1.Bubbles
Take an axe to your past
To your family tree
Carve a face from the wood
An effigy
Make wings from the leaves
Hide from the bark
Kindling
for the hair
Rose for his heart
Someone to draw you right
Someone to catch the light
Draw the blue from the skies
into his eyes
Carve the lines on his face
A map of the race
Juice from the root
of a beet for his skin
Set the tides
of the blood
with the pulse of the drum
Someone to draw you right
Someone to catch the light
I'm alive
I'm alive
Wash the boy in the stream
So tenderly
Press his lips to your lips
Give him your breath
He awakes with the weight
of the vision he holds
Sees the rent in time
through which he must fold
Someone to draw you right
Someone to catch the light
I'm alive
I'm alive
Stir the heart with a drum
Kiss smoke in his mouth
Show him signs of a life
That's a whole lot better
And he calls down the rain
Tornadoes & hurricanes
There's a world in his veins
That's a whole lot better
I'm alive
I'm alive
Fingers raised to the sky
A snake for a spine
He's drunk on a life
That's a whole lot better
Teach him songs of the bees
Double helix and honey comb
Play him wind through the leaves
That's a whole lot better
Alive, I'm alive.
2.Hey Ma
Now the towers have fallen
So much dust in the air
It affected your vision
Couldn't see yourself clear
From the fall came such choices
Even worse than the fall
There's this chain of consequences
Within
Without
Action cause and reaction
Never follows to plan
Black swans on your picnic table
Knocking over the jam
Please don't preach me forgiveness
You're hardwired for revenge
War is just about business
Within
Without
Hey ma the boy's in body bags
Coming home in pieces
Hey ma the boy's in body bags
Coming home in pieces
Hey ma the boy's in body bags
Coming home in pieces
Coming home in pieces
War
The dead live on within us
Keep your fingers crossed
We were choking
on the smoke and the dust
And the lives that were lost
Scratch the surface of liberals
There's a beast underneath
Others hiding their Jekylls
Within
Without
Hey ma the boy's in body bags
Coming home in pieces
Hey ma the boy's in body bags
Coming home in pieces
War
I can feel the daylight
I can feel the daylight
Raining on me
Raining on me
I can feel the daylight
I can feel the daylight
Raining on me
Raining on me
3.Waterfall
My mirrors laughing at me,
says boy are you getting old
There's so much junk in your life
what you've got you don't even know
Don't take a phone company
to tell you life's pay as you go
I wonder how much of life
is set up in utero
Under the waterfall
Under the waterfall
Under the waterfall
It's cool and cold and clear
Watching too much TV
I'm an actor in a puppet show
There's so much stuff in my life
no room for me to grow
One day I'm going to break
from my life due south down to Mexico
I'm going to burn down my house
it's the only way to let it go
Under the waterfall
Under the waterfall
Under the waterfall
it's cool and cold and clear
Run your hands
cross the flanks of a horse
Feel the pulse of blood
the heat and the force
It's an antidote to a life
spent on the beat
The beat of concrete
The beat of machines
Of mobile phones and plasma screens
How much junk in my life
do I really need
Under the waterfall
Under the waterfall
Under the waterfall
it's cool and cold and clear
I'm so cynical
Where I need to play
I'm so cynical find another way
I'm so cynical I can't change
One drop is lonely
Two drops ok
Three drops can make a spray.
Four drops get carried away
Dive
Under the waterfall
Under the waterfall
Under the waterfall
It's cool and cold and clear
Under the waterfall
Under the waterfall
Under the waterfall
It's cool and cold and clear
4.Oh My Heart
Adore this life
There is no guarantee
Could end by tomorrow
Adore every fight
An opportunity
To give back what was borrowed
Nothing's sacred
Make it shatter
Nothing's sacred fall apart
Oh my heart
Oh my heart
Come on break me in two
Oh my heart
Oh my heart
Come on break me in two
Bring on the dreams
I'm shaking with relief
Don't miss the darker scenes
These rollercoaster screams
Are breaking my belief
That I should matter
Oh my heart
Oh my heart
Come on break me in two
Oh my heart
Oh my heart
Come on break me in two
Oh my heart
Oh my heart
Come on break me in two
I don't own anything
Just this life living me
No control
Refugee
Just this life
Living me
I don't know anything
Just this life loving me
No control
Refugee
Just this life
Living me
Oh my heart
Oh my heart
Come on break
Come on break
COME ON BREAK
5.Boom Boom
No messing with a sense of humour
Will see you through scrapes
And all shapes of clouds
We're late we should
have got here sooner
You can't rush fate
Or question the Dao
We're too thin to wear black
We're no victim to crack
We're too unique to be cloned
What you don't get you attack
You rely on the laugh track
To get where the punch line explodes
And look who's laughing now
We're laughing out loud
We're laughing
A sound between a cry and scream
We're laughing
Laughing out loud
You wrote us off as part time losers
Wielding an axe to
hide your self doubt
I don't forgive I forget
I can't remember which paper
Somebody answer the phone
The phone is ringing now
We're laughing out loud
We're laughing
A sound between a cry and scream
We're laughing
Laughing out loud
We're still standing, standing tall
We're still standing
We're laughing, laughing and proud
Come and stand with us or fall
Stand or fall
And our world is spinning round
Spinning round
So much faster
And our world is spinning round
Spinning round
So much faster
6.Semaphore
I may as well try semaphore
As words no longer work
This fool was feeling cornered
And he acted like a jerk
He'd tell you he was sorry
If that made good the hurt
It's too late now for sorry
It's too late now for words
We survive
Despite our desire to stray
Hell to pay
Thought you knew
My desires
Innate it's not going away
I hope you're not going away
It's a question of convenience
How pain, with time, will fade
Surrendered to acceptance
Dark night gives way to day
It was meant to be a gesture
That mark across your face
It's too late now for sorry
It's too late now for grace
We survive
Despite our desire to stray
Hell to pay
Thought you knew
My desires
Innate it's not going away
Hell to pay
Thought you knew
Hell to pay
Thought you knew
Thought you knew
Thought you knew
7.Upside
Send seasonal greetings from nowhere
I'm working and playing away
Remember the moment of leaving
Yesterday, yesterday
Roll through these towns
Over seas, over mountains
Lucky to work
When work is scarce
Father must feed
Must provide
He must fountain
Left my heart within your care
Upside: love you
Downside: miss you
I'm here you are there.
