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from The Waifs - Shelter Me (2005)
well i dont know anymore
what ive been livn for i dont know which way to go ive been followin somebody else i long for better times ive been tellin but more lies think ill go home long time away from my home i never left at all ive been followin the southern wind along the riverside its taken me back to where my heart lies |
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from The Waifs - Shelter Me (2005)
People who think they can
People who think they can I want to be just like those who think they can I want to be Not so far away From where I planned to be by now Time has a bad habit from flying I was sleeping when it passed me by I was dreaming of what I would wear when I go there. It's not easy being green in a world you have to tread on other people just to find a place to put your wares on show Its not required that you sing write or play you just wear the tightest one and smile in that certain way and think you can People who think they can I want to be just like those who think they can I want to be Not so far away from where I planned to be Good things come to those who wait I'm going to lift my head and keep my back up straight And when it matters most and I can't be found You just climb to the top and you will find hanging around with people who think they can People who think they can I want to be just like those who think they can I want to be |
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from The Waifs - Shelter Me (2005)
I decided no one's knowing
anything about where I'm going I can't even talk to my friends anymore Not blaming anyone for the mess I've gotten in I'm only frightened by the things that I've done Keep me safe from myself I can't do it without your help Your love's the finest thing that I've ever known I want to come home Thinking back when I was young and you kept me safe from everything set me straight when I went wrong raised me to respect myself I can offer no excuse for this senseless self abuse and all the pain that I've cause you to feel When I hurt myself it hurts you more and that's what hurts me most of all We shouldn't go on hurting anymore keep me safe from myself I can't do it without your help your love's the finest thing I've ever known I want to come home Oh I want to come home X 4 Keep me safe from myself I can't do it without your help your love's the finest thing I've ever known So take me now and shelter me for there's nothing left of me |
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from The Waifs - Shelter Me (2005)
Lest we forget,
your dates as a younger man. like how when you were 9, you fell in love because she was the 1st girl you'd seen throw a cricket ball. You knew that you'd be together for the rest of your lives. Now you sit alone in the sun, in the backyard, feeding the birds reading the newspaper. Thinking about the love that you shouldnt have lost. Love that you lost, love that you shouldnt have, Love that you lost, love that you shouldnt have, Love that you lost, love that you shouldnt have lost. When I was a child, I didnt see her much. She passed away before i was 5. I was so young that it barely affected my life. Then one day when i asked you told me she was magnifacent. all that i had was your word and a photograph. But that look in your eyes told me all that I needed to know. Love that you lost, love that you shouldnt have, Love that you lost, love that you shouldnt have, Love that you lost, love that you shouldnt have lost. Love that you lost, love that you shouldnt have, Love that you lost, love that you shouldnt have, Love that we lost, love that you shouldnt have lost. |
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from The Waifs - Shelter Me (2005)
SMITH ST
Woohoo hey hey Just a child being a child She didn't do what you had told her too Little big-eyed girl in a long world Maybe she embarrassed you With your fist you struck her down You walked away you left her screaming People lift their feet and step around I'm just as guilty You wouldn't treat a dog like that Wouldn't kick it in the ribs and throw it out the back Woo no So what else could she do but run to you When you walked off and left her in the streets all broken down I can't understand the force of your hand With strength of four men wouldn't knock me off my feet She was only three It's too late for me and my apologies I still feel guilty for what I did not do I should have helped you I bet you've been hurt before And you swore that you never would Now look into your daughter's eyes Are they just a mirror of your own childhood? You wouldn't treat a dog like that You wouldn't kick it in the ribs and throw it out the back You wouldn't treat a dog like that You wouldn't kick it in the ribs and throw it out the back You wouldn't treat a dog like that You wouldn't kick it in the ribs and throw it out the back Hey ohh You wouldn't treat a dog like that And all we do is turn our backs |
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from The Waifs - Shelter Me (2005)
It may sound strange to you baby, oh yes indeed,
When I leave you tomorrow, I'll be pleased. I have been scratching at you for too long, Too long, I think it's time for us to part. I do believe, that it is time. It may sound strange to you baby, yes, yes indeed, But when I leave you tomorrow I'll be pleased. I've been scratching at you for too long, I've torn your heart, There's blood on my hands and it's time for us to part. There was a time (there was a time), that you were my only one. There was a time, that you were my special friend. But now I hurt you every minute every hour, The cream of our love has gone sour, I'm the weed you're the flower it's time for us to part. I think that it's time. Did you see it coming? (no) Did you think it would end like this? (no) It should come as no surprise, you should have told it in my kiss. But when the lights go down you stand me okay, I am a low-down vicious dog by the light of day, But it comes I'll be no more in your way it's time for us to part. Well I think that it's time, hey hey. I do believe, don't you know, You, you've had enough of me baby, I think it's time. |
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from The Waifs - Shelter Me (2005)
Its not as though i have a pillow for my head
i'm not missing any thing yet things that you treasure are worthless to me i don't know i don't know how you do it to yourself wherever i go wherever i be i carry no love my spirit is free, free to watch the evening changing from afternoon its a pleasure that you rarely see around that time you'll be crawling home through the rush hour or settling in for a night in front of your t.v. ooooo sound the alarm ooooo sound the alarm and as i gaze in awe at the break of dawn you are lying in your bed you've got a pillow on your head the clock radio is telling you its time to go you can barely rise to face it all again sound the alarm your world is not your own sound the alarm your world is falling down sound the alarm your world is not your own sound the alarm your world its falling down you've got to sound the alarm your world is not your own sound the alarm your world its falling down. its not as though i have a pillow for my head. i'm not missin anything yet. |
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from The Waifs - Shelter Me (2005)
You've been blind since you met him,
Girl you can't see a thing. I can see your hands are tied, Just as sure as they're behind your back. Been putting up with him putting you down for too long now, It's given him the upper hand. The woman in you can make him cry he begs for more, You mistake it for love, but you don't feel a thing, You don't feel a thing. Stuck, in the wrong place, Stuck, at the wrong time. Stuck, you're in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Move on move on move on, You'd be better off on your own. Cut the ties that hold you strong What's the point in hanging on? The feeling left you long ago, Now there's a space where nothing grows. Stuck, in the wrong place, Stuck, at the wrong time. Stuck in the wrong place, at the wrong time. How many times have you said to yourself, I feel like I'm doing this for somebody else? Not getting enough of the things I need, This love is bleeding me, Every word I speak is true, Believe me when I say that you are Stuck in the wrong place, Stuck in the wrong place, Stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time, time time time. Stuck in the wrong place, Stuck, in the wrong place, Stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time. You're in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Stuck in the wrong place, Stuck in the wrong place, At the wrong time. |
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from The Waifs - Shelter Me (2005)
I stood and watched my daddy die
no one could help his plate he was trying to save our home on the day that the river rose well it came alive I heard them say there was nothing we could do as he washed away running from the heart of it right into the cause of it X 2 I'm mad now, but I'm only seven well it's been hard since papa went to heaven but staying now, my mama said he worked this land, and his life it's here running from the heart of it right into the cause of it X 3 Yeah everyone you follow me late at night we'll go down to the river where the moon is bright and we can wash our sorrow down underneath that shining ground and we'll be sitting in the sunlight laughing can't you feel daddy there there's life and death and all this power underneath these shining stars running from the heart of it right into the cause of it X 3 |
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from The Waifs - Shelter Me (2005)
Moon hangs in the night
