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Half Empty

by Robin Tymm

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1.
I’ve been waiting for so long For you to unearth me I was lost underfoot And pressed deeper through centuries Try digging faster Help speed my recovery Let’s hope you look over In this direction And break my success Of avoiding detection So many near misses I can’t bear to mention CHORUS It’s not that I’m claiming to be buried treasure But don’t let me stay undiscovered.....forever You could be forgiven I’m not easy to see Yeah, you’ve got to get down On your hands and your knees Oh, you won’t be the first one If you fail to notice me And one day I’m valueless Best left to rot And the next I’m a diamond Mislaid in the dirt You can sell me for more than you’d think But for less than I’m worth REPEAT CHORUS BRIDGE May-be there’s nothing To find underneath We’re just flesh, blood and bones Only hair, skin and teeth And before very long We’re consumed by the ground at our feet REPEAT CHORUS © 2008 Robin Tymm 10th April 2008
2.
Seed 03:51
These are moments we must cherish while there’s time We’ve not got long before we perish on this vine We are subject to the seasons just the same It hardly seems a year but winter’s here again CHORUS We can’t stay together We’ll fall out of love Nothing lasts forever ‘Cause nothing ever does Nothing ever does We were the centre that the universe revolved around So immature and not quite sure exactly what we’d found Now I’m reminded of some things I thought but did not say Like in this first sweet kiss the seeds of our destruction lay CHORUS We can’t stay together We’ll fall out of love Nothing lasts forever ‘Cause nothing ever does BRIDGE Nothing ever does....and it’s not enough ‘Cause I know what will become of us If we build it up we’re bound.....to tear it down We tried against the tide but realized we’d lose this fight It’s wasted labour ‘cause on paper this was never right And though it’s wrong keep hanging on a little longer ‘til the spring When me and you will find someone new and make the same mistakes again CHORUS We can’t stay together We’ll fall out of love Nothing lasts forever ‘Cause nothing ever does Nothing ever does No, nothing ever does © 2009 Robin Tymm 7th March 2009
3.
Shine 04:28
I don’t speak the language, I can’t read the signs It’s like a foreign country, another place and time There are rules and regulations and laws to be obeyed There’s a whole new set of customs and ways I should behave CHORUS While I’m sure that I’m not dreaming Yet still I can’t believe You could shine your sun on anyone But you chose me I’m met by smiling faces and touched by gentle hands In unfamiliar places I’m yet to understand CHORUS While I’m sure that I’m not dreaming Yet still I can’t believe You could shine your sun on anyone But you chose me BRIDGE How long do you think we’ve got? A week, a month, a year? Oh, I’m not so naive You got it wrong I don’t belong I’ll be unmasked and asked to leave I am used to colder weather, together with the rain Where the nights might last forever and the days are all the same CHORUS While I’m sure that I’m not dreaming Yet still I can’t believe You could shine your sun on anyone But you chose me You could have shone your sun on anyone Why did you choose me? © 2009 Robin Tymm 25th January 2009
4.
I’d rather be the one who’s leaving Than the one who’s left behind I hope you knew I spent with you The best years of my life But the other side of this great divide Is where you must remain Though you are always with me We will never meet again BRIDGE An early April afternoon so alive with nature’s sounds We gathered few will watch as you are taken by the ground The books I read you, meals I fed you Whilst in that bed you lay Those last few days the morphine haze Stole most of you away It seemed a lifetime Waiting for this moment to arrive Though hardly unexpected It still comes as some surprise BRIDGE An early April afternoon so alive with nature’s sounds We gathered few will watch as you are taken by the ground © 2008 Robin Tymm 28th December 2008
5.
Transparent 04:24
How did this happen to be? It’s become quite apparent that I’m too transparent to see The people that knew me these days look right through me I’m the invisible man Lacking in substance and not worth a second glance Don’t you spare me a thought, I am paler than water CHORUS Because I don’t talk much Don’t mean I’ve got nothing to say I look from the outside And hope to be inside someday If my life were a film or a play I’d be cast as an extra, a background artiste as they say Well aware from the start it’s a non-speaking part anyway I’m not at the centre of things I’ve been pushed to one side and derided by paupers and kings I was hid at the bottom, unloved and forgot for my sins CHORUS Because I don’t talk much Don’t mean I’ve got nothing to say I look from the outside And hope to be inside someday BRIDGE As clear as a window The sun casts no shadow of me on the ground No mirror’s reflection I’m falling unwatched without making a sound CHORUS Because I don’t talk much Don’t mean I’ve got nothing to say I look from the outside And I hope and I pray That I’ll be inside someday © 2008 Robin Tymm 29th December 2008
6.
Sad Song 04:18
Day after day and year after year I’m singing these songs that no-one will hear I’m writing down words, even I don’t know quite what they mean It’s the loneliest journey I’ve chosen to make But at least there’s nobody to see my mistakes They are crossed through and torn out Screwed up then thrown in the bin CHORUS With tunes ten-a-penny, a dozen-a-dime Oh, what chance do I have with these sad songs of mine? They’re worth next to nothing, or they’re priceless, I cannot decide The most expensive ingredients I can afford Are a head full of thoughts and a handful of chords But if that’s not enough, I don’t think I can give any-more Though I’ve not discovered, I’m sure there’s a way I can keep making music but start making it pay Though if that never happens I’ll do what I do anyway Perhaps what I need’s to get up in some bar And to beat out a song on some battered guitar I’ll forget where we are and pretend no-one’s watching me play REPEAT CHORUS It’s the best and the worst It’s a gift, it’s a curse But there’s nothing else working for me Should I cash in my chips? Start by calling it quits And accepting how it’s gonna be REPEAT CHORUS © 2007 Robin Tymm 10th August 2007
