Train of thought is what you see, beautiful screamer
Take a beating, take it all, you take it deeper
Give me everything with your intensity
A demolition champion, it's all conditioned
You scream for me
Fill me up with everything
Get me high when I'm low
You am I, I am you
Worship me, I worship you, our time is endless
Driven to the burning you, they cannot stop us now
Seeing is believing, I am bleeding for you
Drink it up, take me in, we are one
You scream for me
Fill me up with everything
Get me high when I'm low
You am I, I am you
Sense of thought
Thought of touch
Touch of you will
Tap my veins
You scream for me
Fill me up with everything
Get me high when I'm low
You am I, I am you
I am you, scream for me
Fill me up with everything
Get me high when I'm low
Saw the sun come up again.
Last week's papers and a pack of darts
That got me through 'til ten.
The ten fifteen's five minutes late.
I really should just get out more these days.
Next door is coughing up his lungs.
Two A.M. I'm sure she said
She's gonna get herself a gun.
I blacked out from three to five.
You should hear what's going on outside.
As the morning bread goes hard
On the corner shop they're waiting
Just for rush hour to start.
And I'm wondering why his kids are late
I really should just get out more these days.
Days, and each one shows
there's so much I'll never know
If I don't ever get
If I never get home, home.
And old Ryan's still his rust
And Tuesday comes and goes
Like any late night bus.
I could do a lot more with my time
You thought you'd never hear
A voice that cracked so clear
Thought you'd never see
A head that slept for three
Every dream that thrills you up
Smells like poison in your cup
And every dream that thrills you up
Now smells like poison in your cup
A drink never meant so much
You can put it all down to luck
Sleeps the only friend
You can grab on 'til the end
The now the voice and touch that used to thrill you up
Tears your lip just like a chip in a cup
And the feel that made you forget the rest
You couldn't have took it any harder
You couldn't have put it anymore sweet
But every bone of yours for picking
Is every bone they picked of meat
Now you're loaded, lonely and on her mind
Now you're loaded, bloated, but it's only 'til next time
When every cut on the wall becomes a curse
Cut yourself real deep before they get in first.
Take each good word like a crucifx
You gave up the dte for a mouth of dirt.
Now you're loaded, lonely and on her mind
Now you're loaded, bloated, but it's only 'til next time
You scare me blind
Can't help but take each day as another call
To arms in the hero victim's cause
And every bone you left out for picking
Is gonna stick in the throat of everyone that you never called.
It's only, loaded on her mind
It's only, loaded but it's only 'til next time
Well who'd of thought and who could know?
that time was ever gonna go this darn slow
And she's late and you just don't know
if you're ever gonna get on through this year alone
It was the way she put her hand on her hip
the sparkle in her eye
but you wonder if its gonna be there all the time
Leaves they fall
you know you're never gonna sweep em all
And weeds they grow
and peeking out all through the grass and snow
And he's a fake yeah
from his smile to the tatts right there on his toes
But you're just not sure if you're ever
gonna get through this year alone
he don't hold your hand just when you need
and you're sure that twinkle in his eye
aint just there for you
but you can't ignore that
he sure looks like your dad
When can still look straight at night
When he tucks you in and kisses your belly
and strokes your hair so you just don't cry
Leaves they fall
you know you're never gonna sweep em all
And weeds they grow
and peeking out all through the grass and snow
You sure wish you knew who was on the halfback flank
about twenty years
when you took those flags onback to back
Would sure make the stand offs and make more sense
If you could stand toe to toe
and who took the bench
But not this silent treatment
that leaves you wondering if this baby's heaven sent
It was the way she put her hand on her hip
the sparkle in her eye
but you wonder if it's gonna be there all the time
Leaves they fall
you know that you can never sweep em all
And weeds they grow
and peeking out all through the grass and snow
When you know what you want, the winds at your back yeah, and time's your friend, it'll push you out like tide, drag you in and kiss you at the end, when you know what you want, you keep your head up yeah, you look at the sun, you stopp hiding beneath fringes he who just lingers on and on, just keep that voice on your shoulder, that steers you out of the corners, that night won't swallow you up, when you know, when you know what you want,
When your mind's made up, you wake up with the junk yeah, your shoulders can drop, you out run the demons, the cramps you just leave them, choking in your dust, and when you fall down exhausted you sleep you don't force the day to cave in, sleep is there to hug ya, caress and to drug ya, on it you can depend, so keep that voice on your shoulder, that steers you out of the corners, that night won't swallow you up, when you know, when you know what you want,
When you know what you want, the winds at your back yeah, and time's your friend, it'll push you out like tide, drag you in and kiss you at the end, when you know what you want, you keep your head up yeah, you look at the sun, you stopp hiding beneath fringes he who just lingers on and on, just keep that voice on your shoulder, that steers you out of the corners, that night won't swallow you up, when you know, when you know what you want,
We'd like to introduce you to the nature of our trials
We'd love the chance to bring your elders down
So fix your Dad a drink 'cause we're gonna need to think
Now you're a plane we won't need them around anymore
We done a lot of dumb things now, sure hope we do some more
And we'll wait all summer just to piss on your door
The wing commander's sister is a golden haired surprise
I can't walk far but I can shoot for miles
And my radar can see anyone over thirteen
Now you're grown up we don't need you around anymore
We done a lot of dumb things now, sure hope we do some more
It's the last summer so in our dust you will crawl
You drive me to drink
But I'm in for the whole trip I promise
You won't go out with the drunk on the road
Or use yer fork to search for the toast
Girl I ain't easy
And any ass could see
But I can't believe
Just watcha doin' to me
I'm falling this way and I
I'm stumbling over there but I
Can't believe watcha doin' to me
The sweetest sound yeah
To knock this lightweight down but I
I can't believe watcha doin to me
Shake my trunk
And I wake like from a three day drunk
As my branches hit the ground
I'm finally comin around
Bury me deep in my
Oh my wedding shoes
Lay me flash
Just fifty bucks cash it's the
One day I never wanna lose
I'm falling this way and I
I'm stumbling over there but I
Can't believe watcha doin' to me
The sweetest sound yeah
To knock this lightweight down but I
I can't believe watcha doin to me
I'm falling this way and I
I'm stumbling over there but I
Can't believe watcha doin' to me
The sweetest sound yeah
To knock this lightweight down but I
I can't believe watcha doin to me
I never felt so jealous or felt so alive
I feel like I could run
I feel like I could die
I can't believe watcha doin' to me
I shuffle 'round the earth like a ping pong
To find something just to hang my hat on
And somewhere just to let my pants get dry
Heard a trucker on a pay phone gas mall
Sort his deal out with a twenty five cent call
Shooting through before his see through coffee went cold
And it sure did seem a good deal to me
But my head's too soaked in Brilliantine
So just take me out, alright
I've brushed over stations and channels
And combed the town, corduroy and flannel
Only know who you are when you move
And who you're with when you're alone
That's all I know
And it sure did seem a good deal to me
But my head's too soaked in Brilliantine
So just take me out, alright
And top of the morn and slip of the day
Just don't sleep good since I been away
So here's to you, alright
I think I've figured out a way to get by
I'll leave your bran sitting on a shelf
I think I figured out a cracking good way to get by
So kick me out, I'm going west, bye-bye
And it sure did seem a good deal to me
But my head's too soaked in Brilliantine
So just take me out, alright
And top of the morn and slip of the day
Just don't sleep good since I been away
So here's to you, alright
Walk stupid, like an expectant dad
Waiting for your hand like I'm waiting for Skylab
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You Am I - Wally Raffles
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Walter quit the RAF
When there was no good air left.
Made it back to the clan.
The dog, the wife, the betting slip wet in his hand.
And no one's listening.
To the boys
Tim, Jaimme and Gab.
Keeping him up while his mistress rings his hands.
Picked him up after school
Just make sure you're looking good.
And no one's leaving.
Walter plays.
Get off your knees.
Walter plays.
Get off your knees.
It's mini coke and prawns again
In his room or on the sand.
Not a day before he fell
Propping up the bar at the Raffle's hotel.
And no one' leaving.
Walter plays
Get off your knees.
Give the kids a hand
Down on the sand.
No one's listening.
Walter plays
Get off your knees.
Give the kids a hand
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You Am I - Sound As Ever
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I can read your degree and now give me my medicine
Cause every drink is a poison and I think I'm Judas Christ again
She's got a feeling its a sound I'm faking
I got a feeling each corner's an ending
Each minute is a dollar you can pay back your parents with
I got a brand new vein you can tap on in and since
now that you've got the power of mercy
And the chance to figure out just where I've been lately
Now that you've got a sniff of pharmaceutic
That can kill anything in my head that's electric
and I'm alone with sound
Now that you've got the power prescription
Please make me interesting
When I'm all done with sound
Read my mind
Cause I won't give sign
She's got a feeling its a sound I'm faking
I got a feeling each corner's an ending
I've checked all the dailies
And subscription mail ins
But where do we come from?
You never stopped dusting
My middle ear's always buzzing.
Where do we belong?
Trust me not 'cause I still don't know.
We're not in someone else's
Someone else's home.
Do you really want to exist
Past 1946
Or have I got you wrong?
When nothing much matters
But shoes, pants and haircuts.
The morning engines go.
Heaven's toast, like the sound they told.
We're not in someone else's
Someone else's home.
We're gonna run away, make your heart my own.
And if we're not hot at least we're not
In someone else's home.
Subscription filled the yellow pills.
We're not in someone else's
Someone else's home.
We're gonna run away, make your heart my own.