A spotlight on the world Rising the lands, moving the seas And tonight from where I stand on this hill The spotlight's on me I am young long ago I know not a thing Only that the sky is blue or sometimes gray Flowers grow but they need rain And when you're a kid you play games all day Anywhere you can Spotlight I found you I know where you are I found you I know where you are Formative years come along Some take the lead and some fall behind Confusion untold Life can be so dramatic But it was real at the time Laughing with friends Crying alone All the false hearts and petty love We leave school to face the world That seems fun for the world But you tire of the same faces And you dream of new places It was a breath of aspiration When my sister said "Let's get out of here" We left our town We travelled 'round And I went to find me Spotlight, spotlight I found you I know where you are Spotlight, spotlight I found you I know where you are Twenty something and the fog has all but disappeared With each day passed I learned something more At all rate I'm thinking here I must know it all Love, death, a little pain has passed through these walls Situations still arrive where I can see The way I behaved was unjustified These are the times I look inside And I see I'm a child after all Spotlight I found you I know who you are Spotlight I found you I know who you are Spotlight I found you I know who you are Spotlight, spotlight I found you I know where you are Spotlight, spotlight I found you I know where you are Spotlight, spotlight I found you I know where you are I found you Moon hangs in the night A spotlight on the world |
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from The Waifs - Shelter Me (2005)
I was thinking about something else I must admit
I didn't hear a word that you said Remember to remind me not to forget To pay more attention now, attention now When you talk to me you can expect it To go into one ear and out of the next Ask me a question about something you said All I remember's what's stuck in my head You say that I shouldn't be so Vague, inattentive, a law to myself I guess that I live in a world of my own And all that I know now is all that I've known Sometimes life is like Russian roulette It's a wonder that I'm still around Twenty-four years I'm the first to admit I don't know nothin' 'bout nothin' 'bout it All of our lives we're alone Though we may have someone to call our own I could be right but I'm probably wrong I don't know nothin' 'bout nothin' 'bout it I don't know nothin' 'bout nothin' 'bout it I don't know nothin' 'bout nothin' 'bout it |
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from The Waifs - Shelter Me (2005)
We grew up together in an urban town
Just me and Bill Jones always hanging around A mumma's little boy he was an only child His clothes were always neat and his hair carefuly styled Of all the games we'd play I could'nt understad why I'd have to be the groom and let Billy be the bride all those pretty dresses he would love to wear I'd wear a floppy hat and he'd put flowers in his hair He'd even wear my underwear A few year later we drifted apart My family moved south to make a new start I missed Billy, mum said that was wrong Dad said 'that boy just don't know where he belongs' Where does he belong? A few years later i was working in a bar It was all smokey and dark, There was a bluesman playing guitar When in walked a woman wearing emerald green With a voluptuous figure, She was beautiful and lean She was looking pretty mean A full martini shaken not stirred It was only until about after her third I started looking closely, Man i should of knowen It was my old friend, You guessed it, Billy Jones Oh my god Billy Jones! Oh shit Billy Jones! Tears filled our eyes as we began to speak He'd been living a lie, a life so descreet It made me feel sad to hear him say In a voice so sweet 'Honey you can call me Jane' As the night wore on we spoke of yesterday And how Billy had always knowen that he was gay I never knew how much a person could change From little Billy Jones to lean, lusious Jane Billy Jane Jones This Comes From My Heart I hope your nights are filled with a thousand stars But don't waste your sweetness in the empty air 'Cause you don't know how cold and dark it is out there That's the ballad Of Billy Jane Jones |
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from The Waifs - The Waifs (2005)
Now she's thinking of the red soil and the mango trees
In her mind she's still splashing round down on Cable Beach And her eyes, they are as rich and faraway as the sunset there She's not taking in a word I say Well I might as well be talking to myself Take it in, take it all in Now is a time that will not come again Take it in, take it all in This is a day that is here for the living So we step outside into this Melbourne weather With a shock it brings her back to where she is Now we've made this place our home Surrounded by unknown We're gonna stick it out until it comes together Take it in, take it all in Now is a time that will not come again Take it in, take it all in This is a day and it's here for the living We're only living for a day to come or some days gone by Never taking in each moment Never knowing what you had until it passed you by And it'll pass you by Take it in, take it all in Now is a time that will not come again Take it in, take it all in This is the day and it's here for the living Take it all in Now is a time that will not come again Take it in, take it all in This is the day and it's here for the living |
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from The Waifs - The Waifs (2005)
Oh Gillian, you're up with the sun
You've done a hundred things before half past nine By the time most folk are up and gone You'll be starting on one hundred and one There's not enough hours in a day To do all the things she's just got to do When the daylight fades and the night invades She's only just begun Weary as you lay at night waiting for the sun Planning out tomorrow now before this day is done ‘Gillian you work too hard' But don't you try to slow her down ? she'll tell you ‘Idleness is good for none work's how I get my fun Idleness is good for none work's how I get things done' Gillian you're the one you're the one Shining in my life, you're my eternal sun I'm trying to thank you now for what I've become But I've only just begun Your influence has been profound and I'm proud to be your son Your blood is my blood we are forever bound You're the inspiration to the way I live my life I'm singing, Gillian if you weren't my mother I would make you my wife Gillian if you weren't my mother I'd make you my wife Gillian if you weren't my mother I'd make you my wife Gillian if you weren't my mother I would make you my wife |
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from The Waifs - The Waifs (2005)
What's your excuse for living like
You're somebody different You're nobody different You're just somebody Tell me what's the reason behind All your frustrations It's a bad situation Can you trust me Do you think that maybe you live your Life in circles Going round in circles Heading nowhere If you wanna sort it out you gotta Talk about it, live without it Come on and talk about it, live without it What's your excuse for living like You're somebody different You're nobody different You're just somebody |
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from The Waifs - The Waifs (2005)
Now we are so intimate do you think we could ever part
Though there's little love left in it something seems to make it hard I'd like to stand up I'd like to stand up on my own But I fear that you will forever be my crutch Did I save myself or was I saved Though I knew it was killing me - I did it anyway When I think of all those years I led myself astray Knowing it was killing me ? I did it anyway I see it all from the other side The prison walls around your minds These are the subtle scars I hide I'm looking in from the other side |
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from The Waifs - The Waifs (2005)
Now's the time you're leaving you got to do what you got to do
When you come in from the cold I'll still be warm for you And I won't be bending backwards like you never done for me When you look at what's left inside You've only got your jealousy It's wearing me thin, all this trying to please I'm looking within and I can see for miles And I'm trying to grin as I'm trying to please I keep looking within, you know I can still see for miles Like a player in a show you never gonna wait around for what remains If you go and play your games of jealousy I don't want to deal with that again It's your jealousy baby You got to lose it |
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from The Waifs - The Waifs (2005)
Crazy train, rolling down that crazy track
Crazy train, rolling down that crazy track Going to New Orleans and I ain't coming back Crazy train, where do you think I'm bound Crazy train, where do you think I'm bound Bound for New Orleans Gonna play the blues in that blues town Crazy train, steaming through that crazy night Crazy train, steaming through that crazy line Got on this morn' and I'll be there in the morning light |
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from The Waifs - The Waifs (2005)
We grew up together in an urban town
