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Walk a Crooked Mile

by Joseph Boyle

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1.
Leave your broken baggage on the track behind you Leave them with your worries of the day I’ll take you up to where your cares will never find you Daylight trip along the Milky Way Sign on for a jungle ride of non stop wonder Time inside a paraglide of flashing thunder A cavalcade an esplanade a sanctuary if you want to stay Won’t somebody join me take a chance on my rocking horse rollercoaster Give me more just a passing glance at my rocking horse rollercoaster The morning will climb And the daylight will shine over your eyes Don’t just stand there looking at the sun roll over Waiting for the light to fade away Wasting time just hoping for a four leaf clover That’s never ever going to come your way Find yourself a cloud to fit this silver lining Your future’s more than bright it’s positively shining Adventure time is not tomorrow it’s already waiting here today so Won’t somebody join me………. Make yourself get off that shelf and grab a song sheet Sing out loud and give it strongest voice Don’t worry if your dancing shoes are on the wrong feet Nobody will notice in the noise Feel yourself adapting to a new sensation Pressure to impress with your imagination Find yourself deciding there’s no need to keep on hiding what you feel Won’t you come and join me………
2.
Iscariot 05:32
Now is when I could bring it back again Lost from long ago a sentimental friend And be inside complete an ordinary man For all the world to see me as I really am An ordinary man an ordinary man Now is when I should try to make amends Behave exactly as they all would recommend Be famed acclaimed the one who’s willing to confess Take full responsibility admissions under stress A fool and nothing less a fool and nothing less Now is when I could bring it to an end Complete the final page before they can pretend To know events which sent the thoughts around my head Illustrating with quotations from things I’ve never said Fantasies instead fantasies instead
3.
Magdalen 03:30
Things that once were so important Things in life that were a constant Suddenly obliterated simply blown away All those friends and true believers Victims of some cruel deceivers All for nothing all is lost or is there still a way They’ve taken all her dreams away Won’t listen when she tries to say It doesn’t matter anyway That she will always be Magdalen Magdalen Never slow to understanding But without her soulmate bonding Finds herself alone and drifting lost and floating free Not in sight but always watching Arrows loose but there for notching Catching strangers looking at her quickly look away Once in focus of the crowd Name no longer spoken loud Yet her gaze is still unbowed She will always be Magdalen Magdalen Gradually reconstructing Some might say she’s contradicting Their instruction to desist from radical decree She will brook no hostile rival Engineer her own survival Spark contagious flame revival plain for all to see All remember what she said Simply drawn in what we’ve read Inspiration bannerhead She will always be Magdalen Magdalen
4.
Soldier 03:38
I lived in a town Where the rain fell up and down I was never quite sure If there was a sun at all Or if night was really day Which was black Or which was grey But I knew where I was I had all the answers Strangers on a beach Communicating without speech They were sitting in the wind Looking at the sea go by Lost at sea a ship of fools Life on earth without the rules But I knew where I was I had all the answers Hardly then much older Pack upon his shoulder The hero goes To save some other nation From their own damnation By spreading woes No one to blame For the blind the crippled and the lame But the tears in my eyes Were impossible to disguise One upon the other In a manner unbecoming To a soldier I live in a town Where the rain falls up and down And I’m never quite sure If there is a sun at all Which is night which is day Which is black which is grey But I know where I am I have all the questions
5.
Icicles 03:49
Snowflakes are floating high Falling in the grey of a winter sky Covering gently pencil trees Etching on sketching that nobody sees Log cabin fires crackle a simple little song But icicles shine in your eyes Making the day too long Snowman sleepy face Tangerine sun in an icy haze Watch the children play on ice Woolly warm and looking very nice Smoke up curling Christmas coming bells go ring a ding a dong But icicles shine in your eyes Making the day too long Sometimes in the darkness I can hear the snow Somewhere in the afterlight of sunset show I can see the gentle whisper of approaching night Imagine how it flickers in the candlelight Taste the silence of the sifting sand Wonder at the customs of a distant land But morning comes too soon for me to understand Gold and silver softest glow Sound of sleigh bells mistletoe Welcome all who come from miles Out of darkness brightest smiles Eggnogs singing dancing hugs Come join the merry little throng But icicles shine in your eyes Making the day too long
6.
Retro 03:10
You’re Taylor with much more style A Garland a Garbo or a Norma Jean Bergman with Jane Russell smile A Hedy Lamar that they’ve never seen Kermode’s your new valentine But despite his impressive review I’m making the movie on a different line Killing the ending with you Your stills are a technical dream You’ve always been seen in the kindest light Your skills are no more than they seem Expressions of darkness by candlelight Whenever the neon lights shine Your name is the first to come through But I’m making the movie in a different line Killing the ending with you I’ve heard all the critics agree The story without you can only die But where do you think we would be If only the vultures had learned to fly Razamataz is divine but razamataz isn’t new So I’m making the movie on a different line
7.
Chronicle 02:42
Day began in the darkest hour of the night But we were soon long And far away from where we had started out at first light The weak and the strong And we closed our eyes to the raging skies And tears of thunder rain We closed our eyes to the raging skies And tears of thunder rain But soon the distance we’d gained Began to mean less for some had remained Among the trees alone and afraid Unable to move we left them dismayed And we knew the emptiness of a day without sunlight And we knew the emptiness of a day without sunlight Now as never before the wisdom of hope Can lead us no more our time has come The night has begun The shadows will rise but never the sun And we know the emptiness of a day without sunlight And we know the emptiness of a day without sunlight
8.
Give yourself the time it takes To read the magazine that makes the world go round But spare yourself the problem pages You and I could shame them all You and I Platform porter silent thinker Daydream dancer coffee drinker No one smiles Attention please loud speaker grating On your way London’s waiting No goodbyes Midnight London Midnight London Tomorrow’s chimes can seem so far away from yesterday And summer skies seem always to be blue But sun on a clear day won’t shine in a subway And crowds become clouds over you Almost on the point of talking Mind on fire but dead man walkng Stares ahead Summer but it feels like winter Conversation icy splinter Hangs unheard Focus on the destination Must avoid an altercation Tact required Chance now gone for explanation Leaving hopeless desperation Time expired Midnight London Midnight London Midnight London now leaving Midnight London now leaving Midnight London now leaving
9.
We are bound for a greater glory Through storm and hail we will prevail Times to come will tell the story Of how the hardship of the day Became our lanterns all along the way Through the darkness to the dawn Of a beautiful day Rivers will run where mountains have crumbled Heroes will rise with shields of fire Eagles will fly where dragons have tumbled From the battlefields of the skies To join our demons with all of their lies In the darkness of a world Without freedom or love If our strength should stumble or stall If our courage falter or fall Then together shoulder to shoulder we will stand Till our hope recovers and shines Till our faith reinforces our lines And by standing all together we can deal with any weather and move on hand in hand We are bound……………..

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Following on from Moonstone, Walk a Crooked Mile is the continuing musical story of Joseph's recovery, with its many facets – exuberance; guilt; confusion; loss; sadness; bitterness; broken relationships; black humour; ecological awareness; and difficult communication. The album has been inspired by gospel music and the Temperance Movement.

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released July 20, 2017

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Joseph Boyle Scotland, UK

Singer songwriter who uses music to aid his recovery from alcohol problems.

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