NEW SONGS AND A NEW CD After a gap of seven years, David launched a new album, "Songs Of Integrity (and other compositions)", at the Blue Boar in Maldon on Friday, 15th July. For David, this is his first collection of new songs since "I Can Explain", released in 2004. "The album is much simpler than most of the recordings I have released. I was touring the UK recently and people were asking if the CDs I had available were like the performance they had just heard. Well, on studio albums you tend to invite other musicians to colour the production whereas what people hear live is often just me. This new album is basically just my guitar and voice so what you hear is what you get." You can order this album for £8.00 inc p+p in UKdirect through PayPal here: Downloads available (including art work) HERE SONGS OF INTEGRITY 1. I WILL SING ACROSS THIS NATION 2. BALLAD OF JAZZY B 3. UNFORESEEN PREDICAMENTS 4. BOMB DIVE 5. THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS 6. YOU AND I BOTH KNOW IT HAD TO END 7. THE ENGLISH CAPTAIN (A Shortened History Of Venice) 8. BETWEEN THE LINES 9. REQUIEM FOR A SHED 10. 400 HUNDRED MILES 11. BLUE CAR 12. HOLD YOUR HORSES WOMAN SONGS OF INTEGRITY LYRICS.... I WILL SING ACROSS THIS NATION Wherever there's wars, wherever there's pain Wherever there's sunshine, wherever there's rain Wherever there's conflict, wherever there's wrong Wherever there's someone in need of my song I will sing across this nation and my message will be clear It's wrong they shouldn't do it, not round here Wherever injustice, wherever there's fate Wherever there's love, wherever there's hate Wherever there's tales that have to be told Wherever there's trails I will be bold I will stand up to injustice, and yes, we will stand as one Altogether now: what have they done It's brilliant! You say what you like. And nobody listens. A song on the spike. It's taken me years to think it all through And now I'm too old, I know what to do I will sing across this nation to show just how I feel And it may not be that brilliant but it's real I have been to lots of places where the faces wore a frown And after they heard my songs they said you must write this stuff down Wherever there's heartache, wherever it's tough Wherever there's feelings, wherever there's stuff Wherever there's hope, wherever despair Wherever there's d-soap I will be there I will sing across the nation and my message will be spare My web site information's over there THE BALLAD OF JAZZY B There's a moon in the heaven there's a moon in the sea Both of them shining their light on me Bartholomew Freeman was the name they gave to me But everybody here they just call me Jazzy B A man of mystery a man of many parts, a man of.. History, of broken hearts Maybe just one, maybe just two A third one depending on your point of view Some say sinful, some say hot Some say simple some do not Was a gentleman once although you won't have heard, won The girl of my dreams and I never said a word There's a moon in the heaven there's a moon in the sea Both of them shining their light on me What did I do? What did I see? The only one who'll ever know is me, Jazzy B It was quite a while ago, what happened after that Well I wrote it all down kept it under my hat Florrie B sang in the public hall Sang with a passion, a siren call Little did they know she was singing it to me But I did, I did, definitely Singing like an angel, singing like a bird Singing like a diva and never said a word There's a moon in the heaven there's a moon in the sea Both of them shining their light on me Bartholomew Freeman, a sailor on the sea Little did they know it was me, Jazzy B UNFORESEEN PREDICAMENTS Everything is changed now there's a difference All you ever saw before was unforeseen predicaments It was never s'posed to be like this You made your choice you sealed it with a kiss But anything can happen you don't need to look around Flying so high now you can't see the ground How it all happened you doubt you'll never know But now you're flying easyJet it just goes to show that Anything can happen yu can never plan what happens Something comes along you never thought would happen happens Last thing you needed was unforeseen predicaments But everything is changed now spot the difference Keep it up, keep it up Keep it up, keep it up Suddenly from nowhere she came into view And she made you feel everything was brand new You could talk again been a long time You could walk with a step and a brilliant mind You could love, you could sing, you could do any thing You've a mind to, maybe not sing When you think about the days that were there for you to seize Did you grip them with your soul or did they float off in the breeze Anything can happen you can never plan what happens Something comes along you never thought would happen happens Last thing you needed was unforeseen