There’s a hundred stories in this little town waiting to be told I’ll unwind the history some of which I know some which I’ve imagined Chris got all the girls in school I wonder what he’s doing now last I heard he was brickie didn’t move to the city wonder if he’s been faithful and [...]

A girl on the train in a school uniform cheeks blushed red hides in the corner a Maori boy is acting cool she’s looking at him you can tell she’s keen maybe tonight she’ll write about him in her diary confess her love express her dreams. Maybe by the end of the week she might [...]

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 [...]

I wonder what he thinks As I sit here and confess And my sins drape over the man of cloth Will my guilt be silent at last I was acting like it was my younger days She was like a flame that held my steady gaze we ground away like a sack of empty skin [...]

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 [...]

Buried and Dead                                © Paul J Penton 2009 Friday night and I’m out driving the same old streets the stores arrive in the same old way I remember that they did when I was a kid behind those doors they won’t know me Nothing’s changed since I left here under the bridge a lot of [...]

Sunset over the bay © 2008 Paul J Penton Sunset Over the Bay-Update 15July > I want to sit back and gaze in wonder, At shades of purple and grey Be sittin’ on our own front porch, With you sitting next to me I could hand you a glass of fresh chilled wine, The finest [...]

THe big question is can I complete two albums – or at least get the backbones of two done in 3 months or so? There will be two on the go simultaneoulsy… Backlog: all the old songs that I haven’t yet recorded and Forelog: The ones I’m working on now and will create in the [...]

Well it’s late in the evening, and the birds have stopped singing, and I can’t help but thinking, I need you. Well my body is achin’, from the love we’re not makin’. I can’t be mistaken I need you When I’m down on my feelings, and my memory’s reeling, I wish someone would come and [...]