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Good as Gold
05:16
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Picture this
I’m standing on a perfect beach in the afternoon sun
Around me are sand castles, driftwood and a sand dune Groyne
This could be a completely different year that I dropped into
And my gear is exactly how it was when I was 14
Because the sand dunes have accumulated
Like the memories that we tow around
And the glamour things that we say we found
I could keep on talking about this particular place
Until the waters rise and everything that is as good as gold
Is washed away
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Shadows on the Wall
03:59
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Well if it feels ok
What harm can it do anyway?
You just want to live a little
Just want to give a little love
To the ones who need you the most
To the ones you call family
We can keep playing for your pleasure
In this crowded room enjoy your leisure
Gimme shelter, gimme shelter
There’s another incredible sunset tonight
Catching the highlights in your hair
A nuclear winter, an orange red parade
In the city of the capitalist’s minds
Your ironic smile can still beguile
Moonlight becomes you
Memories in the ashes and clothes we wear
Before another mind flare explosion
Making us shadows on the wall
Shadows on the wall (repeat)
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3. |
Rise Above
04:21
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Sailors mask their minds eye
In case the shore isn’t fruitful anymore
Sailors sing about the winds
And the tides that have taken a toll
For their restless souls have traversed many an ocean
Rise, rise above the waves and creatures
Take me back to the place that teachers
Rise above the waves and creatures
Rise above ways and weapons
Rise above sayings and slogans
Rise above buildings and bridges
Rise, rise above fear and depression
Rise above wealth and division
Rise above cats and dogs squabbling
Rise above the world
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Covid 19
04:10
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Cut the Cost
03:13
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With your loud mouth on and anxiety heightened
And you feel the screws begin to tighten
When the whole world plays a cacophonous disaster
And the whole world trades its values for more money
When the whole world plays, you brace for disaster
And the whole world trades its values for making laughter
When fresh vegetables are more expensive, then plastic wrapped food
Is going to grab your attention I forgot to mention the cheese!
Cut the cost of living
When the whole world plays, you can brace for a disaster
And the whole world trades its values for making laughter
I need a great escape and a place to call my own home
Come to relate, with those below the bar line
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Tenancy for Purpituity
04:24
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Autumn hangs low
Drops its leaves on the road
People walk past, dragging feet and pets
As we are dragged by the scruff of our neck
Accumulating debt and ill feelings
Lattice over the ugly wall of neglect
Concentrate your efforts for financial benefit effect
Pan for gold in the sowers and drains
Instinct to hide resumes its vigilant gains
Reducing us to atoms dispersed by the wind
On the back of the bus are realestate slogans and mug shots
White collar criminals sanctioned, sanctified by greed
I’m almost made extinct by the unending financial need
Autumn leaves hang low
Drop there leaves on the road
Autumn leaves hang low
Drop acorns on the road
Tenancy for perpetuity, it’s a power imbalance
We need a re-set, the prices climb higher
Prices climb higher
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7. |
World Without War
04:51
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You’re out of luck you’re on your own
You’re sleeping rough you have no home
You have no choice you have no coin
You’re unemployed, your license is void
Yer that’s right – no one wants to know you
No one wants to care
But you don’t want to follow
But you want to belong, yer
What you want is tomorrow
You want to feel strong, yer
You have no choice you have no choice
This is what we are designed to do
(repeat)
Gotta believe in a denial
Gotta believe in a file
You’ve got to believe in a trench on the other side
You’ve got to believe
You’ve got to believe, in your will to survive
You’ve got to believe, in a sea of stupid smiles
You’ve got to believe, in something good, something strong
You’ve got to believe in a world without war
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8. |
Canberra
05:56
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It’s a sad town for those in need
It’s a harsh edge that can make you bleed
You have people who can only judge by greed
People who can’t afford to satisfy need
It’s a mad town if you don’t believe
In the bureaucratic oath and its sanctity
The health and condition of democracy
It’s a cold town, a cold cold town
Canberra is a matter of a fact to see
Rich in beauty around the boarders of the ACT
It has Lakes and Laughs
It has camera’s and lights
Round-a-bouts and heights
Memorials and Lakes
Editorials and gates
There is a ghost in old parliament house
It’s a closed town, It’s a closed closed town if you stay too long
It’s a closed town, It’s a closed closed town
It has habits, and duties and ceremonies
Breeding like rabbits around the ACT
It’s a clean town a clean clean town
Rich in profits from the habits of democracy
Many cultures of the world and there embassy’s
Canberra is a place that can satisfy the heart
Canberra is a state that can activate your heart
Activate your heart (repeat)
It’s where I found a person who loves me
It’s where I have a home that needs me
It’s where I found love and affection and family
It’s where I found a way to perceive of me
It’s probably where I’ll be buried in a cemetery
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New Winter Wire
05:09
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The Ice roadways
The traffic pays its wage
The signage says you can’t stop here
Keep on moving, keep on grooving
Stay between the Witches hats
Headlights shine in cats eyes windscreen wipes away
You can admire graffiti on the walls
Your tires are bald like the top of your head
You’re thinking of bed
How many hours? How many hours?
