Music & Lyrics
Angus wrote many song lyrics and sang these without musical accompanient, providing the melodies and harmonies.
One set of his lyrics, Beats Generation won the National Songwriting Competition (Years 9-13) in 2022 and was subsequently recorded and released by The Indecisives.
Lyrics
BEATS GENERATION Typewriters and acid tabs Meter and rhyme Satin sheets and 'Tell me please' Fickle and fine Fuck living to die Ginsberg and Carr Nitrous Oxide So close, so far Semi circle window New York Jazz clubs and cigarettes Whiskey, guess the rest It was always you In the upper east side gutters And the lovestruck stutters From the west side heart flutters He trailed you to Chicago Stole your postcards in Mexico 'The Perfect Day' Since you first read Hemingway 'Allen, don't tell them The fate that befell him All I'm saying keep your pretty mouth shut, no playing' Semi circle window New York Jazz clubs and ciggerettes Whiskey, guess the rest It was always you In the upper east side gutters And the lovestruck stutters From the west side heart flutters It was always you In the upper east side gutters And the lovestruck stutters From the west side heart flutters Lovers made to kiss and kill each other Semi circle window New York
21st CENTURY GIRL I'm not yet a trainwreck but I'm going off the rails You're a 21st century girl Through and through Vapour steaming from your lips Hot red paint on your fingertips He's a bronze statue of a boy Silent mannequin of a man Said I didn't want a garden variety girl So you smiled and sold me the dream I slip into your rhythms You read me like a cheap teen magazine We dance around the feelings Hitting nic, staring at the ceiling My Robin, my Maeve Made me Sitcom psycho But you make it all ok We'd be cyanide toxic But with eyes like that, you'd rock it Sex is good yeah But have you ever fucked the system? Gave up on expectations I don't miss 'em Just know I am straight cocaine When you get me just right Stay tea-stained in my brain When your lips are sober Maybe you'll be over Possible extra lyrics if we need them Writing our story, don't make it fiction Pushing and pulling That's some magnetic opposite attracting friction Know you like games, but I'm tired of gambling Sick of sitting on this couch, not together, just rambling Chocolate skin and French vanilla Baby let's just skip the filler