Hellebore is waiting 
Frozen in time
Eyes following movement
Waiting to strike

Evergreen
Breaking free

The invisible blitz is coming
As you come alive, come alive
The invisible blitz is coming
And it’s gonna strike, gonna strike

Coming clean 
He’s done the deed

Hellebore is raging 
The mercurial boy
Finding ways of changing
With troops to deploy

Walking free
Eternally

The invisible blitz is coming
As you come alive, come alive
The invisible blitz is coming
And it’s gonna strike, gonna strike

Released March 2022

Until your friends come knocking 
Listen underneath your pillow for the devil’s own
The a-lines and the beehives never knew just where to place you
Till the boys came home

Let me say what’s fair is fair
For all the lonely boys out there
I’m the only girl on air

The fog lights drift away across the bridge along the river
As you stand alone
The stardust never settled but the doubters still confine you
To a place unknown

Your Mother said you’d best beware
Now you can hear me anywhere
I’m the only girl on air

The billboards are coming down to meet you
Your Girl Friday running round to please you

Well, that is all she’ll ever do
And without much revenue
You see, I’m better off out there

Yesterday the papers said the city girls were clamouring
And up all night
We thought we were the special ones
We thought we were the only ones to get it right

Well, you can’t cancel out my name
For your holy fight for fame
Your Mother said you’d best beware
I’m the only girl on air
I’m the only girl on air
Your Mother said you’d best beware of me

The echo chamber in the city of gold
Tells you lies
The lies you want to hear
It’s an ordinary crime these days
They condemn your world to fear

You’re getting old
And you’re asleep at the wheel
Can you fake it one more time to show you’re the real deal?

You’re taking it down to the wire
Hedging bets
But you never tire
Taking it down to the wire
Till you crash
Crash on fire

We burned up Big Sur
We had to let it go
Goodbye golden years
It’s a crying shame there’s nothing left to lose
Or exorcise, my dear

We’re getting old
And we’re asleep at the wheel
Can we fake it one more time to show we’re the real deal?

We’re taking it down to the wire
Hedging bets
But we never tire
Taking it down to the wire
Till we crash
Crash on fire

We’re not making deals with no one, yeah

Taking it down to the wire
Hedging bets
But you never tire
Taking it down to the wire
Till you crash
Crash on fire

We’re not making deals with no one, yeah.

The lights have gone out on the city scape
The carousel a ghostly ride
In my head there's a snapshot of the name and the place
Lest I forget them

It's snowing blossom at the church today
For the wedding that never was
The town hall and the market place
Are missing a kind of buzz

No one's to blame

The hazy county lines disappear
I long for a deeper depth of field
I see your face pressed against the window pane
But you refuse to come and play

It's snowing blossom at the church today
For the wedding that never was
The town hall and the market place
Are missing a kind of buzz

No one's to blame

I saw you at the demonstration
I captured you
You were out of time

I left you at the sleeping station
I focussed out
For good this time

No one's to blame

I capture you again and again in my mind
It's a black and white kind of day
A cigarette scented seventies Bakelite kind of grey

No one's to blame.

Children too much too young
We had our chance, but we’re still not done
Our cardboard shells raised to the ground
They put us there, so we’re nowhere bound.

It’s the same gene
Our generation knows
We hope for the same peace
The mighty fall and we pick ourselves up now we’re

Dancing on the rubble of the city
Watching all the roads where we went wrong
Dancing on the rubble of the city
It’s keeping us young

Children in fear of man
Clinging on to the motherland
Making art out of war
Then they burn our shells till we take no more

It’s the same feat
If you fix us once you can fix us all
By the same means
No more urban myths to hang onto now we’re

Dancing on the rubble of the city
Watching all the roads where we went wrong
Dancing on the rubble of the city
It’s keeping us young

Swimming out to mainland
Our history got lost
Our lives aren't worth the same
The rights have all been bought

