Look out, Mama,
there's a white boat
comin' up the river
With a big red beacon,
and a flag,
and a man on the rail
I think you'd better call John,
'Cause it don't
look like they're here
to deliver the mail
And it's less than a mile away
I hope they didn't come to stay
It's got numbers on the side
and a gun
And it's makin' big waves.
Daddy's gone,
my brother's out hunting
in the mountains
Big John's been drinking
since the river took Emmy-Lou
So the powers that be
left me here
to do the thinkin'
And I just turned twenty-two
I was wonderin' what to do
And the closer they got,
The more those feelings grew.
Daddy's rifle in my hand
felt reassurin'
He told me,
Red means run, son,
numbers add up to nothin'
But when the first shot
hit the docks I saw it comin'
Raised my rifle to my eye
Never stopped to wonder why.
Then I saw black,
And my face splashed in the sky.
Shelter me from the powder
and the finger
Cover me with the thought
that pulled the trigger
Think of me
as one you'd never figured
Would fade away so young
With so much left undone
Remember me to my love,
Look out, Mama, there's a white boat coming down the river
With a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail
I think you'd better call John
'Cause it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail
And it's less than a mile away, I hope they didn't come to stay
It's got numbers on the side and a gun and it's making big waves
Daddy's gone, my brother's out hunting in the mountains
Big John's been drinking since the river took Emmy Lou
So the powers that be left me here to do all the thinking
And I just turned twenty two, I was wondering what to do
And the closer they get the more those feelings grew
Daddy's rifle in my arms felt reassuring
He told me, "Red means run, son, numbers add up to nothing"
But when that first shot hit the dock, I saw it coming
Raised the rifle to my eye, never stopped to wonder why
Then I saw black and my face flashed in the sky
Shelter me from the powder and the finger
Cover me in the thought that pulled the trigger
Just think of me as one you never figured
To fade away so young, with so much left undone
Spoon fed from a dirty plate
A diet designed only to agitate
A veil of pride and gospel truth
To cover the hidden fist that he used
And I won't say a word
You've sewn me in my skin
Hypocrite walking stick man
Silent grave
And the sunken heel kinda slows me down
Dogs and children lift their legs
To tattoo a teenage mothers breasts
Widows of precocious days
Wear slogans resurrected late
Parables for wooden ears
Steer vehicles of wisdom
All the wisdom
And I won't say a word
You've sewn me in my skin
Hypocrite walking stick man
Silent grave
And the sunken heel kinda lights my way
And I won't say a word
You've sewn me in my skin
Hypocrite walking stick man
It sure is quiet around here
The phone never rings anymore
So I'll wallow in silence
And nail my soul to the floor
'Cause I'm angry and jealous
And sick and tired of untruth
And I'm lonely my pride is bruised
My wheels sink low
Loves candle burns slow
If I spread my wings
Will I ever leave the ground
All of these painful scenes
That drag me down
My wheels turn slow
Loves candle burns slow
And now my eyes are dressed in rags
To hide the scars from what I've seen
And my fall form grace
Could it be a lesson to you
And if I trade my place
Come and rescue me
From in the water deep
Careful now don't lose your aim
The road ahead is clear again
I haven't found it yet
You drift away so slow
In the ebb and flow
So I landed on my feet
The steadiness is bittersweet
It feels the same when you're pushed
Out and away and into the crush
In all the hidden pleasures you find
In what you're looking for
I hope that you remember that pride
Comes before a fall
I can barely see up and own and back again
Despite what you believe I keep away from trouble
If who I am today's a sign of where I'm going
I'm ready to embrace
Recreate the scene
Of everywhere you've been
Overcome the dreaded curse
A symptom of the universe
It feels the same when you're pushed
Out and away and into the crush
I can barely see up and own and back again
Despite what you believe I keep away from trouble
If who I am today's a sign of where I'm going
I'm ready to embrace
If everybody knows just who you are
When your walk on role becomes a major part
Have you ever attempted to be yourself
When everybody wants you to be someone else
Up and down and back again
For every story gone untold
There's a secret that dissolves
So many pieces still unsolved
You're not quite who you think you are
Can see the symptoms from afar
I'm hosing down your shooting star
There you go again to fall
Waiting on a friend to call
If you wait I'm gonna drive it home
Carry all of this away from here
If you wait I'm gonna drive it home
Kiss you every time the rains appear
Sometimes we wish for far away
But something always makes me stay
Far too strong a bond to try and break
You know exactly where you've been
The shooting star is hardly seen
Outshined by every other beam
There you go again to fall
Waiting on a friend to call
If you wait I'm gonna drive it home
Carry all of this away from here
If you wait I'm gonna drive it home
Kiss you every time the rains appear
I'm feeling richer I'm feeling taller
I feel like every time I try to fit the picture
I've got to keep up with all the others
Looking for whatever we were never to discover
Now you're ringing out slowly
Like cathedral bells
And you'd sleep through heaven
Just to get to hell
Now you drop away slowly
Like the autumn leaves
But you lose your colour
It's a early rise
His teeth are furred
And cleanse with hands to hunt and hold
The sun divides
Imagined leaves
A shelter while I sleep
There are many years
To cloud my mind
But no burden
It's heavy like a tipping load
Early day
On a bloodied patch
Only noise and brick surround
Tradition sinks
In the soil here
As a rock is swallowed in the mud
The polluted skin
Of my brittle earth
It keeps the bleeding at bay
This syrup sweet and thick to exchange me
My spirit has rearranged
Crippled, dampened, lame
As it goes
The syrup fills my eyes
The days faces fade to black
And I don't feel
And I can't fight
For my home anymore
Anymore
And I return to an open land
Where bloods blanket shielded me
This syrup sweet and thick to exchange me
My spirit has rearranged
It's coming round again
The slowly creeping hand
Of time and its command
Soon enough it comes
and settles in its place
Its shadow in my face
Puts pressure in my day
This life well it's slipping right through my hands
These days turned out nothing like I had planned
It's coming round again
The slowly creeping hand
Of time and its demands
It settles in its place
Its shadow in my face
Undignified and lame
This life well it's slipping right through my hands
These days turned out nothing like I had planned
Control well it's slipping right through my hands
These days turned out nothing like I had planned
Soon enough it comes
Soon enough it comes
Yeah you got knee high boots to hide focaccia fruit
You better think twice about the soy milk drink babe
You got a patent handbag and solid state rags
You wont think twice about the bill will you baby
Should I be the one to say that you don't need it
Skinny Jean crushed a kenyan roast bean
Raoul devours another organic buffet
They're so preservative free to keep their smokescreen
Should I be the one to say that you don't need that
Style guide never would proclaim that you don't need it
They say you like it sundried tell me is that right
They say you like it sundried tell me is that right
Skinny Jean loves brazilian roast beans
Raoul wood fires a tandoori pizza today
Special filter gonna keep them both out of harms way
Should I be the one to say that you don't need that
Too tired to survive the day a brew might fix it
Skinny Jean we'll all die sometime
Caged
You hold so tight until your knuckles show
Escape
As far away as you could ever know
You sink them all down
And watch them float up
Until the wheel has spun around
You will be bound by what you are
You stand in the corner
With your face stripped of colour
For what?