And if we're not hot at least we're not
Around the corner every morning just to see you get across,
The civic fathers divide us up into cats and dogs,
The seargent major of the neighbourhood is weighing up the cost,
The senior transit lane,
While we're standing in the rain,
Worried if our heads will fall,
Alright, right,
We'll stay together 'til the kids die just to keep it clean,
Buy the weapons with the sales made from garden magazines,
Strike up the ladies to bake tea cakes for the council's war machine,
And we're digging up the roads,
And widening it just so,
You can suffocate at home,
Alright, right,
The Prince of Wales tea,
To keep the garden green,
but they don't want to be there,
The shit can't be there,
You woke me up just to check that I'm alive,
We talk to each other as if we're five,
Raise open the flag just to see which of us cares,
And we're digging up the roads,
And widening it just so,
You can suffocate at home,
Alright, right,
Alright,
Alright,
Alright,
I'm sure could make your hand fit mine(woo, woo)
if I deliver these custard trays on time.(woo, woo)
Four thirty a.m. ding dong rise.(woo, woo)
Kiss her photo with the beam from ash tray light.(woo, woo)
I'm sure I could deliver better
if I pretended I'd never met her.
She said she'd love me sweeter
if we made it to the pier for dinner.
Seven months in a ditch while the ring kept for her to decide (woo, woo)
If my milk truck's gonna be her chariot ride.(woo, woo)
Four thirty a.m. ding dong rise.(woo, woo)
Morning sun makes my sour heart pasteurise.(woo, woo)
I'm sure I could deliver better
if I pretended I'd never met her.
she said she'd love me sweeter
if we made it to the pier for dinner.
Welsh rarebit with a new dress on.
If that ain't enough to make you smile.
Every Kinteil road kid knows
When she's around then cheese goes dry.
Get the lead on out 'coz it's my round
And I punched the van 'coz I lost the sound
And then I fell on down, oh yeah
I ain't old enough to have walked the line
But I've circled this room for the twenty fifth time
For a fortunate son I'm such a jealous guy
Got a bone to pick I dunno why
A bottle o' wine and Patsy Cline
But what would I do with a satisfied mind
Hey hey yours for ten
I fell on down I'm gonna do it again
What I gave away and what I left behind
Swallowed history like a five an' dine
And then I fell on down oh yeah
Y'all knew the guy he was the king of the kids
Threw his trophies to the sky as he jumped from the bridge yeah
For a fortunate son I'm such a jealous guy
Got a bone to pick I dunno why
A bottle o' wine and Patsy Cline
But what would I do with a satisfied mind
Hey hey yours for ten
I fell on down I'm gonna do it again
And if you're looking for the guy who can see
With some of these damn apologies
A bottle o' wine and Patsy Cline
But what would I do with a satisfied mind
Hey hey yours for ten
I fell on down I'm gonna do it again
Hey hey your foot down
I fell on down I'm gonna do it again
Hey hey get on up
I fell on down I'm gonna do it again
A bottle o' wine and Patsy Cline
But what would I do with a satisfied mind
Oh yeah
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You Am I - Dead Letter Chorus
===============================
Everyone talks fast and walks so slow.
Suddenly in a town they don't know.
Last stop and strangers drink
and admitting me in the midnight show and
Two kids sweat
as he's trying to get his lips to her neck.
It's all up to him, it's a concession film
But what do you do?
Where have I been lately?
Dirty water interrupted by
a bridge that's not too sore on the eye.
Guy in the better looking pants
is ruining the other's night and
Will he hurt
as the air conditioning draws out the shirt.
It's all up to him, it's a concession film.
But what do you do?
Where have I been lately?
It's if nothing I said knows new.
It's if you've never heard anything true.
but we will try 'til the next time or the last time.
Everyone talks fast and walks so slow
Suddenly in a town they don't know.
Hours come and minutes fly
the fifteen stories window high and
Two kids sweet
as he tries to stare his shame to his feet.
'cause you owe it to him, it's a concession film.
But what do you do?
Where have I been lately?
It's if nothing I said knows new.
It's if you've never heard anything true.
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You Am I - Rosedale
=====================
That's the two we are you and me.
I can't make you talk, I'll make you see
Us and them just can't agree.
We can't write the songs we want
to make it up to eachother
So we'll just take it out on our brothers.
I'll see you 'round the world.
See you 'round the world.
Make your mother proud, yeah.
Never a blemish on your face
Skinniest guy I could never replace.
We'll drag another round, yeah.
And create another problem
And spill it out on our favourite album.
Is it be cool if I grab a little of your time?
I feel my heart over crowded
Steal everything you say and make it mine.
If my head would allow it
Never trust anybody with a clear face.
Shouldn't have to shout it
Your the enemy I know I'd never replace.
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You Am I - She Digs Her
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Your eyes hit a gilded window
when the Housewives Journal, started closing every door
The wind's so strong and you decided
that you just don't want to be carried with it anymore
"Oh my god" the neighbours
just can't put a word to it never seen to write or call
Greetings to the sister
as you're strutting through your suburb watching ladies trip and fall
She came when he left, never thought it was a big decision
Gave up on lives that revolve around car ignition
Hey did you ever get the feeling everything is working out okay?
Sunday afternoon sure used to sting until
the drinks kick in at ten
But now you've joined a collective
surely nothing ordinary kicking up a storm again
"Oh my god" the neighbours
just can't put a word to it never seen to write or call
Greetings to the sister
as you're strutting through your suburb watching ladies trip and fall
Came when he left, never thought it was a big decision
Gave up on lives that revolve around beer and fishing
Had a scratch only you could itch
Underneath the Glebe Point Bridge
And now every boy in a knitted vest
Has got some precedent
So we took a personality pill
And something red to swill
And now every fire has gone out
in every heart that wanted to kill
Let's call it a day
Every thought that once had a sound
We'll have to hide 'til no one is around
'cause there ain't no room in the city today
For explanations that you just can't say
Found out what shame can mean
In purple sneakers and grey jeans
And every walked to a school that once made sense
Sure felt like an accident
Let's call it a day
For every trouble you found
There's a drink to lose it and drown
But do you need somebody, to feel somebody?
Every day that once had a sound
We'll have to hide 'til no one is in town
I don't hate I just feel better
When no one else is around
So we'll take a personality pill
And something red to swill
And now every fire has gone out
in every heart that wanted to kill
Let's call it a day
For every trouble you found
There's a drink to lose it and drown
But do you need somebody, to feel somebody?
You can shave a million ways
To make damn sure that the twelve in you stays
But do you need somebody, to feel somebody?
Brush your hair to some Eurodisco trash
Two prophelactics and forty-five dollars cash
Corduroy jacket and some fifty buck shoes
That can lead like a lamp when they're a scrubbing up new
Sunday best on a Friday night alright
I'll meet you at the corner beneath the Goodyear foot sign
Where all dates are made by mobile
I'll send you a smoke signal just be there by nine
This smoke, I left it for you
To show Mum and Dad your new tattoo alright
So they're my plans, how'd they fit with you?
There's a streetlight for each night your heart hit the deck
This drink says I love you, this drink says I couldn't care less
Kiss me so I know I'm alive
The drinks taste crap but they keep coming til five
Numbers on the wall, I got my ears like a shell
The phone stinks of chips, cheap wine, mouthwash and gel
C'mon we'll drink the last of the rent
And I'll leave my number right down on the strap of your dress
And it's late, and she's Sue
Cos I read it on the back of her boyfriends neck alright
So they're my plans, how'd they fit with you?
Yeah, I had a plan, but how'd it fit with you?
All of our friends keep saying we should be more social
Cuz we keep to ourselves most of the time
They just don't understand what we got going on
Cause a love like this is so hard to find
Don't wanna live by no one else's designs
Though every day ain't glamorous
To me it's just fine
Unperfect the way that we are... oh
Nothing ordinary bout the way I feel
Nothing un-extraordinary this is real
Don't need to reach for the stars
Happy here on earth
In our beautiful ordinary life
I love my beautiful ordinary life
With you
Why don't we spend the day
Doing a lot of nothing
Cuz anything s alright, long as I'm with you baby
We don't need special plans, don't need no reservations
Cuz my favorite place is right here with you
Don't wanna live my life any other way
Cuz baby it's the simple things that can't be replaced
Unperfect the way that we are... oh
Nothing ordinary bout the way I feel
Nothing un-extraordinary this is real
Don't need to reach for the stars
Happy here on earth
In our beautiful ordinary life
I love my beautiful ordinary life
With you
Like watching you sleep
The way that you paint your toes
The crazy way we, count to three before we hang up the phone
See the life that I live, is so much better girl when you're here with me
Nothing ordinary bout the way I feel
Nothing un-extraordinary this is real
Don't need to reach for the stars
Happy here on earth
In our beautiful ordinary life
I love my beautiful ordinary life
At my nan's I wasn't thinking
Over boiled beans and chicken
Something cool fell in my juice cup
Sudden I could lie and make stuff up
Is that why
My future's so bright?
So strap in and go
The backyard rock show
When all city folk got southern
Paint my face up with my brother
Uncle choked and started shaking
Over whiskey, eggs and bacon
Is that why
Our nights look so bright?
So strap in and go
Walks like a crooked tooth
And sleeps with a dexedrine smile
Keeps finding the holes where old memory can go
And wash it down liquefied
Keep that old door swinging
Coz you can be the freeloader
When it's closing time
When it's closing time
Watcha gonna do it's nothing to see
But something's got ya down on your knees
I'm crawling through the dirt to see where it hurts
And it ain't falling down by degrees
I think I'm gonna die
From trying to kick a hole in the sky
Yer walls are plastered with ham-fist drunks
And fagans wrapped in denim and smoke
So tell me what chance did you happen to dance
With the step that kicked yer feet in the boat
Loose band on the radio
All static and clashin' a hob-nailed hint
You're never losing ground
It's just the way it sounds
Watcha gonna do it's nothing to see
But something's got ya down on your knees
I'm crawling through the dirt to see where it hurts
And it ain't falling down by degrees
I think I'm gonna die
From trying to kick a hole in the sky
Trying to kick a hole in the sky
Trying to kick a hole in the sky
You cover me like the sunshine kisses the day
But a pulse starts in my gut now
And it's gonna make us pay
Watcha gonna do it's nothing to see
But something's got ya down on your knees
I'm crawling through the dirt to see where it hurts
And it ain't falling down by degrees
I think I'm gonna die
From trying to kick a hole in the sky
Trying to kick a hole in the sky
Trying to kick a hole in the sky
The train came behind him like a shot from a gun in yer sleep
And just for a second he forgot what to do with his feet
The photo creases dug in to his chest 'til they cut
And sweet Lily Langtry whispered his name through the dust
So it's out with the older one and in with the new
Here comes the judge in somebody else's shoes
Ah here comes the judge in somebody else's shoes
Champagne heels are gonna dig a golden hole in the dirt
So keep your guns in your jackets I'm sending you out with a curse
Keeping the law from the Pecos to the Rio Grande
And sweet Lily Langtry whispered his name through the sand
So it's out with the older one and in with the new
Here comes the judge in somebody else's shoes
Ah here comes the judge in somebody else's shoes
He heard her name call
As the Texas wind blows
From ten thousand miles away
To the cactus that frames her face
So it's out with the older one and in with the new
Here comes the judge in somebody else's shoes
Every word they sling you hits like your folks have never been kind
And the jewels on your apron could use some calomine
Ugly girls and pit faced boys all hunch and join in the line
Got the shoe that you lived in
And the towel that you dried in
There's a drink you can drown in
Choose a blanket to die in
Spill a drink on his front and salsa on the plans for a mall and high rise
'Cause there's only so much of string that patron can pull and unwind
Got the shoe that you lived in
And the towel that you dried in
There's a drink you can drown in
Choose a blanket to die in
Check out the towel you can die in
Jaimme's got a girl
don't think things are gonna be the same.
