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Everything is turning blue
The neon lights and billboards too
Everywhere you look it's true
Advertising's brainwashed you
What could I do?
Everywhere you look it's true
Advertising's brainwashed you
It's all obscene and kind of rude
I'm gonna paint those billboards blue
What else could I do?
Eventually, and this is true
I got arrested by the boys in blue
They locked me in a little room
With murderers and perverts too
For painting things blue
But what could I do?
What would you do?
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With all my lessons learnt
With all our bridges burnt
I raise a glass in imitation
drunk on empty conversation
Now we're are young again
We can laugh everything
I raise a glass in celebration
Drunk on empty words my love
Never going listen
Never going to let you down
We fight the fight that barely matters
For the dirty world we see outside
All our friends are cold and useless
And all your friends are friends of mine
But I have never loved you more
Than when you took flight
The more I let you down
The more I love this town
I find myself in times of trouble
I have no faith in common people
But now we're bored again
We dismiss everything
I jeer for all our mock rebellion
Drunk on empty words my love
I don't mind
We're never going to make it out here alone
Never going to make it on my own
Never going to make it out here alone
All my friends are bored and sober
and all your friends were friends of mine
and all our friends are old and useless
and all our friends will die but that is quite alright
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Waiting for the memory to fade away
But there's more than meets the eye
Waiting for the hours to go away
I didn't mean to be so high
Waiting for the memory to fade away
I didn't mean to think so hard
Waiting for the hours to go away
I didn't mean to be so high
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The only time you're allowed to lie is when you're in my bed
and I know that you know it's only something I said
We were both tired, sleepy eyes, too much wine, filling our time
We went too far, a false start, now we can't uncross that line
...and I wanna be wanted, but nothing like before
I wouldn't wanna miss you, there's no meaning anymore
My only regret is I was drinking to forget
and the problem is I'll always wonder
I'll always wonder what you meant/said
Every little thought of you seem to stay inside my head
Everything that I know that I needed to say was never said
I guess all the while you were right, maybe I'm just a losing fight
so if you know let me go, I could learn to be alright.
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Too thick to drink it, too thin to plough
It’s the Melbourne divide – you’re north or you’re south
The mud and the refuse, and God knows what else
It’s not a water supply, not a picture of health
But it breaks up the buildings and it breaks up the streets
Her murky façade creates a mystique
Invisible river, industrial dump
She flows upside down and chokes Punt Road
The history that she holds
The culture, down it flows
Steady as she goes
The culture down it flows
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The Earthmen: Legroom
03:15
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Well I didn’t
Save that kitten from the tree babe
And that busload of orphans
Well the flames got in the way
But I’m brave in other ways
I’m brave in other ways
And I didn’t
Stop the drunks on the train
I’ve seen on the news what they can do
To a Good Samaritan’s brain
And I’m brave in other ways
Brave in other ways
What are those ways exactly?
I hear you say
Well I’m keeping it a secret
I’m afraid
The man who stands before you
Is brave in other ways
I’ve seen them jumping
From a mountain to the ocean
Hanging from some rubber band
Man you’ve got to be joking
I’m brave in other ways
I’m brave in other ways
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Kings Cross Dawning I’m still yawning
Am Em
Rub my eyes and greet the morning sun
softly sleeping my Chelsea girl
In the street they dig for plenty
spend their cash if they’ve got any
a little light that shines upon my world
She looks so pretty dancing in the city after midnight
and everyone you see looks like a photograph
Em Am Em Am
I wanna go I wanna go
Where the girls look pretty dancing in the city tonight
Half past 4, I’m on the train that takes me back to you again
I hope to god you’re waiting there for me
Neon lights they shine so bright
Illuminate this cold wet night
West End won’t you shine a light on me
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How many empty bars have you sat in?
How many solitary beers have you spent drinking?
Like small change on those old strangers in towns where your name was never necessary
So you recall the nicknames of your friends?,or the last girl you kissed?
Beside the porchlight of a Hawksbury shack, just like that
How many times have you misjudged the timezone, phoned in the middle of the night? To your former sleeping home
So it’s time to backtrack, it’s time to take stock, remembering the streets of your town,
And the ones that you forgot
A picture’s worth a thousand words, but you could never scratch the surface
Just like you never went away, away
How many empty bars have you sat in?
How many solitary beers have you spent drinking, in towns where your name was never necessary?
Where your name was never necessary
How many empty bars have you sat in?
