1. |
Failure to Find
04:18
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lyrics:
I wanna go where it’s easy to unwind
Somewhere my feet can get breezy
I wanna know what it’s like to leave it all behind
And not have it still all in front of me
I won’t accept that I’ve got more failure to find
If ever you ask how I’m doing I’ve gotta say I’m fine
If I don’t say good without thinking
No matter how hard I am gripped by the pressure of life
The heart and the clock keep ticking
I won’t accept that I’ve got more failure to find
I gotta get out, if not of sight, then of mind
The hammock is dangerous when you strung it up high
Won’t accept that I’ve got more failure to find
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2. |
The Rut
00:26
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3. |
Rosetta Rock
02:36
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lyrics:
Let’s excavate where the sand dunes sway
where our fortune and glory went another way
before it all could fall out of our reaches
We’re gonna grave rob from when we were in love
we’re gonna make the Sack of Rome look like a sack of shit
So just keep looking for the diamonds under the dust
How could I ever have been so deaf, blind and dumb
I did endeavour to read your Rosetta Stone
But I don’t know what for
The tomb needs raiding, it’s our last crusade
so I’ll drink from your cup and then I’ll waste away
How could I ever wanna break out of the chains?
Cause denial is strong as the Nile is long
so I’m gonna climb the slab stone to see your river run
I’m a thousand and one nights, you’re a god of the sun
I did endeavour to read your Rosetta Stone
How could I ever have been so deaf, blind and dumb
deaf, blind and dumb
deaf, blind and dumb
deaf, blind and dumb
Way out in the dust
We’re out to find the lost world we have forgotten
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4. |
Conveyor I
02:32
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lyrics:
If all returns
why is it offered to anyone?
Conveyor stirs
around a circle unbroken
If it’s all the same
I’ll break myself from the circle game
In centre frame
I’ll watch my face from the inside
And I’ll return
But I won’t ever come back
I’ll return
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5. |
Hold On
00:29
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lyrics:
All I can do is return to you now
It’s only a question of time
Time
Time
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6. |
The Lonely One
04:30
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lyrics:
Here comes the lonely one
a navigator of want
Not too long she’ll betray her thirst
When the target’s shown and her lover’s dart is thrown
Who’ll cool the scorch of her hearthstone
and find her a fast home
It took two not to know
how to do the tango
I’m nobody’s fool
And nobody’s spoon
I tickle myself, pink, black and blue
I stare at myself in the face of the half moon
And the sun’s setting too soon
But you’re not going nowhere
You’ll find someone to love you I don’t care
Despair or fanfare
Play fair
solitaire
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7. |
Red Onion Jam
01:26
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8. |
Hollowing
00:30
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9. |
Why
04:06
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lyrics:
Won’t think it over
Not stoned or sober
If I was indulgent
I’d die to solve it
what a thing it is to be a thing that exists
How could I ever be wise?
Why would I ever ask why?
Why would I ever ask why?
How could I ever die?
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10. |
Half Mud March
00:30
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11. |
Dust
02:37
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lyrics:
No more winter lasts for millennia
while we’re still around here
When bridges splinter ray gun lost its trigger
we’re all dumpster diving
When you die, we’ll drive
and your time won’t ever return
Never return
Tree of life is on fire
We’re inside so just let it burn
Tyrannosaurus better turn to oil
I gotta get somewhere quick
Stop the guitar from strumming
let it turn to dust but it will still outlive me
Cause when I die, they’ll drive
and our time won’t ever return
Never return, never return
Never return
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12. |
Blue Bark
01:04
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13. |
New Insistence
03:33
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lyrics:
Do you take this man who denies
So he never lies
Taken on his insistence
to get along
Harder than the anvil’s iron
Softening inside
Blade beaten by a hammer
That once made a home
He didn’t have to but he had to get along
Tearing up tearing him down
Strangled by a shroud
Go let him swim out into the cauldron
between the stars
Out there there’s bridges that lead to nowhere
Death that never dies
Endless hope for the rotten joke
That is finding love
Just take your socks off before you take the plunge
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14. |
Simpling
00:59
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15. |
Little Hungover
00:27
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16. |
I'll Always Be There
03:02
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lyrics:
I’ll always be there
like chewing gum all tangled up in your hair
But buyer beware
I’ve got the juicy fruit of loving extraordinaire
Come on, come on
Pease keep me
we’ve only gotta rip a piece off
I’ll always be there
We won’t grow old in our iceberg
You’ll be in intensive care
I prescribe 10ccs of champagne and furs
Come on, come on
Pease keep me
We’ve only gotta lift our socks up
Oh come on let’s fuck it up
I like it rough
Come on, come on
Pease keep me
We’ve only got
one shot
and I chose rock
so wrap it up
with your palm
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17. |
Conveyor III
01:22
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18. |
Somebody
02:50
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lyrics:
Somebody took my hand
As if I’d understand
that we were fit for a fire of no worth
With sparks that break the darkness
till it bursts
Take up your arms to work
Bring oleander to be burnt
it’s feasting time and hunger hurts
Let everyone return into the world
How high the water before we drown
Softens the mortar
That Dumb Diviner
What walls we’ve worn
Till wilder winds will resist, resist
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19. |
Kindling
00:52
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20. |
Swanling
03:36
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lyrics:
You wade in the water, I think I’ll stay dry
What a way to say goodbye
like a tear slipped into the sea
When I find my bottle I am gonna write
a map, a message, a plea
I’ll wrestle them out of me
just to feel your wings within reach
But when I do, it won’t do
Cause you knew I would never get back to you
A taken oasis, I don’t know where I belong
You ate all the bread I could leave
And I took your heart with me
Just to find it would never keep
But it beat so clear
When we were together, so there
I will hide you in me
till we are swimming again
but you’d want me to choose to leave
your sweet nothings
I will hide you in me
at dawn in the swell
You can’t hide from me
swanling I will drown or swim
But who are you to leave such sweet nothings?
never too full for seconds
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21. |
Glass Arm
01:21
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22. |
Conveyor II
02:22
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lyrics:
I wish I was like a conveyor
Relentlessly giving it to you
But I seem always out of order
And baggage all piling higher and higher
I want my belt to come and take you
But straight is the gate and I turn on a dime
Slip from my track and I let it ride
All magic wrung out of this red carpet ride
But if I could I’d loose up my mind believing it’s fine
That I didn’t turn because it seems that love should last a long time
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lyrics:
I’m not gonna lie, I’ve done all I could
Spilled no salt and knocked on wood
Went to seed before I made a sound
No lullaby ever worked so good
Sent off dreaming like driftwood
bound for where peroxide takes colour
Lay this body down
On the fruit upon the ground
While our warts are wound
On the fruit upon the ground
But maybe life hasn’t got long
and I’m wrong to think beauty exists
Your baby never weeps cause it’s asleep
but how long can this ring keep rolling?
I’m not going fight
cause it tastes no good
Burnt my lip till I spat soot
for your cherry that has no stone
You’ve blown out your tyres with your blowflies
Styrofoaming where I stood
Oh just let me dream like I should
If it’s gone and never to return
Lay this body down
On the fruit upon the ground
Song won’t make a sound
On the fruit upon the ground
Sailing wrecks for prison ships
Kissed by winds we must have missed
Taste the sweet spit when we sink
brought under this existence
That I know, I know, I…
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24. |
Idiots Boil
00:26
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25. |
Goodnight, Shutup
00:42
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lyrics:
Goodnight, my love
Don’t cry, shut up
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Lehmann B Smith Melbourne, Australia
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