He aint coming out and drinking tonight.
think he's gonna change his name.
We can't work it out.
He aint punching walls anymore.
I'm aint gonna wake up now
find you on my floor.
A game's a game, you don't want it being the same
But you sure aint like you were yesterday
But go on and try it
And if it's true, it just aint my place to say
But you sure aint like you were yesterday.
Go on and try it.
Phone sure sounds dead
my pocket sure feel tight
The things I promised not to do with you today
I sure need to tonight.
But it's all working out
just like they said it would be.
You aint gonna fall on my floor
from now on it's just we three.
Would it stain
If the lights fell down on your name
And each face began to look all the same
How much is enough?
Did you ever want to just lose touch with everybody you know?
In the morning
When you've wiped his taste away
The last of the red and all the records you played
How much is enough?
Did you ever want to just lose touch with everybody who heard?
Did you ever want to join a collective
Throw a party just to make sure you missed it?
Did you ever want to be a collective?
Would you sell out
To the dealer with the lowest cost
And burn every proscenium floor
How much is enough?
Did you ever want to get in touch with somebody you hurt?
Offered up some kind of collective
So you can never ever be left selected
Did you ever want to be a collective?
If the lights, they fell
Do you think you could tell
Don't let there be
Something sour in my coffee.
There's fourteen year olds
Screaming get out of my country.
I won't let him rise just to say goodbye.
Hourly, daily.
The August cold
brings something bad in its sock drawer.
There's too much hate
covering up those once white walls.
I don't want my boy thinking I'm only to avoid.
Tread safe hourly, daily.
He's the splitting image and the oldest of two.
Now what kind of mess have you gone and gotten yourself into?
Make a morning pledge
To the heart of the city quiet.
Pray the daybreak sun
Can fill up the halls of a sleepless night.
Bring one good face into this house today.
Hourly, daily.
He's the splitting image and the oldest of two.
Been watching so much TV
I'm thinner than I should be
I'm like a waterlogged ball
That no one wants to kick around anymore
An all day morning hairdo
That no comb can get through
It's all granola and beer
A calling card and a silk cut souvenir
I miss you like sleep
And there's nothing romantic about the hours I keep
The morning when it starts
I don't look so good
Now I got a heavy heart
I talk a lot about football
And girls I kissed in grade 4
I piss off my friends and digging a hole
Just staring at the floor
Now every t-shirt's got a wine stain
I'm loving cigarettes again
I know every tune about guys and girls
And hurts and hearts and moans
I miss you like sleep
And there's nothing romantic about the hours I keep
The morning when it starts
I don't look so sharp
Now I got a heavy heart
It's just a low rent paying
Palpitating pulp under my shirt
But there's a weight that's sitting
Oh, God it hurts, oh, God it hurts
Been watching so much TV
I'm thinner than I should be
I'm like a waterlogged ball
That no one wants to kick around anymore
I miss you like sleep
And there's nothing romantic about the hours I keep
The morning when it starts
If you tuned in correctly this morning
Kissed his cheek, get your tea and your toast in.
Got the greatest of the latest top thirty
To clear your mind of all your dreams unfaithful or dirty.
Would you like to hear with your soldiers?
Sponsor needs to know what you told us.
Got a course written for us straight from the file.
Just check your brain into the a.m. dial.
Waking up is easy when you got a voice you know
Rattling up the ratings on the breakfast show.
Waking up is easy when you got a voice you love
Telling you what's out there.
Is anyone out there?
Is anyone out there?
Is anyone out there?
If you don't like the nest that you've made
We got a competition running you can leave today.
Pack your bags, clean your ears of the city.
We got a place where even your car looks pretty.
Waking up is easy when you got a voice you know
Rattling up the ratings on the breakfast show.
Waking up is easy when you got a voice you love
Telling you what's out there.
Is anyone out there?
Is anyone out there?
Is anyone out there?
Good morning ladies, do you need a man?
Put your trust in our thirties and over plan.
Trust me.
Waking up is easy when you got a voice you know
Rattling up the ratings on the breakfast show.
Waking up is easy when you got a voice you love
Telling you what's out there.
Is anyone out there?
Is anyone out there?
Is anyone out there?
Is anyone out there?
Is anyone out there?
Is anyone out there?
Good morning.
Did you catch her in the window?
Do I run or do I mend.
Praying for heavy comfort
To fill his pockets with his hands.
Men in chip shops, milk bars, postmen
Used to fork out for your mouth.
And now the compliments have stopped
Since every asset's headed south.
He was a sharp one what a looker.
The last drunk to hang around.
Get well she could colour knickers
Just for the mirror now.
Had a dream once it was morning
In a dress that never frayed.
And now your friends are like eyelashes
Too many dropping off these days.
For forty seconds today
I was sure that we were feeling the same way.
For forty seconds today
Been living underwater but I sure dug the sea
But no-one could hear me out when I leant back to scream
Coming through the shelves to live in the dirt
To keep from the sun, to keep from getting hurt
Gettin' gone
You got a lot to learn
Ahh got a lot to learn from getting
Gone gone gone
Been feeding on contributions from the folks on the bridge
Throw the scraps on out when they need a trip
So I flap my tail and give a high-pitched squeak
Just so they could leave me in between the rocks to sleep
Gettin' gone
I wasted so much time that I
Oh wouldn't swap the line of getting
Gone gone gone
You got a lot to learn
Ahh got a lot to learn from getting
Gone gone gone
I don't know where the sadness starts
'Coz I'm so happy I could die
Just give me long enough to live
Yeah an' it's only when I fly
I wasted so much time that I
Oh wouldn't swap the line of getting
Gone gone gone
You got a lot to learn
Ahh got a lot to learn from getting
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You Am I - Handwasher
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Never wanted more
From my local store
A chance to be by myself
Be on the right side of the shelf
But for every drink I serve
Sure wish I had callous nerve
Cause for every sandwich I know
There's a sack of shit to be dosed
Wash my hands in shame
4000 times a day
And when I make it on home
There's a smell that always stays
I know the regulars well
From every stale grill I sell
From bainmaries to cold tea
I'm the service that you need
There's a poison in my drink
It's gonna take each good thought I could think
There's a poison I know
Wash my hands in shame
4000 times a day
For while I service your greed
Got a kiss on the neck from a mornin' cartoon
Pullin' out the knot, I just can't lose
Grabbin' my shoulder, turned out the night
Like a smile after you've cried
The lady out walkin' with her popcorn pup
To get out and smoke before her husband wakes up
Eyes to the asphalt, plastic bag hands
Just get on outta there, just get away from that man
Well I'm all thumbs and toes
With the way that it comes and the way that it goes
(Get up, get up)
I gotta loosen this load
(Get up, get up)
Get some fire in my throat
See the man in the corner tryin' to make em all smile
And missin' the one who matters all the while
And she'll beat him senseless but he just can't see
It aint for the crowd that you bleed
So be good to your barkeep man
Its more than yer drink, he's got his hand
Can see that your nervous and it shits him to tears
Yeah he just don't want to wait and he don't care about your band
Well I'm all thumbs and toes
With the way that it comes and the way that it goes
(Get up, get up)
I gotta loosen this load
(Get up, get up)
And put some fire in my throat
I need a life dedicated
not this endless parading
Help me, alright
(Get up, get up)
Yeah I gotta loosen this load
(Get up, get up)
And get some fire in my throat
I want a life dedicated
not this endless parading
Help me, alright
I need to do more, but I aint been sleeping
For the longest time
For the longest time
For the longest time
If I could live for one day without being sorry I know
One day without being sorry I know
One day without being sorry
Hate your friends
Cos they're the only ones that make you want to die
And they make their scene the priss and preen
They'll never get it right
The mirror on the living room wall
Aint been too kind since you hit grade four
But honestly, the last thing he'll say tonight
Just put your things away, you know its just not your time
He's the boy you got
He's the ticket stub that never won a prize
And and there's no hard sell cos he's got a face
Came straight from a fight
But he answers we he calls
And he's under six feet tall
But honestly, the last thing he'll say tonight
Just put your things away, you know its just not your time
He's big and dumb like a dagwood dog
He's jeans never fit quite right
But there's a razor blade cut
And a feeling in your gut that says
There aint no way to disguise it
Hate your friends
Cos they're the only ones that make you want to die
And they make their scene the priss and preen
They'll never get it right
The ones who shine so bright
Are made or broke come Friday night
But honestly, the last thing he'll say tonight
Just put your things away, you know its just not your
He's big and dumb like a dagwood dog
He's jeans never fit quite right
But there's a razor blade cut
And a feeling in your gut that says
There aint no way to disguise it
But honestly, the last thing he'll say tonight
Just put your things away, you know its just not your time
That's the way, we're gonna get it right
I'm sweatin' bullets for breakfast
Slipping outta my range
Another night on a meathook
Just tryin' to pickle my brain
Why the hell are you running
And what are you standing for
A lightweight with the baggage
Slung out the door
So roll us on up in shrink-wrap
It sounds like a good place to hide
'Coz heads an' tails it's a night on
We'll be there 'til the end of the line
I asked out the back
To find a word in a cloud
Told me something that I already knew
Now if you're waiting for luck
To come and touch you up
You better wear yourself a good-lookin' suit
Don't you come around asking
Coz I ain't got an answerin' mind
I'm gonna get real damn familiar
With something with ice
So set us on up in the corner
And throw over that bottle 'o wine
Coz heads and tails it's a night on
We'll be there till the end of the line
We'll be there till the end of the line
We'll be there till the end of the line
Don't expect us now to understand
Or trust in the way that it feels
Chasin' up the coins into the ocean
And choppin' up the carriages to fight the locomotion alright
I had a win in Kansas
A birthday in North Albany
The most ungrateful tourist
You ever dragged an old friend to see
(Kick out the jams it ain't no fuckin' exam)
Give me a call
When yer strung out or when you're bored
Been so long and heavy
But now you think I'm ready
Lean on me, lean on me
Give it a try, it won't hurt
Leave it with the papers and the capers and the dirt
Had a friend who died today
Got a long distance call
Who knows what or when or how
But what I'd do to see his face now
Lean on me, lean on me
Wham bam, Doug Sahm
Get my brains from a garden plant
You ain't got the truth in the line
Stick with the ones who never
Get put out by the fire
I never was one for pictures yeah
You could hang up on the wall
Start 'em up here in my head
Wait for them to fall
Let's go get wrong, real real gone
Raise a toast to the Polaroid ghost
And let some water fall
You ain't got the truth in the line
Stick with the ones who never
Get put out by the fire
Feed me I got my head interstate
got my head interstate when I'm alone
Give me a break, I've got to work up to hate
Only get out of bed when I'm alone
Give me a call, chest feeling small
It don't mean shit 'till I see it all
Got my head interstate
head interstate
head interstate
Got my head
Look I'm into staying in 'til
I get the gall to tell me that it's
Safe outside, a happy ending
Feed me another story that's true
another story brand new I can't forget
Diagnosis around from a book that you found
And a pill you won't have me swallow yet
Suck me a line, anything to feel right
Only get out of bed if you'll turn out the light
Got my head interstate
Look I'm into staying in 'til
I get the gall to tell me that it's
Safe outside, a happy ending
Feet in the stall, juicing the call
Don't mean nothing 'til you feel it all
Did you really wanna come out tonight with me?
