Good Enough

This original song is very much a note to self… …The note being very much encapsulated in the lyrics to the chorus: ‘Sometimes what you’ve got is good enough!’ I do find that I can sometimes become a little obsessive about finding perfect solutions – ‘If I could only have this, that or the other my life would be complete’. But of course it never is, and enjoying what you already have (whether that is things, people, time or quality of life) is a much surer route to satisfaction. 😊

Too Quiet

This is an original song about a relationship that is almost – but perhaps not quite – broken beyond repair. I’ve always loved the way that the Beatles crafted the lyrics for ‘She Loves You’, with the narrator playing go-between, trying to reconcile an estranged couple (‘You think you’ve lost your love, well I saw her yesterday; it’s you she’s thinking of, and she told me what to say…’). And that is the idea in this song too.

May The One

A live performance of my song about the hopes you have for your children as they grow into adults, from the Todd in the Hole Festival.

Sweet Thames, Flow Softly

‘Sweet Thames Flow Softly’, is a folk song that is studded with the names of places along London’s river Thames. Written by the British singer Ewan MacColl in the 1960s, it was intended for a radio play based on ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Ewan MacColl is best known these days for a couple of classic compositions – ‘Dirty Old Town’, and ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’. However, he wrote many wonderful songs, and ‘Sweet Thames Flow Softly’ is certainly one of them.

Who Knows Where the Times Goes

Remarkably, Sandy Denny wrote this beautiful song when she was still a teenager. I have always loved its spirituality.

Monsters

My song about the state of the world!