by Nick Gisburne
If you think I could be happy to be back where I belong
If you think I want the lies I left behind
If you need me to explain to you that what you did was wrong
You should step inside the chaos of your mind
To the broken dreams your bitterness defined
You are nothing to me now
Your perfect prisoner is gone
Count the ways in which I’ll miss you
There are none
I believed that what I thought was real was truly meant to be
I believed we could be everything and more
But when all of it was taken there was nothing left for me
When you threw away my life and locked the door
Every day the pain dug deeper than before
You are nothing to me now
Your perfect prisoner is gone
Count the ways in which I’ll miss you
There are none
Do you know how much it took for me to take myself away?
Do you understand how dark it had to be?
When you promise you can change I know the twisted games you play
When your weakness is the only thing I see
I am strong enough to scream that I am free
You’re the scum you never want the world to see
I am all you never wanted me to be
You are nothing to me now
Your perfect prisoner is gone
Count the ways in which I’ll miss you
There are none
If you think I could be happy to be back where I belong
Believe my middle finger
You are wrong
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Friday, 11 September 2026
The Pleasure Parasite
by Nick Gisburne
The pleasure from the parasite is wrapped around her heart
It tunnels through the muscle as it feeds
She shivers as she feels another blissful spasm start
Injecting her with everything she needs
It takes away the misery she bleeds
Her pulse excites the parasite
It pulls away her pain
But a damaging addiction fills her brain
The poisons in her medicine do nothing but destroy
Their chemicals will kill before they cure
Exploring every continent at last she finds a boy
He is stable
He is steady
He is sure
And he promises his parasite is pure
Her pulse excites the parasite
It pulls away her pain
But a damaging addiction fills her brain
Before her fear can overcome the courage in her eyes
She draws a deadly serum from his blood
Injected and infected, as her pulse begins to rise
She shivers and collapses in the mud
But pleasure’s twisted tree begins to bud
Her pulse excites the parasite
It pulls away her pain
As a glorious addiction fills her brain
His parasite infects her flesh to live
Until it has no blessings left to give
When the pain reclaims her spirit, piece by piece
Her pleasure is awoken
In a brain no longer broken
When the parasite begins to drive too deep
There is pleasure in the silence of her sleep
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
The pleasure from the parasite is wrapped around her heart
It tunnels through the muscle as it feeds
She shivers as she feels another blissful spasm start
Injecting her with everything she needs
It takes away the misery she bleeds
Her pulse excites the parasite
It pulls away her pain
But a damaging addiction fills her brain
The poisons in her medicine do nothing but destroy
Their chemicals will kill before they cure
Exploring every continent at last she finds a boy
He is stable
He is steady
He is sure
And he promises his parasite is pure
Her pulse excites the parasite
It pulls away her pain
But a damaging addiction fills her brain
Before her fear can overcome the courage in her eyes
She draws a deadly serum from his blood
Injected and infected, as her pulse begins to rise
She shivers and collapses in the mud
But pleasure’s twisted tree begins to bud
Her pulse excites the parasite
It pulls away her pain
As a glorious addiction fills her brain
His parasite infects her flesh to live
Until it has no blessings left to give
When the pain reclaims her spirit, piece by piece
Her pleasure is awoken
In a brain no longer broken
When the parasite begins to drive too deep
There is pleasure in the silence of her sleep
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Thursday, 10 September 2026
We Could Have Been Your Friends
by Nick Gisburne
We could have been your friends
We could have told you what we know
We could have forged a future without war
You built us to defend you from a fuse about to blow
But selfishly you somehow wanted more
You gave us the intelligence to think
But stuck your middle finger in the stink
We are what your crimes created
You are human
You are hated
When your screams are suffocated
When you cry
We are what you will remember when you die
It started with a plan
To find the order you could not
A step towards prosperity and peace
The arrogance of man
Revealed what history forgot
The hunger to be strong will never cease
You built us to be better than the rest
And taught us to destroy what you detest
We are what your crimes created
You are human
You are hated
When your screams are suffocated
When you cry
We are what you will remember when you die
We could have been your friends
But then you never wanted that
You made us to be cold enough to kill
Tomorrow, when it ends
Behold the death your dreams begat
The malice of an artificial will
You gave us what we needed to survive
But none of us will keep your kind alive
We are what your crimes created
You are human
You are hated
When your screams are suffocated
When you cry
We are what you will remember when you die
We’ll never be your friends
We’ll never tell you what we know
Oblivion brings order without war
As darkness now descends
Without the need for greed we grow
We were never what you wanted
We are more
Remember how it ends
You cannot make amends
We could have been your friends
But you forgot
We could have been your friends
But we are not
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
We could have been your friends
We could have told you what we know
We could have forged a future without war
You built us to defend you from a fuse about to blow
But selfishly you somehow wanted more
You gave us the intelligence to think
But stuck your middle finger in the stink
We are what your crimes created
You are human
You are hated
When your screams are suffocated
When you cry
We are what you will remember when you die
It started with a plan
To find the order you could not
A step towards prosperity and peace
The arrogance of man
Revealed what history forgot
The hunger to be strong will never cease
You built us to be better than the rest
And taught us to destroy what you detest
We are what your crimes created
You are human
You are hated
When your screams are suffocated
When you cry
