Donal Kelly

On the Eastern side of the wood, with the sun just gone down over the hill. The rock is wet and cold and slippy, a bare line of slate ninety degrees to the shore, and well away from the path. …

Unused to this cold, and unused to this swing of things.
A simple patchwork man, more breath and less reason.
A country that has thrown off its clothes and sanity, running cursed between the cars of a real capital.
Not …

Just to say, in some other way,
With music in my ears,
And raindrops light as tears
Today, today.

The boiler abruptly stops, the dryer’s rumbling ceases.
The dishwasher sloshes to a halt, the microwave beeps and then.
Domestic silence …

Demo (snippet): [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/lookAlive.mp3|titles=Look Alive]

you’re so worn out
everybody look alive
everybody look alive
everybody look alive

you come, you come
you’re too worn out
you won you won
I know I know

everybody look alive
everybody look alive
everybody …

demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/starReachingPreaching.mp3|titles=Star Reaching Preaching]

Keep it in order
Keep on the border
Keep it for me and I will need no other.

Ready for motion.
Ready devotion.
Ready to try your latest ‘Drink Me’ potion.

I know it’s under- understood, …

Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/BlankSlate.mp3|titles=Blank Slate]

It’s a long wait, for the blank slate, to begin to, make ammends to everybody
talking, without cables, disconnected, unaffected, wishing they were
alright- not so uptight, not so clued out, not so ignorant, telling others’ stories…

Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/detour.mp3|titles=Detour]

chords:

strum each couplet 8 times quickly
d 4 5 2 0
a 5 7 3 2

chorus: C G

e 3 3
b 0 0
g 0 0
d 2 0
a 3 2
e – 3…

Chords: A E (with 0-3-0 Hon/Poff on the A string)
Then C D for the ‘chorus’

Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/NotFinishedYet.mp3|titles=Not Finished Yet]

World on your shoulders
Weight on your chest.
Getting ever older,
But you’re not finished yet.

They say it’s gone, …

We are not owners.
Despite the forms you just filled out.
Despite the full support of the finest judges.
The money in your pockets.
The land outside your door.
The car in your driveway.
The heart in your chest.
You …

Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/limboTown.mp3|titles=Limbo Town]

There’s ghosts out in the ocean, enough to make it swell.
And the waves they go a rolling, from heaven down to hell.
I know I’m not alone here, wonder if I’m under some spell?
I know …

Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/allTracks.mp3|titles=All Tracks Lead to Here]

In the image of a love, a parody of plainness,
I was knocking around, suffering from sameness.
On an edge, on a corner, on a line.

Now the sun is raised up, over ruins …

Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/noOption.mp3|titles=Your Life]

Here is nothing if it makes you want to go,
Is nothing if it makes you want to leave to get away and feel alive.
I say nothing and I’m rooted to the spot,
Say nothing while …

I can’t quite put my finger on it.
The value of what’s in my hands I guess.
I look away to see what others pick.
Can’t accept that they might pay something less.

The word on the wire is all …

And it won’t go right away
It won’t go anyhow
Can’t forget what has been said
Or bury everyone in sand

Streets are crossing through my head
Traffic jams at every bend.
Roads converge in tangled webs
Lights go …