New Song: Graveyard

If I croak in the graveyard will you just leave me there?
Would you mourn our love? Could you feel my hot chill in the air?
Would it leave you in a lonely nightmare?

Or would you find a sweet time in some floozy's hair?
While you're courting her would you lose yourself in the naughty affair?
Could you forget my touch after all these years?

While I'm rolling over the worms will play
So I'm rolling over cause a 'good girl' knows her place

Oh dear Anna
Didn't know that you had it in ya
Oh dear Anna
Can you forgive me one day?

When me and my spooks are alone we entertain ourselves with a game
Betting who's up first with some Abbott and Costello gag
The 'where' or 'who' is gonna land 'what' dame?

While I'm rolling over the worms will play
So I'm rolling over cause a 'good girl' knows her place

Oh dear Anna
Didn't know that you had it in ya
Oh dear Anna
Can you forgive me one day?

I'm laying stiff and the coroner arrived too late at the scene
I've departed and there's nothing she can do to save me
You better beg her for the happy ending

While I'm rolling over his worms will play
So I'm rolling over cause this 'good girl' knows her place

Oh dear Anna
Didn't know that you had it in ya 
Oh dear Anna
Can I forgive you one day?

A Democratic Approach to Songwriting

Yup. I wrote this song some months ago and moments before going live on PBS's The Playlist, the whole band got to vote on the name, as I wasn't too keen on the original. "Sweet Escape" it is.

Sweet Escape

Batten down your buoy and your green breeches
Then tie me a Windsor or an Oysterman’s
We’ll cast off and I’ll hold your heading
While you worry if she’s seaworthy
Is she seaworthy?

We shouldn't have sailed but you didn’t belay
Now the burdened vessel has to give right-of-way
So I trusted you to navigate
But you marooned me in a mirage that fades
Our mirage that fades

I didn’t have the time to see
That your pirates like a quick release
I didn’t have the time to see
That your pirates will just cut me free
Then make their sweet escape

Adrift in your wake when I was capsized
Where I once was wet the girls run dry
I’m washed up, crashed upon your shore
Drowning in your tide no more
In your tide no more

I didn’t have the time to see
That your pirates only quick release
I didn’t have the time to see
That your pirates will just cut me free
Then make their sweet escape

Lost in your cockpit
I’m a whore for you
Muster the captain
And gather the crew
All hands on deck
Cause I’m bleeding blue
The sharks in the water
Now what will you do?
Will you do?

I didn’t have the time to see
That your pirates like a quick release
I didn’t have the time to see
That your pirates will just cut me free
Then make their sweet escape

While I'm down on all fours
You'll make your sweet escape