A girl and a dog, kickin’ along to the park where they go every day
He’s what she’s not, they go together nicely
He’s the sensitive sort, short dark and handsome
Always knows what not to say,
Loves her completely puts a little dance on
When she gets home at the end of the day
A girl and a dog, what could go wrong
I tell you nothing can go wrong with the love,
The love of a girl and a dog
Whatever she wears, it’s always his favourite,
She’s long in the store, he’s happy to wait
His family is decent, well domesticated
A night in is their favourite date
He doesn’t lie, doesn’t cheat
He just lies on her feet
Sure he likes a ball game, and a roll in the hay
But he’ll always choose her, ain’t gonna lose her
It’s not a tale for Hollywood, ‘coz it’s good every day
A girl and a dog, what could go wrong
I tell you nothing can go wrong with the love,
The love of a girl and a dog..
Once there was a man, he lived inside an old tin can
And though his home was very humble it came free
When he woke up in the morn, he could see right out the door
And down the road as it went winding to the sea
When this man was very young the country fathers told him “Son..
..a doctor or a dentist you could be..
..You'll be safe until you're old, if you do as you were told..”
He wasn't sold, soon a loner became he
Ahee said the wind, Ahee said the sea
You'll be safe until you're old, if you do as you are told
Well this man he had a mind of an exploratory kind
And though he never learned to play a melody
He lived each and every day in an improvising way
Never deciding in advance how it should be
'Twas a wind blew in one day, where it came he could not say
As he listened to its breath upon his cheek
He said I'll follow where you go, the 'ole tin can began to roll on down the road
'Til it fell into the sea
Ahee said the wind, Ahee said the sea
Said I'll follow where you go, 'ole tin can began to roll
Forty days and forty nights, 'neath the stellar ocean lights
As the seasons had their way with him
Where a lesser man would gripe he held on tight,
Enjoyed the ride, saw Neptune's pride, a mermaid tribe,
Horizon wide, the other side...
When his Campbell's Soup canoe done struck a leak
'Pon a pin the wind did turn and his stomach 'gan to churn
As he worked to plug the hole and stop the sea
While the wind upon his cheek it said the road for those who seek
Will toss and turn ya but that's how it's got to be
Ahee said the wind, Ahee said the sea
As he worked to plug the hole, said that's how it's got to be
So it went as year by year he took on fear by sullen fear
Nobody near to cheer the battles he had won
'Til one calm and pleasant day a pleasure boat did chance his way
Nice lady waving as he lay under the sun
She said “Come on I'll take your hand and pull you up onto dry land”
He bobbed upon the water lazily
and said “I know your kind of shore, 'coz I bin there once before
and what is more that once was plenty 'nuff for me”
Ahee said the wind, Ahee said the sea
He said “I know your kind of shore, 'coz I bin there once before..”
And so now a steel-eyed bum he makes his livin' on the run
Never knowin' in advance what it shall be
With the wind still in his hair he'll take a fall he doesn't care
Knowin' only that that's how it's got to be
Ahee said the wind, Ahee said the sea
I knew at first bite
The recipe was right
Baby won't you cook for me
One small spoon and I'm in a swoon
So sweet and tasty
Every time you bake me up that pie
I lose a little dignity
Try to leave the table but I'm cereally unable
Caught up in your saucery
Salt it, sweet it
Love to watch you beat it
Got to be nutritious
Coz it's oh so delicious
You got me in a bind
You know I'll never find
A man with hands that
knead dough like you can
Kneed it, squeeze it
Babe so I can eat it
Oh won't you cook for me
Heat it, feed it to me,
Put a little cream on for me
Baby - won't you cook for me
Something’s goin on in the night
The bushes in the back yard are laying real low
They’re covering for somebody,
Birds are talkin loud but they ain’t tellin’ what they know
Possums on the make,
like this is the last poker game they’ll ever take
I leaned on the gate, he says ‘don’t ask me, I just work here mate’
Grass is clean and green
but I just know things aren’t what they seem
Why those daisy’s hidin’?
This is some kinda heavy scene
Black cat, night rat
I know the gnomes know
but they just stare through me when I tell ’em so
House has gotta be in on this gig,
It knows too much, footprint’s too big
Someday I’m gonna bust this scene
Put that cat behind a cat flap
Make the neighborhood clean
But this cat’s wise to every vice
Not just mice, he’s doin speed and ice
Black cat, night rat
Wash away the dirt
Wash away the tears
Wash away the wear and tear
Of so many years
Wash away the stories
That we’ve all been told
Wash away the foggy day
The white men that are old
Bring on the rain…
Wash it on down Broadway
Wash down Hoddle St
Wash away that every day
We feel like we been beat
Wash the televisions
Wash the subways too
Wash away the feeling
That there’s nothing we can do
Bring on the rain..