predicaments But everything is changed now spot the difference BOMB DIVE We're going down the lake, we're going for a swim Not the swimming pool, we're not going to the gym We are leaving school at three forty five Swimming to the rafts, doing bomb dives Bit of salt water, it was so full of stuff Innoculated everyone you couldn't get enough Come on in, leave your towel in the trees The water is brown and seventy degrees Ooooh, let's all go down to the prom Make you feel good let's go down to the prom Summers I remember, summers I recall Some were very hot, some were not at all One thing I remember, a girl I never knew, she was Swimming through the water like dolphin would do She was oh so good, American crawl I stood there with my towel on, I was enthralled The motion was emotional, to move with such grace, she was Such a good swimmer you never saw her face Ooooh, let's all go down to the prom Make you feel good let's go down to the prom Whatever was the weather where I came from You walked down the road and you went to the Prom You went down the Valley, chucked a stone in the mud Isn't very long before the Prom is in your blood I first heard the Doors when I was walking down there Penny Lane, Reach Out I'll Be There They were selling candy-floss big as they could make Don't eat before you swim go straight down the lake There were pretty cool kids with black rubber rings Remember all the jelly-fish, bastards could sting Towel full of sand scratching at your tum Wind in your face breeze round your bum The mud on the bottom went straight through your toes, what Was all that about well that's the way that mud goes Old blokes smoking, sitting on their smack Another kind of world never coming back Ooooh, let's all go down to the prom Make you feel good let's go down to the prom THOUGHTS & PRAYERS Thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers I send my online thoughts and prayers Starving children they're for you And they're for down-pressed people too For all of us who think and pray There's got to be a better way Between my games of Solitaire I send you all my thoughts and prayers Famous people who live on Through their music every one For heroes fallen by the way My thoughts are with you every day If you're feeling sad and your mind's not well Don't hide inside your inner shell For all my friends who once took drugs I send my thoughts and prayers and hugs Colon and parenthesis Laugh out loud and kiss kiss kiss These are thoughts that I can send To my two thousand online friends Thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers I send my online thoughts and prayers For those of us who have to cower From all those crooked men in power I hate those crooked men don't you The things they say, the things they do Between my games of Solitaire I send you all my thoughts and prayers YOU AND I BOTH KNOW IT HAD TO END Well I met you at the station, you asked me what was wrong I said I had no inspiration to write another song You asked was I a writer, I said sometimes I can be But I only write my songs if they have integrity We made love in the afternoon your dress upon the chair I keep my underpants on in case a song occurs As it happens I was not inspired to leave your satin bed We just lay and talked about me and my songs instead But you and I both know it had to end You said I'll get something for supper You said, I'm glad to be your friend Well I'll miss you and respect you but I must travel on By the time you get to Tescos I'll be gone You went to work and left me with your laptop and your phone I'm not One to take advantage unless I am left alone I needed someone near me and you were far away When I'm on the road it's the price you have to pay But you and I both know it had to end You said I'll get something for supper You said, I'm glad to be your friend Well I'll miss you and respect you but I must travel on By the time you get to Tescos I'll be gone THE ENGLISH CAPTAIN (A Shortened History Of Venice) She was a Venetian rose From a prosperous merchant family Her father was a member of the Council of Forty Of whom the Doge thought most highly Then one night at the Carnivale Sipping Galliano tea She was introduced to an English Captain A thumping crook naturally His name was Cargill, he'd come for the season An English rogue as some did tell He fired his cannon-balls at the French for no reason His career was going well In matters of trade he could be relied on To look as though he earned things honestly Rose to the rank of an English Captain Just the kind of chap the merchant navy liked to see There was not a woman in Venice Could resist his English charms In candlelit canals, oh, He took her in his arms This was love beyond compare To any other love affair In British naval history we're aware So they say Word got back to the Doge's people That all was not well domestically They