Just me and Bill Jones always hanging around A mumma's little boy he was an only child His clothes were always neat and his hair carefuly styled Of all the games we'd play I could'nt understad why I'd have to be the groom and let Billy be the bride all those pretty dresses he would love to wear I'd wear a floppy hat and he'd put flowers in his hair He'd even wear my underwear A few year later we drifted apart My family moved south to make a new start I missed Billy, mum said that was wrong Dad said 'that boy just don't know where he belongs' Where does he belong? A few years later i was working in a bar It was all smokey and dark, There was a bluesman playing guitar When in walked a woman wearing emerald green With a voluptuous figure, She was beautiful and lean She was looking pretty mean A full martini shaken not stirred It was only until about after her third I started looking closely, Man i should of knowen It was my old friend, You guessed it, Billy Jones Oh my god Billy Jones! Oh shit Billy Jones! Tears filled our eyes as we began to speak He'd been living a lie, a life so descreet It made me feel sad to hear him say In a voice so sweet 'Honey you can call me Jane' As the night wore on we spoke of yesterday And how Billy had always knowen that he was gay I never knew how much a person could change From little Billy Jones to lean, lusious Jane Billy Jane Jones This Comes From My Heart I hope your nights are filled with a thousand stars But don't waste your sweetness in the empty air 'Cause you don't know how cold and dark it is out there That's the ballad Of Billy Jane Jones |
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from The Waifs - The Waifs (2005)
I'm going out to damage my brain
You won't come; you say you're staying at home It's no shame; night and day we see each other anyway We've got to move, we've got to get away It's a long cold night but there's a better day Wouldn't you say, correct me if I'm wrong But we've got all the good reasons for time on our own You see me all the time You see me all the time You see me all the time Hey babe throw me some line It's him and her; it's this and that I feel my tyres going flat There's no get up and go for getting it on We got all the good reasons for time on our own You see me all the time You see me all the time You see me all the time Hey babe throw me some line x2 |
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from The Waifs - The Waifs (2005)
Seems like only yesterday I thought I had my life together
Ain't it funny how some things change For it is today I feel uncertain about my whole world All once familiar is now strange I've become so dependant on those things that I once rejected I'm rejecting all I believed I'm so open minded that it leaves me undecided Now I'm forever caught between two extremes I believe I found some time to get away on my own I came to a place where nobody knows my name With the hope it would help me see things clearer It has for now I realise that it was nothing but a planned escape I believe |
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from The Waifs - The Waifs (2005)
In my head
looking to the sky screaming will this pain ever end? you know I'm lonely, I won't understand it I want someone to talk to Someone who'll feel it and hold me Cause I am feeling down down inside myself It confuses me I just need a little company I can't stand it here by myself I just need company Here I go again Oh I'm breaking down lord how I try, I try so hard I wanna get my feet on the ground I wanna keep em there This time I'm gonna keep em there I just need a little company I can't stand it here by myself I just need company When you're not here I can't see the road ahead When you're not here Something deep in me is dead X 4 I just need a little company I can't stand it here by myself I just need a company I can't stand it here by myself X 3 |
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from The Waifs - The Waifs (2005)
We drive an old beat up car
We play our out of tune guitars Mother Nature keeps us safe Even when we're off our face A waif is all I want to be Not better for you no worse for me You've got a mobile phone and heaps of money We ain't got much but at least we're free You may sit and talk and stare But he's not gonna cut his hair Not gonna patch my jeans or wash my face Going to keep on being a waif A waif you see is an unloved child A kid that's stray and gone kind of wild You can change your name, change your look You can even change your style But why don't you come and live with us for a while We pick up work when we can Our clothes are all second hand Harmonicas are old and abused But she can still play the blues |
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from The Waifs - The Waifs (2005)
Shiny apple rotten on the inside
Skin is smooth but you soul is soft Oh you look so appetising but Taste the truth it'll make you spit And how long have I known you now But I knew after just one taste And how long has my mouth been sour It's been sour ever since that day And how long can I go on like this Knowing what I know anyway But it makes me feel helpless to Stand and watch while you rot away |
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from The Waifs - Sink or Swim (2005)
I thought I'd move to Sydney to get a little piece
Of the city life they talk about in the 90's. Where everyone I meet don't want to know my name They want to know what I do for a living My songs don't earn me money or fill my pockets with cash Every time I go busking I make more in hash Everything I want is getting further out of reach Like that funky little apartment down on bondi I've been getting cozy with a kiwi boy He'd kill me if I said he was sweet as apple pie He's going to leave me and hit the road He's touring with the theater ? if you see him say I said All the birthday money my parents sent Was spent on the phonebill and paying my rent Frijole, guacamole anything you want I'm working as a waitress in a mexican restaurant |
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from The Waifs - Sink or Swim (2005)
(Hey mama hey mama hey ma they lie) x 3
You read the paper, watch the news And you think you're well informed Well, I've got some news for you, my friend-- That headline that you read, the story that broke It was a scandal - yeah a scam A political masterstroke Tell you what they you want you to hear-- Close your eyes and open your ears! It's easier that way 'Cause you don't have to think for yourself (Chorus) You said, "Hey, I tell no lies, I tell no lies! Because I read it all in black and white! It was on my TV; yeah, they were telling me just what to believe... Yeah, I tell no lies, I tell no lies" And all the while they're tellin' you lies Everyday, you and me; we see what we are shown It can be hard to scratch below There are people at the top, they are hidden far from view They're not going to show their faces to the likes of me and you You never see them on the street, But you'll always see the things that they do. Yes, they can get away No price is too high for them to pay Chorus Oh Lies lies lies (lies lies lies) x3 (Hey mama hey mama hey ma they lie) x 8 And all the while they're tellin' you lies. |
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from The Waifs - Sink or Swim (2005)
Danger -danger ahead
We missed the signs, we lost all we had of you I know you had time on your own But you couldn't ever say thast you didn't have A place to come home to But you never came home Danger How could anything get so bad You turn down all the choices that you have And run toward the darkest light you find With hope it will ease you aching mind Danger ahead we missed the signs And now you've left us here to work out all your reasons We comb the past to understand your grivevance And we can't find a reason why you would justify Why you were in danger you never came home |
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from The Waifs - Sink or Swim (2005)
I've been looking out for number one
I've been stepping out with my friends I don't have to justify what I have done I don't have to answer to anyone I put my body on the line Take a step out of my mind Life takes on a different veiw, without you I feel energized like I was young I have not felt this way since we began I re-evaluate my future plan Time to free myself from your command Theres no need to compromise I'll do what ever I decide no one else to spoil the view - without you I don't care if I ever touch the sun I don't care if the whole thing comes undone Everyday to me is a surprise I don't care if it leads to my demise No restrictions now I'm free No black clouds hanging over me I think I like this view, without you |
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from The Waifs - Sink or Swim (2005)
HAIRCUT by the Waifs
This is more than a haircut I'm wearing on my head I thought I'd dye it red but got it cut instead And maybe I could send you my long blond locks Cause you were always after something baby something I'm not See I'm darker underneath, I'm darker by far I'm dark as hell, you know who you are My eyes, I always, I wished they where green My skin is so damn brown but the sun, it don't see And fingernails I could've stuck them on The hair on my lip I should've waxed it off Yeah I know my lips could do with a little more pout The mole on my chin I can do with out And my cheekbones, they never sat real high I'll get some bone put in, they can take it from My thighs I'm darker underneath, I'm darker by far I'm as dark as hell - you know who you are So now when I make love I make love to myself I got no disease so it's good for my health I got my hands in my pants, down my calvin kleins I don't need you no more baby, I can come every time I'm darker underneath, I'm darker by far I'm as dark as hell, you know who you are Don't you ever show your face here again To me or any of my friends 'Cause I'm glad I found out what you're all about When I finally fell down off my cloud Cause baby when you ran away You broke my heart You kept my Kerouac books and that old guitar And I am darker underneath, I'm darker by far I'm as dark as all hell, you know what you are I don't need to tell you, you know what you are I don't need to tell you, you know what you are I don't need to tell you - I don't need to tell you, no You know what you are This is more than a haircut I'm wearing on my head I thought I'd dye it red but got it cut off instead. |
