Lyrics

Cold hands

My heart feels sore
Not to the point where I can’t feel no more
But I’m still in the bathroom with my back to the door
My head still looking, still looking to the floor
I sent my little secret out
Like a wound that’s been exposed
Now I feel deflated
And I suppose it’s not even you
It’s ghosts of me I’d hoped not to see again
It’s not to late to see them go
Be-glove my cold, cold hands
But where does that leave my frosted heart?

It can feel like a yawn that won’t break free

So heavy and testing when it resides in me

Inside my head is not a nice place to be these days

I’m strung out in solitude and my thoughts are in a haze

How many years can  permit myself to fee this way

How many tears can I cry until I’m finally insane

Summarize my sadness, I’ve a sensitive soul

When you offer me to safety, I won’t go

Be-glove my cold, cold hands

But where does that leave my frosted heart?

It can feel like a yawn that won’t break free

So heavy and testing when it resides in me

You lose

I can retreat now, whispered silence in my ear

I’ve climbed my walls now, my dark side peels away my fear

I’ll put my blue hat on and wander through my garden

“what’s in a friend”? she says, “you’re here to take in from me”

You’re only job was to understand

now the cold wind will blow harder this winter

and as I lay you down to sleep I watch you breathe

and now I’ll watch you breathe no more, no more

this game that you play with me

I’ll roll the dice and still you choose

To take my role, try and strip my soul

My teeth are sharper now, you lose

This dirty bee sting, deep blue eye

Sacrifice my sanity, fuck around with vanity for a smile

Now sticks and stones won’t break my bones

And names can’t touch me either

I fear I’m crazy, I may be crazy, I must be crazy baby

You lose, you lose

this game that you play with me

I’ll roll the dice and still you choose

To take my role, try and strip my soul

My teeth are sharper now, you lose

Take my hand, live the hell that I left behind

I’m going home now, I’m going home now

You’re the last green bottle sitting on the wall

I’ll watch you accidentally fall, I’ll make you accidentally fall

this game that you play with me

I’ll roll the dice and still you choose

To take my role, try and strip my soul

My teeth are sharper now, you lose

Wedding song

Met the lady down under, now we’re going up and over

Never had to run for cover cos the rain ran dry that day

Took me over to New York, New York, fed me up on guacamole

Ten thousand photos of our memories and then our special day

Cos loving you came easily, so we went and done it legally

And now you’re coming home to play with me

So I’m a happy guy

Laughter lines will show the fun we’ve had

I know there’s more to come and for that I’m glad

We showed the ocean that he aint as big as all that

And I can’t wait to grow old with you, my friend

Cos loving you came easily, so we went and done it legally

And now you’re coming home to play with me

So I’m a happy guy

And I remember how your red hair looked in the snow

And I remember feeling lucky to know you

Who’d have that thought that in Glebe point road

Such magic could be made

Cos loving you came easily, so we went and done it legally

And now you’re coming home to play with me

So I’m a happy guy

I’m a happy guy

I’m a happy guy

How the wind has changed

Like good beauty, I wanna capture you twice

So much war for the ones we love

Don’t turn on your TV today, it’s another crazy day

A spiky brand new breed of strange

I’ve a friend coming down tomorrow to try on my magic shoes

And how she looked to me like god, a sunset stead from strawberry

And I’ve never seen a sparrow run so fast

No I’ve never seen a sparrow run so fast

And I’m the only one, it seems

Who’s noticed how the wind has changed

And my kitchen’s full of staples and my swollen hands are stained

And I can have my cake and eat it too and I won’t be inviting you, no

I’ll fill the water and wash the blood out from my hands

Whispering will remind me of children in the night

And the smell from your last cigarette creates a memory spark alight

Am I holding on too tight for the winter fall

And the calcium I am missing replaces strength I get from you

And I’m the only one, it seems

Who’s noticed how the wind has changed

And my kitchen’s full of staples and my swollen hands are stained

And I can have my cake and eat it too and I won’t be inviting you, no

I’ll fill the water and wash the blood out from my hands

Like good beauty, I wanna capture you twice

So much war for the ones we love.

Flame

Looking through the window of her car as she drove

Drove to anywhere, to somewhere, somewhere borrowed, somewhere blue

He remembered the first time that he saw summer in her eyes

And how he knew that he could die that night, a thousand times

Without her warmth

It was then that he knew that their flame

Would stand like the flame on a birthday candle

You know the kind you blow and the don’t go out

And he said

“of course I’m sad that I won’t get to see that plant grow into a tree

But it’s not all bad and I’ll get what’s mine eventually, eventually”

And he still worried how the world would end

But with her in his gaze he worried less

Thunder did not sound as scary, winter did not feel as cold

Cos the girl who’s quite contrary showed him how her garden grows

And he said

“of course I’m sad that I won’t get to see that plant grow into a tree

But it’s not all bad and I’ll get what’s mine eventually, eventually”

And whilst the hand that fate dealt was not without light

Their lives not side by side, more left and right but it’s alright

He said

“of course I’m sad that I won’t get to see that plant grow into a tree

But it’s not all bad and I’ll get what’s mine eventually, eventually”

