Steve Low

Kind of musical irony in a way with a horror theme immersed in a jaunty beat: an unintentional result where so often a song writes itself and you decide not to change it. Caught up in a War Hear the words why me See fiery horizons Eating up ground are black caterpillars We’re shrinking near the door They hardly gave a reason Sleeping is acid raw Forever is the ceiling Cause everything we made Will...

Modern Artists like Leon Bridges and Son Little marry hip hop or RnB rhythms often to acoustic based songs. Its an opportunity to blend elements that you love from 2 generations of music into one song - some lyrical bite, sweetened by 60s vocal harmonies. FAKING IRONY I see your troubles start from within And she is prickling cause you’re so wooden Look at her sparkle like the lemon Floating on he...

Combining childhood and later relationship memories with the early sounds of electric piano: first heard on Help! "Chalking up belief" references 'Chalking up the Hurt" in the great Michael McDonald song 'Real Love' from the time when he created amazing piano based pop-rock, now termed Yacht Rock. And the song title 'Your Gold Teeth ii is of course piano based from the highly influential Steely Da...

Behaviours are so important going forward. Going to have to be some selfless work from everyone - be exemplary. Exemplary We look out the window and we see it’s our turn We want to, we need to The river is rising and grass is burnt It’s a headache, it’s a heart ache So we’re walking through the streets so purposefully We’re marching, some are running We’re shoveling sand, we’re hosing the land We’...

Continuing the Jazz injected pop-rock theme of Collect the Moment and Better do SOME GOOD this one references AJA though it could easily be ASIA. My time spent in AJA (Steely Dan) was about the same time we were dissecting preserved bodies in Otago Medical School. Playing live then I was channeling more of a Neil Young, Bob Dylan and THE BAND pre Americana country rock thing. But jump ahead 40 yea...

Alexander King parachuted into our town from New Orleans via Brisbane and set up a recording studio. We combined on this song 'Collect the Moment' which I'd just written on piano. Alex: rhythm track, bass, some guitar, recording, production, mixing Steve: Vocals, keyboards, guitar Alexander King soundcloud site - https://on.soundcloud.com/PkSYD Alexander Ross Music (ARK)- alexanderrossmusic.com Co...

After 10 songs of jazzy singer songwriter it's time for a change. But not much! As science based as we are there's still that feeling of karma or whatever. So - better do some good! Better do some Good. Hey I don’t mind complicity in drinking all that wine It’s good to get the wheels up, but just from time to time But dwelling on this comfort food is brewing up a blood red sky You lapsing into nav...

New recording of this song that was in the finals of the NZ MLT songwriting awards 2010 Is This Who I Think It Is Another tumble ‘cross the dance floor A tender hold onto someone I call my own A look into her eyes that lingers Another drink that goes from loving hand to hand Is this who I think it is A touch and a blown kiss I look at her I look at him Is this who I think it is A frozen minute in...

HEY LOVE YOU! Hey love you More than LC would’ve craved for Marianne No manuscript could sing with more devotion A paper chain enough to fill an ocean I’m always up so close and being dutiful. Yeah I fix your hair and say you’re beautiful. Yeah I fix your hair and say you’re beautiful Mmmm breath you in ‘til I’m insensible Hey love you Like we’re barefoot down a street in Hydra It’s feet on top of...

Not really alt rock but the guitar solo at the end is fairly anarchic. To Fly or not to Fly To fly or not to fly YES! To fly or not to fly NO! To fly or not to fly that is the question. It’s a no brainer ‘cept for the greedy and absurd. There’s kilos of carbon coming from engines. While the earth below - floods and burns M’lady says she’s gotta fly yeah it’s in the blood She’s gotta have exotica -...

Miss Rocket Launcher Hey hey you this Joan of Arc - Miss Rocket Launcher Love you sending into space – those flying saucers Your eyes they dart and sense corrosion You’re leaning forward in silky motion You know who is fit to govern For those who aren’t they get concussion Your elbows dent the seats of power Your rocket roars it’s getting louder Hey hey you Sister of Mercy – Miss Rocket Launcher L...

In so Deep I'm carryin' weight – beast of burden streets of Ankara My feet they hurt – my saddle gonna wrench apart My hunger never stops – the wave it never crests I’m drowning in consequence I’m in so deep – and I won’t let you down a bit It’s history – I made you all these promises Our worlds depart – the continents divide I’m in so deep – I can look you in the eye Haven’t felt a falter – never...

