words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 2005 

 

Born too old but too young to die. A childhood never realised. Body never grown, seed never sown. Never seen the love in a mother's eyes. Isolation, feel the hunger. No harvest in the desert sand. No reflection in the water. No water anymore in this land.

Heat of the sun burns by day. Children reach out their hands. Unclothed and filthy and crying at night. A dark storm blows across this neglected land.

Dream of love, pray for a future. Tenderness and a new law. A reason to live, a reason to smile. Oh, some beauty worth surviving for. If a God exists why does he allow such pain, pain to be felt? Apocalyptic scenes in narrow valleys. Bodies melted into the asphalt.

No shelter by day, no shelter by night. Children reach out their hands. Unclothed and filthy and crying at night. A dark storm blows through this devastated land.

 

features on the albums 'A Dark Storm', 'The Ezsential Ez Jon Erikson' and on the single 'A Dark Storm (Single Remix Edit)'.

words and music by Sam Johnson © copyright control 2011

 

Smiling laughing and looking beautiful

That’s how you will always be to me

You gave out so much Jody

To everyone who knew you

I find it hard to believe

That you had to leave us

Far too soon

You’re gonna be missed

Like the summer sun and roses

And I’ll remember your kiss

When the snowflakes start to fall

 

Smiling laughing and looking beautiful

That’s how you will always be to me

 

That’s how I’ll always remember you

Goodbye sweet Angel

Sleep and catch the wind

That’s how I’ll always remember you

Goodbye sweet Angel

Sleep and fly the wind

 

Features on the singles 'Always Be To Me / Snowballed' and 'Always Be To Me', the EP 'Seasons Greetings' and the album 'Believe Upon Each Day'.

words and music by Richard Duddle and Bryn Gator © copyright control 1985

 

As I walk on the beach under white moonlight the sea lapping at my feet

The winds a whispering message on a warm sea breeze but the message I can’t read

Is she really gone, is she really gone?

Hope she won’t be long, hope she won’t be long

Thought she was just playing hard to get now it seems that I was wrong

Please give me your undenying love I’d say it to you but I’m frightened to ask

Please give me your undenying love I just want this love to last

Want it to last, want it to last, want it to last, want it to last, want it to last, want it to last

I don’t remember ever being alone for so long I can’t live without her touch

I didn’t mind when she stole my heart away but she took just a little too much

Is she really gone, is she really gone?

Hope she won’t be long, hope she won’t be long

Thought she was just playing hard to get now it seems that I was wrong

Please give me your undenying love I’d say it to you but I’m frightened to ask

Please give me your undenying love I just want this love to last

Want it to last, want it to last, want it to last, want it to last, want it to last, want it to last

 

Features on the album 'Debut'.

words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 2005

 

Once had dreams, once had ambitions

A free spirit that could not be tamed

But now the same old faces and tired conversations

Each day feels just the same

No one listens to the words I say, feel I don’t belong

My self belief is fading away

I’ve been here too long

When I look at the whites of their eyes

I can see right through their disguise

Hypocrisy and lies

I’ve gotta get outta this place I’ve been here too long

I’ve gotta get outta this place I’ve been here too long, too long, too too long

Comes a time, take a look at your life

Wake up to realisation

Tolerance dries up

No wish to conform

Can’t bury your frustration

The time is slipping away

Where did it all go wrong

I die a little day by day

I’ve been here too long

When I look at the whites of their eyes

I can see right through their disguise

Hypocrisy and lies

I’ve gotta get outta this place I’ve been here too long

I’ve gotta get outta this place I’ve been here too long, too long, too too long

 

features on the albums 'A Dark Storm' and 'The Ezsential Ez Jon Erikson'.

Words and music by Julian Flindle © copyright control 2004

Anne-Marie she wakes into the cold morning air 

Gets out of bed and brushes down her hair 

Applies her make up to cover her despair

She hopes that no one stops to notice

She hopes that no one stops to care

 

Behind closed doors she is afraid of what he will do to her 

Behind closed doors she’s a prisoner like an animal in a cage 

Behind closed doors she is hit and she is pushed down to the floor 

She hides her life behind closed doors

 

Arrives at work on her own descends the elevator 

Looks down never around she gets on with her work

Leaves on time she’s never late she’s home again by five

She hopes that no one stops to notice 

She hopes that no one stops to care
 

Behind closed doors she is afraid of what he will do to her

Behind closed doors she’s a prisoner like an animal in a cage 

Behind closed doors she is hit and she is pushed down to the floor 

She hides her life behind closed doors

 

She hopes that no one stops to notice 

She hopes that no one stops to stare

 

Behind closed doors she is afraid of what he will do to her

Behind closed doors she’s a prisoner like an animal in a cage 

Behind closed doors she is hit and she is pushed down to the floor

She hides her life behind closed doors

 

Features on the albums 'No Evil' and 'Collection'.

Words and music by Ez Jon Erikson and Julian Flindle © copyright 2018

 

I've been through bad times

So many times before

But this time now I feel

I've really hit the floor

I can't go on this way

Bruised body, soul and mind

Will take no more

 

Each golden sunrise

Announces a brand new day

Your faith, hope, support and love

Show me the way

 

I thank you for giving me

A reason to believe

I thank you for caring

Enough to be with me

I thank you for giving me

A reason to believe

To believe

Yeah to believe

To believe

 

Life's path can sometimes be

Isolated and black

Seen strong great people

Lose their way and not make it back

We all need something or someone

Who we believe will save our fall

 

I won a battle

I thought I could never win

You taught me how

To search from deep within

 

I thank you for giving me

A reason to believe

I thank you for caring

Enough to be with me

I thank you for giving me

A reason to believe

To believe

Yeah to believe

To believe

 

I thank you for giving me

A reason to believe

I thank you for caring

Enough to be with me

I thank you for giving me

A reason to believe

To believe

Yeah to believe

To believe

Yeah to believe

To believe to believe to believe

 

Features on the single 'Believe' and the album 'Believe Upon Each Day'.

words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 2007

Spent too many years of my life

Acting out a role

In someone else’s shoes

Trying to be someone I’m not

Concerned with people’s views

Too much to prove

Then you came into my life

I felt a new beginning

You opened up my eyes

I suddenley started living

 

I can be myself when I’m alone with you

My stormy skies turn to a perfect blue

Close the door leave the world outside

All I need in this world is right here by my side

These are brighter days now shining through

I can be myself, be myself, be myself

Alone with you

 

My girl I thank you for

The unconditional love that I receive

You make clean the heart within me

Give me peace of mind

A reason to believe

The reflection in the mirror

Looking back at me

Is now the person that I

Always wanted to be

 

I can be myself when I’m alone with you

My stormy skies turn to a perfect blue

Close the door leave the world outside

All I need in this world is right here by my side

These are brighter days now shining through

I can be myself, be myself, be myself

Alone with you

Features on the albums 'Sense Of Purpose', 'Collection' and 'The EZsential Ez Jon Erikson'.

words by Ez Jon Erikson, music by Ez Jon Erikson & Julian Flindle © copyright control 1995

Descend the morning train, another normal working day

Stop off for a bite to eat at a diner on the way

I view faceless expressions, melancholy numbers in life's game

And I think to myself the roles the people play

 

Many employed securely routined dream of ambitions they never achieved

The accomplished concerned with complex heartache a normal life they wish to lead

Romantic dreams of eternal youth to live the endless Saturday night

Make you disregard ultimate happiness but it can be too late when you see the light

 

You are the best thing that's ever happened to me

Oh girl, the best thing, a loving fantasy

I really love you, I really need you

You are the best thing that's happened to me

 

Caught in a world of self importance goals hungered for achieved at all costs

Superficial, shallow, insincere, no feeling, essence of spirit inside now lost

Young and naive when love's just a game, rejection of security

Strip illusion, an empty pain inside craves for love and sensitivity

 

You are the best thing that's ever happened to me

Oh girl, the best thing, a loving fantasy

I really love you, I really need you

You are the best thing that's happened to me

 

features on the albums 'Ramshackle World', 'Ezposure (The Acoustic Performancez)', 'Collection' and 'The Ezsential Ez Jon Erikson'.

