SteveClarke

Goldfish Bowl is a surreal look at corporate life, where routine becomes repetition and progress feels suspiciously circular. Blending office politics with Alice in Wonderland imagery, it's a journey through ivory towers, endless paperwork, rabbit holes, and the relentless pursuit of "higher, faster, more, the same."

Listener On The Wires is a song about the quiet ways technology listens in. Vintage‑leaning drums, low strings and layered harmonies carry a story of signals, surveillance and the feeling of being observed even when you’re alone. A modern analogue‑soul reflection on how the wires around us never stop listening. Lyrics: Verse 1: In the office of unfair trading The girl on the 7th floor is waiting I...

“Another 1958” drifts through a smoky, mid‑century memoryscape — coffee bars, radiograms, comma vans and late‑night streets. It’s a quiet piece of domestic surrealism, built on Rhodes warmth and observational lyrics that feel like objects remembering their owner. A nostalgic loop of long hours, lost details and the soft hum of a world half‑forgotten.

Accident Amnesia Conspiracy Theory, A monochrome descent into fractured memory and digital paranoia. A man wakes up in hospital with no recollection of his accident, surrounded by machines that hum like conspirators. Clinical precision meets emotional distortion. Noir dream rendered in circuitry and confusion.

The Silent Majority A broadcast from a fractured future. A lone voice drifts through analog static and bureaucratic noise, questioning identity in a world ruled by machines. Synth pulses echo like heartbeats under surveillance; humanity flickers between signal and silence.

The song "Incident In Wandsworth" captures me witnessing unrest and racial hatred in West London in the late 70s? Here are the lyrics: Verse 1: Walking through the dusty streets of West London The sounds of the city around me fill my senses All my plans and intentions have come undone Arches, pavements, alleyways and fences. Straight ahead I take a left turn. Standing where the Palais used to be....

“London Fields” drifts through the half‑lit corners of East London, where solitude feels strangely familiar and every shadow carries a memory. A blend of hazy Rhodes, fractured delay, and late‑evening melancholy, it’s a song about standing alone in a place that still somehow feels like home.

Chestnut Grove by SteveClarke

A calm, meditative song. Lyrics: Verse 1: Morning on the back steps Tea gone cold in the cup Tracing the circles in the sand Pebbles and stones break [up Trail across the gravel I’m standing here alone Mysteries that unravel At the lake where I skim the stones Chorus: Zen Garden Calm my restless mind Zen Garden Leave my troubles behind Zen Garden Place where I choose to stay Zen Garden Soothe my t...

Genius Is Pain Verse 1: One thing I have learned. Genius is pain You pick your self off the ground. Just to be knocked down again One thing you must know You have to face the truth The wisdom of your age Is not wasted on the youth Chorus 1: There is music to be found In the sweet sound of birdsong There is poetry in everyday conversation There is beauty all around you just have know where to find...

A love song. The central theme is how uncoordinated and hopeless I am round the subject of my affections. Here are the lyrics. Hopeless case I lost all trace of reason since I met you Hapless clown defences down how easily I let you Get under my skin and I'm free falling hear you calling my name And I have no explanation for this strange situation I am just a hopeless case hopelessly in love with...

Bald Architect is a slow, heartfelt ballad about friendship, distance, and the quiet ways time reshapes the people we once knew. The song traces the life of Terry — a schoolfriend from days of technical drawing classes, lunchtime guitars, and the feeling that the future was wide open. Built around a gentle piano foundation and a shimmering electro‑sitar riff inspired by the Chi‑Lites’ Have You See...

The song is about visiting my favourite English seaside town in winter when it's quiet and enjoying the peace and tranquility.

"Alien Landscape" is a metaphor for how broken down and derelict a city looks late at night when the pubs and clubs all chuck out.

The song is about a person's inability to always be in control of fate and luck and to accept how things fall sometimes and go with the flow.

A song about English village life in the style of Ray Davies.

A song about how much I hate driving.

A song about society's troubled relationship with new technology. Chorus: Artificial stupidity Technology is making me look stupid Highlighting my inability In a brave new world Verse 1: I tried to open the thing on my computer But it was having none of it There was a problem with the software on the router I couldn’t get the app to quit I tried calling tech support to get assistance There was no...

An anti war song.

Just a quick pop song to try out a new guitar plugin

First Mistake by SteveClarke

The song references characters from greek mythology as a metaphor for all the wrongdoing in the world. Lyrics Verse 1: Icarus flew too close to the sun Wax and wings melted and he was done Prometheus stole his fire from the gods Breaking up rocks against the odds Reflection that stares too long at the stream Drown in the depths of our own dream Writing our notes and thoughts in bars Shooting the b...

Second Thoughts by SteveClarke

Inspired by George Formby's catchphrase "Turned out nice again". Looking at the the world today, It hasn't turned out nice again.

Lyrics: Verse 1: I got the room at the top - window in an office block I'm gazing out on the river at night bathed in neon light I stare I got everything I need I got the brains to succeed So why do I feel the walls closing in got me living in my nightmare Chorus: But if I could be half the man I wanted to be to try To gaze out to see looking for the key to the door of my Glass cage Verse 2: I got...