Sleeps on Fire I’m dwelling on rocket fire Piano fragments and twisted strings Lady rag doll dead at the door Dementor soldier with lips so thin Sleep Killer’s messing with my head Gotta rise up get a change of thought Find a codeine and a TV show My feet are cold and my tongues like chalk Back in bed and it’s Mr Psycho Ugly boss gotta face him away And lady friend of the underground We’ll be bust...

Hazy Ocean I see you at the break of day A flash of gold across a bay I watch you you’re a dolphin riding rail And then it comes the perfect wave And balancing you show the way Your love of life it’s written in your trail Hazy Ocean - you wash all over me And I’m diving after you Like the tide follows the moon Hazy Ocean - your spirit’s phosphorent And your colour’s vivid blue While my love is all...

I had this title – 'come back to real' – lying around unused and thought it would work with a lyric about an imaginary couple with different views on the topic . . . Come Back to Real You’re the one who found revision History’s just a false depiction you say The government’s trolling all our messages But it seems to me – not reality. Hey, I know the world ain’t perfect But you could make your life...

Love in the House You want to move me down to that ritzy neighbourhood Where there’s black cars by the stables And the grass is hissing gently & you know that starchy lady there might give U half a minute If she thinks you come from money & our star is still ascending But what’s the point of that unless there’s love in the house Yeah what’s the point of that – gotta be love in the house Love in th...

UR7 Final Flight The tail of aviation dies, As engines roar and cough. Vapor trails once crossed the skies But here’s the last take off I stare out of my window And my heart sinks like the moon I grab your hand so tightly While the cabin’s like a tomb UR7 final flight We know the skies are danger now They had to legislate The flights are full of terror gusts So wings they bend and break But let’s...

Last of the Summer Flies At last you have left - my insecticide is spent Though your screw driver voice is reverberating Your tongue it got bent - drilling holes in my head Now I’m smoothing hurts by restorative ironing And though they must have a role in ecosystems I’m so glad to see the last of the summer flies I’m so glad to see the last of the summer flies I guess you’ll find a niche – with so...

Can Our Souls Stay Together Hey girl that was really something – truly unforgettable I’m staring right up at the ceiling – the air is perfectly still Cause I realise you’re not from here And your train gonna leave to your God out there Can our souls stay together Can your soul sleep another night Can our souls stay together Cause I fell in love at first sight But I know you You have to go Back to...

You Don’t Talk Easy Yeah, I’m all over you Coming by your room Faking accidental - as if you didn't know These small steps up a mountain climb And nothing’s going to turn back time, hey you I’m crawling cross this chasm that I find I’m trying to talk my way into your eyes In real life you’re quick to speak your mind But you don’t talk easy here tonight You don’t talk easy here tonight So fate has...

Exhaust Pipe In the shadow of a smokestack rising eating up the air Kinda gritty look you give me on this street to God knows where We’re ducking under extrusions in the face of water walls At least we got each other ‘neath this sky that’s like a war Eye brows on the ceiling even though we got the word Imagining is one thing but reality’s absurd Part of me is chill And part of you is screaming Now...

Floating into Wonder Now that the border’s open - she’s on the overnighter Up near the universe so vivid as it’s shining brighter So long in isolation – We living on our phones But what a torture that is - needing flesh n bone And I’m waiting near the runway’s end Watching descending lights And that final roar overhead – hey I’m lifted so high And we’ll be floating into wonder (mm mm mm) Gifted th...

F Chord makes my Fingers Bleed All across the plain there’s a heavy kind of drone And the picking has cleared the fields And every one’s talkin’ bout where to go next Some with scars on hearts to keep But me I ain’t gonna be running anywhere I got land here to put on ice And I’m saying it to you there’s a song to sing But I sense you know you gonna take flight Want your breath upon my face Neath t...

Sad to hear Rusty Young of Poco passed. Great band and I'm sure all good souls Good Souls When is this heart beat Going to be under skin I got my guard up Don’t know what dark you’ll bring You got something mmm That triggered a landslide But I never sensed The dead inside your eyes Hey good souls should be with good souls And bad smoke should drift away Yeah good souls should live with good souls...

Poker Face Seeing as light is fading from the centre of your eyes And the blog that I been posting Don’t change your face design I find I got no knowledge of the ways inside your mind Any feelings you have gathered are hidden by disguise How will I know you How do I get there What will I feel inside Will I be nowhere I’ve never seen or felt some kind of sign But I’m wishin’ for that magic kind of...