Greg Atkinson music

Once was standing Now he’s done Staring at the far horizon Once was gleaming Now he’s rust Time has scarred him to a thin crust Soon to dust You’re not important You are just like everybody You’re petrified just like the rest of us You are a man With rusted eyes that keep on searching As waves are breaking through your outer layer Until the tide recedes and you’re not there Once he saw a setting s...

Don’t go swimming in the lake this Summer They don’t know how pure the water is that wets your lips Don’t be first to skate on ice this Winter They don’t know how fragile is the skin you’re cutting in The greatest danger Is never to risk anything at all Share your dreams with others and you’ll fall and never surface You laugh too much and risk appearing a fool You fight too hard and risk the break...

Sometimes the bad things you lose outweigh the good things you lose, and vice versa. We all wrestle with this over time. We were born to move the world To challenge the old We did conspire to crush all of the liars We’d never be told Oh no But it’s all behind us now I've made peace with my past With the memories I've lost With the memories I’ve got I’ll never fit neatly in that little box That is...

I enjoyed the series "Midnight Mass" on Netflix and was really impressed by the long monologues the actors performed, especially the Priest's sermons, which were scary and uplifting at the same time! The greatest story ever told Is rolling off the tongue of beelzibub The man who stands before you all I never meant for this to be But on this night we’ll go down in history Before the sun will rise a...

See her taking all the busy routes Or try to find a way that’s new Ready to pretend she takes a phone call Hear a whistle from a passing wolf Will the braking lights be coming on? Scanning her surroundings for a camera If she’s smiles at the things That you’re shouting out It doesn’t mean That she’s putting out It’s a smile that’s designed to bide time for her latest escape Living in a world of fe...

Just a rough and ready cover of a song I've always liked. I'm also singing what should be the female-sang section of he song, but I guess that fits the narrative. I could have done with a nice semi-acoustic rather than my old Yamaha Pacifica for the guitar parts. Maybe this song will encourage our lass to buy me one :) Written by John Mayer and Katy Perry. Please listen to the original here: https...

Flexibility Dancing to the Tune Of someone like you Creativity Take up something new Says someone like you You mess around with me And you mess around with all of us You mess around with me And you mess around with us Message is adapt or die Just become a bingo caller Algorithm just says go away Write the lyrics down Use some clever words For someone like you Tell it like it is We've had worse tha...

Two wrongs never made a right So said my father He said we would row a lot I told my own lies So I collect the reasons I fantasise the feelings Calling the man who will take up the slack In the rope that is tied to my hands round my back Take a piece of me tonight Pacing the halls with his head to the floor In the house that resounds with the slam of a door Take a piece of me tonight Meanwhile in...

I thought I’d write a song to represent the fantasy that all adopters have regarding a beautifully smooth parenthood and how thankful the adopted child could be. But it tends to be more difficult than that in reality. Tuning is D A D F# A C# with capo on first fret From the first cry out To the final breath I just belong to you Once empty filled by love From my tiny hands To my restless feet I’m m...

When I wrote this song Autospell was on But I didn’t know So I carjacked onesie I was going to write About celebrities In their mansion homes With their big tea leaves All the words they could use Will never change what we do All we ask is just be kind to us All we ask is just be kind to us And understand we all Will lose I've not made my bed Cos they’re all tucked up As their words deride We’ll j...

All guitar stuff here is done on my nylon-stringed classical guitar - there might just be a smidgen of distortion on it 😬 Tuning is C, F, C, C, G, D. Yes, two strings are tuned to same note. Less to go wrong in theory - just in theory. Lyrics: Caught between your brother and his wine You wanted to free your mind Born between your sister and the dole You wanted to cleanse your soul Genotype Gene I...

Until The Thaw Dogs that bark at shadows, Just As the morning sun rays, Start Melting snow to ribbons laid out Decorating garden lawns Out they come the children, They’re Damning up the water, They’re Straying further from their homesteads Creaking on their rusted chrome bikes A Winter Walk Until the thaw A Winter walk to clear his head because she turned him down again He left his car beside the...

