The words of Peter Akinwunmi (Peter Ak'i)(Song lyric) TaffyWasAThief performing this song at Usk festival. APOLOGIES: THE VIDEO STOPS HALF WAY THRU BUT THE AUDIO CONTINUES TIL THE SONG’S END! The light of my life went out the other day. I thought maybe whiskey would clear the dark away. Something told me the bottle wouldn’t work, might take away the pain, but wouldn’t […]
A beautiful child at the schoolyard gate, pretty smile lights up her face. Last day, turns her back on school growing up feels cool in a cold-blooded world. Doesn’t matter what’s in her thoughts. Her face and body is what the people want. She’s an innocent doll, head in a whirl. beguiled and seduced by […]
PUBLIC IMAGE; PRIVATE PAIN So you made it, your dreams have realised. Don’t you break it ‘fore the glory dies. You’re gonna hate it, if they see behind your eyes, stick with the shades while the spotlight shines. Your reputation, must be maintained, falsification; that can be arranged. Public relations, will wipe away the stains […]
Everybody is a bit of a TWaT, Everybody’s a little bit of a TWaT Everyone’s a bit of a TWaT, so what do you make of that eh? Everybody’s a little bit of a TWaT! – Everybody is a bit of a TWaT – right? occasionally we’re rude instead of polite. We be tossers and […]
Why d’you have to fall in love? I thought you had more sense. We had a lot of fun, shoulda stayed just friends Why’d ya have to fall in love with me coz I, live my life kinda wild and free. Just like a leaf on an Autumn tree I go to where the wind […]
Broken Man I was torn from my mamma I was ripped to shreds I’ve been a whole lotta things worse than dead If I’d collected every tear I’ve shed I’d be drownin’ in a lake way over my head [Chorus] Don’t you try to make it with a broken man No sense in tryin’ to […]
Song https://soundcloud.com/pete-akinwunmi/euphoria Recorded by GTFBi who were, at that time: Will Smith and ‘Wiffa’ (Nigel) Smith, guitars, Richie Whelan, bass guitar, Gareth ‘The Beast’ Morgan, drums and Pete Aki’i, main vocals, harmonica and sax. Take care when you wear your brightest smile, it can make you blind. I know you can see the silver linings […]
It was past three o’clock on a summer afternoon The road was blistered, my sweat ran sleek. I could smell a force 10 was coming soon, silence hung heavy and it cut real deep. Air so dry, it cut my throat to speak so I just wet my face in what was left of the […]
When I was a boy, I was on my own; wondering who I was and what life would be like when I’m grown. I’d lie on my back in the sun, win all the races I hadn’t even run, weave fantasies and dream of the man I would become while searching out faces in the […]
I don’t have a nerve in my body, left to get excited they’ve been burned away by the angst and pain I’ve had to live with. Life has treated me so hard, I never get scared and I never get mad, I’m just waiting for the thrill to end all thrills. Waiting for dawn’s songbirds […]
The words of Peter Akinwunmi (Peter Ak'i)