LYRICS
OUR WAY
Standing right here in the virgin night
Showered in lights
I just wanna reach out
To hold it somehow
A woven path through the darkest sky
A ring upon you my Saturn bride
Two words
To last
We can fly to Altair through the milky way
Sail past the moon in the light of day
We can have it our way
We can have it our way
Yes I'm landing so high
Where the calm clouds peak
It's a feeling that I get every time you speak
We can have it our way
We can have it our way
Now I'm climbing up a ladder to the greatest view
Before the witnesses I'm moored to you
The one
To call for
With the world spinning 'round through the sapphire night
At 60,00 miles an hour but we're so still tonight
Just two
For life
We can fly to Altair through the milky way
Sail past the moon in the light of day
We can have it our way
We can have it our way
Yes I'm landing so high
Where the calm clouds peak
It's a feeling that I get every time you speak
We can have it our way
We can have it our way
Our way
Our way
Our way
Our way
It's feeling that I get every time you speak
Landing so high
Where the calm clouds peak
It's a feeling that I get every time you speak
We can have it our way
We can have it our way
Yes I'm landing so high
It's a feeling that I get every time, every time
We can have it our way
We can have it our way
We can have it our way
We can have it our way
UNKNOWN
In a modern world
a cauldron of destruction
waiting for the world to see
as it fails to understand
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You rise to be seen
but you cannot rise if you cannot breathe
With every aching blow summon strength from depths
Don't hide in the shallows
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Through a wretched sea of blue
through a never ending trench
witnessing the turn of our time
as it burns the soil seeps red
​
When the leaders turn their backs
We can only feed our heroes
knowing every pound of a drum on the wind
it's no longer just an echo
​
Can we talk about it?
Can we take a stone
Make it slide, turn and roll
So you never have to, never have to be unknown
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Devoid of any virtue at the heart of the beast
are systems sore beneath the pillars
of empires hidden in ruin, beyond any recognition
and soon to be divided by the after-mathmetician
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But the supposed ordinary people
create chasms in empirical design
With freedom, mate-ship and belief
For us lucky ones, the fallen do remind.
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Can we talk about it?
Can we take a stone
Make it slide, turn and roll
So you never have to, never have to be unknown
​
At the end from in the shadows
a new light shall emerge
Beyond this armageddon
the stone will sooner turn
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And the essence will linger on
beyond the old theatres of war
but no longer haunt our lives
as the nation warms
'Cause we were all too wise to the world
to be used for cannon fodder
and we were all too young
to truly understand
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Can we talk about it?
Can we take a stone
Make it slide, turn and roll
So you never have to, never have to be unknown
Be unknown...
Be unknown...
SIDEWAYS
Trapped inside a show ride I never paid for
Sliding all over the carpeted floors
Parking my car on the footpath again
Maybe it's okay to act a little insane
Is it making you mad?
Is it keeping you hungry?
Is it taking your world
& shaking, shaking & shaking
It's sending me sideways
It's turning me round
It's sending me sideways
I'm upside, I'm upside, I'm upside down
Wading through the clouds on a 6ft board
Flying around on the ocean floor
Boarded a flight but the pilots asleep
Maybe it's okay to act a little insane
Is it making you mad?
Is it keeping you hungry?
