1.After Everything
Lyricist:Steve John Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Guy Gerard Powles,
Martin H Willson-piper
Now that it's over I found myself fleeting
The sound permeated all directions at once
I never said goodbye to the family, lovers
Brothers and daughters, the rest of the bunch
It seems so strange that the things I was chasing
Have all evaporated like a distant dream
Petty ambition, petty obstruction
Something in between
I really thought it would go on forever
Never believed they would sever the ties
All of the questions remaining unanswered
A stranger's reflection in a stranger's eyes
Here is a child playing in a garden
Here is an old man with a broken heart
Here comes a train to take you away
It all goes 'round and 'round and comes back to the start
I was never really sure what I was waiting for
When the moment came I was looking away
Obsessed with a past, scared of the future
Never took the time to be here today
And I really thought it would go on forever
Never believed they would sever the ties
All of the questions remaining unanswered
A stranger's reflection in a stranger's eyes
After everything now this happens
It's not a grand illusion, it's a stupid little trick
The show must go on, these people have paid
You're standing in the wings feeling kinda sick
Never really sure what you were waiting for
When the moment came you just couldn't choose
The fog weeps down over the marine city
Standing backstage trying to pull on your shoes
I really thought it would go on forever
Never believed they would sever the ties
All of the questions remaining unanswered
A stranger's reflection in a stranger's eyes
2.The Awful Ache
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles, Marty Willson-piper
Esmerelda falls in love every Saturday
And on Sunday morning don't remember a thing
And the gringos are all saints of the latter day, that's the way
And it takes a little pain out of the sting
Holy water tastes as sweet as wine
Holy wine tastes just like blood
She's drinking for loss, for the man on the cross
She says no more, the awful ache
And in her bedroom there's a mirror there
Sometimes it don't reflect a thing
And from the street he sees her silhouette
And he can't forget
That her kisses are as sweet as wine
And her kisses taste like myrrh
Her love is lost like the man on the cross
And no more, the awful ache
Esmerelda walks on down to the cemetery
And he's waiting for her in the shade
With the angels and the sad old trees, patiently
But she walks right past his grave
She's crying for loss, for the man on the cross
She says no more, the awful ache
She's crying for loss and the man on the cross
She says no more, the awful ache
3.Song For The Asking
Lyricist:Steve John Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Guy Gerard Powles,
Martin H Willson-piper
I am a sailor on the water, did not find me through the dark
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know where you go
I don't know, I don't know why I loved you so
You said it was alright, it stayed with me all night
I don't care, I don't care, I don't care where you are
I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care who you
are
You said it was too hard, you took out your trump card
Song for the asking, song for you obviously
Song for a singer, song for a B movie
Song for the asking, song for you and me
I don't think, I don't think, I don't think I've ever been to
the brink
I don't think, I don't think, I don't think I'll have another
drink
You said it was enough then you called my bluff
Song for the asking, song for you especially
Song for the singer, song for a B movie
Song for the asking, song for you and the sea
I don't guess, I don't guess the answer will be 'Yes'
I don't guess, I don't guess, I don't guess you can't wait to
undress
You said it was ready, I held myself steady
Song for the asking, song for you especially
Song full of nothing, song for the royalty
Song for the asking, song for you and the sea
4.Night Friends
Lyricist:Steve John Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Guy Gerard Powles,
Martin H Willson-piper
Night friends
Coming through the mirror
Sliding down the light
Night friends
Arriving in the garden
Stay with me tonight
Night friends
Watching, you've been watching from a second in our century
As the minutes gain momentum like a bird, man
Watching, you've been waiting
For the other worlds to sync up to our own
Reaching, you've been reaching through the nonexistent surface
It separates our doubles from this soul man
Trying, we've been trying
To make contact with nothings all alone
Night friends
Coming through the mirror
Sliding down the light
Night friends
Arriving in the garden
Stay with me tonight
Night friends
Watching, you've been watching from a second in our century
As the minutes gain momentum like a bird, man
Waiting, we've been waiting
For other worlds to sync up to our own
Reaching, you've been reaching through the nonexistent surface
It separates our doubles from the soul man
Trying, we've been trying
To make contact with nothings all alone
Loving, we've been loving but sometimes hate is better
You can't keep out the killers with love, man
Hating, we've been hating
But only love can heal up the hate
(All right)
5.Seen It Coming
Lyricist:Steven John Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Guy Gerard Powles,
Martin Willson-piper
Hey man, think it through now, why don't you stay for a while
Eve and Aurora gonna come on over
Know they're gonna make, make you smile
And cool your heels, I know just how it feels
You should have seen it coming
Been coming for some time
You've got your broken heart
And I've got mine
Yeah, she said it's over but it was over right from the start
You ain't gonna tell me that you were a saint
Every time you two were apart, you blew your chance
So face the music and dance
You should have seen it coming
Been coming for some time
You've got your broken heart
I've got mine
You've got your broken heart
I've got mine
You should have seen it coming
Some time
You've got your broken heart
And I feel fine, talk about it
(Feel so fine, feel so fine)
6.Nothing Seeker
Lyricist:Steve John Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Guy Gerard Powles, Marty
Willson-piper
I'm sorry if I come across as thoughtless
I'm happy if I come across at all
It's useless when the ending becomes endless
I'm early 'cause there's nowhere else to go
I hope you don't think that I'm angry
I hope you don't think that I'm wrong
I hope you don't think that I'm frightened
I hope you think that I belong
It's funny that I seem to be so careless
I'm certain that it's easy to be sure
It's always when the night has become outrageous
It's not as though we ever lived before
I hope you don't think that I'm brutal
I hope you don't think that I'm dumb
I hope you don't think that I'm different
I hope you think that I'm welcome
I'm sorry if I come across as thoughtless
I'm happy if I come across at all
It's useless when the ending becomes endless
I love you 'cause there's nowhere else to go
7.Song In Space
Lyricist:Steve John Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Guy Gerard Powles,
Martin H Willson-piper
You, you wake up late
Yet you're asleep inside a dream
Then you feel something
Superimposed upon your thoughts
They say that in the future
Every man and woman will be a star
And everybody's shining
And it's blinding and they don't see too far
You can't spend the whole song in space
Next you move outside
You feel grey rain upon your skin
In the muted hush
The raindrops crash, the seconds roar
They say we're all assembled
From the tiny pieces of the red shift
The elevator's later
But it's swifter to just wait for a lift
You can't spend the whole song in space
Yeah
Life, the new frontier
An interlude eternity
You, you drink some wine
You had a smoke, you got to smile
They say that at the speed of light
The particles all get quite excited
But out here in this universe
It's bursting and we're all so delighted
You can't spend the whole song
You can't spend the whole song in space
You can't spend the whole song in space
You can't spend the whole song in space
You can't spend the whole song in space
In space
8.Summer
Lyricist:Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Guy Gerard Powles, Marty
Willson-piper
At the sea in the sand
You were free to my hand
As we touched behind the wind
Left so much outside our skin
You never stay in all four dimensions
You never ever return when you're gone
One more summer in surf city
Solarized recollection
Well, the sun and its rays
Are as one throughout space
And my mind's always on you
First a light, I'll break through
You never stay in all four dimensions
You never ever return when you're gone
One lonely summer in surf city
A solarized recollection
What a night to start writing about this
Tall palms grasp the summer clouds
And anchor the stormy sky to the ground
Outside the ghosts of Jaguars and Impalas
Roll along the storm roads
Leaving damp marks where they had passed
The air it hisses as they go
It stands aside with a decisive sigh
It reaches for this back fleeting
This night it aches with memory
9.All the Young Dudes
Lyricist:David Bowie
Well, Billy rapped all night about his suicide
How he kick it in the head when he reached twenty-five
Speed jive don't want to stay alive when you're twenty-five
And Wendy's stealing clothes from marks and sparks
And Freedy's got spots from ripping off the stars from his face
Funky little boat race
Now, the television man is crazy
Saying we're juvenile, deliquent wrecks
Oh man, I need TV when I got T-Rex
Oh brother you guessed
All the young dudes carry the news
Boogaloo dudes carry the news
All the young dudes carry the news
Boogaloo dudes carry the news
Now Lucy looks sweet 'cause she dresses like a queen
And she can kick like a mule, it's a real mean team
But we can love, oh yeah, we can love
And my brother's back at home with his Beatles and his Stones
We never got it off on that revolution stuff
What a drag, too many snags
Now I've drunk a lot of wine and I'm feeling fine
Gonna race some cat to bed
Is this concrete all around or is it in my head?
