Grand National

John Butler Trio Grand National Lyrics
1.Better Than

All you want is
What you can't have and if ya'
Just look around man
You'll see you got magic
So just, sit back and relax
Enjoy it while you still have it
Don't, look back on life man
And only see tragic because
You can be better than that
Don't let it get the better of you
What could be better than that
Life's not about what's better than
You can be better than that
Don't let it get the better of you
What could be better than that
Life's not about what's better
All the time while ya' lookin' away
There are, things you can do man
There's things you can say
Unto the, the ones your with
With whom you're spending the day
Get your, gaze off tomorrow
And come on and maybe, because
You can be better than that
Don't let it get the better of you
What could be better than that
Life's not about what's better than
You can be better than that
Don't let it get the better of you
What could be better than that
Life's not about what's better
Oh, I know, sometimes
Things can be hard
But you should know, by now
They come and they go so why
Oh why do I
Look to the other side, 'cause I know
The grass is greener
But, just as hard to grow

Life's not about what's better than

All you want is
What you can't have
And if ya' just look around man
You'll see you got magic
So just, sit back and relax
Enjoy it while you still have it
Don't, look back on life man
And only see tragic because
You can be better than that
Don't let it get the better of you
What could be better than that
Life's not about what's better than
You can be better than that
Don't let it get the better of you
What could be better than that
Life's not about what's better
You can be better than that
Don't let it get the better of you
What could be better than that
Life's not about what's better than
You can be better than that
Don't let it get the better of you
What could be better than that
Life's not about what's better


2.Daniella

You light me up little girl like the 4th of july
I love you more than every single star man in the sky
You are the best damn thing that ever happened to me
Want to take you home start making family
You are a damn fine lady like no other
Want to introduce you to my father and my mother
I am damn happy you want to be my lover
Can't wait to get you home and get you under the covers
Daniella be my cinderella
Won't you come around and be my baby
Daniella, don't you remember won't you come
Daniella
Daniella
Daniella
I remember the day i asked
Your parents for your hand
Nearly knocked them off their feet
They could not hardly stand
The same day i asked you be my wife to be
I said m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m marry me
I said i promise to love you and treat you right
Give you the proper respect you deserve
Every day and night
Give you good good lovin' 'til the morning light
And i promise we will never ever
Ever fight, yeah right yeah
Daniella be my cinderella
Won't you come around and be my baby
Daniella, don't you remember won't you come

You light me up little girl like the 4th of july
I love you more than every single star man in the sky
You are the best damn thing that ever happened to me
Want to take you home start making family
You are a damn fine lady like no other
Want to introduce you to my father and my mother
I'm so damn happy you want to be my lover
Can't wait to get you home and get you under the covers
Daniella, sweet as sin
Won't you come around and be my baby
Daniella, don't you remember won't you come
Daniella
Daniella
Daniella
Daniella
Daniella
Daniella
Daniella
Daniella
Daniella


3.Funky Tonight

Now i dont want to argue
i dont want to fight
and if theres something wrong
yes you know im gonna try to make it right
i love you you love me
we be one family tonight
so get right over here
and lets get down get funky to night
'Cause you are my queen
and there aint no doubt about it
and if you want ill tell the world
yes you know ill shout it
the way you walk talk move
yeah girl get me high as a kite
so get right ove here
and lets get down get funky tonight
tonight
whats your name
lets go back to when we first met
back in 1999, Appreciate
before you knew i was yours and you mine

ooooooowooooooo
ooooooowooooooo
ooooooowooooooo
ooooooowooooooo
and now i turn the lights down
low 'n put the steario on
put on our favourite record
by Aerosmith and Louie Armstron

take you to our living room
dance floor and hold you tight
i guarentee you and me gonnaa
get down funky tonight
i guarentee you and me gonna
get down funky tonight
i guarentee you and me gonna
get down funky tonight
whats your name
lets go back to when we first met
back in 1999 Appreciate
before you knew i was yours
and you knew you were mine
whats your name
lets go back to when we first met
back in 1999 Appreciate
before you knew i was yours and you mine


