One or two perhaps - most of the best ones are just silly. Just lately I've got into poncy guitar based things.

They don't really come close to expressing the round of shit jobs, shit circumstances, crap relationships (and I'm not just talking about man/woman things), tough decisions, and betrayals of honour that modern life imposes on most of us.

You write what you can. What is that TS Eliot says, I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be......

I don't think it was given to me to be the great writer. I do get the feeling though that not too many people have tried, not enough. And those byways with that take us before the guns at Waterloo, before the mast with Nelson, rollicking away in a jaunting car, or sharing a cuppa with the Tommies before going over the top on the Somme........they are just so much more enchanting than the present, and the truths offered by those times so much more substantial.

What if the four loom weavers etc had never written songs about their lives. Wouldn't they think us sad cases if we told them we had nothing to sing of in our lives?