Opus List
All songs and compositions


  • (1,2,3…) = song lyrics only
  • 1,2,3…   = songs with music & lyrics
  • i.1           = instrumentals
1990 - 1993
45 songs were written, and an additional 128 song lyrics (without composed music beyond a sung melody), but most were early juvenile attempts based on hair metal bands I listened to at the time. The following is a truncated list that represents some of the better songs before heading into 1994.
  • 1a. Cooking Up A Thunderstorm
  • 1b. Just Another Outlaw
  • 3. Winter Breeze

  • When the Trees Fall Down
  • Dangerous Water Ways
  • Living in Silence
  • The Song of Age
  • Scrambling
  • i.1  Night Lights
  • i.2  Talking With Saturn
  • i.3  In A Calm Moment
  • i.4  (The other one in G)
  • i.5  Let the Dragon Sleep
  • The Yorkshire Pudding
  • Philistine Pilgrim

  • Saying Goodbye
  • Lament for Dead Blackbird
  • The Cold Song
  • I Didn’t Need
  • Chicago Weeps
  • Wet Summer
  • 10˚ Below the Expected High
  • The Resting Place
  • Pockets Of Love
  • 45. Crater Lake
1994

  • 46. ‘94’s 1st
  • 47. One More Funeral
  • 48. General leave
  • 49. The Midnight Prowler
  • (129) Ef Cofay
  • 50. Maple Dream
  • (131) The Face in the Mirror
  • (132) The Man Inside the Dream
  • 51. Doubt It… Honey!
  • 52. Oohma
  • (135) Stand Behind
  • (136) Wherd
  • 53. Downsleep
  • 54. Level Again
  • (139) “It was just jealousy…”
  • 55. Rosewood
  • (141) Feed On
  • (142) Viewing
  • 56. The Branded Crew
  • 57. The Big Picture
  • 58. Song 21
  • (146) “She used to be…”
  • (147) To A Head
  • 59. Hardstone Bridge
  • (149) The Hunter’s Knife
  • 60. The Tragic Romantic
  • 61. Under the Fall
  • 62. Cellar Below
  • 63. Dimensions Of Sorrow
  • 64. Sleep Inside
  • 65. All I Have to Do
  • 66. Blank Spaces
  • 67. Person I Knew
  • 68. “It’s Dangerous…”
  • 69. I’m O.K., You’re O.K.
  • 70. Pepper Tree
  • 71. Water and Soil
  • 72. Love is in My Life
  • 73. Far Behind Me
  • 74. Tonight
  • 75. Landing
  • 76. Friend
  • 77. Love Ain’t that Hard to Find
  • 78. Blame
  • 79. Brittle Sleep
  • 80. Lost in the Rain
  • 81. Findle
  • 82. Sweet is the Taste
  • 83. Invader
  • 84. I Got A Mind
  • 85. Our Line
  • i.6 Frank’s Peach
 
1995

  • 86. Did You Know
  • 87. Frantic
  • 88. The Big Roll
  • 89. The Last Tear
  • 90. Run Away (No Real Desire)
  • 91. Floorboards
  • 92. I Can Feel
  • 93. Kicked In The Head
  • 94. The Hunter’s Knife
  • 95. Oooh Baby
  • 96. Cruel Fate
  • 97. Run For The Jungle
  • 98. Suicide On The Highway
  • 99. Moving Pictures
  • 100. Basic Requirements
  • 101. You!
  • 102. Psycho Looney Toon
  • 103. Customer
  • 104. Just Me
  • 105. Reef
  • 106. Home
  • 107. Here Comes the Fall
  • 108. This Ain’t Love Anymore
  • 109. Paddocks of Deceit
  • 110. Warren
  • 111. Nothing to Fear
  • 112. White Linen
  • 113. Someone to Lean On
  • 114. The Reckoning
  • 115. Long and Hard
  • 116. Falling Leaves
  • 117. Shadow Sun
  • 118. Sitting on a Bench
  • 119. Scapegoat
  • 120. Trying
  • 121. Trail
  • 122. All Our Heroes
  • 123. Damages to My Heart
  • i.7 Stronger by the Day
  • i.8 The Swamps of My Mess Age
  • i.9 Caribbean Hideaway
1996

