An awesome mix of cracking rock songs and deeply sensitive ballads tinged with a touch of new wave country. Imagine Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave getting together to write an album or two and youâd pretty much come up with âBound For Blueâ and âLive With Your Fearâ. Always lyrical, sensitive, sad, moody and then, suddenly uplifting, this is songwriting at its very, very best.

12 MP3 Songs in this album (50:50) !
Related styles: Rock: Americana, Country: Country Rock, Solo Male Artist

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WAR IS MAD

I love her
She loves me
Why canât we
All be free?
Are we blind?
Canât we see?

The soldiers only come
When we fail inside
When all is said and all is done
Itâs suicide
In this world of broken dreams
I must have heard a thousand screams
This wounded heart
Goes on and on and on and on

Girl loves boy
Boy loves girl
Why canât love
Rule the world?
Canât we leave
Our flags unfurled?

War is mad
War is dumb
We want peace
Not your guns
Watch them die
One by one

The soldiers only come
When we fail inside
When all is said and all is done
Itâs suicide
In this world of broken dreams
I must have heard a thousand screams
This wounded heart
Goes on and on and on and on

LIVE WITH YOUR FEAR

You can count all your lucky stars
Put your faith in Jupiter or Mars
You might own a lucky coin to toss
Walk the streets with all your fingers crossed
A crystal ball might make it all clear
If thatâs the way that you live with your fear

Now you might hear sweet Jesus in your head
Say your prayers at the bottom of your bed
You might think itâs you He loves the most
You can swear youâve seen the Holy Ghost
You might hope the end is near
If thatâs the way that you live with your fear

Well you can buy a fancy diamond ring
But pretty soon now it wonât mean a thing
You can hide all of your money and your gold
What the hell you can even sell your soul
You might never shed a tear
If thatâs the way that you live with your fear

A crystal ball might make it all clear
You might hope the end is near
You might never shed a tear
If thatâs the way that you live with your fear

WOMAN OF NUMBERS

Youâre a woman of numbers
Counting the cards in the pack
And Iâve heard there are rumours
That you have all the things that I lack

With your soft silky lace
And your fingers that chase
The shadows of fear from my brow
As we struggle and slip
And twist in the grip
Of loveâs longing so naked and proud
So naked and proud

Now I follow behind you
Iâm there wherever you go
And I heard that you loved me
But you just didnât want me to know

I had a dream in my bed
That our love was dead
It was broken beyond all desire
Slow motion, not a word
Everything blurred
I couldnât see it was like looking through fire
Like looking through fire

Now somewhere inside you
Thereâs a place where Iâve never been
And if you opened the doorway
I wonder would I step in

With your soft silky lace
And your fingers that trace
The shadows of fear from my brow
As we struggle and slip
And twist in the grip
Of loveâs longing so naked and proud

I had a dream in my bed
That our love was dead
It was broken beyond all desire
Slow motion, not a word
Everything blurred
I couldnât see it was like looking through fire
Like looking through fire

SAY YOU'LL BE MINE

Take off your red dress
Untie your bow
Move a little closer
And whisper low
Tell me that youâll
Never let me go

Come on
Say that youâll be mine
Come on
Say that youâll be mine

Iâll be your gypsy
Your lucky charm
Iâll bring you flowers
Iâll read your palm
Iâll hold you all night
In my loving arms

Come on
Say that youâll be mine
Come on
Say that youâll be mine

No one
Loves you like I do
No one
Will ever be so true

Give me your word now
(Donât break it)
Tell me you love me
(Donât fake it)
Iâll bring you poetry and rhyme

Come on
Say that youâll be mine
Come on
Say that youâll be mine

Come on
Say that youâll be mine
Come on
Say that youâll be mine

BALLAD OF THE LONESOME FARMER

My name it donât mean nothing at all
And you donât need to know
I built my house way up on the ridge
Before the winter snow

I worked those fields from dawn to dusk,
They took the sweat of my brow
I broke my back just staying alive
But I made it through somehow
Yeah I broke my back
But I made it through somehow

Come spring those flowers they broke in the fields
And I took my self to town
I saw her standing all alone
The sunlight on her gown

Well I courted her and I made her mine
I swore weâd have a life
When the summer came and the grass it grew high
I took her for my wife
Yeah the summer it came
And I took her for my wife

But everyone knows that love is a lie
Though itâs truer than many a fact
And everyone knows that true love must die
And you should never look back

One day from over the top of the hill
A handsome stranger came
My woman she donât say nothing at all
But I watched her just the same

He said that he was passing through
And soon be on his way
But Iâd seen that kind of man before
And I knew that he would stay
Yeah Iâd seen his kind
And I knew that he would stay

For everyone knows that love is a lie
Though itâs truer than many a fact
And everyone knows that true love must die
And you should never look back

By the broken bones of the old river bed
I found her in his arms
I knew that I had lost her then
A falling for his charms

Well a cold, cold rage came over me
My world it all went dark
In the blink of an eye I drew my gun
And the bullets found their mark
In the blink of an eye
The bullets found their mark

