Steve McCarthy-Hunt

“If I cant have your love, I dont want nothin’ at all If I cant have your love, I’ll keep my heart behind the wall I don’t want to see the sun Don’t want nothing from no one And night and day don’t mean a thing to me” (c) Jon…

Written in June 2015, probably during watching daytime TV. Believe it or not, from a mis-heard phrase in another song. What was actually “more thoughts”, I heard as “Amorphous”. And, considering that the word literally means (in this context at least) a collection of thoughts without form, I thought it…

Written in Summer 2014 after I met someone who just appeared to be going through the motions, emotionally. Im trying to be non judgmental about it – in the same way that I can’t help my emotional responses to things, to her no doubt it was all completely normal. Maybe…

This was written on a BASCA songwriting retreat with the brilliant Lisa Fitzgibbon. It grew from a combination of a topline and a chord progression that Lisa had and a theme that had been found by both of us going through my old lyric book looking for lines that would…

“.…Up on the street, lights shining bright Watch the world go by down on the walkway The shadows try to kiss the night goodbye Well I need you now, I want you now And If I die, will I be born again?…” (c) Steven Lindsay, “Big Town” from the album…

Written in April/May 2015. Inspired by two things. One being the concept of someone who goes away to sea to earn money but finds that by going away he has to travel further away to earn more money to be able to return home… by which point, he has travelled…

“Back in the cafe in the old street With your Miss America But she looks nowhere in a new dress And coming around yours again…” “…She’ll be the queen of something or other someday A beauty in every way but one way….” © Steven Lindsay, “Miss America” from the album…

This came about while driving with a very good friend of mine to a concert in December 2014 on a completely clear evening with a low, very full moon. I cant explain why, but something inspired me as we made our way to the gig in Leamington Spa and the…

“I am shipwrecked in the night I watched a girl with eyes like thin ice Say “Dive into these pools of blue,” But I tripped over you I curse these cool whispering lights I curse the things that keep me from you Again my patience makes the climb Will my…

“Moons and Junes and ferris wheels, The dizzy dancing way that you feel As every fairy tale comes real, I’ve looked at love that way.” “But now it’s just another show. You leave ’em laughing when you go And if you care, don’t let them know, Don’t give yourself away.”…