1. |
The Sound of the Streets
04:43
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Roaming around my home town
I stumbled upon your maze
I fell among your enchanted jewels
Beguiled by the display
Seeking out the warm heart
That scent of mystery
I walked in weary from this trail
And you gave me an ear
You gave me some of that sweet sympathy
Now I was surely losing myself
To a feeling I’d been resisting for so long
Becoming flowers in bloom
Picturesque, but soon these colours fly away
Somehow we got so entangled
Passion withered on the walls
Abandoned trailer there on the outskirts
Our history had turned to stone
Piece by piece slowly dying
The pressure took the edge off of us
Watching the light of my soul - it was burning out
The dream catcher in the window - it’s all covered in dust
I am surely losing again
To that calling I’ve been resisting for so long
It hurts to admit it my friend
Her perfume is fading
The sound of the streets has caught my imagination
I’m heading out into the waves
Surely losing myself
To a feeling
Been resisting for so long
Just like flowers in bloom
Picturesque, picturesque
Her perfume is fading
The sound of the streets has caught my imagination
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2. |
Marvellous Things
04:37
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Down in Chinatown
Carrying a stash and meeting the boys
I’m so paranoid
Get a bite to eat and head for the show
We crawled from the train wreck high
And stepped through a warp in time
She’s talking like she knows me
When I don’t even know who I am
It set something in motion
I tried to get over myself
I remembered all the things that you said
My breath started to move again
The music woke my sleeping limbs
Feeling marvellous things might happen
If I gave it a chance
Feeling marvellous things might happen
If I gave it a chance
Leaving with the crowd
Disembodied voices follow me home
We’re drinking in the sounds
It’s two in the morning and she’s still going
Doctor won’t you help me please
I need a hundred dollar therapy
So you can tell me what it all means
If you know what I mean
It set something in motion
I tried to get over myself
I remembered all the things that you said
My breath started to move again
The music woke my sleeping limbs
Feeling marvellous things might happen
If I gave it a chance, if I gave it a chance
Feeling marvellous things might happen
If I gave it a chance, if I gave it a chance
Feeling marvellous things might happen
If I gave it a chance, if I gave it a chance
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3. |
Bruise
04:16
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Baby’s gonna bruise
Her tender little heart
Is slipping out of my arms
Lose
There’s so much to lose
Five years of our lives
So closely intertwined
She'll be begging why
And how long have I known
Its gonna be so
Hard to pry apart what’s fused
But I dream of being alone way too much
Does it mean it's over?
All I have left
Marches slow up to the edge of disaster
Nude
Covering our skin
With only our hands
Feeling so damned
Hard to pry apart fused
But I dream of being alone way too much
Does it mean it's over?
All I have left
Marches slow up to the edge
All our love
Pushing out over the waves in its casket
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4. |
Constant Star
03:42
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I’m no constant star
I'm a swinging moon
Just look at my moods
I'm just never gonna be
I'm no model form
I'm built out of flaws
There's dirt on my hands
I'm not a constant man
My darling you shouldn't care
You'll only miss the years where my hair’s all fallen out
From my knuckle shaped head
Cause I'm no constant star
I'm a waning whining moon
Dropping with the tide
Washed away from your side
If it gets too strange
Picture that your world has been remade
By benevolent hands
Don't be scared
Of your own company
It was a beautiful thing
It looks like I'm standing still
Can't you see that I'm changing
I'm not a constant star
I'm not a constant star
Don't be scared
Of your own company
It was a beautiful thing
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5. |
Extra Indigo
05:52
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Just eighteen and crazy
For a girl who’d grown bored of me
Bored of me
Wrapped up in a scarf in summer
Trying to hide her neck all marked with indigo
Indigo
I don't wanna know wanna know what went on
Same old song
It rang my head like a gong
She didn't wanna go anymore down that road
She crashed our bus
She got so sick of us
Now I know how she felt
So weighed down
Deceits are tethered to cheats
It will run you down like a leaden anchor
Buried in an ocean of melancholy
I’ll be pinned for my crimes by my indigo knees
You
Oh you - you know
I know you do
I’ve got to go
I’m so sorry
You don’t wanna know wanna know what I’ve done
I fucked up
Makes me sick in the guts
I don’t wanna go, go alone, down that road
But I've estranged myself
From the woman I loved
What have I done?
I’m so extra, extra indigo
What have I done?
I’m so extra, extra indigo
What have I done?
I’m so extra, extra indigo
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6. |
Double Pneumonia
05:16
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He’s always had double pneumonia
For as long as I can recall
Not quite sure how he caught it
But I can imagine it all
Maybe his old man was in town
Taking the kids around for the day
“How ‘bout some fun at the Randwick races?