  • i.10 Italian Cat Scratches
  • 124. Somebody Else
  • 125. It’s Not Over Yet
  • 126. Because of You
  • 127. Film Noir
  • 128. Search
  • 129. One More Day
  • 130. Believe in Me
  • 131. Polly
  • 132. Soup
  • 133. Even Dreams
  • 134. Your Own Way
  • 135. Harvest Time
  • 136. Crepolow
  • 137. Diamond Betrayal
  • 138. Betrayed
  • 139. Guesses
  • 140. Go to the Well
  • 141. Ukulele Babe
  • 142. Dope Mother
  • 143. Pigeon Street
  • 144. Daughter Don’t Cry
  • 145. Run and Hide
  • 146. The Hound-brothers
  • 147. No lights *
  • 148. You Know It’s Cold *
  • (i.11) Run Rabbit Run
1997

  • i.11 All Things
  • i.12 (Instrumental from “King” album)
  • 149. The Critic *
  • 150. You Decide *
  • 151. It’s All Happening Again *
  • 152. Filler #1
  • 153. Spread Your Wings
  • 154. A Doll Tree
  • 155. Noble Liar
  • 156. Chorumatica
  • 157. Pack Your Bags
  • 158. Heather
  • 159. Dullfish Angler
  • 160. The Last Threads of Life
  • 161. Industrial Slave
  • 162. Paroxide
1998
1999

The Antler Song

Young stag with a velvet antler
Charged head first for the gates today,
Young stag grow me a picture so perfect
Before blood and bone reaches your eyes.

Young stag whose home was raided
Hear the shots ring out through the night,
And now a dark storm is raging
Oh our lives are in so much danger.

Watch the blood as it flows like tears,
How many times do you have to cry
Before they understand why you’re so scared?
Will they hurt you again and again?

I heard you crushed your head one day
In a story told by the deep forest,
And I heard all the flowers died that day
The day they took your pain away.

Young stag with a broken antler
They shut the gates and locked you in,
Young stag with so much anger
But you were in the wrong my friend.
2000
2001

  • - The Friendly Heavy Metal Song
  • - General M. Forth
  • i.25  (Reminds me of spider legs)
  • i.26 Mountainair
  • i.27 (Upbeat & Electric)
  • 199. No Bodyguards Required
  • 200. Ode To Thyself
  • i.28 H.Q.G.P. (Carpet Bombing)
  • i.29 Butterflies Over Urban Monad 116
  • i.30 A Game of Chess in the Midnight Garden
  • i.31 The Western Trilogy:
2002
2003
2004

  • 222. Elfland’s Daughter
  • 223. Don’t Wanna Hide
  • i.40 Ettricity
  • 224. Stigmartyr
  • i.41 Ettrick Spiders
  • 225. Condemnium
    • W. Stubbs/A. Fitzgerald
  • 226. Seafarer
  • i. [#] Symphony No.1 ("for Small Orchestra")
2005
2006

  • 232. When Your House Falls
  • 233. Limits of Hope
  • 234. A Veil on the Wind
  • 235. The Tombs of Almondegas
    • W. Stubbs/A. Fitzgerald
  • i. [#] Piano Suite: Miniatures ("Ends")
  • i. [#] Three Orchestral Pieces
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011



2012

  • 260. My Burning Passion
2016
2017
  • My Sickness, My Health (1998ish)

A random "piece" of music I chucked together and recorded in the storage shed my Auckland band used as a practice space. All performed by myself (in other words, absolutely no one else is to blame).

Random Unfinished Pieces
Mabel Bush Demos
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