Justin is sleepy. His head droops over his desk as I begin to run through the new vocabulary. Behind him Sean has yet to take out a book, bag still on his shoulders and cheeky nonplussed smile on his face. …

I shouldn’t have watched three episodes. One was enough. I should have gone to bed then. Now it’s after one.

Too awake, but need to sleep. Wednesday tomorrow, only midweek. If I sleep late I wake late and I’ll be …

Before the Match

It is 12:30. Three hours ahead in New Zealand it is 3:30, and counting down inexorably to a historical kick-off. Two celtic teams stand at the entrance to a sacred arena: a place in the rugby world …

Tilted
Hindered by passing breezes
Not trying to cause a fuss of course
Just

Sneezes
Rhythm upset
I’ll get there yet
Not trying to make a scene you know
Just

Woolgathering
Mossrolling
Dustgrowing
Oldening
Closefoldening

I’m not trying to upset …

Finally started to use FruityLoops to work a bit more than vocals and acoustic into a track. Hard to keep it sounding smooth, but it does make for a far more complete sound. Here goes nothing. This is the result …

demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/talkAboutDifferences.mp3|titles=Not so Different]

we’re not so different, we’re not so far apart
so long to the old city, we long for a new start

where there are open spaces, to swing an idle thought
where we can feel the …

Aimless, thoughtless, unbounded, loosened, ragged… Blast!
Gurgling loops, round and round and each curve a little more eroded.
No, you are dreaming of entropy again!
What is the use?
Oh, so that is what you are asking?
Is there another?…

why is it easier to come up with a new tune than to make an old one better and why do they start to sound the same if you come up with a lot? I need some new dimensions in …

demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/desertion.mp3|titles=Deserting the Circus]

Hungry hunter hot on your heels, money no good for whatever he steals.
Wait now for the moment to come, knots that they tied all coming undone.

I ‘d rather get up, I’d rather get out, …

Swell hell unforgiving unbidden
The anchor drags along the sea floor, fish scattering and sand billowing.
Deep peace in the dark depths disturbed.
Chase up along the wire coils and then bow and boat and wave crests thudding below a …

demo: [audio:http://donakello.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/toSlowlyGrow.mp3|titles=To Slowly Grow]

Waiting, waiting again. Way in, still in to begin.
Stranded, abandoned by fate. Handed, my papers too late.

Wandered into the wilderness, lost my compass and my map.
From point to point I must impress, the …

demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/effortless.mp3|titles=Effortless]

You make it look so easy, you make it seem so effortless,
Forget all the rest.

Hopes willing hearts desiring, go filling up with rising sun-
The only one.

Time’s shackles tied to our souls, sworn to surrender …

demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/flux2.mp3|titles=Flux Intrernal]

The storm around us grows, the window shakes, the curtains blow
In a flash I see a pale reflection
A bolt of blue lights up the room, and raps of thunder beat their tune
In a dash …

demo:[audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/IAmNotMe.mp3|titles=I Am Not Me]

Angels aimed at peoples, catching off the steeples with their eyes
Turned to face the truth but it is racing for the sunset from the lies

I tried to make a difference, but the only good …

And now he was flying, content
pouring from his mind
through his fingers
into a void

and there, late at night
aimed at the dawn
pouring from his soul,
to no-one at all

in a state so rehearsed
from the …

a little bit vague no? water calm and soft and a slight blue in the last evening of the year, dog racing from pier to random pier, chasing birds or shadows. So it silently slid by, and what little space …

Demo:[audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Feel.mp3|titles=Feel]

Pages unturned, prayers unheard,
Of nature’s way with broken words.
Worth pennies or pounds, you’re buying rounds,
For everyone, for everyone
Again

Long distance line, all doing fine
Head held aloft when connections are dropped
Go about days in …

Restless gestures, patterns unfolding, spikes and holes in patches and rows, a scaled terracced surface that sends you into convulsions of compulsive repulsion.

It is one of the gaps, and you are on the edge, and the wild wind blows …

demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/WereYouThere.mp3|titles=Are You There]
So you’re deeply seeking to keep awake,
Because your dreams are making your days’ life seem fake
And you’re disillusioned about all that you have,
In the eyes of others you see someone mad.

And are …

Night, slouched around the house
Well fed fire, glowing in the stove,
Machines, humming low on standby.
I sit and wait and watch in the in-between hours.

Tomorrow will hardly bring answers,
But will at least offer new hopes of …