Did you just wanna go where everybody else goes?
Now I don't need to read your mind
To see or hear that you aint mine
Is it just one of us who's gonna take the last late night bus?
Come home
Come home with me
Come home with me
Your words will always stump me when
I just need something right
I wanna kiss you as the sun comes up
And turns out Friday night
I got a good mind to get right down to it
And forget the way I sweat when you're walking through my eye
Come home
Come home with me
Come home with me
I know that I should be ashamed
To see you walk away again
And I've heard every excuse before
But you're just too much for me to lose
Help me girl
Stop looking so good
Come home
Come home with me
Come home with me
He's the man without a plan
To shake it up and set you down again
A Bo Diddley walk a no more messing round the block
A seventeen watts is a all of what you got
So take me out and mess me 'round
I don't want style without a sound
It ain't clean but dig the scene
I heard the message now the message is mine
I heard the man, he bought the news
It came in loud and out of tune
Now I sleep like a bus conductor and dribbles like a dog
A double timing scratch to find the sound I'm thinking of
So take me out and mess me 'round
I don't want style without a sound
It ain't clean but dig the scene
I heard the message now the message is mine
Urgh all night, just be there
It don't make sense, think I care?
I heard the message, the message is mine
If half of what I'm saying, of what I'm saying is true
Will you rub my head, make it all shiny and new?
And you drag my coat tails, drag my coat tails down
and I'll be the only cold assed king around.
If you wait I'll give all my aches to you.
Take the chance, to ignore what you're going through?
My cold hand is there for you to take
(If you leave, can I fall down)
I'm your Berlin Chair, won't you lean on me 'til I break.
I'll ignore each golden, dragging kiss you can give.
On the blankest face that you ever had to forgive.
If you see my fallings, see my failings through.
I'm the re-run that you'll always force yourself to sit through.
If you wait I'll give all my aches to you.
Take the chance, to ignore what you're going through?
My cold hand is there for you to take
(If you leave, can I fall down)
I'm your Berlin Chair, won't you lean on me 'til I break.
Well you're too late. You're too late.
Hey you
Put your chewing gum in my fist
And pass the last over of your drink
I've known you long enough to know
Yeah I'm in deep and it shows
I met her on grand final day
And from sixteen thousand miles away
Yeah I knew
I was in trouble deep past me boots
You think it's so hard
Alone in the world
Yeah well just try keeping up with a beautiful girl
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
So I strayed (keep your head in the sky)
Til my fingers all burnt in a sneeze (leaving nothing behind)
And I'm holding by the skin of my teeth
She got me grinning like a karaoke king
Without a clue on how the thing begins
And that's where the hell I'll reside
In between the width of her smile
So if you spy me just let it be
I'm far beyond what you knew of me
You think it's so hard
Alone in the world
Yeah well just try keeping up with a beautiful girl
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
You're never alone
It's you against the world
You're the uninvited oyster next to the pearl
The best lesson I learned
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
Me, keep up with that beautiful girl
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
I had that something from my head to my eye
Just as I made it to the front of the line.
I only seen them out in front of the rehab.
My buddy's check form is all blown to sag.
And just because I'm spoonfed on milo and cheese
Don't go shooting every dog just 'cause one of us got fleas.
And if you don't want to grow wear some
Baby clothes
Baby clothes
Baby clothes
Baby clothes
Baby clothes
Baby clothes
Baby clothes
Baby clothes.
And I'm so sick of sickness yeah
Why do I write the songs so dickless yeah.
A just cause I'm too fat on cheap smokes and wine
I can't look over your fat shoulder and make rock 'n' roll mine.
Been hearing so much chitter chatter chitter chatter
And now I found something that matters, matters, matters, matters.
But if you don't want to grow wear some
Baby clothes
Baby clothes
Baby clothes
Baby clothes
Baby clothes
Baby clothes
And if the bar is closed
Don't look at my waist 'cause the pants don't fit right.
I'm a dedicated follower of skin tight
As long as we don't eat everything will be fine.
I just want to look fascinating, snorting the diet pills I'm grating
As long as we throw up everything will be fine.
As long as we're emasciated
tastes outdated, yeah, everything will be fine.
Everytime I eat is a slate away from every photo that I emulate.
As long as my fingers fit everything will be fine.
Cheeks like a valley and ribs like grater
but just think of all that cash I'm saving.
As long as we throw up everything will be fine.
As long as we're emasciated
Taste out dated, yeah, everything will be fine.
It will be fine. It will be fine.
It's irregular and it sure won't pay
But say naught 'til you got something to say
So I live for forty minutes a day
Can I have that?
The biggest kick you ever got
Was paying out on dinosaur rock
And said with every prehistoric thought
You can stain
For every door that's been closed
There's another of your friends you can dose
While your brains seem to speak through your clothes
And for every handshake that'll pay
There's another motherfucker who'll complain
That to keep a legal dose is so lame
Are you stray?
Those born with gold with weary souls
Should eat their young and die
Don't you wish that your kids all looked more fine?
Do you feel that your guy's below your style?
Animal slippers and a drink over Sunday mail
Coffee teeth and a cigarette heart for sale
Any minute now something's gonna happen
Everything's falling 'cept the shit you fell in
Mailman, black umbrella, doesn't feel the need to tell ya
Sure have looked better and ego kissing fools
Are teaching your kids in private schools
Crack another bottle, it's five
Monday morning who could ask for more
Smoking buds, got your friends all 'round next door
Any minute now something's gonna happen
Everything's falling 'cept the shit you fell in
Mailman, black umbrella, doesn't feel the need to tell ya
Kudzu Cinderella, them ego kissing fools
Are teaching your kids in private schools
Grab a six pack for the way home
It's only twenty five minutes alone
At a chance to listen to what you see fit
Put your tail between your legs and you split
Was never one for luck
On a pay rise or a girl you got stuck
Never bother with FM radio
Pop a compilation tape and we'll go
But every dick that comes from the hills
Is gonna inundate you still
Never one to let something go
To make you hate or cuss at folks you don't know
As his girlfriend takes the last mushroom slice
You hope they never make their movie on time
Was never one for luck
On a pay rise or a girl you got stuck
Never bother with FM radio
Pop a compilation tape and we'll go
But every dick that comes from the hills
Is gonna inundate you still
Nineteen to twenty two
Just Nik, Jaimme, red wine and you
Into the Datsun and go
To another mass appeals show
Was never one for luck
On a pay rise or a girl you got stuck
Never bother with FM radio
Pop a compilation tape and we'll go
But every dick that comes from the hills
You've lived on beans and rice
And fell for Jesus Christ
And if your pants are nice
Mother Nature's son
Never made sense until you begun
To play the kids for fun
Maybe start a TV show
A service in day-glo
Watch your ethics grow
Mother Nature's kid
Just keep the money hid
As if you never did sell
Mother Nature's son
Never made sense until you begun
To play the kids for fun
You've never tasted hell
'Cause Judas signed you well
And if the story sells
Mother Nature's kid
Just keep the money hid
As if you never did sell
Mother Nature's son
Never made sense until you begun
The weightlifter and a library tech you know
Made a big decision in the magazine row
I'll open my catalog, just enough to let you in
And she'll drop beers like you drop vitamins
Did you ever, never, wanna let somebody down?
Was you ever thinking that you'd be Cathy's clown
Now she's around?
The protein pills and the G-strings you left in her flat
Are just enough to get your Dewey Decimal back
You lift her to work, just before your daily workout begins
And she'll stack up like you stack vitamins
Did you ever, never, wanna let somebody down?
