Thursday Night Shift

Album ‘Future Call’

Lyrics by Derek Wylie 
Music by Brian Coulton / Derek Wylie  
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The songs on 'Future Call' explore personal and global concerns:

‘Deadly Kiss’ is about us choosing to ignore environmental threats to our future survival.  ‘Missing’ concerns the poor treatment of British citizens caught in the Windrush scandal.  ‘Crimson Blue’ is a love song about a couple who find comfort in a friend's painting during Covid.  ‘Loving Tree’ is about someone falling for an exotic foreigner with the message to not fear those who are different.  ‘Same Old Song’ is a shout against warmongers.  ‘Unmade Bed’ is a love song about navigating an autocratic world.  ‘Tell The Truth’ is about global warming and a call for sanity.  ‘Mighty River’ tells the story of the pandemic.  ‘Country Fair’ is about escaping lockdown and questions if our leaders let us down.  ‘Strawberry Queen’ celebrates the women who pioneered rewilding.  ‘Future Call’ is about challenging climate deniers and our hope for a better future.

Deadly Kiss

1. I awoke with a start, you were all gone - Here in the dark, I felt all alone - It’s such an empty feeling, to know you’re not here -Am I the last human being afloat on this sphere? 

There’s a star in a cloud up above - Where they say it rains diamonds forged from love - 
There’s a star, light years away - Where I know we will find us again one day. 

2.The light it grew brighter out of nowhere it came - Born from darkness an orb full of flame - A deadly kiss from a rip in time - Was it chance intervention or, a message divine. 

There’s a star in a cloud up above - Where they say it rains diamonds forged from love - 
There’s a star, light years away - Where I know we will find us again one day. 

3.I’ll take all our love, all we ever had - Wrap it in silver and threads of gold - I’ll shine it to diamond as pure as light - And blast us to space to live for all time.

There’s a star in a cloud up above - Where they say it rains diamonds forged from love - 
There’s a star, light years away - Where I know we will find us again one day. 

Deadly Kiss - Deadly Kiss.

Missing

1.They banged on my door in the middle of the night - Said I had to go away - I told them I’d been here all of my life - They didn’t want to hear a word I say. 

We’ve been together for so long now - Will you miss me when I’m gone - It’s strange not to know when I’ll be coming home - 
But I know I’ll miss you when I’m gone. 

2.My cards went missing long time ago - No paper saying when I came - But I paid my taxes like a good citizen - Now they say I’m just an alien.

We’ve been together for so long now - Will you miss me when I’m gone - It’s strange not to know when I’ll be coming home - 
But I know I’ll miss you when I’m gone. 

Bridge
Don’t let them pull us apart…take a stand and shout - This is our land, our home and they won’t push us out.

3.Sue was hostile, Priti wasn't pretty - You can't trust a word they say - They want to look tough, but really they're just cruel -And they owe us a big apology. 

We’ve been together for so long now - Will you miss me when I’m gone - It’s strange not to know when I’ll be coming home - 
But I know I’ll miss you when I’m gone. 

4.My flight’s been called, I’ll soon be on my way - Will you miss me when I’m gone - It’s strange to be called a no-where citizen - And I know I’ll miss you when I’m gone - Yes I know I'll miss you when I'm gone - I know I'll miss you when I'm gone.

Crimson Blue

1.Sunbeam slips the curtain - Shocking dust along its path…floods the painting on the wall - Illuminates Gavin’s sunset - 
All comes to life Crimson colour burning bright.

Lying here next to you - Your back washed crimson blue - Our future reflected here and now my love - Let’s journey to the sunbeam’s end...and find our light. 

2.Grey shells line the oak bench - The ones I combed from Shingle Street…my act of love for you my sweet - Sunbeam catches their haunched crowns - Like Drumlins they radiate Crimson contoured, a dream landscape.

Lying here next to you - Your back washed crimson blue - Our future reflected here and now my love - Let’s journey to the sunbeam’s end...and find our light. 

Bridge
Outside the world turns dark - As fools and clowns strut and bark - Sunbeam looks for a way - To burn the madness away. 

Outro
Hold us, hold us tight together, together 
Keep us, keep us safe together, together 
Hold us, hold us tight together, together.

Loving Tree

1.Sitting alone, drinking a coffee in this one good café town - You’re here to, looking out the window like you always do - Will today be the day, when I summon up the courage to talk with you - Or just another day when I’ll go home alone. 