4.Caroline

Got your eyes open, but you cannot see
Got what you want, do you got what you need?
The one day you see something you cannot bear
Telling you girl, yes you better beware
Her papa loved her so much you could see
Loved her too much if you know what I mean
So, she left home young, Yeah she moved town to town
Looking for love that she never found

She played it hard and yes she played it rough
Made her feel safe and it made her feel tough
And rock by rock she built those walls everyday
Built herself a tower so far away
And from up high in that castle
She knew no one could get too close to touch
And if life and death were such a game
Why did they all make such a fuss?
And if birds could fly high over their troubles
She gonna find some of her own wings and fly
And no one could convince or pay her double
Or tell her she was too young to die
Oh Caroline, Caroline


5.Good Excuse

All around I see raining
Things don't seem to go my way
Got a dark cloud that, hanging
And it seems to follow me

Oh won't you just wake up
feel the humming
This cruel world is killing you
better start running
Catch up with your life,
catch on up
Before the whole thing is through

Have you once? Have you twice?
Have you even considered
it be really good for you
To go out and go on
take another better look around
You are just another white boy
Thinking you'e so hardcore
Take step outside see
what's shaking in the real world
Go take a step outside see
what's shaking in the real world
Go take a step outside see
what's shaking in the real world

But you don't know
how my heart laments
I really got a good excuse
to complain
My parents got divorced
Can't heal the pain
And now there is only cheap regrets
I guess that's just the way it be
Is it the world or how I see me
Boy now you are really,
really bugging
Yes you are bugging me,
can't you just shut right up
Your cup is overflowing,
overflowing
And you think it is indeed
You don't even know what side
you are fighting for
Boy won't you turn your game boy off
Start pretending
it's you against the world
I am sick and I am tried of hearing
I really got a good excuse to complain
My parents got divorced
Can't heal the pain
Go take a step outside
see what's shaking in the real world
Go take a step outside
see what's shaking in the real world
Go take a step outside
see what's shaking in the real world
Go take a step outside
see what's shaking in the real world

Go take a step outside
see what's shaking in the real world
Go take a step outside
see what's shaking in the real world
Go take a step outside
see what's shaking in the real world
Go take a step outside
see what's shaking in the real world


6.Used To Get High

I used to get high for a living
Believing everything that
i saw on my tv
I used to get high for a living
Eating all the bullshit
food that they sold me
I used to get high for a living
Thinking that my destiny
was out of my control
I used to get high for a living
There's lots of different reasons
and i'll tell you so
Super size, large fries,
big mac, coca cola
Go on man, pick your poison
Speed, weed, ecstacy, LSD
Man, it don't bother me
cos we're all on something
Caffeine, cigarettes, alcohol
You know i'm clawing at the walls
trying to get my fix
Prozac, ADD tablets, coke, smack
Now you know i am turning tricks cos
I used to get high for a living
Believing everything that
i saw on my tv
I used to get high for a living
Eating all the bullshit
food that they sold me

Yeah, that they sold me

Escape, can't wait all
trying to get away
From this place man
that we're feeling
Can't deal, can't feel what's real
All trying to conceal
all this time we're stealing
No doubt, the route you're on
Can't find the clout
that you've been needing
'Til then my friend you must contend
With the monster that you're feeding
I used to get high for a living
Believing everything
that i saw on my tv
I used to get high for a living
Eating all the bullshit
food that they sold me
I used to get high for a living
Thinking that my destiny
was out of my control
I used to get high for a living
There's lots of different reasons
and i'll tell you so

Got links of the cheney
Getting crazy,
getting lazy with their
foreign relations
Starting wars, closing doors
Trying to bring about one quicker,
man, revelations
Economic rational
calling fouls with the workers
Just trying to make it pay
Cost cutting, head butting
Big business do what they like
and you do what they say
What's wrong get along,
just prolong all the thoughts
You got going on, on the inside
Appease, stand at ease,
just try to please
All the apathy that
you're trying to hide
How now brown cow
Did we get from this standing place......
And now we're kneeling
'Til then my friend you must
contend with the monster
that you're feeding
I used to get high for a living
Believing everything that
i saw on my tv
I used to get high for a living
Eating all the bullshit
food that they sold me
I used to get high for a living
Thinking that my destiny
was out of my control
I used to get high for a living
There's lots of different reasons
and i'll tell you so
I used to get high for a living..
I used to get high for a living
Believing everything that
i saw on my tv
I used to get high for a living
Eating all the bullshit
food that they sold me
I used to get high for a living
Thinking that my destiny
was out of my control
I used to get high for a living
There's lots of different reasons
and i'll tell you so