Words and music by Julian Flindle © copyright control 2007

 

Quietly softly

She passed me by

She walked on out into

The cold evening air

And gently quietly

She passed me by

Got into a car and then she

Drove off in the night

 

She never really understands

The games they play

The things they say

The pain they cause

The hurt inside

By what they say of her

 

She felt betrayed

So hurt inside

By the lies they spread

By the things they said

She felt betrayed

So hurt inside

By the lies they spread

By the things they said

She felt betrayed

 

Quietly sadly

She passed me by

Got in a car and then she

Drove off in the night

Quietly gently

Her sin the night

Got into bed and then

Drifted off into the night

 

Nobody understands

The pain they cause

The hurt inside

The things they said

The things they did

What they did to her

 

She felt betrayed

So hurt inside

By the lies they spread

By the things they said

She felt betrayed

So hurt inside

By the lies they spread

By the things they said

Oh, she felt betrayed

 

She felt betrayed

So hurt inside

By the lies they spread

By the things they said

She felt betrayed

So hurt inside

By the lies they spread

By the things they said

Oh, she felt betrayed

She felt betrayed

She felt betrayed

 

features on the albums 'Sense Of Purpose' and 'Collection'.

words and music by Ez Jon Erikson and Julian Flindle © copyright control 1988

 

Broken dreams my heart breaking baby

Come Back to me

I need your love pretty baby

Come back to me

 

Eyes met across a hazy room

Immediate infatuation

My soul danced upon your movements

Romancing destination

 

Situations change

Nothing remains

Destiny says rearrange

Took your love for granted

Now I’m broken hearted

Sleepless nights call your name

 

Broken dreams my heart breaking baby

Come Back to me

I need your loving oh baby

Come back to me

 

Walking in the mist

Talking to the night

My shadow a vision of you

Cast by the moonlight

 

Tormented teasing tantalised

Infiltration of the mind

Cast a web where haunting shadows loom

A prisoner trapped in an empty room

 

Broken dreams my heart breaking baby

Come Back to me

I need your loving oh baby

Come back to me

 

features on the EP 'The Bells Of St Mary EP Detours With Kristyna Myles and Morgan' and the albums 'Sense Of Purpose' and 'Collection'.

words and music by Richard Duddle and Sam Johnson © copyright control 1985

 

You call me up on the telephone. It only justifies my fear. Well you can cry all night if you wanna do. But I won’t wipe away your tears

It’s lookin’ black
Why is everything turning back?

It doesn’t matter much to me

It’s lookin’ black
Why is everything turning back?

It doesn’t matter much to me

Can’t you see it was everything to me?

And I don’t wanna let it go

The things we did were incredible. We didn’t think they’d ever change. But feelings change just like autumn leaves. I’m so sorry it happened to you and me, you and me

It’s lookin’ black
Why is everything turning back?

It doesn’t matter much to me

It’s lookin’ black
Why is everything turning back?

It doesn’t matter much to me
Can’t you see it was everything to me?

And I don’t wanna let it go​

 

features on the albums 'Debut' and 'Collection'.

Words and music by Julian Flindle © copyright control 2005

 

Everybody needs somebody sometimes

Everybody needs someone to love

Everybody needs somebody sometimes

Everybody needs someone to hold

Everybody needs somebody else

 

It doesn’t matter

If you’re wrong or if you’re right

It doesn’t matter

If you’re black or if you’re white

It doesn’t matter

When they turn out the lights

For in our darkest hour

We’re all the same

We all need a little company

 

Everybody needs somebody sometimes

Everybody needs someone to love

Everybody needs somebody sometimes

Everybody needs someone to hold

Everybody needs somebody else

 

It doesn’t matter

If you’re weak or you show might

It doesn’t matter

If you run or you stay and fight

It doesn’t matter

When they turn out the light

For in our darkest hour

We’re all the same

We all need a little company

 

Everybody needs somebody sometimes

Everybody needs someone to love

Everybody needs somebody sometimes

Everybody needs someone to hold

Everybody needs somebody else

 

features on the album ' A Dark Storm'.

Words and music by Sam Johnson, Julian Flindle and Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 2004

 

I feel like I’m falling down, I feel like I’m falling down

Why do people want to break you and why do people want to make you cry

 

I don’t know

There must be something missing in their souls

They must be jealous people

I don’t know

Why they want to try it at all

 

Now I know

I just been thinking now and I got wise

There must be something missing in their lives

Now I gotta stop falling down down down

 

The sky moves above me and the sea below

They all need a change in their lives

They abuse their freedom and betray you with their lies

They’ve fallen down the ladders of their lives

 

I feel like I’m falling down, I feel like I’m falling down

Why do people want to break you and why do people want to make you cry

I feel like I’m falling down

I feel like I’m falling down

 

Falling down, falling down

Falling down, falling down

Falling down, falling down, falling down

 

features on the album 'No Evil'.

words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 1999

 

Why do I look both ways when I'm crossing a one way street?

Why do I wash my hands after shaking the hands of every stranger I meet?

Why do I admit defeat before I even start to compete?

 

Got this fear of the world

Got this fear of the world

An instinct to survive

A fight to stay alive

Got this fear of the world

Of the world

 

When my head starts to hurt why do I worry something's wrong with my brain?

I'll never go abroad too scared to travel by boat or plane

Why do I duck in case a brick comes through the window when I'm on a train?

 

Got this fear of the world

Got this fear of the world

Well, I'm terrified

But it's justified

Got this fear of the world

Of the world

 

Afraid to go out

Shot on your doorstep

Afraid to stay in

Murdered whilst in bed

Can I find me a place untouched by human hands?

I never look at anyone in case my nose gets broken

And I'm the one who's penalised when my car gets stolen

Sometimes I wish I could just bury my head in the sand

 

Got this fear of the world

Got this fear of the world

An instinct to survive

A fight to stay alive

Got this fear of the world

Of the world

 

Fear of the world

Fear of the world

Fear of the world

Fear of the world

 

features on the albums 'Ramshackle World', 'Ezposure (The Acoustic Performancez)', 'Debut' and 'The Ezsential Ez Jon Erikson'.

Words and music by Julian Flindle © copyright control 2018

 

In forgotten town

Where the rain pours down

Lives homes hope and dreams are drowned

In forgotten town

As the schools close down

Assistance needs to be found

Murky surface water

Unable to escape

Service response is weak

 

It’s quiet round here these days

You can almost hear the sound

Of a heart beating

In forgotten town

In forgotten town

In forgotten town

The sun goes down

In forgotten town

 

In forgotten town

Where the mill shut down

There’s a constant unemployment line

In forgotten town

There’s no work around

You constantly walk that line

I see a lonely man

Walk down a lonely street

He’s got nothing to call his own

 

It’s quiet round here these days

You can almost hear the sound

Of a heart beating

In forgotten town

In forgotten town

In forgotten town

The sun goes down

In forgotten town

 

It’s quiet round here these days

All you can hear is the sound

Of the water flowing

In forgotten town

In forgotten town

In forgotten town

Let me get in a boat and go down

To forgotten town

To forgotten town

To forgotten town

To forgotten town

To forgotten town

 

features on the album 'Believe Upon Each Day'.