Upside: working
Downside: hurting
Hear my echo
Dancing bear
Connected to you by a mobile
What I can't do, I can say
Away from you I'm feeling empty
I am raining, I am grey
Upside: love you
Downside: miss you
I'm here you are there.
Upside: working
Downside: hurting
Hear my echo
Dancing bear
My works about words
And sounds you can taste
Violins and trumpets
Chocolate cakes
Here are some words
Words you can taste
Here are some words
Kissing your face
Upside: love you
Downside: miss you
I'm here you are there.
Upside: working
Downside: hurting
Hear my echo
Dancing bear
8.Whiteboy
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha
Five nights
No sleep
My minds battered
Stock market freefall
Dreams shattered
Lost cause
Pulled up
A sure winner
Made a few bob in a new job
as a serial killer
You wanna talk to me white boy man
You wanna talk to me white boy boy man
You wanna talk to me white boy man
Every night microwaved TV dinners
Mobile phones make her brain shimmer
Don't say the c word
she got the all clear
That jokes bad taste and so dog eared
My mum says I look like Yul Brenner
Too old for Hamlet . Too young for Lear
Got a shaved head lost weight fakir
Got a pierced lip cos
it's still hip to appear queer
You wanna talk to me white boy man
You wanna talk to me white boy boy man
You wanna talk to me white boy man
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha
And I'm all mashed up
Mums droning on and on and on and on
And I'm all mashed up
Mums droning on and on and on and on
She wants this she wants that
She wants bling she wants tat
She wants creams that can cover the cracks
Wedded bliss
Cancer scans
She wants family man
Self esteem
And her old body back
She says
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha
You wanna talk to me white boy man
You wanna talk to me white boy boy man
You wanna talk to me white boy man
9.72
You're going to murder
in the name of God
What kind of God you dreaming of
A God of blood not love
So you can get your 72
Virgins to abuse
I hope they kick like mules
War
My God's bigger than your God
He made the world run out of puff
More important things to do
It's black
It's white
A fight
An elephant grey
There's a universe at stake
We get in the way
Go left
Go right
Straight on
Just do what they say
There's a universe at stake
We get in the way
It's black
It's white
A fight
An elephant grey
There's a universe at stake
We get in the way
Go left
Go right
Straight on
Just do what they say
There's a universe at stake
We get in the way
WAR
10.Of Monsters And Heroes And Men
Stray cats with fish heads
Feeding their litters
Feral kids fight
Over rats tailed from gutters
Bookie mouth brokers
Rotten fruit sellers
Pickpockets ghost through the crowd
He climbs onto boxes
By market stall traders
Toothless and grey haired
Thousand yard stare
He had a vision
Which broke the receiver
Receiving transmission
Surface to air
Either way. I'm in awe of you
Either way. We'll survive.
Conjuring devils,
Angels and demons
Only the children see
shape to his tone
Laughing and crying
His song fell upon us
We buried his treasure
along with the bones
Arms held aloft
A Y to the sky
Innocent witness
He testified
Drained of his purpose
He falls off the quayside
Absorbed by the ocean
Rolled by the tide
Either way. I'm in awe of you.
Either way. We'll survive.
Either way. I'm in awe of you.
Either way. We'll survive.
We'll survive.
Under the power lines
Which crackle and sparkle
Under the freeway
Now mostly rubble
The hungry still gather
To fill up with stories
Of monsters and heroes and men
Under the stars
Which prick us and call us
Connect us to hope
That perfection's within is
Here on the ground
We're reckless and hopeless
Damned by the slip of a pen
Rambling poets
Manic with vision
We are the drivers
yet we feel driven
Moths in the moonlight
Fooled by a flashlight
Caught in a jam jar
Gasping for air
Rambling poets
Manic with vision
We are the drivers
yet we feel driven
Moths in the moonlight
Fooled by a flashlight
Caught in a jam jar
Gasping for air
Rambling poets
Manic with vision
We are the drivers
yet we feel driven
Moths in the moonlight
Fooled by a flashlight
Caught in a jam jar
Gasping for air
Rambling poets
Manic with vision
We are the drivers
yet we feel driven
Moths in the moonlight
Fooled by a flashlight
Caught in a jam jar
Gasping for air
Either way. I'm in awe of you.
Either way. We'll survive.
We'll survive.
11.I Wanna Go Home
In this bar,
In this bar
I am dying
In this bar
In this bar,
I am dying
Disassociated
Keep off the grass
I prefer you naked
This too shall pass
Nuance carefully weighted
Too slow too fast
Too slow too fast
I want to go home, right now.
I want to go home, right now.
I want to go home, right now.
I want to go home.
Kissing is forbidden
Biting leaves marks
Sex is overrated
I need to dance
Calmly understated
Well you always had class
This too shall
Hide is armour-plated
Oblivious to darts
This too shall pass
I want to go home
I want to go home, right now.
I want to go home.
In this bar,
In this bar
I am dying
In this bar
In this bar,
My heart's dying, dying
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