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I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know
I don’t care, that I don’t know, I don’t care anymore that I don’t know
And I don’t care that I don’t know
Does it show, that I don’t know, least I hope it doesn’t show that I don’t know
And I don’t care that I don’t know
If it doesn’t show that I don’t know, least I hope that it doesn’t show that I don’t know
I don’t care, I don’t know
I don’t know, I don’t know
I don’t care, anymore that I don’t know, cos’ all I know is, that I don’t know
Smart enough or dumb enough, I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know
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Central Rain: What A Day
04:02
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You don't have to ask, you don't have to try
You may never know the reasons why
You don't have to look or notice the day
the morning has broken anyway
there's nothing too bare
It's all anywhere
the rooftops are shouting
You just have today
what a day, like today
You don't have to look or notice the day
the morning has broken anyway
there's nothing too bare
It's all anywhere
the rooftops are shouting
You just have today
what a day, like today
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Tim Reid: In The Dark
03:01
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I met the girl of my dreams in the dark
Lying next to me on the screen, in my heart
In the dark
We built a house on a hill in our minds
Waiting for night to come and the stars to align
And the world will shake its head
As we fall into the web
I met the girl of my dreams in the dark
We used names that were made just for us
Bound virtually by lines and dots
In the world that shakes its head
As we're married on the internet
I met the girl of my dreams in the dark
We could build a life of bricks and stones
Or I could call these 1s and 0s home
Breaking up and making out alone
Through wires in the telephone
I met the girl of my dreams in the dark
Tiny memory now is a she in my heart
In the dark...
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Don’t smile ’til Easter
With a projector screen and a crumpled up degree
the black line master falling at your feet
You've got a broken smile and that hand me down style
You'll Rock the boat ’til someone grabs the oars, or
Don’t smile ’til Easter
Don't let them know your not that hard of heart
That the system could fall apart
Don't let them in
Don’t smile ’til Easter
Don’t let them see you see yourself in them
That you've been taught how to pretend
Don’t let them in
With a bounce in your stride and ears open wide
From “I’ll try to wonder” to “I wonder why I try?”
You take what you get and you get what you give
You gave all you got but then forgot to live, so
Don’t smile ’til Easter
Don’t let them know what’s underneath the facade
And that you won’t let down your guard
Don’t let them in
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Within the stone walls of the penitentiary
Did my penance – no one there to see
Swallows mock me – yes, they fly
At night the camp lights block the stars from the sky
Betrayed today by a treacherous breeze
You overcome by staying off your knees
But I had no feelings in my fingers and toes
And no pockets in my featureless clothes
It’s about
Inside, out
I’ve been this alone
But I’ve never felt so low
I’ve been this alone
But I’ve never felt so low
Within the stone walls of the penitentiary
Did my penance – no one there to see
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Splurge: Kiss Me
03:07
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Kiss me don’t kiss me please
Tease me don’t be a tease
Make me don’t make me plead
Ah please ah please ah please ah please
Touch me don’t touch me where
I don’t care don’t make me care
Take me don’t take me there
Ah please ah please ah please
Cos my mouth is open wide
Suck in the air
It makes me feel alive
Be here now don’t be here
I want you don’t want you near
I’m so scared but I love the fear
Ah please ah please ah please ah please ah please
Tell me ah don't tell me
You love me
Let me don't let me be
Ah please ah please ah please ah please
Mess me don’t mess with me
Free me I can't be free
Believe me I don’t want to believe
Ah please ah please ah please
Cos my heart is open wide
Pumping my blood
It makes me feel alive
Kiss me don’t kiss me please
Tease me don’t be a tease
Make me don’t make me plead
Ah please ah please ah please ah please
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Love's got me rushing inside and out I will never let it rule again,
Love's got me rushing inside and out I will not put on a show again
When it occurred to me to try Didn't hurt to see that I might When it all falls down, at least I know the very best was on show Saw you walking past Jackson St. The earth, the ground, my knees When it all falls down, the streets, the show, you had some movements, I know.
Love's got me rushing inside and out You should never let him near again Love's got me rushing inside and out I will not give up on this again When it occurred to me to try The world stopped passing me by When it's all a blur, they're all words to bend and break as we please
And you should probably just go back to him
Three meals, the bike lanes, the gym
When it's all a blur, they're all words to bend and break as we please
If you love her like you say you do Hitch a ride to where you know she might be Hoist a flag in your name and turn yourself inside out Anyone could be the one to make you cry
Anyone could be the one to make you smile
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The Solicitors: His Robe
02:37
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Since you went out on the tiles, and you went out of town
I guess you could say I've been in denial,
But I've been in my dressing gown.
I won't check my emails, the phone is off the hook
I'm like a child with a mouthful of crayons
But without a colouring book.
But it don't mean I'm lonely just cos I'm alone..
Hanging on the bathroom door, or laying on the bedroom floor
There used to be so much more
Than a 'His' robe.
I really should get out more, I haven't seen the sun
Since all the things that were both 'his' and 'hers'
Became just 'his' or gone
I know you tell me to move on but I know that you're so indecisive
So I'm not going to move from the living room futon
The bed was always to big.
If you want to find me you know just where I'll be..
Hanging on the bathroom door, or laying on the bedroom floor
There used to be so much more
Than a 'His' robe.
You'll come running back when you realise that the things in your backpack ain't whole
(they're only 'hers')
And lest that we forget, you two are half a set, come ring our bell before
I'm knocking on deaths door.
It's hard to tell if he'd still be alive and well
Were it not for the flannel belt
On his 'his' robe.
