1. |
Space Surf Navigate
03:25
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I’m marching back
To get to you
& I won’t stop
Until we’re through
Double step
In overtime
Won’t break my pace
Breeching the line
I see a roadblock detour dead end up ahead
Say it’s the wrong way toll bay light changing to red
Pressing on
Big engine smiles
Day turns to dusk
Clocking the miles
Lock in the cruise
Full overdrive
Radio up
Feeling alive
As I see the tiny stars splintered across the desert sky
Jump the gaping drawbridge sailing like a bird could fly
Suspended high in mid air pausing just to think of you
Beauty of the moment resonates its lovely tune
Space surf navigate far flung across the starry Milky Way
Hop upon a lightning moonbeam ride it where you stay
Zip along flash streaming at a light speed galactic clip
Lock in your coordinates to rendezvous this trip
Hidden speed trap
Cops on my tail
Turnpike revs spike
Don’t wanna fail
Riding the edge
Redlining fire
Pressing G-force
Lighting my tires
It looks like gridlock blown shocks engine’s gonna blow
Think I’ve got brake fail high tail I don’t wanna slow
Body spins out
Flying around
Wheels lose their tread
Leaving the ground
Soaring sky high
Into the air
Looking around
Slow motion stare
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2. |
Beckon Command
05:34
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Looking at you
Cooking for two
Fixing the stew
Stirring the brew
Come walk with me
Chit chat at three
Down by the quay
Gaze at the sea
Going my way
Please don’t delay
Did I convey
Depart today
Daylight full moon
Taking off soon
Push off high noon
Don’t change the tune
Retreat or go
Stay put or heave ho
The call’s in the palm of your hand
Sit tight or bail
Call it heads or tails
Demarcate a line in the sand
Go left or right
Sit down or take flight
Demonstrate just where you stand
Make the first move
Or stay home and groove
Awaiting your beckon command
Set on my heels
Behind the wheel
Sealing the deal
Faking it real
Taken aback
Defend attack
Run with the pack
Pick up the slack
Pushed it too far
Lower the bar
Three under par
Au revoir
Gut wrench my hands
Vow to disband
Heed the command
Was the demand
Lay down your sword
Resign the board
Survey the ward
Tally the score
Roll call the names
Ledger all claims
Level the frame
Checkmate the game
Wipe clean the slate
Package the freight
Lock up the gate
Don’t take the bait
All clear to fly
Into the sky
So dry your eye
So long good-bye
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3. |
My Spirit Rides
04:12
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I said I’m coming home
Why don’t you get off my back Jack
Yes I’m all alone
Why not cut me some slack Mac
Give me time to roam
Just past the crest of the hill Bill
Said there’s nothing to atone
Why don’t you take a big pill Phil
Sometimes I don’t know why folks like to ride
Upon your back with each and every stride
As the waves fight against the tide
Upon their surface my spirit rides
I said I’m making my way
Why don’t you stay in your lane Jane
Stop pulling on my chain
I ask why you gotta drain Laine
Might not be seeing you again
Said you’re making me grey Faye
Maybe find a new friend
Think it’s best to stay away Ray
I’m warnin’ you once
Warnin’ you twice
You do it again
I won’t say it thrice
I’m counting down three
Countin’ down two
If I get to one
Don’t know what I’ll do
Think it’s time to adios
There’s need to feel bad Chad
A good time to au revoir
No need to feel sad Brad
Gonna ride in the sunset
Try to find me some zen Jen
Maybe try to meditate
Got no lot to pen Gwen
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4. |
Incognito
02:45
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So I picked up the morning news
What I read didn’t connect
Threw it away in disgust
Nothing in there for me
What you want to do
Bout me and you
Bout me and you
Where you want to go
Up high down low
Up high down low
Who you gonna play
There is no way
There is no way
How you want to flow
Incognito Incognito
They’re bearing down
Deafening sound
Boots on the ground
Release the hound
Turned on the local 5 o’clock instead
What I saw didn’t resonate
So I pulled that plug
Nothing of value to me
They’re locking in
Light getting dim
Riding the rim
Kick to the shin
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5. |
Mona
04:08
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Mona Mona Mona Mona
Stone me boldly
Hold me coldly
I could not believe
What she said to me
It was a relief
When she let me be
Heard that knock on my door
Stop drop roll on the floor
Tag up tally the score
Just can’t take anymore
Sound the silent sound alarm
Protect me keep from harm
Stopped by all of your charms
Checkmate fully disarmed
Rhonda Rhonda Rhonda Rhonda
Fond of Wanna
Bond love Gonna
I could not foresee
What she do to me
Was no guarantee
That she’d set me free
I could not portend
Which path she would take
I froze in my tracks
When she hit the breaks
I could not predict
What her move would be
I crept to the edge
When she turned to me
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6. |
Night Crawling
03:26
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Door squeaking
Floor creaking
Blinds tweaking
I’m coming back to you
Truth lying
Hope sighing
Joy crying
To make the feeling true
Pulse seizing
Breath wheezing
Mind freezing
The moment’s never through
Heart priming
I’m climbing
I really want you
It ain’t no fad
I really need you
Second guessing
Poor first impression
Tad distressing
Full court and pressing
Fever building
Potential gilding
Flower wilting
Axis is tilting
Double daring
True bonds are tearing
Tempers flaring
Patience is wearing
Stolen taken
Stirred and then shaken
Time crawlin’
Hand scrawlin’
Car stallin’
I’m gunnin’ back to you
Light dodging
Night lodging
Massaging
To make the feeling cool
Hands shaking
Knees quaking
Head faking
Making my way to you
Pulse beatin’
Retreatin’
I really want you
It ain’t no fad
I really need you
I really want you
It is so bad
I really need you
Sea sifting
Clouds drifting
Time shifting
I’m running back to you
Heart beating
Love fleeting
Soul cheating
To make the feeling true
Free fallin’
Stone wallin’
Ass haulin’
So to get back to you
Heat seeking
It’s peaking
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7. |
Iron-Ons
02:59
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What do you want
Cause I wanna know
What have you got
Reveal nice and slow
Why do you vaunt
Ain’t no need to show
Quick change the font
Feel it’s growing old
Don’t really know if it is right or wrong
All that concerns me sing my favourite song
Dispatch straight from Lahore to Lebanon
Velvet patch sewn into my iron-ons
What do you state
For I must inquire
Expiry date
Discard on the fire
Come forth placate
Situation dire
Align rotate
Feel I’ve blown my tire
Got me crawling on the dirt upon my hands and knees
Gluttony reformed now all I do is aim to please
Swallow it whole now don’t let gag reflex come to seize
Peel it off slowly know how I like a real good tease
What is it you want from me
What exactly do you need
Where is it you want to go
How am I supposed to know
Why do you call
Vacant no one home
Restart the stall
There’s no dial tone
Prepare the fall
Won’t be grabbing hold
Quick stash the haul
Feel it’s time to fold
I don’t really know ‘bout what you think’s an open page
I just know that you want it all for minimum wage
Separate the mission launch prepare for second stage
Seeking refuge midst the burning jets’ unbridled rage
Won’t fall upon my sword
Nor go back on my word
Won’t shortchange your toll
Or renege my soul
Yes I heard it’s true that you might be an open book
All I want’s a simple chance for a quick second look
Don’t know if from the first impression you mistook
All I know you got me good with the double hook
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8. |
Hi-Def Stereo
04:50
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Saunter down the lane
Thinkin’ of you again
Smile in the pouring rain
I’m feeling better
Remember what you said
Replay it in my head
Contentment fully fed
Remove my fetter
So what you gonna do (who)
Talking to you (me)
Will you give me some time (when)
Hoping for a sign
What move you gonna make (what)
Is it give or take (how)
Been waiting for a while (why)
Walkin’ a country mile
I lay down in my bed
To rest my weary head
& tie up some loose threads
Remove my sweater
Picture scenarios
In hi-def stereo
By Lake Ontario
I write a letter
Then the clouds rolled in offshore
Could not take it any more
Fled to shelter deep indoors
Lightning struck me to the core
& so I’m rolling on
Moving right or wrong
Holding staying strong
Said I’m going long
Yeah I’m standing tall
Possession of the ball
There ain’t no stop or stall
Going for it all
Miss your big brown eyes
See them in the sunrise
It comes as no surprise
How my heart’s feeling
Then it got ripped and torn
Tossed ashore left forlorn
Striving to be reborn
Despite me reelin’
So there now what is new
How is it that you do
I’m waiting in the queue
With bread and butter
Has it now come to pass
Flown the coup at long last
Lower the sail half-mast
A broken rudder
As the wave comes bearing down
Left me standing so dumbfound
Brace myself against the pound
Overboard and washed aground
As the winds come drifting in
Don’t know where I should begin
It is much to my chagrin
Situation that I’m in
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9. |
Laying Low
03:20
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Coming around my friend
Be seeing you once again
Lurking around the bend
Hitting return to send
Writing me off
As a futile waste of time
Emitting a scoff
Scratch me from your mind
Cross off my name
With an idle flick of wrist
Censure your shame
Shroud it in the mist
Zipping firm all the gaps
Tightening up the straps
Putting it under wraps
Battening down the hatch
It’s how that I like to have it roll
Busting out of here
Don’t come disturb my even flow
Packing up my gear
I’m shy I don’t really like to show
Lone path I bravely steer
Leave me to be I’m laying low
The end has commandeered
Spreading the word V2
With such ill-advised intent
Speech it is slurred
Translation is bent
Driving the stake
Striking in the final nail
Striving to break
Hear the stanchion wail
Approach the breakpoint
Attempt to shove me
Keep trying to silence
Bound and hush me
Veins are popping
Eyes are frantic
Window is shutting
Nerves pedantic
Teeth are grinding
Animalistic
Instincts are sighing
Mind ballistic
Arms are wresting
Strive to break free
Plot my grand escape
You’ll never catch me
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10. |
Long Bomb Deep Calm
04:49
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Check my watch time and again
Wondering where is my friend
Second hand ticks back in time
Navigate this narrow line
As I stumble on a rock and succumb down on bended knee
Feel the weight of the wide world relentlessly weigh down on me
Pressed by gravity facedown upon an alien planet
Resurrect myself once more & activate the after jets
Apollo goes round the moon
Hope that I can see you soon
Emerge scathed from the dark side
Wounded heart & damaged pride
Long bomb deep calm hi mom so long must go solo tears dry bye
Took your spurred stiletto and spiked down upon my baby toe
Eclipsed all the sunlight so that you could make the darkness grow
Twist in your machete heel then strike it with a fancy pose
Damper my horizon hope with a dead dying wilted rose
Flame flickers deep in the night
Stalking shadows strive to fight
Embers start to lose their glow
Minute hand begins to slow
Flow stumbling right back to you
Roll tumbling without a clue
Bumbling don’t know what to do
Slow crumbling coming unglued
Heard that you’ve written me off
From Kennedy to Khrushchev
A million to one long shot
Snip clip a ponytail & then tie in a knot
Ship to a foreign land in which time had forgot
Shakespeare Delorean of what’s been sold and bought
Clean sweep the hubris clear of debris that’s been sought
Thinking about you
Dreaming a lot too
Picturing your face
Contour I ghost trace
Rewinding your touch
Missing it so much
Recall the laughter
Hope ever after
Soul feels lost on down the road
Doesn’t know which way to go
Feeling stretched out wearing thin
Must regroup pull in again
Flow stumbling right back to you
Roll tumbling without a clue
Bumbling don’t know what to do
Slow crumbling coming unglued
Heard that you’ve written me off
From Kennedy to Khrushchev
A million to one long shot
As I laid it out pure bare & gave it all I simply had
Never ever occurred to me that it was a passing fad
As you took your talon hands & tore apart my bleeding heart
Segregate the pieces so that we would always be apart
Tsunami feeling came with a sudden rush
Buckled my knees hard and a making me blush
Some folks may claim that it’s a trifle bit lush
Compactor settings locked to crinkle and crush
Next was the salute when you proclaimed shotgun
Paint-chipped the finish as I strove to outrun
Seeking a cheap thrill said you did it for fun
Unfurl the white flag cause I’m one and then done
Making me sad vibrato
Dragging me bad the grotto
Breaking my soul like Pluto
Moving like gold black judo
Feel the sun popping up
Might replenish my cup
Light step skipping a beat
Recharged feeling so neat
Might reenter the vibe
This flow want to imbibe
Carefree riding the wave
Cresting into my cave
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Pennan Brae Vancouver, British Columbia
Pennan Brae enters 2024 with singles off his upcoming album, 'Portal'. 2023 saw the release of the 1980s-influenced 'Arcade' album & remastered '2 Below 0' soundtrack. 2022 saw the release of 'Picked', an album of 10 songs influenced by rock & roll of the '70s. Pennan released 'Cinema', his 9th album in the Summer of '21. The year also welcomed ‘Lit’ with lead singles ‘Passing Fad’ & ‘El Camino’ ... more
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