Steve Low

Café Ritual You’re a nugget drilled into my head It’s morning and your street is sweet gasoline You stop and you’re fixing up your hair In the window of the café where you always used to preen Then the sound of scraping chairs Your voice is golden And your lapping up your friends And the coffees gotten hold of the swirling of the air You’re on the ceiling Your coffee creaming While I work silently...

AIRCON Yellow haze and white noise in here - things are getting stale When you speak you pin me to the wall with a nail I’m feeling for your touch-screen but you’re switched off again Your words are bang and bump and blame like a psycho-train So turn on your air-con air-con flush the blame away Take off your covering and let’s go press and play Activate start your air-con take a few big breaths Th...

FEELING ALMOST NOTHING Feeling almost nothing pumping gas Sweet vapor giving me something back Heading for that town at Big Lake Specks of dust and cattle in my wake I’ll be there too late to drink That’s OK I need to think How I’m gonna get my mind Feeling almost nothing all the time Water tower’s pass like sailing ships My cab it rattles loud in starts and fits Like nitrous through a valve it’s...

BLACK LINE Bending like a tree in the wind Or your waiter at a the bar I reveal my inner working Like my like brain’s inside a jar Everything I think is good I see you as a shining star But a black line – you’ve drawn across the floor A black line – I can’t feel the love no more A black line – up the wall and across your face A black line – got me crawling for your grace You’re the painter of the...

BAD GUY LAUGHING I’m a good guy wailing – howling at the moon From a high rise balcony The city’s at my feet – but my heart’s gone crushed From a cruel felony Cause you girl – you been – bottom fed lies That I’m the cheating kind By a former friend of mine – he’s soaking in your bath Drinking up your wine Yeah you got to disregard everything he says He’s sitting at your table He’s a bad guy laughi...

All The Headlights You yes you’re living in a cage You’re bouncing off the bars But it’s my ribs and tissue that’s inflammed Yes it’s I who’s watching for your car My roots are deep here in the west Invested here I have to stay But you got gypsy in your blood Your fiddles playing the sounds of Spain And so I’m watching yes I’m watching All the headlights - all the headlights Oh I’m watching yes I’...

SPICES Like I’m browsing near a supermarket stand The air is thick and loaded close at hand We’re dancing in a spin We’re class mates at a gym My hormone’s are in full flow I gonna say hey go Go on with what your thoughts are dreaming You’re cooking a dish - your sweat is streaming Your ovens on max and it’s turbo hot And I’m getting sucked in by the plot And I’m lovin’ your spices - lovin’ your s...

CULT FOLLOWING There’s not a crowd of pilgrims at your Mecca But that don’t make you worse or even better You don’t need the adulation of all man All you need is just a dedicated fan And here I am I’m dressed like you I accent words the way you do You got yourself a one person cult following If I saw you praying at the cross I’d be a disciple in a frock I’d believe in everything you believe in I’d...

TOO LOADED I’m storming out and scuffing along the road Had to get right outside of her zone Smelling gasoline and tar Stumbling through the rent a car yard And I’m thinking about the things she said Lying sprawled across her bed The empty bottles testament To problems we got in our heads It’s got too loaded (electric current in the air) Yeah it’s got to loaded (All this pressure hard to bear) Cau...

PUPPET MASTER Although you’re his in the story book Your face is pregnant with that look When you walk your hips they sway I catch a breath when I look your way Bet you wish you are one of us But the big dog guy demands your trust He’s the puppet master who makes you stay He pulls your strings and he has his say He makes you think there’s no other way Will you ever escape the gloves of the puppet...

Rip Off the Scab I‘ve told you it’s you who I‘ll love forever And sometimes you say you know But then you’re ashen faced Your eyes go black and your lips they curl And I know that it’s then you’re visualizing The day she destroyed your world And you rip off the scab And you lay it all open And your bloods pouring out like a river Yeah you rip off the scab And you scream at the night And my body it...

DREAM DESTINATION Dudes are asking where to go If you gotta choice to go Where to go where to go Somewhere funky with ya beau Oh Honey honey sumptious bunny What is your dream destination? Where in the world you wanna go? We’ll I’ll tell you babe just what I know My dream destination it’s you right here My dream destination it’s you – anywhere Some are junkies for the city London Paris they’re not...

MODERN SLAVERY Don’t worry about a door-mat I’m lying here wait and see Want you to walk in all over me Want to feel your heel and toes Dbm The weight of you all on me Taking all your weight That will be ecstasy That’s modern That’s modern slavery Your wave of existence Carries me I’ll breathe your Breath for you That’s how much you mean you see I want to feel your flowing hair brushing by Across...

SURPRISINGLY DUMB I’m getting’ a bit of lip oh yeah From dudes in the authority Cause they thinka me intelligent And marry it up with my grades you see But I’m bunkin outa class and I’m goin chasin scent So my logic seems to them kinda bent (kinda bent) Some professor go sayin’ I’m surprisingly dumb Surprisingly Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb (you suck) Surprisingly dumb He better than that they say Dum...

A Byrds type production for sure PORTIA Portia my dear you are someone I can’t figure out One minute you’re on then the next you’ve become quite devout Your cult I engaged with a mind laid open to all But you and your ideal were changed by one telephone call You’re enthralled by phenomena out on the edge Things mystical weird and devine - Your life is a trip to enshrine Portia your health you embr...