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from The Waifs - Sink or Swim (2005)
When the night-time comes you can hear
My heart calling Calling out to you my one true love Thinking about you all of the while Thinking about you it's making me smile Honey I'm sitting on top of the world just Thinking about you In the morring light that's when I'm feeling right Another day come, another day go, another day closer till I make you my own Honey I'm siting on top of the world Just thinking about you I wouldn't say it if it wasn't true Honey I'm in love with you I'm going to show you what I can do Comeover here you've gotta be told, My love for you is out of control Honey I am sitting on top of the world, Just thinking about you girl I'm going to show you how much I care, Marry you and take you away some where Sit back in a rocking chair and rock all day with you my dear Cause I love you, I love you I love you I love you In the morrin, in the evening, in the night time or in the middle of the afternoon I love you I love you I love you I love you Damn right |
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from The Waifs - Sink or Swim (2005)
night-time i stage my street show
love for the money that's my cash flow no I don't get scared when I walk alone I have been on this beat enough to know that when shit happens it is just your turn so you deal with it and it happens everyday I don't know quite where I belong so when they come I freely give myself away walkabout - a very different kind walkabout - a very different place and time I stand underneath street lights dreaming of the moon it is rising in a desert a life I never know taken away and now I'm walking by myself when you grow up in institutions you make your friends but love you never know so when I found my blood ran from the desert I knew it was somewhere I had to go I went to the people there I lost and found myself on either side something deep down just don't feel right so I walk about this country and I walk about these streets to find where my heart lies. |
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from The Waifs - Sink or Swim (2005)
You broke down my door and let yourself in
Helped yourself to my soul and skin You ate all you needed and then had the nerve To thank me for dinner and help yourself tp dessert You helped yourself I could've chaged you a service fee For all you did to me I should've chged you a service fee For all you did to me You helped yourself It wasn't very pretty, it wasn't very kid But I rathr go deaf, paralysed or blind But I lay back, held still by the fear That you would smash me to pieces And I'd die here I carry knifes in my pockets, bullets in my guns Don't try to chase me I'm not going to run And don't ever ask me, don't you dare begin I'm not going to talk about it but god knows I'm going to sing God knows I am going to sing about it No thankyou boy I'd rather walk home alone No thank you sir I'd rather walk home alone No thank you brother I'd rather walk home alone No thankyou mister I'd rather walk home alone |
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from The Waifs - Sink or Swim (2005)
Sink or swim
Sink or swim Whats it going to be when you dive on in Dive on in Dive on in Whats it going to be when you dive on in Everybody knows what I'm talking about Everybody knows what they're hiding from Hiding from Hiding from Everybody knows what they're hiding from Waters fine from the edge But how you gonna know if you don't get wet? Don't get wet Don't get wet How you gonna know if you don't get wet? |
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from The Waifs - Up All Night (2005)
I don't like gold and I don't like pearls
I'm just your regular West Australian fisherman's daughter I'm a middle class folk singing guitar playin' girl I ain't seen the world no I've not travelled far I'm saving dollars for a 1962 ruby red interior R series Valiant, mother of a car I'm a country girl in a city whirlpool I'm pulling over man I'm gonna let you through I'm living in the left hand lane of my city Slow down so I can walk this highway with you Slow down let me walk it with you Slow down, we all gotta slow I wanna walk the highway with you, you and you and you No I'm not yet married I got no ring on my hand I got my heart beating for this sweet loving Second hand dealing boy I'm gonna love him the best way I can I know I can I'm a country girl in a city whirlpool I'm pulling over man I'm gonna let you through I'm living in the left hand lane of my city Slow down so I can walk this highway with you Slow down let me walk it with you I don't like gold and I don't like pearls I'm just your regular West Australian fisherman's daughter I'm a middle class folk singing guitar playin' girl |
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from The Waifs - Up All Night (2005)
I'm going to dress up tonight
And I'll look real pretty for I don't know who I'll find my own way around this great big city And I'm gonna sit at a bar and I'll have a drink I'll leave you to revel in your youthful yearnings I know you like to visit them from time to time And like a thief I steal the words you write to her I take them to my heart and I wish them to be mine But this is nothing new But it ain't nothing Well this is nothing new But it ain't nothing You long for sweetness Does mine make you sickly Or maybe I no longer have the sweetness you require There's nothing sweet about a heart so embittered It's ugly and it's cold and tonight it's out for hire But it ain't nothing new But this ain't nothing Well this is nothing new But it ain't nothing We live through this day after day And complacency's a curse But you just can't escape it And I've arrived at that place where my tolerance gave way And I struggle to hold my head up high But it ain't nothing new Well this is nothing new But it ain't nothing |
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from The Waifs - Up All Night (2005)
Wonder if you can pick up my
Accent on the phone When I call across the country When I call across the world I -- see you in my kitchen I can picture you now As you toast to your small town When you drink the happy hour I'm in London still I'm in London still I'm in London still I took the tube over to Camden To wander around I bought some funky records With that old Motown sound And I miss you like my left arm That's been lost in a war Today I dream of home and not of London anymore I'm in London still I'm in London still Yeah I'm in London still You know it's okay I'm kinda happy here for now I -- ( think I've finally grown up And got myself a lover now And if I ever come home And I, I think I will I hope you're gonna wanna hang at my place on Sunday still Oh yeah I hope you will Cause I'm in London still You know we got it sorted, yeah We really got it down To a fine art on Sunday In a sleepy Sunday town I wonder what I'm missing I think of songs I've never heard I'm dreaming of your voices And I'm dreaming of your herb I'm in London still I'm in London still I'm in London still Oh I'm in London still la-la-la-la-la London still I'm in London |
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from The Waifs - Up All Night (2005)
Lighthouse tall and grand
Standing on that cold headland Shine your light across the sea For a wayward sailor girl like me Lighthouse man Guide this sailor back to land Steer my ship on through the storm Back to water safe and calm Sometimes I need a lighthouse for my own It gets so dark I can't see which way I'm going Oh lighthouse man I'm all at sea Shine a little lighthouse light on me Lighthouse man I'm all at sea Shine a little lighthouse light on me Lighthouse man can't help us all Some he'll save and some will fall He'll show you where the danger lies But he can't help it if you capsize He'll light your way but that is all Steer your own ship back to shore Won't you light my lonely way back home This sea is full of misery and woe Oh woe betide those that say They don't need no light to light their way They think they're safe enough on their own Drown in murky depths below We all need a lighthouse for our own It gets so dark I can't see which way I'm going Oh lighthouse man I'm all at sea Shine a little lighthouse light on me |
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from The Waifs - Up All Night (2005)
There are secrets in the soul of me
Things I keep inside Places you will never see Hidden under lock and key Flesh and blood and skin and bone You're looking from the outside in All you'll see is what you're shown Flesh and blood and skin and bone It's par for the course it's a matter of fact People are all the same They want to make my business theirs Slandering my good name All around my neighbourhood People trying to say that I ain't no good Pointing their finger at me and mine Look at what's hanging on my clothesline Flesh and blood and skin and bone What's mine in mine and mine alone Stand at the window on your tippy toes Blinds are down ? skin and bone Ashes come to ashes Dust becomes to dust My secret soul will never die As my body surely must When I'm buried under the ground I'll still be here in kind Invisible and sinister The things I leave behind Flesh and bone and skin and blood Bury my deep beneath the mud When I die only thing that's gone Is flesh and blood, skin and bone |
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from The Waifs - Up All Night (2005)
Highway 1, 12 hour drive
I got a place I do call mine I got me a space where I can breathe I got my garden I got my trees And if you're ever out this way And if you still recall my name You know I'm not that hard to find I live on Highway 1, 12 hour drive And we're gonna be Eating fish from a coal fire And we're gonna be Sleepin outside Till the fires coal Or till it gets too cold But if you come through late at night I'll leave on my bedside light I'm down the hall and to the right Baby you can creep in and wake me up And we're gonna be Eating fish from a coal fire And we're gonna be Sleepin outside Till the fires coal Or till it gets too cold You know it's doubtful I will tell Where my love and I do lay Or where my flowers grow Highway 1, 12 hour drive Highway 1, 12 hour drive Highway 1, 12 hour drive I live on Highway 1, 12 hour drive |