For everyone knows that love is a lie
Though itâs truer than many a fact
And everyone knows that true love must die
And you should never look back

Well I stood there staring at what I had done
Beneath a blood red sky
Then I dug a hole so deep you could see
To Hell and you could hear them cry

And I buried them there in that lonely grave
With both my guilty hands
And when at last the morning came
I went back to work my land
When the morning came
I went back to work my land
Yeah the morning came
And I went back to work my land

THE FEAR INSIDE

The shadows of your broken life
Come crawling in the night
You lie there with your heart on fire
Praying for the light

You try to run
But you canât hide
Pretty baby canât you see
Itâs just the fear inside

You tell your friends thereâs nothing new
Youâve seen it all before
You only speak to criticise
You say thereâs nothing more

You told the truth
But you still lied
Pretty baby canât you see
Itâs just the fear inside

One day youâll be dead and gone
But who will know your name
Sheltered in your loneliness
And sheltered from the pain

Well some things live
And some things die
Pretty baby canât you see
Itâs just the fear inside

PICK UP THE PHONE

Darling, please pick up the telephone
I need to hear your voice
Itâs lonely on the road tonight
And I need to make a choice

If you think that you still love me
Then please pick up the phone
And let me hear you say it girl
Or I may not go home alone

Thereâs a woman making eyes at me
And you know Iâm just a man
Sheâs as pretty as she needs to be
And sheâs doing all she can

Though I just want to be with you
Sheâs laughing a little more
Sheâs looking straight into my eyes
The waves are breaking on the shore

And my heart it is broken
From the words that weâve spoken
Where once it was open to thee
Do you ever get lonely?
When the night falls so slowly
Or am I the only one?

I never thought that we would be
The kind to lose our way
I always thought that we would be
Forever and a day

So darling, please pick up the phone
And let me know you care
You know Iâd drive a hundred thousand miles
If I knew that you were there

Though my heart it is broken
From the words that weâve spoken
Where once it was open to thee
Do you ever get lonely?
When the night falls so slowly
Or am I the only one?

Darling, please pick up the telephone
I need to hear your voice
Itâs lonely on the road tonight
And I need to make a choice

LOVE TRUTH SORROW AND BEAUTY

Will somebody love me?
Will somebody care?
For if love is surrender
Hell Iâm already there

You can love me in silence
You can love me in pain
When itâs dark and itâs lonely
And the night fills with rain

And love, truth, sorrow and beauty
Betrayal and trust, freedom and duty

You can love me in the poorhouse
Or in the palace of kings
In the cathedrals of power
Where the birds never sing

You can tell me Iâm crazy
You can say Iâm a fool
But Iâd sell you my soul
And Iâd break every rule

For love, truth, sorrow and beauty
Betrayal and trust, freedom and duty

And joy and despair, anger and laughter
Tears and revenge and promises eve rafter

Will somebody care?

SIX FEET DEEP

The days are falling
The days are falling one by one
The nights are calling
Here comes the setting of the sun

Six feet deep
Is where Iâm bound
Six feet deep
And a hole in the ground

Donât keep me waiting
Donât keep me waiting all night long
Oh pretty baby
Donât keep me hanging on and on

Six feet deep
Is where Iâm bound
Six feet deep
And a hole in the ground

Six feet deep
I swear Iâm bound
Six feet deep
And a hole in the ground

TOMORROW OR TODAY

Lover
Will you always be true?
Pretty lover
Can I depend on you?
Tomorrow or today
Are you gonna run away
From me?

Baby
Will everything go wrong?
Pretty baby
You know you get it then itâs gone
Oh tomorrow or today
Are you gonna run away
From me?

Lover
Will you hold me in your arms?
Pretty lover
Will you shelter me from harm?
Oh tomorrow or today
Are you gonna run away
From me?

FOREVERMORE

I saw you smiling
I had no choice
You called my name
A lonely voice
And when you touched me
Like no one had before
I knew Iâd love you
Forevermore

I canât deny
Iâve been around
But in this life
You know Iâve never found
Someone so beautiful
Someone worth living for
And I knew Iâd love you
Forevermore

And all my dreams
Were like the sun
The light was golden
The colours run
Into one

So long ago
And now youâre gone
And all I have
Is the comfort of this song
And just a memory
One moment on the shore
I thought youâd love me
Forevermore

ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE

My baby sheâs from Mexico
With me itâs hard to tell
Weâre riding down this highway into hell
Weâve left behind a thousand miles
Of sea and open land
As we make our way across the Rio Grande

Iâve been every kind of gambler
And every kind of fool
I guess Iâve broken each and every rule
Iâve cheated death a hundred times
Now a hundred times Iâm damned
As we make our way across the Rio Grande

You kill a man, well you got to pay
Then you kill to stay alive
But something deep inside of you just dies
Till in the end your only friend
Is the gun thatâs in your hand
As you make your way across the Rio Grande

Thereâs a bullet for my baby
Thereâs a bullet there for me
There ainât nobody running wild and free
I look into my babyâs eyes
I know she understands
As we make our way across the Rio Grande