If you want to be a passenger
Climb aboard with me we're leaving now
Step outside and see another world
Only if you want to be a passenger
Chained
So many places you'd prefer to be
Than framed
By a picket fence and salary
You sink them all down
Then watch them float up
Until the wheel has spun around
You will be bound by who you are
You're tied to the corner
With your hope twisted under
In knots
If you want to be a passenger
Climb aboard with me we're leaving now
Step outside and see another world
POWDERFINGER 2010 GOLDEN RULE ALBUM
Who's gonna follow you into the night,
Who's gonna dilute the poison in your mind,
Who's gonna drown in your blue eyes
CHORDS: Bmin,AMAj,Gmaj,DMaj
Did you ever feel like a call in the night,
A good idea laid to waste and left untried,
Now the pillar of dust,
That is holding you up,
It's crashing down around you now
And poisoning your mind
Who's gonna bridge on the river you cross,
Who's gonna carry the weight of your loss,
Who's gonna colour your blue sky
Did you ever feel like a call in the night,
A good idea laid to waste and left untried,
Now the pillar of dust,
That is holding you up,
It's crashing down around you now
Welcome to the new suburban fables
Dressed up like a tomb inside a cradle
If you're paying peanuts you get monkeys
I was sick and tired of waiting lost
You were mad at me for so much more
I was bored listening to the same old chords
You would complain that i was never around
And we shouldnt hope, no we shouldnt hope
If love is so easy then why am i stuck
If life is so smooth why cant i get enough
Im still lost and running
Everyday moves like a hurricane
Thats dragging me around no matter what i say
Night time in the city streets im out of luck
The cobblestones are dark and wet theres no one i trust
And it comes around, yeah it comes around
Mr So'Easy say where have you gone
Im looking for somewhere i can lay down my arms
Im still Lost and running
Im taking my time ill let it float away
Spare me no lies and you'll have nothing to say
The further we slip into this rabbit hole
The harder we look for a new place to go
Golden rule,
That applies to you.
A zero sum,
Puzzle of our love.
Even just to say the name was bitter on the tongue,
Well the boy sailed off to riches and the girl sailed off with none.
Another in a broken line of love that she had known,
Another silver tongue but mercury hearted bag of no good bones.
A beauty queen,
Fraying at the seams,
Could never be,
Quite enough for me.
Even just to say the name was bitter on the tongue,
Well the boy sailed off to riches and the girl sailed off with none.
Another in a broken line of love that she had known,
Don't go too deep into the flood
Don't wade too long, you'll poison my love
Don't shut me out,don't hold it all in
Don't let my venom get under your skin
'Cause every word and every turn
Every sign points to your hurt
With every hour your drifting futher away
Come make your peace, come find your way
Come lay your wreath at the alter of change
Don't lose your step, don't break the bones
Don't shoulder the burden out there on your own
'Cause every word and every turn
Every sign points to your hurt
With every hour your drifting futher away
Don't banish me then bid me home
Then tell me where I came undone
Don't harbour love like it's all your own
Then linger over what you've done
Don't sink underneath the weight of
when you're trying to caryy way too much
And you never should have let go
You could have joined in the whole show
I never should have let go
I never should have let go
'Cause every word and every turn
Every sign points to your hurt
How many more times will you say that you love me
How many more times will you wake up beside me
You think that you told me what I'd like to hear
But I think you should tell me how you really feel
I'll be your pawn, I'll be your king
I'll bear your scorn, I'll wear your ring
Our feet won't hardly touch the ground
We'll float away without a sound
You want to reach out and touch my hands
You promise you'll do everything, everything, everything you can
Now how does it feel that I strung you along
You're bound to try to conceal that maybe you had it wrong
There's too many true feelings you've had to contain
In my head inside my dreams
Under my hand as no one's seen
Bent to the will of the others
Strange kind of day to discover
That all seasons fail and recover
Don't tie the hands of your brother
All seasons fail and recover
Home ground relief from a name
Feather to breathe and remain
In your climb to be unique
Why don't you see you have all turned out the same
Now all seasons fail and recover
Don't tie the hands of your brother
How do I decide where to go If I don't know who to bring
Share secrets with the wine and the wind
All seasons fail and recover
Don't tie the hands
All seasons fail and recover
Don't tie the hands
Don't tie their hands
Don't tie their hands
I n your climb to be unique
I never really thought to say
That whenever you set free
You're devil smile on me
I melt
It's been a long time between
When you first let me in
Got underneath my skin
It's an echoing empty room
Untill your love pours in
And fills it to the brim
I never felt the hook go in
Untill you came around
And broke me right back down.
There's just thing that i failed to tell you
I'm wishing on the same moon and stars above you
We're wishing on the same moon
Hear me now I'm calling out for you
Pleading for your love
You're falling from my view and and there's nothing i can do
I'm waiting in the afternoon
For the sun to sink
And let the night back in
It's when i feel close to you
When the stars they swoon
And bring their night time bloom
There's just one thing that i failed to tell you
I'm wishing on the same moon and stars above you
POWDERFINGER
UP AND DOWN AND BACK AGAIN
Come and rescue me
In the water deep
Careful now don't lose your aim
The road ahead is clear again
I havn't found it yet
You drift away so slow
In the ebb and flow
So I landed on my feet
The steadiness is bittersweet
It feels the same
When you're pushed
Out and away and into the crush.