got the man at Florian's to stitch up the Captain It was called his Galliano fee He accused Cargill, amongst other things, of Treacherous behaviour on a massive scale For he was the rival of the English Captain Who'd taken the wind right out of his sails It wasn't long before the court condemned him To walk across the Bridge of Sighs, but The Venetian rose she would still defend him Paid the gaoler close his eyes So they escaped into the Laguna Sipping Galliano tea She preferred the charms of an English Captain To a gradually fading autocracy There was not a man in Venice Could resist Napoleon's dance He stole their paintings off the wall And took them back to France One treasure he could not dispose Was that sweet Venetian rose Give an English Captain half a chance You're history. BETWEEN THE LINES Well it's a sad fact, if you read between the lines Something else is going on, you can't quite define The more you think about it the more you seem to find The things that people say is not what's on their mind But there it is, it's a problem, what did they say Did they tell you that they loved you only in their own way Did they say you were adorable did they say they'd be right back It's a wicked wicked world and that's a wicked fact Just because you party it doesn't mean you swing And just because you're Crosby that doesn't make you Bing Just because you kiss and bells begin to ring Read between the lines it doesn't mean a thing I got myself a book and I read between the lines Staring into spaces where the words are hard to find Put two and two together I must've been blind The way I read before I had to leave it all behind People tell you one thing but that's not what they mean, no What they mean is something somewhere sort of in between You think you're reading everything it's there in black and white Then someone says good morning in the middle of the night Just because you party it doesn't mean you swing And just because you're Crosby that doesn't make you Bing Just because you kiss and bells begin to ring Read between the lines it doesn't mean a thing I was taught to read, yeah, Jack and Jill before my eyes Then progressed to Noddy turned out to be a bunch of lies When I got to Neville Shute I was at the root of everything A Town Like Alice, the English i-ching So my advice to you is read between the lines To read the little spaces otherwise undefined Anyone can learn, bankers do it all the time In a social situation bear these facts in mind Just because you party it doesn't mean you swing And just because you're Crosby that doesn't make you Bing Just because you kiss and bells begin to ring Read between the lines it doesn't mean a thing REQUIEM FOR A SHED The fuckers knocked the shed down I cannot get my head round The spiritual vandalism of a crime so profound All over town they know the shed no longer stands The shed that I built with my own hands They bought the house and now they've knocked the shed down Two and a quarter rough-sawn the frame was sound Three quarter ship lap I did it on my own Rock wool insulated power and phone What a shed, the carpet was as deep As the late autumn leaves after their last leap Safe as a harbour in the centre of a storm In summer it was cool in the winter it was warm A place of work and a place of great light Next to the house in the middle of the night As garden sheds go no nothing could beat her, I mean A cocktail bar, television and a heater A place where you could think, it was a place where you could drink A place beneath the stars a place upon the brink It was everything a man or woman wanted it to be It was a palace of varieties a palace of the free All lit up on a Saturday night, Watching match of the day and then the big fight Stuart came round from the other side of town I haven't told him yet that the fuckers knocked the shed down (instrumental) I built it in the August of two thousand and one Took me three long months before the work was done The roof felt nailed down, the window in the frame In the last cement I carved my name Heirlooms and photographs precious everyone The leftover bits from every job I'd ever done There were shelves full of boxes from times gone by I thought that I would be there till the day I died I built it for work I built it for fun In the cool of the evening in the heat of the sun And when it was over I sat inside in the shade And I beheld the beauty of what I had made This is where I sat when I heard that song And this is where I was when a dream came along A dream that I imparted to my good friends This is where it started and this is where it ends I was hoping one day when I'm gone and most revered They'd put a plaque on that shed that said he may have been weird But this is where he wrote his books and his truth will never wilt In fact he wrote it in the house before the shed was built But this is where it