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Adelaide

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Let’s move to Adelaide and start again
We’ll take on one by one and make friends
There might be one man who claims we’re a little wild
But it’ll pass in time

So darling, let’s spend our lives in some place in which we like
I’m aching to know about the free you

Tales have told me things are pretty quiet
And it’s my every desire
Where you and I will fly
You and I will fly

So darling, let’s spend our lives in some place in which we like
I’m aching to know about the free you

When times are tough
You are I are there
I cannot pretend to feel
I cannot pretend
Not here

Darling, how was I supposed to favour those times outside of stable
I can’t

So darling, let’s spend our lives in some place in which we like
I’m aching to know about the free you

Buzz

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How are things goin’ round this time?
I know the last words I said, they weren’t too nice
I’ve been hammering at work
With maintenance and meetings, most without feeling
But I, I still hurt
I still hurt

I was wondering if you would meet me here for coffee
I’m sorry, is it too soon?
Or are you already gone?

Lookin’ back it’s hard to say just what I’d change
But you and I were far from the same
And it’s hard to be angry
When it’s clear to see, there’s just no chemistry
But I, I still buzz
I still buzz

I was wondering if you would meet me here for coffee
I’m sorry, is it too soon?
Or are you already gone?

Chest of Drawers

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By the time you get this I’ll be coming back from space
With all the colours in my eyes, the bullet under my behind telling me I need to pick up pace
And you and her, and him and them, they’ll be questioning
“Where is it that you have been?” We need your reasoning
But I’m the vault and the chase

I don’t know where it is my heart leads
I don’t know what it is that love means
All the scars they left me with a key
To an empty chest of drawers

So I’ll be standing there with both arms out in the air, pretending I can fly
All the world down below, watching me go up in smoke, thinking I’m all the more wise
And you and her, and him and them, they’ll be tempting me,
On an education spin in philosophy
You bring me down from the skies

I don’t know where it is my heart leads
I don’t know what it is that love means
All the scars they left me with a key
To an empty chest of drawers

In good time I’ll be standing still
Afraid to try, up against my will
Although you inspire, you kill the thrill
Cos you’re the ball and the chain
You’re the ball and the chain
Cos you’re the ball…

I don’t know where it is my heart leads
I don’t know what it is that love means
All the scars they left me with a key
To an empty chest of drawers

Come & Go

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Saturday afternoon in café and I’m all alone, just where I wanna be
And I sit in a room with a great ocean view and I write to someone who might care to read
I think about all the strings back at home; the more that come, just wanna cut and run
But I will be faithful, you know I’m won

This soul’s got a whole lotta seeking to do before it goes
This mind’s got a whole lotta thinking to do before it knows
I hope you can see that I need to come and go just as I please

It’s not like I don’t like your attention, and I sure do love your smile
But it’s not like I don’t have a plan
We can’t sit around all day watching dreams float by, to some other place
But I will be faithful you know I am

This soul’s got a whole lotta seeking to do before it goes
This mind’s got a whole lotta thinking to do before it knows
I hope you can see that I need to come and go just as I please

I hope you can see that I need to come and go
And I hope you’d agree that you need to come and go
Just as you please

Saturday afternoon in café and I’m all alone, just where I wanna be

Freezing Time

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20 years have past, the two of us, we’re hangin’ out like mates
Standing on the ocean’s edge, casting out our lines of hopeful bait
In this wet and wild, watching all the world go by,
I don’t think they’ll bite tonight, but you’re making bets and say they might
And I still try

If I could I’d freeze time
And treasure moments so fortunate and fine
With this love I’ll change the tides
And I will try

In this silent night I’m sucking all your wisdom out of mind
Hoping I can learn to be one of your kind
I’m as proud of you as you are of me

If I could I’d freeze time
And treasure moments so fortunate and fine
With this love I’ll change the tides
And I will try

20 years have past, the two of us, we’re hangin’ out like mates
Even though this ain’t one of your most intelligent moments,
I can find a reason to stay
I’ll stay

If I could I’d freeze time
And treasure moments so fortunate and fine
With this faith I’ll chase the sky
And I will try
I will…

Frequently

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I box you up like you’re disease
I spend these days walking free
You’re mother-in-law’s dropped your box off up at home
And she wants you to go

