Unreleased Songs1

You Am I Unreleased Songs1 Lyrics
1.Adam's Rib

Don't look at my waist 'cause the pants don't fit right.
I'm a dedicated follower of skin tight
As long as we don't eat everything will be fine.
I just want to look fascinating, snorting the diet pills I'm
grating
As long as we throw up everything will be fine.
As long as we're emasciated
tastes outdated, yeah, everything will be fine.

Everytime I eat is a slate away from every photo that I emulate.
As long as my fingers fit everything will be fine.
Cheeks like a valley and ribs like grater
but just think of all that cash I'm saving.
As long as we throw up everything will be fine.

As long as we're emasciated
Taste out dated, yeah, everything will be fine.

It will be fine. It will be fine.

Make me grow up.


2.Ain't Gone And Open

Lyricist:Russell Hopkinson, Andy Kent, Tim Rogers

Wide eyes show white
White enough to shoot
But if you ain't got the strength to fight it
And you just can't hide it

And I ain't gonna open my eyes anymore
Ain't gonna open my eyes anymore

Pale faces burn
I would've thought by now we'd learn
But every fool still waits their turn in
The rotisseries turning

Well, I ain't gonna open my eyes anymore
I ain't gonna open my eyes anymore
I ain't gonna open my eyes anymore


3.Alembic

Here it comes again
It's talking through the band
All the ? you took
Is waiting out 'till then

Breathe
Life
You ask
Will pray
Scream
We're dead
You pay
I'll cry

Sell you're sure again
We're still in the band
Pride has gone to yours
Sucked your spinners yeah

Breathe
Life
You ask
Will pray
Scream
We're dead
You pay
I'll try


4.All I Want To Do Is Rock

All I want to do is rock. All i want to do is roll.
Oh, I need your love as well.
Oh, pretty baby now, can't you tell?


5....And Vandalism

I know this guy
If I'm the mayonnaise he's the cream
Some sit and wait for the ride
While others become the scene
And he can see a Wednesday morning
Like others see Friday night
It's all an open book
It's just how you vandalise
A double on the shirttail
While the rest of us split on the seams
He talks about Art Blakey
And I pretend to know what he means
So now it's three gigs a night
While your girl digs up the UAE
And burn up like a matchstick
The whole damn city can see

The sun caught me hiding
Just enough for someone to see
My heart in my hands, the tracks of my glands
Cracking through the grit in my teeth
So when did you decide
That there's only so much you can lose?
The best choices come
Just when there's nothing left to choose

So you blow up letterboxes and chlorine bombs
'Coz it's a weekend blitz on the dicks who just can't whistle
the tune
Yeah and yeah hit while I sit here on my hands
Measuring compliments with a spoon
And I'm never too far away

I know this guy
If I'm the mayonnaise he's the cream
Some sit and wait for the ride
While others become the scene
And he can see a Wednesday morning
Like others see Friday night
It's all an open book
It's just how you vandalise


6.The Applecross Wing Commander

We'd like to introduce you to the nature of our trials
We'd love the chance to bring your elders down
So fix your Dad a drink 'cause we're gonna need to think
Now you're a plane we won't need them around anymore
We done a lot of dumb things now, sure hope we do some more
And we'll wait all summer just to piss on your door

The wing commander's sister is a golden haired surprise
I can't walk far but I can shoot for miles
And my radar can see anyone over thirteen
Now you're grown up we don't need you around anymore

We done a lot of dumb things now, sure hope we do some more
It's the last summer so in our dust you will crawl


7.Adam's Ribs

Don't look at my waist 'cause the pants don't fit right.
I'm a dedicated follower of skin tight
As long as we don't eat everything will be fine.
I just want to look fascinating, snorting the diet pills I'm
grating
As long as we throw up everything will be fine.
As long as we're emasciated
tastes outdated, yeah, everything will be fine.

Everytime I eat is a slate away from every photo that I emulate.
As long as my fingers fit everything will be fine.
Cheeks like a valley and ribs like grater
but just think of all that cash I'm saving.
As long as we throw up everything will be fine.

As long as we're emasciated
Taste out dated, yeah, everything will be fine.

It will be fine. It will be fine.

Make me grow up.


8.Baby Clothes

I had that something from my head to my eye
Just as I made it to the front of the line
I only seen them out in front of the rehab
My buddy's check form is all blown to sag

And just because I'm spoon fed on Milo and cheese
Don't go shooting every dog just 'cause one of us got fleas
And if you don't want to grow wear some

Baby clothes, baby clothes
Baby clothes, baby clothes
Baby clothes, baby clothes
Baby clothes, baby clothes

And I'm so sick of sickness, yeah
Why do I write the songs so dickless, yeah
A just 'cause I'm too fat on cheap smokes and wine
I can't look over your fat shoulder and make rock 'n' roll mine

Been hearing so much chitter chatter, chitter chatter
And now I found something that matters, matters, matters,
matters
But if you don't want to grow wear some

Baby clothes, baby clothes
Baby clothes, baby clothes
Baby clothes, baby clothes

And if the bar is closed
I don't want to know


9.Berlin Chair

If half of what I'm saying, of what I'm saying is true
Will you rub my head, make it all shiny and new?
And you drag my coattails, drag my coattails down
And I'll be the only cold assed king around

If you wait, I'll give all my aches to you
Take the chance, to ignore what you're going through
My cold hand, is there for you to take
(If you leave, can I fall down?)
I'm your Berlin Chair, won't you lean on me 'til I break?

I'll ignore each golden, dragging kiss you can give
On the blankest face that you ever had to forgive
If you see my fallings, see my failings through
I'm the re-run that you'll always
Force yourself to sit through

If you wait, I'll give all my aches to you.
Take the chance, to ignore what you're going through
My cold hand, is there for you to take
(If you leave, can I fall down?)
I'm your Berlin Chair, won't you lean on me 'til I break?

Well, you're too late
You're too late
You're too late


10.Billy

Lyricist:Richard Bland, Cotton Stephen, Dell Roger, Hodge Allan,
Anthony Priest

He's the man without a plan
To shake it up and set you down again
A Bo Diddley walk a no more messing round the block
A seventeen watts is a all of what you got

So take me out and mess me 'round
I don't want style without a sound
It ain't clean but dig the scene
I heard the message now the message is mine

I heard the man, he bought the news
It came in loud and out of tune
Now I sleep like a bus conductor and dribbles like a dog
A double timing scratch to find the sound I'm thinking of

So take me out and mess me 'round
I don't want style without a sound
It ain't clean but dig the scene
I heard the message now the message is mine

Urgh all night, just be there
It don't make sense, think I care?
I heard the message, the message is mine


11.Bitter

Stroll down he's got a third chance.
Sticky feeling of a has been
I had my chance 'til broke my toe.
You bag a thousand, what would you know?

But you won't see me, I'm grease lightning too.
In my bedroom vigil punk rock indie school.

I'm in my old school with the rock club
I meet your ego with a pen knife.
I gotta keep my shirts clean.
So get allowed in the fanzine.

Gonna hold my guitar high
I was going past a big sky
Want the words are gonna make me cry.
So keep your eye on the pizza guy.

Keep your eye on the pizza guy.


12.Boulder Fair

Lyricist:Tim Rogers

Tie the sheets to the green washing line
And check if the weather's fine
It's that time of the calendar year
The chateau and millennium wine
Are the kids washed and t-shirts clean?
Like your weekly with men's magazines October

By noon it's a sure thing that tempers will rise
As the first of the kegs are drained dry
Contemplating the last of the roast
'Is that your wife that's kissing the under 12's coach?'
The prodigy's job is to drive the kids home
Newspaper hats and a hair-frosted comb October

Have you caught up on your neighbours life?
Let's drink to the red in the heart of the sky
It's over, it's over, it's over


13.Can't Explain

Got a feeling inside (Can't explain)
It's a certain kind (Can't explain)
I feel hot and cold (Can't explain)
Yeah, down in my soul, yeah (Can't explain)

I said ... (Can't explain)
I'm feeling good now, yeah, but (Can't explain)

Dizzy in the head and I'm feeling blue
The things you've said, well, maybe they're true
I'm getting funny dreams again and again
I know what it means, but

Can't explain, I think it's love
Try to say it to you when I feel blue

But I can't explain (Can't explain)
Yeah, hear what I'm saying, girl (Can't explain)

Dizzy in the head and I'm feeling bad
The things you've said have got me real mad
I'm getting funny dreams again and again
I know what it means but

Can't explain, I think it's love
Try to say it to you when I feel blue.

But I can't explain (Can't explain)
Forgive me one more time, now (Can't explain)

I said I can't explain, yeah
You drive me our of my mind
Yeah, I'm the worrying kind, babe
I said I can't explain


14.Cathy's Clown

Lyricist:Don Everly

The weightlifter and a library tech you know
Made a big decision in the magazine row
I'll open my catalog, just enough to let you in
And she'll drop beers like you drop vitamins

Did you ever, never, wanna let somebody down?
Was you ever thinking that you'd be Cathy's clown
Now she's around?

The protein pills and the G-strings you left in her flat
Are just enough to get your Dewey Decimal back
You lift her to work, just before your daily workout begins
And she'll stack up like you stack vitamins

Did you ever, never, wanna let somebody down?
Was you ever thinking that you'd be Cathy's clown
Now she's around? Hey


15.Cats And Dogs

AH -ROOOO

I keep my ass in the air
But I'm still listening to the crap that he's saying.
'Cause it gives me a kennel
And a backyard picture for some playing.
Give me your good name
And I'll be your better half til I finally go insane.
Chew the TV guide always on his pedestal
And hear the phone ring.

The house don't smell the same
But we've been walking more since the old lady went away.
Wake the old man each day.
AH-ROOOO
Hey!

I keep the key in a match book
Never look into the wet picture.
Rub me behind the head
While you think how much you miss her.
Pub closes at ten
So it's off to the corner to pick him up again.
Twenty four to six pack
Thursday at the pony track and closing.

House don't smell the same
But we've been walking more since the old lady went away.
We'll keep the neighbourhood okay, okay?
AH-ROOOO

I better land
I better land
I better land.


16.Circles

Circles
My head's going 'round in circles.
My mind is going down in a whirlpool.
Dragging me down.

Time
Will tell if I take the homeward track.
But dizziness will make my feet turn back.
Walk on back to you.

Everything I do I think of you.
No matter how I try, I can't get by.

Circles leading me back to you.
Round and around.

Just one thing can kill my pain
Of losing you.
Get's me so dizzy that I walk on straight back
Back to you.