Of all the hidden pleasures you find
in what you're looking for
I hope that you remember that pride
comes before a fall.
But I can barely see
Up and down and back again
Despite what you believe
I keep away from trouble
If who I am today's
a sign of where I'm going
I'm ready to embrace.
Recreate the scene
everywhere you've been
You overcome the dreaded curse
a symptom of the universe
It feels the same
When you're pushed
out and and away and into the crush
Of all the hidden pleasures you find
in what you're looking for
I hope that you remember that pride
comes before a fall.
But I can barely see
Up and down and back again
Despite what you believe
I keep away from trouble
If who I am today's
a sign of where I'm going
I'm ready to embrace.
If everybody knows just who you are
When your walk on role becomes a major part
Have you ever attempted to be yourself
When everybody wants to you to be someone else?
Ohh...
you wanna see the things that traps them free
better let go what ah lets them be
have you ever attempted to be yourself
when everybody wants you to be someone else
up and down and back again
going up and down and back again.
Don't look back just decide and move on
Cause you're wasting my time girl we just dont get on
Don't wait here for the climate to change
Picking over the bones of the love that remains
I feel ive got such a long way to go
We got lost on the winding road
I feel its just such a long way through
So if you let go of me then I'll let go of you
Don't resist just relax and let go
You can tend to the seed but you can't make it grow
Don't invent a new way to hold on
'Cause your testing my patience you just don't belong
This time i'm gone
This time i'm gone
I feel ive got such a long way to go
We just got lost on the winding road
I feel its just such a long way through
Tonight my heart well it broke like glass
I made a mistake that i'll never surpass
I'm floating in space unattached to the world
I cast off the memory of the spell of that girl
Whatever I get I guess its what I deserve
I don't remember
Just what made it so hard before
I know you needed someone to take the fall
I know you needed someone to blame it on
I smashed the mirror just to look whats behind
Picked through the pieces just to see what i'd find
I found my heart and it broke like glass
I made that mistake that i'll never surpass
I let go of my grip on the past
I don't remember
Just what made it so hard before
I know you needed someone to take the fall
I know you needed someone to blame it on
Hey, hey don't you look away
A gentle winter haze creeps in at three forty-four
The Hindley St parade shuffles to my door
The hotel decor shades are always poorly sewn
Twenty-five in thirty days makes this room feel like home
Na na na
Na na na na
Na na na
Na na na na
The western ocean breeze kick starts another day
And under brewed bag tea no matter where you get it always seems to leave that taste
The Todd Street mall cafe is here to save the day
Why should I complain when everybody else is overworked and underpaid
Na na na
Na na na na
Na na na
Na na na na
Days keep rolling over
Escape to the undercover
Soon it will all be over
Tell me when does your justice start
What you say and what I see they are miles apart
Now I'm as guilty as any man or woman I declare
Of apathy and selfish greed and self interested affairs
Now why must we accept these things when after all
They're only handed down
Tell me when does your mercy begin
What you say and what I see
If we never make it back to how far we've come along this way
We search around for solid ground that will help to carry us away
If the memories I left throw the light that helps to guide you through
We trickle down to our goodbyes but a part of me will stay with you
What we've spoken over time
Never broken or compromised
Dream on together
Leaning against each other
However it happens I hope it's
I could not face
I could not face you
Lost my place
Couldn't I fade away
Feelings hide
Feelings die
Cannot wait
To trade my place again
You save face
When I hang my head in shame
Feelings hide
Feelings die
They could not wait to open you up
Memories are fading, A single voice complaining
While days are stacking up
It's hardly worth debating, The people are frustrated
Drink from poison cup
The system is collapsing, Conscience is relapsing
The damage has been done
On the day you come rising up
On the day you come rising up
Vision is rejected, The people's choice is tested
So ignorance has won
Children are infected, Remedy suggested
Don't drink from poison cup
Overpopulation, media sensations
The damage has been done
On the day you come rising up
Sea uprising takes me in
The crimes I'm fighting break my skin
Sea uprising takes me in
I don't know
I don't know
You might have to take me in
You might have to break me in
These rules and systems are losing ground
What I believe in is breaking down
This blind direction is lost and found
I don't know
How far to go
You might have to take me in
I got to feeling low for making light of whatever you said
The pain went straight to my head chopping me up turning me to morose
You've got a thing or two coming soon so I'll get out of your way
Beat blue, blackened and bruised chopping it up at the end of the day
You better step back and see the mess that you left
Won't you tell it to somebody who cares
I'm stumblin' all the way 'cause its not such a beautiful day
You stopped to see the show but don't believe everything that you read
The pain's still there in my head pulling me close now that I'm here alone
Don't stop because of me you'll never know just how long you'd have stayed
So sleep through the slackening screws cutting me loose at the end of the day
It's not such a beautiful day
But I'll stumble through all the same
The bright lights are fading away
Blow the candles out raise a glass to the night
Let all the tension out you've been wound up so tight
It's a tender trap to plan ahead all the time
If you measure the world by what you leave behind
Welcome to the saving grace
Welcome to the saving grace
There's a sunset on the road
Reappearing as we go
Keep the glass topped up it's not over just yet
Pull off the social bluff celebrate your success
Turn the sunlight out find a place in the shade
If you measure the world by the mark that you make
Welcome to the saving grace
Welcome to the saving grace
There's a sunset on the road
I keep looking back for clues
They're all mine
I keep pulling back from truths
They're all mine to give
All mine to give
All mine to give
All mine to give
Lies to relieve and soothe
They're all mine
I would brake the holy rules for you
They're all mine to give
You've got your brakes on
I should run a mile from you
Sunsets over the beaches from now on
Each day looking for new ways to go on
Maybe I should drop by maybe I should have called
Maybe I should have followed you and beat down your door
Maybe it's gonna be breaking you every time you fall
But to shower you with pity will do you no good at all
Slow burn watching the world turn from my arms
New way of measuring each day until it's gone
Sunrise building a reprise in my heart
Regret tight around my chest plays its part
By now you know that I never arrived
I was too tired to move
I was gonna invent an elaborate excuse
But I'm tired of them too
Little pockets of air in the atmosphere
Make it easy to breathe
So farewell to unpleasant scenes
I want you to stay, stay, stay
The blinding flash of circling stars
Left relatively shallow scars
You played your faux renaissance card
To starry eyes and wild applause
It's not your destination
When you are set to throw in your hand
When you are far from home
When what you believe is buried in your hands
When you feel outgrown
I'll be the one to pick you up again
When you decide you've had enough of it
I'll be the one
I'll be the one
When your speech is slow
When your eyes are closed
When you feel betrayed
When your heart is frayed
When your feet are cold
When your sights are low
I'll be the one to pick you up again
When you decide you've had enough of it
I'll be the one
If all the people that you ever knew
Pooled all their money and gave it to you
Do you think you could raise enough to save your skin?
