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Open Your Eyes

Open your eyes and you will see
The beauty that surrounds us
Listen with your ears and here
The sounds that calm us

In a world that seems so cruel, dark and full of all our fears
All we really need is a new course to steer
So many people with all their problems hanging on a hook
There's still light, peace and joy if we only knew where to look
Why can't we raise our weary heads
Let it all go and become who we're meant to be instead

Stop hiding away from things you doubt
No more excuses,  no more hanging about
Open your mind and you'll be free
This world can be a better place, you will see

A place that's not so dark and cruel
A place where light, love and peace surround us all

Copyright © Stephen Mayne | Year Posted 2017



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End the Battle

It's time for the battle to end
Lay down your arms why can't we just be friends
Life wasn't meant to be this way
It's time for us to stop the fighting today
The young we bring into life must see
That peace is what we want to achieve

Its time for the battle to end
Lay down your arms why can't we just be friends
Life wasn't meant to be this way
It's time for us to stop the fighting today
The bloodshed has gone on to long
Why must the innocent be scorned
For what did they ever do wrong

It's time for the battle to end
Lay down your arms why can't we just be friends
Life wasn't meant to be this way
It's time for us to stop the fighting today
Open your eyes and look around
What have you achieved in this land
There's nothing but greed, misery and hate
Is this what we really want to relate

It's time for the battle to end 
Lay down your arms why can't we just be friends 
Life wasn't meant to be this way 
It's time for us to stop the fighting today
Now's the time to find a better way 
Restore the peace and hope we need
Just put an end to the fighting please

It's time for the battle to end
Lay down your arms why can't we just be friends 
Life wasn't meant to be this way
It's time for us to stop the fighting today


Date: 1998

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Love Is Like a Wild Rose

True love is like a wild rose

It can bring so much joy
Beauty and vibrance to behold

Then when you reach out to your hearts desire
The thorns cut deep and scar forever

Once plucked it can never be restored
The very thing you once adored

The rose will wilt and the colour will drain
A distant memory will be all that remain


Date 2015

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Just Wondering

Just wondering why
Just wondering when
Just wondering what is to be

Is it for me to hear
Is it for me to see
Is it just meant to be

What is expected of me
What is it I'm supposed to be 
What is it to be free

Searching for life
Searching for the answer
Searching until I can search no more

Wanting to care
Wanting to share
Wanting to just be there

Just wondering if
Just wondering how
Just wondering what is meant to be

Date 2000

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Running

Running running running 
You've got no place to go

Running  running running 
Where've you been, where you going to go

Running running running 
So fast you don't know

Running running running 
From a past that won't let you go

Running running running 
Towards a future you don't know 

Running running running
Because running's all you know


Date: 2009

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Another Day

The past will fade
The future will come
There's nothing more that can be done

Let it all go and get on your way
There's always gonna be another day



Date: 2009

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Ode To a Traffic Light

Oh traffic light, oh traffic light
Why do you keep me waiting so.

Oh traffic light, oh traffic light
With your red light glaring and your ominous glow.

Oh traffic light, oh traffic light.
Do please hurry, I'm going to miss my show

Oh traffic light, oh traffic light
Time passes so slowly, as I await your green signal, to go.


Written November 2021

Copyright © Stephen Mayne | Year Posted 2021

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Camping

Camping beneath the shimmering stars
Makes me realise how insignificant we really are

The moonlight gently caressing the world outside a canvas door
Such a beautiful, calm picture, I often find myself longing for

In the wilderness, back to nature
Far from the ever growing lights of the town
Away from the hussle and bussle, far from every thing that makes me frown

The peace, the tranquillity 
Time to consider your own reality 
Following the natural cycles of the earth
Some how reconnects you to your own self worth

Sleeping from dusk till dawn
Being woken by the birds morning song


Date: 2005

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Come Sit By the Fire

Come sit by the fire
Don't be a stranger
Come sit by the fire
Come close and feel warmer

Come sit by the fire 
Let the light dance across your face
Come sit by the fire 
No one here feels out of place

Come sit by the fire 
Join in with the song
Come sit by the fire
It will soon be a new dawn
 
Come sit by the fire
There's no need to feel lonely 
Come sit by the fire
Tell me your story

Come sit by the fire
We will all be friends 
Come sit by the fire
Until this day draws to an end

Copyright © Stephen Mayne | Year Posted 2017

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Today Is a Good Day

Today is a good day
I can open my eyes and I can see

Today is a good day
Even if I can not see, I can speak

Today is a good day
Even if I can not speak, I can hear

Today is a good day
Even if I can not hear, I can touch

Today is a good day
Even if I can not touch, I can love

Today is a good day
Even if I can not see, speak, hear or touch
I can still love and be loved

Today is a good day
I am alive


Date: 2016

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