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Paul Churchill
Taken from his notes and song books. Tales of an Itinerant Troubadour Just another street cowboy
With a thousand dirty riffs
Guitar man
Sitting around, watching the sky Feeling happy, sweet as pie Unknown, no title Traffic lights shimmer
Beneath ozone glimmer
Radio sulphate
Tunes, 24 hours
Pirate radio
Across nuclear airwaves
Summer in Suburbia
Late September couldnt quite remember The time or hour or you my wild flower Indian Summer Falling Down On Me Povertys a state of mind Inflicted by the rich Lifes so sweet baby Its just money thats a bitch I can hear the angels singing I can touch the stars they're laughing I can see the rain its falling Falling down on me I have no bread just cake I need love to exist Twenty years on the city streets Twenty more to resist The empty eyes of those who died No entry no reply Temperatures rising body hurting Its time, time to fly Mary Joe It seems like ages Felt like a thousand years She was a princess, an angel of duress She was a countess, a perfect fantasy In the darkness she would come to me Singing soothe away the heartache, forget the misery And when the pain would rise to take our very life She would kneel beside with kind heart and sharpened knife Oh Mary Joe How the wild wind she blows On a winters night when we were starved of light She would sing the rebel songs And how I would rejoice to hear her voice And find peace at last And when our bones are old, our loins no fruit will hold I will gladly walk the black lands For I know harmony and I know melody So I shall sleep the true sleep at last Next To Me I come cheap, in fact I'm free I'll try anything to get you next to me Ill try love, Ill try money Ill try my luck, you're good for my vanity You're all I want You're all I need So dont bite, the hand that feeds Next to me Feeling good, feeling fine Come drink with me, this sweet french wine So take a seat, sit right down Welcome to the lost and found I might seem cynical, but I've a heart of gold It might seem clinical, a little too cold But youve got to understand you've got to see Live hard baby, you die free Just a Fool I was running so fast I could not see I was running so fast I hit the big oak tree She said boy you'd better sort yourself out Otherwise youll be falling off the roundabout Well I went looking for the seven veils Sent my love in the morning mail I went up on the seven hills Seven days later I took my pills The nights they come around too soon Cant cure the madness under the silvery moon So I got a gun and shot myself Im a firm believer in private health Cant Stand This Place I cant stand this place anymore Cant stand this place when I'm feeling down I stooped to the floor, picked up my halo Had another drink walked out the door Work all the hours god sends Aint comin back, wont pretend Dictate my letters in French I'm a realist, gonna survive As I stumble out those factory gates Nearly broken but still alive When I get home cant face the situation Four walls and a lover dont love me anymore Shes cold and conditioned, I cant find the exit, I cant find the door Suburban Frankenstein Insipid, transfixed I howl at the moon Morning glory, faded twilight Too much too soon Another day Its the modern way Semi-detached White kleenex relax Suburban Frankenstein My dear Lower the veil Casear hail Respect no man Lost in your supermarket lust The History of the Gentlemen "With all the panache of an exploding supernova" (as documented by Paul in song books, but his diaries reveal this just scratches the surface of his writing. many pieces had no titles) Chapter 1 1983 - Remember Me Chapter 2 1984 - Dear Lord, Where Were You Baby?, Mon Cheri, Judgement Day, Money Come in Rent Go Out, A Gentlemans Blues Chapter 3 1985 - Mona Blue, I, Prostitute, On a Wing and a Prayer, Shes Mine, A Love Thats Blind Chapter 4 1986 - You Were Too Good For Me, Sex Police, Sealed With a Kiss, Chapter 5 1987 - Jimmy Glass, Like You Did Before, I Cant Stand This Place Chapter 6 1988 - Just a Fool, Like a New Suit, Before the Summer Comes, A Condition of Madness (Mary Joe), Next to Me, Falling Down Chapter 7 1989 - The Last Train From Bangkok, Postcard From Hell, It Doesnt Really Matter, Go West Young Man, Had to Tell Somebody, Rage Hard, Sweet Lorraine, Salamander the Snake, Indian Summer, Love has Cast Its Spell, How's Love gonna Find Me, You Stole My Heart Chapter 8 1990 - Its a Mystery (Cheap Side Store Misery), Right By My Side, Broken Love, Living in the City, Destroy Yourself, Tale From the Midnight Sun, Sinful Man, Spike, Only My Lovers Left Alive, Whos Next, Let He Who has Sinned Chapter 9 1991 - Just Another Day, I Got Somebody, Dead Things, Running to Mother, Death, Rattle, Shake, Angel Obscene, The Sickness (Sad Bastard) Chapter 10 1992 - Learning to Live Together, Father, Lead Me From Paradise, Guardian Angel, Better Men Than I, Guitar Man, After the Fire, One of a Kind Chapter 11 1993 Somewhere in Africa, Where the Buffalo Roam, Chapter 12 1994 - The Fragile One Chapter 14 1996 Travellin Down the Road, 617, My Womans Walked Out on Me, Hide My Tears, Return of the Stranger, Boring Old Junkie Storys, Walking In The Shadow, The Drowning Man and Downer King, Machinoix, Silver and Gold (angel), Salt and Blood, Dying by Degrees, Walt Whitman Chapter 15 1997 A Poor Mans Hands, Indigo Girls, Cheap Suits, Dying By Degrees, Call Me Walt Whitman, Multi-National Motherfucker, The Drowning Man and the Downer King, Ode to a Black Man, Psalm 23 Walking in the Valley, Dark Eyed Sympathy, Dont Shed no Tears, The Long Riders, Finery and Fleas, Sex and War, Jonny Winter Illustrated Man He didnt document the chapters like this after 97, but did continue writing, I may try and make sense of the books and reams of paper and complete the chapters, here's a few bits tho Summer 99 - Oh Happy Morning, N'ajafe N'Gai (The House of God), Chains, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Summer in Suburbia Sometime later - Subliminal Hum of Modern Day Living, In Golden Temples, Rock and Roll Mantra, Proud Mary, Sixteen Tons, Cigarettes and Whisky, If, One Wise Woman: Two Wise Me, How Many Miles to Babylon, A Little Glimpse, The Swagger, Fire Horse, From Cinder to Spark,
A Few Things Paul Was Working on Recently (In addition to University Work) Hesitation Cut, Suit of Bones, The Approximate Man, Ozone and Gabriel, Remember When We Had an Umbrella for Two |
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