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from The Waifs - Up All Night (2005)
Walking down the main street of the town where I was born
Looking at these things I've seen so many times before I take a deep breath, smile and kick a stone along the ground Been so long, since I've been around There's comfort in the way that everything still looks the same People that I bump into; they call me by my name It almost feels as though I never even left this town Been so long, since I've been around My girlfriend lived on Hawdon Street ? man was she a sight Sometimes I would sneak into her bedroom late at night Now she's not there ? I'm told her family long since left the town Been so long, since I've been around Yeah many of my friends found some other place they'd rather be But I still know of one good mate, she gonna keep me company I think I'll gonna call her up, we'll go and paint the town Been so long, since I've been around I stopped on by her place, years ago I knew her well ‘Let's go drink to old times at the Adelaide Hotel' She said it's twenty years now since they shut that old pub down Been so long, since I've been around Yeah but the hospital's still standing, down over by the river shore That's the place where I took my first breath, so many years before I take a deep breath now and feel my chest begin to pound Been so long, since I've been around Now I'm lying by the river feeling lazy in the shade Children shout and splash about in water where I played And I'm thinking I could stay a while, maybe settle down Been so long, since I've been around |
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from The Waifs - Up All Night (2005)
On the fourth floor of the building
In a shallow window box She's digging in the soil with a silver spoon Her hands inside rubber gloves Planting seeds pulling out weeds The cycle of life is complete Who would've thought it in a city of stone Four floors above the street I cannot tell what kind of flowers they are I'm too far below on the street But the colour they add to the building so drab Brings a warm splash of welcome relief Something worthwhile for the sun to shine on A reason to radiate heat Well that small window box puts a skip in my feet Four floors below on the street For every good seed she plants in the soil There's a dozen bad waiting to grow To strangle the goodness she's trying to nurture And kill all the seed that she's sown Every time you water the garden you also water the weeds A profound illustration of sin and temptation Four floors above the street Some people don't understand why she does it Some people look for a reason Maybe she just likes the feel of the soil Or keeping in tune with the seasons Maybe she has so much pride in herself Got to keep it all visually pleasing A small paradise in a world of concrete Four floors above the street A small paradise in a world of concrete A small paradise in a world of concrete A small paradise in a world of concrete Four floors above the street |
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from The Waifs - Up All Night (2005)
When your boots are well worn in
And you're tired of travelling When you got nowhere to call your own You know my place can be your home To the rescue here I come To the rescue here I come When I was out there playing hard With my big attitude and my broken heart Poison my only friend And my drinking addiction To the rescue there you were To my rescue there you were Now we're both out there floating around I still got to space but you're on the ground You're in my heart you're in my head Right now we don't need no rescuing To the rescue I'll never let you fall To my rescue you've been on call |
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from The Waifs - Up All Night (2005)
Three months on the road
But I've still got four more to go There's a full moon and it's rising over Austin I can see a big old Texas flag flying in the wind I can't sleep for all the bright lights of this cheap hotel This is some kind of hellhole I'm living in Three months on the road But I've still got four more to go Then I'm going home I got my sister crying at me “C'mon lets go downtown You spend all day in this hotel room just lazing around?? So she takes me to a bar down on 6th street And she orders me to drink them down I got three under my belt Just four more to go Then I'm going home (Take me home!) Well we were driving out of Nashville and the clock it said 12am We've got a give hour drive to Jackson And no map to get us there We get lost somewhere off the parkway We have to stop and ask some guy who look like he don't care I said we've been three hours on the road He said you've got four more to go Till' you'll be home Three under my belt But I've still got four more to go Then I'm going home Well I've been three months on the road But I've still got four more to go |
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from The Waifs - Up All Night (2005)
There's nothing like a big old lie
A good record and a smoke to pass time by Music gets me in the mood It all kicks in and I sit back And think about you Sweetness to me That's all you'll ever be You mean stuff to me I like the way you're wearing your smile And you close your eyes And you leave us for a while But leaving's all I ever do I got a good pair of boots And my guitar plays sweet tunes Sweetness to me That's all you'll ever be You mean stuff to me Sing me a song before I go The tour's on the road and I won't be home For three months or maybe more Rent my room out when I'm gone I'll call and let you know when I'll be home And where I'm flying in from Sweetness to me That's all you'll ever be You mean stuff to me Sweetness to me It's all you're ever gonna be You mean stuff to me |
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from The Waifs - Up All Night (2005)
UP ALL NIGHT (written by Josh Cunningham)
Watched the sun sinking low Watched the moon rising slow Watched it move across the sky Till I saw the morning light Up all night Up all night Things just don't seem right Lordy I think I might Stay up all night We were young long ago Now there's ash where the fire glowed Cold and grey, black as night I'm waiting for the morning light Up all night Up all night Things just don't seem right Lordy I think I might Stay up all night Watched the sun sinking low I watched the moon rising slow Watched it move across the sky Till I saw the morning light Up all night Up all night Things just don't seem right Lordy I think I might Stay up all night Stay up all night |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
Lighthouse tall and grand
Standing on that cold headland Shine your light across the sea For a wayward sailor girl like me Lighthouse man Guide this sailor back to land Steer my ship on through the storm Back to water safe and calm Sometimes I need a lighthouse for my own It gets so dark I can't see which way I'm going Oh lighthouse man I'm all at sea Shine a little lighthouse light on me Lighthouse man I'm all at sea Shine a little lighthouse light on me Lighthouse man can't help us all Some he'll save and some will fall He'll show you where the danger lies But he can't help it if you capsize He'll light your way but that is all Steer your own ship back to shore Won't you light my lonely way back home This sea is full of misery and woe Oh woe betide those that say They don't need no light to light their way They think they're safe enough on their own Drown in murky depths below We all need a lighthouse for our own It gets so dark I can't see which way I'm going Oh lighthouse man I'm all at sea Shine a little lighthouse light on me |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
Wonder if you can pick up my
Accent on the phone When I call across the country When I call across the world I -- see you in my kitchen I can picture you now As you toast to your small town When you drink the happy hour I'm in London still I'm in London still I'm in London still I took the tube over to Camden To wander around I bought some funky records With that old Motown sound And I miss you like my left arm That's been lost in a war Today I dream of home and not of London anymore I'm in London still I'm in London still Yeah I'm in London still You know it's okay I'm kinda happy here for now I -- ( think I've finally grown up And got myself a lover now And if I ever come home And I, I think I will I hope you're gonna wanna hang at my place on Sunday still Oh yeah I hope you will Cause I'm in London still You know we got it sorted, yeah We really got it down To a fine art on Sunday In a sleepy Sunday town I wonder what I'm missing I think of songs I've never heard I'm dreaming of your voices And I'm dreaming of your herb I'm in London still I'm in London still I'm in London still Oh I'm in London still la-la-la-la-la London still I'm in London |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
Now she's thinking of the red soil and the mango trees