Oh brother you you guessed
All the young dudes carry the news
Boogaloo dudes carry the news
All the young dudes carry the news
Boogaloo dudes carry the news
All the young dudes
(Hey, dudes)
Carry the news
(Stand up)
Boogaloo dudes
(I want to kiss you)
Carry the news
All the young dudes
(I want to talk to you)
Carry the news
(I want to see you, dudes)
Boogaloo dudes carry the news
(I want to kiss you)
All the young dudes
(Stand up)
Carry the news
(I want to kiss you)
Boogaloo dudes carry the news
(I want to talk to you, dudes)
All the young dudes
(Stand up)
Carry the news
(What dudes)
Boogaloo dudes
(I want to kiss you)
Carry the news
(I want to see you, dudes)
All the young dudes
(I want to talk to you)
Carry the news
(What dudes)
Boogaloo dudes
(I want to kiss you)
Carry the news
(I want to kiss you)
All the young dudes
(Yeah, do you know what I'm talking about?)
Carry the news
(I want to kiss you)
Boogaloo dudes carry the news
(Stand up)
All the young dudes
(I want to talk to dudes)
(I want to see you)
10.Maya
Lyricist:Steven John Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Guy G Powles, Marty
Willson-piper
Where, how did you notice?
Why, what can't you see?
Yeah, if that's all the difference it makes
Yeah, it makes it all different for me
Now you're lost in this moment
Now outside of time
Now, now you remember it all
Haa, now that reminds me
Well, what can you do now?
Where everything's done now?
Ehh, we really need something out there
Ahh, this is just Maya to me
11.Hiroshima Mon Amour
Lyricist:Warren Cann, William Currie, Dennis Leigh
Somehow we drifted off too far
Communicate like distant stars
Splintered voices down the phone
The sunlit dust, the smell of roses drifts, oh no
Someone waits behind the door
Hiroshima mon amour
Riding inter-city trains
Dressed in European gray
Riding out to echo beach
A million memories in the trees and sands, oh no
How can I ever let them go?
Hiroshima mon amour
Deep beneath the autumn lake
Where only echoes penetrate
Walk through Polaroids of the past
Futures fused like shattered glass, the suns so low
Turns our silhouettes to gold
Hiroshima mon amour
12.Silver Machine
Lyricist:Robert Newton Calvert, S Mac Manus
I, I just took a ride on a silver machine and still feeling mean
Oh, do you want to ride, see yourself going by
The other side of the sky? You gotta know where I've been
And it flies sideways through time, it's an electric line
To all the zodiac signs
I got a silver machine
(Silver machine)
I got a silver machine
(Silver machine)
I got a silver machine
(Silver machine)
In my silver machine
It flies out of a dream, it's antiseptically clean
You gotta know what I mean
Oh, do you want to ride, see yourself going by
The other side of the sky in a silver machine?
I got a silver machine
(Silver machine)
I got a silver machine
(Silver machine)
I got a silver machine
(Silver machine)
In my silver machine
I just took a ride on a silver machine and still feeling mean
Oh, do you want to ride, see yourself going by
The other side of the sky? You gotta know where I've been
I got a silver machine
(Silver machine)
I got a silver machine
(Silver machine)
I got a silver machine
(Silver machine)
In my silver machine
Silver machine
Silver machine
Silver machine
Silver machine
13.Man
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles, Marty Willson-piper
We press on and on
Funny how the future's always waiting for you
When the day has gone
We hide away
Shadows that stalk you
The wind that calls your name
Voices in the thunder
Don't understand what they're saying
We build monuments
To celebrate our glorious dead now
Iron and cement
Above their tombs
We cast out our nets
Drag up the struggling contents surely
We must not forget
That hunger looms
Shadows that stalk you
Shadows that stalk you
(The wind that calls your name)
Shadows that stalk you
Child cries and he learns
And doubt returns
In the darkest hours
We wrestle with our ancestors
We resist their power
The powers of being
In the coldest night
Huddled 'round the dying embers
Praying for the light
Might set us free
Fingers that soothe you
Shadows that stalk you
(The jokes that make you sleep)
Intricate harness
Shadows that stalk you
(The harvest that you reap)
Man stalls, he flies
Man falls and he rise
We press on and on
Funny how the future's always waiting for you
When the day has gone
We hide away
14.Reward
Lyricist:Steve John Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Guy Gerard Powles,
Martin H Willson-piper
The waking sun on a desert plain
The polar star in the sky again
Your open eyes beam out the surprise from them
You're our reward
So unpredictable, so delectable
So undetectable, unsuspectable
You're our reward
There's nothing else after all
You're our reward
Do I still hear her laughter? Come see every laughter
Nothing still matters, the future's scattered
If it's the tactic it's just fantastic
Pure elation, simply anticipation
It's the suggestion, the eternal question
Wasn't feeling possible here and now
It is both of us after all still
Waiting and wanting not knowing what for
The meaning we're standing outside the door
Of everyday living, always the feeling was more
You're our reward
So unpredictable, so delectable
So undetectable, unsuspectable
You're our reward
You're our reward, I still hear her laughter
You're our reward, nothing else matters
You're our reward, if it's the tactic
You're our reward, pure elation
You're our reward, it's the suggestion
You're our reward of the eternal question
Do I still hear her laughter?
