newmen

track 01
Sycamore Tree
03-07-2008
Lyrics By Newman


Father,


been a while since my last confession
My compassion god seems to keep testing
I shot another man down dead yesterday
last thing he seen was my cold eyes
before I sent him to his shallow grave

(chorus)
devil moves within my shadow
the sheriff wants to hang me
both follow me wherever I go
I aint swinging from no sycamore tree

I really can't seem to remember why
Me and this man ended up in a fight
he pulled his gun first, but I was quicker
I shot him before he pulled his trigger
watched him squerm in pain and shivered

(chorus)
devil moves within my shadow
the sheriff wants to hang me
both follow me wherever I go
I aint swinging from no sycamore tree

That small village will remember this time
The day their deputy was gunned down
By an unknown man from out of town
It was a cold Autumn day at dawn
Underneath a leafless, lonely sycamore

(chorus)
devil moves within my shadow
the sheriff wants to hang me
both follow me wherever I go
I aint swinging from no sycamore tree

If I'd known that man was the deputy
I might not have been that hasty
That's why I'm in your church prayin’
I dont deserve forgiveness for my crimes
but i live through this i'll change this time

(bridge)
Well it's time for this old devil to get goin'
Sheriff's outside I don't wanna keep him waitin'
and i aint going quiet, im going guns blazin'

(chorus)
devil moves within my shadow
the sheriff wants to hang me
both follow me wherever I go
I aint swinging from no sycamore tree

newmen

track 02
Whiskey Drinking Woman
12-01-2008
Lyrics by S.Newman

(verse 1)
On every edge of town
Those women can be found
In old saloons and run down bars
sounds of pursuing police cars
woman with a drink in hand
You know she'd Struggle to stand
Never knowing when to stop
Swirls it in her mouth then drinking
every last drop

(chorus)
That whiskey drinking woman
She got something on her mind
Don't ask her what it is
If you wanna stay on her good side

(verse 2)
Cigarette in her left hand
whiskey on the bar stand
Stares through her glass's sides
With black tear stained eyes
A strong smell of cheap perfume
That would never leave your room
short skirts and low tops
You could almost imagine
What she got

(chorus)
That whiskey drinking woman
She got something on her mind
Don't ask her what it is
If you wanna stay on her good side

(verse 3)
She doesn't look for love
it all just seems to much
Just a man to take her cares away
And move them to another day
I see your drinking whiskey
And my glass is rather empty
Your damaged but your hot
Now could I please join you,
For a shot

(chorus)
That whiskey drinking woman
She got something on her mind
Don't ask her what it is
If you wanna stay on her good side

newmen

track 03
Personality Deficiency
11-07-2008
A Taste Of Things To Come
Lyrics By S.Newman

(verse 1)
Come in and how are you? Take a seat
And tell me what seems to be troubling you
Well I never eat, I can't seem to sleep
Should I continue? yes please do
I think I'm starting to go a little crazy
Everything I did last night a little hazy
I cut myself deep inside my mind
And I cry myself to sleep all the time

(chorus)
I feel odd and out of place
a frown upon a clown's face
A black leather clad parody
Of a rock and roll star tragedy

(verse 2)
My eyes all you see is emptiness inside
My friends talk as if I have already died
I'm an empty cold shell of my former self
Here in person, my mind somewhere else
I feel down, I got more than the blues
I don't think I have anything left to loose
And I feel as if it won't be very long
Before I'm singing my swan song

(chorus)
I feel odd and out of place
A frown upon a clown's face
A black leather clad parody
Of a rock and roll star tragedy

(verse 3)
So what do you think is wrong with me?
Well you have a personality deficiency
You have lost your very own identity
You need something to hold on to
It's the only way you will get through
You have seven different personalities
A different one for each day of the week
We never know which one you'll be

(chorus)
I feel odd and out of place
A frown upon a clown's face
A black leather clad parody
Of a rock and roll star tragedy

newmen

track 04
Drowning In Your Mirror
08-06-2008
Sheltered Life
Lyrics By S.Newman

(verse 1)
don't wanna consider suicide
Keeping in feelings you hide
holding a photo you idolize
Because you're to young to die
looking through every magazine
staring at your television screen
Everyone needs to be beautiful
And now your thinking you do to

(chorus)
Drowning in the mirror whilst looking at your figure girl
Now didn't anybody tell you they can steal your soul?

