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Screaming Overture
04:25
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I feel afraid for the first time
Something I really believed in
But I am a beautiful actress
And I play the desperate villain
Who sees you here every night
Bursting with every kind of...
Screaming overture
To send me scattering
You played it too real
For me to believe in
So I watch from broken wings every night
Company sings, ‘This is your life’
Then you remove me
We look down on the night
See the hopeful dead
Hoping still to die
So let them die and leave us alone
There’s magic, madness, hellfire and home
Straight lines think alike
In hopeless parallel
And I want the kinda high
With a straight line back to hell
But you take me breaking up through the shit
To the blessed burning orchestra pit
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2. |
People Pangea
02:05
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This is the end this was my life
And I was the villain the whole time
Clutching the earth in the long night
And pushing the dirt in my own eyes
To watch the people Pangea fill their buckets with sand
Look how beautiful, young but stuck on the land
And see the delicate islands on the back of our hands?
Take them all in a wash of gold, silver, black
Back.
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3. |
Docks
02:58
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Many years ago
We get up to dance
We are what we are
We are love and art
We are young at work
We are what we are
And I’m ok, I guess
Everything is true
Flowers in their hair
We sing never blues
We aren’t anywhere
And everywhere I go
‘There goes Jake the peg’
‘I’m not him’, I said
Take me down to the docks, Lord, to think on the day
God, I hate how we love but love it all the same
Be my theatre of war and my war of the rose
Cosmos on the shelf
Smoke to fucking health
And I want to be high And I want to be well
To stay back every night
After they kill the lights
And rethink the lines
Take me down to the docks, Lord, to think on the day
God, I hate how we love but love it all the same
Be my theatre of war and my war of the rose
Oh, my theatre of war and my war of the rose
Leave me here now to fight, leave me here you can go
Oh my theatre of war and my day of the dead.
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4. |
Blue Begets Blue
03:52
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We are the loved ones
Isn't it nice to be home again
Look in our eyes says
'barely alive', says, 'busted head'
But cross 'ril we callous
Lost in the Alice
Eden the garden state
Luring the lovers, Meek motherfuckers
Take what the blue can take.
I, broken homer
Answer the phone to not a sound
Please operator
Love is the neighbour I never found
And talk me to safety
over the great big
Blue bottle that I found
Into the terra firma of error
Call me to keep me down
Blue begets blue
When you're away
Please let me see you
I never changed
Hate calling you
With nothing to say
But I'm gonna call you anyway
We are the loved ones
Isn't it nice when we're all aboard
On the pacific
Broken, terrific like before
Darling, I love you
But I can't love you
While I am in this mess
I'll be alright if I can survive
I'll bury your heavy chest
Blue begets blue
When you're away
Please let me see you
I never changed
Hate calling you
With nothing to say
But I'm gonna call you anyway
Oh anyway
Oh anyway
Anyway
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5. |
Who Do We Fight
03:51
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Left the silence dead in the room
Awake to be awake like we do
To be Lazarus, an honest man’s son
But with blood on my brain I’ll lie ’til it’s done
And sweet, the hand of love on the night
With all the ancient fathers in line
And sweeter still, the morning that comes
Over the hill and back to their sons
Stay by my side, I’m lonely as you
War is over, like we wanted
Who do we fight?
War is over, we were soldiers
Who do we fight?
Sun is searing, oh my dear-ing, low in the sky
Who do we fight?
I am all I said I would be
Everything, the world at my feet
But you can’t defend yourself from the truth
Turning again with blood in your boots
Stay by my side, I’m lonely as you
War is over, like we wanted
Who do we fight?
War is over, we were soldiers
Who do we fight?
Sun is searing, oh my dear-ing, low in the sky
Who do we fight?
A lie has a life in the theatre
A lie is a life if you want it
My bonnie lies over the ocean
War is over, like we wanted
Who do we fight?
War is over, we were soldiers
Who do we fight?
War is over!