Nothing else matters, the future's scattered
If it's the tactic it's just fantastic
Pure elation, anticipation
It's the suggestion to know the eternal question
To know the eternal question
To know the eternal question
To know the eternal question
To know the eternal question
To know the eternal question
15.Tear It All Away
Lyricist:Steve Kilbey
People say to see is to believe
Then they just believe in that they can perceive
What they see is not the total view
Filtered between the me and you
But I'm trying so hard just to tell you I care
And I've wanted so long to tear it all away
Tear it all away
People say, 'Well you just had to be there'
And all the time you know they've never been there
And it makes me sad to sit and think
All those empty souls are nearly at the brink
But I'm trying so hard just to open my eyes
To seeing some things that tear it all away
Tear it all away
People grow up and learn to drive some car
But I did that and it doesn't get you far
The things you want are never to be found
And in the end it's all some run-around
But I'm trying so hard just to keep to myself
The things that I hope will tear it all away
Tear it all away
I thought you would know
Oh I thought you would know
People say they think that they are sure
But they turn away and don't go back no more
What they saw was not the perfect sight
Just their own face reflected in the night
But I'm trying so hard just to tell you it's now
And I'm gonna keep on trying to tear it all away
Tear it all away
16.Too Fast For You
Lyricist:Steve Kilbey
Come down, another day
Morning streaked on a perspex screen
The screaming beaked, blackbirds peck
The wrecked eyes of last week's lies
The sandman gets shallow sleep
He tries to weep for the grown-up things
One last peep for policemen
Arresting in the woodland side so steep
Oh, and I hope I'm not going too fast for you
And don't believe it when they say it's over
It's not over
There's an ice age due on Wednesday
Overcast sky, blocks of fortune
The bridges sigh, the sweethearts are blank
They never thank you, know they never even try
Winking paperboy, paperwork
Overloaded portrait
Let it jerk you back to yesterday
That's where the curtains start to fray
Oh, and I hope I'm not going too fast for you
And don't believe it when they say it's over
It's not over
Oh, and I hope I'm not going too fast for you
And don't believe it when they say it's over
It's not over
Fast for you, too fast for you
Fast for you, too fast for you
Fast for you, too fast for you
Fast for you, too fast for
17.Decadence
Lyricist:Kevin Cawley Ayers
Watch her out there on display
Dancing in her sleepy way
And all her visions start to play
The icicles of our decay
Marlene, drink it to Marlene
Fading flowers in her hair
She's suffering from wear and tear
She lies in waterfalls of dreams
And doesn't question what it means
Marlene, we drink it to Marlene
And all along the desert shore
She wanders further evermore
The only thing that's left to try
She says to live I have to die
Marlene, we drink it to Marlene
Marlene, we drink it to Marlene
She whispers sadly, 'Well, I might'
And holds herself so very tight
Then jumping from an unknown height
She merges with the liquid night
Marlene, Marlene
We drink it to Marlene
Her lovers wrap her mist in furs
And tell her what she has is hers
When they take her by the hand
She slips back in the desert sand
Our Marlene, we drink it to Marlene, Marlene
What she needs is made of glass
And lovers worship as they pass
And each one says, 'Well, now she's mine'
But all drink solitary wine
Marlene, Marlene
Fare thee well, fare thee well
Marlene, Marlene
Fare thee well, fare thee well, fare thee well
Marlene, Marlene
Fare thee well, fare thee well
18.It's All Too Much
Lyricist:George Harrison
It's all too much
It's all too much
It's all too much
When I look into your eyes
Your love is there for me
The deeper that I go inside
The more there is to see
It's all too much for me to take
The love that's shining all around you
And everywhere it's what you make
For me to take it's all too much
Floating down the sea of time
From life to life with me
Makes no difference where you are
Or where you'd like to be
It's all too much for me to take
The love that's shining all around you
And all the world is birthday cake
So take a piece but not too much
Set me on a silver sun
Where I know that I'm free
Show me that I'm everywhere
And get me home for tea
It's all to much for me to see
A love that's shining all around here
The more I learn, the less I know
And what I do is all too much
It's all too much for me to take
The love that's shining all around here
And everything is what you make
For me to take it's all too much
We're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take you higher
Good God
With your long blond hair
And your eyes of brown
With your long blond hair
And your eyes of brown
Too much
Too much
Too much
...
19.Invisible
Lyricist:Steven Kilby, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles, Marty Wilson-piper
Sitting in the shadows and the evening oscillating
Feeling light and feeling like it's a-gonna change
Hoping for a moment for some gentle consolation
Waiting at the station where the treats are out of range
She's sitting in a carriage being jostled by the motion
Overhearing conversation, the grinding of the steel
Scenes fly past the curtains that the darkness paints uncertain
And memories are meaningless, her motives are concealed
Through countrysides and mountains and the village by the ocean
Where the stranger's waiting for her in the plushness of his car
Winding and rewinding, pushing all directions
Till the limit of implosions which is never very far
All I ever wanted to see was just invisible to me
Out there in the distance the horizon meets resistance
The summer falls down drunken on the longest of the days
Rushing past the ruins of the churches and the Porches
Reflected in the mirrors and the echoes in the haze
He drums impatient fingers on the chrome and on the leather
Running through the reasons in the corners of his mind
Sifting tiny diamonds on his shaky mental islands
Where he often claims asylum from the structures left behind
The wind blows through the headstones and the milestone's making
music
The melody reminds us the girl's still far away
Asleep in her compartment, dreaming of the darkness
As the train speeds on the darkness to the approaching day
All I ever wanted to see was just invisible to me
All I ever wanted to see was just invisible to me
All I ever wanted to see was just invisible to me
All I ever wanted to see was just invisible to me
All I ever wanted to see was just invisible to me
20.Cortez The Killer
Lyricist:Neil Young
He came dancin' across the water
With galleons and his guns
Lookin' for the new world
A palace in the sun
On the shore lay Montezuma
With his cocoa leaves and his pearls
In his halls he often wondered
With the secrets of the worlds
And his subjects gathered 'round him
Like the leaves around a tree
In their coats of many colors
For the angry gods to see
And the women all were beautiful
The men were tall and strong
He offered life in sacrifice
So that others could go on
War was just a legend
Hate was quite unknown
And the people worked together
And they lifted many stones
And they carried them to the flatlands
And they died along the way
And raised up with their bare hands
What we still can't do today
And I know she's living there
She loves me to this day
I still don't know where
Or how I lost my way
He came dancin' across the water
Cortez, Cortez
What a killer
What a killer
21.Sealine
Lyricist:Steven John Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Guy Gerard Powles,
Martin H Willson-piper
The minute the sting penetrates your finger
You're strapped to the pain like an angry stranger
The moment the rain freezes in the gutter
Caught the flaming birds and their hideous matter
The second the claw lifts up your chin
I'm alone in your head and you can't get in
Somebody said that it's all for you
It's a miracle, let it alter you
But I will not follow you to the sealine
Somebody went and turned it on for you
Revelation baby, you're beautiful
But I will not follow you to the sealine
The instant the transfer hits your account
And it's deep in the black, and just one way out
The morning the storm rolled to the coast
