

And you should kiss my body until
You run out of flesh
I should stop writing when
My heart no longer palpitates
  more...
Does my daisy want your rain?
Do my arms want your frame?
Do my nose crave your smell?
Do my eyes anticipate your face?
Yeah

I should paint about our first kiss
Until I run out of wall
Until I run out of paint

Does my daisy want your rain?
Do my arms want your frame?
Do my nose crave your smell?
Do my eyes anticipate your face?
Yeah

And my mind, my heart
And my eyes, my legs
And my window
we claim you  less

THANKS


Thank you for turning my trust
Into cigarette ashes
Thank you for withering the gardenia within
Thank you for filling my cup
With your bittersweet candy
Thank you for basting my raw meat
With your acid
  more...
Go and don't comeback
Demanding one more drink
You are a disease
Your venom is not weak

Thanks for embedding your shoe
Deep into my face
Sorry if I write too much
About your disdain
Thanks for delivering words
That grind up my passion
You drank my wine
Without my consent

Go and don't comeback
Demanding one more drink
You are a disease
Your venom is not weak

You gashed my character
Inflated my defects
After I felt with you safe

Go and don't comeback
Demanding one more drink
You are a disease
Your venom is not weak

thank you for nada  less

He sleeps too much
When problems get too heavy
He thinks if he hides
Little rocks inside a pipe
Frustration will divide
Stress will vaporize

He says, understand me baby
I'll get stronger later
He whispers, hug   more...me, kiss me baby
Don't forget to pray for me later

He wonders what corner
He should look for answers
He hasn't figured out
The questions yet
My tongue is not a sponge
That can wipe out his past
My hands are not pens
Able to write in future tense

He says, understand me baby
I'll get stronger later
He whispers, hug me, kiss me baby
Don't forget to pray for me later

You gotta stop before it stops you
You better start to clean up your senses

He says, understand me baby
I'll get stronger later
He whispers, hug me, kiss me baby
Don't forget to pray for me later

he woke up early this morning
and said he misses his son  less

Do you want my hands?
Do you want my heart?
Do you want my face?
Do you want my flesh?
What do you want?

Do you want to buy
A piece of my love?
Do you want do buy it
With a bill or a check?
I can't sell love

Do   more...you want to play
One more round?
Do you want to start
To arm-wrestle with our minds
Are you afraid of loneliness?
Are you afraid of yourself?
What do you want?

Do you want to buy
A piece of my love?
Do you want do buy it
With a bill or a check?
I can't sell love

You think you love me
But that is just a strong fixation
With the wrong possession in your mind

Do you want my word?
Do you want my blood?
What do you want?  less

FALL


Don't call me
Don't listen to me
Don't persuade me
Don't care for me
Cause if you do
Cause if you do

I will have to
Fall in love with you
I will have to
Fall in love with you

Don't dulcify my lips
Don't cherish   more...my skin
Don't display your intellect
Don't make me smile
Once again
Cause if you do
Cause if you do

I will have to
Fall in love with you
I will have to
Fall in love with you

Just when I began to think
That love was a house
Far away from me
You came with your jokes
You came with your peace
You came with your comfort
And you and I merged in

Don't paint on me with your tongue anymore
Don't staple your name on my thoughts
Cause if you do

I will have to fall, fall, fall
In love with you  less

I feel like
Drinking water
Until my body explodes
I feel like digging out my heart
And leave it in the basement
As a snack for the rats
So that I don't feel as heavy
So that I don't feel as alone
So that I don't   more...feel as lost

Cause I have too many fingers
I have too many eyes
I have too many teeth
I have too many feelings
That wander about
Cause without you
There's too much space
Too much time
Too many people
There's lack of light

I feel like sewing my eyelids
So that no more tears
Can get out of there
I feel like gluing my hands together
So that I don't write about you
Anywhere, everywhere

Cause I have…

As bouncy as a rubber ball
As strong as a paper-made wall
Without you
Without you
Without you
  less

I pawned my problems when I met you
I will redeem them once i'm candid with you
I drink to numb my anguish
I smoke my stress away
i've been inside of a picture frame

My mind was dehydrated
My heart was overworked
  more...My inspiration was dry and
My will was strangled
You are the liquid that I needed
The day off that I was waiting for
The muse that was gone
The spirit that woke up my soul

there was a time when i craved revolt
now i want to be part of your picturesque world
You are the pencil that drew an open door
You are the angel that lit up my hole