Time
Will tell if I take the homeward track.
But dizziness will make my feet turn back.
Walk on back to you.

Down, down and down like a fool love goes.
Round and round like a fool love goes.
Dragging me down.


17.Come Home Wit' Me

Did you really wanna come out tonight with me?
Did you just wanna go where everybody else goes?
Now I don't need to read your mind
To see or hear that you aint mine
Is it just one of us who's gonna take the last late night bus?
Come home
Come home with me
Come home with me

Your words will always stump me when
I just need something right
I wanna kiss you as the sun comes up
And turns out Friday night
I got a good mind to get right down to it
And forget the way I sweat when you're walking through my eye

Come home
Come home with me
Come home with me

I know that I should be ashamed
To see you walk away again
And I've heard every excuse before
But you're just too much for me to lose
Help me girl
Stop looking so good

Come home
Come home with me
Come home with me
Come home
Come home with me
Come home with me


18.Coprolalia

Feed me, I got my head interstate
Got my head interstate, when I'm alone
Give me a break, I've got to work up to hate
Only get out of bed when I'm alone

Don't give me a call, the chest feels small
It don't mean shit 'till I see it all
Got my head interstate, head interstate
Head interstate, got, my, head

Look I'm into staying in 'til
I get the gall to tell me that it's
Safe outside, a happy ending

Feed me, another story that's true
Another story brand new I can't forget
Diagnosis around, from a book that you found
And a pill you won't have me swallow yet

Suck me a line, anything to feel right
Only get out of bed if you'll turn out the light
Got my head interstate, head interstate
Head interstate, got, my, head

Look I'm into staying in 'til
I get the gall to tell me that it's
Safe outside, a happy ending

Feet in the stall, juicing the call
Don't mean nothing 'til you feel it all

Feed me, I got my head interstate
Got my head interstate, when I'm alone
Give me a break, I've got to work up to hate
Only get out of bed when I'm alone

Don't give me a call, the chest feels small
It don't mean shit 'till I see it all
Got my head interstate, head interstate
Head interstate, got, my, head

Look I'm into staying in 'til
I get the gall to tell me that it's
Safe outside, a happy ending

Look I'm into staying in 'til
I get the gall to tell me that it's
Safe outside, a happy ending


19.Count To Four

I kissed a cheek on the beak
The stop the sweat in my feet.
And do you think that she knows?
Ooh, ooh, what are we gonna do?
Ooh, ooh, what are we gonna do?

Boys in line.
Spit boot and polish and shoe shine.
Take a job busting pines.
Ooh, ooh, what are we gonna do?
Ooh, ooh, what are we gonna do?

Count to four
As you close the door.
And we start again.

Ooh, ooh, what are we gonna do?
Ooh, ooh, what are we gonna do?

Count to four
As you close the door.
Can we start again?


20.Damage

I woke up with a war in my head
An old man's grumble
And an extra space in the bed
And if ol' John Prine can't sing the next line
'Bout something that can make me smile

Gonna have be content
To stare at yer baby photos
'Til' it makes some sense
And were you ever mine anyway?
Speak up as I drop away

I wrote down what I think
On the head of a matchstick
Wrote it all short and sweet
All that made sense to me

Burnt six thousand minds
Sorry for all times
I just can't add up the sums
To find the damage we've done

I fell for you like a dog from a tree
Keep a straight stitched face
As the ground makes a bed for me
I keep my eye where I fell
Sends no replies

You can run so long from sadness
That you're never at home for the fun
I can't make excuses
For the short hand abuses
Thank God it ain't a Sunday night

I wrote down what I think
On the head of a matchstick
Wrote it all short and sweet
All that made sense to me

Burnt six thousand minds
Sorry for all times
I just can't add up the sums
To find the damage we've done

I wrote down what I think
On the head of a matchstick
Wrote it all short and sweet
All that made sense to me

Burning out in the lights
Sorry for all times
I just can't see how it comes
The damage we've done
The damage we've done
The damage we've done


21.Dead Letter Chorus

Everyone talks so fast and walks so slow
Suddenly in a town they don't know
Last stop and strangers drink
And admitting me in the midnight show

And two kids sweat
As he's trying to get his lips to her neck
It's all up to him, it's a concession film
But what do you do? Where have I been lately?

Dirty water interrupted by
A bridge that's not too sore on the eye
Guy in the better looking pants
Is ruining the other's night

And will he hurt
As the air conditioning draws out the shirt
It's all up to him, it's a concession film
But what do you do?
Where have I been lately?

It's if nothing I said knows new
It's if you've never heard anything true
But we will try 'til the next time or the last time

Everyone talks so fast and walks so slow
Suddenly in a town they don't know
Hours come and minutes fly
The fifteen stories window high

And two kids sweet
As he tries to stare his shame to his feet
'Cause you owe it to him, it's a concession film
But what do you do? Where have I been lately?

It's if nothing I said knows new
It's if you've never heard anything true
But we will try 'til the next time or the last time


22.Everyone's To Blame

Let's take on the world and just forget that you feel it, girl
Once you're away, everyone's still the same
If I could rip at your shirt, just to see if it'd hurt
Every day's a golden day, when you've got someone to blame

Could you feel so much in a bus
You're sure there's nothing you can trust?
Once you're away, everyone stabs the same
Sleep forever on your breast, treat everyday now like a test
But you'll still say, everyone's to blame

Let's take on the world and just forget that you feel it, girl
Once you're away, everyone's still the same
If I could rip at your shirt, just to see if it'd hurt
Every day's a golden day, when you've got someone to blame

Everyone's to blame


23.Fifteen

Hate your friends
Cos they're the only ones that make you want to die
And they make their scene the priss and preen
They'll never get it right
The mirror on the living room wall
Aint been too kind since you hit grade four
But honestly, the last thing he'll say tonight
Just put your things away, you know its just not your time

He's the boy you got
He's the ticket stub that never won a prize
And and there's no hard sell cos he's got a face
Came straight from a fight

But he answers we he calls
And he's under six feet tall
But honestly, the last thing he'll say tonight
Just put your things away, you know its just not your time

He's big and dumb like a dagwood dog
He's jeans never fit quite right
But there's a razor blade cut
And a feeling in your gut that says
There aint no way to disguise it

Hate your friends
Cos they're the only ones that make you want to die
And they make their scene the priss and preen
They'll never get it right

The ones who shine so bright
Are made or broke come Friday night
But honestly, the last thing he'll say tonight
Just put your things away, you know its just not your

He's big and dumb like a dagwood dog
He's jeans never fit quite right
But there's a razor blade cut
And a feeling in your gut that says
There aint no way to disguise it

But honestly, the last thing he'll say tonight
Just put your things away, you know its just not your time
That's the way, we're gonna get it right


24.Flag Fall $1.80

If I'm so unpopular out on the highway
Why is everybody waving at me?
See if they even knew ya
Wouldn't you find that a little peculiar?
Six pack, cheaper domestic
To keep the council's road works protected.
Mopping up puke for all the high school kids getting soaking.
Ripping off stickers off dashboards preventing me from smoking.
We ain't going west of the city
But I'll take you to the station 'cause your girlfriend's
pretty.
Six pack, cheaper domestic
To keep the council's road works protected.

I can get you where you want.
Start at $1.80 add the extra.
But for that
Late night AM talk back line.
Don't use my mirror for your hairdo
If you don't mind.

I can get you where you want.
Start at $1.80 add the extra.
But for that
Late night AM talk back line.
Don't use my mirror for your hairdo
If you don't mind.


25.Forever And Easy

Dress my riding just because it's a Sunday
You can feel me riding just because I'm cheap
If you want to claim it a 'boy's own' ending
If you just want to win it just for the team
I'm free

You can feel me up and I'll pretend you're someone special
I can make you believe I'm only in it just for the bleed
Yeah, but if you want to claim shit on any kind of ending
If you want to break my ass and leave
Yeah, I'm free

Dress my riding just because it's a Sunday
Feel me riding just because I'm cheap
If you want to claim it a 'boy's own' ending
If you just want to break me, I'm free
I'm free

Take me easy and I can take your time


26.Forget It Sister

Good morning baby.
I feel like I've been staring at you for days.
Is there a little corner
Of your heart that I can claim?
'cause I ain't slept for days.
Ginger wine and lemonade.
I dig you 'cause you understand
Why I wash my face and wash my hands
A hundred times a day.
And does it really mean I'm going insane?
And if that way I thought
I'd paint your face on every wall.

Now do you think that it's time we forgot about the locals?
The real estate man, the Christmas tan, the bills and your
bifocals?
Leave the suburban crawl, this city gentry
But forget it sister I ain't going to the country.

We could live on mash potatoes, beer and leave the shitty
neighbours behind.
Ditch the crappy records, grab the portable and see what we'll
find over that sign.

We could live on mash potatoes, beer and leave the shitty
neighbours behind.
Ditch the crappy records, grab the portable and see what we'll
find over that sign.

Good morning baby.
I feel like I've been staring at you for days.
Is there a little corner of your heart that I can claim?
'cause I ain't slept for days.
Ginger wine and lemonade.

Now do you think that it's time we forgot about the locals?
The real estate man, the Christmas tan, the bills and your
bifocals?
Leave the suburban crawl, this city gentry
But forget it sister I ain't going to the country.

I ain't going to the country.


27.Fox On The Run

by Sweet
I don't wanna know your name
'Cause you don't look the same
The way you did before
You - you talk about just every band
But the names you drop are second hand
I've heard it all before

Fox on the run
You scream and everybody comes a running
Take a run and hide yourself away
Foxy is on the run
F - foxy
Fox on the run and hide away

You - you talk about just every band
But the names you drop are second hand
I've heard it all before
I - don't wanna know your name
'Cause you don't look the same
The way you did before

Fox on the run
You scream and everybody comes a running
Take a run and hide yourself away
Foxy is on the run
F - foxy
Fox on the run and hide away

Fox on the run
You scream and everybody comes a running
Take a run and hide yourself away
Foxy is on the run
F - foxy
Fox on the run and hide away


28.Gasoline For Two

Lyricist:Rogers Tim Adrian

You wanna leave today
While the times still yawning
Put on your dancing shoes

I got gasoline for two, ain't got no plan
Sitting straight and stupid, if you got a light
You keep star form and copying in tight
But I'm afraid and you're too eager

Let's get it straight
Who's in the passenger seat, yeah?
Don't let me down
'Cause I don't know if I can take it again

Coast to coast at night, I think of you everyday
Feel my hand, you think it goes soft that way
You notice lately how, the one who's talking
It's got less to say and I think it's getting worse
Every other single day
But I'm afraid and you got no credence

Let's get it straight
Who's in the passenger seat, yeah?
Don't let me down
'Cause I don't know if I can take it again

Don't know if I, don't know if I can take it again

You wanna go all the way
Can we go all the way?
You wanna go all the way
Can we go all the way?