The motorcycle hero is cruising between the jamming cars
Breaking all the rules, flirting all his tools
Skirting a wish and the pavement
Tripping a life fantastic
You wait in line sit in traffic doing time
I wait in line – It feels so cold so cold without you
It feels so cold so cold without you (repeat)
The helmets head is a crash tag bag
He got the spokes of the wheel stuck in his head
Memorial flowers adorn the lawn
A cross for heaven, a sprinkle of glass
Beats you out of your class
Motorcycle hero
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10. |
Figment
04:13
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Maybe if I were a figment
The impotent high is matched by the grizzly low
The chance to contribute is lost in a five minute makeover
Sliding patterns that pertain to a prism fairy glow
Shifts its perch and a new perspective is shown
We hang on to the pretty things
So they can make imaginings out of sentences
And then the routine kicks in
The duty night, the duty night hits begin
And the characters we carry get to stretch their legs a little
And the patterns that we make are made with good intentions
And the gradual growing days are filled with endless inventions of the mind
Family matter ways can become unkind
It’s a question of the mind
All is well as long as you are kind
This could be a figment of my imagination
This could be a figment of my imagination
This could be a figment of your imagination
This could be a figment of your imagination
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11. |
Full Moon is Rising
04:49
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Night creatures combat, high wire acrobats
Full moon is rising something is stirring inside
Heart beating faster, clothes are beginning to tear
What is this magic that’s taken hold of me
Trip the light fantastic
It’s like being set free
Run for your life
Run toward the light
The sound of guns in the distance
The hunt goes on for the animal in me
Night creatures combat, I dream of silhouettes
Full moon is rising, something is growing inside
Run for your life
Run toward the light
Run for your life
Run toward the light
For the love (repeat)
For the thrill of chase
For the thrill of the taste in your mouth
For the thrill of the kill, for the still waters blood
For the taste of the wine
Making you act so sublime
Full moon is rising now
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12. |
The Floor is Lava
03:39
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The floor is lava
Landlords want better
Three minute fat burn for beginners
Post to view
CCTV watches you
Jesus is coming very soon
Breakthrough biological explanation of the human condition
The
Only truth out there – say it as it is
Two all beef paddies special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun
Afraid of showing a smile
The US dollar is in real trouble
What kind of Satan’s plan do you dream
Unstable spirits that believe in political correctness
People brainwashing vicious media systems
And shameless lies
A fabrication of art, an out right lie
You are so evil to use the weakest and marginalized
If you think your people will have to get used to being massacred
Leave your position now
The media misdirects your attention
Don’t let her drown
Don’t let a dirty home bring you down
Two all beef paddies special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun
Are you in pain today? have you taken your meds today?
Are you having a drink today? Are you having a smoke today?
Are you in pain today? Are you getting an injection today?
Are you getting tested today, PCR tested today, RAT testing rat testing at home
Two all beef paddies special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun
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13. |
Cost of Living
04:38
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With Winter coming quickly, power bills will rise
We talk about alternatives
And nothing materializes
Is this just a talk-fest country?
Are we only good to pay these fines?
If you can’t think beyond this bleak façade (repeat)
Freedom is truly lost replaced by meaningless repetition
Earning wealth for rich strangers
Who look down upon you
As little more than dispensable trash
I have no value I am worthless, save me from this clash
Save me from this clash (repeat)
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Crash Hot
04:19
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I’m not crash hot at talking
I’m not crash hot at walking
I’m not crash hot at talking
Or taking a fall
I’m not slap dash endorsing
Or business reinforcing
I’m not spruiking a deal
I’m just singing the way I feel
singing the way, trying to keep it real
Having a lazy day - the way I feel
Waiting for my pay - the way I feel
Changing the way I feel – the way I feel
The way I feel tonight
Change the way I feel tonight isn’t right
The way I feel isn’t right (Repeat)
So I change the way I see things
Change the way I feel things
Change the way I care
Put a ponytail in my hair
Taking a carpet ride, to the imagination side
Changing the way I see things
Changing the way I feel things
I’m changing the way I see things
I’m changing the way I feel things
Changing the clothes I ware
Taking a carpet ride to the imagination side
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15. |
Rubish Bin Day
04:37
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It’s been one of those days, a real rubbish bin day
And the bins weren’t even emptied
Now they over flow
And the neighbor drags his lawn mower across his bullet head field
And Mr High VIZ has a smart Alec comment to add
The retirement home has a perfectly cut lawn
And lots and lots of windows to adorn
The landscape man blows leaves from A to B and back again
A dog barks until its throat is raw
The children come back home from school
With a limp and a claw
We have no money we have no time
And the cost of living rises
Get that shopping trolley get first in line
But the situation changes
You can no longer do the task at hand (repeat)
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Panic in Motion
05:30
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You’re breathing south you’re breathing north
Got a whiff in the air
Your heading up your heading down
You’re looking in you look around
These random words that fill your mind
You got no money you got no time
You make a list you lose control
You shake and rattle and rock n’ roll
Panic in motion, you’re afraid that you’re losing control
Everything is not as it seems
Every screen is a hand to my please
Every drop is elixir of life
Every stop is an old fashioned wound
You’re breathing in you’re breathing out
You’re not secure you have no doubt
You’re feeling scared you want to shout
Your eyes are closed your mouth is dry
You’re going to break you’re going to die
Everything could end in a second
With all of the things left undone
Paper, secrets, songs, stories and ambitions
A list of duties and chores to be claimed
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Creative Heart Beat
05:46
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When the creative juices are flowing
There’s no knowing where this may end
When the end of the day is just the beginning
Of something special, something more
And it feels like winter is around the corner
Feels like frost is close at hand
You have to keep thinking of ways to keep your heart beating
Some extracurricular ways to keep your brain firing
You don’t know how many days you have left to stake your claim
To be counted as one of the many worthwhile contributions
I really want to be doing something extraordinary
I really want to be doing something extraordinary…
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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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