My name is Jon S Williams and I am a singer/songwriter/guitarist from Melbourne. I was born in Launceston February 26, 1965. I spent my childhood in St Kilda and Hobart, my teenage years in Canberra, New Haven and Dallas before moving back to Melbourne in 1984. I’ve been in Melbourne ever since, apart from a stint in Texas in 1987. I wrote my 1st song on my 1st guitar when I was 16.
Heavy Meditation is a culmination of reconnections and consolidations. Recorded at SoundPark with the full band live on Wednesday 20 January 2016. Idge (Engineer/Drums) and I then added further instrumentation and vocals the next day, followed by 2 mixing sessions. Mastered with Finn Keane at HeadGap. This is the 1st time I have played and recorded together with both Jeremy Gronow (Guitar) and Andy Papadopoulos (Bass) since we played in a band together in 1988; a real delight. I’ve been recording with Idge for 10 years, and this was another chance to rehearse, demo, rearrange, pre- and co-produce and spend creative time in the studio together. It was wonderful to get the driving energy of Mark McCartney (Guitar) on-board, as well as David Storen (Guitar) to further explode the sound. Idge’s brother John worked the tape machine on the day of recording and Daniel Cachia filmed it. Raja Gupta provided the artwork. I wrote all the songs except for: Poor Ned (Trevor Lucas). www.jonswilliams.org
Table of Contents
2030
Transparency double speak
Complicit minds we're now complete
Euphemism so oblique
The strong again control the weak
Public discourse obfuscates
Perpetuates the status quo
Power always it corrupts
Keeping those within the know
Watch the years
Disappear
Blinded by consuming ways
Counting down our last todays
Until the next civil war
Getting to die all the poor
Social service at an end
Dying in the streets again
2030
2030
2030
2030
Money saved for few to see
Eradicate liberties
Passing riches down the line
Family jewels the end of time
Fly away private jet
Drive to bank in a car
Throwaway factory
We are all memory
Watch the years
Disappear
Blinded by consuming ways
Counting down our last todays
Until the next civil war
Getting to die all the poor
Social service at an end
Dying in the streets again
2030
2030
2030
2030
After Rain
I feel it lifting away
And I know I will not slay
All the love that comes my way
All the love in my domain
Like the smell of the flowers and the footpath
After rain
Like the smell of the grass and the wind
After rain
I feel it lifting away
And I know I will not sway
From the love that comes my way
From the love in my domain
You you
It’s got to be you
You you
I want it to be you
You you
I belive that it’s you
You you you you
I feel it lifting away
And I know I will now stay
For the love that comes my way
For the love in my domain
Like the smell of the flowers and the footpath
After rain
Like the smell of the grass and the wind
After rain
Always look around
Colour blossom petals of spring
Warmth of the sun the hope it brings
Winter time I spent inside
Now I walk the street alive
Sometimes I feel so happy I wanna cry
Sometime I feel so sad I can only sigh
Butterfly moving around
So gracefully in my yard
Dogs they bark
Lawnmowers roar
The birds they fly
Away they soar
Always look to great things
What the new day brings
Always look to peace on earth
A new rebirth
Always look to history
This is the key
Always look around
Arc of Descent
I’m planning your death
I’m planning your downfall
Before you realise
It’s a stolen thought
Updated concept
Called the arc of descent
Arc of descent directed motive
Arc of descent life unfolded
Arc of descent repair my past
Enter the arc of descent
First it’s a thought then it’s a doubt
Suckle pervading fear
Entrance get off
Exit unclear
Exist the arc of descent
Give me life take my life
Give me life take my life
Give me life take my life
Give me life take my life
Sex encounter flippant’s the word
Protection no what for
I’ve taken the test examine the blood now
Orbit the arc of descent
Give me life take my life
Give me life take my life
Give me life take my life
Give me life take my life
I’m planning your death
I’m planning your downfall
Before you realise
It’s a stolen thought
Updated concept
Called the arc of descent
Arc of descent directed motive
Arc of descent life unfolded
Arc of descent repair my past
Enter the arc of descent
Barrel of a Gun
Australia grew out of a barrel of a gun
Convict settlement
Currency rum
Australian grew out of a barrel of a gun
The barrel of a gun
We killed and destroyed to acquire this land
It did not just fall into our hands
And then we settled and farmed the land
We killed and destroyed
In our history
In what came before
We must never forget
Lest we forget
Lest we forget
Australia grew out of a barrel of a gun
Convict settlement
Currency rum
Australian grew out of a barrel of a gun
The barrel of a gun
Perpetuation of nationalistic pride
Those are the politically correct times
From reality of the killing times
The killings times
In our history
In what came before
We must never forget
Lest we forget
Lest we forget
Bended Knee
Pretty girl sitting on a rock
Rip down the middle of her summer dress
She don’t understand them
Why they can’t keep their hands to themselves
Why she can’t put her skin on display
She don’t understand them
She sings to the birds
Sings to the trees
Going down
Going down
Going down on a bended knee
Teenage boy sitting on a bench
Bruised hidden underneath his high school shirt
He don’t understand them
Why they can’t keep their hands to themselves
Why they have to punch
Why they have to hurt
He don’t understand them
He sings to the birds
Sings to the trees
Going down
Going down
Going down on a bended knee
Silver headed couple on their fold up chairs
Looking ‘cross the park with their vacant stares
They don’t understand no
Why they can’t remember
Why they can’t recall
Names and places memories that came before
They don’t understand no
They sing to the birds
Sing to the trees
Going down
Going down
Going down on a bended knee
Between
I’m in the place between falling
I’m in the place between falling
I feel your presence in the senses that are lingering
Not because you’re here or near
But because I can remember
Your pretty dress is still hanging in the hallway closet
Unwinding down in the fabric of our love connection
Moving away from my necessary isolation
Is the very thing that I can do
Moving away from my necessary isolation
Is the very thing that I can do
I’m in the place between falling
I’m in the place between falling
We all are moving to a paradigm of disorder
A metaphorical descent
The pinnacle of our creativity
Where things exist in their most ordered state
Moving away from my necessary isolation
Is the very thing that I can do
Moving away from my necessary isolation
Is the very thing that I can do
The meaning
The value
The beauty revealed
Through disintegration
The meaning
The value
The beauty revealed
Through disintegration
Bluegrass
Instrumental
Blue Riverslide
I’d just like to say
That even though
I can’t be you
I’m starting to learn
Starting to know
Just how you feel
Just how you deal
With those who don’t
Care how you feel
Care how you deal
I’m sorry
Sorry ‘bout the way these people
Mistreated you
And still treat you
I’m sorry
Sorry ‘bout the way these people
Mistreated you
And still treat you
Big sundown
Nuance is the difference
Concept’s in the detail
The facts are in the mixing bowl
Reality’s a fable
Intelligence is underrated
Excellence is slain
Thrown into the muddy pit
With unforsaken gain
Dominance is overrated
Power it corrupts
Men controlling human beings
Grinding them to dust
Insects on the leaves
Birds up in the air
Connections all apparent
Nature always cares
…then rips apart
And spits it out
And spews the hottest lava
The waves are crashing down
There will be no survivors
This is the last sundown
Cure the mind
Stretch the time
I know what to do
I’ve been here awhile
You are brand new
Subtle is the saviour
Relish in the bottle