Do you really wanna get out of this crowd?
Do you just wanna make it to the next town?
Do you really wanna get out of this crowd?
Do you just wanna make it to the next town?
Do you really wanna get out of this crowd?
Do you just wanna make it to the next town?


29.Gira E Respira

After this is over gonna sake your claim
Make noise to rest and cannon nice your name
you can shave on me a thousand ways to realise you wake with the
same face

Give me just five minutes I can prove I can reinvent the wheel
Cut a finger from my hand I can prove to you I can steal

Still breathe before you fall
Like you've never tasted air before
How long before you fall?

After this I'm gonna need to think
Do I need you more than my next drink
After this I'm gonna need to pay for all the gods and assholes
that I meet today

And which path did the senate only live for 45 minutes a day?
Would you laugh if you started to live only 45 minutes a day?

Still breathe before you fall
Like you've never tasted air before
How long until you fall?

Still breathe before you fall
Like you've never tasted air before
How long before you fall?


30.Goddamn

Don't need to spoil your day
But I think if I ever get to see you today
I'm gonna rub you out
Can't remember every word you said
So we can't even matter
'Coz we'll only remember what's cut in lead

I was just trying to warn ya
In my head I'm thinking that wrong
Everything that the body can do
And when you find the strength to get off the floor
I'm gonna take every single one
Sent out on you

Just wanna spoil your night
'Coz three hundred miles of distance ain't nothing
That's not sitting right
I can't remember every punch you took
And the times I sent a lash to make sure
That you couldn't take a look

Everyone just kept on crying
When every ripple in blood and every heart in his mouth
Meant a life to get through
And when you find the strength to get off the floor
I'm gonna take every single one
Sent out on you

Come on

There's a club at the tender
'Coz you never can seem to remember
Every time I fell
Don't wanna rip your skin off
'Coz you just can't seem to get off
Watchin' me, the head ruler say
Let it rock

When you take you take me with you away
Ah when I fake I'll take me with you away
Take me with you away
Won't you fucking take me with you away
Take me with you away
Take me with you away


31.Good Mornin'

Lyricist:Tim Rogers

If you tuned in correctly this morning
Kissed his cheek, get your tea and your toast in
Got the greatest of the latest Top Thirty
To clear your mind of all things unfaithful or dirty

What do you like to hear with your soldiers?
The sponsor needs to know what you told us
Got a chorus written for us straight from the file
Just check your brain into the AM dial

Waking up is easy when you've got a voice you know
Rattling up the ratings on the breakfast show
Waking up is easy when you've got a throat you love
Telling you what's out there

Is anyone out there?
Is anyone out there?
Is anyone out there?

If you don't like the nest that you've made
We got a competition running you can leave today
Pack your bags, clean your ears of the city
We got a place where even your car looks pretty

Waking up is easy when you got a host you know
Rattling up the ratings on the breakfast show
Waking up is easy when you got a throat you love
Telling you what's out there

Is anyone out there?
Is anyone out there?
Is anyone out there?

Good mornin' ladies, do you need a man?
Put your trust in our thirties and over plan
Trust me

Waking up is easy when you've got a voice you know
Rattling up the ratings on the breakfast show
Waking up is easy when you've got a throat you love
Telling you what's out there

Is anyone out there?
Is anyone out there?
Is anyone out there?

Is anyone out there?
Is anyone out there?
Is anyone out there?

Good mornin', good mornin', good mornin'
Good mornin', good mornin', good mornin'
Good mornin', good mornin', good mornin'
Good mornin', good mornin', good mornin'


32.Grand Ted

You've got me seen like a photo
Or I've got an old photo
Keep on your new feet
And we're sharing the same seat

We're all singing the same songs
The kid wants his pants low
They're holding them in tight
Just make him sleep alright

And I want sorrow
From now on everything's cold in here
From now on I want sorrow here today
Today it's your day
Today
Today it's your day

I've got enough on my shelf
Don't wanna do it all myself
Want you to tell me what I don't
Just tell me I look like a bum

Can't fake it with no-one
Just wanna cry when it's all done
Wrap me up in your flag
Tell me my music's too loud

And I want sorrow
From now on everything's cold in here
From now on I want sorrow here today
Today it's your day
Today
Today it's your day

And even if you wanted to get just bring it back to me
And if you're wanting to leave I'm here
And even if I hear what you said
What I said
I'm telling you Ted


33.Gray

Drunk at Cannon Falls
I never made the call
I had your number

It was chiseled
On my hand and stained
Fell asleep to the line
Lyle sung, 'She's made up her mind'
Now I'm the twenty first descendant
Of the age

And I don't want it getting 'round town
'Cause you'll kick my skinny ass
If you ever saw me down
I can deny it 'til they all gone away
But I just don't think
We'll ever get that other band together

Tried on all of your clothes
But even me and your girlfriend know
That there's only so much one guy
Can steal and so

We'll all choke on the slack
Try like hell to dream you back
Of the nothing I got
You know that
You've always got half a soul


34.Guys Girls Guitars

There's a guy singing in the edge of the room
Making sounds through a face like a prune
He's got them fancy checkered pants and a chip in his tooth
Oh no, yeah, yeah, yeah
Suffocating from patchouli and smoke
Here's the fifty-first song that he wrote
About the girl who split fifty weeks ago
Oh no, yeah, yeah, yeah

And there's a weight sitting real heavy down there on his
shoulder
The patented moves growing colder
The seventh chord just keeps getting older

Oh my soul, just hit me if I get on a roll
But this all sounded so good in the bedroom cold
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

But its only a 2 AM tune
With a bridge lifted from 'My Aim Is True'
From the setlist drink to the practice room
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

But there's a weight sitting real heavy down there on his
shoulder
The patented moves growing colder
The seventh chord just keeps getting older

And he knows just as sure as this microphone stinks
There's a change coming through and he ain't going home alone
tonight

And there's a weight sitting real heavy down there on his
shoulder
The seventh chord just keeps getting older
Is it me or is the room getting colder

Oh, we're going down, but don't it sound sweet
Feel the dust building up at our feet
The seventh chord just keeps getting older

Oh, we're going down, but don't it sound sweet
Feel the dust building up at our feet
The seventh chord just keeps getting older


35.Handwasher

Lyricist:Russell Hopkinson, Andy Kent, Tim Rogers

Never wanted more
From my local store
A chance to be by myself
Be on the right side of the shelf

But for every drink I serve
Sure wish I had callous nerve
'Cause for every sandwich I know
There's a sack of shit to be dosed

Wash my hands in shame
4000 times a day
And when I make it on home
There's a smell that always stays

I know the regulars well
From every stale grill I sell
From bainmaries to cold tea
I'm the service that you need

There's a poison in my drink
It's gonna take each good thought
I could think
There's a poison I know

Wash my hands in shame
4000 times a day
For while I service your greed
I'm just dying to be clean


36.Happy Anniversary

Well I heard you thinking early morning as you rub your eyes
your pretty poker face as its staring down at my roulette mind
and blinds from blankets that you'll never miss
I can't stop the punch that old sun hit you with
You said 'hey, boy are you just in love with the idea of me?'
You read my horoscope as I'm stuck here lost in a history
And Debora Kerr's playing Ida Carmody
And everything's sitting where its supposed to be
Take me out, and get me well well shickered
for all the promises I never delivered
Take me out, take me out tonight

I don't dare suck my fingers I know that aint gonna pass your
test
You keep me in a cigarette case in a second hand flower print
cocktail dress
And as your cat scratching at your toes
You wonder just how much he knows
and maybe if we're still batting on the same side

Take me out, and get me real real shickered
for all the promises I never delivered
Take me out, take me out tonight

Well I heard you thinking early morning as you rub your eyes
your pretty poker face as its staring down at my roulette mind
Now the city's calling out our name
Happy anniversary baby

Take me out, and get me real real shickered
for all the promises I never delivered
Take me out, take me out tonight

Oh so take me out get me real real cut
For all the things you remember, all the things I forgot
Take me out, take me out tonight


37.Heavy Comfort

Lyricist:Tim Rogers

Did you catch her in the window?
Do I run or do I mend?
Praying for heavy comfort
To fill his pockets with his hands

Men in chip shops, milk bars, postmen
Used to fork out for your mouth
And now the compliments have stopped
Since every asset's headed south

He was a sharp one, what a looker?
The last drunk to hang around
Get well, she could color knickers
Just for the mirror now

Had a dream once it was morning
In a dress that never frayed
And now your friends are like eyelashes
Too many dropping off these days

For forty seconds today
I was sure that we were
Feeling the same way
For forty seconds today
I was sure that we were
Feeling the same way


38.Heavy Heart

Been watching so much TV
I'm thinner than I should be
I'm like a waterlogged ball
That no-one wants to kick around anymore
An all day morning hair-do
That no comb can get through
It's all granola and beer
A calling card and a silk cut souvenir
I miss you like sleep
And there's nothing romantic about the hours I keep
The morning when it starts
I don't look so good
Now I got a heavy heart

I talk a lot about football
And girls I kissed in Grade 4
I piss off my friends
And digging a hole just staring at the floor
Now every t-shirt's got a wine stain
I'm loving cigarettes again
I know every tune about guys and girls
and hurts and hearts and moans

I miss you like sleep
And there's nothing romantic about the hours I keep
The morning when it starts
I don't look so sharp
Now I got a heavy heart

It's just a low rent paying, palpitating pulp under my shirt
But there's a weight that's sitting
Oh God it hurts
Oh God it hurts

Been watching so much TV
I'm thinner than I should be
I'm like a waterlogged ball
That no-one wants to kick around anymore

I miss you like sleep
And there's nothing romantic about the hours I keep
The morning when it starts
Oh my heavy heart


39.Hi-way Fi

Never trust anything that looks like a family
Except for a portable house in style
If you can feel a song and make it seem so wrong?

When you left him standing six miles out of Broken Hill
You never thought that it could really hide
Ever feel a song somehow it felt all wrong?