In her mind she's still splashing round down on Cable Beach And her eyes, they are as rich and faraway as the sunset there She's not taking in a word I say Well I might as well be talking to myself Take it in, take it all in Now is a time that will not come again Take it in, take it all in This is a day that is here for the living So we step outside into this Melbourne weather With a shock it brings her back to where she is Now we've made this place our home Surrounded by unknown We're gonna stick it out until it comes together Take it in, take it all in Now is a time that will not come again Take it in, take it all in This is a day and it's here for the living We're only living for a day to come or some days gone by Never taking in each moment Never knowing what you had until it passed you by And it'll pass you by Take it in, take it all in Now is a time that will not come again Take it in, take it all in This is the day and it's here for the living Take it all in Now is a time that will not come again Take it in, take it all in This is the day and it's here for the living |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
When the night-time comes you can hear
My heart calling Calling out to you my one true love Thinking about you all of the while Thinking about you it's making me smile Honey I'm sitting on top of the world just Thinking about you In the morring light that's when I'm feeling right Another day come, another day go, another day closer till I make you my own Honey I'm siting on top of the world Just thinking about you I wouldn't say it if it wasn't true Honey I'm in love with you I'm going to show you what I can do Comeover here you've gotta be told, My love for you is out of control Honey I am sitting on top of the world, Just thinking about you girl I'm going to show you how much I care, Marry you and take you away some where Sit back in a rocking chair and rock all day with you my dear Cause I love you, I love you I love you I love you In the morrin, in the evening, in the night time or in the middle of the afternoon I love you I love you I love you I love you Damn right |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
I thought I'd move to Sydney to get a little piece
Of the city life they talk about in the 90's. Where everyone I meet don't want to know my name They want to know what I do for a living My songs don't earn me money or fill my pockets with cash Every time I go busking I make more in hash Everything I want is getting further out of reach Like that funky little apartment down on bondi I've been getting cozy with a kiwi boy He'd kill me if I said he was sweet as apple pie He's going to leave me and hit the road He's touring with the theater ? if you see him say I said All the birthday money my parents sent Was spent on the phonebill and paying my rent Frijole, guacamole anything you want I'm working as a waitress in a mexican restaurant |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
I don't like gold and I don't like pearls
I'm just your regular West Australian fisherman's daughter I'm a middle class folk singing guitar playin' girl I ain't seen the world no I've not travelled far I'm saving dollars for a 1962 ruby red interior R series Valiant, mother of a car I'm a country girl in a city whirlpool I'm pulling over man I'm gonna let you through I'm living in the left hand lane of my city Slow down so I can walk this highway with you Slow down let me walk it with you Slow down, we all gotta slow I wanna walk the highway with you, you and you and you No I'm not yet married I got no ring on my hand I got my heart beating for this sweet loving Second hand dealing boy I'm gonna love him the best way I can I know I can I'm a country girl in a city whirlpool I'm pulling over man I'm gonna let you through I'm living in the left hand lane of my city Slow down so I can walk this highway with you Slow down let me walk it with you I don't like gold and I don't like pearls I'm just your regular West Australian fisherman's daughter I'm a middle class folk singing guitar playin' girl |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
well my papa was a fisher man
and he fished the deep blue sea he home made some fine black berry nip and he'd always pass a nip onto me well he smelled like black-tarred fishing nets oh tiger belly growl he was my good pappa but he be bones now grand daddy was a sailor and he sailed from far across the sea well he did talk some kind of funny but it never did bother me when he spoke about his home land 'twas with a sad and furrowed brow no more tears grandaddy you just be bones now well i look now at my father and his black hair's all gone grey and those strong arms that did carry me they're now withering away lay down your burdens papa won't you come sit with me at home we have got to spend some time together before we just be bones |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
Crazy train, rolling down that crazy track
Crazy train, rolling down that crazy track Going to New Orleans and I ain't coming back Crazy train, where do you think I'm bound Crazy train, where do you think I'm bound Bound for New Orleans Gonna play the blues in that blues town Crazy train, steaming through that crazy night Crazy train, steaming through that crazy line Got on this morn' and I'll be there in the morning light |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
I'm going out to damage my brain
You won't come; you say you're staying at home It's no shame; night and day we see each other anyway We've got to move, we've got to get away It's a long cold night but there's a better day Wouldn't you say, correct me if I'm wrong But we've got all the good reasons for time on our own You see me all the time You see me all the time You see me all the time Hey babe throw me some line It's him and her; it's this and that I feel my tyres going flat There's no get up and go for getting it on We got all the good reasons for time on our own You see me all the time You see me all the time You see me all the time Hey babe throw me some line x2 |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
(Hey mama hey mama hey ma they lie) x 3
You read the paper, watch the news And you think you're well informed Well, I've got some news for you, my friend-- That headline that you read, the story that broke It was a scandal - yeah a scam A political masterstroke Tell you what they you want you to hear-- Close your eyes and open your ears! It's easier that way 'Cause you don't have to think for yourself (Chorus) You said, "Hey, I tell no lies, I tell no lies! Because I read it all in black and white! It was on my TV; yeah, they were telling me just what to believe... Yeah, I tell no lies, I tell no lies" And all the while they're tellin' you lies Everyday, you and me; we see what we are shown It can be hard to scratch below There are people at the top, they are hidden far from view They're not going to show their faces to the likes of me and you You never see them on the street, But you'll always see the things that they do. Yes, they can get away No price is too high for them to pay Chorus Oh Lies lies lies (lies lies lies) x3 (Hey mama hey mama hey ma they lie) x 8 And all the while they're tellin' you lies. |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
I stood and watched my daddy die
no one could help his plate he was trying to save our home on the day that the river rose well it came alive I heard them say there was nothing we could do as he washed away running from the heart of it right into the cause of it X 2 I'm mad now, but I'm only seven well it's been hard since papa went to heaven but staying now, my mama said he worked this land, and his life it's here running from the heart of it right into the cause of it X 3 Yeah everyone you follow me late at night we'll go down to the river where the moon is bright and we can wash our sorrow down underneath that shining ground and we'll be sitting in the sunlight laughing can't you feel daddy there there's life and death and all this power underneath these shining stars running from the heart of it right into the cause of it X 3 |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
Oh Gillian, you're up with the sun
You've done a hundred things before half past nine By the time most folk are up and gone You'll be starting on one hundred and one There's not enough hours in a day To do all the things she's just got to do When the daylight fades and the night invades She's only just begun Weary as you lay at night waiting for the sun Planning out tomorrow now before this day is done ‘Gillian you work too hard' But don't you try to slow her down ? she'll tell you ‘Idleness is good for none work's how I get my fun Idleness is good for none work's how I get things done' Gillian you're the one you're the one Shining in my life, you're my eternal sun I'm trying to thank you now for what I've become But I've only just begun Your influence has been profound and I'm proud to be your son Your blood is my blood we are forever bound You're the inspiration to the way I live my life I'm singing, Gillian if you weren't my mother I would make you my wife Gillian if you weren't my mother I'd make you my wife Gillian if you weren't my mother I'd make you my wife Gillian if you weren't my mother I would make you my wife |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
We were both 18 the year that we met
I was slighty older but not by much One look at you and I knew that was it And your voice sounded like an angel above One look at me you thought I was odd Wearing those clothes in the Kimberley heat Blundstone boots, cowboy hat, flannelette And denim overcoat all the way down to my feet When your sister asked me to join up with you You nearly fainted with shock but you hid it well "what the hell are you doing?" you shouted when I left I was singing all the way back to my hotel Headed off from Broom Travelled through the Kimberley Derby, Fitzroy, a night in Halls Creek Wyndham, Kunnunrra, Darwin we stayed for a while Then we hit the coast near Townsville on the other side Christmas in Cairns didn't have nowhere to go Busking on the streets just to get a feed Being kept up all night by the lovers on the top bunk At a seedy backpackers called "Rapture of the Deep" Now plenty has happened since those early days Met a lot of people, been a lot of places Many a night in friends and relatives beds And God bless the lot of you that put us up and fed us Played to crowds of thousands, played to one or two Played in festivals and pubs, loved and hated what we do but looking back now I wouldn't trade but one of the memories we've made in the last eight years and though there were times we didn't get along I can honesty say I love the both of you Now you're living in Sydney in some dingy room In a house full of strangers on Ramsgate avenue Paying twice as much as what the damn things worth Working in the daytime just to make it though You got your arms to your elbows in the sink at some Place cleaning pots and pans, cups and saucers, Knives and forks and plates It's a far cry, from the life that we knew Travelling around the country in a campervan Playing songs, singing with your sister and you It's too late to go back there again |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
