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June 30, 2010

Five Days of Summer

Track #5 from 'Constellation Me'

She leaves just silence in her path

A short goodbye, some photographs

I took them with me on the plane from Appledoore into LA

This broken heart it doesn’t hurt

Still wear these memories on my shirt

From five days of summer in the rain


Now I’m falling towards the ground, it’s coming at me way too fast

But you don’t learn to fly, if you’re not prepared to crash


She’s the sunlight in my eyes

She’s a bittersweet goodbye

And I just can’t tell you why

I’d let her break my heart again

For those five days of summer in the rain, in the rain


Ten hours is too much time to think

I wrote a song I’d never sing

About a queen who lost her crown

About a boy who almost drowned

These angel city lights are mine

I wont forget but leave behind

Those five days of summer in the rain


Now I’m falling towards the ground, it’s coming at me way too fast

But you don’t learn to fly, if you’re not prepared to crash


She’s the sunlight in my eyes

She’s a bittersweet goodbye

And I just can’t tell you why

I’d let her break my heart again

For those five days of summer in the rain


Cause when it rains it’s sure to poor in Appledoore

We took the waves, She showed me life, She showed me love, I had it all

And all the time she’s not around I want her more

She’s so beautiful


She’s the sunlight in my eyes

She’s a bittersweet goodbye

And I just can’t tell you why

I’d let her break my heart again

For those five days of summer in the rain

In the rain

Five days of summer in the rain

In the rain

Five days of summer in the rain



-Joe Brooks




June 29, 2010

Superman

Track #4 from 'Constellation Me'


There are no words to paint a picture of you girl

Your eyes, those curves, it’s like you’re from some other world

You walk my way

Oh god it’s so frustrating


So why do I disappear, when you come near

It makes me feel so small

Why do I blow my lines, most every time

Like I got no chance at all…



If I could be your Superman

I’d fly you to the stars and back again

Cos every time you touch my hand you’d feel my powers

Running through your veins

But I can only write this song and tell you that I’m not that strong..


Cos I’m no superman, I hope you like me as I am


It ain’t no lie, I have to tell you how I feel

But each time I try it gets a little more unreal

You say my name,

Oh god I can’t stop shaking


So why do I disappear, when you come near

It makes me feel so small

If I could read your mind, girl would I find

Any trace of me at all…


If I could be your Superman

I’d fly you to the stars and back again

Cos every time you touch my hand you’d feel my powers

Running through your veins

But I can only write this song and tell you that I’m not that strong..


Cos I’m no superman, I hope you like me as I am


- Joe Brooks



June 28, 2010

World At Our Feet

Track #3 from 'Constellation Me'

Some people like to know where they’ve been,

Where they’re going tomorrow, I’m not one of those.

Some people like to swim with their eyes open wide,

Lines to follow, I’m not one of those.


My minds made up,

I’m gonna make this road my home


Cos the sun don’t shine here everyday,

And there’s a world out there to see

So take my hands, come with me babe

You and I, oh I,

Got the world at our feet

We got the world at our feet


Now I never knew just how good it could feel

To be stood by the ocean, felt like the first time that I

Saw your face and felt your grace

I’d be lost without, I’d be lost without you


My minds made up,

I’m gonna make this road my home


Cos the sun don’t shine here everyday,

And there’s a world out there to see

So take my hands, come with me babe

You and I, oh I,


Got the world at our feet

We got the world at our feet

Got the world at our feet

We got the world at our feet

Got the world at our feet


- Joe Brooks



June 25, 2010

Feel the Sunshine

Track #2 from 'Constellation Me'


This place it has deserted you, one by one it’s turning out the lights…

Standing breathless looking for the beauty hanging inches from your eyes


Feeling high, feeling dry


Sometimes you wait up all night for the sunshine to bring you the light and lead you home again, lead you home again.

If you ever stop hoping that life could be better,

I’m letting you know that I’m still here by your side,

So turn around and feel the sunshine.


Hurt only hurts as long as the heart doesn’t have the heart to be free

It was you who said ‘just lose it all’, in faith that what you give you will receive.


Feeling high, feeling dry


Sometimes you wait up all night for the sunshine to bring you the light and lead you home again, lead you home again.

If you ever stop hoping that life could be better,

I’m letting you know that I’m still here by your side,

So turn around and feel the sunshine.


Oh oh oh… at least you know you’re alive

Oh oh oh… sometimes what we need is the fight


But if you ever stop hoping that life could be better,

I’m letting you know that I’m still here by your side,

So turn around, turn around…


- Joe Brooks


June 12, 2010

Superman on the Radio! your help needed!!!!


Superman, my debut single... is now on US Radio! yes yes, it has been a long time coming, but we've kept our feet running, and have never let them get us down (Lyr.)

anywho, Superman has finally hit the airwaves!!! but the only way we're going to be able to hear it is if we all pull together and do our bit by calling in and requesting it!

so please everyone do me the kindest of flavours and click here or go to www.radio.joebrooks.com find your nearest station and request it!

I will love you forever and ever ever n ever ever ever (Lyr.)

Click on the list below to find your city!
if you can't find your city... phone your local station anyway!


Peace n Love
Over n Out
Joe x

June 7, 2010

The Beach

One of my favourite places to go is the beach. Today I found myself driving to the studio... passing the studio... and landing, avec le ice cream cone, on the beach. Staring out to the ocean is possibly the most inspiring, refreshing, 'glad to be alive' moments. The feeling of wonder and awe that you receive from the view, leaves you both content with... and wanting more from... your life.

Monday Funday

June 3, 2010

Photo Memory.


“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
- Peter Lindbergh


June 2, 2010

Creativity is...


Creativity is the desire to express ourselves. To formulate these expressions, we have to draw from our reservoir of experience, dreams, desires and experimentation and mix together what was, what is, and what could be... I don't think you can learn it, it is rather something that evolves. Your perception of everything in your life fills up this reservoir.

Some people are drawn to create and express themselves, others are drawn to reflect, to analyze. But in the end, they all could be creative if they had the desire to explore the way in which they are integrated in the world of their experiences. Because creativity is really a rebirth, a true tone we feel for ourselves and for our world. Then our work becomes a real part of who we are. Maybe all this is a question of how deep we are willing to go...


- Peter Lindbergh
with Lily, New York, June 1996

June 1, 2010

Woooah black betty...

this is my Jam... this is my Ram Jam...

Drawing

Thanks to the hugely talented Helen for this awesome video.


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