Can't see you ever doing that and feel the same

Never trust mother, father, sister, brother, family
To get together and cast wine
Every neighbourhood wife knows she's got loaded time

You can bury your head in a photo full of barren
Never know what's going on outside
But here's a song that's gonna prove it wrong

Can't see you ever feeling that and feel the same

Have you ever feel the day when you think that it's yesterday?


40.How Much Is Enough

Lyricist:Russell Hopkinson, Andy Kent, Tim Rogers

Would it stain if the lights fell down on your name
And each face began to look all the same?
How much is enough?
Did you ever want to just lose touch with everybody you know?

In the morning when you've wiped his taste away
The last of the red and all the records you played
How much is enough?
Did you ever want to just lose touch with everybody who heard?

Did you ever want to join a collective
Or throw a party just to make sure you missed it?
Did you ever want to be a collective?

Would you sell out to the dealer with the lowest cost
And you burn every proscenium floor?
How much is enough?
Did you ever want to get in touch with somebody you've hurt?

Offered up some kind of collective
Where you can never ever be left selected
Did you ever want to be a collective?

If the lights then fell
Do you think you could tell
How much?

If the lights then fell
Do you think you could tell
Just how much?


41.I Can Hear The Grass Grow

I see the people all in line, I'm thinking they look at me.
Can't imagine that their minds are thinking the same as me.

I can hear the grass grow.
I can hear the grass grow.
I see rainbows in the evening.

My head's attracted to a magnetic wave of sound.
Lead springs curly up girls are making their way around.

I can hear the grass grow.
I can hear the grass grow.
I see rainbows in the evening.

Can't seem to hold the mouth aside.
My senses follow with the skies
Yeah I won't do without my baby.
Yeah I need you to help now baby.
Yeah I won't do without now baby

Put your head down to the crowd and listen to your mind.
Think against the watch you found, I know that you're not my
kind.

I can hear the grass grow.
I can hear the grass grow.
I see rainbows in the evening.

Can't seem to hold the mouth aside.
My senses follow with the skies
Yeah I won't do without my baby.
Yeah I need you to help now baby.
Yeah I won't do without now baby

See the people all in line I'm thinking they look at me.
Can't imagine that their minds are thinking the same as me.

I can hear the grass grow.
I can hear the grass grow.
I see rainbows in the evening.


42.I'll Make You Happy

I, I'll give, I'll give you, I'll give you love.
I'll give you loving all the time.
Give you kisses just like wine
Does his lips taste sweeter than mine?

I'll make you happy (just like your mamma wants)
I'll make you happy (just like your daddy said)
I'll make you happy just like your mamma said to me

If, if you, if you don't, if you don't think.
If you don't think i'm your man
Find somebody if you can
And get them to hold your hand, not me.

I'll make you happy (just like your mamma wants)
I'll make you happy (just like your daddy said)
I'll make you happy just like your mamma said to me

I, I'll give, I'll give you, I'll give you love.
I'll give you loving all the time.
Give you kisses just like wine
Does his lips taste sweeter than mine?

I'll make you happy (just like your mamma wants)
I'll make you happy (just like your daddy said)
I'll make you happy just like your mamma said to me


43.I'm So Tired

I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink
I'm so tired, my mind is on the blink
I wonder, should I get up and fix myself a drink?

No, no, no

I'm so tired, I don't know what to do
I'm so tired, my mind is set on you
I wonder, should I call you, but I know what you would do

You'd say I'm puttin' you on
But it's no joke, it's doin' me harm
You know, I can't sleep, I can't stop my brain
You know, it's three weeks, I'm goin' insane, you know,
I'd give you everything I've got for little piece of mind

I'm so tired, I'm feeling so upset
Although I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette
And curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid get

You'd say I'm puttin' you on
But it's no joke, it's doin' me harm
You know I can't sleep, I can't stop my brain
You know it's three weeks, I'm goin' insane, you know,
I'd give you everything I've got for little piece of mind
Give you everything I've got for little piece of mind
Give you everything I've got for little piece of mind


44.In The Street

Hanging out on the street
Same old thing we did last week
Thing to do, talk to you

Still you call, drop a pound
Pick you up 'til my pants are found
Wish we had the joys of man

On the street and half past midnight

Eating out on King Street.
The same old thing we did last week
One thing to do, talk to you


45.Iou2

Five star loving
Drench me in the shower
And when I go deaf
Just turn it up louder
And knock me over
Just like you should
More than you demanded
More than you could

When the rider comes around
Just be on time
Everything's smooth and we fall down on wine
And we fight about things
Can't find words
Forget about everything we heard

You spin any number
Before Let It Be
And you get hell drunk
'Coz you don't need to see

And you ask me to stay so I will stay a day
Drown me any hour
Let's go down slowly
Just you hitting me

When the rider comes around
Just be on time
Everything's smooth and we fall down on wine
And we fight about things
Can't find words
Forget about everything we heard

You can ask me to stay and I will stay a day
Ask me to come and I will make a break
You can ask me to stay and I will stay a day
Ask me to come and I will make a break


46.Jaimmes Got A Gal

Jaimmes got a girl
don't think things are gonna be the same.
He aint coming out and drinking tonight.
think he's gonna change his name.
We can't work it out.
He aint punching walls anymore.
I'm aint gonna wake up now
find you on my floor.
A game's a game, you don't want it being the same
But you sure aint like you were yesterday
But go on and try it
And if it's true, it just aint my place to say
But you sure aint like you were yesterday.
Go on and try it.

Phone sure sounds dead
my pocket sure feel tight
The things I promised not to do with you today
I sure need to tonight.
But it's all working out
just like they said it would be.
You aint gonna fall on my floor
from now on it's just we three.


47.Janie Jones

by the Clash

He's in love with rock'n'roll world
He's in love with gettin' stoned world
He's in love with Janie Jones world
But he don't like his boring job, now

An' he knows what he's got to do
So he knows he's gonna have fun with you
An' he knows when the evening comes
When his job is done he'll be over in his car for you
You lucky lady!

An' in the in-tray lots of work
But the boss at the firm always thinks he shirks
But he's just like everyone, he's got a Ford Cortina
That just won't run without fuel
Fill her up, Jacko!

An' the invoice it don't quite fit,
There's no payola in his alphabetical file
This time he's gonna really tell the boss
Gonna really let him know exactly how he feels
It's pretty bad!

Let them know - how you feel


48.Jewels And Bullets

Every word they sling you hits like your folks have never been
kind
And the jewels on your apron could use some calomine
Ugly girls and pit faced boys all hunch and join in the line
Got the shoe that you lived in
And the towel that you dried in
There's a drink you can drown in
Choose a blanket to die in

Spill a drink on his front and salsa on the plans for a mall and
high rise
'Cause there's only so much of string that patron can pull and
unwind

Got the shoe that you lived in
And the towel that you dried in
There's a drink you can drown in
Choose a blanket to die in

Check out the towel you can die in


49.Junk

I aint blue yet hell I aint even sick
But this big ol bark sure sounds worse than its stink
Thick like dipsticks and white as a sheet
But for a pile of trash I sure smell sweet
Can in a bag for just $2.35
Nobody looks you straight in the eye
Drop like butter to the floor just let me lie?
Drop like butter, just let me fry

Been digging holes like I'm in need of work
I can't sit for a minute just dry my shirt
This city's been sucking on me like a cheap cigarette
Its drunk my drinks and cashed my bets

Can in a bag for just $2.35
Nobody looks you straight in the eye
Drop like butter to the floor just let me lie?
Drop like butter, just let me fry

Junk, Junk, Junk, Junk
Sure smell sweet for junk.


50.Ken (the Mother Natures Son)

You've lived on beans and rice
And fell for Jesus Christ
And if your pants are nice
Mother nature's son,
Never made sense until you begun
To play the kids for fun

Maybe start a TV show
A service in day-glo
Watch your ethics grow

Mother nature's kid,
Just keep the money hid
As if you never did sell

Mother nature's son
Never made sense until you begun
To play the kids for fun

You've never tasted hell
'cause Judas signed you well
And if the story sells

Mother nature's kid,
Just keep the money hid
As if you never did sell

Mother nature's son
Never made sense until you begun
To play the kids for fun


51.Left My Heart

So I was talking with my friend over a glass or 4
She said it just don't seem like holding hands means anything
anymore
Well, I'm here to say that it just couldn't be true
'Cause something shifts the floor everytime I get on next to you
So, last night when I left my heart all over the place
Just to try and stop me thinking about each corner of your
pretty face
I left it out all dressed like a christmas ham
Just to remind myself what a whining sack o' shit I am

So, hold my hand
I don't look quick, but I fall down often if you understand
Let me plant this kiss right on you
and nothing else but to keep the cold away for a minute or two

Yeah, so I smile, because it takes less muscle than to forrow
the brow
I swing around like a meat hook, just to catch what else is
falling down
Even if it's all hitch and a borrowed car
It's gonna take me blind and far away from where you are

'Cause I've been workin' so hard on keeping my shoes there alone
But you mess me up like rocket fuel a long, long way from home
So I leave myself all dressed like a christmas ham
To remind you what a sorry sack of shit I am

So, hold my hand
I don't look quick, but I fall down often if you understand
Let me plant this kiss right on you
and nothing else but to keep the cold away for a minute or two

Last night, when I left my heart all over the place
Just to try and stop me thinking about each corner of your
pretty face
I'm here to say that it just could be true
But something just ain't letting me get away from you.


52.Live With Me

by the Rolling Stones
I got nasty habits, I take tea at three
Yes and the meat I eat for dinner must be hung up for a week
My best friend he shoots water rats and feeds them to his geese
Don'tcha think there's a place for you in between the sheets?

Come now, honey, we can build a place for three
Come on now honey, don'tcha wanna live with me?

There's a score of hair-brained children, they're all locked in
the nursery
They got earphone heads they got dirty necks, they're so 20th
century
Well they cue up for the bathroom 'round about 7:35
Don'tcha think we need a womans touch to make it come alive?

You'd look good pram pushing down the high street
Come on now honey don'tcha wanna live with me?

Oh, the servants they're so helpful, dear the cook she is a
whore
Yes, The butler has a place for her behind the pantry door
The maid, she's French, she's got no sense, she's from the Crazy
Horse
When she strips, the chauffeur flips the footman's eyes be
crossed

Oh, don'cha think there's a place for us, right across the
street
Don'tcha think there's a place for you, in between the sheets


53.Minor Byrd

Lyricist:Russell Hopkinson, Andy Kent, Tim Rogers

At my nan's I wasn't thinking
Over boiled beans and chicken
Something cool fell in my juice cup
Sudden I could lie and make stuff up

Is that why
My future's so bright?
So strap in and go
The backyard rock show

When all city folk got southern
Paint my face up with my brother
Uncle choked and started shaking
Over whiskey, eggs and bacon

Is that why
Our nights look so bright?
So strap in and go
Backyard rock show


54.Moon Shines On Trubble

Lyricist:Tim Rogers

Moon shines hard on trouble
Check your watch by the Lake City Shuttle
And she tries hard not to decide
Are you gonna tell him where you go nightly?
When you're dressed so brightly
Is the money gonna come without a price?

