THE LYRICS SECTION
In the more glowing critiques of my output on disc and on stage, much has been made of lyrical content - and, in contrast to what most recognise as Anglo-Saxon pop, the words certainly tend to dominate my compositions at least as much as the music. Indeed, rather than stringing together mere syllables to carry a melody, my librettos are created as carefully as mosaics (so you can imagine how I felt when, with a psychological rifle at my head, I was compelled to record as a debut single the drivel that was Wild Man Fischer's "The Taster" with the Argonauts in 1978).

Therefore, Kevin and I have decided to devote a section of the site to an oeuvre integrale of this aspect of my work. Each item is followed by the year in which it was written in order to indicate the level of maturity I'd reached at the time - as instanced by "One More Day", completed in deep middle age, and "The Rake's Progress", penned at the age of nineteen with raging hormones and fresh from reading a history of the eighteenth century Hellfire Club.

None are intended as printed poems so much as lyrics divorced from their musical settings, but still restricted by the exacting disciplines that control the 45 rpm songwriting methodology that has informed them from the beginning.
                                                                                          
 Alan Clayson

TITLE

YEAR
Angelette 1996
Carnival Princess 2004
Edwy The Fair 1981
Celestial City 2004
The Man 0f The Moment 1980
Centuries 1980
Forest De Winter Kit-Kat 1993
If I Lost You 1999
The Last Show On Earth 1999