Save your skin
Save
Save
If all the people that you ever knew
Pooled all their money and gave it to you
Do you think you could raise enough to save your skin?
I don't know
I don't mind how high you climb
No I don't mind that climb is mine
Who'd you say is you?
Where'd you say you hide your proof?
You're swollen like a lexicon
If you hurry we'll be home real soon
If you meet me in the morning, gonna make my day
The sky will fall and the planets swoon,
Feel like tomorrow coming up too soon
Gonna bend and shake it loose
Use whatever gets you through
You're swollen like a lexicon
If you hurry we'll be home real soon
Happy memories I remember
Home spun remedies for stormy weather
Juggling scissors in the afternoon
Picking up signs from across the room
Your gentle pace it provides a rhythm for the unwashed few of us
Lock and loaded past is a prison for the crimes of the universe
Do you have the information to decide whether you really care
C'mon you know that it's hard to complain about the way you live
So please don't let it roll right by you
Just think if the same thing happened to you
Would you be happy to walk in my shoes
I'm already tired of your chronic compassion fatigue
The final turd in the dungheap of every post modern disease
Are you in the situation to decide whater you really care
Far may you run from what you know
Sermons homespun before the show
One superjudge that brings a change in taste
The new seasons king with a brand new face
The old seasons bloom seemed to run its race
And we standby for your word
Truth and intent will lose the day
Music's revenge to pave the way
Play favourites with a view to changing taste
The new seasons king with a brand new face
The old seasons bloom seemed to run its race
Welcome to the new suburban fables
Dressed up like a tomb inside a cradle
If you're paying peanuts you get monkeys
Better save that silly money for junkets
I see your shadow on the street now
I hear you push through the rusty gate
Click of your heels on the concrete
Waiting for a knock coming way too late
It seems an age since I've seen you
Countdown as the weeks trickle into days
So you come in and put your bags down
I know there's something in the air
How can I do this to you right now
If you're over there when I need you here
My happiness is slowly creeping back
Now you're at home
If it ever starts sinking in
It must be when you pack up and go
It seems an age since I've seen you
Countdown as the weeks trickle into days
I hope that time hasn't changed you
All I really want is for you to stay
I got to keep moving to stay warm 'cause I'm freezing in this room
And if I prove no good here I'll skip to where I should
It's only an imaginary vigil that we keep
You salvage what you need I'll take the love you leave
I love your way
I can't explain
What made me change
I'm wading in deeper ever deeper as I go
I drown the whole idea as I drift away from you
It's only and imaginary vigil that we keep
You salvage what you need I'll take the love you leave
And as the memory gathers dust, buried in its crust
Are the remains of what we've done and the seeds of what we just begun
The tapping of the rain beats a corrugated drum
And the city glow well it pulses on to the city hum
[Instrumental]
Oh Jesus Christ, what name do you go by now
For time is passing with the wind blows new decrees
Canned for life your used by date is faded
And followers of you now watch TV
What could I do
And tonight your dress is looking shaded
The colours don't seem to captivate
Count the loss I see your moving on now
Pressures off no more people to drag you down
What could I do
On my own I stand naked
Despite the miseries
And the lessons learned from history
The pattern still repeats
Never to surrender don't you ever retreat
So how far have we really come?
Til the ones who are leading us
Make peace their resolution tonight
Make peace your resolution tonight
There's an arms race to be run
Building bigger better dagger headed bombs
So let's drink to the daughters and sons
Never to return to their mother's arms
No, no, no not coming back
How far have we really come?
Til the ones who are leading us
Make peace their resolution tonight
Make peace your resolution tonight
For every battle lost and won
Are these the ones that we offer up?
For every battle lost and won
Are these the ones that we offer up?
How far have we really come?
Til the ones who are leading us
Make peace their resolution tonight
Make peace your resolution tonight
So how far have we really come?
'Til the ones who are leading us
Make peace their resolution tonight
And you'll be there to break my fall
To reassure my doubts and faults
And all your fables will ring true
They are the lies you lean on too
There's love on your breath
I'd better not say
About the blood on your hands
You hold the future in your hands
And sullen eyes soothe and command
A graceful mouth your deadly tool
Too bad the truth has fallen through
There's love on your breath
I'd better not say
About the blood on your hands
The incarnation of a Christ
Manipulation
There's love on your breath
I'd better not say
About the blood on your hands
The cross on your head
What does that say
Do do do do do
Always on time
Do do do do do
Waiting in line
Whatever you say
Whatever you say
Whatever you say
Whatever
Do do do do do
Soda and lime
Do do do do do
Lemon sunrise
Whatever you say
Whatever you say
Whatever you say
Whatever you say
See you Tuesday
Never would stay
Whatever you say
Born into peace
Born into ignorance
My family gave me strength
Bonding my brothers
And the war was her enemy
Shed her mother's tears
Broke her mother's heart
Broke their feeble bond
And I'm stripped from my love
Could you find me a cure
Stone by stone I build
For my fathers'
Born into peace
Grown to respect the other
My religion gave me strength
More than a bond
And the law was her enemy
Bred her brother's fears
Sparked his call to arms
To force himself upon
And I'm stripped from my love
Could you find me a cure
Stone by stone I build
For my fathers' ohh pyramid
My fathers' pyramid
My fathers' I build
Fragile little thing go lightly on the wing
Don't be put off your game
If troubled wind should blow you off your way
Natural love and trust
Have downed their tools and struck
The nation's heart it rusts is no suprise
and seems so appropriate today
Black tears on a red rock
Fall right through and they dry up
How could it fail to grab your attention
Black tears on a red rock
These trees bear a strange fruit
Harvesting lies and poisoned blossoms of the truth
There's blood on all our hands and blood on our boots
And black tears on a red rock
An island watch house bed
A black man's lying dead
An island watch house bed
(Powderfinger/Coghill/Fanning)
He's at you again ray
testing out your head space
no matter what you do
the money still loves you
you have fallen down the stairs again
you might have to take it easy
because we love you
and we respect you
because we love you
and we respect you
you have fallen down the stairs again
you might have to take it easy
he's at you again ray
he's at you again ray
he's at you again ray
There's nothing to say but she came and then she went through
Her cardamom powder sneeze raised the old hotel roof
There's nothing to play so we swam into the rockpool
Habits are breaking me so we broke thru to the other side
Original cyber freak waved in through the sun roof
Double allergic wheeze spoiled the phantom flow through
Neighbourhood of disease paved the way to fondue
Habits are breaking me so we broke through to the other side
We broke through to the other side
We broke through to the other side
Is it obvious that you have had it wrong?
