LOVIN’ HEART

© 2006 Shane Howard

(Big Heart Music/Mushroom Music)

One of these days and it won’t be long,

I’m goin’ to find my voice in a song.á

Goin’ to make a change to the way I feel.

Find a good partner and accept the fact that love is real

One of these days and it won’t be long,

I’m goin’ to find the strength to carry on.

Find a world based on a lovin’ heart

Come on sister, come on brother,

we’ve got to take good care of each other.

Build a world based on a lovin’ heart.

Didn’t you know that love is all around you

and didn’t you know that love can still be found,

in the simple things, that everybody takes for granted?

We fill our lives with so many things,

we forget about the simple things

that make us what we are, as human beings.

It doesn’t take much to keep us happy

It doesn’t take much just to keep a balance and to

Hold on to a lovin’ heart as well

Oh and they’ll tell you lies and deceits

but it’s smoke and mirrors and the great conceit.

Don’t they make it sound all so sweet

but in the light of day it doesn’t mean a thing.

Come on then. Look around you.

Look at your brother and your sister beside you.

How can you let them slide into the dark?

Come on brother. Come from the shadows.

Take your seat here at the table.

At the table of life.

Everybody says it’s foolish and romantic

I don’t care I’ve seen the panic

Caught up in this old material world

And I don’t care what Maria says,

she can go and be a material girl,

but I’ve got another kind of Madonna in mind.

Come on sister, come on brother,

we’ve got to take good care of each other

and we’ll build a world, based on a lovin’ heart.

You can spend your life building an empire,

spend your life masking a fortune,

but how long would you spend makin’ a lovin’ heart?

How long can you spend makin’ a lovin’ heart?

KEEP ME AWAY FROM YOU

© 2006 Shane Howard

(Big Heart Music/Mushroom Music)

I’m goin’ to get me a ball and chain to keep me away from you

I’ve been tryin’ all night long to make sense of the things you do

You spend my money you drink my wine

you tell me you love but that’s part time

I’m goin’ to get me a ball and chain to keep me away from you

I’m goin to get me a shack at the beach to keep me away from you

Somewhere right out of your reach –with an ocean view

Your lovin’ it’s just way too strong

You make me feel things that are just plain wrong

So I’ve got to get me a ball & chain to keep me away from you

I’m goin’ to get me a little boat to keep me away from you

Somethin’ that can reliably float out on the ocean blue

Far away from all this confusion

But don’t make me part of the Pacific Solution

I’m goin’ to get me a little boat To keep me away from you

I’ve got to get me a detention centre to keep me away from you

Somewhere way out in the desert, way out of human view

I’ll hide you all behind razor wire

Hey Mr. Ruddock can you make it any higher

I’m goin’ to get me a detention centre to keep me away from you

I’m goin’ to get me a ball and chain to keep me away from you

I’ve been tryin’ all life long to make sense of the things you do

You spend my money you drink my wine

you tell me you love ‘round election time

I’m goin’ to get me a ball and chain to keep me away from you

Keep me away from you

BIG GOD, LITTLE GOD

© 2006 Shane Howard

(Big Heart Music/Mushroom Music)

The little god said to the big god

“I’m the god of all the little things”

The big god said, “Hey, wait a minute,

I’m the god that wins”.

The big god said to the little god,

“Why don’t we make a deal?

I’ll take everything and crush you under my heel”.

Well the little god he got up and spoke

In a voice so unashamed,

“There’s a lot of us little gods down here

and we all feel the same”

Well the big god, he got furious.

He ranted and he raved

Then he set about the worst things

that a god can ever do.

He struck down all the little gods.

Destroyed each and everyone.

Then set about a lonely life

as a poor old lonely god.

...more to come.......