We were down to the shake, and our silent throats
The evening the trees lash at the window
The roots crawl up, strangle the candles
Somebody said that it's all for you
It's a miracle, let it alter you
But I will not follow you to the sealine
Somebody went and turned it on for you
Revelation baby, you're beautiful
But I will not follow you to the sealine
(To the sealine)
It's a miracle, let it alter you
Revelation baby, you're beautiful
To the sealine
22.A Different Man
Lyricist:Steven John Kilbey
Inside himself
He runs to look in the mirror
And the face that stares right back
Has never been any clearer
But look at the doubt in his eyes
He's not the one to blame
It was a different man
You know he's never been here
You can be so close
You can be so near
It was a different man
Playing different cards
You can be so soft
You can be so hard
Inside himself
He follows the wrong directions
Perfect English words all right
But with the wrong inflections
But look at the dust at his feet
He's not the one she loves
It was a different man
You know he's never been found
You can be so up
You can be so down
It was a different man
You know he's never been there
You can be halfway
You can be all there
Inside himself
He thinks that he looks the same
And the mind that thinks it all out
Never noticed any change
But look at the doubt in his eyes
He's not the one to blame
23.Sads
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Simon Polinski, Tim Powles,
Marty Willson-piper
He never should have been in your home
You never should have left them alone
You should have recognized the ice in his eyes
And nothing would be bad enough
And no one would be glad enough
If he was thrown to the jackals and flies
Now there can be no compromise
But the Earth cannot recoil
If only the oceans would boil
If only the sky could cry black rain
If only it would never happen again
I want you to feel that baby's pain
Hate guides him, hate inside him
Hate multiplies and divides him
Suffer killing, suffocate
Suffer children, suffer hate
To never feel the daylight again
Or see the stars at night again
All the little things we take for granted
These deeds are the seeds that have been planted
Sudden adult death syndrome
He never should have been in your home
Hate guides him, hate inside him
Hate multiplies and divides him
Suffer killing, suffocate
Suffer children, suffer hate
24.June
Lyricist:Steven John Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Guy Gerard Powles,
David John Trumpmanis, Martin H Willson-piper
June arrives, rumored days
Days of willing it to be
In the nest futures hatch
It's such a lovely thing to see
Oh my God
Like an angel wound
What fortune
Like a child in a field
So it goes, so it yields
June is here
There is love
In the background constantly
From the west
Lights go out
It's such a lonely thing to see
Oh my Lord
Talk of devil's food
What fortune
Lock the fruit
In a seed
So it grows
So it needs
Oh my soul
Soul like her cocoon
Long gone June
Her dark sides
Her bare fields
As she knows, as she feels
25.Won't Let You Sleep
Lyricist:Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles, Marty Willson-piper
Lying face down in the dust
Your body crippled with mistrust
I wonder if you'll ever rise
Too much of nothing wears you out
There's a lot of that about
I see it lingering in your eyes
If you change the arrow's course
Or feel the punch with all its force
Remember passion never dies
I'll see you there
Should you come through
Patience sits
Her face all blackened up with soot
Ragged clothes won't interrupt
The precious gem that is your life
The lover spurned and then replaced
There's just forgiveness not disgrace
And I say, 'Passion never dies'
And we'll return
Our candles burn
Patience sits
I won't let you sleep
When there's fear in your blood
I won't let you sleep
When there's fear in your blood
And if you think that holding on
Is already far too long
Who's to be the judge of time?
It won't seep out through your toes
It only grows and grows and grows
'Cause passion never ever dies
When you return
On your own terms
Patience sits
I won't let you sleep
When there's fear in your blood
...
26.Why Don't You Love Me
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey, Tim Powles, Marty Willson-piper
Sometimes you're dressed in Castillian vogue
Other times you speak with a faux Scottish brogue
Ruthless, relentless, pursuing your defenseless quarry
Now you say you've been following me through my lives and deaths
From the very first tears to the last failing breaths
You clean up the mess, you say 'I must confess' you say 'I'm
sorry'
Some say they've seen you outside of my door
During dark, rainy nights when the light is so poor
Maybe they're mistaken, or maybe you're just faking evidence
They think you're a man with the body of a libertine
Skin that's so white, clean daylight has never seen
I wonder if you're punishment, or prison or just providence
You say 'Why, why, why
Why, why, why
Why, why, why
Don't you love me?'
How you danced with the outlaws in the old wild west
Carried a derringer under your vest
I know with a sneer you claim to have been Guinevere
But I am not Lancelot, I was never King Arthur
I say once again 'I'm not the man that you're after'
That was a different man, he ain't been here
You say 'Why, why, why
Why, why, why
Why, why, why
Don't you love me?'
You were there in Florence as I painted the ceiling
On that old river boat, saw the hands I was dealing
Were you there the night I discovered LSD?
You held my hand through the Straits of Magellan
At the medicine shore, snake oil you were selling
Wasn't that you, wasn't that me?
You say 'Why, why, why
Why, why, why
Why, why, why
Don't you love me?'
On the brink of the moon, at the foot of the Andes
The mouth of the river, as we washed in the Ganges
Pulled the arrow out my eye at Hastings
You washed my brow as I lay in a fever
You were the fulcrum, I was the lever
I'm not a believer, it's just all your time you are wasting
You're a prisoner in a tower, a damsel in distress
Love hold us in thrall, my eternal mistress
You've been wife, my lover, my sister, my mother, my maid
My partner, my consort, my bit on the side
My darling, my sweetheart, my hope and my pride
And all because of some stupid lyrics on 'The Blurred Crusade'
You say 'Why, why, why
Why, why, why
Why, why, why
Don't you love me?'
You say 'Why, why, why
Why, why, why
Why, why, why
Don't you love me?'
27.Friction
Lyricist:Tom Verlaine
I knew it must've been some big set-up
All action just would not let up
It's just a little bit back from the main road
Where the silence spreads and men dig holes
I begin to spin the tale
You complain about my diction
It gives me friction, it gives me friction
But I like friction
My eyes are like telescopes
I see it all backwards, but who wants hope?
If I ever catch that ventriloquist
I'll squeeze his head right into my fist
Something comes a-crashin' in
What is it? What's the prediction?
I'll bet you it's friction, I'll bet you it's friction
But I like friction
How'd the snake get out of the skin?
All it took was a little friction
Stop this head motion and set sail
You know all us boys gonna wind up in jail
And I don't wanna grow up
It's too much contradiction
And too much friction, and too much friction
I'm crazy about friction
F R I C T I O N
Friction, friction, friction
Friction, friction, friction
28.Life Speeds Up
Lyricist:Steven John Kilbey
The clouds in the sky are all rushing by
A stare's just a backwards glance
The years and the days are all melting away
Yet you still won't take a chance
But life speeds up, don't you know, don't you know
The push and the throb, the threat of the mob
The crack's not a secret this time
The mouths and the doors, now I can't shut anymore
Keep running, you're falling behind
The world spins alone, the weight of it groans
I get dizzy just turning the page
The air holds us down and we're stuck on the ground
Trying to slip off our age
Come to the window come to the door
Given under my hand given under the law
I gave you everything you still want more
They gave you some mad forgotten war
Now it's time to slow things down
Because I told you life speeds up
Tell me how it happened did it hurt did you cry
Did you ever feel yourself falling out of the sky?
Did you ever lie awake and wonder why?
Did you ever fall asleep and dream that you died?