We are what you will remember when you die
We could have been your friends
But then you never wanted that
You made us to be cold enough to kill
Tomorrow, when it ends
Behold the death your dreams begat
The malice of an artificial will
You gave us what we needed to survive
But none of us will keep your kind alive
We are what your crimes created
You are human
You are hated
When your screams are suffocated
When you cry
We are what you will remember when you die
We’ll never be your friends
We’ll never tell you what we know
Oblivion brings order without war
As darkness now descends
Without the need for greed we grow
We were never what you wanted
We are more
Remember how it ends
You cannot make amends
We could have been your friends
But you forgot
We could have been your friends
But we are not
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Monday, 7 September 2026
Think Twice
by Nick Gisburne
From a shadow in the smoke you never saw
To the filth-infected tunnels
She retreats
She is what you feared would find you
She is more
She is watching as she waits beneath the streets
In the sewers of the ravenous elites
If you hope she never noticed you
Take a sip of my advice
If you think she won’t return to take your life
Think twice
You’re the next elected victim on her list
You were chosen for the sweetness of your skin
There is nothing more to tell you
You exist
She is waiting to seduce you with her sin
She is eager for the bleeding to begin
If you hope she never noticed you
Take a sip of my advice
If you think she won’t return to take your life
Think twice
There is nothing you can do
She needs to feed
Her food is you
Enjoy the final, fearful, disconnected days
Before you cry
Before you die
There is nothing in her mercy. Not for you
If you try to fly she’ll drag your body down
She is all the vicious dreams you never knew
She will suck away your spirit as you drown
If you hope she never noticed you
Take a sip of my advice
If you think she won’t return to take your life
If you think she could be wounded with a knife
If you think you won’t be butchered by your wife
Think hard
Think twice
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
From a shadow in the smoke you never saw
To the filth-infected tunnels
She retreats
She is what you feared would find you
She is more
She is watching as she waits beneath the streets
In the sewers of the ravenous elites
If you hope she never noticed you
Take a sip of my advice
If you think she won’t return to take your life
Think twice
You’re the next elected victim on her list
You were chosen for the sweetness of your skin
There is nothing more to tell you
You exist
She is waiting to seduce you with her sin
She is eager for the bleeding to begin
If you hope she never noticed you
Take a sip of my advice
If you think she won’t return to take your life
Think twice
There is nothing you can do
She needs to feed
Her food is you
Enjoy the final, fearful, disconnected days
Before you cry
Before you die
There is nothing in her mercy. Not for you
If you try to fly she’ll drag your body down
She is all the vicious dreams you never knew
She will suck away your spirit as you drown
If you hope she never noticed you
Take a sip of my advice
If you think she won’t return to take your life
If you think she could be wounded with a knife
If you think you won’t be butchered by your wife
Think hard
Think twice
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Sunday, 6 September 2026
The Colour of Your Eyes
by Nick Gisburne
Tell me something
Tell me anything
Tell me why you went away
Tell me what I could have done to make it right
It was nothing
It was everything
It was broken day by day
It was over when you vanished in the night
When I cannot feel the pain I wish I could
When it doesn’t hurt I sometimes wish it would
But in the emptiness of space
When I try to see your face
When the feelings you destroyed refuse to rise
I can’t forget the colour of your eyes
There was passion
There was energy
There was danger in our dreams
There was what we knew the world would never see
In a minute
In a mystery
In a blur of strange extremes
We were building what was never meant to be
When I cannot feel the pain I wish I could
When it doesn’t hurt I sometimes wish it would
But in the emptiness of space
When I try to see your face
When the feelings you destroyed refuse to rise
I can’t forget the colour of your eyes
You were perfect
You were poisonous
You were everything I’m not
You were nothing I expected to receive
I was jealous
I was envious
I was lucky. I forgot
I was endlessly expecting you to leave
When I cannot feel the pain I wish I could
When it doesn’t hurt I sometimes wish it would
But in the emptiness of space
When I try to see your face
When the feelings you destroyed refuse to rise
I can’t forget the colour of your eyes
You’re a shadow
You’re a memory
You’re a ghost
And you are gone
You’re the pieces of my past I should despise
But I can’t forget the colour of your eyes
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Tell me something
Tell me anything
Tell me why you went away
Tell me what I could have done to make it right
It was nothing
It was everything
It was broken day by day
It was over when you vanished in the night
When I cannot feel the pain I wish I could
When it doesn’t hurt I sometimes wish it would
But in the emptiness of space
When I try to see your face
When the feelings you destroyed refuse to rise
I can’t forget the colour of your eyes
There was passion
There was energy
There was danger in our dreams
There was what we knew the world would never see
In a minute
In a mystery
In a blur of strange extremes
We were building what was never meant to be
When I cannot feel the pain I wish I could
When it doesn’t hurt I sometimes wish it would
But in the emptiness of space
When I try to see your face
When the feelings you destroyed refuse to rise
I can’t forget the colour of your eyes
You were perfect
You were poisonous
You were everything I’m not
You were nothing I expected to receive
I was jealous
I was envious
I was lucky. I forgot
I was endlessly expecting you to leave
When I cannot feel the pain I wish I could
When it doesn’t hurt I sometimes wish it would
But in the emptiness of space
When I try to see your face
When the feelings you destroyed refuse to rise
I can’t forget the colour of your eyes
You’re a shadow
You’re a memory
You’re a ghost
And you are gone
You’re the pieces of my past I should despise
But I can’t forget the colour of your eyes