Is it taking your world
& shaking, shaking & shaking
It's sending me sideways
It's turning me round
It's sending me sideways
I'm upside, I'm upside, I'm upside down
NEVER SAID
I belong beneath us
There seems no other way
I lay between the need for freedom
And the truth as it escapes
I'm bound unto decisions
But I find it hard, so hard to wait
If I am not a wanted one
There is nothing I, nothing I can say
We never said, never said
It would go easy
We never said
We'd hold onto any cards
We never said, never said
It would go easy
But we never thought we'd fall this hard
Some are made to build Atlantis
But they never learn to swim
We pretend just like it's Hollywood
But it won't explain how many moods I'm in
I'm tired of your excuses
As I drift into some new place
Tell me all about Hollywood
And how nobody, nobody knows my name
We never said, never said
It would go easy
We never said we'd hold onto any cards
We never said, never said
It would go easy
But we never thought we'd fall this hard
Yeah, we never thought we'd fall this hard
But I'll confess our stress to make it right
Can make it feel so wrong, sometimes
But I believe in reason
Not in ridged rules and all these solid lines
We never said, never said
It would go easy
We never said
We'd hold onto any cards
We never said, never said
It would go easy
But we never thought we'd fall this hard
We never thought we'd fall this hard
We never thought we'd fall this hard
KEEP ME BY THE ROCK
If there is a reason tell me now
I'm tired of all this skirting around
Scaling along eternal fences
I can't pretend I don't see you
How justifications shift like sand
As you gift the guilt to some other hands
You keep rising up and rising up
You see so much water
You forget there is so much land
Keep me by the rock
Keep me under endless skies
Even when the river runs dry
Keep me by the rock
Keep me where I belong
Keep me 'til the river runs on
You'll have to dissect yourself somehow
All you swallowed needs some checking out
Forget the texts and the swollen lies
There was a time, before time
As whispers bustle 'round the streets
I'm inclined to take the rustlin' eucalyptus leaves
As the spinifex keeps rising up and rising up
You see so much water
You forget there is so much land
Keep me by the rock
Keep me under endless skies
Even when the river runs dry
Keep me by the rock
Keep me where I belong
Keep me 'til the river runs on
Keep me by the rock
Keep me under endless skies
Even when the river runs dry
Concrete burns just like sand
But it ain't drifting, drifting
Across the land
Somewhere along the great divide
The magpies call marks the early morn
We start rising up and rising up
We see so much water
We forget there's so much land
Keep me by the rock
Keep me under endless skies
Even when the river runs dry
Keep me by the rock
Keep me where I belong
Keep me 'til the river runs on
ONE DAY AWAY FROM YOU
I'm writing to you as the sunsets behind
The purple plague of a wisteria line
I'm writing to you, my love
I read a book and I slept a while
I took a tour without a tour guide
I was searching for you, my love
There's just one thing that I never get to do
I'm always one day away from you
I'm always one day away from you
Took photos of churches and parliament grounds
They looked like all the others, I deleted them now
I was thinking of you, my love
I'm working hard but getting no money
You must be looking forward to your birthday coming
I'm wishing for you, my love
There's just one thing that I never get to do
I'm always one day away from you
I'm always one day away from you
The twilight here seems to linger on
The nights are short but not less lonesome
I'm longing for you, my love
So many tales you'll never hear told
And many more till I get back home
I'm yearning for you
There's just one thing that I never get to do
I'm always one day away from you
I'm always one day away from you
I'm writing to you as the moon does climb
Font getting smaller on these postcard lines
Font getting smaller on these postcard lines
I WRITE LOVE SONGS
There's been colder nights, I know
And weary hearts abound
I confess I was once one
But they say that I'm better now
Secret solemn strength
There's so much far from home
But some don't take no fancy
Just to ramble on their own
When you head home, I write love songs
You may never disappear
Even now among the isles
Know my apathy for miles
I write to you
I write home
I write love songs, I write love songs, I write love songs
The one you call magnificent
Have you ever told them so?
Between the marathons of madness
Where do all the monsters go?
In the valleys of your corduroy
You reveal your coloured ghost
Like Delaunay you paint pictures
And me...
I write love songs, I write love songs, I write love songs
When you head home, I write love songs
You may never disappear
Even now among the isles
Know my apathy for miles
I write to you
I write home
I write love songs, I write love songs, I write love songs
I write love songs, I write love songs, I write love songs
I write love songs, I write love songs, I write love songs
When you head home, I write love songs
You may never disappear
Even now among the isles
Know my apathy for miles
I write to you
I write home
I write love songs, I write love songs, I write love songs
I write love songs, I write love songs, I write love songs
WHY DO YOU LOVE LIZZIE?
There's only one way around this
It's time for a tidal wave
How long will you stand beside her?
And the guards who arm the gates
We have learned to befriend our neighbours
But who is this stranger jack?
Releasing your grip of the bygone
Doesn't ever mean never looking back
Why Do You, Why Do You, Why Do You Love Her
Why Do You Love Lizzie?
Why Do You, Why Do You, Why Do You Love Her
Why Do You Love Lizzie?
There's never a right time
to give the cannonballs back
Both burning under our only sun
but your sons, don't speak like ours
Where are the ones who'll unite us
This union the sweet surpass
Farewell the ones who will knight us
What is the land really saying at last?