Words and music by Julian Flindle © copyright control 2004

 

Have you ever considered how I feel for you

Ever thought of a consequence of a world without us

It’s good to be together

And face the world side by side

Sometimes people can hurt each other

What matters is they stand the test of time

 

For love I will build a bridge and reach out to your heart

For love I will stake my life and nothing will tear us apart

Hold onto our love ‘til the end of time

For your love I will do it all

For your love I will do it all

 

Have you ever considered where we’d be right now

If our paths had never crossed

If we’d spent two worlds apart

I know where I’d rather be and that’s right by your side

Sometimes people can hurt each other

What matters is they stand the test of time

 

For love I will build a bridge and reach out to your heart

For love I will stake my life and nothing will tear us apart

Hold onto our love ‘til the end of time

For your love I will do it all

For your love I will do it all

For your love I will do it all

 

features on the albums 'A Dark Storm' and 'Collection and the single 'For Your Love'.

Words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 2004

 

Festive time of year again

Season of goodwill

Sent my letter to Santa Claus

And the snowfall covers the hills

There’s children hoping Santa will bring

A toy soldier and a rifle

But Santy there’s no present greater for me

Than mama’s homemade sherry trifle

 

Parties on everywhere we go

Christmas tree fairy lights a glow

Kissed my baby under mistletoe

We’re going outside for

Fun in the snow

Oh, oh, oh fun in the snow

Oh, oh, ho ho ho fun in the snow

 

Throwing snowballs it’s icy don’t fall

Wrap up because it’s snowing

Slip and slide join me in a sleigh ride

Hear those Christmas carollers sing

Snowdrift’s huge let’s go in to watch Scrooge

Hear those church bells ring

Turkey stuffing on a muffin

And brandy blazing Christmas pudding

 

Parties on everywhere we go

Christmas tree fairy lights a glow

Kissed my baby under mistletoe

We’re going outside for

Fun in the snow

Oh, oh, oh fun in the snow

Oh, oh, ho ho ho fun in the snow

 

Rockin’ around the Christmas tree

We all sing and shout

Peace on Earth drink to Messiah’s birth

Hey, mama can I have some more sprouts

Yeah

 

Parties on everywhere we go

Christmas tree fairy lights a glow

Kissed my baby under mistletoe

We’re going outside for

Fun in the snow

Oh, oh, oh fun in the snow

Oh, oh, ho ho ho fun in the snow

 

features on the EPs 'Snowballed The Christmas EP' and 'Seasons Greetings'.

Words and music by Sam Johnson © copyright control 2005

 

I’ve been hurt before

Wounded betrayed

Without thoughts of my feelings

Been choked up before

Ah, the pain inside of me

Is so deceiving

 

The stab winds in my heart

Where you cut me with your words

Are still bleeding

Are still bleeding

 

They play games

They play games

Some girls they play games

With the heart

They play games

They play games

Some girls they play games

With the heart

With the heart

 

She’s been hurt before

Pushed around

Her cuts just left a-bleeding

Been abused before

So she try’s to hide

The love that she is needing

 

Cuts and bruises fade away

Put the pain inside her heart

Will need some healing

Need some healing

 

They play games

They play games

Some men they play games

With the heart

They play games

They play games

Some men they play games

With the heart

With the heart

 

La la la la la

La la la la la

La La La La

La la la la la

La la la la la

La La La

 

 

They play games

They play games

Some girls they play games

With the heart

They play games

They play games

Some girls they play games

With the heart

With the heart

Oh, with the heart

 

features on the albums 'A Dark Storm' and 'Collection'.

Words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 2017

 

As we move further on up the road of our lives
A dark storm continues to rise
I need you shoulder to shoulder by my side
In my beautiful precious gift of life

Everyday is a day of my life
I intend to live it not just survive
It gets harder to find time to enjoy the ride
My beautiful precious gift of life

A young body grows old
But time cannot wither the soul
The spirit inside us lives on
And the dead are raised incorruptible
In the twinkling of an eye
As the last trumpet sounds
We shall not sleep
But we shall all be changed

Self destruction mankind’s mentality
Continual acts of brutality
Virulent hatred gives rise to raw savagery
Wasting the beautiful precious gift of life
Killing the beautiful precious gift of life
The beautiful precious gift of life

 

features on the single 'Walls Of Division / Gift Of Life' and the album 'Believe Upon Each Day'.

words and music by Richard Duddle and Bryn Gater © copyright control 1985

 

He’s just a private in a general’s war

He’s seventeen but he knows the score

Lives with the bombs

The bullets and the rest

Takes his orders dons his battle dress, dons his battle dress

 

Those generals got no reason to legalise their fun

Those sadists hooked on killin’

Yeah worship the gun

 

It’s sad but inevitable in a way

They run the gauntlets on apocalypse day

Try to get home but it isn’t there

No one can help them with their total, total despair

 

Those generals got no reason to legalise their fun

Those sadists hooked on killin’

Yeah worship the gun

 

He’s just a private in a general’s war

He’s seventeen but he knows the score

 

Those generals got no reason to legalise their fun

Those sadists hooked on killin’

Yeah worship the gun

 

features on the album 'General's War'.

Words and music by Julian Flindle © copyright control 2005

 

Hear Bob Dylan playing

From the radio

Singing songs of freedom

A long time ago

Know what he’s saying

Been down that road

Been there in spirit

That very soul

 

I’ve meant everything

That I’ve said and done

I’ve never lied

And my words have been true

I’ve been there for you

Even when we’ve been apart

Girl, I’m nothing without you

 

Seen my life passing by

Like some old movie show

An unfinished symphony

An open book of prose

I know where I’m going

As I travel down that road

Know when I get there

It’ll feel like home

 

I’ve meant everything

That I’ve said and done

I’ve never lied

And my words have been true

I’ve been there for you

Even when we’ve been apart

Girl, I’m nothing without you

 

It’s been hard sometimes

I guess it always is

You’ve gotta put your faith in me

It’s gonna work out fine

We’ll make sure that it does

You’ve gotta put your faith

 

I’ve meant everything

That I’ve said and done

I’ve never lied

And my words have been true

I’ve been there for you

Even when we’ve been apart

Girl, I’m nothing without you

Girl, I’m nothing without you

 

features on the album ' A Dark Storm'.

words and music by Richard Duddle © copyright control 1985

 

Our hearts so far apart

No one tries to hold on in the dark

It’s not seen just what you mean

Someday soon it’ll all come clear babe

 

Emotions turn to overload is it true you’re diggin’ gold

Emotions turn to overload is it true you’re diggin’ gold

 

Just one kiss a one near miss

I couldn’t hold on without it

Yeah your queen of hearts might get torn apart

If my celebrations were to start

 

Emotions turn to overload is it true you’re diggin’ gold

Emotions turn to overload is it true you’re diggin’ gold

 

I know that it’s been hard at times, but baby that’s just life

And I know that this is simplified, but there’s one thing I wanna let you know

That I love you, that I love you, that I love you

 

Our hearts so far apart

No one tries to hold on in the dark

Well it’s obscene just what you mean

Someday soon it’ll all come clear babe

 

Emotions turn to overload is it true you’re diggin’ gold

Emotions turn to overload is it true you’re diggin’ gold

 

feqtures on the album 'Debut'.

words and music by Julian Flindle © copyright control 2024

 

Comes a time in every life

When you just have to turn and face the facts

I'd never loved before

I certainly was never in love with you

 

But now is not the time

For me to reason why

No, this is the time

To reach out to the sky

 

Goodbye to us

Can you see it’s time to say

Goodbye to us

This is where we stand In life

Goodbye to us

Can you see it’s time to say goodbye

Can you see it’s time to say goodbye

 

I was so much older then

I was down and out and I was feeling blue

There was no one else around

So I found myself hanging round with you

 

But now is not the time

For me to reason why

No, this is the time

To reach out to the sky

 

Goodbye to us

Can you see it’s time to say

Goodbye to us

This is where we stand In life

Goodbye to us

Can you see it’s time to say goodbye

Can you see it’s time to say goodbye

 

And everyday I wonder

How it’s gonna be

When my life’s tragedy

Is catching up with me

My head is in a spin

My thoughts too loud to hear

It’s time to say

 

Goodbye to us

Can you see it’s time to say

Goodbye to us

This is where we stand In life

Goodbye to us

Can you see it’s time to say goodbye

Can you see it’s time to say goodbye

 

feqtures on the single 'Goodbye'.