7.Gov Did Nothing

Way on down where they've been forgotton
City just sinking with the whole world watching
Wading waste deep in water,
living on my roof in the land of forgotton
Hey, to the deaf giant with
the big muscles why ya moving so slow
Con, conquer and dividing,
hole in the bucket got nothing to show

G be indiana jones-ing
Digging up the east stealing dinosaur bones-ing
Hey, he don't dream of stopping
Chasing his tail, trying to find Bin Laden
Hell, is what he living
It's not what you get, it's bout what ya giving
Hey, and i know you won't admit it
Ya stepped in the puddle and you know what was in it

Another storm coming, you better cover head
Shit gonna hit the fan, Gov did nothin'
Oh my god, and the Gov did nothin'
Woah Gov did nothin'
Oh my god, and the Gov did nothin'
Woah Gov did nothin'
Now i don't wish to offend
No i don't wish to start a fight
But do you really think that the Gov would do nothin'
If all those people were white
Hey, don't tell me you know the answer
Stranger than fiction and it don't need romancing
Hey and he think they're the sinners
He caught up in the race and he think he the winner
Forgotton for way too long
Another storm coming, you better cover head
Shit gonna hit the fan, Gov did nothin'
Another storm coming, you better cover head
Shit gonna hit the fan, Gov did nothin'
Oh my god, the Gov did nothin'
Woah Gov did nothin'
Oh my god, and the Gov did nothin'
Woah Gov did nothin'
John Butler Trio - Gov Did Nothin'


8.Groovin' Slowly

Beautiful woman, so sexy
Come shake that bottom oh,
over to me
Feel that one drop, feel that skank
Brother B playing that hip-hop
It's better than a, money in the bank
Lights are low, moon is high
I want you to know
That you're the brightest star in my sky and
I'm groovin' slowly
With my woman
Groovin' slowly
With my wo-man
DJ play that music
All night long
Play that funky kingston
You know it's our, our favourite song
Feel that back beat
Feel that groove
Got my baby on the dancefloor
She doin all her, her favourite moves
I want you to know girl
I want you to feel
I want to show you
That my love is real
I want you to see girl
You're the brightest star that shines
Even though there is no forever
I'm gonna love you 'til the end of time cos i
I'm groovin' slowly
With my woman
Groovin' slowly
With my wo-man
I'm groovin' slowly
With my woman
Groovin' slowly

Beautiful woman, so sexy
Come shake that bottom oh,
over to me girl
Feel that one drop, feel that skank
Brother B playing that hip-hop
It's better than a, money in the bank
Lights are low, moon is high
I want you to know
That you're the brightest star in my sky and
I'm groovin' slowly
With my woman
Groovin' slowly
With my wo-man
I'm groovin' slowly
With my woman
Groovin' slowly

Yes your the one
And i'm the one
So we can be together and do what we like
You be the bomb
And i'm the sun
And you could be the sky and i will be whatever
Your sure to be
Your bonified
And everyone around can just do what they like
Your so devine
I told your friends
I'll be the one for you until the very end


9.Devil Running

A sun does rise in distance lands
Tears run and fires burning
He finds first place,
with dirty hands
He graduates man with our/without learning
Agenda set so long ago
This son's a puppet with a master
The hands stand still right by his side
Middle finger on the button of disaster

And most of us we stand and watch
like a lady getting handbag stolen
It's time to chase, chase them criminals
I see the devil and the devil is running

That business ties turn out sour
Back stab man nothing forgotten
And in an unforgotten hour
Seeds fall from an apple rotten
Now hate and fear
Have their own way
And don't the scum
just love the distraction
Black blood will need to be lanced
And when it's found you
just blame the guilty faction
And now it's time not just to watch
like a lady getting handbag stolen
It's time to chase, chase them criminals
I see the devil and the devil is running
And now it's time not just to watch
like a lady getting handbag stolen
It's time to chase, chase them criminals
I see the devil and the devil is running


And now it's time not just to watch
like a lady getting handbag stolen
It's time to chase, chase them criminals
I see the devil and the devil is running
And now it's time not just to watch
like a lady getting handbag stolen
It's time to chase, chase them criminals
I see the devil and the devil is running


10.Losing You

There are things in this life I
would rather not sacrifice.
You girl I cannot live without
and you know there's no doubt that
All I mind's losing you.