Wash your mouth with soap young man
Wash your feet and wash your hands
Feel the rain wash down on me how
clean a girl can be
Feel it in your bones
Feel it in your hair
Feel it in your soul
Breath that clean air
Bring on the rain..
Change your tune, Change your mind
Change of hands, change of style
Change it up, change around
Be the change that you want to see in the world
Walk it out now
Change your spots, change your horse
Change of pace, change of course
Change it up, change around
Be the change that you want to see in the world
Walk it out now
Movin to the rhythm of the rising moon
Sunshine come down much too soon
Keep shifting round the furniture inside your head
You can run around around run around
But you’re still on a short thread
Change your shoes, Change your socks
Change your hair, change the locks
Change it up, change around
Be the change that you want to see in the world
Walk it out now
C’est l’heure du bonheur, tout les gens dans la rue
Ont l’air joieux et fou
Et moi je regardes par le fenetre tres clair
En sachant je ne peux pas faire plus
Il etait un fois passé, temps de stresses, temps presse
Temps ou j’ais travaille dur
Maintenant il me semble
Que la vie est trop longue
Je respires et c’est tout-ce que je peux
C’est tout-ce que j’ais vu
C’est tout-ce j’ais voulu
La main faite en boit ne marche plus
L’envie de vivre
C’est le crie de la mer
C’est tout-ce que je peux et c’est tout
Ne me demandes pas que j’explique
Il n’y a rien a dire
C’est un sense que ne comprends pas
Simplement je restes entre
Joie et tristesse
Je respires et c’est tout-ce que je peux
Quest-ce que j’attends de la vie?
C’est que je n’ais pas envie?
Une sagesse ou c’est un dolor?
C’est l’hiver ou l’etait, la mort est tant pres?
Je respires et c’est tout-ce que je peux
Come on babe hug me ‘coz I’m feeling all right
It’s warm under the covers, gonna take you for a ride
She says “Hold on baby what you tryin to do?
you knooow I can’t stay and make love wich you –
‘coz the water’s risin, so quit you’re cryin and
Pick up a shovel dig a hole for love
Come on you know you want to have a boogie with me
I’m the love king – gonna send you out to sea
She says “Honey don’t you worry I got steam for you, but there’s
just one thing that you got to do ‘coz the
Water’s rising, so quit your cryin and
Pick up a shovel dig a hole for love
Can you feel it, baby I’m for real, you know it’s
Now or never come on let’s get together and I’ll
make you feel all right come on hold me tight – she says
Pick up a shovel dig a hole for love.
Get born, stuck in a storm
Torn between two lovers, beat up and worn
Get played like a helpless pawn and
Get happy
Get tired, from waiting so long
Tired of being a mother, tired of being a son
Get to feeling you’re the only one and
Get happy
If I had a chance, another romance might sway me
Still in this life-long dance,
I’m the only one that’s gonna save me
Get ready, wind’s going to blow
Look in the mirror, crack’s gonna show
But don’t let it get you low, oh no
Get happy
Riding home on the train one day,
Phone goes ba-bing what’s it got to say
Big wall o’ water headed down our way
And armageddon’s comin’ too
People runnin to higher ground
Got no hope ‘coz we’re earth bound
Everything’s fallin down down down
Godzilla Stomping Through Japan
Godzilla Stomping Through Japan
People take shelter if you can
Fuji TV, what do I see
Tokyo ain’t where it used to be
Island of Honshu moved eight feet
Further out to the east
Chirpy little ring tone, fire and brimstone
Dark haired, homeless,
Hurt & hungry, well dressed,
Nuclear reactor, distress
Godzilla Stomping Through Japan…
Earth has shifted on it’s axis
We been good we paid our taxes
But what you gonna do when the simple fact’s
Godzilla Stomping Through Japan
We seen fire and famine, drought and flood
People call it an act of God
But God’s more active, there’s more blood
Godzilla Stomping Through Japan
Godzilla Stomping Through Japan
People take shelter if you can
If I knew then what I know now, it would still be you
That you would hold me, then fold me
Back into the pack jack, and shuffle while I’m stacked flat
If I could change the game, re-arrange the blame, I’d start again with all the clues
But you’re the itch I had to scratch, recession that I had to have
The bug I had to catch – like the flu
So lay the cards on the table
And sure as ancient fable I would be unable not to choose you
Love is a flutter, it’s a gamble, where the sample isn’t ample so we play for more
Then one of us is sated, the libido is abated as we get habituated to the score
If I knew then, what I know now, I’d change a bunch of history too – wouldn’t you?
