tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78717512011-04-21T14:59:02.562-07:00You'll find the lyrics to some of the songs I've written here - some you might recognise from Me and Bobby gigs and recordings, others may be a bit more obscure. I'll start with a few M&B live favourites, but I'll keep adding more as I remember them. All lyrics copyright b. williamsBobbynoreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871751.post-1091741328422337252005-03-01T15:18:00.000-08:002005-03-07T15:10:53.966-08:00It's September in the park and I'm swinging in the rain<br />You know I have no favourite season, I just love it when they change<br />And I'm holding onto you 'cause I can't let go again<br />Though the sun breaks through the icy air and lights us on our way<br />Our shadows and the nights are growing longer by the day<br />And I'm holding onto you 'cause I can't let go again<br />No I can't let go again<br /><br />What are you thinking for?<br />It's not supposed to make sense anyway<br />I'll only need you more<br />So don't try and make sense of it<br />Don't try and make sense of it<br />Don't try...<br /><br />I can feel you pull away from me when I'm trying to explain<br />And your words are drying up while mine are coming down like rain<br />Have we really come this far just to go right back again?<br />It's like in the beginning when you don't know what to say<br />But now the nervousness is negative, the excitement's gone away<br />And by holding onto you I'm driving you away<br />I'm driving you away<br /><br />What are you thinking for?<br />It's not supposed to make sense anyway<br />I'll only need you more<br />So don't try and make sense of it<br />Don't try and make sense of it<br />Don't try...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7871751-109174132842233725?l=septembersongs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bobbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871751.post-1110236860343804662005-02-27T15:03:00.000-08:002006-03-13T08:20:35.410-08:00In this recurring dream<br />you are still around<br />it brings me back again<br />the stillness that we found<br />you squeeze my sleepy heart<br />and I flicker like a leaf<br />then gently fall apart....<br />in delicate relief<br /><br />In this sweet lucid state<br />a minute lasts all night<br />but I lose you if I wake<br />the window is so slight<br />I kiss your lips just once,<br />lose all sense of time<br />and then you leave me here...<br />lost in lilac wine<br /><br />I try to follow you<br />but slide into the light:<br />a holy hollow truth<br />shining through the night<br />I pull you to the ground<br />as darkness falls away<br />but morning brings me round...<br />and I lose you to the day<br /><br />Night after night I dream about you<br />but day after day I wake without you<br />and time after time I lose you all over again<br /><br />though dreams are not to keep<br />at least there's one to chase<br />for as long as I can sleep...<br />I can see your face<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7871751-111023686034380466?l=septembersongs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bobbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871751.post-1091742070609315802004-08-05T14:35:00.000-07:002004-08-05T15:02:14.163-07:00I've been chasing circles round somewhere inside <br />Trying to put places to the faces I find <br />If I keep my eyes so tightly closed in the bloody black <br />I can see your ghost and I can bring you back <br /> <br />I forget more faces than I'll ever know <br />My memory replaces them in the overflow <br />But remembering your gentle voice as it calls to me <br />You roll through all the endless noise like mercury <br /> <br />I've been feeling lost inside since we're apart <br />But I know what's been on your mind - and what's in your heart <br />If I keep my eyes so tightly closed in the bloody black <br />I can see your ghost and I can bring you back <br /> <br />I've been chasing circles round somewhere inside <br />Trying to put places to the faces I find <br />Remembering your gentle voice as it calls to me <br />The world is flat, the stars are falling to the sea<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7871751-109174207060931580?l=septembersongs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bobbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871751.post-1091743254551719942004-08-05T13:48:00.000-07:002004-09-23T16:53:49.820-07:00Another monday opens up and blinking I am born again <br />Another weekend put to bed, of drinking and of hurricane <br />I don't believe today's the same as any other day that came <br />And woke us from our heady sleep to throw us screaming in the street <br /> <br />But you and I <br />Capsized in tides of blankets again tonight <br />You and I, capsized <br /> <br />The first sunlight of the year is falling through the window now <br />And all our dreams just disappear, but who believed them anyhow? <br />And is it such a waste to stay inside and never taste the day <br />When everything I love's so near and I can feel the sunshine here? <br /> <br />You and I <br />Capsized in tides of blankets again tonight <br />You and I, capsized <br /> <br />You are by my side and I lie broken like a battleship <br />And everytime I break the tide, it's sweetened by your fingertips <br />If everything I love's so near and sleeping softly by me <br />Then I can feel the sunshine here, for it will always find me <br /> <br />You and I <br />Capsized in tides of blankets again tonight <br />You and I, capsized<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7871751-109174325455171994?l=septembersongs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bobbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871751.post-1091743885695753952004-08-05T13:08:00.000-07:002004-08-05T15:12:08.980-07:00I'm going back to the mountain <br />Where you and I first met <br />It's snowing and the wind is blowing <br />And my hands are frozen <br />And the road is wet <br /> <br />It takes me back to when I used to be <br />The one with everything ahead of me <br />Now I'm not lonely anymore <br /> <br />'Cause I'm going back to the mountain <br />Where you and I were one <br />I'm an old man and the frostbite's deadly <br />But I've got my memories <br />to keep me warm <br /> <br />It takes me back to when I used to see <br />The world the way I wanted it to be <br />Now it's not for me anymore <br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7871751-109174388569575395?l=septembersongs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bobbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871751.post-1091745857690109062004-08-05T12:41:00.000-07:002004-08-05T15:44:33.310-07:00I've got a few friends left <br />I can do without one less <br />And I know I'm mad at you <br />But I'll take you back <br />If you can say you don't know Jack <br />And that he don't know you too <br /> <br />'Cause you've got to be with me <br />And I've got to be with you <br />'Cause there's nothing else that we can do <br /> <br />Well I'm a desperate guy <br />And I can turn a blind eye <br />And forget what I just saw <br />You make me feel so small <br />But I can't afford to lose it all <br />It'll be just like before <br /> <br />'Cause you've got to be with me <br />And I've got to be with you <br />'Cause there's nothing else that we can do<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7871751-109174585769010906?l=septembersongs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bobbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871751.post-1091744353733909512004-08-05T12:16:00.000-07:002004-08-05T15:21:22.113-07:00You haven't been around in a while <br />And it seems like years <br />Since I last saw your smile <br />I know I'm the one who's been acting strange <br />But this is the year for things to change <br /> <br />I haven't been around like I said I would <br />Now it's hard to prove <br />my intentions are good <br />I know I'm the one who's been acting strange <br />But this is the year for things to change <br /> <br />I know I'm the one who's been acting strange <br />But there's still time for things to change<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7871751-109174435373390951?l=septembersongs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bobbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871751.post-1142608737467322572004-05-07T07:17:00.000-07:002006-03-17T07:23:17.453-08:00I will always be<br />Waiting for you so patiently<br />A half-heard melody<br />Singing to you across the sea<br /><br />The closer I get<br />The further you seem<br />Shrinking like memories<br />Floating downstream<br />How can something so big<br />Be suddenly small<br />From my everything<br />To nothing at all<br /><br />There will always be<br />A sadness that sings so beautifully<br />A story we could be<br />Laid out like fate in front of me<br /><br />The closer I get<br />The further you seem<br />Shrinking like memories<br />Floating downstream<br />How can something so big<br />Be suddenly small<br />From my everything<br />To nothing at all<br /><br />My sweet fantasy<br />Burning like pride inside of me<br />Will you always be<br />Turning my tide, my silent sea<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7871751-114260873746732257?l=septembersongs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bobbynoreply@blogger.com0