A telegram arrived today
It is time to catch the Monterey Cause the man I wed he waits for me And a daughter that he's yet to see The U.S. navy beamed its message we'll deliver brides on a one way passage it made big news across the nation the bridal train leaves from Perth station All the girls around Australia married to a yankee sailor your fare is paid across the sea to the home of the brave and the land of the free from west to east the young girls came all aboard the bridal train It was a farewell crossing over land she's gone to meet her sailor man no time for sad goodbyes well she held her mother as she cried and then waited there in the freo rain to climb aboard the bridal train well she was holding her future in her hand yeah the faded photo of a man catch a sailor if you can yeah the war bride leaves her southern land All the girls around Australia married to a yankee sailor your fare is paid across the sea to the home of the brave and the land of the free from west to east the young girls came all aboard the bridal train it was a farewell crossing across the land she's gone to meet her sailor man this is the story of the starry nights through desert plains and city lights through burning sun and driving rain they leapt aboard the bridal train All the girls around Australia married to a yankee sailor your fare is paid across the sea to the home of the brave and the land of the free from west to east the young girls came all aboard the bridal train it was a farewell crossing over land she's gone to meet her sailor man |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
Under the willow tree, that's where I wait for you
to come back to me, but you're so far away. I just sit by here in the morning sun, and I wait under the willow tree. It was a bitter seed that you left that day when you walked out my door screaming "Get out of my face!" I took all your hurtin' words, I took your bad deeds and I buried 'em deep underneath that tree. Under the willow tree, that's where I wait for you to come back to me, but you're so far away. I just sit by here in the morning sun, and I wait under the willow tree. --- But such beauty grew from bitterness. Oh how it's helped to heal this heavy heart, oh and I want you to know, yeah that it's ok. If you come back I would welcome you like it was yesterday. Under the willow tree, that's where I wait for you to come back to me, but you're so far away. I just sit by here in the morning sun, and I wait under the willow tree. --- Oh, but I'm not asking you for union, no-no. I want your promise to be true oh, 'Cos I've been around the world, honey I've seen enough to know - there aint nobody else. I'd rather walk with you. Under the willow tree, that's where I wait for you to come back to me, but you're so far away. I just sit right here and I play my guitar, and I wait under the willow tree. Under the willow tree. |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
When I die won't you bury me
In the town where I was born Most of my life I've been rambiling free When I die I want to come back home Ever since I was a baby child I knew I was born to roam I had to climb to the top of the hill Just to see what lies beyond Now seasons change and I am still the same I don't belong to anyone Still a piece of me will always be Sitting in my hometown sun In my time I have seen ten thousand setting suns And I made my bed where I lay my head And it never hurt anyone It could be said that a girl like me Ain't nothing but a prodigal son And just like that prodigal boy I'm gonna finish off where I've begun |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
When I die won't you bury me
In the town where I was born Most of my life I've been rambiling free When I die I want to come back home Ever since I was a baby child I knew I was born to roam I had to climb to the top of the hill Just to see what lies beyond Now seasons change and I am still the same I don't belong to anyone Still a piece of me will always be Sitting in my hometown sun In my time I have seen ten thousand setting suns And I made my bed where I lay my head And it never hurt anyone It could be said that a girl like me Ain't nothing but a prodigal son And just like that prodigal boy I'm gonna finish off where I've begun |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
I'll never forget I was singing in the streets
You laid a sunflower on the case at my feet You blew a smile and you rolled right away People cheered on the day that I fell in love Yeah I fell in love My head was heavy and my clothes they were torn I'd never felt like anyones princess before If you knew how much you blew me away I'd want to go and relive that day It was the day that I fell in love Yeah I fell in love Oh Sunflower Man, throw me a dollar, reached out your hand and Laid a big sunflower down at my feet It was a buskers dream the way I fell in love I fell in love, when I fell in love The day you gave that big sunflower to me We lay together and we smoked till the dawn We spoke of poetry and we sung some songs till the daylight came I'm not always good at saying how I feel This song to some people it's not a big deal But you know who it's from and you know who it's for I was a poor lonely busker the day I fell in love Yeah I fell in love Close your eyes lay your head in my lap You know I really love that I thank God for the day that I was singing in the street I earnt twelve dollars, a sunflower and you, for keeps And I fell in love, I fell in love, I fell in love ? and I'm still in love |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
There are secrets in the soul of me
Things I keep inside Places you will never see Hidden under lock and key Flesh and blood and skin and bone You're looking from the outside in All you'll see is what you're shown Flesh and blood and skin and bone It's par for the course it's a matter of fact People are all the same They want to make my business theirs Slandering my good name All around my neighbourhood People trying to say that I ain't no good Pointing their finger at me and mine Look at what's hanging on my clothesline Flesh and blood and skin and bone What's mine in mine and mine alone Stand at the window on your tippy toes Blinds are down ? skin and bone Ashes come to ashes Dust becomes to dust My secret soul will never die As my body surely must When I'm buried under the ground I'll still be here in kind Invisible and sinister The things I leave behind Flesh and bone and skin and blood Bury my deep beneath the mud When I die only thing that's gone Is flesh and blood, skin and bone |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
Highway 1, 12 hour drive
I got a place I do call mine I got me a space where I can breathe I got my garden I got my trees And if you're ever out this way And if you still recall my name You know I'm not that hard to find I live on Highway 1, 12 hour drive And we're gonna be Eating fish from a coal fire And we're gonna be Sleepin outside Till the fires coal Or till it gets too cold But if you come through late at night I'll leave on my bedside light I'm down the hall and to the right Baby you can creep in and wake me up And we're gonna be Eating fish from a coal fire And we're gonna be Sleepin outside Till the fires coal Or till it gets too cold You know it's doubtful I will tell Where my love and I do lay Or where my flowers grow Highway 1, 12 hour drive Highway 1, 12 hour drive Highway 1, 12 hour drive I live on Highway 1, 12 hour drive |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
A telegram arrived today
It is time to catch the Monterey Cause the man I wed he waits for me And a daughter that he's yet to see The U.S. navy beamed its message we'll deliver brides on a one way passage it made big news across the nation the bridal train leaves from Perth station All the girls around Australia married to a yankee sailor your fare is paid across the sea to the home of the brave and the land of the free from west to east the young girls came all aboard the bridal train It was a farewell crossing over land she's gone to meet her sailor man no time for sad goodbyes well she held her mother as she cried and then waited there in the freo rain to climb aboard the bridal train well she was holding her future in her hand yeah the faded photo of a man catch a sailor if you can yeah the war bride leaves her southern land All the girls around Australia married to a yankee sailor your fare is paid across the sea to the home of the brave and the land of the free from west to east the young girls came all aboard the bridal train it was a farewell crossing across the land she's gone to meet her sailor man this is the story of the starry nights through desert plains and city lights through burning sun and driving rain they leapt aboard the bridal train All the girls around Australia married to a yankee sailor your fare is paid across the sea to the home of the brave and the land of the free from west to east the young girls came all aboard the bridal train it was a farewell crossing over land she's gone to meet her sailor man |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
