Songs of the Lair: A Fun, Deeply Disturbing Collection of Original Lyrics

I began writing lyrics and teaching myself guitar at age 13, because all my most important heroes and role models were folksingers and songwriter/composers, and I wanted to be one of their ilk.

Here is a list of songs that I have completed since 1979, including the most recent ones completed in the last month. The Basic Editor of this page doesn't have enough link categories for a proper subdivision of this list, but hopefully this can be remedied shortly. My categories here are Songs from my feminist/juvenist suite, The Power Objects Soundtrack (1987-1990); Songs from The Nuallain Verses (1993-Present), a collection of songs and poems written in honor and tribute to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; and Other Songs from 1978 to the Present. Links to the lyrics of some songs will follow shortly. Enjoy.

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• The Masked Ball (1987)
• Get Away Free (1987)
• When Will Help Come? (1989)
• I Am One (Group Anthem) (1987)
• Holding On For Dear Life (1990)
• Let the Rest Say What They Will (1989)
• Ours From the Beginning (1988)
• Enough of Us Together (1988)

Songs from THE NUALLAIN VERSES (1993-Present)

• Cri de Coeur (1993)
• Eisean 'na Shui (1993)
• Journey Tale (1996)
• Come In From the Cold (1998)
• Mo Thruántacht Mo Chumha (2000)
• My Only Lamb (2001)

Other Fun, Disturbing, Activist Songs (1978-Present)

• Memo to the Band (2003)
• Prayer to Repel the Invasion of Iraq (2003)
• Nelly Weeton (1986)
• Song for David Armstrong (1985)
• For Heaven's Sake (1987)
• All Your Work to Naught Must Come (2014)
• Tally-O (2015)
• Half a Chance (2014)
• Penelope (2002)
• Double Shadow (2003)
• Holy Wisdom's Cartwheels (2002)
• Outside Looking In (2001)
• Níl Agam Ach Do Scáth (2001)
• Last Night's Tequila (1989)
• Never You Mind (1984)
• Let There Be Joy (1994)
• An Bhachlog Bhruite (for Dianna Klinginsmith) (1990)
• Life Will Not Surrender! (1990)
• Flying Home (for Tom Clancy) (1990)
• Song for Matthew Parsons (1992)
• What Will Cure the Pretty Babe (1992)
• Four Days a Year (1996)
• Take Me As I Am (1991)
• Inion Rua (for Dianna Klinginsmith) (1989)
• The Bells Are Growing Green (1991)
• My Heart Lies Over the Mountain (1980)
• Sister of the Northland (1996)
• Amanda Dances On (1989)
• Sebastian (for Oscar Wilde) (1992)
• End the Curse Today (1992?)
• The Gift Is Mine (1994)
• No Need to Fear the Fury (1989)
• The House-Clearing (1991)
• Sing for Me, I'll Sing for You (1979)

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