Was you ever thinking that you'd be Cathy's clown
Wide eyes show white
White enough to shoot
But if you ain't got the strength to fight it
And you just can't hide it
And I ain't gonna open my eyes anymore
Ain't gonna open my eyes anymore
Pale faces burn
I would've thought by now we'd learn
But every fool still waits their turn in
The rotisseries turning
Well, I ain't gonna open my eyes anymore
I ain't gonna open my eyes anymore
ya know my three best friends were drummers yeah when i still had a face just like a pizza slice I knew my zildjians from my paradiddle plug straight into the stereo watch the damn thing blow
yeh orchy bottle bongs and rocket fuel, while leaves gather in the corner of the pool but now my words theyre drownin in the amber again its like explainin cricket to americans just tryin to get a hold the whole damn thing oh oh oh ooo
weekend experimentation (now you need laxidation) where did we all get the need for the daily medication? now my words theyre drownin in the liquor again its like explaining cricket to americans just tryin to get a hold of the whole damn thing oh oh oh oh ooo
Got a new haircut
It cost me just six bucks
Filled a plastic bag with stuff I need
In a big dumb car, I'm off my knees
Fill it up and start over again
Ooh, it's the rumble and moan
Transistor AM cassette drone
It's the sound without a home address
And hydromatic hopelessness
Fill it up and start over again
Yeah, fill it up and start over again and again
All night
R A D I O
Hit me hard and hit me low
Static engine blow the scene
A rumble in the old machine
R A D I O
Ah, hit me just like Lionel Rose
R A D I O
I heard stomach and soul
A rumble underneath my toes
And it didn't come with a clear face
Designer punk or daily rate
Fill it up and start over again
Yeah, fill it up and start over again and again
All night
R A D I O
Hit me hard and hit me low
Static engine blow the scene
A rumble in the old machine
R A D I O
R A D I O
A rumble in the old machine
Ronnie James D I O
Fell down like Bocephus under all the noise and grease
To get up the bond for an Inner West flat
He'd work for anybody if he wasn't working for her dad
She's practising saying 'I do' and 'I will'
Cause she don't know how to tell him that she's going off the pill
Her curtains are for certain that he'll talk about her ass
But she clings to his photo like a piece of broken glass
If we cant get it together today
She's looking for his heart while he stares the other way
His dad is a nut, his ex- girl is a slut
But he'll be yours forever
If you just get it together
If we cant get it together if we cant get it together
Is it ever gonna be just you and me?
So they met on Tuesday at the Town Hall steps
To get an 8" by 10" photo and a wedding date set
'we might as well do it next week,
cause we've met everybody that we're ever gonna meet'
His dad is a nut, his ex- girl is a slut
But he'll be yours forever
If you just get it together
If we cant get it together if we cant get it together
Is it ever gonna be just you and me?
470 to Circular Quay
With a present in your pocket from the TAB
If we cant get it together if we cant get it together
Is it ever gonna be just you and me?
Would you settle for a mobile home
Near a good record store and a public phone?
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You Am I - Television Addict
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I read the news the other day about a boy they threw away.
He went out and shot someone like some goddamn teleplay.
He claimed he was confused between fact and fantasy.
Seems he spent all his time in front of a TV screen
(and was a)television addict.
His lawyers said this boy was sick blaming ratings for his crime.
They said too much sex and too much violence on the idiot box blew up his idiot mind.
(he was a) television addict.
Watch it.
(he was a) television addict.
You and me we spend all our time in front of the window of the world.
And just because I watch Diner, sure doesn't mean I need a face lift
doesn't mean my brain has skipped. Doesn't mean anything.
There's more going on inside my mind than on any television screen.
(he was a) television addict.
Just because I watch Prisoner, Cop Shop, Fat Cat, Humphrey fucking B
Here it comes again
It's talking through the band
All the? you took
Is waiting out 'till then
Breathe
Life
You ask
Will pray
Scream
We're dead
You pay
I'll cry
Sell you're sure again
We're still in the band
Pride has gone to yours
Sucked your spinners yeah
Breathe
Life
You ask
Will pray
Scream
We're dead
You pay
My friend jack eats sugarlumps
My friend jack eats sugarlumps
Sugarman hasn't got a care
He's been traveling everywhere
Been on a voyage across the ocean
Heard the sweet sounds of wheels in motion
He's seen the hawk fly high to hail the setting sun
My friend jack eats sugarlumps
My friend jack eats sugarlumps
Sugarman hasn't got a care
He's been traveling everywhere
Seen all the people in the city
And the bright lights, they're awful pretty
He's followed dusty tracks into eternity
Eatin' sugar made in cuba
Tried to grow it in japan
On the west coast he's real famous
Kids all call him sugarman
My friend jack eats sugarlumps
My friend jack eats sugarlumps
Sugarman hasn't got a care
He's been traveling everywhere
Been on a voyage across the ocean
Heard the sweet sounds of wheels in motion
He's seen the hawk fly high to hail the setting sun
My friend jack eats sugarlumps
My friend jack eats sugarlumps
Sugarman hasn't got a care
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You Am I - I Can Hear The Grass Grow
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I see the people all in line, I'm thinking they look at me.
Can't imagine that their minds are thinking the same as me.
I can hear the grass grow.
I can hear the grass grow.
I see rainbows in the evening.
My head's attracted to a magnetic wave of sound.
Lead springs curly up girls are making their way around.
I can hear the grass grow.
I can hear the grass grow.
I see rainbows in the evening.
Can't seem to hold the mouth aside.
My senses follow with the skies
Yeah I won't do without my baby.
Yeah I need you to help now baby.
Yeah I won't do without now baby
Put your head down to the crowd and listen to your mind.
Think against the watch you found, I know that you're not my kind.
I can hear the grass grow.
I can hear the grass grow.
I see rainbows in the evening.
Can't seem to hold the mouth aside.
My senses follow with the skies
Yeah I won't do without my baby.
Yeah I need you to help now baby.
Yeah I won't do without now baby
See the people all in line I'm thinking they look at me.
Can't imagine that their minds are thinking the same as me.
I can hear the grass grow.
I can hear the grass grow.
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You Am I - She's So Fine
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I woke up bright and early this morning, my little girl's not inside.
I've been searching everywhere, morning, noon and daylight, yeah.
Cos she's so fine, she's so fine, she's so fine.
She's so fine you know I wish she were mine.
I got something to tell her, maybe she'll listen maybe not.
I never loved another woman before cos all my love she's got.
Cos she's so fine, she's so fine, she's so fine.
She's so fine you know I wish she were mine.
One, two, three, six.
Cos she's so fine, she's so fine, she's so fine.
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You Am I - Janie Jones
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by the Clash
He's in love with rock'n'roll world
He's in love with gettin' stoned world
He's in love with Janie Jones world
But he don't like his boring job, now
An' he knows what he's got to do
So he knows he's gonna have fun with you
An' he knows when the evening comes
When his job is done he'll be over in his car for you
You lucky lady!
An' in the in-tray lots of work
But the boss at the firm always thinks he shirks
But he's just like everyone, he's got a Ford Cortina
That just won't run without fuel
Fill her up, Jacko!
An' the invoice it don't quite fit,
There's no payola in his alphabetical file
This time he's gonna really tell the boss
Gonna really let him know exactly how he feels
It's pretty bad!
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You Am I - Goddamn
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Don't need to spoil your day
But I think if I ever get to see you today
I'm gonna rub you out
Can't remember every word you said
So we can't even matter
'Coz we'll only remember what's cut in lead
I was just trying to warn ya
In my head I'm thinking that wrong
Everything that the body can do
And when you find the strength to get off the floor
I'm gonna take every single one
Sent out on you
Just wanna spoil your night
'Coz three hundred miles of distance ain't nothing
That's not sitting right
I can't remember every punch you took
And the times I sent a lash to make sure
That you couldn't take a look
Everyone just kept on crying
When every ripple in blood and every heart in his mouth
Meant a life to get through
And when you find the strength to get off the floor
I'm gonna take every single one
Sent out on you
Come on
There's a club at the tender
'Coz you never can seem to remember
Every time I fell
Don't wanna rip your skin off
'Coz you just can't seem to get off
Watchin' me, the head ruler say
Let it rock
When you take you take me with you away
Ah when I fake I'll take me with you away
Take me with you away
Won't you fucking take me with you away
Take me with you away
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You Am I - I'm So Tired
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I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink
I'm so tired, my mind is on the blink
I wonder, should I get up and fix myself a drink?
No, no, no
I'm so tired, I don't know what to do
I'm so tired, my mind is set on you
I wonder, should I call you, but I know what you would do
You'd say I'm puttin' you on
But it's no joke, it's doin' me harm
You know, I can't sleep, I can't stop my brain
You know, it's three weeks, I'm goin' insane, you know,
I'd give you everything I've got for little piece of mind
I'm so tired, I'm feeling so upset
Although I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette
And curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid get
You'd say I'm puttin' you on
But it's no joke, it's doin' me harm
You know I can't sleep, I can't stop my brain
You know it's three weeks, I'm goin' insane, you know,
I'd give you everything I've got for little piece of mind
Give you everything I've got for little piece of mind
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You Am I - Young Man Blues
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Well the young man ain't got nothing in the world these days
I said a young ain't got nothing in the world these days
You know in the old days when a young man was a strong man
All the people they stepped back when a young man walked by
But you know nowadays it's the old man whose got all the money
and the young man ain't got nothing in the world these days
In the old days every cunt like you stepped back
When a young, skinny, faggy looking guy walked by
Walked by. Walked...
They stepped back
These days if you're the young man you ain't got nothing in the world these days
You've got nothing, nothing
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You Am I - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
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Throw my ticket out the window.
Throw my suitcase out there too.
I throw my troubles out the door
I don't need them anymore
for tonight I'll be staying here with you.
I should have left this town this morning
But it was more than I could do.
'Cause you're loving me so strong
And I've been waiting oh so long
For tonight, when I'll be staying here with you.