Hey there, won’t you take a walk with me - We’ll stroll down, down to the loving tree - Feel good lying in the grass so tall - 
And we won’t - feel alone - anymore.

2. Who cares if you’re different, that you don’t really fit-in, it adds to your mystic - You look so unusual, unlike any local and talk with a foreign accent - I love the colour of your eyes and the way that you smile would melt a glacier - I wish that I knew you, and you knew me, and we could be so new together.

Hey there, won’t you take a walk with me - We’ll stroll down, down to the loving tree - Feel good lying in the grass so tall - 
And we won’t - feel alone - anymore.

3.Well friends drop by, just to say hi and to offer they’re advice - Yours do to, but no one says boo incase we cross some forbridden tryst - Well, Jo knows Dar and Javid knows Jay and soon tables coalesce - With a smile we’re talking and then we’re walking to the place we all love best.

Hey there, won’t you take a walk with me - We’ll stroll down, down to the loving tree - Feel good lying in the grass so tall - 
And we won’t - feel alone - anymore.

Same Old Song

1.It’s the same old song we’ve heard a hundred times before - It’s not about peace, it’s not about love - Dylan sang of it in the 'Masters of War' - And we’re still singing 60 years more. 

Oh, oh, oh, will we never learn - Pour oil on a fire and it always burns - Oh, oh, oh, will we never learn - Fan the flame of hate and watch it burn.

 2.Tribal separation is the modern curse - Fragment & divide...create difference - National narcissism, blames everybody else - From those who believe they’re the chosen ones.

Oh, oh, oh, will we never learn - Pour oil on a fire and it always burns - Oh, oh, oh, will we never learn - Fan the flame of hate and watch it burn.

3.Like the 3 monkeys the UN turns away - Watching from Olympus they prevaricate - With surgical thunderbolts they pray it goes away - But you can’t stab at cancer…you’ve got to cut-it out.

Oh, oh, oh, will we never learn - Pour oil on a fire and it always burns - Oh, oh, oh, will we never learn - Fan the flame of hate and watch it burn.

Unmade Bed

1.In a crowded chapel on Newbourne hill - We stood together and said we will - The virtual preacher laid his hand on our heads - Wished us peace and love for all our days - - It’s a story of survival against the odds - A stand against tyrants and vengeful gods - Let’s lay down on our unmade bed - And count our blessings in a world gone bad. 

Well I’d like to see the future and tell you what’s true - But all that I know is that I’m here for you - And I wish that I could make everything okay - But all I can give you is my love each day.

2.Will the hunters be hunted for they have no way - Of knowing who’s behind or who’s the prey - There’s a glow on the horizon shining bright - Let’s pray it is the rising of avenging light - - Ships appear in the night sky dancing with dreams - Portents of hard times collecting bad seed - And when will it end, when’s enough to tough - Of this cruel madness and loss of love.

Well I’d like to see the future and tell you what’s true - But all that I know is that I’m here for you - And I wish that I could make everything okay - But all I can give you is my love each day.

Bridge
Let’s watch the shadows slip away - Then we’ll know it’s judgement day - And you and I will rise up - And watch the broken totems fall.

Outro
Let's go back to the chapel on Newbourne hill - And build a house with love to fill - We’ll lay down on our unmade bed - 
We’ll lay down on our unmade bed - We’ll lay down on our unmade bed - Yes honey…we’ll lay down on our unmade bed.

Tell The Truth

1.The dice tumble on the table - The stakes are high, the bets are down - The players chance an unknown future - As the numbers roll their fateful dance - - Sirens scream in the city - Warn of madness in the air - Dangerous gas is all around us -
The heat's rising everywhere.

Tell the truth, shame the devil - Pull those heads out of the sand - The dice could roll us all to Hades - Tell the truth and we can win. 

2.And the petro-kings play a dirty game - With loaded dice and greenwash shame - But here's Greta the super swede - 
She'll call their bluff and blah-blah greed.

Tell the truth, shame the devil - Pull those heads out of the sand - The dice could roll us all to Hades - Tell the truth and we can win. 

3.The winner docks in Oxford Circus - Pink and proud, the XR agress - Full of ordinary people - Here to shout, here to protest.

Tell the truth, shame the devil - Pull those heads out of the sand - The dice could roll us all to Hades - Tell the truth and we can win. 