Where do we go now?
With the Halcyon days behind

The workers looking hopeful
Yet they're breathing in the stink
Holding out on payroll
In a burnt-out welfare state

Where do we go now?
With the Halcyon days behind

And it's time we woke up to the call
We don't need medals or trophies or phoney curtain calls
Or a lion that roars for nothing
Into nothingness
Just us

At dusk an empty playground
The wind blows a broken swing
Promises of mending
On the never-never wind

Where do we go now?
With the Halcyon days behind

Wake up
Take a look at me now
We gotta start looking at the silver lining

There's an angel of death on your back
You gotta run, so you and your kid won't get hit
But that's the order of the day in a country
Where shoot to kill is done at will

You gotta love me while you can
Or cut me out
Cut me down and ease the pain

All the good times are getting washed away
We gotta rise again another day
All the good times are getting washed away
How could I end up so displaced?

You can't hold on to the past
Just hold it in your mind
The girl you knew no longer hides
Her hands behind her back
I want some recompense
No abject fear is gonna make me toe the line

We gotta fix it while we can
Or hunt me down
Come and shoot me down in flames

All the good times are getting washed away
We gotta rise again another day
All the good times are getting washed away
How could I end up so displaced?

All the good times are getting washed away
We gotta rise again another day
All the good times are getting washed away
How could I end up so displaced?
I gotta find my way again
How could I end up so displaced?

Filming a car crash on the highway
Step on the brake, you have it your way
Our little war is raging from within
No points for guessing that I’ll weather it

And I don’t remember how our ties got severed

Will you remember me on the other side?
We tried to make our mark, but we were denied
Will you remember me on the other side?
Let’s dream what never was as we wave goodbye

Your flunkies fading on the estuary
What we have is just a memory
Yesterday’s poster girl is lying in state
And lo-fi fun has been outdated

And I don’t remember how our ties got severed

Will you remember me on the other side?
We tried to make our mark, but we were denied
Will you remember me on the other side?
Let’s dream what never was as we wave goodbye

I don’t remember how we got stuck in this rut, I said
I don’t remember how we got stuck in this rut, I said
I don’t remember
Best not remember 

Will you remember me on the other side?
We tried to make our mark, but we were denied
Will you remember me on the other side?
Let’s dream what never was as we wave goodbye

I dream I'm in your arms again
As I float in and out of consciousness
A man, a child, the cycle ends
That's nature's way
That's how it ends

A nightingale lit down tonight
to show the way across the ether
A nightingale, so clear and bright
I wanted to release her

I was a boy in '63
I steal your kiss in dreams again
I feel the tightening of the throat
That's nature's way
That's how it goes

The nightingale, she eased my brow
and sang across the ether
The nightingale, so clear and bright
I wanted to release her

I watched you from the pitch
You were untouchable
Invincible

And now I wait in line once more
The field has got so many ways
A man, a child, the cycle ends
That's nature's way
That's how it ends

The nightingale rounds up the birds
Immortal and free
The nightingale rounds up the birds
Immortal and free
Immortal and free

I live undercover in a world where time is money
People walk like tourists through my life, but I relinquish nothing
Put to bed the villains in my head
Take back control and jump off the edge

Is this the end of everything? (everything we knew)
And all our futile suffering? (all the stuff that’s true)
If our glory was in the past 
Then this shot at redemption will keep us together
Is this the end of everything?

I wish I was a child again when nothing mattered
A universe that’s parallel to this one with a life unfettered
Dodging bullets with my old man
Drive off the edge, get raised from the dead

Is this the end of everything? (everything we knew)
And all our futile suffering? (all the stuff that’s true)
If our glory was in the past 
Then this shot at redemption will keep us together
Is this the end of everything?

And I fall straight through this reality
Headhunting to our final duel

Is this the end of everything? (everything we knew)
And all our futile suffering? (all the stuff that’s true)
If our glory was in the past 
Then this shot at redemption will keep us together
Is this the end of everything?