Is it really any wonder
The love a stranger can receive.
You cast your spell and I went under
That's why it's so difficult to leave.
I can hear that old train whistle blowing.
Can see that station master too.
If there's a poor boy on the street
Let him have my seat
'cause tonight I'll be staying here with you.
Throw my ticket out the window.
Throw my suitcase out there too.
I throw my troubles out the door
I don't need them anymore
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You Am I - I'll Make You Happy
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I, I'll give, I'll give you, I'll give you love.
I'll give you loving all the time.
Give you kisses just like wine
Does his lips taste sweeter than mine?
I'll make you happy (just like your mamma wants)
I'll make you happy (just like your daddy said)
I'll make you happy just like your mamma said to me
If, if you, if you don't, if you don't think.
If you don't think i'm your man
Find somebody if you can
And get them to hold your hand, not me.
I'll make you happy (just like your mamma wants)
I'll make you happy (just like your daddy said)
I'll make you happy just like your mamma said to me
I, I'll give, I'll give you, I'll give you love.
I'll give you loving all the time.
Give you kisses just like wine
Does his lips taste sweeter than mine?
I'll make you happy (just like your mamma wants)
I'll make you happy (just like your daddy said)
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You Am I - Six
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When you're six years old you can tell
How bad the girl behind you smells.
Chocolates for dinner and tea
And the gravel rash on my knee.
Never beats me people for too tall
And your mum and dad are screaming at walls.
There's just so much you can do
When you get up for them until they shoo.
If it's Tuesday then I'm a train.
No two days are ever the same.
Raggety ends of a tree.
Is that my grand mother following me?
When you're six years old you can tell
Which parents are all going to hell.
Custard apples and cream
And the tree house made for three.
Never beats me people for too tall
And your house guests are screaming at walls.
There's just so much you can do
When you get up for them until they shoo.
Take a look what I found
It's a bus ticket left on the ground.
The thrill to sign up to a team
And my brother never knows where I've been.
Quit bothering me.
There's so much you don't know
Just going on and dig your knee.
When you're six years old you can tell
How bad the girl behind you smells.
Chocolates for dinner and tea
You Am I
Miscellaneous
Flag Fall $1.80
You Am I - Flag Fall $1.80
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If I'm so unpopular out on the highway
Why is everybody waving at me?
See if they even knew ya
Wouldn't you find that a little peculiar?
Six pack, cheaper domestic
To keep the council's road works protected.
Mopping up puke for all the high school kids getting soaking.
Ripping off stickers off dashboards preventing me from smoking.
We ain't going west of the city
But I'll take you to the station 'cause your girlfriend's pretty.
Six pack, cheaper domestic
To keep the council's road works protected.
I can get you where you want.
Start at $1.80 add the extra.
But for that
Late night AM talk back line.
Don't use my mirror for your hairdo
If you don't mind.
I can get you where you want.
Start at $1.80 add the extra.
But for that
Late night AM talk back line.
Don't use my mirror for your hairdo
I aint blue yet hell I aint even sick
But this big ol bark sure sounds worse than its stink
Thick like dipsticks and white as a sheet
But for a pile of trash I sure smell sweet
Can in a bag for just $2.35
Nobody looks you straight in the eye
Drop like butter to the floor just let me lie?
Drop like butter, just let me fry
Been digging holes like I'm in need of work
I can't sit for a minute just dry my shirt
This city's been sucking on me like a cheap cigarette
Its drunk my drinks and cashed my bets
Can in a bag for just $2.35
Nobody looks you straight in the eye
Drop like butter to the floor just let me lie?
Drop like butter, just let me fry
Junk, Junk, Junk, Junk
Lets take on the world, forget that you feel a girl
Once you're away, everyones still the same
If I could rip at your shirt just to see if it'd hurt
Everyday's golden day, when you've got someone to blame
Could you feel so much in a bus you're sure there's nothing you can trust
Once you're away, everyone stabs the same
Sleep forever on your breast treat everyday now like a test
Sugar sit a while
Come and rest your feet
Its been a long long while
Since you were been close to me
Lets polish of a few
Underneath the sky
Its pulling all it's faces
You wanna stand real quiet
And see just what it brings
We've been running too much
Need to miss out on a few things
If we just get it on
Tease and treat me wrong
Birds do it
Bees do it
Drop right down to my knees to do it
Just get me on my feet again
Get me on my feet again
Swinging like a tire
Princess off the beat
Telephone wires with all
Explode at your feet
I'm running out of blood
But i'm never cold
But I need to jump those fences
Holding neath the show
Cos I see just what I need
So drag this boy on over
Let him fall real deep
If we just get it on
Tease and treat me wrong
Birds do it
Bees do it
Drop right down to my knees to do it
Just get me on my feet again
Get me on my feet again
Sugar I'm a mess
But it's where I wanna be
I wanna burn out with a smile
That cuts right through my teeth
Everyone gets rained
Rained on just the same
But lately it's been soaking
Us right to the veins
And we're running out of time
So drag this boy on over
And keep him til it's light
Can we just get it on
Tease and treat me wrong
Them birds do it
Them bees do it
Drop right down to my knees to do it
Just get me on my feet again
Just get me on my feet again
Just get me on my feet again
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You Am I - Gray
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Drunk at Cannon Falls.
I never made the call
I had your number
It was chiselled on my hand and stained
Fell asleep to the line
Lyle sung "She's made up her mind"
Now I'm the twenty first descendant of the age and
I don't want it getting 'round town
'cause you'll kick my skinny ass if you ever saw me down
I can deny it 'til they all gone away
But I just don't think we'll ever get that other band together
Tried on all of your clothes
But even me and your girlfriend know
That there's only so much one guy
Can steal and so
We'll all choke on the slack
Try like hell to dream you back
Of the nothing I got
I got too much on my mind
yeah so play that thing in a different style
caught on a hook and a line
yeah thicken, use and drive me outta my mind
so i'm down...
so punch me in the decals
and see which of my teeth tells
the honour of thieves's hard to prove
but who put the devil in you?
I got too much on my mind
i cross my chest to keep myself in line
willing the water from wine
i've wasted years looking for somewhere to hide
lookin down...
just kick me where the sun shines
and now we're on for hot times
and bashin out to hammer the blues
yeah who put the devil in you?
I'm finding out where my head's at
like loose change in a laundromat
it chews me through
from dallas crane to motley crue
Oh...
ooh ooh... ooh ooh...
Yeah but i know
just why i'm masquerading
and why my tracks is fading
and bash out to hammer the blue
who put the devil in you?
Ooh ooh... ooh ooh...
I hit on the speed in my shoe
who put the devil in you?
Cause you know we're going out there again
just throwing my trust to the wind
we're gonna beat this damn thing to the end
Then kiss it off
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You Am I - Forever And Easy
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You can dress my riding just because it's a Sunday
You can feel me riding just because I'm cheap
If you want to claim it a "boy's own" ending
If you just want to win it just for the team
Yeah, I'm free
I'm free
You can feel me up and I'll pretend you're someone special
I can make you believe I'm only in it just for the bleed
Yeah, but if you want to claim shit on any kind of ending.
If you want to break my ass and leave
Yeah, I'm free
Why ain't I free
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You Am I - Opportunities
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He made the news today for the first time on page three.
Left the local supermarket job in sale and figures.
Makes a treat each week, tomorrow sits at home.
He'd be such a lovely boy if he'd only leave the girls alone.
You could see it in his face
Each time he ran away.
It was a ba-ba-ba-ba-ba big opportunity.
Bathroom porcelain and handles made of brass.
Took the proper grooming and full year language class.
They're sure he's the guy to snatch them from this scene
and take them to some place they're sure their mother's never been.
You could see it in his face
As the colour drained away.
It was a ba-ba-ba-ba-ba big opportunity.
A ba-ba-ba-ba-ba big opportunity.
A ba-ba-ba-ba-ba big opportunity.
Cold evenings create a living room dance.
Spend late nights revolving around one lost chance.
Oh yeah.
They're gonna jump the train it's the last one today.
Join us in the back row of the ones that got away.
Join a big parade, it works for you and me.
And you'll add a thrill because you'll hear it on TV.
Throw it up against the wall
Just to see how far it falls.
'cause it's a ba-ba-ba-ba-ba big opportunity.
A ba-ba-ba-ba-ba big opportunity.
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You Am I - What I Don't Know 'Bout You
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This whole day was useless
Next one's gonna be worse
Cos I'm wearing this badge of fortune like
A criminals wears a curse
I want to chase that rabbit right off the rails
And rip this metal keeping my mouth in check
But I need that muzzle like a razor and a stubble
Cuttin all this history from my neck
Do you remember the gear I first saw you in
Eating mexican in '92?
In between your folks and a birthday toast
It was black from your fringe to your shoes
I'm picking apples out of paintings
And making record covers in the sky
I missed my boat sitting here imagining
Your face when you cry
Don't be cruel, come on be sugar in my tooth
I think I like what I don't know about you
This whole day threw up some tickets
None I'd ever choose
The sky's so heavy it hangs like a beer gut
Spilling stuff on my shoes
Don't get me wrong, I aint complaining
I still got my legs like an old Christmas tree
But if I got faith why am I so scared
Everybody's dying on me
Don't be cruel, come on be sugar in my tooth
I think I like what I don't know about you
Don't be cruel, come on be champagne in my shoe
I think I like what I don't know about you
Fish and chips stall down the south coast ready
I can show you what I'm worth
So set me up a bottle and salt and vinegar
If you get there first
I said if you get there first
Don't be cruel, come on be sugar in my tooth
I think I like what I don't know about you
Don't be cruel, come on be champagne in my shoe
There's a guy singing in the edge of the room
Making sounds through a face like a prune
He's got them fancy checkered pants
And a chip in his tooth, oh no, yeah, yeah, yeah
Suffocating from patchouli and smoke
Here's the fifty-first song that he wrote
About the girl who split fifty weeks ago
Oh no, yeah, yeah, yeah
And there's a weight sitting real heavy
Down there on his shoulder
The patented moves growing colder
The seventh chord just keeps getting older
Oh, my soul, just hit me if I get on a roll
But this all sounded so good
In the bedroom cold oh yeah, yeah, yeah
But its only a 2 AM tune
With a bridge lifted from "My aim is true"
From the set list drink to the practice room
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
But there's a weight sitting real heavy
Down there on his shoulder
The patented moves growing colder
The seventh chord just keeps getting older
And he knows just as sure
As this microphone stinks
There's a change coming through
And he ain't going home alone tonight
And there's a weight sitting real heavy
Down there on his shoulder
The seventh chord just keeps getting older
Is it me or is the room getting colder
Oh, we're going down, but don't it sound sweet
Feel the dust building up at our feet
I know this guy
If I'm the mayonnaise, he's the cream
Some sit and wait for the ride
While others become the scene
And he can see a Wednesday morning
Like others see Friday night
It's all an open book
It's just how you vandalize
A double stitch on the shirttail
While the rest of us split on the seams
He talks about Art Blakey
And I pretend to know what he means
So now it's three gigs a night
While your girl digs up the UAE
And burn up like a matchstick
The whole damn city can see
The sun caught me hiding
Just enough for someone to see
My heart in my hands, the tracks of my glands
Cracking through the grit in my teeth
So when did you decide
That there's only so much you can lose?