I don't mind losing sleep
Pray the lord my soul to keep
I'll get plenty of rest when I am dead
but till then won't you share my bed
cuz all I mind's losing you

All I mind's losing you

And I don't mind losing money
There's nothin this life owes me
I've been given morethan I can receive
But for you there's no receipt
So all I mind's losing you

All I mind's losing you

I don't mind growin o-old
Losing teeth and going bald
Not as handsome as I ever was
But you love me just because
All I mind's losing you

All I mind's losing you

There are things in this life I
would rather not sacrifice.
You girl I cannot live without
and you know there's no doubt that
All I mind's losing you

All I mind's losing you

All I mind's losing you


11.Nowhere Man

I'm in, and I'm out
Alien from somewhere else
Don't know what the hell
I be yelling about
But from here and there
belong nowhere
Seem so many northern man
Now things don't seem to be the same
But they are some how
Cause all my life I lived on the outside
But now I'm in, but in nowhere
Nowhere Man...
Strangely enough I'm more
like lawn trees
I love those forests
but the lawn better suits me but
I love to share just like the pollen loves to be free
And flying in through the air
nowhere better suits me
Somewhere down deep inside in me
I guess I always wanted to
be part of that beat?
And now I found that in my family
And now I'm happy just to be
Nowhere Man...


12.Fire In The Sky

Fire in the sky,
outta the blue and into the red depths
Time for you and I to try to fall asleep
in the bed they've made us
All came crumblin' down tears
in her eyes as it rained confusion
The whole world has changed

I don't understand
How one can kill a man
In the name of peace
That's ridiculous

They say eye for an eye so they fire
in the sky and they come outta nowhere
Time for you and I to turn on
the big screen see what's happenin'
And as those children die pawns
in the game of collateral damage
The whole world goes mad

Standing here on quick sand
The more we fight we sink
And vengeance gives us hope
At least that's what we think
At least that's what we think, coz
As we make amends by
Getting our revenge
We sort nothing out
Just add to the doubt
And with God on both sides
Death is justified
Whatever the name
Then we're all to blame

So as the spirits fly
To honour those who've past
We've got to get along
While the time still lasts
Bury the hatchet deep
So we all can weep
And heal all this pain
So, so we can live again
So, so we can live again coz
As we make amends by
Getting our revenge
We sort nothing out
Just add to the doubt
And with God on both sides
Death is justified
Whatever the name
Then we're all to blame
I don't understand
How one can kill a man
In the name of peace
That's ridiculous
But I understand
That I will defend
My family from
Both sides of misery

So, we !
So, we !
So, we !


13.Gonna Take It

Smile your lovely smile
And tell me of tomorrows for a while
And hold my hand
And tell me, tell me, tell me

When to stand/understand

I know your name
And there ain't no one else
I trust now, with this shame
So, so come on open up your heart
And I will take it
back to the beginning, I will

Yes I am
Gonna take it,
gonna take it,
gonna take it
right back from the start
Gonna take it,
gonna take it,
gonna take it
right back from the start

Yes I am weary and I am torn
Been fighting a war that started before,
yes I was born
And now before it tears my heart clean apart
This is my complication, this is me

She said taste the spice
Don't just hang it up in the corner
where you think it looks nice
And say what needs to be said
Coz your health man is your wealth,
and you're a long time dead
Yes I am
Gonna take it,
gonna take it,
gonna take it
right back from the start
Gonna take it,
gonna take it,
gonna take it
right back from the start
Gonna take it,
gonna take it,
gonna take it
right back from the start
Gonna take it,
gonna take it,
gonna take it
right back from the start