Original Songs
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Red Wine Dreams
Album version. Crawling through tight tunnels, the sides pressing on my chest. The claustrophobia of red wine dreams. lyrics mp3

Looking Out Backwards
Album version. Looking out backwards. I hope that I'll see you there again. I go this way now and then. lyrics mp3

Closing My Eyes
Album version.I want to save the world but I don't know how. I'm closing my eyes. lyrics mp3

Give It Back
If it ain't quite broke then don't quite fix it. You borrowed it. Now give it back. lyrics mp3

Perfect World
Album version. It's so easy telling other people what to do.It's different for them - they aren't as smart as you. Just remember it is a perfect world. Don't you think? Well, don't you think?lyrics mp3

Justify Myself
Album version. Think how good it would be not to worry about what nasty people say. Going over it in your head, to reassure yourself goes on until you find a way out. Find a way out now! lyrics mp3

Cluttered Mind
Album version. The mind is like a junk room, storing up attachments to stuff you will never use. lyrics mp3

Strange Land
Album version.Inspired by a Wyndham Lewis book set in the afterlife. Two arrivals have to sort out what is happenning. The book's descriptions are such an alternative viewpoint, that they seem as real as any religious story. So, there is another world written by a strange man. lyrics mp3

Hard To Do
Album version. Politics doesn't make people lovable. It is worth making some effort to purify your talk and your thought. It's hard to do. lyrics mp3

Mark On The Stage
Album version. There is an inner and an outer way in the world. Regardless of which you take, there is a possibility of making a difference. Coming of age, making a mark on the stage that we live on. lyrics mp3

Good Like I Say
Album version. Another reference in this case to Wyndham Lewis although any superb author would do. If a book can make you really consider new possibilities, then it blurrs the borderline with reality and shifts it a bit. Who put it there anyway? lyrics mp3

Resistance
Album version. Whether you are a native or a corporate citizen, you will be conquered. Keep your head down. They will have to go home eventually - won't they? lyrics mp3

Basement
A song conceived and written in a basement when I didn't feel like being anywhere or doing anything. I came to realise that these times when it is all up in the air, are potentially valuable creative periods if we can recognise them and hang in there. One day I will find an alternative to "the world on top of you". lyrics mp3

Analogous Journey
At the top of a mountain you can see a lot. A lot of what? There is an emotional analogy for mountain climbing or is it modern love? lyrics mp3

Stressed Out Town
I was sitting in my front room one rainy day and I heard a ludicrous sound. Someone was running to the train in short, quick steps in clacky shoes, obviously risking an accident in the the pursuit of fashion and timeliness.
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You Know the Night
Written at Woodford 2007 to highlight the gulf between thought and action. lyrics

Real People
A song that has been reincarnated twice so far. It is one side of a conversation with someone who thinks they know better than what I do about life. It builds to a rebellious peak and then quietens down again.
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Fires & Things
This started life as a sweet little song about my acceptance of mortality, but then Bob Dylan came to me in a dream and told me to get serious. lyrics mp3

Government
This song describes the shortcomings of the government and their ability to punish their detractors. It is an angry song based on real experience. lyrics normal mp3 heavy mp3

Nothing Ever Happens
At first listen, you might pick this as a sacreligious ditty. In a moment of deep thought, I allowed myself to contemplate the reality of the world without the dogma, and, to my surprise, I felt different. Life seemed empty. It was then that I realised that if you strip away layers of meaning for yourself and others, you might notice the lack. Try it yourself. lyrics mp3

Desert Soundtrack
An instrumental soundtrack for a possible American road movie in Arizona.mp3

Hats Off
A song about being concerned with deeper things, and ignoring the pressure of those around you and just going towards what you know feels right.
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Throw It All Away
A nihilistic song which ends in a big word and has some nice chords in the middle. lyrics mp3

Pool Hall Situation
Real events at a Prostitutes and Police Ball at Burke's Hotel - no, not really. lyrics mp3

Pictures In The Magazine
There are millions of magazines. They are all crap.
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Nothing At All
There is a retreat where life's problems reduce to nothing. lyrics mp3

All words & music by Graham Gorrie

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