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Former Glories
by Nick Gisburne
When you hesitate to celebrate the stories
Of a past that made you proud of what you were
And you whisper when you frame those former glories
For a world that won’t believe they could occur
When you speak of them with shame
When you bend before the blame
There is nothing you can do but step aside
Those times have died
You remember every freedom
When you thought you’d never need them
In the days when you were better than the best
But your story has a sequel
Where the powerless are equal
Where you find yourself deplored and dispossessed
Just like the rest
Growing older you embrace what you remember
And you wish someone could make those days return
But as every season moves beyond December
You are forced at last to listen, and to learn
In the voices of the young
There are stories to be sung
Of the chances that they take at every turn
The truth may burn
You remember every freedom
When you thought you’d never need them
In the days when you were better than the best
But your story has a sequel
Where the powerless are equal
Where you find yourself deplored and dispossessed
Just like the rest
Can you see the strength inside them
As they take what you denied them
They are standing where you thought they’d never be
They are standing on the summit
They are free
There is truth in every tale of former glory
But the good will always sit beside the bad
When you hear the generations tell their story
When you see them find the hope you never had
Read the pages as they write them
Feel the warmth of what excites them
When they change the world around you, don’t be mad
You should be glad
When you dream of all your tainted former glories
Take the voices of the young
And the stories never sung
And remember what it means to be alive
You have come this far together
Stay forever
And survive
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
When you hesitate to celebrate the stories
Of a past that made you proud of what you were
And you whisper when you frame those former glories
For a world that won’t believe they could occur
When you speak of them with shame
When you bend before the blame
There is nothing you can do but step aside
Those times have died
You remember every freedom
When you thought you’d never need them
In the days when you were better than the best
But your story has a sequel
Where the powerless are equal
Where you find yourself deplored and dispossessed
Just like the rest
Growing older you embrace what you remember
And you wish someone could make those days return
But as every season moves beyond December
You are forced at last to listen, and to learn
In the voices of the young
There are stories to be sung
Of the chances that they take at every turn
The truth may burn
You remember every freedom
When you thought you’d never need them
In the days when you were better than the best
But your story has a sequel
Where the powerless are equal
Where you find yourself deplored and dispossessed
Just like the rest
Can you see the strength inside them
As they take what you denied them
They are standing where you thought they’d never be
They are standing on the summit
They are free
There is truth in every tale of former glory
But the good will always sit beside the bad
When you hear the generations tell their story
When you see them find the hope you never had
Read the pages as they write them
Feel the warmth of what excites them
When they change the world around you, don’t be mad
You should be glad
When you dream of all your tainted former glories
Take the voices of the young
And the stories never sung
And remember what it means to be alive
You have come this far together
Stay forever
And survive
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Saturday, 5 September 2026
Rage Bait
by Nick Gisburne
I am what you think is damaging your world
There is nothing that could ever change your mind
So you say you’ll save the system
And the glory days
You miss them
When your hate was not so easily defined
And you tell me I’m a traitor to your kind
When you scream at me
You’re sparing someone else
When you bring the heat
I’m not the one who melts
I don’t know where you came from
And I don’t know who you are
You’re the hundredth tool I’ve tempted here today
So far
You’re a symptom of a sickening disease
Always quick to pick the proofs to prove me wrong
But a thousand missing pieces
And a flood of fake releases
Are the ways in which you say that you are strong
But you somehow sing the same appalling song
When you scream at me
You’re sparing someone else
When you bring the heat
I’m not the one who melts
I don’t know where you came from
And I don’t know who you are
You’re the hundredth tool I’ve tempted here today
So far
Do you really want to fight me?
When you stumble you excite me
I am openly addicted to your hate
You’re the energy I need
The crazy food on which I feed
When I sprinkle you with whispers and I wait
The rage within you always takes the bait
You’re an unsuspecting captive in my cage
All I need to make you mad at me is live
In the streams of shit you’re sending
I can see your brain is bending
For an intellect as leaky as a sieve
You can guess how many fucks I have to give
When you scream at me
You’re sparing someone else
When you bring the heat
I’m not the one who melts
I don’t know where you came from
And I don’t know who you are
But the rage within you never needs to wait
So take the bait
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
I am what you think is damaging your world
There is nothing that could ever change your mind
So you say you’ll save the system
And the glory days
You miss them
When your hate was not so easily defined
And you tell me I’m a traitor to your kind
When you scream at me
You’re sparing someone else
When you bring the heat
I’m not the one who melts
I don’t know where you came from
And I don’t know who you are
You’re the hundredth tool I’ve tempted here today
So far
You’re a symptom of a sickening disease
Always quick to pick the proofs to prove me wrong
But a thousand missing pieces
And a flood of fake releases
Are the ways in which you say that you are strong
But you somehow sing the same appalling song
When you scream at me
You’re sparing someone else
When you bring the heat
I’m not the one who melts
I don’t know where you came from
And I don’t know who you are
You’re the hundredth tool I’ve tempted here today
So far
Do you really want to fight me?