happened this is where he wrote His desk was over there and that's where he hung his coat And here's a little history to tell you what was found There'd be a lot more but the fuckers knocked the shed down 400 MILES Lavender white and a sawn-off coffee table Dozens of boxes of labelled cassettes Trim-phones and bank loans and all myths and fables In place in the bedsit for music cadets Revox looped up and set for the next take Of songs of integrity written in ink All we need now is a bloody big break Question of months and we'll be on the brink Rapidly rising and anything possible Touring extensively moments away It won't be long till the day job is tossable And your girl believes the things that you say For love is the answer that she wants to hear And rare is the dancer who won't disappear If it's pressure it's love if it's not then she's gone Her dancing is over but you carry on It seems four hundred miles away From her wonder woman ways There's bound to be some better day To come our way It's your secret world and it's not a delusion But right now a secret you cannot betray To a living soul just you wait in seclusion Hatching the plots in your head till the day When anything possible seems to be true And all that you dreamed of is coming what may Takes just a word, nothing they do to you Nothing, not money can take that away Thirty years later the walls are magnolia Songs on a memory stick if you will Smart phones and bank loans and all myth and fables In place still beside the utility bills Cubase is up and may not even fail Songs of integrity print out in ink All I need now is to stay out of jail Question of months and we'll be on the brink It seems four hundred miles away From her wonder woman ways There's bound to be some better day To come our way It's your secret world and it's not a delusion But right now a secret you cannot betray To a living soul just you wait in seclusion Hatching the plots in your head till the day When anything possible seems to be true And all that you dreamed of is coming what may Takes just a word, nothing they do to you Nothing, not money can take that away BLUE CAR So long blue car So long so far Nothing wrong with your heart Just this MOT tore us apart So long and so far So long blue car Me and Bert we drove you half way to the sun Then we hit the road which is where we came undone Spivving for a living and living on the fear That's how it's come to this, now you've got under-steer Your rack and pinion's too worn for the test Emission's a problem, you're in a mess The total sum was a total charade The upshot is, I haven't got a car I live in the country, need a car for goodness sake I should get a grant for all the sacrifices that I make I live in isolation with just sixteen thousand others You need a car in Essex to avoid one another And what about all those people who live in Kent that can't be easy They need a car to talk things through, Kent can be so breezy And the people out in Suffolk well they're all as mad as hell But unless they live in Ipswich they need cars as well I blame myself no I do, I didn't treat you right Left you standing outside all night Tell you what I'll do, I'll make amends Going to get you back out there on the bends I'll get insurance I'll make a start I'll be back with the spare parts The policy will be all-risk Yeah, I'm coming back with a tax disc So long and so far, so long blue car Oh, my blue car HOLD YOUR HORSES WOMAN Hold your horses woman I am not like other men I understand things like what you need and when In the morning you need my attention at night you need it too Strict and undivided attention nothing else will do You ask me how I know what a tangled web you weave Female intuition is not easy to achieve But I really paid attention I was blind but now I see Woman you have no secrets left but one just what you saw in me I was not tall I was not dark I was not handsome by the normal benchmark I had a sense of humour I think that helped a bit But then you said you thought you were the butt of it But then you took me to your heart although I like to keep myself apart You honoured me some girls won't You said you loved me and now you say you don't Hold your horses woman what are we coming to You say that I'm obnoxious well OK but so are you There's no difference the argument is over Even though you say it's only half way through You always want things twice as long when half as long will do Oh ask me no more questions I swore not to kiss and tell I live in a world of my own you live in one as well We're as bad as one another there's no other undiscovered things that we could try to do You see all men are bastards still and women you're all bastards too All songs © David Hughes 2011		HOME NEWS SHOP VIDEO DATES ALBUMS BOOKS & PLAYS REVIEWS BIOG HUGHES CHRONICLE SOUND TRACKS LINKS CONTACT MYSPACE In Memoriam SITE MAP