There are horses and feathers and coloured silks and acres of scrunched up papers"
They dreamed of escaping
They dreamed of breaking away
Out those gates
Back at home she’s sitting at the table
From a box of wine she continually pours
Planning a meal for the neighbours
While feeding eight kids from nothing at all
Sweltering summer lawns take off
Deafening mowers and the rising dust
Trying to hear the results with our ears still ringing
Riding together in the cab of the truck
On evenings he cleaned the pool
Shimmering, so faithfully blue
Scooping up dead butterflies
He jokes that he's ready to die
He's so bored with his life
And still I don't call
Cause we don't know how to talk
I don’t remember you being so sad
Sitting in the bath with the race page so long
A good man who doesn’t deserve to drown
Or get drawn a double figure barrier start
He jokes that he's ready to die
He seems so sore
And yet, still I don't call
Cause we don't know how to talk
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7. |
Becalmed
05:45
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I confess: I loved her one night
When harbour light illumined my muddy mind
While you slept I slunk through the town
Wringing out the last of those pure hours
Better that I don’t begin
To betray what’s been slowly eating me
Never had to ever brave
Such a wave of so many wrong feelings
Nothing changed the night I was gone
Every ounce of doubt had been there for months
Just a pinch of sugar could sweeten our old wooden bowls
I’m a feral dog getting bored being home alone
Although you're there next to me
Your affections absorbed by a touch screen
An iceberg has risen between us love
And I'm afraid that the tip's all we've seen so far
Becalmed and drifting
Becalmed and drifting
Becalmed and drifting
Becalmed and drifting
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8. |
Only My Brothers
04:03
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At quarter to five
The clock on the wall
Knows Fridays are lonely
But who could I call?
And where would I go?
When nobody knows me
Like my brothers knew me
Only my brothers
Bright city lights
And big starry skies
Just ain't the honey
They used to be
Now they're not around
Life's not that funny
There is nothing I need
More than my brothers
Out on the streets where we felt so strong
Riding in our invincible cars
Carrying each other home when we got fucked up
Sharing our understandings of love
Laughing at how fast the river runs
Leaping along those banks like a rescue dog
Did it come apart?
When one of us burned
Out on the highway
Or was it the girls?
They finally won
The war for our feelings
But no other owns me
More than my brothers
And nobody knows me
More than my brothers
Out in the world where it all goes wrong
Who's gonna drive my getaway car?
Who's gonna bust me out when it all goes south?
Only my brothers
Only my brothers
Only my brothers
Only my brothers
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9. |
Carrying a Message
06:02
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Sweet fascination was rekindled when I found you at the party
Floating slipping over the smoke we dispensed with all the small talk
Reborn in the wild lands conceived in open hearts of fire
Described in dancing eyes filled with our gentle passion
Carrying a message
Through the muted lighting
Charging up my nerves
Those deadened primal wires
My morals barely clung
Her scent had touched my tongue
Moving with supernatural melancholy caught up in a tango
We lingered full of longing broken spells when the music had to end
Ignored in the corner we enjoyed our friends discretion
Then out on the street the night air cleared my head
Receiving the message
True and clear as lightning
No refuge on the open street
No saviours on the sidewalks
She opened up her life
When she offered me the night
Riding to the station all the while imagining your bed
Rising through the iron skyline its clock counts down my doom
I could hear the message
Whispered from the sky
Floating out from the pale moon
Driving sane men wild
Reaching down into the animal heart
That wretched lustful child
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10. |
Green Curry
07:30
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I went out for green curry at my friend's
And was welcomed by his dog’s up on the fence
He was juggling the pots and pans
While his pretty pregnant wife kissed me and let me in
He cooked for us with her accusing him
Of turning the chicken to rubber in the pan
I couldn’t help but laugh at the tone of his defence
It reminded me of my own domestic circumstance
Then I thought for a moment that maybe I’d got it wrong
We’re not that bad at all
We're Ironing out each crease
Rehearsing some ancient routine
A woman and a man
Ive got this other friend, his life has been less planned
He’s a restless soul, always jetting off somewhere
He was in Mexico with an ex-lover from long ago
When a little air sickness seemed to trick them both
When a teenage girl they said she’d never bear
She was hit by a car and had to learn to walk again
Her old injuries have made a difficult affair
I worry about her and the baby, but mostly the father, my good friend
And just for a moment I panicked from the thought
That something might steal my course
And alter my vaguest dreams
Before I can make up my mind
About the woman and the man
Cause not long ago we talked him off a bridge
Had his poor heart broke two years in a row
He said "it feels too soon but you know it’s always gonna feel too soon”
I hope their kids ok and keeps his blues at bay
And I thought for a moment that maybe I’d got it wrong;
We’re not that bad at all
We're ironing out each crease
Rehearsing some ancient routine
Called man and wife
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