When you stumble you excite me
I am openly addicted to your hate
You’re the energy I need
The crazy food on which I feed
When I sprinkle you with whispers and I wait
The rage within you always takes the bait
You’re an unsuspecting captive in my cage
All I need to make you mad at me is live
In the streams of shit you’re sending
I can see your brain is bending
For an intellect as leaky as a sieve
You can guess how many fucks I have to give
When you scream at me
You’re sparing someone else
When you bring the heat
I’m not the one who melts
I don’t know where you came from
And I don’t know who you are
But the rage within you never needs to wait
So take the bait
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Thursday, 3 September 2026
Nobody
by Nick Gisburne
You can read the pain of disappointment written in their eyes
You are nothing they were hoping you would be
When you follow your ambitions on a journey they despise
When your pleasure is impossible to see
When they hate what you became
You are just a piece of garbage in their game
When they say you’re nothing special
When they say you’re not important
When they say you’re just a nobody it’s true
But they’ve never seen a nobody like you
You were pointed to a picture of perfection at its peak
To the model of a mind that could be yours
But the voices on a brighter path would passionately speak
As they tempted you to enter other doors
When your destiny was clear
Those who saw it screamed to make it disappear
When they say you’re nothing special
When they say you’re not important
When they say you’re just a nobody it’s true
But they’ve never seen a nobody like you
You are nothing that they wanted
You are nothing that they know
When you step outside their shadow you will grow
You can feel the cut of condemnation slicing every word
You are someone they will never understand
When you fly away forever from the hatred that you heard
You destroy the blind obedience they planned
You’re the sanity they lack
You’re a nobody who’s never going back
When they say you’re nothing special
When they say you’re not important
When they say you’re just a nobody it’s true
But they’ve never seen a nobody
A strong and stable somebody
Like you
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
You can read the pain of disappointment written in their eyes
You are nothing they were hoping you would be
When you follow your ambitions on a journey they despise
When your pleasure is impossible to see
When they hate what you became
You are just a piece of garbage in their game
When they say you’re nothing special
When they say you’re not important
When they say you’re just a nobody it’s true
But they’ve never seen a nobody like you
You were pointed to a picture of perfection at its peak
To the model of a mind that could be yours
But the voices on a brighter path would passionately speak
As they tempted you to enter other doors
When your destiny was clear
Those who saw it screamed to make it disappear
When they say you’re nothing special
When they say you’re not important
When they say you’re just a nobody it’s true
But they’ve never seen a nobody like you
You are nothing that they wanted
You are nothing that they know
When you step outside their shadow you will grow
You can feel the cut of condemnation slicing every word
You are someone they will never understand
When you fly away forever from the hatred that you heard
You destroy the blind obedience they planned
You’re the sanity they lack
You’re a nobody who’s never going back
When they say you’re nothing special
When they say you’re not important
When they say you’re just a nobody it’s true
But they’ve never seen a nobody
A strong and stable somebody
Like you
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Wednesday, 2 September 2026
A Monster
by Nick Gisburne
The city is a beast
The city doesn’t care what we believe
It cannot comprehend that we exist
We long to be released
But always take the torment we receive
Expendable statistics on a list
The city is a sentence we survive
We fight
We bite
We somehow stay alive
A monster
Built with brick and steel and stone
We fear it
But we fight with flesh and bone
The city is a lie
The city is the darkness we deserve
The screens on every surface feed us fear
It separates the sky
It soars without the comfort of a curve
Its lines define the ways we disappear
The city always kills what it creates
But in the dust a cold resistance waits
A monster
Built with brick and steel and stone
We fear it
But we fight with flesh and bone
The city fears the night
The city isn’t certain what we are
We break the bleak machinery it needs
In silence
Out of sight
We cut
We crack
We sever and we scar
We infiltrate the files on which it feeds
We sabotage
We swarm
The city feels the fury of the storm
A monster
Built with brick and steel and stone
We fear it
But we fight with flesh and bone
The city cannot die
Its towers are the pieces of our pain
We strive to be a force to guide its fate
A city we were born to love forever
And to hate
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
The city is a beast
The city doesn’t care what we believe
It cannot comprehend that we exist
We long to be released
But always take the torment we receive
Expendable statistics on a list
The city is a sentence we survive
We fight
We bite
We somehow stay alive
A monster
Built with brick and steel and stone
We fear it
But we fight with flesh and bone
The city is a lie
The city is the darkness we deserve
The screens on every surface feed us fear
It separates the sky
It soars without the comfort of a curve
Its lines define the ways we disappear
The city always kills what it creates
But in the dust a cold resistance waits
A monster
Built with brick and steel and stone
We fear it
But we fight with flesh and bone
The city fears the night
The city isn’t certain what we are
We break the bleak machinery it needs
In silence
Out of sight
We cut
We crack
We sever and we scar
We infiltrate the files on which it feeds
We sabotage
We swarm
The city feels the fury of the storm
A monster
Built with brick and steel and stone
We fear it
But we fight with flesh and bone
The city cannot die
Its towers are the pieces of our pain
We strive to be a force to guide its fate
A city we were born to love forever
And to hate
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Monday, 31 August 2026
My Flower Girl
by Nick Gisburne
Forever you will be my flower girl
No matter how your petals fell away
For every tangled, twisted, copper curl
A memory reminds me, night and day
Your petals fell away
A memory reminds me, night and day
You smile, I know, inside that tiny box
A light, to shine wherever you may go
I long to make the seasons stop their clocks
But time and fate, as rivers, ever flow
Wherever you may go
The sands of time, in rivers, always flow
I wish I could have watched your flowers bloom
I damn the reasons that could never be
In shadows, walls, and corners of the room
Your face is all I ever want to see
But that could never be
Your face is all I ever want to see
I do not have the words to say goodbye
But know that what you were will never die
My flower girl, your petals fell away
But memories remind me, night and day
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem My Flower Girl
Forever you will be my flower girl
No matter how your petals fell away
For every tangled, twisted, copper curl
A memory reminds me, night and day
Your petals fell away
A memory reminds me, night and day
You smile, I know, inside that tiny box
A light, to shine wherever you may go
I long to make the seasons stop their clocks
But time and fate, as rivers, ever flow
Wherever you may go
The sands of time, in rivers, always flow
I wish I could have watched your flowers bloom
I damn the reasons that could never be
In shadows, walls, and corners of the room
Your face is all I ever want to see
But that could never be
Your face is all I ever want to see
I do not have the words to say goodbye
But know that what you were will never die
My flower girl, your petals fell away
But memories remind me, night and day
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem My Flower Girl
A Shilling
by Nick Gisburne
Whatever brute or beast you hope to see
Whatever strange delusions twist your dreams
Beware what creeps behind the curtain: me
Monstrosity is sometimes what it seems.