We grind to a halt and we start again
We come to a corner but it's only a bend
And all those broken promises they never end
Who cares if it's mad when it's only pretend
29.To Be In Yours Eyes
Lyricist:Steven John Kilbey
Night time is so lonely
When you hear a sound
But it's only an empty heart
Beating on through the night
A sad, sad drum
And I'm lying here listening
And the raindrops are all glistening
In my dreams and it seems
That the sun never comes
And I want my sad reflection
To go drifting through the skies
To be in your eyes
And I'm waking to this aching
And it's breaking me in two
All the space, all the waste
All the distance between me and you
And the people with their voices
Random choices
Will they ever learn to really see?
Really be on fire when their spirit burns
I want the person inside me
To be someone I'd recognize
If he was in your eyes
So I'm waiting, contemplating
Relocating a faded image in my thoughts
But the memories are like clouds
Try so hard but they never can be caught
But I'm trying, yes, I'm trying
But I'm only lying in the dark
So alone, on my own, no one home
And if love was worth a fortune
Then I'd need a raise
To be in your eyes, to be in your eyes
To be in your eyes, to be in your eyes
I want these words to be the things
I hoped you'd realized
To be in your eyes, to be in your eyes
To be in your eyes, to be in your eyes
30.0408
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles, Martin Howard
Wilson-piper
And we frittered the time that we had on our hands
And we measured the time that elapsed
And we stumbled around like madmen unbound
And I said, 'Look out boys, these are traps'
And I was just a stranger then
Yes, I was just a stranger then
And I was just a stranger then
And we followed a path till we slipped up and laughed
And I lived half a life in that state
And we got our release in everything but peace
And peace of a record second rate
And I was just a stranger then
And I was just a stranger then
Yes, I was just a stranger then
Like a stranger, always strangest at home
Well, I like what you do
But you will never break through
You can try if you want
But you'll fail
And I was just a stranger then
Yes, I was just a stranger then
And I was just a stranger then
Like a stranger, always strangest at home
31.Unified Field
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles, Marty Willson-piper
Your money is so pretty
It's too beautiful to spend
Evening is so magical
Too elaborate to end
The air here is so sweet
It's much too pure to breathe
It's already over
I don't want to leave
Unified field
No one here is gonna yield
No one here you've seen before
Magnetic strip
Pull me further in its grip
No one here you can't adore
Your scenery is unusual
It's too elusive for me to view
Your food is just delicious
But I can't eat it like you do
Darkness all around us
It's the only thing I see
The music is so sacred
It can never get me free
Unified field
No one here is gonna yield
No one here you've seen before
Magnetic strip
Pull me further in its grip
No one here you can't adore
Your energy exhausts me
It drives you like a lash
Your enthusiasm's contagious
Covers me like a rash
Your gravity supports me
It guides me through the crash
Unified field
No one here is gonna yield
No one here you've seen before
Magnetic strip
Pull me further in its grip
No one here you can't adore
32.I Kept Everything
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles, Marty Willson-piper
I kept everything
Mornings and days paraded through space
And stripped of all their meaning, I saved everything
But this afternoon, I just ran out of room
I haven't got the foggiest
Yeah, let me get this straight
(Yeah, yeah)
If it's a matter of luck or a matter of fate
(Yeah, yeah)
I'm a tiny little flash in a damaged universe
You know what makes it better only makes it worse
Trying to find you
Try to remind you
Trying to find you
I see everything
Glitter and glamor, the bitter, the hammer
That smashes up the evening, I heard everything
Buzzes and creaks, cymbals and shrieks
I haven't got the feeling left
Wait, let me sort this out
(Yeah, yeah)
If it's a question of faith or a question of doubt
(Yeah, yeah)
You're an undiscovered wonder in a desolated place
I wonder who's representing you, handling your case
Trying to find you
Try to remind you
Trying to find you
(Yeah, yeah, trying to find you, oh, oh)
33.Don't You Fall
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles, Marty Willson-piper
Babe, this city is a mouth
Set to swallow you
What you doing in this town?
Just take my hand, you'll fall
Don't you fall
Don't you fall
All the windows full of eyes
Always watching you
Underneath these cracked black skies
We can't be safe at all
Don't you fall
Don't you fall
Empty houses, full of sounds
Always haunting
And there is no hallowed ground
So just watch out, you'll fall
Don't you fall
(Don't you, don't you, don't you fall)
Don't you fall
(Don't you, don't you)
Don't you fall
34.Replated/Chromium
Lyricist:Kilbey Steven John, Koppes Peter, Powles Tim Guy Gerard,
Willson-piper Martin Howard
Silver needles, golden eagles
Frightened faces, basket cases
Jags and riches, queens and witches
Electric mantras and tight-fitting dreams
Never been so high
Gilded flowers, long-lost hours
Morning programs with fake suntans
Meet a maniac in the cul-de-sac
Otherwise it's this ennui
All this waiting, brings me down
All those colors, bring me around
Never been so high
(Chromium platin')
Never been so high
(All this waiting brings me down)
Never been so high
(Suffocatin')
Never been so low
(All those colors bring me around)
Broken records, faded labels
Songs to sing to when you were young
A tattooed pierced arm, fresh and perfumed
Switch your prison, fly away
All this waiting brings me down
All those colors bring me around
Broken records
Never been so high
(Gilded flowers, long-lost hours)
Never been so high
(Morning programs with fake suntans)
Never been so high
(Meet a maniac in the cul-de-sac)
Never been so low
(Otherwise it's this ennui)
Jewels on your fingers, tears in your dresses
Fabulous mansions, damp little rooms
This one will shrink me, this one will grow me
Human to sleeping, reality looms
This ennui
This ennui
This ennui
35.Distant X Unseen
Lyricist:Kilbey Steven John, Koppes Peter, Powles Tim Guy Gerard,
Willson-piper Martin Howard
Sitting in the shadows and the evening oscillating
Feeling light and feeling like it's a gonna change
Hoping for a moment for some gentle consolation
Waiting at the station where the treats are out of range
She's sitting in a carriage being jostled by the motion
Overhearing conversation, the grinding of the steel
Scenes fly past the curtains that the darkness paints uncertain
And memories are meaningless, her motives are concealed
Through countrysides and mountains and the village by the ocean
Where the stranger's waiting for her in the plushness of his car
Winding and rewinding, pushing all directions
Till the limit of implosions, which is never very far
All I ever wanted to see
Was just invisible to me
Out there in the distance the horizon meets resistance
The summer falls down drunken on the longest of the days
Rushing past the ruins of the churches and the Porsches
Reflected in the mirrors and the echoes in the haze
He drums impatient fingers on the chrome and on the leather
Running through the reasons in the corners of his mind
Sifting tiny diamonds on his shaky mental islands
Where he often claims asylum from the structures left behind
All I ever wanted to see
Was just invisible to me
All I ever wanted to see
Was just invisible to me
The wind blows through the headstones and the maelstrom's making
music
The melody reminds us of the girl's still far away
Asleep in her compartment, dreaming of the darkness
As the train speeds on the darkness to the approaching day
All I ever wanted to see
Was just invisible to me
All I ever wanted to see
Was just invisible to me
All I ever wanted to see
Was just invisible to me
All I ever wanted to see
Was just invisible to me
36.I Am A Rock
Lyricist:Paul Simon
A winter's day
In a deep and dark December
I am alone
Gazing from my window into the streets below
On a freshly fallen, silent shroud of snow
I am a rock, I am an island
Don't talk of love
Well, I've heard the word before
It is sleeping in my memory
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died
If I never loved I never would have cried
I am a rock, I am an island
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Deep within my room, safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me
I am a rock, I am an island
And a rock feels no pain
And an island never cries
37.Ancient History
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey
Sometimes I wonder how I got mixed up with you
You just cannot comprehend the things that I do
The truth is so fragile, the ties are so true
Lying in the nettles where the blossoms once grew
So now you're asking what is this mystery
And all these questions, ancient history
Sometimes I wonder what is left to be said
If I'm consumed and fading will the children be fed?
