New songs!!!

After succesfully writing together for the first time with our song Strong Enough Aaron and I have been working hard on developing our writing partnership. In the last couple of months we've collaborated on a whole bunch of new songs and at the same time I've snuck out a couple of new compositions! Goodness knows where I find the time. Here's a little lowdown on what's in the pipeline:

Blue and White - by Aaron and I... this is a song about lunar module pilot Michael Collins, who travelled with Buzz Aldrin and Neal Armstrong on the first lunar mission that lead to a landing, Apollo 11. Collins had to stay in the ship and orbit the moon while the others went exploring, out there in space he must have been the most alone any human being has ever been!

Almost Home - by Aaron and I... this is an odd lyric, in some ways it is quite ambiguous but I see it as releated to Stowaways and End Of The World, in that we see a relationship strained by apocolyptic circumstances.

Chasing Hearts - by Aaron and I... about a guy who sees the girl he likes being persued by predatory sex addict men. A bit of a reflection on the clubs and party scene we used to frequent more often I would say.

Take It As It Come - by Aaron and I... a ballad about sticking your course through tough time and making the best of it, no matter what life throws at you.

Body In The Boot - one of mine... this is a weird lyric again, it's a sort of story. There's a guy and his girl has left him by faking her own death/kidnapping and then years later he sees her alive. The twist is that he's been pretending to himself she's been alive all this time anyway... but this is ambiguously put, he's 'kept her alive' - so her memory, perhaps, but how is not discussed. A while back I was toying with 'Skeletons in the closet' as an album title, and this would fit that very well. We sense our narrator is psychotic himself - the faked death plays on a real obsession I have with people who come up with extreme solutions to every day problems. (I was watching horrible bodies last night and some woman had started giving herself daily enemas with coffee to deal with her constipation and then had become addicted to the coffee enemas; people are strange.)

The Poison Apple - another of mine... I wrote this song about Alan Turing, who was a code-breaker for Britain during the second world war and is thought to be the theoretical father of modern computing. Turing as gay and after the war he was prosecuted for indecent conducted and forced into a chemical castration which destroyed his body (he grew breasts, his penis and testicles shrivlled up) and his brilliant mind. Turing had an obsession with Snow White and used to chant the withes mantra about dipping the apple in the brew. When he eventually committed suicide he did so with an apple he had dipped in cyanide.