Frown

Cans opened, a thousand worms of malice being thrown around the old court yard

Looking back we didn’t think this over, didn’t know that it would be this hard

Listen here, tiara to tiara, if it’s war you want you’re on your own

A quiet life seems quite nice so I think I’m better off alone

Why you cling onto all the bad parts and keep us down

I saw a sun rising behind your storm cloud if you’d only look around

We’re just actors in this bad soap opera

And we’re going to be laughed out of town

Should I go now, I don’t want to say goodbye

But I don’t like my face with this frown

Be my guest, will you maybe and win this thing, take the crown

But do me a favour and tell me when it’s over

Cos I’d like to remove this frown

Why you cling onto all the bad parts and keep us down

I saw a sun rising behind your storm cloud if you’d only look around

We’re just actors in this bad soap opera

And we’re going to be laughed out of town

Should I go now, I don’t want to say goodbye

But I don’t like my face with this frown

Little village without you

I just heard you laughing downstairs

My disillusions they fooled me once again

It’s 8pm in my mind, the stone sober clock ticks on midnight

I dreamed of Irish eyes and ice cream but you still made your way in there

I’m happy for and we still share the same sky

But I’m just thinking thoughts of yesterday

And yesterday fades away like some other rainbow on some other day

You blew a kiss to me then

And I wish that I was cold

Heading face first to this meadow

Where viola fills my silence

And pulls the wool just past my eye

I’m in this little village without you and I can hear that you are gone

And I’m scared to live without you and know your life will still go on

What if there’s another to hold your other hand?

Or laugh with you till Tuesday when you’re still in Sunday land

In this village here without you and I can smell that you are gone

I could go home if I wanted to if I weren’t struck by the sun

And I wish that I was cold

Heading face first to this meadow

Where viola fills my silence

And pulls the wool just past my eye

Medusa has gone

Once you gave me a little bit of your love

I’m left emptier still, there’s no pleasing me

And there’s no love like the old love

Or so I’m told

I said I’d try my best to be a boy

But that was a lie I hardly tried at all

And now Medusa has up and gone I’ve no excuse to be set in stone

With no serpents snapping in my face

However did it get this way?

Young love seated on the bus

Nails painted perfect pink, eyes painted with lust

But you and me are on different sides of the road

Or so I’m told

I said I’d try my best to be a boy

But that was a lie I hardly tried at all

And now Medusa has up and gone I’ve no excuse to be set in stone

With no serpents snapping in my face

However did it get this way?

The names and the face may change

But the feelings all stay the same

And I’m always left climbing up some wall

I know it’s late but I try and change my alibi

Whilst doing my best not to fall

I said I’d try my best to be a boy

But that was a lie I hardly tried at all

And now Medusa has up and gone I’ve no excuse to be set in stone

With no serpents snapping in my face

However did it get this way?

Roses

I remember a little girl too ashamed to play with her dolls

We think our mind is the whole world

It seemed the moon was right ahead

Baby tried Australia, I can still hear her laugh, a wise woman told me so

Wooden school desk, written psychosis

I once knew warmth but people get up and go when the chicken pox show

Another mother abandons her child

It’s only eighty years or so…….

I once more pull out my chair

And Saturdays don’t feel like Saturdays no more

Look at the dark side of this ecstasy

And roses come to those who wait

Link arms with my new enemy

Trucks go by, scratch tigers smile and I’m stood here in the rain

A brush with beauty with the grin of a whore

Lit a cigarette for her forefathers

I like to dye my hair and have a drink and sing with you

As time goes by your body rots but the eyes have never changed

I once more pull out my chair

And Saturdays don’t feel like Saturdays no more

Look at the dark side of this ecstasy

And roses come to those who wait

Link arms with my new enemy

Crime scene

2 am, it felt like a Friday but could have been any day at all

My limbs were heavy from the wine

This place, a new surrounding, I’m not quite sure just where I am

But I seem to like what I see

But I sure had fun staring down the barrel of your gun

So would I be out of my mind to return to the scene of the crime?

Heartbeats, it feels they’re competing whose can thump hardest of all

Was that yours or was it mine?

Music, a song is ascending from a room at the end of the hall

Pretty soon I won’t hear it at all

But I sure had fun staring down the barrel of your gun

So would I be out of my mind to return to the scene of the crime?

I did not want to

I did not mean to

I did not want to

I did not mean to

Grapefruit

Why do I feel like I’ve just swallowed an orange, or an apple or a grapefruit whole?

Why do I feel like this skin is not mine tonight, I don’t know

Why do I feel I have the right to cry tonight?

When people outside don’t know if they will live or they will die tonight

Why do I feel this way when really everything is alright?

Am I just tired or am I feeling lonely

Am I feeling like I’m losing things that won’t mine to lose in the first place

Am I still wired from our evening out on Tuesday

Am I memorizing moments that should not have been important

Now I’m counting on both hands using all my little fingers

All the times this feeling came

I’m not the same

Why do I feel like I’ve just swallowed an orange, or an apple or a grapefruit whole?