The roof is always creaking, the stone has been bled
You say I'm just existing and you leave me for dead
Sometimes I can see your love is a sled
Sliding down the slopes that will lead to your bed
Some of us are white, some of us are red
Some have got these visions going 'round in our heads
As you go just blow a kiss to me
And as it falls, ancient history
Sometimes a joke can get out of hand
Laughing like a conqueror in a new land
Convinced down to his buttons this was how it was planned
Turns his back on ruins, that was nothing but sand
Crossing your Alps, the ice and cold blister me
And all the rest, ancient history
38.Sisters
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Richard Ploog, Marty
Willson-piper
Anna sits beside her research
Silence in the dappled moonlight
Sleeping cat and dying fire
Embers of the past conspire
All her books are closed and scattered
And she feels that nothing matters to her
Outside this dream her sister frequents
Like a cobweb catching fragments
She approaches like a vision
She says, 'Anna, do you hear me?'
But the picture's always shuttered
All the distant thoughts that flutter to her
I can see them all, I can hear them call
And as she falls I lean to say goodbye
Breathing all the wasted hours
Talking to the dying flowers
Dwarfed by spires and tangled towers
We don't ask the reason why
Anna comes and goes in shadows
Paintings of the open windows
Her photograph is always faded
Her sister's eyes are blank and shaded
Don't you understand her science
Merging in a strange alliance to her
We're together in the future
You and I and her together
All our fated are intermingled
We are plural, we are single
We are leaving for a meeting
And last seen the weather sleeting for her
39.Twin Stars
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles, Marty Willson-piper
She's got two tiny stars in her eyes
She's got the blessings in disguise
And just like the rain and the snow
She takes them with her everywhere she goes
She's got two tiny stars in her eyes
And she's got miracles in her head
She's got pleasure on demand
Just like the soft summer rain
Soothes the earth at the end of the day
She's got two tiny stars in her eyes
40.Down: Nostalgia And Everything After
Lyricist:Kilbey Steven John, Koppes Peter, Powles Tim Guy Gerard,
Willson-piper Martin Howard
Now that it's over I find myself leaving
The sound permeate in all directions at once
I never said goodbye to the family, lovers
Brothers and daughters, the rest of the bunch
It seems so strange that the things I was chasing
Have all evaporated like a distant dream
Petty ambition, petty obstruction
Something in between
After the after everything
After the after everything now this
Here is a child playing in a garden
Here is an old man with a broken heart
Here comes a train to take you away
It all goes round and round and comes back to the start
I was never really sure what I was waiting for
When the moment came I was looking away
Obsessed with a past, scared of the future
Never took the time to be here today
After the after everything
After everything now this
After everything now this happens
It's not a grand illusion, it's a stupid little trick
The show must go on, these people have paid
You're standing in the wings feeling kinda sick
Never really sure what you were waiting for
When the moment came you just couldn't choose
The fog sweeps down over the marine city
Standing backstage trying to pull on your shoes
After the everything now this
After everything now this
41.Pharoah
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Richard Ploog, Marty
Willson-piper
Hi to all the people that are selling me
Here's one straight from the factory
They've sewn my eyes up in their sockets
I dip my hand into their pockets
Is there anybody there?
I could swear I'm not alone
Show your faces if you dare
Slaving platinum to bone
One big man with a good connection
Takes the whole damn ship in the wrong direction
I don't mind him misinterpreting me
I hate it when he gets us lost out to sea
Is there anybody there?
I could swear I'm not alone
Show your faces if you dare
Slaving platinum to bone
Is there anybody there?
I could swear I'm not alone
Show your faces if you dare
Slaving platinum to bone
Late at night when I'm lying in bed
I've got to say a prayer for my daily bread
And early in the morning when I'm still asleep
You sit upon your throne making grown men weep with boredom
42.Easy
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles, Marty Willson-piper
Any day now you'll see me coming
Underneath the blooming trees
A seasons greeting's beating up the shore, so open up your door
Easy baby
You don't have to say a word
Easy now
You don't have to do a thing
You'll protect me with your arts
And it all starts again surrounding me inevitably
Hiding in your haven, maybe stark and maybe raving
Completely sane, it's just so plain arcane
Easy baby
You don't have to act so hard
Easy now
You don't have to be like that
Any day now you'll hear me ringing
Hear me singing down the line or just in your mind
You'll embrace me, turn to face me
Try to replace me, it will be too late, now that's all I'll say
Easy baby
It's so hard to walk away
Easy now
You don't have to end like this
43.Earthfriend (Version)
Lyricist:Kilbey Steven John, Koppes Peter, Powles Tim Guy Gerard,
Willson-piper Martin Howard
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
All right
Earth man
Earth man
Night friends
Coming through the mirror
Sliding down the light
Night friends
Arriving in the garden
Stay with me tonight
Night friends
Night friends
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
All right
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
All right
Watching, you've been watching from a second in our century
As the minutes gain momentum like a bird, man
Watching, you've been waiting
For the other worlds to sync up to our own
Reaching, we've been reaching through the nonexistent surface
It separates our doubles from the soul man
Trying, we've been trying
To make contact with nothings all alone
Night friends
Night friends
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
All right
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
All right
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
Earth man
44.Seen It @ The Feelmore
Lyricist:Kilbey Steven John, Koppes Peter, Powles Tim Guy Gerard,
Willson-piper Martin Howard
Hey man, think it through now
Why don't you stay for a while?