Condiments are on the shelf
Sauce is on the table
Cutlery in the drawer
Plates are neatly stacked
Cups contain the purest drops
Of clearest filtered water
Energy from friend to friend
Delight within the eyes
Laughter drips like beads of sweat
Salt is in the eyes
Excellence is underrated
It’s needed to survive
Pleasant talk of afternoon
Soothing of the night
…that rips apart
And spits it out
And spews the hottest lava
The waves are crashing down
There will be no survivors
This is the last sundown
Cure the mind
Stretch the time
I know what to do
I’ve been here awhile
You are brand new
Insight of the unexpected
Acceptance of the real
Embracing of the moment
Hidden far from here
Connect accept and sanctify
Share the cup of life
Forgive forget enjoy express
We only live one life
Collapse and trot a gentle walk
It’s in the step and stride
It’s taken with the confidence
That comes with luck of kind
Repeat ignore then seize and spend
Until the glory ends
Wake up inside the morning light
The sun will rise again
…then rip apart
And spit it out
And spew the hottest lava
The waves are crashing down
There will be no survivors
This is the last sundown
Break it up
This is the way I feel
You may feel differently
These are the things I see
You may see things other than me
This is what I hear
What I hear is not always clear
This is where I stand
Where I stand is shifting sand
Break it up
Shake it up
Take it up
Wanna see you smile
Tear me up into little pieces
Scatter me in the wind
Wash me in the gentle cycle
Throw me in the warm and spin
Hang me out to dry and flutter
In the breeze baby
In the breeze
Hang me out to dry and flutter
In the breeze baby
In the breeze
Brenda
Brenda’s not looking the best of health
Brenda’s not looking well
She’s looking to get married
She’s looking to get married
She’s looking to get married
Too many nights on that fast fall lane
Too many nights on the makeup picture frame
Oh right yeah
Right fine oh yeah
Cannibal
I’m coming round to your place tonight
I’m going to cut you up
I’m going to stab you in the neck with a knife
I’m going to drink your blood
Human blood
I’ve got the taste for human flesh
I’ve got the taste for it now
It’s a metaphysical change
I am a cannibal
I am a cannibal
I fight in wars
I kill many men
I feel no remorse
The government pays my wage
Tax payers paying them
It’s not a job
It’s a way of life
To which I’m attuned
It’s a metaphysical change
I am a cannibal
I am a cannibal
Can of Worms
I'll never work it out
I'll always have a doubt
I will be your friend
On whom you can depend
Open a can of worms
They wriggle and they squirm
A gently paradox
A crusty lollipop
Hunger is gone
It won't be long
Find a new skill
For the next job
CCTV
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C C T V
C
C
C
C C T V
C
C
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C C T V
C
C
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Cholera Outbreak
Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe
Cops shooting teens in a Northcote park
Greece exploding it’s a civil uprising
Capitalism leaves its victims in the dark
Cholera outbreak in Papua New Guinea
Cops shooting blacks in a L.A. street
Thailand exploding it’s a civil uprising
Capitalism leaves its victims all asleep
What were you expecting
What were you expecting
The river is rising
The river is rising
The river is rising
The river is rising
The real deal what you feel the real deal what you feel
The real deal what you feel for real inside
The real deal what you feel the real deal what you feel
The real deal what you feel for real inside
Living in a fantasy middle class reality using all the world’s resources and oil
I am going to live for this
You are going to die for that
The way of the world is not equal for all
City of Cool
I live in the city of cool
Just got home from China
Jet lagged and I’m feeling ill
Just got home from China
I can asphyxiate
Wrap a plastic bag round my cranium
Gun shot wound car accident
I am untouchable
I am untouchable
I live in the city of cool
Just got home from China
I live in the city of cool
Home again residing
I can go delete myself
Stick it in my blood stream passage
E H methamphetamine
I am untouchable
I am untouchable
Remember that the energy back will bite
Remember the energy
Remember that the energy back will bite
Remember the energy
I live in the city of cool
Everything’s illusion
I live in the city of cool
I perceive confusion
Tragic constipated plea
Never had the slightest trouble
Jam it damn it hold me tight
I am untouchable
I am untouchable
Remember that the energy back will bite
Remember the energy
Remember that the energy back will bite
Remember the energy
I live in the city of cool
Just got home from China
I live in the city of cool
Control
Desire can be control
Control in the mind
I’ve now decided to make the move
The move to make you mine
We’ve know each other for a long time
Longer than we knew
First the choices they were many
Then the choices grew
The things we think about when we are talking
The things we talk about
We think of love
Where do me thoughts come from?
From where do they emerge?
Parents friends sisters and brothers
The context that Jesus is not
God
New millennium bug
Let’s surf the information superhighway
Television printed media movies
No matter what I say or do
I’m influenced by you
The things we think about when we are talking
The things we talk about
We think of love
I remember history
I recall the past
It’s the power of creativity
Non-violent love will last
It’s the strength of sharing all we must all share then trust
It’s the strength of sharing all we must all share then trust
The things we think about when we are talking
The things we talk about
We think of love
Cultural Isolation
Can’t separate the man
Cultural isolation
Can’t separate the man
Cultural isolation
Can’t separate the man
Cultural isolation
Can’t separate the man
White man was bent
White people bending
Not giving but receiving
Not owning but lending
Everything now must must change
Everything now must must change
Stories are old
Older than history
Culture is strong
Connection
No mystery
Land is the essence
Land is the key
Land people are one
Adapt
Harmony
Everything now must must change
Everything now must must change
Can’t separate the man
Cultural isolation dual reality
Can’t separate the man
Cultural isolation dual reality
Can’t separate the man
Cultural isolation reality
Can’t separate the man
David Lynch
Falling from the sky
Here comes the acid rain
It’s gonna burn your skin
Gonna cause you pain
Now and then
It’s in the air
It’s everywhere
Emitting from the ground
Spreading with the wind
Now and then
It’s a David Lynch of a day
It’s macabre in every way
Worse than the television news
Crazy headlines front page all the same
Nuclear plant
Heading for meltdown
Built on a fault line
Earthquake underground
Now and then
Here come the planes
Here come the bombs
Cowboys - Outlaws
It’s shock and awe
Now and then
It’s a David Lynch of a day
It’s macabre in every way
Worse than the television news
Crazy headlines front page all the same
The levies are gone
The rich all have fled
The water is crashing down
On all the poor and dead
Now and then
Breathe in disease
Spread it with a sneeze
Contagious
Can’t control
I’m falling to my knees
Now and then
It’s a David Lynch of a day
It’s macabre in every way
Worse than the television news
Crazy headlines front page all the same
Difference
Difference of opinion – Different state of mind
Different way to view the time
Difference in the step – Difference in the stride
Different way to view the time
Difference in the body - Difference in the soul
Different way to view the time
Difference in the hearing – Difference in the sight
Different way to view the time
Chorus… The wonders of the world – I’m looking at the moon - The earth is spinning round
Gravity is holding – me on this dirt
here on this sacred ground
One day I am here – One day I am gone
What was it that I achieved?
