1. |
Soldiers' Babies
04:09
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listen
it's a week of rain
rolling down the coast
headed our way
we all go home alone
walking, singing songs
for no-one
brother
do not be ashamed
of the ways you cope
in absence
we all go home alone
walking, singing songs
for no-one
soldiers' babies left behind
you won't fill my restless life
sad to see him go
in a cloud of swirling blue
sing to your stomach
we all go home alone
walking, singing songs
for no-one
sing to your stomach
it kicks
it kicks
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2. |
Stumbling
05:41
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bus stop
sun's hot
it is only eight o'clock
teenagers
school bags
trudging, silent
up the back
i'm stumbling
through the morning
i'm stumbling into forty
i think of you
out in the country
after everything
it was the best place to be
at the next stop
i see a mother with three
sleeping
begging
talking constantly
i'm stumbling
through the morning
i'm stumbling into forty
golf course
in the nice suburb
i remember that club
spinning through the air
fuck it, you say
i hate this fucking game anyway
let's head back
get a drink
and go home
i'm stumbling
through the morning
i'm stumbling into forty
here we are now
the terminal
time to pick up all your stuff
and let go
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3. |
Skull Rock
04:34
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let's go up to skull rock
stand inside the eyes
you can take the left
and i'll take the right
we'll look out over this rare and precious place
the waterslides, the racing cars and the scary rides
this is the last day that we will spend together
this is the last thing we'll do
before i move away
to the bigger city out east
and you'll go back to school
to finish everything i'm not worth leaving for
in the castle of mirrors
i see you stretched in every way
on the tower of terror
i'm smudged and broken
into the fabric of the day
the sun falls
behind the hills of fibreglass and steel
a cold shadow falls in our wake
silent and unreal
i come back, alone
they shut it down years ago
the water mountain is now
lined with new trees and houses
humming
where the skull used to be
a substation looms
and watches nobody
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4. |
Tends to Machine
07:43
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enabled
in-excused
earplug and screen
tends to machine
steam train driver
aeroplane flyer
telegraph operator
you want to let go
but these things can't drive themselves
would you really lose so much
to let it all seize up?
here it is
a life
stored and ignored
sidewalk writer
your messages obscure
crush your chalks
and walk
you want to let go
but these things can't drive themselves
would you really lose so much
to let it all seize up?
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5. |
Ghost World
04:59
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a cold wind
pushes hard along the river
the hot wind
flows fast beside the freeway
in ghost world
i pull in
to the car park by the jetty
watching people
paddling their hired canoes
in ghost world
to live behind a screen
what i pay
to sing about the things i've seen everyday
in ghost world
fishing
on the bridge behind the hospital
won't catch nothing
but catfish and eels
in ghost world
in the cool, black folds
between the fig tree roots
under a flimsy roof of spit and dirt
a hole inside a hole in time
dreaming at the apex
of a life lived
and lives undone
to live behind a screen
what i pay
to sing about the things i've seen everyday
in ghost world
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6. |
Brendale
04:13
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7. |
The Long Drive
06:31
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waking up
back of the van
full moon shining
through my hands
gonna be a long drive
gonna be a long drive
gonna be a long drive
gonna be all right
three a.m.
last petrol station
breath hanging in the air
as he fills her up
gonna be a long drive
gonna be a long drive
gonna be a long drive
gonna be all right
kangaroo
broken by the bull bar
he drags it by the tail
red dust blood trail
gonna be a long drive
gonna be a long drive
gonna be a long drive
gonna be all right
rolling
through the mountains
into adelaide
city lights below us
starting to fade
sister
i know
you don't belong with us
and you'll find a way out
soon as your big enough
gonna be a long drive
gonna be a long drive
gonna be a long drive
gonna be all right
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8. |
White Sigma Blues
06:22
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your mother hides in the kitchen
on the day that he comes home
your brother always manages
to find somewhere to go
you lay on the bedroom floor
hoping i'll come over soon
to take you away
before the hurricane hits
but things are not better for me
i am terrible company
here he is now
pulling up the drive
the crunching and grinding sound
of sand beneath his tyres
the house is like a vacuum
when he steps over the threshold
but the beer is plentiful here
and it is cold
i'm still half an hour out
flying down the freeway
you're pulling all your shit together
for a speedy escape
the television
flickering on the back wall
he yells at us
we say nothing at all
through the front door
fall into the car
but i've got nowhere to take you now
through osborne park
to north beach
driving through the dark
we could get something to eat
a sad and silent moment
when you reach out for my knee
we know that we can't take this forever
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