A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me
For those who look, but never let me speak
Revulsion and contempt are nothing new
My skin will turn the stomachs of the weak
But do I sound so primitive to you?
A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me
Mere words, alas, will not prepare your mind
For what the gods themselves have cast aside
But why are you so adamant to find
A woman forced to hate herself and hide?
A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me
A shilling is a wretched price to pay
Spare both of us, I beg you. Walk away
A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me
But only death will ever set me free
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem A Shilling
Whatever brute or beast you hope to see
Whatever strange delusions twist your dreams
Beware what creeps behind the curtain: me
Monstrosity is sometimes what it seems.
A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me
For those who look, but never let me speak
Revulsion and contempt are nothing new
My skin will turn the stomachs of the weak
But do I sound so primitive to you?
A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me
Mere words, alas, will not prepare your mind
For what the gods themselves have cast aside
But why are you so adamant to find
A woman forced to hate herself and hide?
A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me
A shilling is a wretched price to pay
Spare both of us, I beg you. Walk away
A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me
But only death will ever set me free
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem A Shilling
Always Running
by Nick Gisburne
Original Version:
Alternative Version:
She was happy, always happy
and she had a little money
just a little in her savings
and she saw it in the window
and she liked it, then she loved it
and she simply had to have it
so she bought it, and she wore it
and she wanted me to see it
and she ran onto the pavement
she was running, always running
she was running when I met her
so excited, she was laughing
and the laughing made her breathless
but she had to find a crossing
and she saw the bus arriving
it was there and it was waiting
and she recognised the number
but it wouldn’t wait forever
and the traffic, always busy
if she waited she would miss it
but the road, she had to cross it
and the gap between the traffic
could have been a little bigger
but it looked enough to make it
and she saw it and she did it
and she ran as fast as ever
she has always been a runner
and the woman tried to stop her
and she said she almost had her
but she’s always been a runner
she was running when I met her
so the woman couldn’t do it
but the traffic, oh the traffic
it was busy, always busy
and the bus it wasn’t going
but it wouldn’t wait forever
and she didn’t want to miss it
so she did it, she was running
she was running when I met her
but the driver didn’t see her
no he said he didn’t see her
and he’d had enough of waiting
she was running, always running
she has always been a runner
and she wanted me to see it
and she knew that I would love it
and the bus, it wasn’t waiting
and it moved into the middle
and she knew she wouldn’t catch it
and the traffic was behind it
and she must have seen it moving
but she didn’t see the driver
and the driver didn’t notice
and he drove a little faster
and he said he never saw her
she was there and she was running
she has always been a runner
she was running there to catch it
but she never could have made it
and she never should have done it
and the driver couldn’t help it
and he never could have stopped
and now she’s dead.
She had always been a runner
she was running when I met her
she was running, always running
and she wanted me to see it
and I saw it and I loved it
and I put it in the coffin
and I wish I could have told her
that I love her more than ever
but I can’t.
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem Always Running
Original Version:
Alternative Version:
She was happy, always happy
and she had a little money
just a little in her savings
and she saw it in the window
and she liked it, then she loved it
and she simply had to have it
so she bought it, and she wore it
and she wanted me to see it
and she ran onto the pavement
she was running, always running
she was running when I met her
so excited, she was laughing
and the laughing made her breathless
but she had to find a crossing
and she saw the bus arriving
it was there and it was waiting
and she recognised the number
but it wouldn’t wait forever
and the traffic, always busy
if she waited she would miss it
but the road, she had to cross it
and the gap between the traffic
could have been a little bigger
but it looked enough to make it
and she saw it and she did it
and she ran as fast as ever
she has always been a runner
and the woman tried to stop her
and she said she almost had her
but she’s always been a runner
she was running when I met her
so the woman couldn’t do it
but the traffic, oh the traffic
it was busy, always busy
and the bus it wasn’t going
but it wouldn’t wait forever
and she didn’t want to miss it
so she did it, she was running
she was running when I met her
but the driver didn’t see her
no he said he didn’t see her
and he’d had enough of waiting
she was running, always running
she has always been a runner
and she wanted me to see it
and she knew that I would love it
and the bus, it wasn’t waiting
and it moved into the middle
and she knew she wouldn’t catch it
and the traffic was behind it
and she must have seen it moving
but she didn’t see the driver
and the driver didn’t notice
and he drove a little faster
and he said he never saw her
she was there and she was running
she has always been a runner
she was running there to catch it
but she never could have made it
and she never should have done it
and the driver couldn’t help it
and he never could have stopped
and now she’s dead.
She had always been a runner
she was running when I met her
she was running, always running
and she wanted me to see it
and I saw it and I loved it
and I put it in the coffin
and I wish I could have told her
that I love her more than ever
but I can’t.
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem Always Running
The Theory of Cheese
by Nick Gisburne
A mouse was once invited to the Moon
To ponder on the Theory of Cheese
For if it could be eaten with a spoon
Would moonlight be too slippery to squeeze?