We are now together – We are now forever
What was it that we achieved?
Middle 8… Don’t throw ‘em in the dungeon or lock ‘em in the basement – don’t lock up that secret door
Let ‘em outside where the sun is shining – expose ‘em to a brand new brand new world
All of their lives – they have been hiding – trapped away deep inside
Now is the chance to see a new meaning – see a brand new side of life
Difference with perspective – Different type of cool
Different sort of attitude
Different type of metal – Different type of song
Different sort of attitude
Different way of being – Different to the end
Different sort of attitude
Different type of conflict – Different type of friend
Different sort of attitude
Difference I defer – Difference I embrace
Different type of human race
Difference I can reason – Difference I will be
Different type of human race
Difference found in water– Difference found in air
Different type of human race
Difference now beginning – Difference now I end
Different type of human race
Difference I am feeling – Difference I am found
Difference in the here and now
Difference stands to reason – Different type of thought
Difference in the here and now
Difference with compassion - Difference I forgive
Difference in the here and now
Difference every moment – Difference in the past
Difference in the here and now
Empathy
There’s something going on
It’s not something new
It’s there for all to see
In cyberspace
Connect the keys
Shrinking attention span
Novels don’t have the time to read
Typing with greater speed
Don’t know how to use apostrophes
Generation gap
Is the oldest form of attack
Not understanding is an excuse
For not trying
So get out of my way
When I’m having a bad day
Sometimes my empathy
Is a real lack of compassion
Fade in
Too far forward
Too far away
Eke out existence
Day by day
Drop the bomb now
Droplets of rain
Harmonic chords
Endless sustain
Wash away ease my pain
This is the moment of refrain
Too far forward
Too far away
This is a life lived in just one way
Fade in
Fade out
I’m not dying from disease
Not fleeing like a refugee
Not drowning in a river of debt
I’m not excusing I won’t forget
Wash away ease my pain
This is the moment of refrain
I’m not dying from disease
This is a life lived almost free
Fade in
Fade out
Resistant instinct incontestable
Persistent instinct indisputable
Incoherent syntactic clown
Indubitable emoji frown
Wash away ease my pain
This is the moment of refrain
Resistant instinct incontestable
This is a life lived undoubtable
Fade in
Fade out
Incontractable in cyber space
Bully the victim show no grace
Moments of change in minutiae
In the micro of the macro today
Wash away ease my pain
This is the moment of refrain
Incontractable in cyber space
This is a life with negative face
Fade in
Fade out
Field of Irises
Instrumental
Figure it out
Everything matters
Nothing matters
Everything stays the same
Everything changes
Nothing changes
Everything stays the same
Everyone evolves
Everyone devolves
Everyone stays the same
Everyone moves forward
Everyone is static
Everyone stays the same
Figure it out
Never
Figure it out
All this important
Paradoxically vapid
Meaning is soon drained away
All this intense
All this lacks clarity
Vision replaced by intent
We are omnipotent
We can eradicate
The human condition of life
We are all worthless
We are all nothing
The human condition of life
Figure it out
Never
Figure it out
They are eternal
They are so fragile
They are just like you and me
They are compassion
They are sincerity
They are just like you and me
They are destroyers
Nihilistic employers
They are just like you and me
They are polluters
The earth’s executors
They are just like you and me
Figure it out
Never
Figure it out
Goodbye to future
Goodbye generation
Goodbye say goodbye farewell
Goodbye information
Salute consolation
Goodbye say goodbye farewell
Nothing is left here
Nothing is gained here
The richest of futile attempts
Nothing is everything
Nothing is forever
The poorest of deepest contempt
Figure it out
Never
Figure it out
Finite
When I’m in a dream
I’m pure imagination
Polluted air
Chemicals
Dirty water running through my veins
Into the sewer
Under the house
Below the city we know
Snapped cracked Jack
Detergent attack
There’s poison in the system
Finite
Finite
Explore my inner scream
Throw it out to the ether
Weightless – meditate – levitate now
My body floats out in the distance
Into the sewer
Under the house
Below the city we know
Snapped cracked Jack
Detergent attack
There’s poison in the system
Finite
Finite
First Time
Tonight I’ll lose my sight
For the first time
For the last time
For the only time
Won’t be able
To see your smile anymore
But I’ll still feel your flesh
Press your face
You press your face
Your face against mine
Won’t be able
To see the strings on my guitar
But I’ll still hear that sound
Coming from that hole
Well I’m not whole
But I am still alive
I feel the breath in between your lips
When you stand so close
Can’t look down at my feet
But my feet are still there
Can’t look down at my hands
But my hands are still there
I can’t see inside your mind
But I know you still care
I can’t see inside my soul
Was my soul ever really there?
Fog and Haze
The fog and haze is behind my back
Now I’m going forward on a one way track
To a place with purer sands and clearer skies
I stood upon a hilltop The people they did call
Jump they said with confidence From there you will not fall
Funny thing what we call trust Funny thing indeed
Look to other interests first Not merely to their needs
Fill my life with happiness
Think and feel alike
A common care for unity
A love for which we fight
I looked out the window A bird flew by
And when it flew by it left a branch The branch was dry
Come through that window
Come and be with me
Come through that window
And we will be free
‘Cause even though we try our hardest to
Sew up the patches and heal the wounds
Our life long troubles and spoils are left on the floor
Fill my life with happiness
Think and feel alike
A common care for unity
A love for which we fight
Come and stay here all the time
Walk here by my side
And when the times are down depressed
Carry be my guide
‘Cos even though we try our hardest to
Sew up the patches and heal the wounds
Our life long troubles and spoils are left on the floor
Fill my life with happiness
Think and feel alike
A common care for unity
A love for which we fight
The fog and haze is behind my back
Now I’m going forward on a one way track
To a place with purer sands and clearer skies
Forget the Hype
Forget the hype
You just might
Find a way to be free inside your mind
It’s you
It’s me
It’s everything you possibly want to be
Forget the hype
You just might
Find a way to be free inside your mind
Hype
Forget
The hype
Forget
The hype
Forget
The hy hy hy hype
Hype
Forget
The hype
Forget
The hype
Forget
The hy hy hy hype
Screw you
I’m not gonna do what you want me to
Consistent transparent I can see through
I’m not gonna hate
Forget the hype
Forgotten Memory
Driving into Horsham town
I saw the Golden Arches burning down
Burning Down
Steering wheel in my hand
Malley country wet red sand
The sky was clear and blue
Looking and searching
For that forgotten memory of you
Looking and searching for that
Forgotten memory of you
Standing by my old pa’s grave
Knowing that my soul is saved
It was my first time there
He died I was in the states
Life and death them are the breaks
I’m know I’ll see him again
Kicking footy on the ground
Knowing that my lunch is round