7.
I could have had a diff‘rent life The perfect house, some kids, a wife I might have worked a job I liked I could have had a diff‘rent life I might have never lived alone Or played guitar or wrote this song I’d prob’bly never realize That I could have had a diff‘rent life CHORUS If I’d answered “Yes” more times than “No” And opened up instead of closed Chosen left where I turned right I could have had..... a diff‘rent life I might have travelled, seen the world I might have found this ideal girl If I’d booked that ticket, took that flight I could have had a diff‘rent life I might have loved a whole lot more And worried less what people thought Not cared about my foolish pride I could have had a diff‘rent life REPEAT CHORUS BRIDGE For worse or better, who decides? Puts values on these little lives Our chances, choices came and went It could have been so different If I’d not tried to make it home Or had that last drink for the road If I’d not jumped that traffic light I could have had a diff‘rent life REPEAT CHORUS © 2009 Robin Tymm 4th November 2009
8.
Phase 03:46
There’s no need to worry, it’s not that unusual I’m going through a bit of a phase And it won’t last forever but don’t hold your breath ‘Cause it might take a few thousand days ‘Til I get through the worst and emerge from this darkness The person you knew way back when But there’s always that chance I won’t be the same And I’ll never be like it again You won’t hear me say it ‘cause I don’t believe it There’s nothing the matter with me I feel fine in myself it’s just everyone else Oh, but sooner or later they leave No one thing in particular makes me feel sad But it’s not something you just wish away It’s a constant companion, the closest of friends Who’ll stay with me ‘til my dying day I can’t blame my parents or an unhappy childhood For creating an unhappy man It’s most likely genetic, a predisposition For being the way that I am So it’s not worth making a song or a dance about Some things that can’t be explained Learning to live with it’s all I can do It’s too late to expect me to change It’s too late to expect me to change © 2007 Robin Tymm 27th April 2007
9.
Perfect 03:39
With each passing day It gets hard to believe That somebody out there Could be perfect for me There is no-one who fits Just admit that’s not meant to be Six billion people And all of them wrong I know it’s thinking like that Is why I am alone But in spite of the numbers I’m never gonna meet anyone CHORUS The most tragic part Of this whole sorry tale Is I don’t think I’d know it If love came my way I prefer not to dwell On the chances that I might have missed I’m singing a song that’s for someone Who doesn’t exist Everyone out there Who needs someone else They choose imperfect unions Deluding themselves Think unhappy together Is better than left on the shelf And when I’m not looking There may be some girl Who is floating out there In a cyberspace world She’s not totally real And that some-how helps make her ideal REPEAT CHORUS © 2007 Robin Tymm 2nd August 2007
10.
Simple 03:25
CHORUS I’m not in it for the money, I’m not in it for the fame I don’t care for the awards or for applause or for acclaim I don’t do this for the memories of the women that I’ve lain with I do it for the simple joy of sitting here and playing I’m not saying that to make a decent living isn’t nice So I’m grateful to the folks like you prepared to pay the price Cause’ it takes cash to keep a mansion and the pink champagne on ice But it’s not the reason why I do the things I do REPEAT CHORUS No, I don’t seek recognition for the music that I make I am not in competition but to come out top feels great All the Grammys and the Oscars are just icing on the cake But they’re not the reason why I do the things I do REPEAT CHORUS I don’t pretend there’s no advantages with my name up there in lights It opens up a world of pretty girls, so what’s there not to like And though the road gets kinda lonely I don’t sleep alone at nights But it’s not the reason why I do the things I do REPEAT CHORUS © 2010 Robin Tymm 18th April 2010
11.
Infamous Son 04:58
Kids at school can be cruel, yeah, they call me a spastic ‘Cause I like comic books and applied mathematics They won’t be so bold when I’m holding my semi-automatic My so-called teachers have long since stopped asking me questions I sit there alone at the back of the room during lessons Scheming and dreaming of firing my new Smith & Wesson CHORUS Gonna be this town’s most infamous son Shooting the kids in the back as they run I never knew high school could be so much fun I no longer make much distinction between right and wrong I could spare my friends but the truth is I ain’t really got none Except my collection of knives and my mail-order shotgun REPEAT CHORUS BRIDGE Just like in that movie called Fahrenheit four-fifty-one I’ll set fire to the library and laugh as I watch those books burn With fact and with fiction alight on the shelves My last act is turning this gun on myself You can’t live forever but this way you never can tell If you’re looking for some explanations for these things I do Well last year I posted a video up there on YouTube It got four thousand hits but I guess that it’s since been removed REPEAT CHORUS © 2008 Robin Tymm 15th November 2008

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Album #6….the "Half Empty" of the title refers to both my general outlook on life, and the fact that the album is stripped back, acoustic and without any drums.
As with the other albums on Bandcamp, if you add enough for p&p to the price I'll happily send you out a copy of the physical CD.

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released July 14, 2010

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