28 April 2023

Come to me

Words and music by Richard Homer

4/4, 135 bpm Intro Am GI7 Am /G GI7 G /FGC


Am GI7 Am 

A morning when I / awoke at / two

G GI7 G

the moon up high / glowing / bright

F C high

the question once / again I ask

G GI7 G

why things just didn’t / work out / right

F G C high

why things / just didn’t / work out right 

FC, GC, FGC


The airport where we / kissed / goodbye

that time now seems so / far from / here

now nothing but / monotony

the aching of low / grinding / gear 

the aching / of low / grinding / gear


Here now nothing / to / inspire

I think again of where / we might / be

a walk, a swim, a / loving night

if you had not gone / away from / me

if you had not / gone / away from / me


Now hurt kicks in, tears / coming / by

with a bitter / winter / bite

in the empty / room I try

to brush away my / thoughts / tonight

to brush / away my / thoughts tonight


On the bed, window / open / now

emptiness is // everywhere

your colour blanket / close to me

a memory of when you / used to / care

a memory of / when you / used to care


C F G C

Come to me / again; yeah, / I want / you 

C F G C

to care for me / in the / way I once / knew

G C G C

being with / me / throughout the / night

G GI7 G / G G17 G G17 C

before you went / away from / me

C F G C

before you / went / away from / me

17 April 2023

Terengganu night (cahaya bulan)

Words and music by Richard Homer 

4/4, 3/4, 93 bpm


Em Bm 

the crackle of fire in the / evening haze 

Em Bm 

undergrowth of leafy, / whispering maze 

Am Em

broken house, / timber frame

Am Em 

of jungle squatting, / abandoned name

Am Bm Em

Terengganu / night


rubbing of a million / insect wing 

grunting wild boar / rummaging 

insipid air / monotony 

croaking frog / cacophony

Terengganu / night


Bm Am / Am Em

where are you / now? / where did you / go? 

Bm Am / Am Em

how we went / wrong, / I want to / know 

Am Em

I want to / know


I gaze alone at the / moon up high

bringing back those / years gone by 

ebbing water, / concrete pier 

engine oil, / fishing gear

Terengganu / night 


Ch

Am Bm Am Em

mosquito tango / in the / night / air

the aroma of the flowers / waltzing / here and / there

the rumba of the breeze in the / coconut / tree


3/4 Am Em

they / come back / to / talk / to the / night, / to / me

they / come back / to / talk / to the / night, / to / me Bm Em

4/4 Bm Am Em / Bm Am Em 

Terengganu / night, Terengganu / night


where are you / now? / where did you / go? 

how we went / wrong, / I want to / know 

I want to / know


3/4 Am Em

cengkerik / menari / menyanyi / ke / bintang 

cengkerik / menari / menyanyi / ke / bintang 

4/4 Bm Am Em / Bm Am Em 

Terengganu / night, Terengganu / night


Bm Am Em / Bm Am Em

come / to / me, / come / to / me 

Am Em / Am Em

come to / me, / right / here 



31 March 2023

half-awake night

Words and music by Richard Homer 

4/4, 83 bpm


Intro 

Am Em G Em


Em G Am Em

pizzicato / insect, / rain

Em G Am Em

ripple / fish / hanging / bough

Am Em G Em 

firefly / ballet, / wandering / moon

Am Em G Em

half-awake / night 


autumn / concert / quiet / goodbye 

yellow / wheat, / oboe / breeze

aching / plough, / pecking / plain

half-awake / night


nocturnal / bird / unknown / perch

purring / earth / on the / beat

misting // moonlight, / come to / me 

half-awake / night 


Ch

Am Em

half-awake night, / I am here 

Am Em

going where, / no idea 

G Em G Em

whirring fan / breaking the heat

G Em G Em

reminiscing / to the beat

Am Em G Em Bm Em

half-awake / night 


the cirrus / winter / hanging / high

rocky / iron / mountain / ice

timbre / of the / trombone / air

half-awake / night


half-awake night, / no-one can know

what I think / where I go

pictures flicker / off and on

here they come, / now you’re gone 

half-awake / night 


27 March 2023

Pantai rock

Words and music by Richard Homer 

4/4, 120 bpm 


GFG

alarm clock marimba, / early bird / warble 

GFG 

whispering sunlight / beginning to / roam 

FG

garden flowers / waving a / goodbye 

FG / FG G G7

the night-time hours / on the way // home


picking up, cruising // along by the / beach

off-and-on sun, / flickering / tree 

half-angry sea / hitting / breakwater

the scavenging, bickering / bird // bonhomie 


enjoying the sea, the / Mercedes warm / hum

windows open, / eating the / breeze

pit-stop café, / cup of black coffee

cheap chair, cracked plate, / croissant en // prise 


the crab running surf, bon / appétit / beach

the salt spray of the / half-languid // air 

the hissing aroma of a / million years back

the sun on your face, the / wind in your / hair


C F G C / G C

the sun on your / face and the / wind in your / hair

a smile on your / face, your / hair blowing / free 

a smile on your / face, your / hair blowing / free


high C high F G C

makan / angin, / eating the / breeze

rocking / along in the / cool morning / air

makan / angin, / eating the / breeze 

C F G C

the sun on my / face and the / wind in my / hair


C F G C

I love / you

ooh la / la la, / ooh la / la