The purple and gold
Sitting with my mother
And her mother and her sister and her brother
And my wife
Freedom
I live in a house
I have brand new shoes
I have food and I have drink
And I live how I choose
Freedom
I love a woman
I call her my wife
Yes we laugh and yes we cry
This is our full life
Freedom
I do surrender
Myself unto you
Yes I will walk
Yes I will walk
My courage renewed
From where I come
In 18 hundred and 33
Two hundred Palleweh they came
Wyballeena was their home
A treaty they had signed
In 18 hundred and 47
46 remained
To Oyster Cove they were returned
Shattered homeless without clothes
This is song about history
This is a song about my dear country
This is a song about history
From where I come
In 19 hundred and 75
I was taught a blatant lie
Truganinni now was gone (her ashes spread on the Derwent river)
A culture it had died (they lied)
Manalgenna I think of you
Wooraday I think of you
Walter Arthur I think of you
From where I come
This is song about history
This is a song about my dear country
This is a song about history
From where I come
Gallery guitar
There’s a guitar on the wall of the gallery
Speaking to my soul
There’s a guitar on the wall of the gallery
Speaking to my soul
Yes it validates all the things I’ve done
All the things I know
There’s a guitar on the wall of the gallery
Speaking to my soul
Take me home
Find a home
Make a home
This is home
Change my strings to key of D#
Make sure they don’t break
Plug in my amplifiers
Electricity
Change my strings to the key of D#
Make sure they don’t break
Plug in my amplifiers
Electricity
There’s a guitar on the wall of the gallery
Speaking to my soul
There’s a guitar on the wall of the gallery
Speaking to my soul
Yes it validates all the things I’ve done
All the things I know
There’s a guitar on the wall of the gallery
Speaking to my soul
Take me home
Find a home
Make a home
This is home
Guilty as charged
I don't want to spend time with you
I don't want to be friends with you
I wanna think far less about you
It's not about respect
I'm not compassionate
We do not have vows to renew
All I want day by day
Is not to feel dismayed
All I want is to feel kind of cool
Put my head in the sand
Turn the corner
My thoughts are driving me mad
What you said to me
It could never be called fair
The judge's decision will be quite clear
You're guilty as charged
And on my working days
When I must meet your gaze
I know it lives within in my mind
I could rationalize
Pretend to be so kind
But I wanna see you living in a burning hell
I know in the scope of all
What I'm feeling is rather small
But is doesn't disapate the way I feel
Put my head in the sand
Turn the corner
My thoughts are driving me mad
What you said to me
It could never be called fair
The judge's decision will be quite clear
You're guilty as charged
Put my head in the sand
Turn the corner
My thoughts are driving me mad
What you said to me
It could never be called fair
The judge's decision will be quite clear
You're guilty as charged
Heart full
Expectations I assume
I know what I know
I live deep within my mind
With limited control
Don’t depend I don’t rely
Do what I do best
Always strive to reach the place
Of personal success
Chorus… I’m looking at you with a heart full - Heart full full of pride
I know that our love our love - Will certainly survive
Life is full of peaks so high - Valleys down below
Only with you do I know - The places I can go
Time is lived in a straight line
I don’t understand
Cycles evolve patterns emerge
The circle comes around
Stage by stage by stage I learn
Add on to what I know
Sometimes I am in control
Whether yes or no
Chorus…
My life now is lived ahead
And when I look back
It may not still be the same
Completely different track
What I thought when I was young
What I’m thinking now
May have changed not be the same
Completely rearranged
Chorus…
I am just a passing thought
It’s fuelled from within
Based upon my diligence
Based upon a whim
What what I know what I do
What I can achieve
What what I will what I might
Subjectively perceive
Chorus…
Hollywood Movie
I'm the hero in a Hollywood movie
I will never die
I'm the hero in a Hollywood movie
I will never die
I kill terrorists
in my spare time
I free hostages
everyone one them survives
Horse
I’m just a horse resting in the field
Having a good time chewing grass
Hey bud gotta cud what me
Oh not me
Not me
Hey bud gotta cud what me
Oh not me me me me me me
Ideology
Instrumental
I love you so
I love you so
Never want you to go
I love you so
I love you so
Never want you to go
I love you so
I love you so
Never want you to go
I love you so
I love you so
Never want you to go
I love you so
Never ever want you to go
Never ever want you to go
I love you so
In group
To those in the know to those in the in
To those who are born and conditioned to win
To those in the know to those in the in
To those who are born and conditioned to win
Complexity - simple concept
Inherent challenge of making it work
Intricacy - basic concept
Applying the knowledge to make it work
It’s easy to do I’ll never say that to you
Understand the conclusions that lead to this coup
Moment of terror moment of peace
Perspective is here justify my release
To those in the know to those in the in
To those who are born and conditioned to win
To those in the know to those in the in
To those who are born and conditioned to win
Recognition – basic concept
Complexity of making it work
Freedom of destiny - inkling of memory
Forgetting of movement in time and space
It’s easy to do I’ll never say that to you
Understand the conclusions that lead to this coup
Moment of terror moment of peace
Perspective is here justify my release
To those in the know to those in the in
To those who are born and conditioned to win
To those in the know to those in the in
To those who are born and conditioned to win
False situation
Satisfied complication
Righteous indignation
Outraged condemnation
Compromised inflammation
False information
Movement of relation
Creation of the new sensation
Absence of conspiracy
Moment of reality
Construction of a theory
Opinion of fact
Hide beneath umbrella
Spacecraft interstellar
Contracting universe
Opinion of fact
In the Basement
Instrumental
Jig my Rig
Instrumental
Judy Davis
I wanna be in the same room
As Judy Davis
For just 5 minutes
Please
Please
Please!
I wanna be in the same room
As Judy Davis
For just 5 minutes
Please
Please
Please!
And Colin Friels
Colin Friels
Colin Friels
Colin Friels
Justice
This thing called justice it’s got me
What is rule and what is serving?
For one can say and then not do
One can praise and walk right through
Shouting praises a mind all blank
For without love
My life is not a thing
Well my friend she’s not pretty
Thinks and stinks in all the wrong ways
But she’s got justice off the shelf
She’s not worried about the outer self
Of living lives
Untruthfulness
An angel is flying high and free
Why can’t the eyes of society
Why can’t they see?
Well they’re telling me
And I’m telling them
These people have minds
Children women and men
We all have hearts and minds to feed
Friendship is something that everyone needs
Aki’s happy but he can’t run
Dropped all over him forgive someone
He knows of justice he knows the one
Light aflame he won’t succumb
He’s flying free of all the scruples
Eagles in a tree
Eagles in a tree
They swoop and kill but it’s not until
The varmint it runs into the sun
My life’s a circle I’m thinking now
Maybe they they can tell
We’re all chained as well as free
What path will I take?