You're attitude and angst seem to have gone
Is there no way you can be what you have said?
Another self-serving sermon
You can stand and beat your breast
While they feed on the fruit of their sweat
You've got it rough
Haven't you got it rough
So you shoot shoot shoot
From the lip
While you emulate the man that touched your heart
Imitate at due cost
Your comment on positions out of reach
Contradict the very words you preach
You can stand and beat your breast
While they feed on the fruit of their sweat
You've got it rough
Haven't you got it rough
So you shoot shoot shoot
From the lip
I just know
Honesty is out of style
So hammer in the coffin nails
A message sent across to land
With kisses for you
We'll tell them nothing
Our little secret
They'll never make us, ever open up
Tradition in and out the door
Family our fatal flaw
A future frameless in design
A seamless concept
We'll tell them nothing
Our little secret
They'll never make us
Ever open up
Never break our trust
Until we're coffin dust
When this feeling fades
It'll all seem like a waste
The fragile bond has shaken loose
This secret love a shrinking noose
Suffocated on the truth
Strip me down
Wash me white
Leave the spots in my eyes
Novelty
Wearing thin
Overload of truth and advice
Narrow minds
Move hollow mouths
To taste the foot that they bite
To make you vague but polite
And I see you don't lose so well
Viscous (I've never seen)
Blood (Flowing and free)
Savage (I'll bridle you)
Save you from yourself
And I see you don't lose so well
Fragile beautiful
Scratch and bite to save
A feeling so betrayed
Viscous (I've never seen)
Blind (Hopeful and free)
Savage (I'll bridle you)
To save you from yourself
Holding out for a signal to come
Solution found should appease everyone
Religion hides from developing proof
Believers try to encourage the truth
Cascading down, golden rays above
Cascading down, life from far beyond
May reveal the silence they deny
Sound and sight end suspicion and fear
Distant light took so long to appear
Fey black eyes mystified everyone
Cascading down, golden rays above
Cascading down, life from far beyond
May reveal the silence they deny
But they keep filling up, keep filling up my eyes
Patron pushed vows aside
Parents blest shine with pride
Lay child down force inside
I play on my position of trust
Leave the child to self destruct
Child ashamed silent oath
Fallen heard shows no growth
Shows no growth chose no growth
I play on my position of trust
Baby I've got you on my mind, honey you won't ever know
How much I need you by my side, promise you won't ever go
I won't take no from you this time
Baby I've got you on my mind
'Cause honey I've got to show (I won't wait for another day)
Just what I can do (My heart died when you loosed the chains)
Because I think I know (I won't wait for another day)
What you are going through (My heart died when you loosed the chains)
I hope you feel it the way I feel it, I hope you feel it the way I feel it too.
So if I had this all my way, honey you won't ever know
I'd be there through every night and day, promise you won't ever go
I won't hold back from you this time
You've been working all your life
All weekends and overtime
While you're trying to unwind
You can't relate to the leisured life
Another day meanders by
Keeping nature's tabled time
All these things just pass you by
And you can't relax in a scheduled life
Promises already gone
There's no escape it's said and done
So keep your love forever young
You've been trying to decide
Multiply or just divide
All these things are on your mind
And you can't relax in a scheduled life
Promises already gone
There's no escape it's said and done
This will be an uncertain time for us my love
I can hear the echo of your voice in my head
Singing my love
I can see your face there in my hands my love
I have been blessed by your grace and care my love
Singing my love
There's a place for us sitting here waiting for the sun
And it calls me back into the safe arms that I know
For every step you're further away from me my love
I grow more unsteady on my feet my love
Singing my love
There's a truth begging to be told as the blues grab and take a hold
To continue like this only acts as a force for no good
I just want to say that I miss you and I've felt pitiful since you've been gone
I'm just trying to say I need something I can lean against
So I'm gonna steady myself on a reliable friend
There's a weight dragging through my days that I spend trying to fill the space
That's been there since the day that we parted and made our goodbyes
There's a truth begging to be told as the blues grab and take a hold
If I invite danger
It might just do some good for me
Slack jawed little stranger
Slip and shuffle on your feet
If I set a trap
I'll raise suspicion and keep eyes on me
I'll just keep kicking at the cracks
'Til it all falls in on me
Big fat payback bleeding like a smokestack
I'm running
We got a dud pump speed bump burning like a fuel dump
I'm coming
Don't panic
So come and join my collective
Every man and woman for themselves
I never felt so well protected
Just hanging up here on the shelf
There's no way I'm turning back
I'm tired of sailing on the same old seas
I'll just keep kicking at the cracks
'Til it all falls in on me
Take a run for the money
Give you something to show
Now we're almost ready and away I go
Who's gonna pick you up?
Who's gonna bend your rules?
Who's gonna be your prop?
Who's gonna play your fool?
Nobody knows just how it feels today
Nobody sees how our hearts break
Who's gonna watch your back?
Who's gonna reel you in?
Who'll make surprise attacks?
Who's gonna be there at the end?
Nobody knows just how it feels today
Nobody sees how our hearts break
Who's gonna bring you round?
Who's gonna let you sleep?
Who's gonna break frown?
Who's gonna fall down at your feet?
