Give me peace any day
Just my woman and some quiet
That kind of joy they try sell
But you know you can’t buy it.

That person you connect with
A person you can love
As equals respected
As equals should.

Just give me that freedom
Found in the chains of love
When it’s just easy to be with them
When your chains are a buzz.

Just give me peace of mind
Give me a world of heart
This world has so much to waste your time
So much from I’d easily part.

Just give me peace any day
Just my woman and some quiet
That kind of joy they try sell
But you know you can’t buy it.

© Daniel Breslin

What’s eating on your soul girl?
Sit down, let off your cares
Look like you’re carrying the whole world
Why don’t you pull up a chair?

My ears are there for listening
If you’ve something to say
Or let’s just listen to the wind whistling
Some of those cares away.

It ain’t easy out here
Is it for us girl?
World will drum you up with fear
Make your insides curl.

What’s weighing on your mind?
What’s eating on your nerves?
What’s beating you blind?
Or can you even find the words?

Is it the sum of all the parts?
Is it the gnawing of the whole?
Is it the betrayal of weaker hearts?
Making a prison of your soul?

Is it all your eyes see?
All your heart feels?
When this world won’t seem to let you be
Anything resembling real?

Do you feel your time wasted?
By wasters in disguise?
Who are so completely tasteless
They’d allow you give your life to lies?

Is everyone in it for their piece?
Only in for themselves?
Take your soul piece by piece
Just to decorate their shelves?

In the halls of empty promises
In the halls of vulgar gold
Where the only thing that’s honest is
Their love of control.

Is this world too overpowering?
Is it sucking from your veins?
Does the sum of the parts come towering?
To eat the beauty your soul would claim?

Do you feel like you’re on show?
That your best ain’t good enough?
Are the days making you feel low?
Till it’s hard just getting up?

Does the world applaud and value trickery?
Praise that stuff as smart
Seem to mock and laugh in victory
That you’d dare give it your heart?

Is it eroding your community?
Separating in its veiled ploy?
As your fingers slip from unity
Something you feel you might enjoy?

Is it everything above?
Or is it nothing at all?
Sometimes just to think those thoughts does good
For some people don’t seem to think at all.

Ain’t that wind whistling soothing?
Don’t that breeze make you feel good?
Even when we’re losing
In simplicity we can find love.

Listen to your voice
It’s guiding you, if you can
They try drown it out but we still have choice
Even when the world don’t seem to give a damn.

Is something beating on your soul?
Is something gnawing on your heart?
Now and again we all feel the heavy toll
Of the sum of all the parts.

© Daniel Breslin

If something is blocking your clarity
You need to remove it from your view
For if something is blocking your clarity
It’s also blocking you.

We need to see some pictures clearly
If we are to advance as most want to
And if something is not helping you see clearly
Responsibility falls on you.

So ask the needed questions
In whatever way you may
Learn your life lessons
Thankful for honesty, once that’s what answers say.

For now you see things clearly
Picture clear as day
And you can move on freely
Not something everyone can say.

© Daniel Breslin

They been telling me my whole life
Man, don’t you go and start with it
Not only will I start with it
But when I do something, I put my whole fucking heart in it.

Now I’ve been laying back
Sat up on the fence
Dealing with some other stuff
Before my stuff I could implement.

But now I got them goals
That look in my eye
And I’m ready to roll
Wherever my ideas fly.

No time for negativity
I’m cutting that stuff out
Seemed like all this world was giving me
But that’s not what I’m about.

So I’m just laying down a marker
On the future my eyes lit
I make lighter from the darker
And magic from the shit.

That’s what I do
And I ain’t afraid to say it
Just been waiting for my cue
And ‘The Universe’ to okay it.

I know what I’m about man
That’s the first success
Cause what I’m about man
Is express, express, express.

So I be coming fast
Expressing out at will
And I’d not knock it back
But it ain’t about the dollar bill.

It’s about doing what you love
Getting focused on where you’re going
It’s about heart and it’s about blood
But most of all it’s about growing.

They been telling me my whole life
Man, don’t you go and start with it
Not only will I start with it
But when I do something, I put my whole fucking heart in it.

© Daniel Breslin

Tonight the wine was flowing
Tonight the mood was good
Tonight my blood was flowing
I was in the mood for love.

Tonight you were looking sexy
Tonight you were looking class
Tonight you brought out the best in me
Tonight went by much too fast.

Tonight you were looking dreamy
You made me laugh my hearts content
Tonight was that bit steamy
Tonight was that bit meant.

Tonight you cleared my mind
Tonight you purged my soul
Tonight was just sublime
Girl, you’re on a roll.

© Daniel Breslin

Don’t let them get you down son
I know what that’s like
When I was growing up
I fought a different kind of fight.

My life was changed significantly
At a very early stage
And I started to view the world a little differently
Than other kids my age.

I can see it in your eyes
That you going through some drama
Other kids don’t understand or recognise
And you’ve not yet built your armour.

Don’t let them get you down son
They just tease what they don’t know
Remember they’re just kids
And this is your chance to grow.

See they be talking small
As kids do with petit shit
What’s bouncing off your minds walls
Is so much heavier than they can grip.

See the things that make you different
Are going to be the things that make you stronger
But this is where it gets a little difficult
That might take you a little longer.

I know that won’t make your day
Or fill you up with hope
But if you start to walk within
You’ll pass them down the road.

Don’t let them get you down son
For all they are is kids
And they don’t see your struggle
They only see the life they live.

You got to learn to grow yourself
And in turn you can help them all
Them kids going to need a little help
When they really fall.

And most battles that they face
You’ll have fought ten times over
And depending on what the situation takes
You can help them shoulder or help them soldier.

Don’t let them get you down son
One day they might need your help
When the things they tease you about
Happens to themselves.

So you go grow yourself
And you do it your way
And there might come a time
You look back and smile at the chat we had today.

You’d be right to question
And I don’t blame you if you doubt it
If someone had of given me the same advice
Not sure how I’d of felt about it.

Don’t let them get you down son
For all they are is kids
And kids can’t be expected to see your struggle
They should be allowed to be happy in the life they live.

But don’t let them get you down son
As I can see your pain
And every battle’s different
But something here feels the same.

I can see it in your eyes
That you going through some drama
But son if you’re wise
This is where you start to build your armour.

© Daniel Breslin

I’ve been feeling tired
Little scared too
A lot of things ain’t been working out
The way I wanted them too.

But I’m finding in the ashes
The greatest strengths of myself
And I just got a slice of luck
That’s come as a much welcome help.

Now I kept some little hopes for love
Somewhere buried in my core
A lot longer than I should
Suppose that’s what they call me stubborn for.

So I be burning them
Hopes of churning them to something more
Right now it’s just me, paper, mind and pen
And a thirst to explore.

My head’s a little clearer
My heart’s free of restraints
Freedom is edging nearer
And I’ve a blank canvas to paint.

Something’s buzzing in my soul
Thoughts dancing in my mind
We must accept what we can’t control
Leave the past behind.

So I be moving forward
With a new found spring in my step
Few ideas what I’m moving toward
But right about now, I’m just loving every breath.

© Daniel Breslin