A standing at the gate
A trembling and a hoping I
Can step
Step ahead
Ahead
From shapes
Defined
Karen Silkwood
I feel like Karen Silkwood
Death is on its way
I feel like Karen Silkwood
I yearn for better days
Where I worked was underground
The cars they coughed and fumed
I smoked too many cigarettes
Each day my lungs consumed
I feel like Karen Silkwood
Death is on its way
I feel like Karen Silkwood
I yearn for better days
I think too much I know too much
I really don’t fit in
I want too much I say too much
I really don’t fit in
Scrub then wash I rid myself
The world engulfs my skin
I purge then cleanse rebirth again
My soul contained within
I feel like Karen Silkwood
Death is on its way
I feel like Karen Silkwood
I yearn for better days
Kill the clown
I’m telling you
Let’s kill the clown
Drink the medicine
Wash it down
Get out of dodge
Get out of town
The harm is done
Don’t turn around
I'm telling you
Let's kill that clown
run over him
with a truck
and back it up
kill him again
make sure he's dead
let's not pretend
Chorus…
I know you don’t know
I know
You don’t know
I know you don’t know
I know
You don’t know
I know you don’t know
I know you don’t
Know
I’m telling you
It’s not a joke
A hot red gun
A cloud of smoke
A woollen mask
A hole revealed
Your lucky stars
Get out of here
I'm telling you
I have no doubt
It's clear to me
what this's about
To leave no clues
To leave no trace
The end of time
The human race
Chorus…
Kiss on the cheek
Kiss on the cheek
Is the sweetest thing
No desire
No anything
Bright and clear
Wet and bright
Kiss on the cheek
Is the sweetest thing
Deep inside I am wondering
Deep inside I’m dark
Deep inside I am looking for
Your
Heart
Kiss on the cheek
Is the sweetest thing
No betrayal
No anything
Bright and clear
Wet and bright
Kiss on the cheek
Is the sweetest thing
Last Night’s Talk
Last night’s talk was sad and true
I am here for you
I love you with my heart and soul
I give my love to you
I have wandered many years
To find someone like you
You make me feel alive and free
You’re the one true love for me
It’s hard to change and rearrange
All the ways I feel
But I will adjust be flexible
I give my love to you
I have stumbled many times
Forgot from where I come
Til the end of time since time began
You are my only one
The to hear you laugh was the greatest gift
I could receive
You make me feel alive and free
You’re the one true love for me
It’s hard to change and rearrange
All the ways I feel
But I will adjust be flexible
I give my love to you
Last night’s talk was sad and true
I am here for you
I love you with my heart and soul
I give my love
I give my love
I give my love to you
Letter
I’m writing you a letter
Sometimes seems like that’s all I do
Stamp and post it
Just a waiting to hear from you
We I don’t want to feel sorry for myself
But what can I do?
Cos I can’t stand the distance
I want to be with you
I’m writing you a letter
Sometimes seems like that’s all I do
Stamp and post it
Just a waiting to hear from you
Well it seems unfair I find someone I love
I have to leave
Once again move on
Well it seems unjust that it’s happened to me
But I’ll keep on writing
And I’ll keep on showing
What you mean to me
I know the time will come
Seems so far away
When I can tell you
Oh yeah that’s right I can say
I want to spend my time with you
I want to be with you
Every night
And every day
Life Below
Walking home with a plastic bag
Full of groceries
Pretty soon that plastic bag
Will wash right out to see
And break down into parts
Too small to decompose
And settle on the surface
To blight the life below
Waking up each morning
Heading out to work
Masking the illusion
Cloaking the absurd
And break down into parts
Too small to decompose
And settle on the surface
To blight the life below
Everyone they propagate
Spew life forth onto earth
Population explosion
Environmental dearth
And break down into parts
Too small to decompose
And settle on the surface
To blight the life below
Older age comes henceforth
Propelled along by drugs
Internal excavation
Of an undiscovered bug
And break down into parts
Too small to decompose
And settle on the surface
To blight the life below
Reach for the eternal
Control the minds amend
Advertising media
Temporary friends
And break down into parts
Too small to decompose
And settle on the surface
To blight the life below
Lose my body
Lose my body and I lose my soul
Don’t know when to come
Don’t know when to go
Lose my body and I lose my soul
Don’t know when to come
Don’t know when to go
I like you
You like me
We can be
Happy as you can be
I like you
You like me
We can be
Happy
Lost and Forgotten
Well it’s lost and forgotten
But wait one minute yet
The injustice of this world
We can never forget
Blind optimism is a dangerous thing
But the hope that comes from deep inside
Can surely bring
A greater thing
Starts with a J
Then a U and an S
A T and an I I I
Talking ‘bout just you and me
Just you and me
It’s really hard to be together
When the worlds so out of control
It’s really hard to be together
When so many people just don’t want to know
About life
That others don’t have the chance to live
About life about what we can do
Yes we can give
Torture comes in different kinds
Of the body and the mind
We don’t want torture
At this time or at any time
Equality of humankind
Equality that does recognize
All the problems this world has
Oh my god I must be mad
Loud and Clear
Loud and clear this time you hear
Loud and clear this time
You hear you hear you hear you hear
Loud and clear this time
I’ve been doing some special things
Special things are small
Fell in love a while back then
Special things you call
I’ve been doing some special things
Special things are small
Fell in love a while back then
Special things you call
It is only what you want
It is only only only
It is only what you want
It is only only only
What comes first the rational reasoning or coping to be yourself
What comes first the dream or the vision knowing just how we might help
Man in a cassock tormented yet led
Daughter my colleague the wine and the bread
Man with a beard black and the red
Social injustice mouths to be fed
My eyes are like clouds dark in the night
Memories of you provide me with sight
My mind is full on dark in the night
Sit up in bed switch on the light the light the light the light
Movement without movement within
Searching for the simplest things
Movement without movement within
Searching for the simplest things
Lost Opportunity
I keep thinking of lost opportunity
I keep thinking of what I could've had
I keep thinking of the way things could've been
I keep thinking and it's driving me mad
I need to wipe my mind of memory
I need to wipe my mind of thought
And then I'll live in the land of the present moment
Then I'll live in the land of nought
Seek out those personalities
Like minded solidarity of thought
Innate with creativity
Relaxed not distressed or fraught
With the way things they just might be
In a parallel universe
With the way life just might turn out
If we were someone else
Look out to the distant future
Look out to the distant past
Time with sleeping moving slowly
Reaching death I realise fast
Now I know the end is coming
Now I hear the final call
Now I know my time is ending
No longer will I fall
All those memories no longer relevant
Shared experience all in the past
Everything is always temporary
Nothing ever ever will last
I will always sing the chorus
I will always sing the song
Eternal black hole matter
Universal singalong
Indefinite definite article
Preposition adverbial phrase
Ellipses at the end of my sentence
Bring back the yo yo craze
I will never be a boy again
A temporary man
Lost in the digital phenomena
There never was a plan
Love Hope Faith
Late in the night again
Wondering if the time I spend
Will bring the growth I need
Critics of our changing thoughts
People who are the conservative force
Love
Love
What does it mean to you?
Watch TV
Gaze at the stars
Direction depends on just who you are
Or what you might say
Or what you might do
Do you believe where you’re headed to?
Hope
Hope
What does it mean to you?
A mind can bind a whole of grief
Tinkerman tailorman beggarman thief
Feet they never touch the ground
Do you believe in what’s to be found?
Faith
Faith
What does it mean to you?