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Summer Cats: Bed Wetter
02:11
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Do you remember me/The ocean rolled/Time was slow/We felt an energy
The cock was crowing/The rum was flowing/A mermaid burns to sea
Beyond the sea/I’d long to see/And if you could/Turn where you stood/Would u remember?
So turn the little key/The ocean rolls/Time is slow/Turn the little key/
The cock is crowing/The rum is flowing/The mermaid burns to sea/Beyond the sea/
I’d long to see/I’d long to see/If there's a page for me/A page for me/In your diary.
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And he didn’t take those words seriously
And it’s fourteen years on
And he’s never ever heard those words again
I just needed you so much
She can do without every hearing from him again
Not being the type to revisit
Now he wonders how he ever got so close to someone
To recall the echo of that simple plea
I just needed you so much
How he underestimated her bright side of care
Couldn’t see something good in the fact
That nothing had to change
Now these old guilts resurface
On nights when sleep is red lights
When beds are tired and broken ships
And blankets drape the bedside
I needed you so much
I just needed you so much
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Don’t be surpsised at what you’ll find inside of Pandora’s box
Ghostly actions at a distance is one instance of them changing the locks
The goal posts moving out of union like an onion such a sweet paradox
There’s something looming in the macroscopic closed confines of Pandora’s box
Well we was just a couple of dumb youg kids
That night we decided to lift up the lid
Don’t pop that bubble there’ll be trouble knock you outta your socks
Observe the probabilities now if you please now keep a watch on that box
Maidens dancing in the phosphorescent crimson hues at the equinox
There’s something moving in the ultraviolet pilot light of this melting pot
Well we was just a couple of dumb youg kids
But now the whole world’s gonna see what we did
Beam me up Scotty-Pop!
It’s getting hot in here... Popboomerang 100 degrees celsius!
I tip my fedora to the lady Pandora
I tweak my moustache to the myths of the past
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Remember when you spoke to me
Walking by my side
We were only 17
Time was ours to bide
We were 17
When you said to me
Don’t ever say goodbye
Never say goodbye
Remember when you said to me
We could disappear
History and circumstance
Rung out with your tears
You found your relief
When you said to me
Remember when you promised me
You were in for life
Innocence is hard to keep
But harder still to buy
Bitter poetry
A recurring theme
When you said to me
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Lazybirds: Slinky Skanky
04:11
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Beads of sweat on hand and neck
Coats of red on lid and lens
Finger-paint a motorcade
'Cos the days go by so slow
Talking frost to those who cross
At 10AM in a lion's den
'Cos the days go by so slow
So I'll sell you my best clothes
But I wouldn't want your money for shit
I would not know what to do with it
For my cowboy boots and conductor hats
Guess I'll buy a house in Halifax
And when thoughts belong to the ghostly gums
I'll throw my arms up to the circling gulls
Keeping sentry
For centuries
'Cos the days go by so slow
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Somebody told me that you'd finally hit the wall
I saw a poster that said I had made you fall
But I don't wanna take the blame for that
I let you have your head, that's all I did
That's all I did
You made yourself into someone we just can't like
And all of the workers in your factory went on strike
But I don't wanna take the blame for that
I'm feeling kinda sad, that's all there is
That's all there is
You're so mean, so mean
You make this world unclean
And you drive the biggest car you can afford
When the consequences call
You'll have no defence at all
But I guess that day has come to you at last
You started arguments so your friends got outta the way
But when you fight the world, the world will make you pay
And you've gotta take the blame for that
You made your bed and now, you've got to lie
You've got to lie in it
You're so mean, so mean
You make this world unclean
And you piss off everyone who won't applaud
When the votes go the other way
You'll vow to make us pay
You're incensed the little people dared rebel
When the consequences call
You'll have no defence at all
So take that nasty mouth and go away
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Jona Byron: Sun Daughter
04:11
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Scotty had a notion
A way to make his mark
A major commotion
No blind shot in the dark
If he can get the world to listen in
He knows he can win
Popboomerang, Popboomerang
You keep me coming back for more bands
Popboomerang, Popboomerang
I always come back to your hands
And never ever ever ever land
He sent an invitation
A global RSVP
A Planet compilation
Would be out soon on CD
And we can start the party when we please
If we get off our knees
(Chorus)
Nobody else can stop you now
Nobody else can stop you now
Way across the ocean
And all points in between
His major commotion
Is making every scene
And maybe when the world wakes up again
His records will be playing
(Chorus)
Changing all my weekend plans
Bring me back my favourite bands
I will not ask for lesser brands
The booklet's whipped out of your hands
In the road with cars and trams
Keep me coming back for more bands
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Australian music label founded by Scott Thurling and releasing its first CD in 2002 with over 80 recordings to
date.
Specialising in melodic pop, jangle, folk and rock and predominantly working with Australian bands with the aim to building their careers locally & internationally.
Artists include Skipping Girl Vinegar, Georgia Fields, The Aerial Maps, Celadore, Bon Scotts, Tamas Wells & Tim Reid
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