THE LYRICS. – Exploring the Unknown.

Life in the Rearview Mirror (Words on the Wing IV)

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:40:00 +0000

In the fourth book in this series, the setting is the past, and passion – pursued or perceived, lost or lamented – is the theme. The lyrics to these fourteen songs include reflections about a world traveled, farewells, homecomings, and encounters – both erotic and nostalgic. Convincing arguments to why we’re all part of the push-and-pulling act are presented. There are goodbyes to affairs ended, and departures to exotic places. And there’s a cinnamon girl with a voice that can carry the roof of a cathedral. On the humorous side, you’ll find Sunny Afternoon Revisited, a different take on the great Ray Davies’ classic. Here it has become the complaints of a self-pitying British snob who finds his playboy life challenged by bankruptcy. Nevertheless, in wry and witty observations made from different angles in life, the work that perhaps delivers the most impact is the lengthy piece about the Master Plan that humanity is subject to. Its world-weary claim is that “the future has, as rule of thumb, a discouraging curriculum”. Considering that this collection is a review of the past, it’s a line that carries considerable weight. You, on the other hand, have some extraordinary reading to look forward to.

Dovetail Deals by the Devil’s Door (Words on the Wing III)

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:31:16 +0000

The third book in this series contains lyrics to fourteen songs with links to the diabolic, crime, manipulation and excess. They tell stories of warmongers, Mafia bosses and paparazzi. There are dealers, manipulators and a killer on the run. Disasters in the news, and market manipulation to increase consumption, are reflected on in sardonic verse. On the lighter side, Speedy Gonzales is finally responding to the old Pat Boone song, fifty years later. And through tongue-in-cheek wordplays you will learn what it takes for a cynical womanizer to make a beautiful but aloof woman his conquest. The callousness of dealing heroin is exposed, as is the trafficking of young women. In the final lengthy piece, the devil muses on his historical and present successes since the dawn he was conceived. Rest assured that you will be both captivated and infernally entertained by this book.

Riddles & Madness (Words on the Wing II)

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:27:42 +0000

In this, the second volume in the series, the lyrics to fifteen songs are included. In every sense, they adhere to the themes promised by the collection’s title. It should be stressed that these are song lyrics, which is made clear in the constant changes and bridges that abound. The opening work in the collection challenges the reader to find the very word that connects the long string of rhyming assertions that follow, as for example: “Its hem, if it’s high, makes its bottom bold …” There are images of pagan rites, and contemplation of the mystery women possess. Manhattan is celebrated in a witty, foot-stomping work that looks at New York from a myriad of perspectives. The madness shines through a lunatic obsessed with evil men from the past, and through a take on the obsessive attention by a nymphomaniac. Utter, sensory fear will give you goosebumps. Lost hope takes the shape of an omniscient serpent. A self-congratulatory stallion talks down to the losers in their workhorse shoes. The tongue-in-cheek hallmark of the author is not missing. In a highly original approach, he has taken on the challenge of writing about a thief’s escapades using cockney rhyming slang. And there’s another thief present, too, this one your best friend until the moment has come to the settling of accounts. Make no doubts about it, the riddles and the madness on these thought-provoking pages will delight you – unless they drive you crazy first.

When the Reds Fade from Purple (You’re Left with the Blues) (Words on the Wing I)

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:23:44 +0000

The blues is the musical cornerstone in this collection of lyrics to fourteen songs. Replete with rhythms and rhymes, they make use of clever wordplays that are witty reflections about life. They also have a wicked twist to the challenges and losses described, while maintaining an appropriate note of despondency. You will find a poet who mourns his deceased wife through metaphors of water; a hobo who, through the lens of black humor, ponders his situation with no exit; and a loser born to suffer every imaginable disaster in the spiral of hell. There are revolutionaries for a lost cause, a secret silver box, and men who have lost their loves. Death makes a statement, and bridges of no return are burning. A stray cat claims to be the spirit in the booze, and a specter arrives at the House of Blues. A fascinating collection of keen, poetic observations – quite unlike any other.

Words on the Wing

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:04:16 +0000

The lyrics to fifty-seven songs that are weighing the impact of challenges and loss, hatched in mysterious dimensions, reviewing the manipulative and the diabolical, and contemplating wishful thinking and the conclusions of past experiences.