Well I believe in love
Hope is for the young
Faith is what you believe
What do they mean to you?
Love Hope Faith
What do they mean to you?
Meltdown
I’m not gonna tell you what to do
This time or anytime
I’m not gonna tell you what to say
I’ll leave that decision up to you
I’m not gonna tell you what to think
Censorship is not my thing
I’m not gonna tell you how to act
I’ve been embarrassed
A fact’s a fact
But you cannot hurt me
And you will not kill me
And you shall not harm me
Melt down that metal
Melt down that steel
Turn it into something real…Like love
Melt down that metal
Melt down that steel
Turn it into something real
Like air
Like fire
Like earth
Like water
I don’t know where the world is heading
Human population bleeding
The earth is off its axis
Infrastructure depends on taxes
Old age
New babe
Office confrontation
Formed personality at the age of three
We now know more about the brain
Technology drives me insane
But you cannot hurt me
And you will not kill me
And you shall not harm me
Melt down that metal
Melt down that steel
Turn it into something real...Like love
Melt down that metal
Melt down that steel
Turn it into something real
Like air
Like fire
Like earth
Like water
Memories
Sitting at home looking at a photograph of you
I really miss you when you’re not here
Thinking about the time when we’d laugh a lot
Thinking about the times
We built some memories
Built some memories
Built some memories
Oh
Memories
I know this room is only for my bed
I know this room is only
Well I can look up look out from my bed
Or I can look inside
Memory Stations
Those memory stations
All play the same thing
It’s what I believe
How I perceive
What happened before
In shape
In form
What I believe
How I perceive
What happened before
All my life
Love to study
I love to learn
Gossip is knowledge
Knowledge to burn
Local live music
My mind it then blows
Local live music
Mind it then grows
All my life
Live now in Melbourne
So called home of the free
Government policy doesn’t shape me
Stand on the fringe
Legislation it meddles
Stand on my head
Stand in the middle
All my life
More or Less
I’ve walked this road many times before
Certain thoughts I cannot ignore
The sun in huge resting on the road
I’m walking towards I don’t know
The more that I learn
The less that I know
The more that I see
The less I believe
The more that I want
The less that I need
The more that I feel
The more that I feel
Moves so slow
Moves so slow
moves so slow today
impending danger soon is on its way
we don't have the time for holidays
Move so slow
Move so slow today
Frevently in favour
Fluctuating fortunes
Reaching for the reason in the middle of the night
Kicking of the tin can
Rolling with the tumbleweed
Seeking the sought after mad insight
I am remembering
I recall that memory
Your face is now familiar
Your name arrives too late
I am so happy
To see the parting of your lips
I am so happy
I'll never see you again
Moves so slow
moves so slow today
impending danger soon is on its way
we don't have the time for holidays
Move so slow
Move so slow today
Posting of the package
Familiar misfortune
Arriving of the soon to be forseen
Waiting for the cool air
Hint of resonance
The smell of wood that makes me care
I am remembering
I recall that memory
Your face is now familiar
Your name arrives too late
I am so happy
To see the parting of your lips
I am so happy
I'll never see you again
My quiet life
The magpie in the eucalipt tree
Singing in the morning how it just might be
Garbage truck crashing down the road
Filling up with garbage weighing down its load
Motorbike with a motor so loud
Keeping to itself but waking up the crowd
Push bike fluorescent clothes
Carbon free footprint tell it how it goes
My quiet life
My simple life
My quiet life
Temporary life
Impermanent life
Seemingly my life
Illusion my life
Sheep dog tugging on its lead
The owner's just a few paces behind it seems
Melbourne tram chugging down the tracks
Hook turn myki overcrowded only standing
Morning is greeted by the dawn
Electricity coal powered overload
Pedestrian coffee in hand
Voting for the greens but working for the man
My quiet life
My simple life
My quiet life
Temporary life
Impermanent life
Seemingly my life
Illusion my life
Swimming pool towel in hand
Moment of community moment unplanned
Teenage adolescent brain
Seeking out their novelty sticking with their peers
Old folks older each year
Drug induced coma technophobic fears
Multicultural infusion dream
Bursting at the throat bursting at the seams
My quiet life
My simple life
My quiet life
Temporary life
Impermanent life
Seemingly my life
Illusion my life
New Direction
When I saw your face
I knew I couldn’t escape
I also knew I didn’t want to
My new direction is you
You give me love
You give me abundant love
You cut through
You humble me too
My new direction is you
You are my everything
You mean more than words can say
Till then end
I know
I’ll be with you
I know it’s right
When I hold you at night
I know it’s true
My life is with you
My new direction is you
You give me love
You give me abundant love
You cut through
You humble me too
My new direction is you
You are my everything
You mean more than words can say
Till then end
I know
I’ll be with you
New games
From the moment we are born
We move to death the loss of life
It may only take a moment
It may even take a while
New horizon New beginning
Ending with the loss of life
New horizon New beginning
Ending with the loss of life
I can only feel your loving
I can only feel your heart
I can ration I can reason
I can sense this is the last
New games in brain
New games in sane
New games in ward
New games instant
Looking outwards moving inwards
Clear compassionate my head
Breathing inwards breathing outwards
Sitting posture spinal thread
New horizon New beginning
Ending with the loss of life
New horizon New beginning
Ending with the loss of life
I can only feel your loving
I can only feel your heart
I can ration I can reason
I can sense this is the last
New games in brain
New games in sane
New games in ward
New games instant
New horizon New beginning
Ending with the loss of life
New horizon New beginning
Ending with the loss of life
I can only feel your loving
I can only feel your heart
I can ration I can reason
I can sense this is the last
New games in brain
New games in sane
New games in ward
New games instant
New horizon New beginning
Ending with the loss of life
New horizon New beginning
Ending with the loss of life
I can only feel your loving
I can only feel your heart
I can ration I can reason
I can sense this is the last
New games in brain
New games in sane
New games in ward
New games instant
Next to you
Woke up this morning
Something in my head
Stayed with me the whole day through
It’s time to lay my head
Next to you
How do I feel?
I look at you
How do you feel?
Time that formed the future
Given to me
Everything envisioned
Just cannot be
Now I’m not next to you
That’s how I feel
I look at you
How do you feel?
I can’t forgive you
But I’ll surely try
Forget the reasons
Remembering the times
When I was next to you
How did I feel?
I look at you
How do you feel?
Stretch out my fingers
Reach for the scars
The violence of my weeping wounds
Are healing at last
Now I’m not next to you
That’s how I feel
I look at you
How do you feel?
How do you feel?
How do you feel?