Nobody knows just how it feels today
Everyday feels the same
the bomb keeps ticking 'till the routine breaks
Anyway's the same for you
break another glass then i come to the rescue
Paint yourself into this picture
Wait there for the blast to hit you
Will you come back down, head up in the clouds?
Everday fills in time
four red cars in a super good red line
Anyway to break on through
make another mess and i come to the rescue
If you lay a finger on him
He'll scream his lungs out without warning
Will you come back down, head up in the clouds?
First you made me stumble
then you made me fall
I'll stand at your shoulder
I'll keep you running right
Keep you running right
I'll fight in your corner
I'll stay by your side
I'll stay by your side
There's no need now to worry
Our love's still here tomorrow
There aint no use in crying
for whats keeping us divided
Baby we're still trying, we're still trying
We're too old to worry
About who's wrong and who is right
Is's all so by and by
People need a villain
Someone to pay the price
It keeps them satisfied
There's no need now to worry
I'll still be here tomorrow
There aint no use in crying
for whats keeping us divided
Baby we're still trying, we're still trying
Baby we're still trying
In all that he takes in all that he shows
The higher the stakes the lower the blows
And all the mistakes that he's never known
Whatever it takes he'll be stealing the show
Now he nervously shakes as we rattle his stage
But he's happy to be stuck back in his halcyon days
Now we're trying hard to reconcile a history of shame
But he reinforced the barriers that keep it the same
If you treat me like a dog
And keep me locked in a cage
I'm not relaxed or comfortable
I'm aggravation and shame
But it's a fine fine time for the people in the lucky land
If you treat me like a dog
And keep me locked in a cage
I'm not relaxed or comfortable
She has a hand of reasons to loose him
He liberates her often hidden smile
She buried trust faded away
He swallowed any promises they made
Darkness to weave its silent track
Stars decorate a shroud of black
Night closed the door on a fertile mind
And captured the light that the day worked so hard to provide
Vibrant golden hues
Melt into morning's hurried bloom
Whisper the secrets from night to day
Bird announces the dawning and fills it with praise
And the wound slowly heals
Voices inferior
Voices inferior
And the wound slowly heals
Moon raise your head
From a soft horizon bead
Shine on a thirsty ground
Release me from this struggle to be free
Take my hand,lead me to the promised land of your love
Step outside of this superficial life
Put your pretty lips on mine
Kiss me one more time and I'm gone
Who really cares?
Who really knows?
About these agents of despair
and their thrown together prose
Release me from this struggle to be free
I'll break my plans
to be in the gentle hands of your love
When you're by my side in these superficial times
Put your little hand in mine
Kiss me one more time and I'm gone
Who really cares?
Who really knows?
About these agents of despair
and their thrown together prose
Let them have his head
He's harmless you know
Watch him let you down
and leave you hanging on a rope
I wont be fooled by your devious ways
Your ingenuine fears and your ingenuine pain
I look a wreck but somehow you look fine
You come to me
and ask me to ease our troubled mind
A combination of the two worst ideas that you might have
Well don't complain when you just concede, there's nothing left for you
It's sad to think that it's all gone over my head
I like to think it was easy not to have said
It's sad to think it all went over my head
I liked to think it was easy not to have said
Look up, there's another place where you might just have come from
Hold me down there is nothing to say I've been spent around here
It's sad to think that it's all gone over my head
I like to think it was easy not to have said
It's sad to think it all went over my head
There's every sign
That every mind must bear a little frustration
When souls collide
We're all bound to meet sometime
If you were my only problem
Then I couldn't confuse you with the solution
So pretty
Soul pity
I think I better ease back
And let the demons slide
There's a season ahead
A celebration of life
There's a season ahead
Of celebration and rhyme
The seams are getting frayed
Feels like something's ready to break
The seams are getting frayed
Feels like something's ready to break
So pretty soul pity
So pretty soul pity
And that just a little light
You go
I feel like dropping bombs between your eyes
But not today
Too slow
I feel like sinking arrows in your mind
You're all the same
You don't have to reveal it
You get trouble concede
You don't have to reveal it
Are you feeling right
Are you feeling right
A defeated sight
Are you feeling right
You go
Soaking up your public appetite
The war you wage
Too slow
I tell you once again you're not my type
You're all the same
Something come along gonna make a change
You don't have to reveal it
You get trouble concede
You don't have to reveal it
Are you feeling right
Are you feeling right
A defeated sight
If I had no friends I'd have no one to ridicule
So goes the tale of the resident fool
If I clear my space I could clear it to be with you
Backhanded claims of a resolute
If I call an end to the trouble I'm sinking in
Maybe a sign for a crime or sin
I'll love my girl when she comes home
I'll love my boys when they get home
With friends like that who needs enemies
If I make no sense I'll be nearer to fitting in
Spreading the wisdom by accident
If I call you out that'll bring it all to an end
Token resolve of a dissident
When you pull me in that'll settle the residue
Maybe a sign for a crime or a sin
I'll love my girl when she comes home
I'll love my boys when they get home
I'll take the lead you follow me
Come and relieve the friends that I keep
They're sick of me
Small minded creed blisters and weeps
Swallow the shit that jealousy feeds
And choke on it
And I may have a point to prove
I might just have a few enemies that I might just like to lose
I'll take the lead you follow me
Come and relieve the friends that I keep
They're sick of me
Come and relieve the friends that I keep
They're sick of me
And I may have a point to prove
I may just have a few memories that I might just like to lose
Here I stand with my tail between my legs
And I'm set to confess to these sins I didn't commit
Small minded creed blisters and weeps
Swallow the shit that jealousy feeds
And choke on it
And I may have a point to prove
And I might just have a few enemies that I might just like to lose
Here I stand with my tail between my legs
And I'm set to confess to these sins I didn't commit
It's all I have to say
Here I stand with my tail between my legs
If an apology from you meant anything
I'd accept it now with grace
But you and i both know its just
a ploy for you to save some face
If you'd any self-respect you'd turn
yourself in for your crime
Everytime you tell yourself its alright
Everytime you go to sleep at night
Everytime you tell yourself its alright
It just becomes a bigger lie
I hope that you can stand yourself tonight
In between days full of ´have pretension´
Basking in the memories you hold so dear
Remembering the vibe with the final moments
The king making manoeuvres and the grand ideas
Im glad to see the world to a different window
The glory doesn't color every move I make
No lies, no fiction, no rose-pink blends
Just a truthful look at the love I gave to you
Everytime you tell yourself its alright
Everytime you go to sleep at night
Everytime you tell yourself its alright
It just becomes a bigger lie
I hope that you can stand yourself tonight....