Words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 1999

Drivin' round streets of this town tryin' to make plans of some kind

But since I heard you found a new love I can't get you outta my mind
You told me there's different kinds of love you love me like a brother
Said that I'd soon get over you but I could never love another

Half the world loves someone who doesn't love them
Half the world they give their hearts for no heart in return
Half the world loves someone who doesn't love them
Oh, without a heart you cannot survive

You like me to be there for you but you don't want me as a lover
Thrills you to know that you're wanted and over me you hold a power
I can't make you love me if you don't but I want to be more than a friend
It tears me apart to see you with him it's best that our friendship ends

Half the world loves someone who doesn't love them
Half the world they give their hearts for no heart in return
Half the world loves someone who doesn't love them
Oh, without a heart you cannot survive

 

The girls that want me they don't turn my eyes
Because I only want you to be by my side
I know life has to go on but don't you understand
You hold my life in your hands

Half the world loves someone who doesn't love them
Half the world they give their hearts for no heart in return
Half the world loves someone who doesn't love them
Oh, without a heart you cannot survive
Oh, without a heart you cannot survive

 

features on the albums 'Summers Of My Life', 'No Evil', 'Collection' and 'The Ezsential Ez Jon Erikson'.

Words and music by Julian Flindle © copyright control 2007

 

It’s getting complicated

Here with you tonight

I don’t know what I should do

Well, life is stranger now

In oh so many ways

I don’t know if I can see this through

 

Now I’m standing at the crossroads

And I’m looking down the road

Stop to speak to a stranger

Don’t know which way I should go

 

I can’t help myself tonight

I know it’s wrong but it feels so right

I can’t help myself tonight

Conscience fades into the darkness

The morning seems such a long way a way

I can’t help myself tonight

 

I get frustrated now

When you just walk away

I can’t survive without your love, no

Our love is greater now

In each and every way

I know just what I have to do

 

Now I’m standing at the crossroads

And I’m looking down the road

Stop to speak to a stranger

Don’t know which way I should go

 

I can’t help myself tonight

I know it’s wrong but it feels so right

I can’t help myself tonight

Conscience fades into the darkness

The morning seems such a long way a way

I can’t help myself tonight

I can’t help myself tonight

 

features on the album 'Sense Of Purpose'.

Words by Ez Jon Erikson, music by Ez Jon Erikson and Julian Flindle © copyright control 2004

 

If you were mine, girl I’d never hurt you
I’d never dessert you, love you all the time
If you were mine I’d never neglect you
Always respect you, you’d be always on my mind
If you were mine

But you’re not my woman and I’m not your man
‘Cause a man don’t own a woman and a woman don’t own a man
We’ve all got our own lives, all got our own minds
We all need our own space once in a while

If you were mine, girl I’d always charm you
Never ever harm you, love you all the time

If you were mine I’d always respect you

Always protect you, never be unkind
If you were mine

But you’re not my woman and I’m not your man
‘Cause a man don’t own a woman and a woman don’t own a man

We’ve all got our own lives, all got our own minds

We all need our own space once in a while

If you were mine I’d always respect you

Always protect you, never be unkind
If you were mine

 

features on the album 'No Evil'.

Words and music by Ez Jon Erikson and Julian Flindle © copyright control 2018

 

Born into a family business

Raised in this town

Father worked hard to build it up

New developments are closing it down

Economy over quality

On benefits and on the scrounge

I realise the battle is lost

I realise that this is the time to move on

 

Coz it’s not me that they’re looking for

Not me the next in line

It’s not me that they crave tonight

Not me they want to sign

It’s not me

It’s not me

 

Values and traditions of ages gone

Are no longer maintained

Skills training experience received in vain

Are washed out with the rain

Can somehow yesterday’s loss

Be tomorrow’s gain

I realise the battle is lost

I realise that this is the time to move on

 

Coz it’s not me that they’re looking for

Not me the next in line

It’s not me that they crave tonight

Not me they want to sign

It’s not me

It’s not me

 

Coz it’s not me that they’re looking for

Not me the next in line

It’s not me that they crave tonight

Not me they want to sign

It’s not me

It’s not me

 

features on the album 'Believe Upon Each Day'.

Words and music by Sam Johnson © copyright control 2004

Do you wanna know me or are you just here pissin’ around
Strange that you ignore me when I try
I would love to love you
You turn it on then you’re turnin’ it off

You’re puttin’ out the fire when I wanna burn

It’s not right you’re takin’ it to extremes
It’s not right I’m only lovin’ you in my dreams

If you wanna be with me then lover stay
If you wanna break my heart lover go away
I can take it like a man because that’s what I am
You won’t see the tears I cry when you walk away
You won’t see the tears I cry when you walk away

This just can’t go on now you’re playin’ too many games with my mind
How much more do you think I can really take
You’re the one who’ll lose out on all the love and carin’ I got for you

And then you’re gonna realise when it’s much too late

It’s not right you’re takin’ it to extremes
It’s not right I’m only lovin’ you in my dreams

If you wanna be with me then lover stay
If you wanna break my heart lover go away
I can take it like a man because that’s what I am
You won’t see the tears I cry when you walk away
You won’t see the tears I cry when you walk away

                                                features on the album 'No Evil'.

written by Marty Wilde and Ronnie Scott, published under the pseudonyms Frere Manston and Jack Gellar.

Initially recorded by Welsh band The Bystanders as 'When Jesamine Goes',  a version by English bandThe Casuals became a hit when it was released as a single in August 1968. It reached number two on the UK Singles Chart in October 1968.

features on the album 'Collection'.

words and music by Buddy Holly

 

features on the singles 'Learning The Game' and the album 'Collection'.

Words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 2001

 

Question, when how and why evolution

Answer, no answer no solution

Creation life's duration, trepidation frustration 
Consolation ejaculation

 

Question, life's termination cremation

No answer, question resurrection

Enduration life's elevation, realisation taxation

Compensation emigration

 

A battle to keep up with the cost of living

Hatred deceiving sinning

Income cut, interest rate up again

No low prices, no half prices, life a gamble a game

Play to win no turning back, everyone's fate the same

 

Oh, oh we live to die

Oh, oh we live to die

 

Question, future computerisation

Answer, is this the answer, robotisation

Birth control with technology, check gene compatability

Choose and download personality, digitally gain immortality

 

Oh, oh we live to die

Oh, oh we live to die

Oh, oh we live to die

Oh, oh we live to die

 

features on the albums 'Ramshackle World', 'Debut' and 'The Ezsential Ez Jon Erikson'.

words and music by Richard Duddle and Bryn Gator © copyright control 1985

I ask a favour in return 

Love’s demise is a lack of one’s concern

Should I quit while I’m going strong?

