From The Tiny Room Studio
All songs, musical arrangements and lyrics below are © Ash James
Sleeping dogs and old-age ladies, roaming in the mid-day sun,
Dreaming of those ifs and those maybe`s, resting on the good that they`ve done.
Potentates and men of pleasure, rollers in their highest heels,
Like to think they`ve got your measure, bringing on those teenage squeals.
Amblecote and Gornal Tories, Socialists from Brierley Hill,
Dressed up in their might and their glories, just liberals who really like the thrill.
Razor Fish can cut you through the soul yeow, holes below can cause you to cave in,
Too ripe fruit can make you shoot and roll now, so you know with joy some say there`s sin.
Rainbow Trout with minor gout ain`t wealthy, still they seem to feel the need to spawn,
What`s to shout and rave about you`re healthy, just one sun, one life, one dream, one dawn.
Med-creepy graf-de-fitti bathers, hustlers crying out just to be loved,
Hug ya hoodie be-bop goodie ravers, jumped before you fell or were you shoved.
Roll me down the wire when you`re done with, put me in the corner feed my pain,
Open up your honest book and run with, take a look and bear your pound of strain.
Rosy days are autumns with a meaning, night times rhythms sunshine on the run,
Takes all sorts to make and do the cleaning, what you`ve got`s as good as what`s to come.
Chorus
Well it`s all in there now
Doing all the colours, white and black and others somehow
Well it`s all in there now,
Doing all the colours, there` just no others somehow
Ash James February, 2008
All Instruments, Vocals, by Ash James.
Beautiful lady, holy lady, I share with you, in peace and in love. Late last summer, beautiful moment, beautiful moment, this I know.
Beautiful summer, beautiful life now, feel the air, it`s so good today. Beautiful rose beds, beautiful birdsong, beautiful moment, this I know.
Chorus:
I saw life from the other side, I looked and cried, I fell from the other side it`s true. I have seen what`s refused by some, glad I was there was there, for that beautiful moment, most beautiful moment, of love.
Look around you, beautiful people, in their hearts, and in their lives. It`s around you, it so surrounds you, life is beauty, over lies.
Beautiful moment, beautiful moment, beautiful life-psalm, song to say. Play what you have now, hold what you have now, beautiful day.
Ash James, 2005.
Take my hand and hold it hard, help you to go that extra yard.
Take my feelings, set them with yours, pure`s so simple, peace and more.
Chorus
The place that we grew together, we kept inside, but now that love`s poured in through it rise, on the new Spring Tide
Take my hopes and shape them true , furnish them in what you do. Take my dreams, my lost, my found, always stand your holy ground.
Tale my falls, my here and gone`s, lift their fences, step beyond. Take my hand and hold it hard.You` re my love, my extra yard.
Ash James March, 2016.
Ash James March, 2008
And also from The Tiny Room Studio.
The Real Christmas Album 20 Year Anniversary Edition
Instruments, Vocals, Musical Arrangements ©Ash James 2004 and ©Ash James December 2024
Click on Link: Ash James The Real Christmas Story Album
And from the sample of the above oak-aged songs to vintage pics of life on the road with The Old Masters
Photo ©Ash James
Photo ©Ash James
Above-the even older Masters on the reunion tour
Photo ©Ash James
Photo ©Ash James
Photo ©Ash James
And just a note…
Writing songs has always seemed quite normal to me-and necessary. A few have even raised their heads in public.
Those above represent a very small part of the things I`ve written over the years, and messy though they are they still keep coming.
I hope if nothing else, others with real creative talent may be encouraged to persevere.
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