An unusual song for me to like, but there you go - that's music. The bit at the end is my doing I'm afraid. Apologies to the previous more competent singers who have done this song proper justice.

Good for nothing man Wanted open conversation Line drawn in the sand Throwing things around his room Reject philosophy So never know what makes us tick Down we go again In the hit parade Certified mind That’s as broken as All your dress code madness I’ll wear a dress up there Sometimes I stop Look around at what All the others got Step back and look around Nosferatu on the prowl Sucking all the po...

Let’s have some fun while riding on the bus Have a little kiss just for us Snowflakes Snowflakes The bloody messed up faces in their seats An image of this blessed century Snowflakes Snowflakes No two snowflakes are the same you know Unique features purely superficial Lost and confused like the first snowflake But with others we will blanket the ground Outside the school, they’re wrapped up gainst...

Sometimes there’s days when the words on the page can match those in my head Sometimes there’s days when the words in my head can match those in my heart A time when I’m so sure that my world falls into place A time when I land on my feet thrown in the lions den Just happenstance We like to punctuate our lives With the words With the words Of others We like a backing track composed Of polite appla...

Why did they walk away Left their house in disarray Like a tethered dog Left to wonder when It’s owners will return Perhaps the Bank possessed So the house it had to hear them All the arguments Over unpaid rents And nothing left to sell They left her They left her on her own To fade slowly Fade slowly on the moor But there’s someone Who’ll surely come for her, I wish it could be you Don’t go wonde...

This soil abandoned Fertile once Feeding families From before the law Now evil monsters lurk beneath Grab your ankles Slowly drag you down My breathing’s ragged After forest fire turned and followed after me I’m wading through The crumbling ashes - scattered remnants of a thousand trees Dissapointment Coming after me again All the demons Coming after me again At least they care At least they care...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_disorder Just think about it for a while They never meant to spin a lie But they found a way To steal your world Forever She crawled around our living room Searching for her mother’s womb Then she pulled away From your warm embrace Then hit you Motherhood a war to lose You feel it tighten like a noose The sole respite Asleep She wasn’t born to think that...

Three Kites One day I bought a kite Threw it and ran for my life Sadly - it fell to ground Pulled it through the sand Much like dragging a stone Broken - it was done My kite number one Kite number two was so different Caught by the wind it was desperate to get away from me Lifting my feet almost off the ground Losing my grip I just watched it fly across the sea That second kite Just flew away Watc...

A Christmas song about a Christmas song So far away from his home, Oakdale He’s playing his epic song in the heat of the desert I realised with my own minds eye There’s really more to life than this silent night Silent Night You’ll believe the same if you let go Give some warmth and some love and you’ll know Can’t avoid the chance that you will fall Never sure but it’s still worth a call Born in a...

This song was played on Stuart Maconie’s show on BBC6 (16th December, 2018) Brave Jamel https://news.sky.com/story/boy-9-killed-himself-after-homophobic-bullying-at-colorado-school-mother-says-11484130 Nine years old in a Pokemon fronted t-shirt All he wanted was a seat with the kids on the yellow bus The whispers in the corridors wouldn’t go away A logical conclusion made easy for him to say He t...

Obviously, there is reference to Oscar Wilde’s “Love that dare not speak its name” quote here, but I also have in mind the many people today in football, etc. who still find it tremendously difficult to be open about their sexuality, not that it’s any business of mine or anyone else of course. Looked to the stars while he laid in the gutter Norms were so morally proper and clean Outside the box he...

Conventional tuning but tuned right down to C Got to know you on a wholly different level When I drove you stone cold sober, I heard All your secrets tumbling with your inhibitions When I carried you home stone cold sober Feel emotions drifting To the middle of the night I will watch you stumbling Around the streets Until you realise All defences have been knocked down in this city for years It’s...

If you listen carefully right at the end of this one, you can just hear my daughter say “Are you recording”. I think she wanted me to watch Peppa Pig with her. Never wrong but always right Insecurity your plight An enemy within your soul All you care about is your own Never look before you leap Wounding minds you seldom meet Such a torrid time you’ve had Like the man from Breaking Bad thinks From...