Outro
Pray that we have time - Cause the heat is on - Pray that we have time…

Mighty River

1.Sunday morning, Westminster bridge - Standing all alone, not a soul in sight - Below the river flowed like a ghost without a home - Nothing moving…all cast to stone - This land was sick, invaded by a spore - Striking fear into everyone and hurting those we love - Out of the blue it changed everything we knew - Empty streets, empty hopes, our lives were torn through. 

So flow you mighty river, flow out to sea - And wash away this sad time of human history - One day we’ll cross this bridge in a mighty crowd - And sing along with city bells ringing loud. 

2.The House asleep, all the benches lying quiet - Ben was dressed from head to toe in black coloured net - Wearing mourning shrouds...for those who’d passed - Too many friends lost…never coming back - And wells was right when he spoke of tiny things - That bring down great nations, stop a world spinning - And feckless leaders who wished it all away - Like King Fool should have to pay the price one day.

So flow you mighty river, flow out to sea - And wash away this sad time of human history - One day we’ll cross this bridge in a mighty crowd - And sing along with city bells ringing loud. 

3.People hide inside, trying to survive - Livelihoods on the line, some hanging by a thread - Silent highways lay under silent skies - And each day the numbers called counting up the dead - On the frontline brave souls took all the risks - By looking out and taking care of those who’d fallen sick - And on our front steps we applauded sacrifice - Lions led by donkeys deserve a fat-cats prize.

So flow you mighty river, flow out to sea - And wash away this sad time of human history - One day we’ll cross this bridge in a mighty crowd - And sing along with city bells ringing loud. 

Country Fair

I’ll see you there, at the country fair - Up on the hill, by the old clock tower - We’ll dance all day, in the warm spring air - Pressed face to face, close without a care. 

1.Lockdown is over, we’re free at last - Brothers & Sisters, it’s time to act - The nodding dogs and the clown let us down, down, down - Making deals and raising toasts to chumocracy.

I’ll see you there, at the country fair - Up on the hill, by the old clock tower - We’ll dance all day, in the warm spring air - Pressed face to face, close without a care. 

2.I-turn, u-turn, they u-turned to much - To slow to lockdown…to many friends lost - It was ring-a-ring-a-roses, all over again - World beating boasts just ended up in moonshot idiocy. 

I’ll see you there, at the country fair - Up on the hill, by the old clock tower - We’ll dance all day, in the warm spring air - Pressed face to face, close without a care. 

Bridge
And we'll dance all night long - As we sing this song - Good riddance to the fakes and losers - Who got it wrong.

I’ll see you there, at the country fair - Up on the hill, by the old clock tower - We’ll dance all day, in the warm spring air - Pressed face to face, close without a care. 

Strawberry Queen

Strawberry queen - Dancing unseen in barren fields - Rose coloured spells - Paint her magic map of dreams 
Strawberry queen - Dancing unseen in barren fields - Rose coloured spells - Paint her magic map of dreams.

1&3.Nature’s child running wild - Weaves magic through the countryside - Wings take flight, spinning seed - Exploding woods of verdant green. 

Strawberry queen - Dancing unseen in barren fields - Rose coloured spells - Paint her magic map of dreams 
Strawberry queen - Dancing unseen in barren fields - Rose coloured spells - Paint her magic map of dreams.

2.Lush meadow on land in sea - Firing up the wilderness machine - Marsh, hedgerow, bramble, scrub - Messy places creatures love. 

Bridge
Rose light shine - Rose light shine - Rose light shine - Rose light shine.

Strawberry queen - Dancing unseen in barren fields - Rose coloured spells - Paint her magic map of dreams 
Strawberry queen - Dancing unseen in barren fields - Rose coloured spells - Paint her magic map of dreams.

Future Call

Hear our future call - As it sings its song of hope - Our truth will speak for all time - And cut through all their lies. 

1.The velvet arrows flew straight - But missed their mark and history was made - Fools called for battle to proceed - And many suffered pointlessly for pride and for greed. 

Hear our future call - As it sings its song of hope - Our truth will speak for all time - And cut through all their lies. 

2.The traitors of reason will be shamed - Their crimes recorded for the childrens' blame - Gilded crowns eventually turn to rust And phoney empires crash and fall and lose the peoples’ trust .

Hear our future call - As it sings its song of hope.

Let history record - The liers and deniers - Their names won’t be forgot - Let the roll call begin…
Exon - Mobil - Shell - Total - Lomborg - Lawson - Delingpole - Monkton - Koch - Booker - Trump - Etc. - Deniers damned to hell.
Deniers damned to hell - Deniers damned to hell.

Hear our future call - As it sings its song of hope.