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6. |
St. Ives
04:50
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It’s amazing that we thought
We could love like we love and carry on
Today, tomorrow; little lies
The hardest hearts not to break are the ones you take for a ride
Everything is change
Nothing’s as it used to be
Never known a place
Where a stranger’s who I choose to be
Alone is alive on the road to St. Ives
Back where I come from a song
About a man with seven wives leading seven lives goes on and on
When did I speak from the heart?
The hardest answer to you is the one we knew from the start
Everything is change
Nothing’s as it used to be
Never known a place
Where a stranger’s who I choose to be
Alone is alive on the road to St. Ives
And in the Ives, alone alive
Without a worry or a care
And see to find, the road is lined
With ghost gums hanging in the air
Everything is as it was!
Nothing ever changed, darling and the day is lost
Alone is alive on the road to St. Ives
A moment is mine for a day at a time
Alone is alive on the road to St. Ives
A moment is mine for a day at a time
Alone is alive on the road to St. Ives
The burst of a bind when the ghost gums align
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7. |
Fishwife
03:14
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Isn’t it madness?
Isn’t it crazy?
All God’s children standing together
And waiting for no one
And where’s Mother Courage and all of her children?
Running and howling
Singing, ‘I lost everything, but I found miracles,’
‘So come and hold your breath alone with me’
When we fell down the garden well
Not a soul was left to save us
Not William or Michael
William or Michael
William or Michael
William or Michael
Isn’t it crazy?
All God’s children asking for answers
And looking for nothing?
And where’s Mother Courage and all of her children?
Whooping and crying
Singing, ‘We are in the world, but we’re not of the world,’
‘So commandeer the breath in here for me’
When we fell down the garden well
Not a soul was left to save us
Not William or Michael
We payed for the friends we made
Now for all the blessed waves
We will wait for the feeling
Wait for the feeling (I lost everything)
Wait for the feeling (we are in the world)
Wait for the feeling
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8. |
Some Christmas
04:58
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The long day was ended
With us on the docks, home to dread them
The poets wrote the brave will return from the grave
But I felt dead then
A lie splits the ground
I remember that sound from the Bible
It burns in my mind, try to leave it behind With my idols
The look on the long day
From wrong eyes the wrong way, caught glances
And I start to shiver and look to a river
For answers
I lay down in the river
Just to lose my bearings there
I couldn’t see or stand
Feel the silver beneath the sand
’Til she slipped it back in my hand
I wanna love like the movies
And burn through the ruby some Christmas
And lay on the Kalgan, circling lazy without them
Forever
I filled my lungs with water
I lost my baby there
I couldn’t understand
There was silver beneath the sand
’Til she slipped it back in my hand
She knows much more then anything I tried to giver her
We sit, silver in hand, look back at the land from the river
From the river
From the river
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9. |
Mary & Augustine
03:11
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10. |
Goodbye Gondwana
05:00
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We lost our minds there
Lying in the dirt
And every blessed wave moved through us from the earth
So I believe I love you
You say, ‘a busted brain can lie’
But everything is lying here ‘cept you and I
All our days have ended up as buckets of sand
And you’re the only island on the back of my hand
Goodbye Gondwana, sorry Father
Kiss the ground
Goodbye Gondwana, hold me harder
Split the ground, let the dead man down
Look over this way
For a second look at me
Isn’t it crazy, madness; where are we?
And every day is killing us
We’re in palaces of blue
But darling there’s a lot of dying left to do
All our days have ended up as buckets of sand
And you’re the only island on the back of my hand
Goodbye Gondwana, sorry Father
Kiss the ground
Goodbye Gondwana, hold me harder
Split the ground, let the dead man down
Dive in, feel numb
Let the current lead you on
Drip dry, clean up
Sing the songs he left us
Every great mandala back to buckets of sand
And you’re the only island on the back of my hand
Goodbye Gondwana, sorry father
Kiss the ground
Goodbye Gondwana hold me harder
Kiss the ground
Goodbye Gondwana, sorry father
Split the ground, let the dead man down
Kiss the ground, let the dead man down
Split the ground, let the dead man down
Gotta lotta dyin left to do
Gotta lotta dyin
Gotta lotta dyin left to do
Gotta lotta dyin
Gotta lotta dyin left to do
Gotta lotta dyin...
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