Well I can’t understand what can go wrong

Check you don’t extend your reach

A thousand kisses won’t break the breach

Your life is my life I hope you know

 

Love was in your eyes

Yeah, I saw it from the start 

Love was in your eyes 

Well, I never want to part 

Love was in your eyes 

Yeah, yeah, is this love

 

What’s in my heart you can never see 

What’s in your heart is a mystery 

Well let’s just hope they will always bond 

Make love special all our own 

Well, if you step out too far I’ll catch you when you fall

You can depend on me and I’ll depend on you
 

Love was in your eyes

Yeah, I saw it from the start

Love was in your eyes

Well, I never want to part

Love was in your eyes

Yeah, yeah, is this love, is this love?

 

features on the album 'Debut'.

Words and music by Julian Flindle © copyright control 2018

 

Make up fading

Dying embers of a broken dream

No use in faking

Living a life of hypocrisy

Mirror breaking

Trying to be someone she’ll never be

She’ll never be

 

Melanie cries in the dark

Sees the world through another’s eyes

Melanie cries in the dark

Sees a world in which she can’t belong

Melanie cries

 

Charade is over

It’s time to choose another game

When fate has played her

A hand with which she can never win

It’s time to change now

It’s time to face reality

Reality

 

Melanie cries in the dark

Sees the world through another’s eyes

Melanie cries in the dark

Sees a world in which she can’t belong

Melanie cries

 

It’s time to make a change

Find out how she feels inside

She’s got to be so strong

If she is going to see the light

 

Melanie cries in the dark

Sees the world through another’s eyes

Melanie cries in the dark

Sees a world in which she can’t belong

Melanie cries

Melanie cries

Melanie cries

Melanie cries

Melanie cries

Melanie cries

Melanie cries

Melanie cries

Melanie cries

 

features on the album 'Believe Upon Each Day'.

Words and music by Julian Flindle © copyright control 2004

 

Wakes up on Monday morning to a world that she don’t know

Takes her time and feels her sadness where did it all go

It is the time for her to take her chance and get away

 

She takes a trip down Memory Lane

To visit friends and familiar places

She takes a trip down Memory Lane

Where things always feels a whole lot better

She takes a trip down Memory Lane

 

Walks down a crowded high street, she’s just a stranger in the crowd

She’s learnt to look right through them to where she would be now

It is the time for her to take her chance and get away

 

She takes a trip down Memory Lane

To visit friends and familiar places

She takes a trip down Memory Lane

Where things always feels a whole lot better

She takes a trip down Memory Lane

 

Whatever happened to the place where she was born

Where have those houses gone replaced by a concrete lawn

She waves with a tear in her eye but there’s no one to wave back

They’ve all gone, they’ve all gone

 

She takes a trip down Memory Lane

To visit friends and familiar places

She takes a trip down Memory Lane

Where things always feels a whole lot better

She takes a trip down Memory Lane

She takes a trip down Memory Lane

 

features on the albums 'No Evil' and 'Collection and the single 'Memory Lane'.

Words and music by Sam Johnson © copyright control 2007

 

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

 

When the sun goes down

I start feeling blue

‘Cause I remember

The good times with you

When the sun goes down

I start feeling blue

‘Cause I remember

The good times with you

 

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

 

The stars come out

And they make me cry

For they remind me

Of your beautiful eyes

The stars come out

And they make me cry

For they remind me

Of your beautiful eyes

 

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

 

 

The bed feels empty

‘Cause you’re not there

No kiss goodnight

Yeah, it’s just not fair

Oh, the bed feels empty

When you’re not there

No goodnight kisses

Yeah, it’s just not fair

 

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

Oh, it’s at night when I miss you most

 

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

Well, it’s at night when I miss you most

Oh, it’s at night when I miss you most

Oh, it’s at night when I miss you most

 

features on the albums 'Sense Of Purpose' and 'Collection'.

Words and music by Julian Flindle © copyright control 2003

Sittin’ in this lonely café bar
Cold cup of coffee in my hand

Light up one last cigarette while the rain pours down a broken window pane

Since you left me I’ve lost direction

Since you went away, girl, I think to myself

 

There must be more to life so much more to life than this

There must be more to life so much more that I could give

There must be more to life so much more to life than this

Drink my coffee pay my bill

Put on my hat and coat

Walk out a crowded street parade

While the rain pours down reflects my very soul

Since you left me I’ve lost direction

Since you went away, girl, I think to myself

 

There must be more to life so much more to life than this

There must be more to life so much more that I could give

There must be more to life so much more to life than this
As I sit in my own little world thinkin’ about the past

There must be more to life than this

 

It’s so sad, it’s so sad, it’s so sad, it’s so sad, it’s so sad, it’s so sad,

It’s a sad, sad day, such a sad, sad day

 

There must be more to life

 

features on the album 'Debut'.

Words and music by Ez Jon Erikson and Julian Flindle © copyright control 2004

Since the day that you left me I’ve been so alone

This bed is cold without you lying on my own

And this broken heart is bleeding, my life’s been torn in two

Can’t face the world outside, it means nothing without you

Never felt this way before, my broken heart feels the pain

Never felt this way before, I want you back in my arms again
No, I’ve never felt this way before

You said our love could never be, ‘cause your feelings had ended

But I want you oh so desperately I know our love can be mended                                       

We’re just going through a hard time, you’re feeling a little confused

That other guy can’t love you, girl you’re just being used

Never felt this way before I’m crying in the rain
Never felt this way before and I don’t want to feel it again
No, I’ve never felt this way before

So much I tried to say, but words got in the way
I wish it was all a bad dream
Just give me one more chance I swear we’d find romance
I’d show you just how much
How much you mean to me

Never felt this way before, my heart feels the pain
Never felt this way before, I want you back in my arms again
No, I’ve never felt this way before

 

features on the albums 'No Evil', 'Collection', 'The EZsential Ez Jon Erikson' and the EP 'The Bells Of St Mary EP Detours with Kristyna Myles and Morgan'.

Words and music by Julian Flindle © copyright control 2007

 

Gonna tell you a story

About a man that I used to know

Gonna tell you a tale

Of a time not so long ago

 

Well the world keeps on turning

And there’s nothing we can do

Well things are moving on now

And I’ve gotta pull on through

 

‘Cause I’m not the man I used to be

Time has taken toll

‘Cause I’m not the man I used to be

I’ve changed and that is all

Well I don’t know what is going on

Or what is going down

‘Cause I’m not the man I used to be

These days I wear a frown

 

Gonna take you away

To another time and place

Gonna sit beside you

On a magic carpet ride

 

Well the world keeps on turning

And there’s nothing we can do

Well things are moving on now

And I’ve gotta pull on through

 

‘Cause I’m not the man I used to be

Time has taken toll

‘Cause I’m not the man I used to be

I’ve changed and that is all

Well I don’t know what is going on

Or what is going down

‘Cause I’m not the man I used to be

These days I wear a frown

 

‘Cause I’m not the man I used to be

Time has taken toll

‘Cause I’m not the man I used to be

I’ve changed and that is all

Well I don’t know what is going on

Or what is going down

‘Cause I’m not the man I used to be

These days I wear a frown

These days I wear a frown

I’ve changed I’ve changed around

 

features on the album 'Sense Of Purpose'.

Words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 2004

 

Lay your hand in mine one more time

And I will sing for you a simple rhyme

Close your tired eyes and dream your beautiful dream

And drift away to that magical land of evergreen

 

We get scared at times and feel we’ve lost our way
And wonder how we’ll ever get through another day
I’ll be there to hide you from the pouring rain
And I’ll be there beside you to share with you your pain

Look into my eyes, oh my eyes, and know these tears of mine
And I will say the words I love you one more time

I’ll look into your eyes, oh your eyes, and know the world that’s mine
And let me hear the words I love you one more time

 

I will kiss your lips one more time
And I will sing for you a song of mine
When darkness closes in sometimes we lose our faith
But love like ours never dies it shines on to light the way

 

Look into my eyes, oh my eyes, and know these tears of mine
And I will say the words I love you one more time
I’ll look into your eyes, oh your eyes, and know the world that’s mine
And let me hear the words I love you one more time

 

features on the albums 'No Evil', 'Collection' and 'The EZsential Ez Jon Erikson'.