So easily
And wants you to show
Something I do so
So frequently

I’m beating pounds, I’m hit for 6
Waiting up all night to process this
I’m wailing up the back, the cat’s jumped off my lap
And he wants you to go

So easily
And wants you to show
Something I do so
So frequently

Wasting time waiting for my appetite
Wasting time waiting for your appetite

I want you to go
So easily
I want you to show
Something I do so
So frequently

Not Into You

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You’re alive, gotta pull yourself together
But you never thought
You’d fall apart, not a chance in heaven
There’ll be tears, I’m sure
Cos she wants to talk

Sunshine, I know you’ve got plans
She can’t see them through
Sweetheart, in all your romance
She’s looking for a new tune
She’s not into you

Bread-and-butter man, she’s out to use
You don’t get to choose, you ain’t got a clue
She’s out there wasting your breath
Your air
And she loves to talk

Sunshine, I know you’ve got plans
She can’t see them through
Sweetheart, in all your romance
She’s looking for a new tune
She’s not into you

Sunshine, gotta pull yourself together
I can’t fight your fights
Sunshine, gotta pull yourself together
I can’t live your life

Sunshine, I know you’ve got plans
She can’t see them through
Sweetheart, in all your romance
She’s looking for a new tune
She’s not into you

Obsolete

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I’m alive, gotta figure out something else to do with my time
Pressure’s on, word is out, I’m reminded of all things that are not mine
They say “Hey Kiddo, You’re gonna rack up some great frown lines”
All I say is “There’s a little bit on my mind”

I can’t see you embracing new like you used to
You don’t see how far you’ve come,
I can’t see you chasing new like you should do
All I see is…
You’re a little obsolete

Where’ve you gone, who’ve you met
It’s like you’ve disappeared off the planet
I said, “I’m clearing a space for people with meaning”
All this wide open sea of possibility

I can’t see you embracing new like you used to
You don’t see how far you’ve come,
All the good you’ve done
I can’t see you chasing new like you should do
All I see is…
You’re a little obsolete

Our Darkest Day

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Tribute to the February 2009 Black Saturday Victorian Bushfires

Saturday this place it saw
The greatest heat wave on record
Melbourne hit 46 degrees
The dragon’s breath roared angrily
The sky it changed to an orange grey
When people say a match was lit to trees

The blaze arrived much too soon
For folk to get out, to get out of their rooms
They would have felt a suffocating heat
So I’m told, the flames they came,
With ember attacks, like pouring rain
From nature’s path there was no retreat

And they’re calling it “Our Darkest Day”
But for those of us who still remain…

We’ll look up to the sky
In courage and in hope
We’ll blink the ash from our eyes
We’ll sure find a way to cope
All the loose change from your pockets
Mate, it helps to pay the bills
‘Cos it’s an awfully big hole to fill
It’s an awfully big hole to fill

Some of us who got away
Have burns and scars that are here to stay
Others, they lost everything they know
In the aftermath we scour the ground
Reclaiming bodies, some will never be found,
From splintered lives, our new seeds we’ll grow

And they’re calling it “Our Darkest Day”
But for those of us who still remain…

We’ll look up to the sky
In courage and in hope
We’ll blink the ash from our eyes
We’ll sure find a way to cope
All the loose change from your pockets
Mate, it helps to pay the bills
‘Cos it’s an awfully big hole to fill
It’s an awfully big hole to fill

Click HERE to view a video from students at Epping Boys High School.

Perfect

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Did you find yourself out there, alone in who you are?
Did you give yourself away to something you can’t fake?

If you think I’m perfect, think again
If you think I’m sorry, think again
I know you think I’m scarred
Well I am

Awaking in the world, embracing all you’ve heard
Did you grow in who you are, and undo all the shame I laid?

If you think I’m perfect, think again
If you think I’m sorry, think again
I know you think I’m scarred
Well I am

I wish I could see it through your eyes
I wish I could bleach mine
Cos this is my home
Where I still find pieces of you that tell me you’re alive
Are you alive?

If you said your perfect, I’d agree
If you said you’re sorry, it was me

If you see hollow, fill me in
If you see I’m hurting, break a leg
I know you think I’m scarred