Hallelujah I found love..
Every green saints pray for natures sinners
Reserving every pedal that was so hard worn
Fold it to a chest in a mothers clutch
Relishing the lure of a distant sun
Now Im glad to see the world through the winter palette
The color-wheel stall between the green and blue
No white, no snowmelt, no icebound lakes
Just bird song strung across the cobalt blue hole
Everytime you tell yourself its alright
Everytime you kiss your kids good night
Everytime you tell yourself its alright
It just becomes a bigger lie
tell me where i'm supposed to begin
an unhappy life working some kind of dead end job
everything you thought you had
has gone from worse to bad
lean to the side
whisper it quiet
end is in sight
working all night around the clock
everything you thought you had
has gone from worse to bad
but it's not my kinda scene oh yeah
footprints on the other side
remind me where i've been oh yeah
i'll watch from the other side
tell me where i'm supposed to begin
an unhappy life working some kind of dead end job
everything you thought you had
has gone from worse to bad
so i'll just wait and watch the wheels
while you're turning back
but it's not my kinda scene oh yeah
footprints on the other side
remind me where i've been oh yeah
i'll watch from the other side
ooh throws me over
and it drags me under
ooh throws me over
and it drags me under
singing:
tell me where i'm supposed to begin
an unhappy life working some kind of dead end job
voice over (with bernie doing a semi american/aussie accent...nice work...):
tell me where i'm supposed to begin
an unhappy life working some kind of dead end job
aah aaah etc
but it's not my kinda scene oh yeah
footprints on the other side
reminds me where i've been oh yeah
i'll watch from the other side
but its not my kinda scene oh yeah
footprints on the other side
Tell me where I'm
supposed to begin
an unhappy life working
some kind of dead end job
for everything you thought you had
has gone from worse to bad
Lean to the side
whisper it quiet
the end is in sight to working
all night around the clock
for everything you thought you had
has gone from worse to bad
But it's not my kind of scene oh yeah
footprints on the other side
remind me where I've been oh yeah
I'll watch from the other side
Tell me where I'm
supposed to begin
move out of sight and onto
some life I'm dreaming of
for everything you thought you had
has gone from worse to bad
so I'll just wait and watch the wheels
while you're turning back
But it's not my kind of scene oh yeah
footprints on the other side
remind me where I've been oh yeah
I'll watch from the other side
Pulls me over and it drags me under
Pulls me over and it drags me under
Somebody screaming that the end is nigh
Never seen nobody with hopes so high
Uneasy feeling creeping up on me
Justify a weary trinity
And I can hardly contain my joy
Let me hear just a little bit more
Will its release ever set me free
Creepy feeling easing up on me
And I'm covered in a shroud of mediocrity
No entry to the place where answers lie
It's a language unavailable to you and I
And I can hardly contain my joy
Let me hear just a little bit more
Will its release ever set me free
Does it devour everything I believe
Every fear and superstition I breed
I can hardly contain my
Sliding now - goodbye hesitation and doubt
Sliding down - down the hollow that swallows the rules that I follow
Is there a turnaround?
Will the spirit rise from a corpse that's been rotten' in the ground?
Sliding down - goodbye hesitation and doubt
Sliding down - down the hollow that swallows the rules that I follow
Is there a turnaround?
I creep around slowly and receive from the TV signals about my life
I've no dedication to my medication I'm otherwise occupied
An ambitious plan to bring attention to myself
A cerebral hitman permeates my mental health
But I don't want to be left out so will you take me too
When the supper is handed out there will be room for two
Now I'm flying away
Stupefy and sedate
At my own invitation a new celebration of how I became a man
This whole evolution and manic confusion to unlock and understand
In a past life I'm sure I was a princess then
A princess wife, my hypnotist he took me there
But I don't want to be left out so will you take me too
When the supper is handed out there will be room for two
Now I'm flying away
Stupefy and sedate
Now you show up bright and clear eyed
Now you show up bright and clear eyed
But, but I don't want to be left out so will you take me too
When the supper is handed out there will be room for two
Now I'm flying away
At quarter to nine
My plus one decides to make her arrival
I'll say what I like
At the end of the night for social survival
I'll cut you to size
Then apologise and make an impassioned plea
There were no docken parks
I had to walk in the dark I wasn't myself you see
Here I am again you know me
Here I am again in for free
Missed the backing band you know me
Here I am again in for free
I know I sound trite
But I get off on things like It's their sophomore album
I don't know what I mean
But I'm a part of the scene I know a guy from The Melvins
I came to do a review
I had to wait in the queue I just can't believe it
Don't you know who I am
I work the street paper scam I can't believe you don't read me
Here I am again you know me
Here I am again in for free
Missed the backing band you know me
Here I am again in for free
Here I am again
I was stumbling right by
Like a wreck I came to you
So I staggered through the night
Seeking out your rescue blues
Gonna burn your name right across the sky
So I never forget what the feeling's like
Gonna burn your name right across the sky
So I never forget what the feeling's like
I want every single soul to know
That I love you for what you are
So I sound the bells that praise your precious heart
So tomorrow will arrive
And I burst a broken light
And a spell will hold us back
Shattering like glass
I want every single soul to know
That I love you for what you are
So I sound the bells that praise your precious heart
I want every single soul to know
That I love you for what you are
So I sound the bells that praise your precious heart
(Burn your name right across the sky
So I never forget what the feeling's like) x4
I want every single soul to know
that I love you for what you are
So I sound the bells that praise your precious heart
I want every single soul to know
that I love you for what you are
So I sound the bells that praise your precious heart
Gonna burn your name
Run little rabbit, cant break the habbit for none
Shapes like a rocket and shoots like a pocket gun
Every mothers son has spent a lifetime on the run
One by one and two by two
Our hearts beat a rhythm true
Wave goodbye now baby blue
You're exploding like a star into the gloom
I thought I could shut you in
You said 'Babay let me out'
I thought that I could pick you up and roll you like a dice
There's hitchhikers thumbingon the verge of the lovers highway
But we just roll on by with the top down,the sun's out
I'm so glad when you came along you happened to be going my way
The wheels roll round and round
One by one and two by two
Our hearts beat a rhythm true
Wave goodbye now baby blue
You're exploding like a star in the room
I thought I could shut you in
You said "come on pull me out"
I thought that I could pick you up and roll you like a dice
When im close to you,I could feel it coming in, here they come
They're coming one by one coming two by two
They're coming one by one coming two by two
Yeah,if I ever let you down
If anything should come to bleed you dry or cut you out
Dont turn me away
Yeah I never meant to spin you round
If anybody comes to do you harm or pin you down
Great song.