The best choices come
Just when there's nothing left to choose
So you blow up letterboxes and chlorine bombs
'Coz it's a weekend blitz on the dicks
Who just can't whistle the tune
Yeah and yeah, hit while I sit here on my hands
Measuring compliments with a spoon
And I'm never too far away
I know this guy
If I'm the mayonnaise, he's the cream
Some sit and wait for the ride
While others become the scene
And he can see a Wednesday morning
Like others see Friday night
It's all an open book
I just don't know how to talk to you
There aint much that I want to get through
Just stare at you in silence that's okay
Like a dog outside your window in the rains
You're horse mounts so high that I can't see
The distance that I fall each time you leave
Without the sentences that keep you quiet
And stop me at the line
So go on out in that heat so familiar
Just go on and bring some sun back with you
Bring some sun back with you yeah
Go on out and bring some sun back with you yeah
Could you give me just a minute of me needs
You've seen me at my worst in it's degrees
The garbage growing deep around my toes
Got nothing going for me but my nose
I got a thing going with old Jesus Christ
He keeps me up from sleeping straight at night
And I need to tell you something about the baggage
If I can find the language
Cos she walks like a cello in good vibrations
Metered and deadly til I can't help but cave in
Bring some sun back with you yeah
Go on out and bring some sun back with you yeah
I'm speaking rhythms and rhymes
And meters and times that I should understand
But this big old tongue
Should have stoped not begun
That's why I do not what I say
That stuff can't give me away
So go on out in that heat so familiar
Just be sure to bring the sun back with you
Bring some sun back with you yeah
Bring some sun back with you yeah
Well they say that there ain't no gunslingers left in town
But he's rollin' them one-hand ciggies and knocking them coke cans down
Now two times a week one all covers them for a dozen
He straps that Gretsch on to his neck and gets those silvers tuggin', now go
Well I've learned from the best not to trample with others nest
And my style belies all the tales and the miles
But each weekend I own each square metre I'm allowed
I'm your pistol for hire, yeh
The last gunslinger in town
Well old band hit the top 50 yeh til it all went pear-shaped
When some dick had revelation to record in LA
Now he just can't wait for that sun to hide away
Til that day glow, it's a pain you know, and that buggery sure don't pay, now go
Well I've learned from the best not to trample where others nest
And my style belies all the tales and the miles
But each weekend I own each square metre I'm allowed
I'm your pistol for hire, yeh
The last gunslinger in town
We're all going to La La land
We're all going to La La land
To lights, thick smoke and loud, loud music
It's the only kinda life you'll ever understand
Well I've learned from the best not to trample where others nest
And my style belies all the tales and the miles
But each weekend I own each square metre I'm allowed
I'm your pistol for hire, yeh
A little freckled wonder
A BMX riding bandit
Chucked a cigarette in passing, yeah
Called me a faggot
My skinny little hands ...
To find something ...
I was angry ... full of beans
Essentially just a n-n-n-n-nervous kid
It was the year of care for kids
They even made a campaign song
They used to sing it as I entered the room
Before light switched on
Just In case my lone obductor
Was to spark a message within
I was eager to learn
Full of sunburn
Essentially just a n-n-n-n-nervous kid
So I made a pact with the silence
If you get me out of this one
I'll be true to what I was born to do and be a Roustabout, roustabout
Yeah a Roustabout
It was the year of gettin' loose
It was the year that my head broke
Clueless and free in the ACT
My mind buckled its spokes
... was like a hummingbird
I cried til it returned
I want to drag that son
Show him i won
Essentially just a n-n-n-n-nervous kid
So I made a pact with the silence
If you get me out of this one
I'll be true to what I was born to do and be a Roustabout (a roustabout)
Be a Roustabout (a roustabout)
Be a Roustabout.
It ain't easy...
Each summer we'd slumber in caravans
While our folks would drink casks and curse the sand.
I noticed him staring at the ceiling like Gene Vincent
Singing to a crowd
For a girl of 14 I thought I knew I would meet
Someone with a thought that was free of TV
Leering and affected just like Gene Vincent
Singin' to a crowd
Like he was barely allowed
I give you the last thing truly mine
But your secrets are safe with me
You can ignore now just what you swore
Your secrets are safe with me
So I'll keep my love buried, but breathing
Your secrets are safe with
Ahh, they're safe with me
Behind the tunes he looked in my eye
But did I want him to
Trusting his mistrust, but I was just another voice in the crowd
I'm hardly getting over it now
I give you the last thing that's truly mine
But your secrets are safe with me
You can ignore now just what you swore
Your secrets are safe with me
So I'll keep my love buried, but breathing
Your secrets are safe with
Ahh, they're safe with me
You told me I felt like you own me
Now I care for nothing at all
What I gave you wasn't a favour
Now I care for nothing at all
Didn't trust nothing that much
Now I care for nothing at all
Now I care for, now I care for
Now Constance George has got a voice like a tonic
Mix it with gin and its got a kick to it
Don't care for novellas, prune juice or flans
Shes makin' up for time stolen by her old man
Shes walks with a goose step
And cooks like it's a can can
Falls to bed like ice in a tumbler
Shes makin' up for time stolen by her old man
She's got soul
Now she's as strong as the family have been for years
'Cos she wears her hair down to fight the disease
Living a life that ain't been scripted before
Hard hat cravings outside the front door
She walks with a goose step
And cooks like it's a can can
Falls to bed like ice in a tumbler
She's makin' up for time stolen by her old man
She's got soul
She's got soul
Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh
She walks with a goose step
And cooks like it's a can can
Falls to bed like ice in a tumbler
She's makin' up for time stolen by her old man
It aint funny how we don't talk anymore
I'm custom built to be spilt but fun 'til i hit the floor
Why be the powdery apple in the bunch
The sweetness aint so delish without the crunch
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Sharp dressed for convicts (high maintenance)
The blood is our stitch (old licks for sense)
But lets get it together (Let's Roll)
Before this ship sinks
Or watch me decay
You patroned my decay
Yeh i'm the new Pompeii
It aint funny how you don't see me anymore
I'm a ghost, a desparate host, always lookin to the door
And you wonder why i beat my head beat my head beat my delicacies Well
What do you do for clarity
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Sharp dressed for convicts (high maitenance)
The blood is our stitch (old licks for sense)
But lets get it together (Let's Roll)
Before this ship sinks
Or watch me decay
(Did you ever think we were a team)
You patroned my decay
(Did you ever think we were together?)
Yeh i'm the new Pompeii
I'm the new Pompeii...
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You Am I - Moon Shines On Trubble
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Moon shines hard on trouble.
Check your watch by the lake city shuttle
And she tries hard not to decide.
Are you gonna tell him where you go nightly?
When you're dressed so brightly.
Is the money gonna come without a price?
A hundred holes and bubbles.
you gotta avoid trouble
Just waiting for something to arrive.
And all your daydream heroes
Are losing their hair, teeth and halos
who're you fall into tonight?
Pay the bills for uncle Ted he's a nutter.
Lives on bananas and peanut butter
Keeps his teeth in a glass of Long Island tea.
And are you gonna tell him where you go nightly?
And that the kids are tucked in tightly?
Is the city big enough for you to hide?
A hundred holes and bubbles.
You gotta avoid the trouble
Of waiting for a way out to arrive.
All your daydream heroes
Are losing their hair, teeth and halos
who're you fall into tonight?
Yeah you're beautiful but you're fucked
Were you damned as such?
Vain lads clamour just for the hem of your drawers
Its no fake breeze
That I spend my days
Just pottering what I became the jewel in your cause
Through the smoke and the noise
What extraordinary poise
Oh, you're sharp ain't ya
If you say you love someone insane
Why would you want them to change
From the sweet high life
And those long sad goodbyes
Did we have to pay such a price - damn
Oh yeah you're spirited but obsessed
Folks got burned for less
Loose change jangle on the bones in my chest
I ain't the best, just a try-hard wreck
What a princess we created – damn
Through the blood and bone
Now I sit alone with delicious wine at home
I'd leave my turmoil discrete
If the noise didn't sound so sweet
For the sweet high life
And the long sad goodbyes
Did we have to pay such a price
For the sweet high life
And those long sad goodbyes
Do I have to pay such a price
For the sweet high life
And those long sad goodbyes
Did we have to pay such a price
For the sweet high life
And those long sad goodbyes
Do I have to pay such a price
For the sweet high life
And those long sad goodbyes
Did we have to pay such a price
At night in the minefield, tuggin' my uniform
Loose chaps and keeping tabs where I'm lying on
Where you suppose the interest came
In whose to receive here and whose to blame
Huh? I don't get it . C'mon
Shotgun Ââ ¦Ââ ¦Â... those shells and get those slippery suckers down
ASIO and the carrion crow could sure use you around
With your microphone hidden in my drawers
Why don't you just beat me off with those claws
Hit it
I trust you just as far as low fat groceries
Wouldn't you like to know whose tugging at my jeans
I'll stick this friggin' neck right down your cake-hole
Just as soon as let you mess with the love I know
It's thuggery
It's thuggery
It's thuggery
It's your time to shout get over it
Let the blood rush to my head
Come on little man
I'm a mess
And it's losing its spark
Used to have a value
Now I'm alone in the dark
And I know
I ain't no sketch-a-graph baby
And these jowls, scowls and watermouths (?)