A hundred holes and bubbles
You gotta avoid trouble
Just waiting for something to arrive
And all your daydream heroes
Are losing their hair, teeth and halos
Who're you fall into tonight?

Pay the bills for Uncle Ted, he's a nutter
Lives on bananas and peanut butter
Keeps his teeth in a glass of Long Island tea
And are you gonna tell him where you go nightly?
And that the kids are tucked in tightly?
Is the city big enough for you to hide?

A hundred holes and bubbles
You gotta avoid the trouble
Of waiting for a way out to arrive
All your daydream heroes
Are losing their hair, teeth and halos
Who're you fall into tonight?

Are you gonna tell him where you go nightly?
Where you go nightly?


55.Mr. Milk

I'm sure I could make your hand fit mine
If I deliver these custard trays on time
Four-thirty A.M. ding-dong rise
I kiss her photo with the beam
From the ash tray light

I'm sure I could deliver better
If I pretended I'd never met her
She said she'd love me sweeter
If we made it to the pier for dinner

Seven months in a ditch for the ring
Kept for her to decide
If my milk truck's going to be her chariot ride
Four-thirty A.M. ding-dong rise
Morning sun makes my sour heart pasteurize

I'm sure I could deliver better
If I pretended I'd never met her
She said she'd love me sweeter
If we made it to the pier for dinner

Welsh rarebit with a new dress on
If that ain't enough to make you smile
Every Kintail Road kid knows
When she's around then cheese goes dry


56.My Friend Jack

My friend Jack eats sugar lumps.
My friend Jack eats sugar lumps.
Oh what beautiful things he sees.
Oh what beautiful things he sees.

He's on a voyage across an ocean.
Waves off his mind, sense and motion.
Lost in a wonderland of colour and of sound.

My friend Jack eats sugar lumps.
My friend Jack eats sugar lumps.
Oh what beautiful things he sees.
Oh what beautiful things he sees.

He's seeing things he can't imagine.
Landscapes and sound revealed to him.
More than a million shapes that I will never see.

Can't you see how happy he is?
Nothing seems to put him down.
People think that he's just crazy.
He's the weirdest cap in town.

My friend Jack eats sugar lumps.
My friend Jack eats sugar lumps.
Oh what beautiful things he sees.
Oh what beautiful things he sees.


57.On The Planet Of The Apes

Landed on a planet not unlike my own.
Men look heaps like apes.
Monkey freedoms roam.
Soldier aches on horseback.
Soldier aches on foot.
Learned apes with orange hair give you dirty looks.

You must fight to live,
You must fight to live,
You must fight to live
On the planet of the apes.

Befriended by one ape.
And much to my shocked grin
he began to speak to me
but I began to resent.

You must fight to live,
You must fight to live,
You must fight to live
On the planet of the apes.

Realise this was terran soil.
This was to be man's fate.
Monkeys treating me like shit.
You stinking apes, you filthy apes.

Learn all their customs.
Never tell them no.
Ape shall not kill ape.
God help those who do.

You must fight to live,
You must fight to live,
You must fight to live
On the planet of the apes.


58.Opportunities

He made the news today for the first time on page three.
Left the local supermarket job in sale and figures.
Makes a treat each week, tomorrow sits at home.
He'd be such a lovely boy if he'd only leave the girls alone.

You could see it in his face
Each time he ran away.
It was a ba-ba-ba-ba-ba big opportunity.

Bathroom porcelain and handles made of brass.
Took the proper grooming and full year language class.
They're sure he's the guy to snatch them from this scene
and take them to some place they're sure their mother's never
been.

You could see it in his face
As the colour drained away.
It was a ba-ba-ba-ba-ba big opportunity.
A ba-ba-ba-ba-ba big opportunity.
A ba-ba-ba-ba-ba big opportunity.

Cold evenings create a living room dance.
Spend late nights revolving around one lost chance.
Oh yeah.

They're gonna jump the train it's the last one today.
Join us in the back row of the ones that got away.
Join a big parade, it works for you and me.
And you'll add a thrill because you'll hear it on TV.

Throw it up against the wall
Just to see how far it falls.
'cause it's a ba-ba-ba-ba-ba big opportunity.
A ba-ba-ba-ba-ba big opportunity.
A ba-ba-ba-ba-ba big opportunity.


59.Ordinary

We're so ordinary
Can't seem to break the hold
Of every clown that's come before us
And every story that's yet to be told

And even though the paint's not dry yet
There's someone with their tongue hanging out
'Cause something sour don't taste so bad
When you can muzzle someone needs to shout

And everyone who's watching now
At the movie that's always re-run
Can throw a laugh and a stick in the pinks
Who overrated or loud or were young

And anyone who's looking out
Just waiting for tall guys to fall
Can rest assured in blankets now
That nobody can be that small

Bring him 'round the court house now
We're lying naked and ugly and cold
Don't play around the edges
Play with something that's dusted and old

And when we're lying, crying defenseless
Be sure that you get in a lay
'Cause something sour don't taste so bad
Now they'll be forgetting you everyday

And everyone who's watching now
At the movie that's always re-run
Can throw a laugh and a stick in the pinks
Who overrated or loud or were young

And anyone who's looking out
Just waiting for tall guys to fall
Can rest assured in blankets now
That nobody can be that small


60.Pizza Guy

Lyricist:Russell Hopkinson, Andy Kent, Tim Rogers

Grab a six pack for the way home
It's only twenty five minutes alone
At a chance to listen to what you see fit
Put your tail between your legs and you split

Was never one for luck
On a pay rise or a girl you got stuck
Never bother with FM radio
Pop a compilation tape and we'll go
But every dick that comes from the hills
Is gonna inundate you still

Never one to let something go
To make you hate or cuss at folks you don't know
As his girlfriend takes the last mushroom slice
You hope they never make their movie on time

Was never one for luck
On a pay rise or a girl you got stuck
Never bother with FM radio
Pop a compilation tape and we'll go
But every dick that comes from the hills
Is gonna inundate you still

Nineteen to twenty two
Just Nik, Jaimme, red wine and you
Into the Datsun and go
To another mass appeals show

Was never one for luck
On a pay rise or a girl you got stuck
Never bother with FM radio
Pop a compilation tape and we'll go
But every dick that comes from the hills
Is gonna inundate you still


61.Plans

Brush your hair to some Eurodisco trash
Two prophelactics and forty-five dollars cash
Corduroy jacket and some fifty buck shoes
That can lead like a lamp when they're a scrubbing up new
Sunday best on a Friday night alright
I'll meet you at the corner beneath the Goodyear foot sign
Where all dates are made by mobile
I'll send you a smoke signal just be there by nine

This smoke, I left it for you
To show Mum and Dad your new tattoo alright
So they're my plans, how'd they fit with you?

There's a streetlight for each night your heart hit the deck
This drink says I love you, this drink says I couldn't care less
Kiss me so I know I'm alive
The drinks taste crap but they keep coming til five

Numbers on the wall, I got my ears like a shell
The phone stinks of chips, cheap wine, mouthwash and gel
C'mon we'll drink the last of the rent
And I'll leave my number right down on the strap of your dress

And it's late, and she's Sue
Cos I read it on the back of her boyfriends neck alright
So they're my plans, how'd they fit with you?

Yeah, I had a plan, but how'd it fit with you?


62.Please Don't Ask Me To Smile

Lyricist:Tim Rogers

When I was in grade six
I used to hold open a door for a girl
And she called me a wimp
Said there's just no need
To be so fucking polite
I politely agreed with her
I think she was right

It just never entered my mind
That a twelve year old
Came down to choosing sides
You said I'd die if I had nothing to do

Put a drink in my hand
And I'll talk to anything that moves
I just refuse to give you
What you think would make things right

Just to find hate
When you've lost the will to fight
And would it be really
In touch with the times
To put somebody down
For choosing sides?

And you said show us them teeth
Give us them braces
Show us the dental work
That puts fear in twelve year old faces
I can make you feel even half worthwhile
But please don't ask me to smile

And times when it still feels right
I'll hold open a door for a girl
Or back down from a fight
And if there's just no need
To be so fucking polite

At least it helps you
Sleep easier at night
Just never entered my mind
That ever should come down
To choosing sides

And you said show us them teeth
Give us them braces
Show us the dental work
That puts fear in twelve year old faces
I can prove to you that I do or don't get high
But please don't ask me to smile


63.Punkarella

Lyricist:Russell Hopkinson, Andy Kent, Tim Rogers

Don't you wish that your kids all looked more fine?
Do you feel that your guy's below your style?
Animal slippers and a drink over Sunday mail
Coffee teeth and a cigarette heart for sale

Any minute now something's gonna happen
Everything's falling 'cept the shit you fell in

Mailman, black umbrella, doesn't feel the need to tell ya
Sure have looked better and ego kissing fools
Are teaching your kids in private schools
Crack another bottle, it's five

Monday morning who could ask for more
Smoking buds, got your friends all 'round next door

Any minute now something's gonna happen
Everything's falling 'cept the shit you fell in

Mailman, black umbrella, doesn't feel the need to tell ya
Kudzu Cinderella, them ego kissing fools
Are teaching your kids in private schools
Crack another bottle, it's five


64.Purple Sneakers

Lyricist:Russell Hopkinson, Andy Kent, Tim Rogers

Had a scratch only you could itch
Underneath the Glebe Point Bridge
And now every boy in a knitted vest
Has got some precedent

So we took a personality pill
And something red to swill
And now every fire has gone out
In every heart that wanted to kill
Let's call it a day

Every thought that once had a sound
We'll have to hide 'til no one is around
'Cause there ain't no room in the city today
For explanations that you just can't say

You found out what shame can mean
In purple sneakers and gray jeans
And every walk to school that once made sense
Sure felt like an accident
Let's call it a day

For every trouble you found
There's a drink to lose it and drown
But do you need somebody to feel somebody?

