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 

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 

I want to be with you tonight

Words and music by Richard Homer

Abergavenny 2005

4/4 145 bpm Intro Am F Am twice

Am F Am

I want to be with you / tonight, sweet / thing

Am F Am

but when I called your place, / you weren’t / there

G Am

so I waited, in the cold, despairing / air

G Am Am

thinking by the phone that didn’t bother to / ring

F G Am F G Am 

ooh, / I just want to be with / you

The phone, the wiring, and I / hang in / there 

I’m watching, listening for the / ring tone / light

to beat me away from the lonesome / air

of yet another windy, frozen / night

ooh, / I just want to be with / you

C G C G

Oh why, oh / why, / you didn’t / call me?

C G C G

Oh why, oh / why, / you didn’t think of / me?

F G Am

Why can’t you / take me in / embrace

F G Am

in the way of the / jungle, where we can / erase the trace

two fifteen in the morning; an / empty / night

of an icy, bright-star skyscape / raw and / clear 

I ask again why things can’t work out / right

thinking why you are not with me / here 

ooh, / I just want to be with / you

Am F Am F

G G7

F C

G G7 G

C

icing on the window / frame / appear 

the road, the houses empty, / bleak and / bare

a lonely bike boy roars by in high / gear

breaking up the orange street light / air 

ooh, / I just want to be with / you

C G C G

Oh why, oh / why, / you didn’t / call me?

C G C G

Oh why, oh / why, / you didn’t think of / me?

F G Am

Why can’t you / take me in / embrace

F G Am

in the way of the / jungle, where we can / erase the trace

Rojak Rock

Words and music by Richard Homer

3/4, 210 bpm 

Intro E A B E 

EAE
We grew up together in / Llanfair ym / Muallt 
AEBE
up by the / mountain, the / kite, the / Wye
EAE
high aircraft up there, / clouds on the / run
AEBE
watching the / sheep, the / tractor go / by. AEBE, AEBE

You went off to college to / train in / teaching
a hug on the / platform, / watching you / go 
you came back after three years with a / ring on your / finger
a new degree, new / fashion, a / husband in / tow.

I thought it better, now you / had a new / boy
to go far / away, to / begin life // anew
the two of you now ten / years with each / other;
I’m here, / thinking of the / girl I once / knew
EBEB
oh.

You began your own / family / together
two boys and a / girl, a / dog in your / home
but I, I am here, / thinking what / happened
thinking of / you and where / we used to / roam.

Extra

high B A E 
I’m here on the bed, / thinking, / alone
B A E
I’m like a poor dog with no / owner, no / bone
A E B E
the garden green, / yellow, / the sun here // again
A E B E
but I’m waiting / here with the / raw, empty / rain

Throughout the next few years, / I met / no-one
I had no / wish for a / girl in my / life
ten years went by, in / lonely / way
ten years since you / became a / mother, a / wife.

I met the odd girl, but / none quite / right
no one I wanted to / spend a / long time with / me 
it didn’t workout, but / I knew that / well-enough 
because I wanted your / love, and / you were the / key.

I came back to my cottage by the / banks of the / Wye
hoeing, / planting in the / brisk weather / here;
on Friday morning, the / farmers’ / market
getting enough / money for my / house tax and / beer.

When I read the news, the / photo, the / car crash
my heart and my / life stopped for a / minute or / two
thinking of the ice, the / cold water, the / bridge
thinking // again / of the last / time I held / you, oh

I came to put flowers on / where you are / now
reading the / words, / thinking of / you,
keeping close, with your / husband // nearby 
in the warm // afternoon, the / tears came on / cue, oh 

E B E
Come, girl, / come to me / now
E B E
Come, girl, / come back to / me. AEBE, AEBE

I wait here alone, / thinking of / you
thinking of what / happened / way back in / time
waiting here with the / dog and the / clock;
you were the / mountain that / I couldn’t / climb.

Oh, the two boys, the girl came / - she’s just like / you -
taking a / year to / track me to / here
bringing the thirty year letters / I am now // re- reading
the Chinese lamp / glowing in the / tears of the / beer.

We talked, had a meal, a / beer in the / pub
they’re keeping / well, things / going along just / right;
I think that they are quite / happy to / know
that thirty years back, / you and I were / sharing the / night, oh

We went into the back, / in the warm / air
the breeze coming / through the / ripe apple / tree
but what I found to / be the most / touching
the two boys, you / named them / both after / me.

Extra

There is no-one else here / with me / now
except the air, bird, / dog, rain, / tree
but when the wind blows through the / pine and the / oak
I think it’s you / coming back, / talking to / me.

I wrote a song, in / memory of / you
in the late gusting / hours of a wet / night going / by
beginning, ‘We grew up together in / Llanfair ym / Muallt
up by the / mountain, the / kite, the / Wye.’

Come, girl, / come to me / now
Come, girl, / come back to / me.

Ending A E B E, A E B E