Words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 2005

 

She stands at her frosted window

Wipes the morning condensation away

She focuses on the flowing stream

As she considers what she’ll do with her

As she struggles alone to send her children off to school

The tax increases on property and fuel

 

And she says oh, if a dream could become reality

If a dream could become reality

I’d fly away from here, escape the debt and fear of all these years

 

Her father told her as a child, girl save your money for a rainy day

But day after day endless rain pours down

She’ll have these bills to pay until her dying day

A fear of death makes her pray to the Lord

Age brings knowledge and wisdom but no reward

 

And she says oh, if a dream could become reality

If a dream could become reality

I would escape from here from loneliness and tears

If a dream could become reality, if a dream could become reality

 

Her friends of old only communicate these days

By phone message since they all left town

Well she’ll remain a prisoner to her roots

In this place one day they will lay her body down, oh lay her body down

Oh, lay her body down

 

And she says oh, if a dream could become reality

If a dream could become reality

I would escape from here from loneliness and fear

If a dream could become reality, if a dream could become reality

If a dream could become reality, if a dream could become reality

Can a dream become reality, can my dream become reality

 

features on the albums 'A Dark Storm' and 'The EZsential Ez Jon Erikson'.

Words and music by Sam Johnson © copyright control 2005

 

Love hurts

Love burns

Love tears your heart out

And makes you churn

Love hurts

Love burns

Love tears your heart out

And makes you churn

 

But everybody needs it

Yeah, we all seem to need it

And I’m telling you I need it

Right now

Right now

Yeah, we all seem to need it

Yeah everybody needs it

And I’m telling you I need it

Right now

Right now

 

Love hurts

Love burns

Love takes you out

But do you ever learn

Love hurts

Love burns

Love fries your brain

You never feel the same

 

But everybody needs it

Yeah, we all seem to need it

And I’m telling you I need it

Right now

Right now

Yeah everybody needs it

Yeah, we all seem to need it

And I’m telling you I need it

Right now

Right now

Right now

Right now

 

Yeah, love it can make

The toughest men cry

And love it can blind your eyes

Yeah, love it can make

The toughest men cry

And love it can blind your eyes

 

But everybody needs it

Yeah, we all seem to need it

And I’m telling you I need it

Right now

Right now

Yeah everybody needs it

Yeah, we all seem to need it

And I’m telling you I need it

Right now

Right now

Right now

Right now

 

Yeah everybody needs it

Yeah, we all seem to need it

And I’m telling you I need it

Right now

Right now

Right now

Right now

Yeah everybody needs it

Yeah, we all seem to need it

And I’m telling you I need it

Right now

Right now

Right now

 

features on the album 'A Dark Storm'.

Words and music by Sam Johnson © copyright control 1988

 

Just look at the rain

And watch it pour

It’s like the state of our love

Something we can’t ignore

Today they’re out in the street

You have no pride at all

We had a row and a fight

In a shopping mall

So you give me no choice

Slowly been building up

What good is our love

When it’s not good enough

To be with you and me

 

Is this the right thing

That I’ve done

When I know that your heart

Was the one thing I’d won

It’s just the pain down inside

That keeps on bothering me

Don’t want to live out my life

In this misery

Look what you’ve done

Baby, look what you’ve done

 

We both know the truth

Can’t go on this way

We’ve drifted further apart

Although it’s sad to say

Perhaps in time we will see

If I’m wrong or I’m right

With all this hurt I can’t hide

I just can’t sleep at night

My decision is made

Tears they fall with the rain

The weather outside is like

The weather inside my heart

It tears me apart

 

Is this the right thing

That I’ve done

When I know that your heart

Was the one thing I’d won

It’s just the pain down inside

That keeps on bothering me

Don’t want to live out my life

In this misery

Look what you’ve done

Baby, look what you’ve done

 

Can’t you see what you’re doing to me

Are you so blind that you can’t see

What you’ve done

Baby, baby

Too far gone to try and heal the pain

Seems our love’s been

Washed out with the rain

It’s over

It’s over

 

I can’t help these feelings inside

No no no

You can’t dry these tears

That I’ve cried for you

I’d dry the skies for you

 

Is this the right thing

That I’ve done

When I know that your heart

Was the one thing I’d won

It’s just the pain down inside

That keeps on bothering me

Don’t want to live out my life

In this misery

 

Is this the right thing

That I’ve done

When I know that your heart

Was the one thing I’d won

It’s just the pain down inside

That keeps on bothering me

Don’t want to live out my life

In this misery

 

Is this the right thing

That I’ve done

When I know that your heart

Was the one thing I’d won

It’s just the pain down inside

That keeps on bothering me

Don’t want to live out my life

In this misery

Is this the right thing

 

features on the album 'Believe Upon Each Day'.

Words and music by Julian Flindle © copyright control 2018

 

Sitting pretty in London Town

Only those who agree are around

Eyes closed head face down

Can’t see the world around

Getting harder day by day

Just trying to make this life pay

 

Road blockade police car

Keep it moving but it won’t get far

We’re on the road to ruin

Road blockade police car

Keep it moving but it won’t get far

We’re on the road to ruin

The road to ruin

 

Terror attacks disorder

Police cuts panic and fear

Ignore the naked truth

Communities disappear

Getting harder day by day

Just trying to make all this pay

 

Road blockade police car

Keep it moving but it won’t get far

We’re on the road to ruin

Road blockade police car

Keep it moving but we won’t get far

We’re on the road to ruin

The road to ruin

The road to ruin

The road to ruin

The road to ruin

 

Road blockade police car

Keep it moving but it won’t get far

 

features on the album 'Believe Upon Each Day'.

Words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 2007

 

When the pressures of this world

Weigh heavy on your shoulders

And you feel the four walls

Closing in on you

Closing in on you

I will be your friend

I will be there for you

There for you to talk to

And I will give you room

Yes I will give you room

Room to breathe

 

If your insecurities

Of old return to haunt

And you feel the need

The need for your own space

The need for your own space

You can place your trust

You can place your trust in me

I am here to confide in

And I will give you room

Oh, I will give you room

Room to breathe

 

And should you ever feel confused

By which path your life is taking

Suffocated by everyone you know

I can offer strength

Support and understanding

I will give you room to grow

Oh, oh, oh

 

Should your light ever turn

Your light turn to darkness

And you feel you've lost your faith

In all you've believed

In all you've believed

I will be your friend

I will be the light to guide you

You are not alone

Yes, I will give you room

Oh, I will give you room

Room to breathe

Room to breathe

Room to breathe

Room to breathe

 

features on the albums 'Sense Of Purpose' and 'The EZsential Ez Jon Erikson'.

Words and music by Julian Flindle © copyright control

 

She’s leavin’ home, packs her bags and closes the door behind
She’s had enough of all those teenage bust ups

Descends a long platform and she finds herself in an isolated place

She still feels their love but that just ain’t, ain’t enough anymore

It feels like the right thing to her, it feels like there’s no way out

She’s leavin’

 

She’s leavin’ home

Rides out on a midnight train

She’s just a little child

Another statistic on the street

She’s a runaway child

 

They sit by the phone praying she will call sometime

She walks the streets so cold so hungry so alone

They’ve cried so hard

The tears just won’t wash away

She’s on her own and feels like there is no way home

She feels that it’s all gone too far, she feels like there’s no way out

She’s leavin’

 

She’s leavin’ home

Rides out on a midnight train

She’s just a little child

Another statistic on the street

She’s a runaway child

A runaway child

 

features on the album 'Debut'.

