Original Lyrics. Original Songs. c. X. Alexander Nichols

Original Lyrics. Original Songs.

Sunday, September 15, 2024

5:15

Five-fifteen in the dark

Riding my bicycle past you 

What are you dreaming now?

It’s early and you must slumber

Fast asleep in feathers


The quiet glide of soft tyres

I float in the early morning

Like a cloud

With sunshine moments on my mind

It’s a new day

The sun will rise 

upon my back

And I am grateful

 ….Grateful...

For Five-fifteen

Have I ever loved

Anyone but you?



The Back Gate

 I see you seeing me

And I wonder what you would do

If I made a small proposal you see

It’s just that I fell in love with you

It was lust then curiosity

And respect for your pain

And the courage you display

I wish I had the guts to ask you

To open the back gate

If you see me sitting against my brick wall

And there’s music playing

I’d ask you in for

Some polite conversation 

and a rest

From all that’s around out there

Past the back gate.

Saturday, September 14, 2024

Broken Time

 When you’re down at the bottom of a hole

And the shovel you dug it with breaks

That’s when you’ve got to know

It’s time to stop my friend

‘Cause time is broken


And when the coo-coo clock falls down from the wall

And the lights are on but nobody is home

You gotta know that for now and forever

Time is fickle time is always late to the wedding

‘Cause there may be no wedding at all

Monday, August 12, 2024

I Can’t Figure You

I’m not so sure why

I need it so bad

Maybe it’s a 

fatal fad

just think it’s true

it’s got to be

I don’t know why 

Tom don’t come to me

I want it so bad 

it’s got to be

I want ‘em to come an’

Female vocalist:


jam with me

I’ll do the chords

I want it so bad

so why don’t he try

don’t ya make me sad

I’ll show you a thing 

my friend that might

Make you shiver maybe

See my light

Oh yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah to you…

…g’night.

Saturday, March 9, 2024

Let It Play

Rain comes

Sun’s gonna shine

Every day is a new day

Let it play

Just let it play


Friends come friends go

Some sweet some foe

That’s just the way

Life goes


Let it play

Just let it play

It’s the way it goes

The way it flows


Think you see

Sometimes blind

All shapes all colours

Fates of all kinds


Trouble is in

The devil’s parade

They smile, then

Lies start to fade


Let it play

Play the song

It won’t last

The pain will be gone 


Every day

A new day

Let it play

Let it play…


Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Wit’s End



When there ain’t no use 

trying again an’

there ain’t no use 

for you and me to pretend

all we gotta do is see the light through

Make sure that we’re together 

when dawn’s anew 


because really when you take a look at it

the universe is on 

your fingerprint.

You’ll Fall In Love With

You’ll fall in Love with me

Before you can say thank you.

I bring this gift to you this day

Not to give to you

But to thank you


For being alive

For being a friend

Sometimes

Until the bitter end

That untraceable you 

And for all that you do

Don’t you see?

You’ll fall in love with me

Before I can say…

Thank you.