A telegram arrived today
It is time to catch the Monterey Cause the man I wed he waits for me And a daughter that he's yet to see The U.S. navy beamed its message we'll deliver brides on a one way passage it made big news across the nation the bridal train leaves from Perth station All the girls around Australia married to a yankee sailor your fare is paid across the sea to the home of the brave and the land of the free from west to east the young girls came all aboard the bridal train It was a farewell crossing over land she's gone to meet her sailor man no time for sad goodbyes well she held her mother as she cried and then waited there in the freo rain to climb aboard the bridal train well she was holding her future in her hand yeah the faded photo of a man catch a sailor if you can yeah the war bride leaves her southern land All the girls around Australia married to a yankee sailor your fare is paid across the sea to the home of the brave and the land of the free from west to east the young girls came all aboard the bridal train it was a farewell crossing across the land she's gone to meet her sailor man this is the story of the starry nights through desert plains and city lights through burning sun and driving rain they leapt aboard the bridal train All the girls around Australia married to a yankee sailor your fare is paid across the sea to the home of the brave and the land of the free from west to east the young girls came all aboard the bridal train it was a farewell crossing over land she's gone to meet her sailor man |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
Walking down the main street of the town where I was born
Looking at these things I've seen so many times before I take a deep breath, smile and kick a stone along the ground Been so long, since I've been around There's comfort in the way that everything still looks the same People that I bump into; they call me by my name It almost feels as though I never even left this town Been so long, since I've been around My girlfriend lived on Hawdon Street ? man was she a sight Sometimes I would sneak into her bedroom late at night Now she's not there ? I'm told her family long since left the town Been so long, since I've been around Yeah many of my friends found some other place they'd rather be But I still know of one good mate, she gonna keep me company I think I'll gonna call her up, we'll go and paint the town Been so long, since I've been around I stopped on by her place, years ago I knew her well ‘Let's go drink to old times at the Adelaide Hotel' She said it's twenty years now since they shut that old pub down Been so long, since I've been around Yeah but the hospital's still standing, down over by the river shore That's the place where I took my first breath, so many years before I take a deep breath now and feel my chest begin to pound Been so long, since I've been around Now I'm lying by the river feeling lazy in the shade Children shout and splash about in water where I played And I'm thinking I could stay a while, maybe settle down Been so long, since I've been around |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
i could hazard a guess
but i'll never know why you put these walls up i can't get through it's as though you want to be lonely and blue sometimes it feels like nobody knows you wanna be alone now hidden from view feels as though the whole world is comin' for you maybe i know maybe i don't makes no difference you know i'm here if you want here if you want here if you want people don't hunger only for food how easy that would be so basic and crude there's so much more you need just to help nourish you so if you've decided you've hungered too long and your sick and tired of being alone i want you to know i'm here if you want here if you want here if you want maybe i know maybe i don't makes no difference you know i'm here if you want here if you want here if you want here if you want here if you want |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
We grew up together in an urban town
Just me and Bill Jones always hanging around A mumma's little boy he was an only child His clothes were always neat and his hair carefuly styled Of all the games we'd play I could'nt understad why I'd have to be the groom and let Billy be the bride all those pretty dresses he would love to wear I'd wear a floppy hat and he'd put flowers in his hair He'd even wear my underwear A few year later we drifted apart My family moved south to make a new start I missed Billy, mum said that was wrong Dad said 'that boy just don't know where he belongs' Where does he belong? A few years later i was working in a bar It was all smokey and dark, There was a bluesman playing guitar When in walked a woman wearing emerald green With a voluptuous figure, She was beautiful and lean She was looking pretty mean A full martini shaken not stirred It was only until about after her third I started looking closely, Man i should of knowen It was my old friend, You guessed it, Billy Jones Oh my god Billy Jones! Oh shit Billy Jones! Tears filled our eyes as we began to speak He'd been living a lie, a life so descreet It made me feel sad to hear him say In a voice so sweet 'Honey you can call me Jane' As the night wore on we spoke of yesterday And how Billy had always knowen that he was gay I never knew how much a person could change From little Billy Jones to lean, lusious Jane Billy Jane Jones This Comes From My Heart I hope your nights are filled with a thousand stars But don't waste your sweetness in the empty air 'Cause you don't know how cold and dark it is out there That's the ballad Of Billy Jane Jones |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
In my head
looking to the sky screaming will this pain ever end? you know I'm lonely, I won't understand it I want someone to talk to Someone who'll feel it and hold me Cause I am feeling down down inside myself It confuses me I just need a little company I can't stand it here by myself I just need company Here I go again Oh I'm breaking down lord how I try, I try so hard I wanna get my feet on the ground I wanna keep em there This time I'm gonna keep em there I just need a little company I can't stand it here by myself I just need company When you're not here I can't see the road ahead When you're not here Something deep in me is dead X 4 I just need a little company I can't stand it here by myself I just need a company I can't stand it here by myself X 3 |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
Moon hangs in the night
A spotlight on the world Rising the lands, moving the seas And tonight from where I stand on this hill The spotlight's on me I am young long ago I know not a thing Only that the sky is blue or sometimes gray Flowers grow but they need rain And when you're a kid you play games all day Anywhere you can Spotlight I found you I know where you are I found you I know where you are Formative years come along Some take the lead and some fall behind Confusion untold Life can be so dramatic But it was real at the time Laughing with friends Crying alone All the false hearts and petty love We leave school to face the world That seems fun for the world But you tire of the same faces And you dream of new places It was a breath of aspiration When my sister said "Let's get out of here" We left our town We travelled 'round And I went to find me Spotlight, spotlight I found you I know where you are Spotlight, spotlight I found you I know where you are Twenty something and the fog has all but disappeared With each day passed I learned something more At all rate I'm thinking here I must know it all Love, death, a little pain has passed through these walls Situations still arrive where I can see The way I behaved was unjustified These are the times I look inside And I see I'm a child after all Spotlight I found you I know who you are Spotlight I found you I know who you are Spotlight I found you I know who you are Spotlight, spotlight I found you I know where you are Spotlight, spotlight I found you I know where you are Spotlight, spotlight I found you I know where you are I found you Moon hangs in the night A spotlight on the world |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
I decided no one's knowing
anything about where I'm going I can't even talk to my friends anymore Not blaming anyone for the mess I've gotten in I'm only frightened by the things that I've done Keep me safe from myself I can't do it without your help Your love's the finest thing that I've ever known I want to come home Thinking back when I was young and you kept me safe from everything set me straight when I went wrong raised me to respect myself I can offer no excuse for this senseless self abuse and all the pain that I've cause you to feel When I hurt myself it hurts you more and that's what hurts me most of all We shouldn't go on hurting anymore keep me safe from myself I can't do it without your help your love's the finest thing I've ever known I want to come home Oh I want to come home X 4 Keep me safe from myself I can't do it without your help your love's the finest thing I've ever known So take me now and shelter me for there's nothing left of me |
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from The Waifs - A Brief History - Live (2005)
Shiny apple rotten on the inside
Skin is smooth but you soul is soft Oh you look so appetising but Taste the truth it'll make you spit And how long have I known you now But I knew after just one taste And how long has my mouth been sour It's been sour ever since that day And how long can I go on like this Knowing what I know anyway But it makes me feel helpless to Stand and watch while you rot away |
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