Too many times Before © Paul J Penton 2009 I’ve been here before in a fancy restaurant sittin’ cross the table hearing how you want everything to work out right but I’ve learned to read the signs you’d better get – your story straight ’cause I can read between the lines and I’ve been here [...]

Date with Destiny © Paul J Penton 1994 I’ve got a date with Destiny. I like her and she seems to like me. Oh how happy we both could be. I’ve got a date with Destiny I’ve got a date with Deja Vu. It’s like I know her from a long time ago. Like I’ve [...]

Just like Sunday                    © Paul J Penton March 2009    Lately he’s been dreamin’ about how its gonna be Sometime in the future there’s a place down by the sea Fishing’ off the pier, – with his new grandson Been saving every dollar,  to realise his dream   Been Working at the factory since he [...]

Another Perfect Morning © 2009 P J PENTON Another Perfect Morning-Update 15 July> Lyrics – Autumn mornings start to bite got to pull those covers tight it’s really been a chilly night gonna bring you in even closer – shadows seem to stretch to noon right through the afternoon got to get to work real [...]

If we had a Kombi © 1998 & 2009 Paul J Penton If we could just get out of town Feel the sun with the windows down Hit high gear and catch a swirling breeze Breathe in all those fresh green fields Head out for the purple hills And leave behind these city wannabes the [...]

Just One More    © 2008 Paul J Penton Just one more drink, Then I’m gonna hit the road Gonna Hitch it up,  get hauling this heavy load. To a destination that I’ve never seen Just one more drink, And I’ll be movin’ on There’s just one kiss, resting like a butterfly here on my cheek, [...]

Mary Celeste                             © Paul J Penton March 2008 She hides everything in a  dark swirling mist and lives in a ghostly halo,     this girl is cloaked in mystery  her spider-web wheel spins round and around she drifts on a dead calm sea her sails await a friendly wind but none ever comes blowing Mary Celeste [...]

May 6 “Debt to haunt our young” a newspaper headline today a baby’s born but she don’t know what’s coming she’ll have this debt burden hanging around for eternity as we’re bailing out ourselves out of this global finance crisis born from a Frankentstein concept of young bankers in the nineties who thought they were [...]

There’s been a bit of organisational stuff happening working out what might and might not make it on the albums- I spent some time at Phillip Island [thanks Digny]categorising and recording ideas- as well as some video for ‘sunset over the bay’ this was my first attempt at this sort of thing and I learned [...]

At the N-Tran there were workmen in luminous uniforms joking behind the toughened glass counter that curves around like the earth from space holding a galaxy of foods skewers with browned chicken waiting for some dipping sauce willingly supplied eggs cut into halves like microbes about to start multiplying Islands of Bacon smokestacks of spring [...]