Every day that once had a sound
We'll have to hide 'til no one is in town
I don't hate I just feel better
When no one else is around

So we'll take a personality pill
And something red to swill
And now every fire has gone out
In every heart that wanted to kill
Let's call it a day

For every trouble you found
There's a drink to lose it and drown
But do you need somebody to feel somebody?

You can shave a million ways
To make damn sure that the twelve in you stays
But do you need somebody to feel somebody?


65.Rational Hell

Take a look up take one more mouthful
This time I'm geting it right
It's giving me time or I'm leaving
Or another crying sleepless night

And your tall little brother just loves it when you buy him
Everything he's got in store
But you'll never you'll regret him
He never could

It means much more than it should
And all the heads knew that it would
It means much more than it should
More than you willed for
It means much more than it should
And all the heads knew that it would
And it stained just as thick as it could
More than you willed for

You're knowing if everyone's been there
And everyone knows the score
'Coz every one time you're pushing
Means just another night more
And your tall little brother just loves it when you buy him
Everything he's got in store
But you'll never you'll regret him
He never could

It means much more than it should
And all the heads knew that it would
It means much more than it should
More than you willed for
It means much more than it should
And all the heads knew that it would
And it stained just as thick as it could
More than you willed for


66.Rosedale

That's the two we are you and me
I can't make you talk, I'll make you see
Us and them just can't agree

We can't write the songs we want
To make it up to each other
So we'll just take it out on our brothers

I'll see you 'round the world

Make your mother proud, yeah
Never a blemish on your face
Skinniest guy I could never replace

We'll drag another round, yeah
And create another problem
And spill it out on our favorite album

Is it cool if I grab a little of your time?
I feel my heart over crowded
Steal everything you say and make it mine

If my head would allow it
Never trust anybody with a clear face
Shouldn't have to shout it
Your the enemy I know I'd never replace

See you 'round the world


67.Rumble

Lyricist:Rogers Tim Adrian

Got a new haircut
It cost me just six bucks
Filled a plastic bag with stuff I need
In a big dumb car, I'm off my knees

Fill it up and start over again
Ooh, it's the rumble and moan
Transistor AM cassette drone

It's the sound without a home address
And hydromatic hopelessness
Fill it up and start over again
Yeah, fill it up and start over again and again

All night
R A D I O
Hit me hard and hit me low

Static engine blow the scene
A rumble in the old machine
R A D I O
Ah, hit me just like Lionel Rose
R A D I O

I heard stomach and soul
A rumble underneath my toes
And it didn't come with a clear face
Designer punk or daily rate

Fill it up and start over again
Yeah, fill it up and start over again and again

All night
R A D I O
Hit me hard and hit me low

Static engine blow the scene
A rumble in the old machine
R A D I O
R A D I O
A rumble in the old machine

Ronnie James D I O
Fell down like Bocephus under all the noise and grease
Automatic mono style R I P it up Monkee style


68.Search And Destroy

by Iggy Pop and the Stooges
I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm
I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb
I am a world's forgotten boy the one who searches and destroys

Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology
ain't got time to make no apology


69.She Digs Her

Lyricist:Russell Hopkinson, Andy Kent, Tim Rogers

Your eyes hit a gilded window
When the housewives Journal, started closing every door
The wind's so strong and you decided
That you just don't want to be carried with it anymore

'Oh my god' the neighbours
Just can't put a word to it never seen to write or call
Greetings to the sister
As you're strutting through your suburb
Watching ladies trip and fall

She came when he left, never thought it was a big decision
Gave up on lives that revolve around car ignition
Hey did you ever get the feeling everything is working out okay?

Sunday afternoon sure used to sting until
The drinks kick in at ten
But now you've joined a collective
Surely nothing ordinary kicking up a storm again

'Oh my god' the neighbours
Just can't put a word to it never seen to write or call
Greetings to the sister
As you're strutting through your suburb
Watching ladies trip and fall

Came when he left, never thought it was a big decision
Gave up on lives that revolve around beer and fishing
Hey did you ever get the feeling everything is working out okay?


70.She's So Fine

I woke up bright and early this morning, my little girl's not
inside.
I've been searching everywhere, morning, noon and daylight,
yeah.

Cos she's so fine, she's so fine, she's so fine.
She's so fine you know I wish she were mine.

I got something to tell her, maybe she'll listen maybe not.
I never loved another woman before cos all my love she's got.

Cos she's so fine, she's so fine, she's so fine.
She's so fine you know I wish she were mine.

One, two, three, six.

Cos she's so fine, she's so fine, she's so fine.
She's so fine you know I wish she were mine and that's all.


71.Six

When you're six years old you can tell
How bad the girl behind you smells.
Chocolates for dinner and tea
And the gravel rash on my knee.

Never beats me people for too tall
And your mum and dad are screaming at walls.
There's just so much you can do
When you get up for them until they shoo.

If it's Tuesday then I'm a train.
No two days are ever the same.
Raggety ends of a tree.
Is that my grand mother following me?

When you're six years old you can tell
Which parents are all going to hell.
Custard apples and cream
And the tree house made for three.

Never beats me people for too tall
And your house guests are screaming at walls.
There's just so much you can do
When you get up for them until they shoo.

Take a look what I found
It's a bus ticket left on the ground.
The thrill to sign up to a team
And my brother never knows where I've been.

Quit bothering me.
There's so much you don't know
Just going on and dig your knee.

When you're six years old you can tell
How bad the girl behind you smells.
Chocolates for dinner and tea
And the gravel rash on my knee.


72.Soldiers

Around the corner every morning just to see you get to cross.
The civis fathers divide us up into cats and dogs.
The seargent major of the neighbourhood is weighing up the cost.
The senior transit lane
While we're standing in the rain
Worried if our heads will fall.
Alright, right.

We'll stay together 'til the kids die just to keep it clean.
Buy the weapons with the sales made from garden magazines.
Strike up the ladies to bake tea cakes for the council's war
machine.

And we're digging up the roads
And widening it just so
You can suffocate at home.
Alright, right.

The Prince of Wales tea
To keep the garden green
but they don't want to be there
The shit can't be there.

You woke me up just to check that I'm alive.
We talk to each other as if we're five.
Raise open the flag just to see which of us cares.

And we're digging up the roads
And widening it just so
You can suffocate at home.
Alright, right.

Alright.


73.Someone Else's Home

Lyricist:Tim Rogers

I've checked all the dailies
And subscription mail inns
But where do we come from?

You never stopped dusting
My middle ear's always buzzing
Where do we belong?
Trust me not 'cause I still don't know

We're not in someone else's
Someone else's home

Do you really want to exist past 1946
Or have I got you wrong?

When nothing much matters
But shoes, pants and haircuts
The morning engines go

Heaven's toast, like the sound they told

We're not in someone else's
Someone else's home

We're gonna run away
Make your heart my own
And if we're not hot at least we're not
In someone else's home

Subscription filled the yellow pills

We're not in someone else's
Someone else's home
We're gonna run away, make your heart my own
And if we're not hot at least we're not
In someone else's home


74.Sound As Ever

I can read your degree and now give me my medicine
'Cause every drink is a poison and I think I'm Judas
Christ, again she's got a feeling it's a sound, I'm faking
I got a feeling each corner's an ending

Each minute is a dollar you can pay back your parents with
I got a brand new vein you can tap on in and since
Now that you've got the power of mercy
And the chance to figure out just where I've been lately

Now that you've got a sniff of pharmaceutic
That can kill anything in my head that's electric
And I'm alone with sound

Now that you've got the power prescription
Please make me interesting
When I'm all done with sound

Read my mind
'Cause I won't give sign
She's got a feeling it's a sound, I'm faking
I got a feeling each corner's an ending


75.Spit

I'm feeling crazy or I'm half insane.
When I hear the click go off inside my brain
I spit.
I don't care who I hit.

But I aint too good at aim so you'd better stay outside my
brain.

I don't swear or hit anyone I hate
I just keep it all inside 'till the state

I spit
I don't care who I hit
But I ain't too good at aim so you better stay outside my brain

I spit
I don't care who I hit
But I ain't too good at aim so you better stay outside my brain


76.Stray

Lyricist:Russell Hopkinson, Andy Kent, Tim Rogers

It's irregular and it sure won't pay
But say naught 'til you got something to say
So I live for forty minutes a day
Can I have that?

The biggest kick you ever got
Was paying out on dinosaur rock
And said with every prehistoric thought
You can stain

For every door that's been closed
There's another of your friends you can dose
While your brains seem to speak through your clothes

And for every handshake that'll pay
There's another motherfucker who'll complain
That to keep a legal dose is so lame
Are you stray?

Those born with gold with weary souls
Should eat their young and die
Are you stray?


77.The Cream And The Crock

Took a drag from something I don't even smoke
And a line from something that some other guy wrote
Now it's red wine for headline, somebody's pulling favours by
phone
Is it really so bad or you just want some place to go?
Give me noise and the sound of hearts breaking in songs
Give them profiles and a voice which shows which country you're
from
Meanwhile, I was there thinking
Is it really that bad or did you just want me to go?

Hey, before you leave us by the side of the road
I want to tell you 'bout the little I know
It's the cream, it's a crock

Pick it up
And spill your guts to someone who knows
I'll suck you up like a kleenex and leave the mess in the back
of my throat
Meanwhile, I was there and thinking
Is it really that bad or did you just want me to go?

Hey, before you leave us by the side of the road
I want to tell you 'bout the little I know
It's the cream, it's a crock
Oh Rusty, let it rock!

Na na na na

Hey, before you leave us by the side of the road
I want to tell you all the friends that you know
It's the cream, it's a crock, yeah

Hey, we're sitting in the middle of the road
I want to tell you 'bout the little I know
It's the cream, it's a crock
Oh let it rock!


78.The Songs They Played As I Drove Away

I got from Campbelltown to Yass
On a borrowed tank of gas
And I never missed a pothole on the trail
but what really drove the nails
were the songs they played as I drove away
I wanted rock n roll all night
Or something to make the night seem like it was going to end
That there was something to get to up around the bend
I sure hope you're out drinking with friends
tonight, as I drive away

Tonight the radio jockey he tried to kill me
Every tune was like a dull punch in the rain
Its only 270 miles to my temporary
But oh that guy he's gonna make me pay

After Flame Trees and Khe Sahn
And Solitary Man
A long time listener first time caller just won a thousand plans
Buy some new clothes for the kids
and oh, they're gonna make me pay as I drive away

Tonight the radio jockey he tried to kill me
Every tune was like a dull punch in the rain
Its only 100 miles to my temporary
But oh that fucker's gonna make me pay

I know its late
Is it okay to call and say
You just wont believe the songs they played as I drove away
You just wont believe the songs they played as I drove away
Sure wish I brought a tape tonight as I drove away


79.Television Addict

I read the news the other day about a boy they threw away.
He went out and shot someone like some goddamn teleplay.
He claimed he was confused between fact and fantasy.
Seems he spent all his time in front of a TV screen

(and was a)television addict.