The Theory of Cheese
You'll only understand it if you sneeze
His first contention: positively yes
Was countered by a second: strictly no
So, rather than be seen to simply guess
The mouse, without a squeak, agreed to go
The Theory of Cheese
Is deeper than an ocean filled with peas
The jaunt became a farcical affair
When suddenly the navigating bat
Cried out, convinced the Moon was never there
And no one could persuade him. That was that
The Theory of Cheese
Particularly stinky in a breeze
They landed in the bosom of a tree
Too late for cheese, but just in time for tea
And after that they told their tale to me
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem The Theory of Cheese
A mouse was once invited to the Moon
To ponder on the Theory of Cheese
For if it could be eaten with a spoon
Would moonlight be too slippery to squeeze?
The Theory of Cheese
You'll only understand it if you sneeze
His first contention: positively yes
Was countered by a second: strictly no
So, rather than be seen to simply guess
The mouse, without a squeak, agreed to go
The Theory of Cheese
Is deeper than an ocean filled with peas
The jaunt became a farcical affair
When suddenly the navigating bat
Cried out, convinced the Moon was never there
And no one could persuade him. That was that
The Theory of Cheese
Particularly stinky in a breeze
They landed in the bosom of a tree
Too late for cheese, but just in time for tea
And after that they told their tale to me
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem The Theory of Cheese
Dung the Deadly
by Nick Gisburne
The thing you thought was gone forever... ain’t.
Your kitchen floor is heaving, black with bugs.
We’re crawling through the cracks. We’re in the paint.
A hundred thousand creepy little thugs.
Your kitchen floor is heaving, black with bugs.
A hundred thousand creepy little thugs.
We worship Dung the Deadly, cockroach king.
His followers, the faithful, as you see,
Have scuttled here on filthy feet, to bring
The finest of his foul infections, free.
His followers, the faithful, as you see,
Bring foul infections, absolutely free.
We’re bigger, and we’re better, and we bite.
We’re taking this, your two-bit diner, down.
Surrender! Dung has never lost a fight.
Prepare to swim in seven shades of brown.
We’re bigger, and we’re better, and we bite.
Surrender! Dung has never lost a fight.
We saw the traps, the trails of bait, the spray.
You call that poison? Pitiful. Let’s play.
We worship Dung the Deadly, cockroach king.
And now we're stronger, faster... and we sing!
We’re bigger, and we’re better, and we bite.
We’re taking this, your two-bit diner, down.
Surrender! Dung has never lost a fight.
Prepare to swim in seven shades of brown.
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem Dung the Deadly
The thing you thought was gone forever... ain’t.
Your kitchen floor is heaving, black with bugs.
We’re crawling through the cracks. We’re in the paint.
A hundred thousand creepy little thugs.
Your kitchen floor is heaving, black with bugs.
A hundred thousand creepy little thugs.
We worship Dung the Deadly, cockroach king.
His followers, the faithful, as you see,
Have scuttled here on filthy feet, to bring
The finest of his foul infections, free.
His followers, the faithful, as you see,
Bring foul infections, absolutely free.
We’re bigger, and we’re better, and we bite.
We’re taking this, your two-bit diner, down.
Surrender! Dung has never lost a fight.
Prepare to swim in seven shades of brown.
We’re bigger, and we’re better, and we bite.
Surrender! Dung has never lost a fight.
We saw the traps, the trails of bait, the spray.
You call that poison? Pitiful. Let’s play.
We worship Dung the Deadly, cockroach king.
And now we're stronger, faster... and we sing!
We’re bigger, and we’re better, and we bite.
We’re taking this, your two-bit diner, down.
Surrender! Dung has never lost a fight.
Prepare to swim in seven shades of brown.
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem Dung the Deadly
One More Round of Rum
by Nick Gisburne
The Barbarous Brigade of Buccaneers
Join forces on a winter’s Friday night
For rum and grog and strange, exotic beers
They love the salty shanties, and the fight
A dozen crabby pirates, past their best
Assemble, brains bewildered, blind with booze
To dance around a dead man’s treasure chest
Resplendent in their ludicrous tattoos
Perhaps a smidge too strenuous for some
The has-been heroes falter on their feet
But all it takes is one more round of rum
For every soul to stagger down the street
A dozen crabby pirates, past their best
Assemble, brains bewildered, blind with booze
To dance around a dead man’s treasure chest
Resplendent in their ludicrous tattoos
Perhaps a smidge too strenuous for some
Ask any, “Will you come?” However far
However old, they’ll answer, always, “Arrrrr!”
Ask any, “Will you come?” However far
However old, they’ll answer, always, “Arrrrr!”
A dozen crabby pirates, past their best
Assemble, brains bewildered, blind with booze
To dance around a dead man’s treasure chest
Resplendent in their ludicrous tattoos
Perhaps a smidge too strenuous for some
A dozen crabby pirates, blind with booze
So knackered they have nothing left to lose
Ask any, “Will you come?” However far
However old, they’ll answer, always, “Arrrrr!”
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem One More Round of Rum
The Barbarous Brigade of Buccaneers
Join forces on a winter’s Friday night
For rum and grog and strange, exotic beers
They love the salty shanties, and the fight
A dozen crabby pirates, past their best
Assemble, brains bewildered, blind with booze
To dance around a dead man’s treasure chest
Resplendent in their ludicrous tattoos
Perhaps a smidge too strenuous for some
The has-been heroes falter on their feet
But all it takes is one more round of rum
For every soul to stagger down the street
A dozen crabby pirates, past their best
Assemble, brains bewildered, blind with booze
To dance around a dead man’s treasure chest
Resplendent in their ludicrous tattoos
Perhaps a smidge too strenuous for some
Ask any, “Will you come?” However far
However old, they’ll answer, always, “Arrrrr!”