(verse 2)
Some girls seem to get all the luck
And some get all the guys looks
But all you get is a painful dream
And an even lower self of steam
And all those beauty products
Just don't seem to cover it up
mirror mocking your inner self
Wishing you was someone else

(chorus)
Drowning in the mirror whilst looking at your figure girl
Now didn't anybody tell you they can steal your soul?

(verse 3)
could take a chance with your life
And go under the surgeons knife
To look like somebody you seen
On the cover of a magazine
just a few injections of Botox
Ignoring all those expensive costs
And those scars upon your face
Now they can easily be erased

(chorus)
Drowning in the mirror whilst looking at your figure girl
Now didn't anybody tell you they can steal your soul?

(verse 4)
you stare hard into that cold mirror
hideous creatures reflected figure
family tell you you're already a star
you're perfect just the way you are
You already know cosmetic surgery
Is never the answer to true beauty
And yet you hold your head and weep
Because beauty is only ever skin deep

(chorus)
Drowning in the mirror whilst looking at your figure girl
Now didn't anybody tell you they can steal your soul?

newmen

track 05
Star Spangled Bombers
30-05-2008
Sacrifice And Greed
Lyrics by S.Newman

(chorus)
There were two Suns in the morning
In the land of the rising sun
There was no warning
They never had a chance to run
As the atomic age was dawning
Down on them

(verse1)
I doubt we will see a Hollywood movie
about the day the bombs fell to earth
We all like those films about victory
do we want to see the price its worth
amazing how quickly they forget it seems
see that atomic cloud on their tv screen
Watching from afar on an old documentary
But I imagine there are people alive today
that can still hear those awful screams
Or morn the loss of friends and family

(chorus)
There were two Suns in the morning
In the land of the rising sun
There was no warning
They never had a chance to run
As the atomic age was dawning
Down on them

(verse2)
biggest act of terrorism world ever seen
can file this alongside other atrocities
genocide of the Jews, or napalm in Vietnam
but it's more than just the cost of war
you see we all know right from wrong
and everyone of us, we're just human
I wonder if the pilots have nightmares
about the day the atomic child was born
I wonder if their government even cares
as an entire country began to morn

(chorus)
There were two Suns in the morning
In the land of the rising sun
There was no warning
They never had a chance to run
As the atomic age was dawning
Down on them

(verse3)
steel death machine of mankind’s design
government had one goal set in its mind
success was counted in the loss of lives
no need to see it with their own eyes
just give the order and run for cover
let those star spangled silver birds fly
was everything done before decisions made
On the birth of a new nuclear age
The world told it was a necessary evil
Shame we can't ask all those people

(chorus)
There were two Suns in the morning
In the land of the rising sun
There was no warning
They never had a chance to run
As the atomic age was dawning
Down on them

newmen

track 06
Lady Of The Night
29-06-2008
A Taste Of Things To Come
Lyrics By S.Newman

(1)
in a room half-naked from this unbearable heat
Laying on a bed that many have used to sleep
As the sun's last rays disappear from sight
I look out my window into that urban night
A glow catches my eye like a glinting pearl
Through a broken window I see a broken girl
Upon a broken bed with nothing on at all

(chorus)
My window a view to a different world
a picture of the darker side of it all
filled with the glow of neon lights
people say just a lady of the night

(2)
she has a broken heart, tears down her broken face
In the company of men but never feeling safe
Well we're not so different in our own little way
You see we're both dirty and we are here to stay
I haven't showered for longer than a week
she showers at least three times everyday
Yet to her the dirt will always remain

(chorus)
My window a view to a different world
a picture of the darker side of it all
filled with the glow of neon lights
people say just a lady of the night

(3)
She is dirty in a very different way
The dirt is buried deep within her brain
she can't seem to ever wash it away
no matter how much she trys to scrub
i can only imagine what your plight
to drive you from your distant home
into the dangers of this eastern night

(bridge)
I feel for her even though i don't know her name
she's Sitting on those dirty sheets upon her broken bed
staring back at me through her broken window pain

(chorus)
My window a view to a different world
a picture of the darker side of it all
filled with the glow of neon lights
people say just a lady of the night

newmen

track 07
A Lover Would
17-12-2006
Lyrics By- S.Newman

(chorus)
wont you hold me like a lover would
wish i could provide, like a man should

