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

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

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

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

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

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

Words and music by Sam Johnson © copyright control 2005

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

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 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 Julian Flindle © copyright control 2005

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

features on the album 'A Dark Storm'.

Words and music by Sam Johnson © copyright control 1988

features on the album 'Believe Upon Each Day'.

Words and music by Julian Flindle © copyright control 2018

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

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

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

features on the album 'Sense Of Purpose'.