Take me way up high
To a place I know
I can close my eyes and slowly float away
Where the skies are blue
Where I can let go
Something inside that I cannot explain

This something’s got a hold of my soul
Something’s got a hold and won’t let go
Something’s got a hold of my soul (in me)

It’s a thousand dreams
It’s got in my bones
It’s a rainbow high I thirst for every day
Makes you shine so bright
But the come down low
Oh it ain’t that low so don’t matter anyway

This something’s got a hold of my soul
Something’s got a hold and won’t let go
Something’s got a hold of the soul (in me)

I ain’t unwell
So don’t you worry about me
I don’t need no help
I got all I need to set me free

Something’s got a hold of my soul
Something’s got a hold and won’t let go
Something’s got a hold of my soul
Something’s got a hold and won’t let go
Something’s got a hold of my soul (in me)

© Aynsley Lister

So it seems you did enough
All the credit you pick up
Everything that I got
You sure are doing pretty well

I bet you got a duvet of money
On which you lay with your honey
Whichever one she may be
That might have fallen for your spell

You’ve been hanging onto all my dreams
Way too long now I’m breaking free
Time’s up
Oh your time’s up
Time’s up
Oh your time’s up

I shoulda known but I left you to it
My mistake, only wish I knew it
Someone else came along
You forgot about me

You’ve been hanging on to all my dreams
Way too long now I’m breaking free
You’ve been hanging on to all my dreams
Way too long now I’m breaking free
Time’s up
Oh your time’s up

Always falling down around me
Through with talking, last thing I need
Everything you put up
It never turns out anyway

Please don’t mind my little story
Ain’t it funny if it was only
Something I made up
Something that I could throw away

Time’s up, oh your time’s up
Now it’s time to move on
And there is nothing you can do

I bet you got a duvet of money
On which you lay with your honey
Whichever one she may be
That might have fallen for your spell

You’ve been hanging onto all my dreams
Way too long now I’m breaking free
Your time’s up
Oh your time’s up

The beginning so long
Showed me the way everything you know

© Aynsley Lister

I wake up, put on my clothes
Contemplate the daily load
Draw the curtains, make my bed
Search for a pill for my aching head, once again

Walk the streets with nowhere to go
Is my vocation what I think I know
Ask myself questions, that I can’t resolve
Try to walk the line, don’t wanna fall right off

What’s it all about
What’s it all about
What’s it all about, anyway

Try to fit, to whatever mould
We all need something to behold
Try for perfect, give it all
Maybe the answer ain’t perfect at all

What’s it all about
What’s it all about
What’s it all about, anyway

What’s it all about
What’s it all about
What’s it all about, anyway

© Aynsley Lister

I would write
A story for you
Where the sun always shines
And the sky’s always blue
Through the window at night
We can count all the stars
Give them names that you like
Remember where they are

If you ever need me there
You know where I am
If you ever should be scared
I will hold your hand
Forever, forever

I would climb
A mountain for you
No matter how high
If that’s what I had to do
I would swim right across
The ocean so deep
At whatever cost
If you needed me, needed me

If you ever need me there
You know where I am
If ever you should be scared
I will hold your hand
Forever, forever

If you ever need me there
You know where I am
If ever you should be scared
I will hold your hand
Forever, forever

If you ever need me there
You know where I am
If ever you should be scared
I will hold your hand
Forever, forever

© Aynsley Lister

I remember, when I lost my mind
There was something so special about that place
Even your emotions had an echo
In so much space

And when you’re out there
Without care
Yeah I was out of touch
Just think, I knew too much

Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Probably

And I hope you’re having the time of your life
But think twice, that’s my only advice

Come on now, come on now
Who do you, who do you think you are
Oh bless your soul
You think you’re in control

Well, I think you’re crazy
I think you’re crazy
I think you’re crazy
Just like me

Crazy
Well maybe we’re crazy
Maybe we’re crazy
Probably, probably

© Burton/Callaway/Reverberi & Reverberi

The time strikes, another hour
Running flat, low on power
I got a banging in my head
And it’s spinning like a ’45
50% caffeine in my blood
Hanging by a thread to stay alive
I wanna lay right down
And fade away just for a while

I can’t feel, parts of my body
Feel so numb, it ain’t funny
Is it all a dream
I think I’m seeing what ain’t really there
A slow motion movie picture
A hazy mist hanging in the air
I wanna lay right down
And fade away just anywhere

I’m coming down
I’m coming down
I’m coming down
All the way
I’m coming down
All the way
I know it won’t be long before the big sleep gonna
Come and take me away