They ain't genetically related
So if you want to take it steady
Cantcha see that I'm not ready
The certified, full-stop, pressure-drop cut-up
Are you sure you wanna spend some time with me?
Yeah, I'm a mess
Yeah and I'm battin' way up my league
For all the arm-swings and pretty things that I sing
I'm a fuckin' disease
And you're a jewel
A drop from some of heaven's gene pool
And when you turn your head yeah
You can hear the stairs all droop
So if you want a little vocation
Me and your ma can read "a place in the sun"
I'm a certified full-stop pressure-drop cut-up
Are you sure you wanna spend some time with
Are you sure you wanna spend the night with
Ah, come on, could you spend a second with me?
Oh, well I'm a mess,
Oh hell, I know that it's a crappy excuse
Gotta get myself a spring-clean
Just to soak in the juice
If you wanna take it slowly
Lord help me if I'm not only
A certified full-stop pressure-drop cut-up
Are you sure you wanna spend some time with...
Are you sure you wanna spend a minute with...
Can you cut that tendon at the back of my hip
I can't run away, my bones congeal
The stakes are simple, shit and bile
But you just don't get it (No you just don't get it)
You must hook up with me for a year round summer
'Cos when the cold comes, you stay and sit number
But I'm sure ice would melt in your glove
And you just don't get it (No you just don't get it)
And it just can't hurt any worse than before
Strike a match and bolt the door
You get nothing back Ââ cos you're gonna go down
By my own hand (By my own hand)
By my own hand (By my own hand) Yeh
So I'm one bad gig out of the Jason recliner
One bad song and I'm back at the diner
Yeh, eating your scraps, cleanin' your crap
But you just don't get it (You want chips with that?)
I hate your ambition, hell I even hate mine
Makes me holograms and little things and water out of wine
But you won, yeh hon, well fuck it I'm done
And I just don't get it (No you just don't get it)
And it just can't hurt any worse than before
You get it now, I was nothing more
You get nothing more, you're gonna go down
By my own hand (By my own hand)
By my own hand (By my own hand)
Pills for pills sake (pills for pills sake)
Liquor for God sake (liquor for God sake)
Your tryin' to fix a shark wound
With a cotton ball, Yeh
My own hand (By my own hand)
My own hand (By my own hand)
So get me to the airport and throw me on a plane
Do the sentimental tango and send me off again
I'll bounce right back Ââ cos I'm gonna go down
By my own hand (By my own hand)
By my own hand (By my own hand) Yeh
I got dime bags stacked up like trophy wives
I'm a punctuated pulse bereft of smile
I'm spruced up like a cheesecake before the knife
Thank God I've hit the bottom
Thank God I've hit the bottom
I've been pickin' fights with graffiti artists, hey
Now you know the dead are filled with brains
Chips on my shoulder, I got lungs on my sleeve
Only You Am I know why I'm down here I guess
Thank God I've hit the bottom
Thank God I've hit the bottom
'Cos hell knows if I would have seen you from up there
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
I can see clearly now some pain is gone
Thank God I've hit the bottom
Thank God I've hit the bottom
Thank God I've hit
When the day falls where do you go?
Six thirty, city windows dirty.
Office nightclubs, drinks, dates and movie stubs.
Be wary all secretaries.
And eyes roam for who takes who home
As the rain's coming down to Friday night.
Don't let me down again.
Passport pictures with charts and figures.
Daily nightly. Oh, like me tightly.
When the day falls where do you go?
Ten thirty, like me tightly.
And eyes roam for who takes who home
As the rain's coming down to Friday night.
Don't let me down again.
Took a drag from something
I don't even smoke
And a line from something
That some other guy wrote
Now it's red wine for headline
Somebody's pulling favors by phone
Is it really so bad
Or you just want some place to go?
Give me noise
And the sound of hearts breaking in songs
Give them profiles and a voice
Which shows which country you're from
Meanwhile, I was there thinking
Is it really that bad
Or did you just want me to go?
Hey, before you leave us by the side of the road
I want to tell you 'bout the little I know
It's the cream, it's a crock
Pick it up and spill your guts
To someone who knows
I'll suck you up like a Kleenex
And leave the mess in the back of my throat
Meanwhile, I was there and thinking
Is it really that bad
Or did you just want me to go?
Hey, before you leave us by the side of the road
I want to tell you 'bout the little I know
It's the cream, it's a crock
Oh Rusty, let it rock
Na, na, na, na
Hey, before you leave us by the side of the road
I want to tell you all the friends that you know
It's the cream, it's a crock, yeah
Hey, we're sitting in the middle of the road
I want to tell you 'bout the little I know
It's the cream, it's a crock
With friends like you
I could throw away my tv
Cause I got it all in spades now
All triumph and tragedy
And when as a kid with a pocket knife
Like a stone from a distance thrown
It's a gamblers trick, it's a pain in the dick
Must have brought it on myself somehow
Hey!
With friends like you
With fiiends like you
It's a wonder why a guy gets bent
You gotta fine fine way
Of draggin' the Clouds underneath the dun
And those darkened sunsuit tea bag colonge
And sympathy toasts you all alone
You pick me up like a second hand coat
Spit and shine a Friday night
But the things you forget hang around like a bet
You're safe 'till they notice the price, price!
With friends like you
With friends like you
It's a wonder why a guy gets bent
Yeah, when you're raining on the parades
Down in the piss stain with a champagne
You got it
When you thought she's holding you like she means it
You hold her by the hand, take you somewhere nice and quiet
When you thought she's holding you like she means it
Cause when the going gets tough
She'll kick you in the nuts
And watch your Christmas list whither and die!, Die!
With friends like you
With friends like you
With a French IQ
When I was in grade six
I used to hold open the door for a girl
And she called me a wimp
She said there just isn't need to be so fucking polite
I politely agreed with her I think she was right
It just never entered my mind
That at 12 it all came down to chosing sides
You said that I'd die if I had nothing to do
Put a drink in my hand and I'll talk to anything that moves
I just refuse to give you what you think will make things right
Justifying hate when you've lost the will to fight
Would it be really in touch with the times
To put somebody down for choosing sides
And she said, show us them teeth
Give us them braces
Show us that dental work
That puts fear in 12 year old faces
I could make you feel
Even half worthwhile
Just please don't ask me to smile
And at times when it still feels right
I still hold open the door for a girl and I'll back down from a fight
And if there just isn't need to be so polite
At least it helps me sleep easier at night
It just never entered my mind
That it ever should come down to choosing sides
And she said, show us them teeth
Give us them braces
Show us that dental work
That puts fear in 12 year old faces
I could prove to you
That I do or don't get high
I woke up with a war in my head,
An old man's grumble,
And an extra space in the bed,
And if ol' John Prine can't sing the next line,
'Bout something that can make me smile.
Gonna have be content,
To stare at your baby photos 'til it makes some sense,
And were you ever mine anyway?
Speak up as I drop away.
I wrote down what I think on the head of a matchstick,
Wrote it all short and sweet, all that made sense to me,
Burnt six thousand minds, sorry for all times,
I just can't add up the sums to find the damage we've done.
I fell for you like a dog from a tree,
Keep a straight stitched face,
As the ground makes a bed for me,
I keep my eye where I fell, sends no replies.
You can run so long from sadness,
That you're never at home for the fun,
I can't make excuses,
For the short hand abuses,
Thank God it ain't a Sunday night.
I wrote down what I think on the head of a matchstick,
Wrote it all short and sweet, all that made sense to me,
Burnt six thousand minds, sorry for all times,
I just can't add up the sums to find the damage we've done.
I wrote down what I think on the head of a matchstick,
Wrote it all short and sweet, all that made sense to me,
Burning out in the lights, sorry for all times,
I just can't see how it comes,
The damage we've done,
The damage we've done,
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You Am I - Trainspottin'
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You can haul my ass with a word from any line you took.
from a laugh or any microphone you shook.
You turned my head from a rock into a burning bush.
With a chord, call, or Leon tape you'd push.
Yeah, yeah.
Anyway we split the bill
you couldn't leave us ever standing still
Anyhow we try to forget
We'd can still remember the date they met
Every aside is better than one of my jokes.
Would you die, if I ever called you out my folks?
And how long can we talk about Mick and Keith
"Bayou Country" or "Exile On Main Street"?
Ooh could you still remember?
VERSE 1:
Yeah I ain't consistent, some collar crime
I won't call you regular, no, I'll wait till I'm blind
Yeah until I'm blind
I think of you off and on, you sure you can't hear
Each message I send ya, oh so silent and clear?
But this coin says I luv ya
And see ya on the other side
CHORUS:
I've been up all night with a head full of neon
I've been up all night with a head full of neon
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
VERSE 2:
You drink to remember, yeah, you drink to forget
Just like writing songs, like a letter never sent
Yeah and I never sent em on
But it's a shout in the backyard, a punch in the sky
A love unconditional to straighten my spine
But this coin says I luv ya
And don't wait 'til the other side
CHORUS:
I've been up all night with a head full of neon
Just give me deliverance and an old friend to lean on
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
BRIDGE:
I'm sorry sorry sorry sorry, for
I'll make it back again
But this affliction ain't temporary
It's where I began
Yeah, yeah but I save my skin
So hit that old four-and-a-half chord, oh oh, sh*t again
VERSE 3:
I've been treating my friends just like holds or keys
You don't know you need them, oh yeah, till you're down on your knees
And I'm down here on my knees
CHORUS:
Cause I've been up all night with a head full of neon
Yeah give me deliverance and an old friend to lean on
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Hey yeah
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