WOW, between you and Jim we are blessed with some phenomenal writers. I don't mean to leave out our antipodean friends, or my countrymen in that statement, I feel humbled at your talents.     

yes my dear friend, i fully understand that. but the rule is; no politics and no religion, you might get away with it but i may get into trouble!

i have views on my government which i must keep to myself as Graham does very well, he just puts his thoughts on youtube, or soundcloud or somesuch. i wasn't being snippy as i said your punk/poetry is a fine piece of work and a great opening discussion on those in power in general. but i must keep out of that unless you want to email me and we'll run our respective governments down to our hearts content.     

Thanks Graham and Peatle. Oh yeah, you give in to it and you wind up pushing up daisies, then who'd collect my granddaughter from school?

It's a real annoyance when you work all your life and you have to give out most of the pension you've worked for. Then you see girls with four kids that have never worked in their lives get a house and benefits and they still don't know what soap is for. Sorry, another sermon!     

My son has just bought a dog, so that explains the first verse.
The rest of the song is more or less a retrospective of my life and how I feel at this time.
The hill is of course the hill we will all get over one day, and it's downhill from there, and I feel like I've crested that hill.
It feels like everything I do I've done before, my voice can't reach the notes as easily, and my knees are giving me jip!
I have a problem with my heart and blood pressure, I spend more time having tests up the hospital than I do at home.
I have to pay full Council tax even at 68, and it seems everyone from the government to the cold callers want to take the little money I have left. and I can't do things I used to do a few years ago. I actually thought I'd stopped writing songs till this popped into my head.
That's my moan for today, I'm sure you are all glued to your screen....maybe not. LOL     

all very well unless you're in a pub quiz, or in my case, doing a song and people are checking on-line and telling me I'm singing the wrong words!!!!     

I agree with all the above. I'm glad you did an electric version, the drums and solos really add an extra dimension to the song. And the young lady doing the chorus is brilliant, I'll never look at Tesco, other supermarkets available!!! the same way again.     

i like it. it's me all over. when i was young free and single many moons ago, the girls had to come to me and i'd be blushing like a fool so they'd walk away cos i couldn't talk to them much as i wanted to.
i think it's gonna be a right rocker, when will you get it on youtube?     

I understand your feelings and Mr Nelson's. I went through a period of recording my stage set but at home not live. I gave a copy to someone that showed an interest and they played it there and then. I told them to take it off half way through the first song, which was rhinestone cowboy, it sounded awful to me and all I could hear were the flat notes and cock ups! Which is why I only rarely post my songs on YouTube.
Having spent a whole day traveling to Australia same coming home twice I don't think I could survive the flight to New Zealand. So when are you coming to Wales? Your beer is getting warm my friend.....     

I can't imagine any of your stuff being irrelevant or cringeworthy this proves it. I for one recognise this whole situation, barstool preaching, grown men winding up each other while imbibing in wobbly pops, as cap 54 used to say! As usual you've taken a moment a scene if you will, described it in such a way that I could see each character smell the old beer and soak in the atmosphere. The line regarding the tide marks as the beer "evaporates" pure joy to an old lagerlout. Love it and tell your mate to speak it slowly. Cheers     

Inventive and imaginative writing if a little brutal for my taste. I lost my love of super heros when the original batman series ended....kerpow, zap...holy poems batman!