No Way
Behind the open eye
Within the open mind
Unlock the unlocked door
Place an order and take it all
Look over there he said
Look at me instead she said
Don't know which way to go
Don't know I just don't know
There's just no way
That is will be OK
There's just no way
I'll take it day by day
Try not to go insane
Get it all out of my brain
Not endlessly complain
Realise we're not the same
Politics is just a game
Paint strokes inside the frame
Analyse it all again
I need your help right now
Every minute Every hour
It's a matter of managing
There is no closure to this thing called life
I won't blow off my head
I'll live with pain instead
I'll try to cope with all
The hate and spite and vitriol
There's just no way
That is will be OK
There's just no way
I'll take it day by day
Try not to go insane
Get it all out of my brain
Not endlessly complain
Realise we're not the same
Politics is just a game
Paint strokes inside the frame
Analyse it all again
Don't ask me how I am
I'm a complicated man
The question is invasive
Can I be more persuasive
Look at the time go by
Tick Tick it all unwinds
I'm a mirror to this world
Woman man boy and girl
There's just no way
That is will be OK
There's just no way
I'll take it day by day
Try not to go insane
Get it all out of my brain
Not endlessly complain
Realise we're not the same
Politics is just a game
Paint strokes inside the frame
Analyse it all again
Orange peel
When I’m feeling down and out –
I will always swim in doubt
When I’m feeling tired and blue –
unkempt, unwashed and confused
When I’m needing to be saved –
My soul locked trapped in a cave
When I feel there is no end –
I begin to feel again
Chorus…
One day leads into the night
One night leads into the day
Looking back I feel confused
Looking back I feel renewed
Find a way – Seek a way – Don’t lose my way – back to you
Apathy takes over me –
can’t get up I won’t believe
That there is a better life –
content, complete without strife
When I’m needing to be healed –
my heart like an orange peel
Layers stripped away reveal –
How I can act how I feel
Chorus…
It’s true that throughout my life – I have always been confused
Never felt quite good enough – to be determined pick and choose
I now know it’s a mirage – beyond my reach it moves away
So I wake up with a plan – to live each moment day by day
Chorus…
Place to breathe
We need a place to breathe
We need a place to breathe
We need a place to breathe
We need a place
If the land is destroyed by earthquake and fire
The ocean will still survive
But if the ocean’s destroyed and stripped of its life
The land will surely die
Water is life
Water is air
Water can’t do without
Water is life
Water is air
Water can’t do without
We need a place to breathe
We need a place to breathe
We need a place to breathe
We need a place
The plastics we use
The factories abuse
The quality the sanctity of life
The planes in the air
The cars on the road
The quality the sanctity of life
The carbon we use
Instead of walking in our shoes
The quality the sanctity of life
The screens in our hands
Tvs that we view
The quality the sanctity of life
We need a place to breathe
We need a place to breathe
We need a place to breathe
We need a place
Raining Outside
Well it’s raining
why don’t you come why don’t you come on inside
Well it’s raining
why don’t you come why don’t you come on inside
I want to see what we can find to do inside
what we can possibly be
What can we be yeah
My home is warm and that fire it burns so slow
My home is warm and that fire it burns so slow
Meet me at the place where we can be together and we can go
Come on let’s go now
Why don’t you come over here and dry your hair
Why don’t you come over here and dry your hair
I’ll be gentle and my touch will be full of loving tender care
Tender care yeah
Ramblin’ around
Round round ramblin’ around
Ramblin’ around
Ramblin’ round town
Ramblin’ ramblin’ ramblin’ around
Round round ramblin’ around
Ramblin’ around
Ramblin’ round town
Ramblin’ ramblin’ ramblin’ ramblin’ around
Well I feel OK
Feel alright
Feel sensational
Out of sight
I feel the best I have ever have tonight
Feel like running a marathon
Feel like turning everyone on
I feel like ramlin’ ramblin’ ramblin’ around
Well I feel au fait
Feel quite fine
Feel like taking you out to dine
I feel I’m on a super natural high
I feel like loving everyone
Feel like I have just begun
I feel like ramlin’ ramblin’ ramblin’ around
Resell
Pack up
going to market
going to sell stocks
Then we’re gonna
Resell
X2
Making new money
Making new money
Pack up
going to market
going to sell stocks
Then we’re gonna
Resell
It’s a game
The rich they play
In the end
No one wins
Restitution
Instrumental
Right of reply
When you ask me how I feel
I do not know
When you ask me do I know
How do I feel
I have the right of reply
I have the right to refuse
I have the right to say
No
No
No
When you ask me how I feel
I do not know
When you ask me do I know
How do I feel
I have the right of reply
I have the right to refuse
I have the right to say
No
No
No
Silence
Sit a moment
Silent contemplation
New ideas
Providing pollination
YOU
You make me feel myself
Finding fancy free
Alliteration
Real romance
Resulting exaltation
YOU
You make me feel myself
Now I'm flying
Now I feel
Now I'm flying
Now I feel
Sit a moment
Silent contemplation
New ideas
Providing pollination
YOU
You make me feel myself
Now I'm flying
Now I feel
Now I'm flying
Now I feel
Sit a moment
Silent contemplation
New ideas
Providing pollination
YOU
You make me feel myself
Pollute the earth
Destroy the habitation
Heavy Metal
Rockin' meditation
YOU
You make me feel myself
Now I'm flying
Now I feel
Now I'm flying
Now I feel
Slipping away
Stories
Reflections
Ideas
Passion
Terror
Dreams
Earth
Space
Time
Hidden reality
Strange weightless beings
Hidden in coloured mud
Intricate moments
Seconds of passing
Hours of waiting for life to begin
Lifting the seal on unconsciousness
The eye keeps slipping away
People they saw
People recalled
The violence is slipping away
away
Smile of Peace
Aim your gun
I’ll smile with peace
We know with time you can be release
The hate that flows doesn’t have an end
Because it cannot grow
Nor will it ever
Begin
I cannot forget the country I love
That torments its heart and soul
I cannot forget my mother or child
To change I hope we know
I said
How can we be sure there’s any hope
When so much around us fails
Only a matter of forgetting past
To simplify
To justify
What we do
Take my heart
Feed me life
I want your love
Always
Always
Keep to the left
I stay awake
This is no dreaming
Dreaming time growing with my land
Love filled songs
Stories of time
The future becoming clear
Because
People around faces everywhere
By giving and taking we learn to care
Changes take time so much is opposed
But changes are here
I know
Throw down your gun
Look into the air
There’s a song around we now can share
Take my heart
Feed me life
I want your love
Always
Always
Song Paintings
Song paintings in the mind
Working long stream overtime
Collective unconsciousness
Sigmund Freud Carl Jung's the test
of patriarchal old school tie
Self-entitled cannot not lie
Inside the privileged head
Lies insistently arrogance
Generational transference overload
Critiquing of the after - never go down below
How can we ever expect to win?