Eve and Aurora gonna come on over
Know they'll make you smile
You should've seen it coming
Been coming for some time
You've got your broken heart
And I got mine
You ain't gonna tell me that you were a saint
Every time you two were apart
You blew your chance
So face the music and dance
You should've seen it coming
Been coming for some time
You've got your broken heart
I got mine, I got mine
I got mine
You should've seen it coming
You've got your broken heart
I feel fine
Feel so fine
Feel so fine
Feel so fine
Feel so fine
45.Night Flower
Lyricist:Kilbey Steven John, Koppes Peter, Powles Tim Guy Gerard,
Willson-piper Martin Howard
Tired old clown
In the big end of town
Take one last look
The sun is going down
I never noticed things
But now I see it all
The roar of the planets
The silence 'round this song
Scratched into the surface
Midnight surely coming
Metal on soft metal
Sliding, grinding, humming
This shambles of a city
Stumbles to its knees
Desecrates the evening
And falls into the sea
46.Appalatia
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles, Marty Willson-piper
Appalatia
You're such a beautiful high
At the gates of
A pale blue desire
Cloudy in my memory
Like one long moment can be
Such a godly gift
(You're such a beautiful high)
Turning favor on
Every day I'm watching you
Learning our love song
In this way it's changing you
Fascination, your secrets alive
In the ascending, brings
On an ultimate smile
Water in the lamplight
Danced along this shared night
Singing with the star shine
Until the morning sun blind
Burning slowly on
Everyday I'm missing you
Yearning not for long
Searching everywhere
I'm gaining you
You're such a beautiful high
Such a beautiful high
Water in the lamplight
Danced along this shared night
Singing with the star shine
Until the morning sun blind
Journey up and on
Every day becoming you
Burning as you lay
(Searching the world)
On this day becoming you
(I'll search beneath the world)
This'll be your shelter
Someone must have built it
Leave her and I felt her
A river and a delta
47.The Faith Healer
Lyricist:Alex Harvey, Hugh Mc Kenna
If your body's feelin' bad
And it's the only one you have
You want to take away the pain
And go out walkin' in the rain
You watch the flowers go to bed
Ask the man inside your head
Your spirit never have to grieve
All you got to do's believe
The faith healer
The faith healer
All you got to do is feel
Your body gonna start to heal
Fingertips and holy fire
Everlasting sweet desire
It don't matter what the doctor said
The healer man will sail away
Immortality for who
Miracles come to you
The faith healer
The faith healer
Can I put my hands on you?
Can I put my hands on you?
Faith and hope and charity
Simple relativity
He can make you understand
All you gotta take, his hand
Remember what somebody said
Ask the man inside your head
Fingertips and holy fire
Everlasting sweet desire
The faith healer
The faith healer
Can I put my hands on you?
Can I put my hands on you?
Can I put my hands on you?
Can I put my hands on you?
Can I put my hands on you?
Can I put my hands on you?
48.Lay Low
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles, Marty Willson-piper
They say that it's inevitable
They say it's uniform
They say it's undetectable
Do you know who is your foe
How to lay low in a storm
How to lay low, how to stay out
They'll put your pain before philosophy
You put the number up for everyone to see
How to stay low, how to lay out
They say it's unavoidable
You say it's necessary
They say it's unforgettable
How to lay low, how to lay out
They'll burn up entering your atmosphere
They'll be obvious to anyone down here
How to stay low, how to lay out
Do you know who is your foe
How to lay low in a storm
How to lay low, how to stay out
They'll put your pain before philosophy
You put the number up for everyone to see
How to stay low, how to lay out
They'll burn up entering your atmosphere
They'll be obvious to anyone down here
How to stay low, how to lay out
49.See Your Lights
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles, Marty Willson-piper
Come down, come down, come to me
She's somewhere sliding through me
Even though I can't believe it
If I look in the earth, receive you
How come I see you
I'm never coming down
From the ceiling, sister, losing life
We're spinning down and down
Watch the medium, sister
Gonna flow now through yourself
I hate to love you now
Baby, on my own I see you
You have to haunt yourself
How come I see your lights
They keep paralyzing me
Try a little light on me
Every thing's so bright
How come I see your lights in me
Winding your way through this room full of flesh
Science, sexuality, the heat of your breath
Each bead of sweat, the message you sent
An army of hips and trenches to defend
You can call your name again and again
Wear out your welcome and escape on a train
Slither on up to a shining star
Concern yourself with the weird and bizarre
Disappear like smoke in a cold night sky
With a warm soft throb and a flash of light
How come I see your lights
They keep paralyzing me
Hey, try a little light on me
Every thing's so bright
How come you see your lights in me
Come away, come away
Come away, come away
How come I see your lights
50.The Night Is Very Soft
Lyricist:Kilbey Russell Paul, Kilbey Steven John
Tiny drops of water glistened on her black fur
Taillights in earshot, headlights shine through her and on
Legs crossed on the red surge settee
I sat next to nothing and she looked right through me and on
Inside the car sat a sulky blonde
And on her lap the road went on and on
As she dresses I look to the ground
Perhaps, I know where the place can be found, and on
Outside, the night is very soft, but where does it end
We'd pile into the Buick, but you've got to have money for that
92 people taking it too fast
They never noticed where their lines are cast and on
Legs crossed on the red surge settee
Sat next to nothing and she looked right past me and on
I've got a milk white electric guitar
Walked in the shop and I peeled off the notes, oh yeah
As she dresses I look to the ground
Perhaps, I know where the place can be found and on
51.Oxydental
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey, Koppes Peter, Tim Powles, Willson-piper Marty
Sixteen spirit voices in a menial melange
The disembodied chorus in a bucket of flange
Baby serpents dreaming at the bottom of their eggs
Occidental drone driving their legs
Somebody somewhere must have figured it out
Leaving it open for apostles of doubt
Banging on a tabla till the kingdom comes
Feel it in my fingers and my thimbles and thumbs
Einstein sent a cruiser to another dimension
Strange little beasties on the surface tension
A plague of maharishis in a post ecstatic haze
Is this the way you've been wasting your days
52.There You Go
Lyricist:Kilbey Steven John, Koppes Peter, Powles Tim Guy Gerard,
Willson-piper Martin Howard
If you think that light's too pretty for you
You should step outside your skin for a moment or two
Desert winds come howling down empty boulevards
Blowing like sick minstrels when the dust is too hot
You thought you were a stranger in your opportunity clothes
But the sun makes it all hazy and it doesn't half show
You thought you were an actor with an amusing part
You danced the bossanova with your celluloid heart
You looked into the mirror and laughed at your face
Someone else was watching and handling your case
You think that it's easy with the drugs and guitars
You like to be backstage and in the star's car
There you go, there you go, there you go, there you go
Summertime, oblivious through noise and the heat
Crowded room where you can't find your feet
All the seals are broken at a quarter to two
But you don't even recognize who you're taking to
When they said you're ready, you took a swing
But it was empty, you didn't hit a thing
When they said you're ready, you hung on tight
But balance is elusive as you run down the night
There you go, there you go, there you go, there you go
Don't throw away your tickets yet, there's probably more
You just never know what you're hanging in for
Everybody told you, you're the one in the know
So that's the way, let's do it, there you go
There you go, there you go, there you go, there you go
There, there you go, there you go, there you go, there you go
There you go, there you go
53.Reversal
Lyricist:Kilbey Steven John, Koppes Peter, Powles Tim Guy Gerard,
Willson-piper Martin Howard
I wonder who's taken you
Now God has forsaken you
I thought I was waking you
I see I just shaken you
There's no fear in the heaven, the sky
I'll pledge my allegiance to the flesh and the stone
I wander this garden alone
Wonder who's taken you
Must have mistaken you
Nobody's making you
The pressure that's breaking you
The dirt that is caking you
There's no fear in the heaven, the sky
Accidentally born, same when you die
I'll pledge my allegiance to the flesh and the stone
I wander this garden alone
Well, I have some in a minute if you got it
Tried to look so very distant on your bonnet
I'm not expecting you to like it but try it
But I have the little something if you buy it
There's no fear in the heaven, the sky
Accidentally born, same when you die
I'll pledge my allegiance to the flesh and the stone
I wander this garden
Wonder who's taken you
Must have mistaken you
I thought I was waking you
I see I just shaken you
54.November
Lyricist:Kilbey Steven John, Koppes Peter, Tim Powles, Willson-piper
Marty
Across the wet November night
The church is bright with candlelight
And waiting evensong
And waiting evensong
A single bell with plaintive strokes
Pleads louder than the stirring oaks
The leafless lanes along
The leafless lanes along
It calls the choirboys from their tea
And villagers, the two or three
Damp down the kitchen fire
Damp down the kitchen fire
Let out the cat, and up the lane
Go paddling through the gentle rain
Of misty Oxfordshire
Of misty Oxfordshire
On country morning sharp and clear
The penitent in faith draw near
And kneeling here below
And kneeling here below
Partake the heavenly banquet spread
Of sacramental wine and bread
And Jesus presence know
And Jesus presence know
And must that plaintive bell in vain
Plead loud along the dripping lane?
