Life Can Be A Party

The painting that introduces this song was painted by pre-Raphaelite artist, William Holman Hunt, in 1851.

It is called 'The Hireling Shepherd.'

I wrote 'Life Can Be A Party' in 1989. This version was recorded at home in late 2023 using an Apple computer and Apple's Garageband technology.

"Hey there, brother, with your sorrowful face,
The world can be a difficult place.
But why would you worry what the future will do,
When all of your worries may never come true.

Though the world be full of trouble and strife,
With the bad guys bearing down on life,
Stand up for yourself and seize the day
And gather those rosebuds while you may.

Life can be a party.
Life can be a party.
Life Can be a party
If you don't let the bad guys get you down.
Life Can be a party,
If you don't let the bad guys get you down.

Hey there, sister, all misty-eyed,
There's a great big, beautiful world outside,
So you lost your lover to a good time girl,
You'a ll alone and it hurts like hell.

Well, I promise you, baby, before you know,
The best of times will whisper low,
'There's ten good guys for every bad
And they're out there waiting to be had!'

Life can be a party.
Life can be a party.
Life Can be a party
If you don't let the bad guys get you down.
Life Can be a party,
If you don't let the bad guys get you down.

Wake up, it's a beautiful morning.
Wake up, and behold the light,
And though troubles come without any warning,
Everything's gonna be,
Just you wait and see,
Everything's gonna be alright.
The joys of life are infinite.

Life can be a party.
Life can be a party.
Life Can be a party
If you don't let the bad guys get you down.
Life Can be a party
If you don't let the bad guys get you down."

YOU'RE LYING!

Within the video you will see an engraving of Adam and Eve  tempted by the Serpent in the Garden of Eden.

This can be found in the 1504 edition of 'Methodus Primum Olimpiade.' 

'Honey, I see the way the wind is blowing,

I can't help but wonder just where our love is going.'
We've been together a good long time,
I know your little ways and you know mine
And I can tell when you're holding something back,
You're way out somewhere on a different tack.

You want me to think it's all in my mind,
You're not the sly and cheating kind
And when you get home late, well, I'm not to worry
But you can't stop now 'cos you're in a hurry
Well, what kind of a fool do you take me for?
I don't believe you any more.

You're lying!
You're lying!
You're lying to me!

Out playing your games right round the clock,
You made my name a laughing stock.
I'm just the fool who pays the bills
While someone else provides the thrills.
Love had me blind to your wicked way
But I'm wiser now and now you're gonna pay!

You're lying!
You're lying!
You're lying to me!

Bitterness is all I feel.
I can't tell what's right but I know what's real.
No truth, no guidance from above,
Not one helping hand,
No love.
There'll be no justice here.
I'm gonna put that right
Tonight.

All good things come to their end,
Goodbye my fair weather friend.
Much better that we part this way
Thank let it go another day.
You may protest your innocence,
I'd like to believe you but I can't take the chance.

I know you're lying!
You're lying!
You're lying to me!

Oh, baby you're lying!
You're lying!
You're lying to me!

You're lying!
You're lying!
You're lying to me!'

Only Child

Wrote 'Only Child' in 1974. 

Recorded this version in 2012.

Who Are You?

'Who Are You' was written in 1985 and recorded on a sequencer and a 4-track cassette in 1991.

THE DOGGIE SONG

The video was created by Shayumi at Fiverr - https://www.fiverr.com/shayumi

The song was written in 1970 and this version was created by yours truly in 2022.

"The piggies are out to get me, that much is pretty clear.
They'd like to see me toasting with a chestnut in each ear.
Wine, dine, undermine, politicians all,
They'll offer you two free tickets to the local porker ball.
But woe betide the innocent who falls into the trap.
I know lots who've been but not one that ever came back.
They're off to the funny factory, that's where they've been taken.
I'm looking through you, piggies, and all i see is bacon (Bacon, bacon, streaky bacon)

I'm in love with my doggie, (bow wow) diddle-ee-day!
I'm in love with my doggie, (bow wow) diddle-ee-day!
I'm in love with my doggie, (bow wow) diddle-ee-day!
I'm in love with my doggie, (bow wow) diddle-ee-day!
(Bow-wow-wow-wow-wow-wow - Bow-wow-wow-wow-wow)
I'm in love with my doggie, (bow wow) diddle-ee-day!

My doggie, doggie, my doggie, Ronnie, never let's me down.
The piggies keep their distance whenever he's around.
But, if they see me on my own they'll dress up to the nines,
Put on lots of make up to hide their dirty minds.
But a fashionable hairdo will not make them look pretty.
A well cut, tailored suit can't make a silk purse from a piggie.

I'm in love with my doggie, (bow wow) diddle-ee-day!
I'm in love with my doggie, (bow wow) diddle-ee-day!
I'm in love with my doggie, (bow wow) diddle-ee-day!
I'm in love with my doggie, (bow wow) diddle-ee-day!
(Bow-wow-wow-wow-wow-wow - Bow-wow-wow-wow-wow)
I'm in love with my doggie, (bow wow) diddle-ee-day!

Suckling piggie and a glass of wine;
Front row seats at the pantomime;
Doggie from the doggie shop, he's all mine.
What more could you want at Christmastime?
What more could you want at Christmastime?

I'm in love with my doggie, (bow wow) diddle-ee-day!
I'm in love with my doggie, (bow wow) diddle-ee-day!
I'm in love with my doggie, (bow wow) diddle-ee-day!
I'm in love with my doggie, (bow wow) diddle-ee-day!
(Bow-wow-wow-wow-wow-wow - Bow-wow-wow-wow-wow)
I'm in love with my doggie, (bow wow) diddle-ee-day!"

Let's Go Bang!

'Let's Go Bang' was written in 1989 and recorded three years later in an attic room in West Hampstead, London.

What Did I Do?

I wrote 'What Did I Do' in 1974 and recorded this version at home in February 2017.

TOMCAT

The 'B' Side of 'Hey You! (Get Out Of My Bed)' was composed three years earlier for 'a musical' I wrote that was never produced. 

The 'Tomcat' character, a dark presence within it, was a pimp. Thus, the questionable lyrics.

Annabelle

'Annabelle' was written in 1975 and recorded in 1979.