The Last Time (Rolling Stones)

This could be the last time
Maybe
I don’t know
This short path to the last line
Perhaps
Fast-fast-fast then slow-slow-slow
Mick Jagger’s swagger and Keith Richard’s licks
Exciting the young girls
And thrilling the young boys

On their holy communion day tricks
This could be the last time
Maybe
I don’t know
Perhaps
Today and today and today and tomorrow
Alex’s poise for the Arctic Monkeys latest kicks
This sure could turn out to be the last line

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Imagine (John Lennon)

In the blink of an eye
In the closure of a door
In that last moment of why
In that step out onto the dance floor
In that walking together
Of an April afternoon
In that sunlit fair-weather
To spill a cup and a spoon

The blossom is full
As you prepare to say au revoir
The crystals colour the skull
As my words say mon amour ce soir
Afterwards I will try piece by piece
To build the memory of this day
To listen and to learn and to seize
On the all of the how
Of how and why I played

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I Send You This Cadmium Red (John Berger And John Christie)

A train to an aeroplane to another train
A taxi to a door to another door
A lift to an upper floor
To a waiting room
Where relatives sat in silence
Where relatives sat in tears
You entered yet another room
Only for you only for you now

Bright blue Atlantic surf
Signature light of St Ives
No time for clothes to be discarded
Time having hardly been on your side
A step and a stride and a leap or dive
Swimming and smiling and laughing
The letters would say thank you
The actions would say love

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All The Blue Changes (No Man)

Where did I find you and how did I find you
What did you mean to me such that
Such that I should happily include you
Include you in my permanent collection
And now that you are so to speak as resident
I can tell my close friends all about you
About your background and your provenance
Your origins and your exceptional raison d'être

Giving up on beautiful and giving up on pain
Where did I find you and how did I find you
What on earth did you mean to me
What on earth did you see in me
Sunshine and rain so plain
Your wish to be with me
To rearrange and realign
The previous proposal stain
Beside the Machair
On those windblown beaches
To redistribute and reaffirm
Our closest furthest reaches

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Walk On The Wild Side (Lou Reed)

We spoke of Raglan Road and Grafton Street
Indeed a few years ago you and I walked
From the former to the latter on our way
To the Gresham Hotel down O’Connell Street
Where the men of the cloth wined and dined
Of course we looked into the cloisters
Of Trinity College where many years before
I had begun to lose myself and find myself

Found by talking with Professor PJ O’Reilly
Who asked if he may join me for dinner
Found by buying and then reading
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
In the airport departure lounge
Where also I spotted
The brothers and the sisters of the faith
Priests resplendent in velvet robes
And crocodile skin shoes
With nuns carrying their personalised
Versace leather handbags

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