Music is the Soundtrack to Life

Category Songs

Second Time

This song is about second chances and not rolling over just because someone destroyed everything you had and who you were seen to be. Reputations, once destroyed are very difficult to redeem. Doors close and you may as well be… Continue Reading →

Living On The Edge (Of Time)

This song was written at the end of the last cold war, Sting had released Russians and Frankie Goes to Hollywood had released Two Tribes. People were getting arrested for protesting at Greenham Common and the future of the world… Continue Reading →

Won’t You Please Come Back

This is one of my favourite songs and was written back in 1983 and it has taken this long to finally release it and now you can find on Spotify, Amazon Music.iTunes. I was asked about this song recently and… Continue Reading →

Summer Days

Spending much of my early childhood in New Zealand made a big impression on me. The weather was good and the winter’s warmer. Out the back of where we lived in Auckland there was a little bamboo forest in which… Continue Reading →

To Be With You

“You see yourself, you see only faults” What do you say to the one you love, when they don’t believe that you want to be with them and that you want someone else? How many times to we have to… Continue Reading →

I’ve Got You Beat

When I was young, I saw things very much in black and white. I thought that I could protect myself with legal contracts and that people really cared about the truth but I found out that a legal contract is… Continue Reading →

Man With A Gun

I feel that this is one of my darkest songs, a song about a sadistic killer. I don’t know where the inspiration for song came from, I am hoping it was inspired by a movie that I watched and not something dark… Continue Reading →

I Need Your Love

When you feel that your world is falling apart as John Lennon wrote “Love is the Answer” The love from the people who love you can help you get through it. This song was written in such a time. Verse… Continue Reading →

Lost in the Night

Nothing worse than havin an argument at home and feeling there is nowhere to go. This song for all those who find themselves lost in the night trying to decide whether to run or stay. Verse OneHere I am, I’m… Continue Reading →

Killers in the Dark

There have been so many good movies about vigianties, serial murders that continue to tap into our fear of the night and what may lie there. All these movies imply that the police were under manned, that even when they… Continue Reading →

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