Words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 2017

 

With each passing year

I feel like a scared child

I fail to recall

The last time I smiled

Anxiety, pressure

Through my blood floods wild

As I struggle to get safely through life

 

My greatest ambition

Was a home by the sea

To work and take care

Of friends and family

To love and be loved

In a land that is free

As I struggle to get safely through life

 

Always shown respect

Followed the path straight

Believed in the Lord

With my prayers of faith

But where’s my saviour now

To keep me safe

As I struggle to get safely through life

 

Rule Britannia

Once ruled the waves

But now we struggle to keep

The waters at bay

To save our homes with debts

No honest man can pay

As we struggle to get safely through life

 

features on the albums 'Unsheltered' and 'Believe Upon Each Day'.

 

Words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 2017

 

Man cannot buy the sky

Or own the wind and rain

But he can destroy this world

Cause unnecessary pain

 

Oh, the morning sun hurts my tired eyes

I wake to the dawn of a new day

 

View of ripe meadows and hills

Blotted by talking wires

Secret forest corners

Heavy with the scent of man’s fires

 

Is this the end of living

And the beginning of survival

 

Clear waters ghostly reflections

Tell of life’s memories

A strand in the web of life

A web that’s not our’s to weave

Destiny of our people

Has become a mystery

Are we losing

Losing our sense of purpose

 

The water’s murmur is the voice

Of forefathers we have lost

The precious air shares its spirit

With all the life it supports

 

What befalls the Earth befalls us all

And man has poisoned the land and air

 

Clear waters ghostly reflections

Tell of life’s memories

A strand in the web of life

A web that’s not our’s to weave

Destiny of our people

Has become a mystery

Are we losing

Losing our sense of purpose

 

One day our memory will be a shadow

Of a cloud moving across the land

 

Clear waters ghostly reflections

Tell of life’s memories

A strand in the web of life

A web that’s not our’s to weave

Destiny of our people

Has become a mystery

Are we losing

Losing our sense of purpose

 

features on the EP 'The Bells Of St Mary EP Detours with Kristyna Myles and Morgan', and the albums 'Sense Of Purpose', 'Collection' and 'The EZsential Ez Jon Erikson'.

Words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 2004

 

I may as well be hit by a snowball attack

'Cause both my girlfriend and my boss

Gave me the Christmas sack

Well Santa find me a job

And bring my baby back

I feel like I've been snowballed

I feel like I've been snowballed

 

It's gonna be a long, lonely Christmas Day

Now my girl has gone away

Santa won't be comin' on his sleigh

I feel like I've been snowballed

I feel like I've been snowballed

 

Well I tell you mister it ain't funny

Spending Christmas without your honey

Got no job, got no money

I feel like I've been snowballed

 

Christmas was fun when I was at school

But now I just don't feel so cool

Guess you could call me a Christmas Fool

I feel like I've been snowballed

I feel like I've been snowballed

 

Well I tell you mister it ain't funny

Spending Christmas without your honey

Got no job, got no money

I feel like I've been snowballed

 

It's gonna be a long, lonely Christmas Day

Now my girl has gone away

Santa won't be comin' on his sleigh

I feel like I've been snowballed

I feel like I've been snowballed

I feel like I've been snowballed

I feel like I've been snowballed

I feel like I've been snowballed

I feel like I've been snowballed

 

features on the EPs 'Snowballed The Christmas EP' and 'Seasons Greetings', the singles 'Snowballed' and 'Always Be To Me / Snowballed' and on the album 'The EZsential Ez Jon Erikson'.

Words by Ez Jon Erikson, music by Ez Jon Erikson and Julian Flindle © copyright control 1987

 

December nights growing old

I feel myself turning cold without you here beside me

Low flame no fuel to my fire

Snow outside drifting higher, a blizzard inside me

Hold tight to memories

Your love is what I need the most this time of year

Lying side by side by the Christmas tree

You lied when you whispered that you would always love me

Mesmerising, fantasising

But the truth is in your mind you were criticising me

 

Young lovers pass hand in hand

Souls massaged by Wonderland, yet mine undercover

My Christmas Eve spent alone

Lying spellbound by the phone to hear the clock strike hour after hour

Always believed in love to last

Always living in the past, can't face the present nor my future to be

Used ruled and fooled me by playing your role

You lied when you swore that you would never let me go

Hypnotising, tantalising

But the truth is in your heart you were victimising me

 

I look to the snow on the mountains

The snow on the mountains

​Oh, holding back the tears

Just holding back the tears

Christmas is empty without you

Hold on to memories

Holding on, holding on, holding on hold tight to memories

 

Oh, I just keep holding on, girl, to memories

 

features on the EPs 'Snowballed The Christmas EP' and 'Seasons Greetings' and on the album 'The EZsential Ez Jon Erikson'.

Words and music by Julian Flindle © copyright control 2004

 

How did we get here, probably never know

Neither of us lookin’, oh, you came and took my soul

It’s gonna be tough now but there ain’t no turnin’ back

We two are soul mates in this once in a lifetime love

 

And I pray someday we’ll be together

Yes I pray that day will last forever

I wanna reach out and touch you

I wanna hold you and love you

Someday I pray you will be mine

 

I need to hold you each and every day

I feel so alone now if you are ever far away

Gonna always love you and I need you by my side

Can’t live without you, my soul would surely die

 

And I pray someday we’ll be together

Yes I pray that day will last forever

I wanna reach out and touch you

I wanna hold you and love you

I pray someday you will be mine

 

I feel so happy when I am here with you

You know I’ll never ever leave you

You know I never will, you know I never will

 

 And I pray someday we’ll be together

Yes I pray that day will last forever

I wanna reach out and touch you

I wanna hold you and love you

I pray someday you will be mine

Oh, I pray someday you will be mine

Yeah, I pray someday you will be mine

 

features on the albums 'No Evil' and 'Collection', the single 'Someday' and the EP 'Snowballed The Christmas EP'.

 

 

Words and music by Bryn Gater © copyright control 1987

 

You took your chance, I’ll stake my heart

We danced the dance two worlds apart

We could never live as one and time had stood still

When we made a memory that no man could kill

 

Stay with me tonight

I saw the morning light

Rise in your eyes

The memory never dies

Stay with me tonight

We’ll live a second time

Our hearts will collide

If you stay with me tonight

 

Show me your smile and I’d give you my life

And all the while it cuts like a knife

My heart is bleeding, only your hands can heal

Give me that feeling you once made me feel

 

Stay with me tonight

I saw the morning light

Rise in your eyes

The memory never dies

Stay with me tonight

We’ll live a second time

Our hearts will collide

If you stay with me tonight

 

features on the albums 'Debut' and 'Collection'.

Words and music by Julian Flindle © copyright control 2005

 

Sitting here thinking of you

But it still rains under the trees

The memory haunts my mind

But it still rains under the trees

 

I can’t forget you, honey

I need you in my dreams

I can’t forget you, honey

I need you in my dreams

 

And it’s getting better all the time

Yeah it’s getting better all the time

Yeah it’s getting better

 

The torture reigns in me

And it still rains under the trees

The knife edge twists and turns

But it still rains under the trees

 

I can’t forget you, honey

I need you in my dreams

I can’t forget you, honey

I need you in my dreams

 

And it’s getting better all the time

Yeah it’s getting better all the time

Yeah it’s getting better all the time

 

And it’s getting better all the time

Yeah it’s getting better all the time

Yeah it’s getting better all the time

 

features on the album 'A Dark Storm'.

