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CATS AND ANGELS
04:05
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In love I can't deny, with whom I can't describe
Lost in language, thoughts and rhythms
Moving through the dark
The city in the sky, a make believe empire
With cats and angels, sons and lovers
Churning me up inside
You can see them, never believe them
Serenade then be rejected
You never know them, never show them
What it is that makes you special
Girl, please write to me you're like a symphony trapped in my mind
Girl. please don't go away, you're like a tourniquet around my heart
Words of love abide, by rules I can't describe
Cats and angels, moves and screens
Searching in the dark
I spy with my little eye a girl that's good for me...
Blue the colour of innocence
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It's a sunny afternoon, butterfly's and cobwebs fly away
No excuses for feeling under the weather
Leaves sound like a round of applause.
I'm writing you a letter, to a girl on the other side of town. That very special person, I'm yet to surely find - well never mind never mind.
A north wind blowing through me
Sometimes I think she's so unkind - one date two date fall
Makes me feel three feet tall.
I'm about to make a call
A man of many vowels about to make a call with butterfly's and sweaty palms - sit and watch the telephone for quite a while.
A photo is a big mistake, the end of words
The birds are singing me a song
Should I pick up the telephone?
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PLEASE ICE CREAM
03:29
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TIME WATCHING
04:26
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A dreadful high gloss smile, whiplash feelings inside
Saying "no tomorrow", thinking "open minded"
Bashful sentence structure, signals non-believing
Restless time watching, thinking "hope tomorrow"
Butterfly painting, saying "open hearted"
Wish list flight of fancy, thinking "no tomorrow"
Insane machinations, keeping lists and numbers
Watch the garden dying, thinking "no tomorrow"
Laughing life a story, saying "open minded"
meeting friends and strangers, feeling open hearted
Pick up lines and smiles, signals non-believing
Restless time watching, thinking "hope tomorrow"
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JUST LOOKING
03:45
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In the heat of the fight, I want to get out
Like a moth to a flame in this crazy old town
I'm not anyone's hero, put a swag on my shoulders
Make the lights of the city by morning
If I was a travelling man, I'd probably leave.
But I hold myself back in an attempt to achieve.
If I was, somebody's man, I'd always treat her, the best that I can
If i was a pretender, walk about like a stranger
Pretend my life's just a peep show in prime time.
I'm not asking for much - just someone to hold
Feel the soft velvet touch of a curious girl
If I was, a family man, I'd always protect them, the best that I can.
Walk and talk like a cliche, a copy book chameleon,
A soldier of fortune\, just looking
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DREAM IN A BOTTLE
03:28
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THE LAST LETTER
03:46
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The last letter, full stop and kind regards
Back to the closed world, back to the burnt pages
Back to the bottles of wine.
The soft etherial tinkle of wind chimes.
Memories like a bus pulling away, growing smaller every day.
The last letter is a clue, a dismissal, a wave of the hand
Not so much as a goodbye.
The silent reproach is so hurtful
My barren eyes, seeing nothing in particular
Just a suspicious world
Excuses on little pieces of paper, carrying names of people you will never know.
Blame it on the bottles of wine.
Put it all into the fat, pull out minimum chips for your shoulder blades
The last letter is a curse
A memory, a moment, a world of make believe.
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LOST
02:57
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Hide in a wardrobe, lost in the shower - lost
No one can find me, I am incognito - lost.
Live like a hermit, speechless for hours - lost
Disconnect the phone, your laughing on your own again - lost.
Listen to your favourite CD
Bringing up your grandiose ideas
With just the trees and birds and rocks and fly's for friends
No better company could help you make amends for all you've done.
Soft as a feather, floating forever - lost
Walk about the house an incarcerated ghost machine - lost.
Lighting a candle, stars in the high dark - lost.
The flame inside your eyes shows a master of disguise now - lost.
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ISLAND
03:39
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BIG FEELINGS
02:28
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What can I say to you
Is there anything you'd like me to do?
Maybe take these big feeling and throw them away?