And must the building fall?
And must the building fall?
Not while we love the church and live
And of our charity will give
Our much, our more, our all
Our much, our more, our all
55.In This Room
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey
Oh, the avenging angel
Shiver in the way of her stare
I will admit that she never loved me
But I admit that I didn't care
And it's too damned late to buy the gate
And why close it if your heart isn't there
And since you know it all
I could give you a call
I could give you something fine to compare yourself to
My eyes begin to ache in the cold electric light
There are no windows in this room
In which we've been sitting all our lives
Some incredible distance
Some incredible place
Sometimes I think, sometimes I sink
In some incredible race
And it's too damned soon for a man of fortune
To have to run or lose his face
And since you know it all, I could give you a call
I could give you a lot more than a taste of yourself, too
56.Autumn Soon
Lyricist:Steven Kilbey
The puppet master understands the need
The jury needs to feel the greed
And seeds revolve and grow and bleed
Daytime sees a newer breed
The under life tick tocks
Pushing through my safe ideas
Goodbye, heroica, you overdosed on years
And I ask you for a midnight, you give me a high noon
When winter puts her hands on you
It must be autumn soon
Whatever happened to the leaves that used to fall
And where's the candle I left spluttering in the hall
And what's the meaning of the siren's call
I blame it on you all
The under life tick tocks
And chimes away between
Goodbye, heroica, you're not needed for this scene
And the flaming dying sunset has collapsed like a balloon
When winter puts her hands on you
It must be autumn soon
I thought I heard her voice upon the tide
It was only the shells and the stones that sighed
Old Neptune tosses in the deep and scalds his mermaid bride
And, you know, I really tried
The under life tick tocks
And changes into ash
Goodbye, heroica we only accept cash
I'm here to give you everything, do I have to stoop or croon?
When winter puts her hands on you
It must be autumn soon
57.Day 5
Eventually akin to a cousin, dark and white
And drifted in silence through endless and enemies
Shallow dreams, life was beginning to take a shape
Water was warm as it hastened up enemies
This kind of world will start a little colony
This kind of earth will eat a little energy
This kind of thing needs a little secrecy
After thousands of years, the priest have predicted you had come
You with you death that appears in the photograph
You watch the light sky, we bickered like fools amongst ourself
We saw protection in our official youth
This kind of world will start a little colony
This kind of earth will eat a little energy
This kind of thing needs a little secrecy
This kind of thing needs a little secrecy
This kind of thing needs a little secrecy
This kind of thing needs a little secrecy
In this sickening jam, I fell through the surface of my life
And I was cut back by the hollow camaraderie
The planet was still, nothing moved as it slept in space
I put on my suit and exited quietly
58.Someone Special
I said I've had visions of weeping
She said, 'I've had the same about you
They come to me sometimes when I'm sleeping'
I said, 'That's the way for me too'
Now it's been a long time and I don't have the mind
To justify what we've been through
Logic is fine and science can be kind
But it can't define me and you
And yet I had something special to say
But this nightmarish world
Makes you throw your thoughts away
As though I was someone special today
We say why are the innocent bleeding
Is there not a thing we can do?
They say please swallow this trust we are feeding
And don't worry, it's bad for you
Now it's been a long show and I thought you should know
It's time for us to play our hands
But words are much too slow, they lost meaning years ago
And isn't that how this began
Some say, 'Now the truth is before you'
Others say, 'Oh no, this is not real'
Some say, 'Be cruel, then they'll adore you'
Others say, 'You can't touch till you feel'
Now it's been a long trip and it's only the tip
Of the iceberg I'm trying to melt
Our tickets have been ripped and you've got to bite your lip
When you think about the way that felt
59.Radiant 1934 Remix
When a cloudy morning rain touched our little town
Three small sisters and a friend walking in the fields
A strange light in the sky blotting out the sun
Whatever happens next changes all our lives
And the children ran home sobbing and half blind
Said our lady has a message for mankind
Frightened and bewildered, not making any sense
Dazzled by the virgin's radiance
And the icons in the church crying tears of blood
The water in the wells curing all who drank
Pilgrim lunatics arrive in a ragged stream
In the fields around the village sprang up tents
People from the outside world want more evidence
Four tired children questioned day and night
All they can remember is her blinding light
So the circus drifts away and the noise dies down
Life goes on as before all the people came
And the children never say what her message was
And the children ran home sobbing and half blind
Said our lady has a message for mankind
Frightened and bewildered, not making any sense
Dazzled by the virgin in her radiance
Radiance
Radiance
60.The Theatre And Its Double
Baby, I know there's people out there starving
Baby, don't go, you got the wrong idea
Baby, don't say there's people out there laughing
Baby, that way it's gonna take me years
You're blowing hot and cold
I want you heart and soul
A critique of pure reason
Won't give me what you sow
Some day I think that nothing outside matters
Some day you blink, you miss a thousand years
Some day I pray, falling dumbly to my bed
Some day you stay 'til the audience appears
You're blowing hot and cold
I want you heart and soul
A critique of pure reason
Won't give me what you sow
61.Stay All Night (Kings Mix)
I am a sailor, did not find me
I don't know, I don't know
I don't know where you go
I don't know, I don't know
Why I loved you so
You said it was alright
It stayed with me all night
It stayed with me all night
I don't think, I don't think
I've ever been to the brink
I don't think, I don't think
I'll have another drink
You said it was enough
Then you called my bluff
You said it was too hard
You took out your trump card
You said it was alright
It stayed with me all night
It stayed with me all night
I don't care, I don't care
I don't care where you are
I don't care, I don't care
I don't care who you are
You said it was too hard
You took out your trump card
You said it was alright
It stayed with me all night
It stayed with me all night
I don't guess the answer will be yes
I don't guess you can't
I don't guess you can't
The answer will be yes
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