Words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 2007

 

This building stood for a hundred years

​Survived two World Wars

​They call it development

​They’re tearing it down

​Some fatcat’s getting richer

​Yet the public does not need

​Another shopping centre in this town

 

​Thrownaway by this world

​By society

​Is nothing sacred anymore

​Thrownaway by those we trust

​By the ones closest to us

​No nothing’s sacred anymore

​Anymore

 

​We long for what we have not

​Yet disregard possessions

​Always look to a brighter day to come

​Appreciation of the here and now

​Is clouded by obsessions

​Then we attempt to recreate events long gone

 

​Thrownaway by this world

​By society

​Is nothing sacred anymore

​Thrownaway by those we trust

​By the ones closest to us

​No nothing’s sacred anymore

​Anymore

​

​Do we ever really know

​What goes on in people’s minds

​Driven by sexual power and wealth

​How can I trust anyone

​Family or friends

​When I cannot even trust myself

 

features on the albums 'Sense Of Purpose' and 'The EZsential Ez Jon Erikson'.

Words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 2005

 

Good to see your face again, too long since we parted
Have a drink on me my friend, let’s get this party started
We never say the words we want to say, not enough hours in the day

 

Years they come, oh years they go, too easy we lose touch
As we age we realise friendship means so much
Together we create some memories and be the people that we always wanted to be

 

If we believe in each other, we can achieve our dreams together
Stand shoulder to shoulder side by side
Ride the storm together, remain friends forever
Survive the deepest waters at high tide
Yeah, we can do it all together

 

Remember the day we met way back at high school
Liked the same music, wore the same clothes
Man, we looked really cool
We were gonna be rock ‘n’ roll stars one day, but then somehow life got in the way

 

But if we believe in each other, we can achieve our dreams together
Stand shoulder to shoulder side by side
Ride the storm together, remain friends forever
Survive the deepest waters at high tide
Yeah, we can do it all together

 

We’ll keep those promises we made long ago to each other
As teenage kids when we swore we would always be blood brothers

 

But if we believe in each other, we can achieve our dreams together
Stand shoulder to shoulder side by side
Ride the storm together, remain friends forever
Survive the deepest waters at high        Yeah, we can do it all together

We can do it all together

We can do it all together

 

features on the albums 'A Dark Storm' and 'Collection'.

Words and music by Sam Johnson © copyright control 1988

 

You go runnin’ around teasin’ and deceivin’

I’m still crazy for your love though I hide away from the feelin’

I just can’t understand, you still say I’m your lovin’ man

 

Well you took words outta my mouth when you said you loved me

And you take thoughts outta my mind when you’re thinkin’ of me

Well you took words outta my mouth when you said you loved me

And you take thoughts outta my mind when you’re thinkin’ of me

You keep cheatin’ my heart so I don’t know where to start

Took words outta my mouth when you said you loved me

 

You know that I’m part of you and you know I always will be

So when you’ve stopped your runnin’ round you said that you’ll come back and choose me

I’m not a fool to believe what you say

When you say you’re comin’ back someday

 

Well you took words outta my mouth when you said you loved me

And you take thoughts outta my mind when you’re thinkin’ of me

Well you took words outta my mouth when you said you loved me

And you take thoughts outta my mind when you’re thinkin’ of me

You keep cheatin’ my heart so I don’t know where to start

Took words outta my mouth when you said you loved me

 

features on the album 'No Evil'.

Words by Ez Jon Erikson and Sam Johnson, music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 2017

 

Pleasure and pain

Of the years we have gained

We have grown we have changed

For better or worse

The precious stone

The years that have gone

But we must learn to move on

A blessing or curse

 

There’s still a lot of life in this world

And we’ve got to learn to live

There’s still a lot of love in this world

And we’ve got to learn to love

 

The sun rises

And the angels smile

Upon each day

Do we waste the gift

And turn our heads away

In dreams of yesterday

Upon each day

 

Memories can burn

But we grow from what we learn

This journey we’re all on

Is all too brief

We have our cross to bear

But does our hurt compare

To millions in despair

Devastating grief

 

There’s still a lot of life in this world

And we’ve got to learn to live

There’s still a lot of love in this world

And we’ve got to learn to be loved

 

The sun rises

And the angels smile

Upon each day

Do we waste the gift

And turn our heads away

In dreams of yesterday

Upon each day

 

We’ve got to learn to live

Yes we’ve got to live to love

We’ve got to love to live

And learn to believe

 

features on the album 'Believe Upon Each Day'.

Words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 2017

Imagine a world

Filled with love, truth and peace

Where prejudice, discrimination

Persecution and torture cease

Strengthened and reformed

Purified corrupted hearts

Yet we're building walls of division

 

Let us shine a light so bright

That darkness can never desist

Perpetuate unity

Integration to coexist

Remove hatred and arrogance

From dark infected hearts

Instead of building walls of division

 

Political violation

Intolerable commination

Retribution insurrection

Reelection reelection

Rejection of purgatory existence

Declaration of remonstrance

And break down the walls of division

 

Tear down the walls of division

 

features on the single 'Walls Of Division / Gift Of Life' and the album 'Believe Upon Each Day'.

Words and music by Ez Jon Erikson © copyright control 1988

Need a little time to think things out, a little time to see things clearly now

‘Cause in this world that’s full of doubt it’s hard to make you promises

Got a letter off my old best friend, said his life’s gone wrong he’s feelin’ old 

And if I never see you again be sure to make the right choice every time

If it all comes down to situations then I will do the right thing baby

 

Want to be the one to hold you tight

Want to be the one that says goodnight

I want to be the hand that feeds

I want to lick the wound that bleeds

I can never tell you no lie

Never want to hear the word goodbye

‘Cause when you’re lying in my arms I can feel my world get stronger

Stronger here with you

 

I’ve never walked a road too long, but I find it gets much easier now

To turn off those country songs where the women take their love to town

Got a feelin’ it’s time to try, time I acted on my feelin’s girl

‘Cause when God made you and I, he made us with one heart one soul one mind

If it all comes down to situations then I will do the right thing baby

 

Want to be the one to hold you tight

Want to be the one that says goodnight

I want to be the hand that feeds

I want to lick the wound that bleeds

I can never tell you no lie

Never want to hear the word goodbye

‘Cause when you’re lying in my arms I can feel my world get stronger

Stronger here with you

 

features on the album 'Debut'.

Words and music by Sam Johnson © copyright control 2007

 

I appreciate your kindness

I appreciate your love

Especially now you’re not around

Especially now you’re not around

 

I sometimes laugh

And I sometimes cry

When I think of how we used to be

We seemed to love

Like there was no tomorrow

But for us it seemed to come too soon

Yeah, for us it seemed to come too soon

Yeah, for us it seemed to come too soon

 

Now the years have passed

And you haunt me still

Just like you said you would

Now the years have passed

And you haunt me still

Just like you said you would

Oh, just like you said you would

Yeah, just like you said you would

 

Your children have grown

Did you ever know

Just how much I love you so

Oh, you must have known

Do you let it show

You must know that I love you so

Yeah, you must know that I love you so

Yeah, you must know that I love you so

 

The summer shines

And the winter sings

Just like we used to do

Disappointment of life

Deals out its hand

And we have to live with what comes down

Yeah, we have to live with what comes down

Oh, we have to live with what comes down

 

Now the years have passed

And you haunt me still

Just like you said you would

Now the years have passed

And you haunt me still

Just like you said you would

Oh, just like you said you would

 

Your children have grown

Did you ever know

Just how much I love you so

Oh, you must have known

Do you let it show

Oh, you must know that I love you so

Yeah, you must know that I love you so

Oh, you must know that I love you so

 

features on the album 'Sense Of Purpose'.