Anything to help you sleep at the end of the day
Anything to help you sleep.
What should I write to you?
I don't mean to cause to harm, it's true
So shall I take these big feelings, and hide them away?
Leave them in a cupboard just waiting for a rainy day.
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RATAPLAN
03:32
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The beating in his head case, sad about the waste of space
living in the desperate corners of his open mind
The monotonous beating of a heart drum
Taking in alcohol, waiting in the shade of foreign park trees.
The sound of drums is poison to his black eyes
Ears only for the screaming of the sacred cockatoo sentinel.
Cool wish that the diamonds come with ya.
Mechanical heartbeat thumping like a tight drum
Take away the pain, making him more than a stranger, on the sidewalk.
Listening to shopping trolleys that sound like red rattlers on the home line.
He wishes to leave the visual world and succumb to the maddening beating drums.
The thumping in his head belongs to a ritual for the dead
The clouds are gathering to wash away his tears.
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WIRILDA
02:50
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Tonight, the trees are talking of love and desire
Tonight, I'm trying to rekindle this fire
Don't call me cupid, don't call my love
I'm not from heaven up above
Don't call me clever don't call me cheap
I'm not something you can keep
I'm not some man on the prowl
Searching for some old forgotten tune, on my tongue
I can't say what this means
Stand, the accused you have used all your charm and now you've gone.
Tonight, I'm trying to imagine how you sing
Tonight, your words are jewels from a diamond fire tail wing.
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SLIP AWAY
02:51
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I gave you everything, only to have it thrown back in my face
I even gave you a diamond ring
Only to have to fish it out of a lake
I'm going to slip away, and figure out who I am
I need to slip away, a knee jerk reaction.
I seem to cause you injury
Every time I open my big mouth
If what you're looking for is sympathy
I guess I'm saying that I've found a better life
A brighter stranger world, a life of invention
Where no one knows my name
Just another stranger
Watch me slip away, to find some protection
I need to slip away, hitch hike away from here
I'm going to slip away, leave behind disaster
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THINKING CORNER
02:59
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Only when I'm dreaming does my mind connect with those kinds of people
Walking like a wish list desert island cue for perfect isolation
Only when I'm dreaming does my heart become a callus sound in motion
Sitting in the corner like a naughty school boy paying for attention
Feeling lonely never felt so cold
Taking time to walk away from mirrors and wishing pools
The thinking corner is a place I go
To lose myself in a landscape of imperfect sobriety
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PALE BLUE TEARS
03:24
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Butter Duck Days and restless nights, thinking about the weather
Watery thoughts and aimless eyes, doesn't make it better
I'm writing you a letter.
It's a funny thing, that shakes me down, windowless and shallow.
If there be a beam in thine eye, cast it out to others
Like lonely sons and lovers
Scratch away through me, reveal someone better
Open arms and pale blue tears
Catch a wave and vanish, brushed and bushy tailed
Dawn the hour of forgiveness comes.
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HERO AND THE DOVE
03:34
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And the hero knows the game, he's practising all the time
And the scenery is still the same, but he's trying to draw a line
Because he's found someone to love
It's happening all the time
But this girl is a peaceful dove, eyes like diamonds
And the little girl is afraid, because she's been hurt before
But if life is just a stage
She's willing to take a fall
Because his eyes shine like the sun, in a lunar landscape
And if affection is to love what minutiae is to life
Yes please, yes please - serenade me
Yes please, yes please - take me by the hand
Yes please, yes please - whisperings of love
Yes please, yes please - I'm on fire
Some students, find it so hard to learn
Some people, don't know which way to turn
Some stories, are written in the sand
Some heroes, fail to understand.
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Euie b Graham Canberra, Australia
Ending formal lessons on violin, I began writing songs in 1992, graduating to a four-track cassette recorder shortly after, and the addictive journey of composing then recording was entrenched. I continue, assimilating influences and forging my own way. I shy away from performing, I write, record then move on. I would love others to listen and enjoy, and hold out hope that I May find an audience. ... more
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