My mind was dehydrated
My heart was overworked
My inspiration was dry and
My will was strangled
You are the liquid that I needed
The day off that I was waiting for
The muse that was gone
The spirit that woke up my soul

we found each other
life found me again
before the needle came  less

Montclair, NJ acoustic Tour 2006
Chas Cronk, Dave Cousins, Dave Lambert
www.strawbsweb.co.uk

DON'T HANG AROUND


In case I read out loud
What I feel just get down
In case my tears just don't
Don't come out
Break my knee with a beer
With a beer bottle
I took a chance you took a punch
Spit your blood in   more...your astray
Go away
Just go away

We have to flip through this
We can not stay within
This circle is too small
To fit the both of us
Nothing else to talk about
Patience has just run out
I'm left again on my porch
On a stool without love

I have predicted our demise
I'm on the other side of the bridge
This time
We skipped a step and went
Right to the ripe stage
I took a chance you took a punch
spit your blood in your astray
Don't hang around
Just don't hang around

We have to flip through this
We can not stay within
This circle is too small
To fit the both of us
Nothing to talk about
Patience has just run out
I'm left again on my porch
On a stool without love

You're not helping here
Instead you're filling
All these rooms with thick smoke  less

NUMBERS


I don't think you realize what's happening
I put a penny in you take the cent and ask for a check
My words are being analyzed by the wrong side of your brain
I'm being hypnotized by your lack of mindfulness   more...

You memorize my mistakes and alphabetize them in your head
I don't understand why I'm still standing here
Hoping that you'll come down from your cloud

We just finished a race and you're already preparing for the next
Slow down we might have a chance to recover what
we left behind I run in circles inside
my room to untie
The stress that you ignite

You memorize my mistakes and alphabetize them in your head
I don't understand why I'm still standing here
Hoping that you'll come down from your cloud

I am not math I am not a puzzle
I am not math I am not a puzzle
I am words I am a note
I am words I am a note
So, why do you talk to me in numbers?

You memorize my mistakes and alphabetize them in your head
I don't understand why I'm still standing here
Hoping that you'll come down from your cloud  less

FOREPLAY


i'm gonna be your little soldier
you will give comands
and i will primly follow
i'm gonna be your little bell boy
i will bring you wine
wearing a kitchen towel

tonight i'll induce
pain without a knife
  more...tonight i'll abduct
your mind and your mouth
tonight i'll induce
pain

we are locked in this case
noone will bother us
nobody can save us
gonna burn your flesh
with my flames
that your body craves
and necessitates

tonight i'll induce
pain without a knife
tonight i'll abduct
your mind and your mouth
tonight i'll induce
pain

i'll be your colombian monkey
i will climb your tree
i will peel your skin  less

My favourite Jethro Tull's song

Folk - Rock 70's

Folk-rock 70's

Rock-folk 70's

An Original song I have been playing with for a few years. To My good friends in England, Gill and Rick, a very special wish for the future.....

Gorlycia - live from festival "Musicas do Mundo" 2007 (Portugal)

GET THE FUCK OUT

At first you showed
A timid face
You were looking for a wife
So that you could stay here

You seemed docile
And well rounded
But the costume you were wearing
Dilapidated quick

Get the fuck out   more...of our house
I don't wanna see your face
Get your greasy hair and hairy back
Away from this place

For twenty years
You walked New York
No dreams in mind
No goals at hand
No relatives near

You came in here
Full of air
Now you hit her child
You beat her up
And cheat on her

Get the fuck out of our house
I don't wanna see your face
Get your greasy hair and hairy back
Away from this place

Her view is tinted now
But soon she will break the glass
With her own hands

Get the fuck out of our house
I don't wanna see your face
Get your greasy hair and hairy back
Away from this place  less

WE DON'T BELONG TOGETHER


While waiting for you
To have our last talk
I glimpse at the bed
Where I once belonged
At a burned pan
At my smile on a portrait
At a scratch on a glass
At your coffee pot

I love you
  more...But our wires don't splice
I love you
But you and I are wise
Enough to realize
That we are two minds
That repel from each other
We just don't belong together

While waiting for you
I glimpse at the chair
Where we once made
Love for a while
Six years have passed
No, we don't fight
But we are more like
Brothers than lovers

I love you…

I will walk away
Before your knowledgeable hands
Change my mind
I will walk away
Before your tears take all
My clothes out of my suitcase  less