His lawyers said this boy was sick blaming ratings for his
crime.
They said too much sex and too much violence on the idiot box
blew up his idiot mind.

(he was a) television addict.
Watch it.

(he was a) television addict.

You and me we spend all our time in front of the window of the
world.
And just because I watch Diner, sure doesn't mean I need a face
lift
doesn't mean my brain has skipped. Doesn't mean anything.
There's more going on inside my mind than on any television
screen.

(he was a) television addict.

Just because I watch Prisoner, Cop Shop, Fat Cat, Humphrey
fucking B

(I'm a) television addict.


80.Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

Throw my ticket out the window.
Throw my suitcase out there too.
I throw my troubles out the door
I don't need them anymore
for tonight I'll be staying here with you.

I should have left this town this morning
But it was more than I could do.
'Cause you're loving me so strong
And I've been waiting oh so long
For tonight, when I'll be staying here with you.

Is it really any wonder
The love a stranger can receive.
You cast your spell and I went under
That's why it's so difficult to leave.

I can hear that old train whistle blowing.
Can see that station master too.
If there's a poor boy on the street
Let him have my seat
'cause tonight I'll be staying here with you.

Throw my ticket out the window.
Throw my suitcase out there too.
I throw my troubles out the door
I don't need them anymore
'cause tonight I'll be staying here with you.


81.Top Of The Morn & Slip Of The Day

I shuffle 'round the Earth like a ping pong
To find something just to hang my hat on
And somewhere just to let my pants get dry
Heard a trucker on a pay phone gas mall
sort his deal out with a twent five cent call
Shooting through before his see-through coffee went cold

And it sure did seem a good deal to me
But my head's too soaked in Brilliantine
So just take me out, alright!

I've brushed over stations and channels
and combed the town corduroy and flannel
Only know who you are when you move and who you're with when
you're alone
That's all I know

And it sure did seem a good deal to me
But my head's too soaked in Brilliantine
So just take me out, alright!

And top of the morn and slip of the day
Just don't sleep good since I been away
So here's to you, alright!

I think I've figured out a way to get by
I'll leave your bran sitting on a shelf
I think I figured out a cracking good way to get by
So kick me out, I'm going west, bye bye

And it sure did seem a good deal to me
But my head's too soaked in Brilliantine
So just take me out, alright!

And top of the morn and slip of the day
Just don't sleep good since I been away
So here's to you, alright!

Walk stupid like an expectant dad
waiting for your hand like I'm waiting for skylab
So kick me out, I'm going west, alright


82.Trainspottin'

You can haul my ass with a word from any line you took
From a laugh or any microphone you shook
You turned my head from a rock into a burning bush
With a chord, call or any Leon tape you'd push

Anyway we split the bill
You couldn't leave us ever standing still
Anyhow we try to forget
We'd still remember the date they met

Every aside is better than one of my jokes
Would you die if I ever called you out my folks?
And how long can we talk about Mick and Keith?
'Bayou Country' or 'Exile On Main Street'?

Still remember?

Anyway we split the bill
You couldn't leave us ever standing still
Anyhow we try to forget
We'd still remember the date they met

Anyway we split the bill
You couldn't leave us ever standing still
Anyhow we try to forget
We'd still remember the date they met


83.Trike

I'm gonna walk myself into town and ride on back
Guess it means you're quick and I'm clean
My sparkling machine, it's only forty minutes by feet
I'll be back in three, ride to the hills at night
To watch the lights go down and your neighbors fight
'Cause I'm the boy to keep you up at night

It's a magic carpet and chrome, can't reach me by phone
A new deck of cards through the wheels
To show you just deep I feel in the rear view mirror I see
My dust as you're following me

Ride to the corner at night
To watch the lights go down and your parents die
'Cause I'm the boy to keep you up at night
I'm the boy to keep you up at night

To keep you decent seven days a week
'Cause it's the second best thing I do with my feet
Watch your ass 'cause I know where you live
And which car you drive

I can look anyone in the eye
Eat my dust as I leave you behind

Follow you to your house
Do you want to kiss at mine?
'Cause I'm the boy to keep you up at night
I'm the boy to keep you up at night


84.Tuesday

Saw the sun come up again
Last week's papers and a pack of darts
That got me through 'til ten
The ten fifteen's five minutes late
I really should just get out more these days

Next door is coughing up his lungs
2 AM, I'm sure she said
She's gonna get herself a gun
I blacked out from 3 to 5
You should hear what's going on outside

As the morning bread goes hard
On the corner shop they're waiting
Just for rush hour to start
And I'm wondering why his kids are late
I really should just get out more these days

Days, and each one shows
There's so much I'll never know
If I don't ever get
If I never get home, home

And old Ryan's still his rust
And Tuesday comes and goes
Like any late night bus
I could do a lot more with my time
But you should hear what's going on outside


85.Twenty Eight

A heaven's to Betsy now we're 28 and what is there to do?
We hardly even talk no more but to you I'll be true
Tell me that you feel the same even though I knew
Everything that you say right before it came from you
Art house movies and flat renovations
Newspaper politic and dinner reservations, oh
And Monday's a wine appreciation course
Talk about te drugs that you just wont touch no more

What a breeze just help me off my knees

Yeah, you met her during happy hour drinks and you kissed her on
the cheek
You dreamt she sang like Sandy Denny and smoked like a malle
tree
But now you're talking invitations and seating plans and
marquees
It sounds real good in Italian but it scares to the teeth
And where're we gonna hide the keys

And you fold your arms behind your back like and old man
And you say you hate that guy but you sure understand him oh
And she's creasing at the mouth just like her old lady
Her sister's picking the names for the babies, oh

What a breeze just help me off my knees

do do do do

Now we're 28 and what is there to do?
We hardly even talk no more but to you I'll be true
To you I'll be true
To you I'll be true
To you I'll be true


86.Up-a-ways

You know that I get told so many times
Boy you gotta grow you some roots
The wondering dues sounds oh so good in a tune
But you need some place to wipe off all the mud off your boots
C'mon and grab your hat
Your suitcase and cash
Pack up your dacks, your hat
You're leaving today
We're checking out to check out what's up a ways

Well you look past me with those sleepy eyes
Well girl I gotta leave before the sun catches me
As if your wondering ways don't suit me spending my days
I'm thanking god you aint around as I'm painting my nails

Come lay down your hat
Your suitcase and your stash
Just make damn sure you aint around
When those milk bottles hit the ground
Go on get lost there up a ways

Well she sure was pretty and she sure did kiss good
I almost saw her face cellotaped to my suitcase
I'm car sick I'm punch drunk and I don't like to fly
But there's always something far off that catches my eye

And its an age old tune
I only know where I am when I move
So pack up your smalls
Your Pall Malls, your ash tray
We're checking out to check out what's up a ways

Oh don't make me no coffee don't you butter my toast
I'll send you a polaroid by overnight post
Well blow me away if thats the best you can do
Just sweep off that dirt that fell off your boots

And its an age old tune
You only know where you are when you move
But boy this aint a relationship
so spare me all that gracious shit
go on get lost on up a ways

Oh just pack on up and I'm heading off up a ways

Oh just pack on up and I'm heading off up a ways


87.Wally Raffles

Walter quit the RAF
When there was no good air left
Made it back to the clan
The dog, the wife
The betting slip wet in his hand

And no one's listening to the boys
Tim, Jaimme and Gab
Keeping him up while
His mistress rings his hands

Picked him up after school
Just make sure
You're looking good
And no one's leaving

Walter plays
Get off your knees
Walter plays
Get off your knees

It's mini coke and prawns again
In his room or on the sand
Not a day before he fell
Propping up the bar at the Raffle's hotel
And no one' leaving

Walter plays
Get off your knees
Give the kids a hand
Down on the sand

No one's listening
Walter plays
Get off your knees
Give the kids a hand
Down on the sand


88.What I Don't Know 'Bout You

Lyricist:Rogers Tim Adrian

This whole day was useless
Next one's gonna be worse
'Cos I'm wearing this badge of fortune like
A criminals wears a curse

I want to chase that rabbit right off the rails
And rip this metal keeping my mouth in check
But I need that muzzle like a razor and a stubble
Cuttin' all this history from my neck

Do you remember the year I first saw you in
Eating Mexican in '92?
In between your folks and a birthday toast
It was black from your fringe to your shoes

I'm picking apples out of paintings
And making record covers in the sky
I missed my boat sitting here imagining
Your face when you cry

Don't be cruel, come on be sugar in my tooth
I think I like what I don't know about you

This whole day threw up some tickets
None I'd ever choose
The sky's so heavy it hangs like a beer gut
Spilling stuff on my shoes

Don't get me wrong, I ain't complaining
I still got my legs like an old Christmas tree
But if I got faith why am I so scared
Everybody's dying on me

Don't be cruel, come on be sugar in my tooth
I think I like what I don't know about you
Don't be cruel, come on be champagne in my shoe
I think I like what I don't know about you

Fish and chips stall down the south coast ready
I can show you what I'm worth
So set me up a bottle and salt and vinegar
If you get there first, I said if you get there first

Don't be cruel, come on be sugar in my tooth
I think I like what I don't know about you
Don't be cruel, come on be champagne in my shoe
I think I like what I don't know about you


89.When You Got Dry

Yeah, you fell but never cried
Save your face and you can kill his style
Never knew but you found out
What it means to lose and it feels to shout
Mr then, its Mrs now
Ain't a shame in being obsessive and proud

You fell
Let's go get help
'cause when you should've been dead
Girl when you got dry

If I fell would you cry
Keep it straight and just be home by nine
He says never change, been always proud
Drop your pants and you could fool the crowd

You fell
Let's go get help
'cause when you should've been dead
Girl when you got dry

Could you feel if you could
Swinging free if you could nail skin to would
He says never change, been always proud
Drop your pants and you could fool the crowd

You fell
Let's go get help
'cause when you should've been dead
Girl when you got dry

When you got dry

Should've left you when you got dry


90.Who Takes Who Home?