© Aynsley Lister

In a room so still I hear
Dust falling round my feet
As I sit thinking way too much
I’m my worst enemy
I get scared sometimes when I look
My reflection looking back at me
And by the thoughts inside my head
Of what might never be

Calling out can you hear me
Think I need a helping hand
‘Coz I know I’ll soon lose my grip
I’m burning out running on empty
Need somebody to help me stand
I know I’m loosening my grip

So easy for everyone
To tell me what to do
Expect me to be alright
Need you to help make it through

Calling out can you hear me
Think I need a helping hand
‘Coz I know I’ll soon lose my grip
I’m burning out running on empty
Need somebody to help me stand
I fear I’m loosening my grip

Like a flower needs the sun
Cannot this by myself
I think I’ve started to come undone

Calling out can you hear me
Think I need a helping hand
‘Coz I know I’ll soon lose my grip
I’m burning out running on empty
Need somebody to help me stand
I know I’m loosening my grip

© Aynsley Lister

If I was living on the street
Would you spare me the time of day
Would you ask me
If I had shelter
Would you help me
Find a place to lay

If we could all only see
That we’re human beneath
Tell me why is the world superficial
When we’re all so different
But we’re all the same beneath

If I was a different man
Would you respect me
Treat me the same
Would you ask about
How everything’s going
Would you be my friend
Would you remember my name

If we could all only see
That we’re human beneath
Tell me why is the world superficial
When we’re all so different
But we’re all the same beneath
We’re all the same beneath

If we could all only see
That we’re human beneath
Tell me why is the world superficial
When we’re all so different
But we’re all the same beneath
We’re all the same beneath

© Aynsley Lister

There’s a man with a squeegee in his hand
Washing away the dirt of yesterday’s life
As I make my way through the morning rush
Of suits trying to make their 8:45

Breezy wind blows but the sun is coming out
Shining on the window of a courier van
Driver loading but no one lets him by
Standing with a parcel in his hand

Am I the only one, am I the only one
I ain’t running anywhere
Makes me smile, every once in a while
To take in the morning air
In the early morning dew, early morning dew

The cool air hits me like a shot of caffeine
As I sit and order my first of the day
It ain’t long before I got company
Don’t need no conversation anyway

Am I the only one, am I the only one
I ain’t running anywhere
Makes me smile, every once in a while
To take in the morning air
In the early morning dew, early morning dew

Am I the only one, am I the only one
I ain’t running anywhere
Makes me smile, every once in a while
To take in the morning air
In the early morning dew, early morning dew
Oh the early morning dew, early morning dew

© Aynsley Lister

Ain’t it funny how
Time passes you by
All of the things that I wanna do
I can’t find the time
Used to be so easy
Now I just can’t figure it out
Can’t get through what I need and
I’m falling down slow
‘Coz time is running out on me
Running out on me

I’ve gotta get it together
Before things fall round my feet
Ain’t gonna last forever
I ain’t no more 23
Everybody around me
Asks what the hell is going on
I know I got everything that I need
I’m falling down slow
‘Coz time is running out on me
Running out on me, on me

I wanna wake up tomorrow
Oh, in the morning light
Maybe I’ll get it together
Make everything alright
Because time is running out on me
Running out, running out
Running out on me

© Aynsley Lister

Well I can’t
Seem to get a hold
Sweet taste to fix
My sugar low

No it won’t
Leave me alone
Gets my temper frayed
Ain’t pretty, no

Don’t add up
I should be 20 stone
I should be diabetic
I keep getting told

Don’t talk to me
Don’t tell me no
To your detriment
I’m reaching overload

Well it don’t take much
When I can’t get enough
I wish you all the luck
One thing you gonna need when I lose control
From that sugar low
From that sugar low
From that sugar low

Well it don’t take much
When I can’t get enough
I wish you all the luck
One thing you gonna need when I lose control
From that sugar low
From that sugar low
From that sugar low

© Aynsley Lister

I don’t claim I’m uncomplicated
And I know every once in a while
That I lose my way
Sometimes the things you do to try to change it
But the pieces of the puzzle are lying in disarray
When nothing else figures
And I’m standing out in the rain
Oh the thought of you in my mind
Tells me that I’ll be ok

You’re sunlight in my hurricane
Sunlight in my hurricane, oh sunlight

Everybody knows the best thing for you
Paint their own picture into the storyline
When you tried it that way
But the sky, it ain’t turning blue
A glimmer of light is enough to make it alright
Like the silver lining, there’s some things
You’d never change
With you shining so bright you can burn
All my darkness away

You’re sunlight in my hurricane
Sunlight, sunlight in my hurricane
Sunlight in my hurricane

What will be, will be whatever
Your ray of light it will show me the way
Through my hurricane

© Aynsley Lister