When the competition's set up - framed in spin
Obtuse transparent inter-glow
The truth is a construction that we'll never know
Play hide and seek - other children's games
Luck's the ingredient for lasting fame
Song paintings in the head
I'll be you be me instead
Never was objective truth
The power elite control the chute
Down which we throw our new ideas
Our hopes our dreams our love our fears
Small changes will occur
But in the end choice is deferred
Intergalactical search in space
Junk is distributed without a trace
Until it fall back down to earth
and land in the Pacific - the south I've heard
Obtuse transparent inter-glow
the truth is a construction that we'll never know
Play hide and seek - other children's games
Luck's the ingredient for lasting fame
Song paintings float in air
Looking for a catcher who can care
Custodian of the land
Respecting the earth and its demands
Sustain this life we now have
It won't last forever - never has
We are an experiment
Ending with the 6th great extinction
Impossible absurdity
Finite fighting with infinity
It's all beyond our human brains
Civilization - always insane
Obtuse transparent inter-glow
The truth is a construction that we'll never know
Play hide and seek - other children's games
Luck's the ingredient for lasting fame
Spin the Bottle
Spin the bottle will I head that way
Spin the bottle will my life turn out that way
I’m looking for an answer
Spin the bottle see my life turn around
Spin the bottle I’m heading for clearer sound
I’m looking for an answer
Some things I cannot control
Some things I cannot control
Some things I cannot control
Like disease and war and hate
Cleanse my soul oh no
Oh no
Spin the bottle take me warts and all
Spin the bottle I’m standing up here tall
I’m looking for an answer
Spin the bottle with perpetual change
Spin the bottle understanding in my range
I’m looking for an answer
Suitcase in my hand
Instrumental
Sun Rise Set
Instrumental
Swim out to sea
Feeling like I’m trapped inside
Wanting to escape swim out to sea
Wrap your arms around me with your warmth
Your intimacy
When I look into your eyes
I can see it all – infinity
When I kiss you on the lips
I know that I always will believe
Chorus… Take me home
Take me home
Take me home
Take me home
I’ve been sitting here so long
Forget forgot remember memory
What it means so to be loose
Fancy freedom paraesthesia
Cool wind blowing in my hair
Warmth of summer breeze and memory
Waiting for another time
There it is – always will it be
Chorus…
Telegraph Wires
There's telegraph wires in my dreams
They're full of electricity
I love the line around your eyes
They remind me of our life
Remembering
Reconstructing
Forgetting
The Day
I feel a calm when those around
are sick and tired and suffering
I feel a smile on my face
I could walk for days and days
Remembering
Reconstructing
Forgetting
The Day
The clouds are covering the naked moon
The sky is setting my mind's at ease
The troubles of my working day
The bits and pieces that get in the way
Remembering
Reconstructing
Forgetting
The Day
This is
This is
What
I want
This is
What
I want
Give me Nembutal to die
Give me hope in the middle of the night
Give me reason through the day
I need you to make it OK
Step aside indoctrination
Accepted paradigm mutilation
Feel it in my inner core
Shed the fat
Shed it all
I don't want economic faith
I don't need no false belief
I don't' move the future forward
I need chaos in this order
This is
What
I want
This is
What
I want
Time Zones
Learn
Learn to live together
Live
Together and alone
I can understand you
You can understand me
Ah yie yie
Yie yie yie
Ah yie yie
Yie yie yie
We're living in different time zones
This land
This land on which we’re living
Stolen
Never ours to own
Complications
Complications of living
Constructions
Constructions of paradigms unknown
Until then
Sometimes I don’t trust myself
Can’t stand to see you with someone else
Always thought when I was growing up
They’re be not ruts when it came to love
We live and learn
A little everyday
Sometimes our minds
They just seems to stray away
So until then so until then
When those problems surface again
Let’s remember that we are friends
There is no start there is no end
If life was so easy there would never be songs
About losing in love
Love gone wrong
If life was so easy there would never be blues
Folk or country
Rock and roll too
I’m now getting older
Kids call me a man
Lines are appearing
No need for a tan
Vacant Brain
I’m not saying if you’re right or wrong
I’m not saying if you made the right choice
Made the wrong choice
I’m just saying that you might want to change
Where you buried the body
Buried the body
Sooner or later
Probably soon
A businessman
A wannabe tycoon
Will find the land and stake a claim
A new development
Original idea
In his vacant brain
Vacant brain
He won’t care that the people have to drive
To go to work and go to school
They’ll be traveling all the time
He just cares that the land is there
He’s a neo-liberalist
A profiteer
The bottom line
Imprinted in his vacant brain
Vacant brain
Waterfall
You are my wonderful wonderful waterfall
You are my magical magical rain
You give me wonderful wonderful life and then
Magic oh magically begins again
Without you I am all alone
Without you I’m alone
Without you I am all alone
I need you to give me hope
Wipe the streets
Wipe the streets with rolling thunder
Spray paint cans are laid to waste
Constitution lies in tatters
Appetite distaste
What is what now when it happens
What is when is why it's sought
All that is fat passing matter
Lost in mind and thought
Space out space bar crash and clatter
ending with the mind unease
Look towards the top unending
Cynical disease
Lost in space and lost in airtime
Clutter of the voices heard
simply put it's all in tatters
Rounding the absurd
Look inside the rainbow colours
Look inside for all to see
Look inside the rainbow colours
Look inside it just might be
Look inside the moving goalposts
Look inside for all to see
Look inside the moving goalposts
Look inside it just might be
Far out passing - Within reason
See the ending - Hear the question
Sun is setting - Sun in my eyes
Wide horizon - Wide for all
Coming to the end of dinner
Time to pass out all the mints
Drink the port and thoughts they splatter
Up against the wall
Stuck against the sides of bowl like
Big proportions soon will slide
I will only eat the vegies
Meat the end of time
I am not the way to answer
You are not the ending thought
We are not transmitting into
Drafting deadly bought
Up and down and moving sideways
Die one day without surprise
Feeling sense within my hardware
Captured in my mind
Look inside the rainbow colours
Look inside for all to see
Look inside the rainbow colours
Look inside it just might be
Look inside the moving goalposts
Look inside for all to see
Look inside the moving goalposts
Look inside it just might be
Far out passing - Within reason
See the ending - Hear the question
Sun is setting - Sun in my eyes
Wide horizon - Wide for all
World of Hope
A world of hope
Not a world of despair
Requires our lives
To be full and to care
Well I am just one person
Seems so much to do
Together we can understand
Together break through
The countries we fight
We arm ourselves with weapons of might
But we’re given the choice
Of life and of peace
Everyone has a responsibility
For life
A love of the earth
Of rebirth
A burning desire
You are me
You are the sun
You are the moon
You are the river running free
You are the wind
In the trees
You are me
Your House
I’m new to your house
It’s in my mind I should make an excuse
I’m new to your house
I am a triangle
I am obtuse
I feel strange
Feel like I should rearrange all the thoughts in my head
I feel strange
I feel
Isn’t it funny when we feel out of place
Isn’t it funny when we have to face
Our long held fears and our darkest dreams
Our long held fears and our darkest dreams
When I walk into your house
It all makes sense
Makes me feel so confused
When I walk into your house
I know I’m here for me
I’m here for you
I feel strange
Feel like I should rearrange all the thoughts in my head
I feel strange
I feel
I walk around with my hat on
I walk around and sing a song
I walk around in naked flesh
I walk around not finished yet
Our house is like a little vessel
Vessel which we sail through life
It’s long and thin and made of weatherboard
It holds its course just right
Now I’m sleeping in your house
Lights are out windows open
Now I’m sleeping in your house
Bodies asleep dreams awaken
I feel strange
Feel like I should rearrange all the thoughts in my head
I feel strange
I feel