Dusty Moved On

When I said I needed you

You said you would always stay

I thought I made it plain to you

That you can't play away




Don't you see that now you're gone

And I'm left here all alone

Don't you realise that I

Am better on my own




Don't you dare to say you love me

Don't you hold my hand

Don't think you can come back ever

I have other plans

Believe me

Believe me

I no longer love you

And you'll never keep me down




Left alone with just a memory

But day by day I will heal

Until there is no loneliness

I'll learn again to feel




Don't you dare to say you love me

Don't you hold my hand

Don't think you can come back ever

I have other plans

Believe me

Believe me




Don't you dare to say you love me

Don't you hold my hand

Don't think you can come back ever

I have other plans

Believe me

Believe me

Incy Wincy - Verse 2

Incy wincy spider

Tempted by the sun

Climbed up the spout

But before the climb was done

Down came the snows

And froze his spider toes

Now that we have climate change

That's the way it goes

Cairn

The engine cools for the last time
At the side of the road in the rain
Four empty jerricans and watery silence
Land's End to John O'Groats - almost

Three billion revolutions stilled
Now I am re-evaluating
The car burns to ashes at the side of the road
And I walk away into the trees

Two hundred and forty eight thousand tears
Were mostly shed just to keep my eyes clean
If you live to 100 you may sail on the seas
But I must go walk in the trees

The Hypocondriac

Nobody listens & nobody sees

The afflictions that bring a man to his knees

He said as around the market he raced

And then loaded his car in the disabled space

Nobody cares, it's not cheap to be ill

He said it before, he's saying it still

As he sups up his beer and drags again hard

On his fag while he scratches a lottery card

I don't ask a lot, just what is my right

And my worries, they keep me awake in the night

He exclaimed and then belched and patted his belly

Before falling asleep in front of the telly

He murmured 'I think I may die in the night'

As chance would have it he was quite right

In spite, or because, of all he had said

When he woke up - he was dead

Elephant Predicament

I sat at peace contented

With the world at one

Dozing in the afternoon 

Soaking up the sun 

A shadow overshadowed me

Warmth and sunlight gone 

Suddenly it was as if

The sun no longer shone

I started up in panic

All at once awake 

But all I saw was pachyderm

All else became opaque 

I prodded at the pachyderm

It put up no fight

But merely turned itself around 

And poohed on me from height

Stunned beneath a pile of pooh

I shouted out 'not fair' 

The elephant stared at the sky

As though I wasn't there

I shouted louder at the brute

Until it noticed me

I hoped that it would move along

But all it did was pee

In the depths of my despair

I willed the elephant not there

But all my wishing was in vain

The pachyderm remained

In the end all I could do

Was resign myself to life in pooh

Sat beneath the tusker's bum

Never more to see the sun

I wept and slept and woke again

In expectation of more pain

But to my complete surprise

The sun was shining in the skies 

Elephants come and then they go

Nobody can tell them 'no' 

They are of no fixed abode 

Wait long enough - they hit the road 

So if you're sunk deep in pooh

And there's nothing you can do

When elephants trespass en masse

Remind yourself - this too will pass