Why Do You, Why Do You, Why Do You Love Her
Why Do You Love Lizzie?
Why Do You, Why Do You, Why Do You Love Her
Why Do You Love Lizzie?
There's only one way around this
To give the cannonballs back
Releasing our grip of the bygone
How do we feel? How do we feel about that?
Why Do You, Why You Do, Why Do You Love Her
Why Do You Love Lizzie?
Why Do You, Why You Do, Why Do You Love Her
Why Do You Love... Let's give the cannonballs back
Why Do You, Why You Do, Why Do You, Why Do You Love Her
Why Do You Love Lizzie?
Why Do You, Why You Do, Why Do You Love Her
Why Do You Love Lizzie?
IF THE FIRST TIME WAS THE LAST TIME
What am I now
I try, I try, I try again
I was a failure then
Who am I now
You say you know me well
but I don't know myself
I can stand to be unknown
but I won't stand alone
Oooo how imagination grows
from the little that we know, or pretend to
Oooo I can hear you say
even though your miles away
I'm imagining, I'm imagining again
how far -----
If the first time,
was the last time
that it ever fell apart
What have I done
If I never, never, make it better
Pull yourself together
Where am I now
Chasing cheetahs round the bend
I've lost myself again
I can stand to be unknown
but I won't stand alone
Oooo how imagination grows
from the little that we know or pretend to
Oooo I can hear you say
even though your miles away
I'm imagining, I'm imagining again
how far -----
If the first time,
was the last time
that it ever fell apart
If the first time,
was the last time
that it ever fell apart
Oooooo, Ooooo
Oooooo, Ooooo
Oooooo, Ooooo
I'm imagining, I'm imagining again
how far -----
Look at me now
I try, I try, I try again
I am always on the mend
AS IT COMES, AS IT GOES
Roses turn to mould
So kiss the hand you hold
Let somebody know, that somebody else can care
There's a girl in Byron Bay
Who turns worries into waves
As if life don't already take us tumblin’, rolling under
Backwards, downwards and sideways
It’s done alright for me
It's so hard to see
In a world that's spinning sadly and madly, I know
It’s done alright for me
You don't have to believe me
In this life you can take it as it comes
But it's better if you learn to take it as it goes
Fly brother fly
This ain’t no place to die
You will learn and grow
You needn’t be afraid of forgetting home
All that you wanted
Ain't all that you got
You will learn that losing your cap to the wind can sometimes be a good thing
It’s done alright for me
It’s so hard to see
In a world that's spinning sadly and madly, I know
It’s done alright for me
You don't have to believe me
In this life you can take it as it comes
But it's better if you learn to take it as it goes
Joneses shape the mould
Just don't let yourself turn cold
It will set yourself in, for tumblin'
Backwards, downwards and sideways
It’s done alright for me
It’s so hard to see
In a world thats spinning sadly and madly, I know
It’s done alright for me
You don't have to believe me
In this life you can take it as it comes
But it's better if you learn to take it as it goes
In this life you can take it as it comes
But it's better if you learn to take it as it goes
THE HARDEST PART
Is it time to make a change?
To concede to all the people it was easier to blame
All the indecision, among all the many fails
Forgive me now
Before the lights turn on
Before the sirens end
Every one way conversation
We know it's breaking but
That ain't the hardest part
Knowing that your world will fall apart
The hardest part is knowing
That the ones you love will fall too
Ahh
The hardest part
Ooo
The hardest part is knowing that they'll fall too
If we might somehow find a way
To believe in all the words, that will never make the page
With all the speculation, those imaginary faces
Forget them now
Before the lights turn on
Before the sirens end
Every one way conversation
We know it's breaking but
That ain't the hardest part
Knowing that your world will fall apart
The hardest part is knowing
That the ones you love will fall too
Ahh
The hardest part
Ooo
The hardest part is knowing that they'll fall too
Before the lights turn on
Before the sirens end
Every conversation
Steeped in condemnation
That ain't the hardest part
Knowing that your world will fall apart
The hardest part is knowing
That the ones you love will fall too
Ahh
The hardest part
Ooo
The hardest part is knowing that they'll fall too