Not a 100% but close enough.
This is not a song about victory
Its not a song about the relative worth for you or me
Its not a song about letting a sleeping dog lie
But letting you climb too high
I dont wanna go through the detail
You always were the big picture man yourself
But this tran's heading for a derail
No tears damping this farewell
Oh, let me spin a web of words around your room
Trap me in a barrel til you're so confused
That you're not really sure which way is up
how much is too little how much is enough
I dont wanna become a victim
of your charm-offensive million dollar headline
grabbing way
So just wave and smile, you got something to sell
No fears witness this farewell
Oh, let me spin a web of words around your room
Trap me in a barrel til you're so confused
That you're not really sure which way is up
how much is too little how much is enough
Let me spell it out and let the spin of truth
lead you to the music makes it so obscure
That you're not really sure what you're gonna get
how much to remember how much to forget
You're not really sure which way is up
how much is too little how much is enough..
You're not really sure what you're gonna get
how much to remember how much to forget..
Push me right over
And hold me down under the waves
If I'm out breath maybe
I'll recognise my mistakes
Coz nothing I've done yeah
Is worthy of showing to you
It's just meaningless bullshit
And promises all there to you
Coz I need
Somewhere
To begin
Somebody gotta let me in
Colour me with red and gold
Your sweet love has blessed my soul
Colour me with red and gold
Come bless my soul
Well I left the thunder
And rain of my past all behind
When I'm looking back there's
A shadow that falls over my time
Coz nobody knows just
What happened to me there in Spain
Life has turned me right over
And left me to be ever changed
I need
Somewhere
To begin
Somebody gotta let me in
Colour me with red and gold
Your sweet love has blessed my soul
Colour me with red and gold
Come bless my soul
Won't you come back and bless
Won't you come back and bless
Won't you come back and bless
(oh love bless my soul)
Your sweet love
(oh love bless my soul)
Won't you come back and bless
(oh love bless my soul)
Come back and bless
(oh love bless my soul)
Won't you come back and bless
I was stumbling right by
Like a wreck I came to you
So I staggered through the night
Seeking out your rescue blues
Gonna burn your name right across the sky
So I never forget what the feeling's like
Gonna burn your name right across the sky
So I never forget what the feeling's like
I want every single soul to know
That I love you for what you are
So I sound the bells that praise your precious heart
So tomorrow will arrive
In a burst o' broken light
And a spell will hold us back
Shattering like glass
I want every single soul to know
That I love you for what you are
So I sound the bells that praise your precious heart
I want every single soul to know
That I love you for what you are
So I sound the bells that praise your precious heart
Burn your name right across the sky
So I never forget what the feeling's like
Burn your name right across the sky
So I never forget what the feeling's like
Burn your name right across the sky
So I never forget what the feeling's like
Burn your name right across the sky
So I never forget what the feeling's like
I want every single soul to know
That I love you for what you are
So I sound the bells that praise your precious heart
I want every single soul to know
That I love you for what you are
So I sound the bells that praise your precious heart
Gonna burn your name
If you had your time over again
Would you do it all the same?
Down through all the twists and bends
Are there moments you'd erase?
Would you just leave me standing
In the doorway frozen through?
Waiting on the coldest comfort from you
And if your course could be reset,
Would you steer your ship my way?
Or would you sail the wildest stretch
Just to feel the force of the waves?
Would you just leave me waiving
On the dock as you pull away?
Savouring the bitter taste
And if the mirror don't reflect
The illusion you made
You could stop and take a breath
Feel the damages weight
Fade in the silence
If you had your time over again
If you had your time over again
Would you sail the wildest stretch?
I tell you he's a private man
In a public circumstance
He's eyeing off an old doorframe
Looking for a drastic change
It's such a shame this has to end
But things are out of his command
He has no further truth to tell
Now he has absolved himself
He's eyeing off an old doorframe
History secures his name
It's such a shame this has to end
But things are out of his command
There's no more problems to defend
Now he falls so far
I tell you he's a private man
In a public circumstance
He's eyeing off an old doorframe
Looking for a tragic change
It's such a shame this has to end
But things are out of his command
There's no more problems to defend
When he falls so far
When you fall so far
Now he falls so far
What are you looking for this time around
Might need something to bring you to ground
Everything turning me inside and out
What are you looking for this time around
It's coming in and over
It's waiting at your shoulder
You can see we should be together now
Wait for me I'm pulling it together now
What are you looking for this time around
Just keep telling what you have found
All of this turning me upside and down
Look out, Mama,
there's a white boat
comin' up the river
With a big red beacon,
and a flag,
and a man on the rail
I think you'd better call John,
'Cause it don't
look like they're here
to deliver the mail
And it's less than a mile away
I hope they didn't come to stay
It's got numbers on the side
and a gun
And it's makin' big waves.
Daddy's gone,
my brother's out hunting
in the mountains
Big John's been drinking
since the river took Emmy-Lou
So the powers that be
left me here
to do the thinkin'
And I just turned twenty-two
I was wonderin' what to do
And the closer they got,
The more those feelings grew.
Daddy's rifle in my hand
felt reassurin'
He told me,
Red means run, son,
numbers add up to nothin'
But when the first shot
hit the docks I saw it comin'
Raised my rifle to my eye
Never stopped to wonder why.
Then I saw black,
And my face splashed in the sky.
Shelter me from the powder
and the finger
Cover me with the thought
that pulled the trigger
Think of me
as one you'd never figured
Would fade away so young
With so much left undone
Remember me to my love,
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