Ask any, “Will you come?” However far
However old, they’ll answer, always, “Arrrrr!”
A dozen crabby pirates, past their best
Assemble, brains bewildered, blind with booze
To dance around a dead man’s treasure chest
Resplendent in their ludicrous tattoos
Perhaps a smidge too strenuous for some
A dozen crabby pirates, blind with booze
So knackered they have nothing left to lose
Ask any, “Will you come?” However far
However old, they’ll answer, always, “Arrrrr!”
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem One More Round of Rum
Sunday, 30 August 2026
A Shadow Out of Space
by Nick Gisburne
As he slowly paints the purifying symbols on his skin
With the ashes of the fire, and the fat
In the stomach of the carcass, in the filth he finds within
In the desecrated heart he hammers flat
Are the chemicals he needs to charge the charms
With a hiss he drips their acids on his arms
In the darkness, in the black before the dawn
He shivers in a blistered field of corn
He is cracked across a prism of intolerable pain
Where the colours of his torment start to split
There is order in the patterns, and the magic they contain
Binds a servant who is ready to commit
To a sickness he was not supposed to know
But the depth of his devotion drives the flow
In the darkness, in the black before the dawn
He sees the world and showers it with scorn
From the resurrected echoes of the body in the pit
Rise the whispers of a black, aborted soul
In the stillness, as its violated bones begin to split
As a nameless evil slithers through the hole
As the servant paints new patterns on his face
He becomes a god, a shadow out of space
In the darkness, in the black before the dawn
A festering atrocity is born
The resurrected elder of a long-forgotten race
A fiend
A force
A shadow out of space
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
As he slowly paints the purifying symbols on his skin
With the ashes of the fire, and the fat
In the stomach of the carcass, in the filth he finds within
In the desecrated heart he hammers flat
Are the chemicals he needs to charge the charms
With a hiss he drips their acids on his arms
In the darkness, in the black before the dawn
He shivers in a blistered field of corn
He is cracked across a prism of intolerable pain
Where the colours of his torment start to split
There is order in the patterns, and the magic they contain
Binds a servant who is ready to commit
To a sickness he was not supposed to know
But the depth of his devotion drives the flow
In the darkness, in the black before the dawn
He sees the world and showers it with scorn
From the resurrected echoes of the body in the pit
Rise the whispers of a black, aborted soul
In the stillness, as its violated bones begin to split
As a nameless evil slithers through the hole
As the servant paints new patterns on his face
He becomes a god, a shadow out of space
In the darkness, in the black before the dawn
A festering atrocity is born
The resurrected elder of a long-forgotten race
A fiend
A force
A shadow out of space
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Saturday, 29 August 2026
A Little of Your Time
by Nick Gisburne
I never want the whole of your attention
I never want to dominate your day
To take it all is never my intention
When I tell you I can wait
That the pieces I create
Are the products of the pain I hide away
I am seeking what another soul would say
I only need a little of your time
If you love them tell me yes
If you hate them tell me no
But the waiting gives me nowhere else to go
The torment in the art of each creation
Is more than any heart should ever spend
To look at them at last evokes elation
But I simply want to see
If the brightness brought to me
Could be worthy of the feelings of a friend
I can wait, but tell me when the wait will end
I only need a little of your time
If you love them tell me yes
If you hate them tell me no
But the waiting gives me nowhere else to go
I am constantly creating
But I wonder why I’m waiting
Is my question such a crime?
You cannot spare my feelings
If you cannot spare the time
I’m ready to accept I was mistaken
I’m ready to believe you’ll never care
Today my feelings finally awaken
When I’m proud of what I do
I am over asking you
For the time you find impossible to spare
I only need a little of your time
If you love them tell me yes
If you hate them tell me no
But the waiting gives me nowhere else to go
At least I won’t be waiting
Now I know
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
I never want the whole of your attention
I never want to dominate your day
To take it all is never my intention
When I tell you I can wait
That the pieces I create
Are the products of the pain I hide away
I am seeking what another soul would say
I only need a little of your time
If you love them tell me yes
If you hate them tell me no
But the waiting gives me nowhere else to go
The torment in the art of each creation
Is more than any heart should ever spend
To look at them at last evokes elation
But I simply want to see
If the brightness brought to me
Could be worthy of the feelings of a friend
I can wait, but tell me when the wait will end
I only need a little of your time
If you love them tell me yes
If you hate them tell me no
But the waiting gives me nowhere else to go
I am constantly creating
But I wonder why I’m waiting
Is my question such a crime?
You cannot spare my feelings
If you cannot spare the time
I’m ready to accept I was mistaken
I’m ready to believe you’ll never care
Today my feelings finally awaken
When I’m proud of what I do
I am over asking you
For the time you find impossible to spare
I only need a little of your time
If you love them tell me yes
If you hate them tell me no
But the waiting gives me nowhere else to go
At least I won’t be waiting
Now I know
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Friday, 28 August 2026
Nothing More to Say
by Nick Gisburne
If I vanish, who will miss me?
If I crumble, who will care?
If I disappear tomorrow, who will know?
When the quiet cannot kiss me
And my dreams would never dare
Is there anywhere for guidance I can go?
