Catharsis Caught

Words and Music: Dave Des

I’m on my boat to nowhere 

Nowhere fast

Fast is a time forgotten 

I knew it wouldn’t last

 

Friends always told me something 

Some things pass 

I’ll pass on the race I started 

So I’ll finish last 

 

Looking back

When catharsis caught

my own reflection 

Looking down 

Over the rail

From a boat docked tied down

 

Is it running away 

When you’re coming 

to your senses? 

If it’s running away

I’ll take the consequences 

I’m not running away 

This ship has sailed on to

Bluer waters

 

Anchors aweigh 

Cast off to open sea

Moving forward 

Set the course

The wind filled the sail

And it blew my mind

 

Is it running away 

When you’re coming to your senses 

If it’s running away

I’ll take the consequences 

I’m not running away 

This ship has sailed on

To bluer waters

 

Is it running away

When things just had to change

For good

For good 

For good 

 

Sail on to

Bluer waters

 

Poison Envy

Words and Music: Dave Des

It's not that I

Know any better

It's not that I want

What's best for you

It's not even coming

From a good place

I might be a spy

Withholding your safe space

 

Somebody save me from me

There is no other way

I can only ever be

My own worst enemy

There's a poison in me

Turns red blood into green

Somebody save me

From this poison envy

 

Is it that I

Have all the answers

Or is it just for those

You never asked

Is this an incarnation

Of a patronizing saint

Or simply a human being

In your way

 

Gaslights flood

A  field of your feels

To the darkness you run

From the power it wields

Is it not enough

You're in pressure deep

My whispers steal

From your precious sleep

 

Somebody save me from me

There is no other way

I can only ever be

My own worst enemy

There's a poison in me

Turns red blood into green

Save me

Somebody save me

From this poison envy

 

Hippocampus

Words and Music: Dave Des

We mellow 

In the half light 

Of dusk to dawn 

We talk of times 

Some that we want to remember 

Others we’d rather forget 

Is it a placeholder 

For memories 

To drift in and out of 

Is it a void 

To stay untouched 

Keeps meddling minds 

Away 

 

It might be true what they say 

Just don’t go there 

But how will you know the way 

If you don’t go there 

Just don’t go there 

 

Sometimes a rewrite 

A new right to veil the old wrong 

Repaint the dark side 

With colours too happy for sad 

Take silver from the lining 

And make it the whole story 

 

Is it a safe place 

For pictures to 

Wait to be drawn from 

Do we avoid 

The lens we touch 

Puts flickering views 

Away 

I guess it’s true what they say 

Just don’t go there 

But how will you know the way 

If you don’t go there 

Just don’t go there 

 

Beware the triggers 

You cannot control 

A smell 

A look 

A touch 

A sound 

Remembers things 

You didn’t know you’d forgotten

 

More Than Blue

Words and Music: Dave Des

To right the wrong

your price

the saddest song

It's hope that preys

On those

Who give it away

 

But there's warm light 

Pressing on your window

There's blue skies

Leaning on your door

a lost voice

deep inside your soul cries

Waiting to be heard

 

The plight is real

Wild seeds 

Take root in the fear

The doubt

Your pain

No strength

To live through it again

 

But there's warm light 

Pressing on your window

There's blue skies

Leaning on your door

a lost voice

deep inside your soul cries

Waiting to be heard 

 

There's shadows in every picture

It brings what's lit alive

This darkness feels forever

But know it's in you to survive

Another day

It's in you

Another way

Within you

 

There's shadows in every picture

It brings what's lit alive

This darkness feels forever

But know a new day will dawn for you

 

Afternoon black clouds

Will surely melt away

Sun showers will follow

And that new rainbow will shine

More colours than blue

More colours than blue

There's more colours in you

More colours than blue

 

Broken Things

Words and Music: Dave Des

What can we learn

From broken things?

When something gives

Another takes

Lessons lost

On broken things 

Some of them never 

See the light of day

We turn our eye

To the things that change

While we ignore 

The things that don’t 

Oh and things broken 

Don’t always need fixing 

They can become something new that won’t 

 

A serendipitous bond

Fills the cracks 

We celebrate

The pieces rearranged 

New beauties emerge 

From a straight line bowed

Gravity bends

Plots twist

All this to say

That today and every day

Brings a new colour

That paints our tomorrows

In ways we may never 

Plan

 

What can we learn

From broken things?

What can we learn

From broken things?

Wreckhouse Winds

Words and Music: Dave Des

Midnight steering wheel gripping

Wreckhouse winds

Body check my pick up truck 

Down the maritime TCH

18 wheeler made

Ink black tarmac rivers

Pulling me to the grave 

 

There’s no time to think

Just feel

there’s no time to think

Just feel

there’s no time to think

Just feel

 

Stacks of traps

Line the shore

Of Nameless Cove

The final stay for

Redcoat guests

Never to return 

To the sea

Nature causing chaos

Kicks up east coast shivers

Revenge served cold 

 

there’s no time to think

Just feel

there’s no time to think

Just feel

there’s no time to think

Just feel

Feel

Feel

Feel

 

Back to one

Words and Music: Dave Des

I’m breaking 

Away from you

I’m filling 

A space for two 

That once occupied one

So now it’s back to one

 

Follow me now

Follow me how?

 

I’ve woken 

A sleeping friend 

I’ve chosen 

To change the end

Cause I followed my heart

So now it’s back to start

 

Follow me now

Follow me how?

 

Learning how to walk again 

Who’s voice heard will talk to send

This will that falters

Far from alters

To the great unknown 

To move alone

 

I’m taking

Away from you

What I’m giving 

Myself to use

Renew, it has begun 

Cause now it’s back to one

Now it’s back to one
 

Head In The Sand

Words and Music: Dave Des

Om
Om
Om
Om


No serenity
No courage
No wisdom
To know the difference
This is my choice
 

Burning all the bridges
To escape or attack?
A human tornado
Storm chasers swarming
Afraid for the future
Obsessed with the past
A phantom nostalgia
For when all things were perfect
 

Head in the sand
I can't understand
Nowhere to run away
A new fear every day
With my head in the sand
No words to find
There is no peace
In a chaotic mind
 

Om
Om
Om
Om
 

In this echo chamber
I disappear into the depths
My light is refracted
Words are redacted
The weak be gone
Only the strong will survive
The sheep do not fear the wolf
They're safe from the shepherd
 

This is my way to survive
Just bury my soul alive
 

Head in the sand
I can't understand
Nowhere to run away
A new fear every day
With my head in the sand
No words to find
There is no peace
In a chaotic mind
 

Om
Om
 

No serenity
No courage
No wisdom
To know the difference
This is my choice

 

Sky's Open

Words and Music: Dave Des

Sky’s open coffee’s ready

Our manifesto of future intention

It’s on the table

It was first put out in the universe

But it boomeranged

every battle was won

yet the war was still lost

All we know is

 

Life happens

and it happened to us

We imagine 

better ways to live

These are no

Deep fake images

See the real pictures

we’re happy in them

After these long dark nights

We manifest our brightest days

 

We root for

The mindful tortoise 

to overtake 

the fleeting hare 

Slowly moving at 

the speed of trust 

It’ll win the race

Every victory lapse

Losing sight of the course

All we know is

 

Life happens

and it happened to us

We imagine 

better ways to live

These are no

Deep fake images

See the real pictures

we’re happy in them

After these long dark nights

We manifest our brightest days

 

Sky’s open coffee’s ready

We will win this

Slow and steady 

Sky’s open

Let’s get ready 

Sky's is open