That job today didn't go so good

(verse 1)
all went wrong that honestly could
every passing day we spend together
makes me wanna stay with you forever
feel I let you down but I look in your eyes
I see the love you hold for me and realize
You make everything worthwhile

(chorus)
wont you hold me like a lover would
wish i could provide, like a man should

That job today didn't go so good

(verse 2)
I forget how you still can mesmerize
how mistakes keep making me wise
can't hold all the cards in your hand
It doesn't always go how you plan
I know I promised you the universe
But can't get enough to fill your purse

(chorus)
wont you hold me like a lover would
wish i could provide, like a man should

That job today didn't go so good

(verse 3)
You're the only one bringing in a wage
now we're into that money we saved
Because we need to pay the rent
won't be long until that's all spent
so long as I’m in your arms it seems
we can still keep hold of those dreams

(bridge)
Got another one to go to tomorrow
hope its time for our luck to change
either way we wont have no sorrow
happy together even when it rains

(chorus)
wont you hold me like a lover would
wish i could provide, like a man should

That job today didn't go so good

newmen

track 08
In The City
06-07-2008
All The Kings Horses
Lyrics By S.Newman

I sit beside the tree that talks to you
you talk to me and you can see
I am a little crazy, about the way you talk
the way you walk, the way you read a book
And the way you look to me will always be
so much better than the other girls
In fact I think you might own this world
And we’re all free out here my dear
Come join me, you will see it all so clear

Oh in the city Oh the city yea
You can be like everybody else
Oh in the city Oh the city yea
You don’t have to be yourself
But you won’t find me there
Frankly I just couldn’t care

Now did you ever think the moon
Could ever be so big and blue
You might say that I have strayed
Too soon, that city is no place for me
My dear, out here I get a wonderful view
I see how sorrowful everybody really is
I don’t want to become trapped inside
That city of our minds so I left instead
Come find me when you want to leave

No signs out here in front of my eyes
telling me how to think or what to buy
so much out here for you to see
just a kiss away from my friend lucy

Oh in the city Oh the city yea
You can be like everybody else
Oh in the city Oh the city yea
You don’t have to be yourself
But you won’t find me there
Frankly I just couldn’t care

newmen

Track 09

My Baby Left Me
Lyrics By- Newman


(chorus)
i think my baby left me,
she been gone all day.
Now I’m here drinking,
drinking my troubles away

guess I’ll miss her more than she could know
Without her in my heart, I really feel low
She walked out my door and got on that train
I’m not even sure if she wants to see me again.

(chorus)
i think my baby left me,
she been gone all day.
Now I’m here drinking,
drinking my troubles away

she came out accusing me of cheating
said that my behavior was misleading
her compassion i was mistreating
there where nasty secrets I was keeping

(chorus)
i think my baby left me,
she been gone all day.
Now I’m here drinking,
drinking my troubles away

she left to go home to her families instead
If I found her with another man I'd be seeing red
how could I blame her, home late every night
'stead of being at home with my beautiful wife


(chorus)
i think my baby left me,
she been gone all day.
Now I’m here drinking,
drinking my troubles away

how could I tell her I was out gambling
Out drinking until I wasn’t standing
and out on those streets I was rambling
i knew she wouldn't be understanding.

(chorus)
i think my baby left me,
she been gone all day.
Now I’m here drinking,
drinking my troubles away

Now I’m just sat in this bar drinking
in my seat i just keep on slowly sinking
But this time alone has got me thinking
that I should go and get on that train
If i ever want to see her again

newmen

This is a work in progress album which has been work in progress since forever but thats mainly because i write so many songs i never know what to put together and im abit of a perfectionist. Whilst i condier myself capable of singing (im certainly not amazing at it) i have no real equipment to attempt recording myself in a way that would do any justice or even help. All my lyrics i have an idea of how they should sound and i know the basics of lyric writing but im no expert.
I hope people enjoy this sample of my 50 lyrics i have written over the past 5 years and none of them i would consider 100% complete so any advise or critics would be msot welcomed. Im only a beginner at songwriting and its not my profession but i have been told i have a gift for it. all lyrics were written by me and are 100% my own work.