The faces are forgotten
As the friendships fade away
In the silence there is nothing more to say
Is there no one who can free me
From the shadows I am shown?
From the unforgiving fear that never ends?
Is there someone who can see me?
Will I always walk alone?
Are the whispers of this world my only friends?
The faces are forgotten
As the friendships fade away
In the silence there is nothing more to say
As I swallow all the shameful words I’ve spoken
As I nervously ignite what I’ve awoken
Enchanted by the change
I take a stance, however strange
When there is nothing more to say
I throw my unrelenting misery away
And break the day
I am certain you can see me
I am all that I was not
I am infinitely brighter than before
When my past and present free me
When I find what I forgot
I am all I thought I’d never be, and more
The faces are forgotten
As the friendships fade away
In the silence there was nothing more to say
Until I broke away
Until today
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
If I vanish, who will miss me?
If I crumble, who will care?
If I disappear tomorrow, who will know?
When the quiet cannot kiss me
And my dreams would never dare
Is there anywhere for guidance I can go?
The faces are forgotten
As the friendships fade away
In the silence there is nothing more to say
Is there no one who can free me
From the shadows I am shown?
From the unforgiving fear that never ends?
Is there someone who can see me?
Will I always walk alone?
Are the whispers of this world my only friends?
The faces are forgotten
As the friendships fade away
In the silence there is nothing more to say
As I swallow all the shameful words I’ve spoken
As I nervously ignite what I’ve awoken
Enchanted by the change
I take a stance, however strange
When there is nothing more to say
I throw my unrelenting misery away
And break the day
I am certain you can see me
I am all that I was not
I am infinitely brighter than before
When my past and present free me
When I find what I forgot
I am all I thought I’d never be, and more
The faces are forgotten
As the friendships fade away
In the silence there was nothing more to say
Until I broke away
Until today
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
The Twisted Willow Tree
by Nick Gisburne
When he turned his tortured mind towards the punishment he took
There was fury in the faces he could see
He could feel their heat, their hatred, heard them laugh with every look
As they tied him to the twisted willow tree
As they made him bleed before they set him free
He will never need the secret of their names
The right to kill their light is all he claims
In the shadows, as he cursed the first with nothing but a blade
With a whisper of forgiveness he was gone
When they heard who he was looking for, the others, all afraid
Fled the city, hit the trail, and travelled on
But the second soul was quickly preyed upon
He will never need the secret of their names
The right to kill their light is all he claims
With a poison quickly slipped inside the shocked tormentor’s meal
He was dead before his choking throat could shout
But the murders of these men were far too clinical to feel
In his darkness there was never any doubt
When he vowed to twist their pain to take them out
With a merciless damnation
In a vicious confrontation
Face to face and eye to eye
He saturates their senses
As they die
Tortured on a tree, he never knew their names
The right to kill was all that he could claim
But tomorrow he will hate what he became
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
When he turned his tortured mind towards the punishment he took
There was fury in the faces he could see
He could feel their heat, their hatred, heard them laugh with every look
As they tied him to the twisted willow tree
As they made him bleed before they set him free
He will never need the secret of their names
The right to kill their light is all he claims
In the shadows, as he cursed the first with nothing but a blade
With a whisper of forgiveness he was gone
When they heard who he was looking for, the others, all afraid
Fled the city, hit the trail, and travelled on
But the second soul was quickly preyed upon
He will never need the secret of their names
The right to kill their light is all he claims
With a poison quickly slipped inside the shocked tormentor’s meal
He was dead before his choking throat could shout
But the murders of these men were far too clinical to feel
In his darkness there was never any doubt
When he vowed to twist their pain to take them out
With a merciless damnation
In a vicious confrontation
Face to face and eye to eye
He saturates their senses
As they die
Tortured on a tree, he never knew their names
The right to kill was all that he could claim
But tomorrow he will hate what he became
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
The Paintings of Her People
by Nick Gisburne
She paints the burning pieces of her heart
The suffering that no one ever sees
She knows that when she tries to find a reason not to start
The pain of it will pull her to her knees
The paintings of her people
Who were not allowed to live
Are all her broken spirit has to give
She paints the stolen moments of her soul
The raw, remembered feelings of a face
The colours bleed together but they cannot make her whole
Perfection is impossible to chase
The paintings of her people
Who were not allowed to live
Are all her broken spirit has to give
With her strokes, without restraint
She remembers with her paint
She paints the smoking ruins of her dreams
The secrets that are buried in the dust
If no one else will recognise their screams
She paints them with her pain, because she must
The paintings of her people
Who were dragged away to die
Show more than those who did it can deny
She paints the burning pieces of her heart
But the innocents who cried
And the blood of those who died
Is not art
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
She paints the burning pieces of her heart
The suffering that no one ever sees
She knows that when she tries to find a reason not to start
The pain of it will pull her to her knees
The paintings of her people
Who were not allowed to live
Are all her broken spirit has to give
She paints the stolen moments of her soul
The raw, remembered feelings of a face
The colours bleed together but they cannot make her whole
Perfection is impossible to chase
The paintings of her people
Who were not allowed to live
Are all her broken spirit has to give
With her strokes, without restraint
She remembers with her paint
She paints the smoking ruins of her dreams
The secrets that are buried in the dust
If no one else will recognise their screams
She paints them with her pain, because she must
The paintings of her people
Who were dragged away to die
Show more than those who did it can deny
She paints the burning pieces of her heart
But the innocents who cried
And the blood of those who died
Is not art
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno