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44 Blues
04:22
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2. |
Birth
04:13
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Heard you catch your breath in the night
A Sign of pain, a sign of delight
A delusive light, lit the room
He was coming you said, one month too soon
A lay beside you heavy with child,
A woman elemental, naked and wild
Your pain is pure, like ice like fire
A pain born in darkness, with faith and desire
chorus
Oooo a son is born
You drift between sleep and the next stab in the dark
As the first light catches the trees in the park
You open the way for our son to be born
He comes with a rush, he comes with the dawn
chorus
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Standing in a pool of cold light
And staring at the crowded dark
With that hood pulled down over your head
Do you speak for god, like the profit said.
I know you took a mythic journey,
Along the way you changed your name
You left your old clothes at the St James Hotel
Did you sell your soul to the devil as well
You sang your song in those cafes at night
You were like a blind man when Jesus gave him sight
chorus
I'm in the dark, at the Palais Theatre, listening to Bobby
I hope your living contented
With your god and with your muse
Well you know know you aint got nothing to prove
If you keep on signing those lonesome blues
Are you lost in your own creation
Do you wonder who you are
Are you that image we see in the terrible light
Or the man you live with alone at night
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4. |
Drunk
03:42
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5. |
Stolen Moments
03:32
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STOLEN MOMENTS
At the end of the day
With darkness in the sky
and the fire burning down to a glow
there’s comfortable music playing on the radio.
thought I’d forgotten her
but there she is again’
with her roasting eyes and fire red hair,
I reach out to touch her but she’s not there.
CHORUS
Stolen moments in the night
how could something so wrong feel so right
stolen moments in the night,
how could something so wrong feel so right.
2
A chance meeting,
led to undone hours
and the slide into dark forbidden places,
we gathered our clothes and left no traces.
Our affair was conducted in shadows
our undone love was spread across the night,
you left me trembling for your touch and bleeding from you’re bite.
CHORUS
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6. |
No Communication
03:34
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No Communication
We were talking when the line dropped out
can you hear me will it help if I shout?
I can’t understand you through this blizzard of words
the fog of conversation has become absurd.
chorus:
No Communication x2
2
Information, can you tell me what to do
can’t get connected like I used to do
when I call her there’s static on the line,
should I re-dial or is it a waste of time.
chorus
(Possible middle 8)
It’s four in the morning, but I’m thinking straight,
I’ve got something to tell you and it just won’t wait
Do you want to hear what I have to say?
Even if you don’t I’m gonna say it anyway.
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7. |
Can't Live with You
05:06
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Can’t Live with You
Finally at the end we will meet again
when all your bitter tears have been wiped away
by the passing of years
I can see you in time your face dissolving into mine
and then at the end we will begin to live our lives again
CHORUS
I can’t live with you
can’t live without you x2
2
Time present, time past what might have been will be at last
When pain disappears with the passing of years
I can see you in time your face dissolving into mine
and then at the end we will begin to live our lives again.
CHORUS
Repeat first verse
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8. |
Pre-TV
02:54
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I was born, pre TV
Heard Elvis baby from my momma's knee
I was born pre-tv
Ain’t as young as I used to be,
But I can still see the wood from the trees
Even though I got emphysema and creaky knees
I was born pre TV
AIN’T AS YOUNG AS I USED TO BE
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You say you’re workin baby
Working late at night,
But you come home all messed up
and you ain’t walkin’ right
I’m gonna tell you one thing baby
That you ortta know
You gotta fly right baby
Or you gotta go.
I was born pre TV
Heard Elvis from my mama’s knee
Ain't as young as I used to be
repeat second verse
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9. |
Changes
03:12
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CHANGES
1
Too many people have changed their mind
What they once believed in they have left behind.
Once they spoke with passion and heat
Now they fight for property values on their heritage street.
Chorus:
Changes, too many changes goin’ on,
What was right is now wrong.
x2
2
Negative gearing is the new black
If you pay 15 per cent then you’re on the right track
Maoists endorse hamburger chains,
too much bad acid musta fried their brains.
CHORUS
4
I don’t wanna do no deals on a porta phone,
I don’t want no wi/fi in my designer home,
I don’t want no private school, don’t wanna do no china white,
Wanna know what’s wrong and I wanna know what’s right.
Chorus X2
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10. |
Alpha Jerk
05:04
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RUNNING AWAY
1
Worked in a white-washed office
my blood snaked under the door,
I had nothing, but I wanted more,
I walked and talked with whom I should
and smiled and cried on cue,
I did what was expected and lived as I had too
chorus:
But each morning in the shaving mirror I watched myself decay
At night I hung my youth in a closet and the moths, ate it away.
2
Then one morning I put a gun to my head,
wanted to squeeze away my life time
Fall to earth brainless and dead,
But the bullet chamber was empty
and the safety catch was on,
outside a band played a tuneless march
and the dogs yapped on as one.
chorus
3
The first night of my journey found me
resting at an inn
there was cider in the travellers bar
and a singer playing mandolin
outside the weeping seas cried on that distant shore
and the singer sang his lonely song
till I couldn’t take it any more
chorus
4
picked up my suit case
and I paid my meagre bill
crawled into a battered coat and I headed for a hill
but as my feet walked out the door
I heard the singer say
no matter how far you tried to run
you can never run away
chorus
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The Hornets Melbourne, Australia
The Hornets have been described by The Age Newspaper as Melbourne's best blues band. Featuring ARIA Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Jeff Burstin on guitar, Wayne Duncan on bass, together with ARIA winner Bruce Haymes on keyboards, Chris Tabon on drums and singer/song writer Craig Horne on guitar and vocals, the Hornets, with 6 acclaimed CD's to their name, have been buzzing for over 20 years. ... more
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