Lyricist:Tim Rogers

When the day falls where do you go?
Six thirty, city windows dirty
Office nightclubs, drinks, dates and movie stubs
Be wary all secretaries

And eyes roam for who takes who home
As the rain's coming down to Friday night
Don't let me down again

Passport pictures with charts and figures
Daily nightly, oh, like me tightly
When the day falls where do you go?
Ten thirty, like me tightly

And eyes roam for who takes who home
As the rain's coming down to Friday night
Don't let me down again

Don't let me down again


91.Who Turned Out The Lights

Fire one shot in the sky
to clear the shit and what it's trying to hide
On the other side.
Got a message from TV
I got it straight 'cause it's talking straight to me.
And now the news is made.

One more kick 'cause the hours ticking by.
Who turned out the lights?
Who turned out the lights?
I've been here before, I just expected so much more.

And everything's a cold sore at eighteen
And everywhere is where I've never been
And will I ever get clean?
I used to see the ground so plain.
The trees would stop so the sky could start again.
And now the news is made.

One more kick 'cause the hours ticking by.
Who turned out the lights?
Who turned out the lights?
I've been here before, I just expected so much more.
Who turned out the lights?

And if I didn't see so clearly with my eyes closed
Then what would I know?
Walk around at night to find something to stumble into
just 'cause it's something to do.
Oh yeah.
'Cause it's not where you live but if you sleep at night.
Goodnight

One more kick 'cause the hours tick
One more prick 'cause the hours ticking by.
Who turned out the lights?
Who turned out the lights?
I've been here before, I just expected so much more.
Who turned out the lights.


92.Who's Leaving You Now?

Lyricist:Andy Kent, Tim Rogers, Mark Tunaley

You thought you'd never hear
A voice that cracked so clear
Thought you'd never see
A head that slept for three

Every dream that thrills you up
Smells like poison in your cup
And every dream that thrills you up
Now smells like poison in your cup

A drink never meant so much
You can put it all down to luck
Sleeps the only friend
You can grab on 'til the end

The now the voice and touch that used to thrill you up
Tears your lip just like a chip in a cup
And the feel that made you forget the rest
Just makes you feel like second best again


93.You And Your Sister

by Chris Bell
Say my love aint real
They don't know how real it feels.
All I want to do is to spend some time with you.
I can hold you.

Let me whisper in your ear
Don't you worry, they won't hear.
All I want to do is to spend some time with you.
I can hold you.

Friends will fade away.
I just want to hear you say.
That your love won't be leaving.
That your eyes aint decieving.
Love you everyday.
Just want to hear you say.

Sister says that I'm no good.
Reassure her if I could.
All I want to do is to spend some time with you.
I can hold you.


94.You Just Don't Do It For Me Friend

You Just Don't Do It For Me Friend
One, two, buckle my shoe...
Ah you know I've never really been that good with friends
I'll only let you in when I can see the end
I don't call back I'm never late
I talk like I'm fillin' holes or cake
It ain't that I don't like you you're just better off alone

You just don't wanna get too close to this guy
He'll pick at you like the raisins in a pie
If you got regular size feet
And your aftershave smells sweet
Keep your distance boy, it's curlin' up my toes

Like an arthouse movie or 50 dollar wine
I just miss the point every single time
But you just don't do it for me friend
And I just don't think I like the way this is gonna end

Did you notice how my eyes looked all around
When the talk turns back to you and how you found
That everything that you hold dear
Your prostate gland and your career
I'm listenin' just don't mess in my good ear

Like pawn shop furniture or arrowroot biscuits
I'm cheap and I'm everywhere and I'm good for five minutes
But you just don't do it for me friend
And I just don't think I like the way this is gonna end
Ah you just don't do it for me friend

I was there back row an empty show
You've dumped your band and you went an' gone solo
You sung so great but some notes hurt
You wiped the floor and you left no dirt
They loved you baby from the high C's to the pleats right in
your skirt.

I met your pals and we made some tentative plans
For singing and drinking and buying new corduroy pants
You're the kick in the pants I just didn't expect
You're the playful strangle around the neck
You sure can't do it for me madame
You sure can't do it for me madame

Ah you know I've never really been that good with friends
But you sure can't do it for me madame
Ah you sure can't do it for me madame
Goddamn!


95.You Want It So Bad

You want it so bad
You'd sell your mother, your brother, your sister
For a couple of sure hands
You want it so bad
A big week matinee but never on a Sunday
you're the one I'll stand

And can you want it so...

What's it gonna be today
I heard you're riding in on a stupor again
Spit in my ear 'til I get the point
Got to figure out he's a jealous boy

How can I get you so wrong?
Got the constitutional milky tick
But a smile that's gonna win the lottery
How can I get you so wrong?
I got feel like a frozen chip
Just needs attention, a place to sit

What's it gonna be today?
I heard you yap, yap, yapping from a mile away
A grasshopper dancing on the barbecue
Got to figure out get away from you

What's it gonna be today
I heard you're riding in on a message to me again
You have bitten my ear 'til I get the point
Got to figure out he's a jealous boy

Let the Earth fly in my moon
Like a message on me like a better tune
Just the sort of sound that makes you want to move away
Hear it comes riding on a chaperone stick
Like a greyhound slipping on a skating ring
Slap me with a credit card, I'm wrong again

You got it so bad
Don't know just where
But it's coming down hard on you again
You want it so bad
It's nice work if you can get it
But let me just forget it for million too, away from you

What's it gonna be today
I heard you're riding in on a stupor again
Spit in my ear until I get the point
Got to figure out I'm a jealous boy

What's it gonna be today?
Heard you yapping yapping yapping from a mile away
Your the grasshopper dancing on the barbecue
Gotta figure out, get the fuck away from you


96.Young Man Blues

Well the young man ain't got nothing in the world these days

I said a young ain't got nothing in the world these days

You know in the old days when a young man was a strong man
All the people they stepped back when a young man walked by

But you know nowadays it's the old man whose got all the money
and the young man ain't got nothing in the world these days

In the old days every cunt like you stepped back
When a young, skinny, faggy looking guy walked by
Walked by. Walked...

They stepped back

These days if you're the young man you ain't got nothing in the
world these days

You've got nothing, nothing
You've got sweet fuck all


97.You've Been So Good To Me So Far

I was doin' all the things which I used to hate the worst
I was listenin' to Joni Mitchell and I was tucking in my shirt
I smiled like a puppy dog who's scratching all his fleas
And it itched right down to the bone and it wouldn't even hurt
There's times that I remember yeah and there's the things that I
forget
Like the colour of your eyes and the time that we first met
But I always take the time out and it's a hurtin' more and more
To feel my heart jump out of my chest when I'm knocking at your
door

For a big old dog he sure acts like a cat
The more you wanna play the more he'll scratch back
Oh, oh oh oh

As sweet as you've been it just don't add up
And I'm drinking sweet bubbles from a paper cup
I know who you and you've been so good to me so far

Forgot my girlfriend's not even washed her hair
And I did all that couple stuff and I pretended that I cared
And I smiled like a twelve year old who wanted to stay 'round
After all the after dinner drinks had been put down

Eight is enough but nine's too much
You ran thru me like an interstate truck
Oh no, oh oh no
If I've been such a lightweight
Why can't I just be blown away from
Who you are and you've been so good to me so far

You can call and I won't cry
I just can't find the reason why
I know who you are and you've been so good to me so far

I've been doing all those things which I never did at all
And you sure would laugh if you hear the crap I talk
But I never saw it coming I just couldn't see that morning rain
That soiled all that clothes that I left hanging out again

You can call and I won't cry
I just can't find the reason why
I know who you are and you've been so good to me so far

You can call and I won't cry
I just can't find the reason why
I know who you are and you've been so good to me so far

You've been so good to me so far

You've been so good to me so far


98.20,000

I hand you a card
Why don't I give you a ring?
They'd be a great band
If that guy could sing
Dresses like Lee Marvin
Dances like Dave Graney
And he'll do anything
If you just promise to pay him

They just started in the bedroom
It's a legal thing

That old pair of shoes will
Always let you down
No matter how good they look
The sex would always drown
Sorry I can't work you're my ???
Two more hours go
And the minute's just dying

They just started in the bedroom
It's a legal thing

I hand you that card
Why don't you give me a ring?
They'd be a great band
If that guy could sing
Dresses like Lee Marvin
Never dance like Dave Graney
And he'll do anything
If you just promise to pay him

They just started in the bedroom
It's a legal thing


99.Weeds

Well, who'd of thought and who could know?
That time was ever gonna go this darn slow
And she's late and you just don't know
If you're ever gonna get on through this year alone

It was the way she put her hand on her hip
The sparkle in her eye
But you wonder if its gonna be there all the time

Leaves they fall
You know you're never gonna sweep 'em all
And weeds they grow
And peeking out all through the grass and snow

And he's a fake, yeah
From his smile to the tatts right there on his toes
But you're just not sure if you're ever
Gonna get through this year alone

He don't hold your hand, just when you need
And you're sure that twinkle in his eye
Ain't just there for you

But you can't ignore that, he sure looks like your dad
When can still look straight at night
When he tucks you in and kisses your belly
And strokes your hair, so you just don't cry

Leaves they fall
You know you're never gonna sweep 'em all
And weeds they grow
And peeking out all through the grass and snow

You sure wish you knew who was on the halfback flank
About twenty years, when you took those flags on back to back
Would sure make the stand offs and make more sense
If you could stand toe to toe and who took the bench
But not this silent treatment, that leaves you wondering
If this baby's heaven sent

It was the way she put her hand on her hip
The sparkle in her eye
But you wonder if it's gonna be there all the time

Leaves they fall
You know that you can never sweep 'em all
And weeds they grow
And peeking out all through the grass and snow


100.Judge Roy

The train came behind him like a shot from a gun in your sleep
And just for a second he forgot what to do with his feet
The photo creases dug in to his chest 'til they cut
And sweet Lily Langtry whispered his name through the dust

So it's out with the older one and in with the new
Here comes the judge in somebody else's shoes
Ah, here comes the judge in somebody else's shoes

Champagne heels are gonna dig a golden hole in the dirt
So keep your guns in your jackets, I'm sending you out with a
curse
Keeping the law from the Pecos to the Rio Grande
And sweet Lily Langtry whispered his name through the sand

So it's out with the older one and in with the new
Here comes the judge in somebody else's shoes
Ah, here comes the judge in somebody else's shoes

He heard her name call
As the Texas wind blows
From ten thousand miles away
To the cactus that frames her face

So it's out with the older one and in with the new
Here comes the judge in somebody else's shoes
Ah, here comes the judge in somebody else's shoes



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