There’d be less be-headings and a whole lot of weddings
In delightful country settings and we’d all say ‘I do’
But heaven doesn’t sell, yeah we all want that taste of hell
And that’s why baby it would still be you
A rabbit likes a carrot and to populate the planet and that’s just what she’s gonna do
You can tell her its a trap but her deep internal habit is to grab it and then wind up in the stew
If I knew then, what I know now,
We all would have a crystal ball in permanent view
And we’d all stack the cards, so full of hearts, that the universal balance would be all aske
But when the gods rolled the dice, they never said it would be nice
And you can make like Oedipus, but your fate’s still gonna find you
Yeah sure as death, and taxes, and the earth’s magnetic axis
Baby it would still be you
Picture a cook, doing her boil
and toil, she got lunch to spoil
Get the smell of sweat and regret
it’s the stench of all she can’t forget
Smashin’ mash like it’s trenches she’s diggin’
string beans in a watery grave
and gin gin gin gin gin…
Twenty long years she been ploughin’ this pot
Kneadin’ her list of all he’s not
Still she choses to suck on her bruises
sustained, long explained in whispers to Susan on the phone
as she’s stirring her potion
grindin’ eternal in a circular motion
flamin’ her fires, it’s a habitual devotion
She’s servin it up, her favourite grub
Joan, Joan, Joan, Joan – Joan of Burwood
He’s heard it before,
She gonna walk out the door
All he ever does is take take take
All she ever does is burn that steak
And hair of steam, foully brewing
She’s servin’ it up and she ain’t gonna stop,
Servin’ it up – Joan of Burwood
This is my fire, my fire for you
A home for coming to, we’ll be feeling good
There was a time, I didn’t see
How quiet night could be
Breathed you in my sleep
Kiss away the misty rise
The day is dawning, but you close your eyes
This is my fire, I breath for you
I sent a message, hope it’s getting through
Far away, in the blue
The stars are for us, you can feel it too
Kiss away the misty rise..
Squeeze the grapes of wrath, wine will come
Lay a table cloth, time will fall away
This is our time, here and now
We’ll take a moment, make it last an hour
Come with me now, into the day
We’ll stow away, like lovers do
Kiss away the misty rise.
Kiss away the dark beneath your eyes
That’s not our sunrise
The day is dawning, on the other side
Way down south where the wattle trees grow
The weather man tries but he really doesn’t know
There’s a dark little alley down a city street
Where you dine real fine and it ain’t too steep
So get dressed down we’ll do the pub crawl
Melbin town is the livingest place of all
We got all kinds of faith, religion too
Black yellow brown red white and blue
Could be the colour of your club or the colour of your skin
Y’all find a way just to fit right in
So get dressed down we’ll do the pub crawl
Melbin town is the livingest place of all
I been to places with a buzz in the air
There’s a town further north has got pretty blonde hair
But if you want to hear music in the streets
I know a place here we all can meet
So get dressed down we’ll do the pub crawl
Melbin town is the livingest place of all
Well I know that our love
Came on time
I could feel in my heart I was yours
You were mine
And our love was divine, it was pure
That is why, it's so hard to endure
So why - am I lonely
And why do I wake in tears?
If our love is so right,
Why do I struggle through the night
Why my love, is our love, so lonely?
Lunar Lady oh so bright, be my wishing well tonight
I’ll go fishing with my kite if you’ll shine for me
Lady whisper in the wind, starry siren songs of yin
Call the tide to come on in and shine for me
Thunder, old man’s cough – shake the earth, scare me off
Hear you weepin’ up above, cryin’ to the sea
Lunar Lady oh so high, when I die to you I’ll fly
Be the air that holds you tight as you shine for me
Back in the moonshine, moonshine so sweet
You know you’re havin a good time
When you can’t stay on your feet
One two slip through the crack, how’d you do that?
Four five and here’s a cosy dive to sit and chew fat
In the moonshine – on the funny side of the street
Tell ya you’ll be kissin’ everyone that you meet
Back in the moonshine, honey where the lights are red
Come on and strike that bed light
‘Coz you can sleep all night when you’re dead
Uptown, downtown, where’d you go spinning roun’?
Come on back and take a shot before you fall flat,
In the moonshine, on the funny side of the street
Tell ya you’ll be kissin’ everyone that you meet..
China Plate
We been pulled from the ether by women who fight
With hips and with hands, who wrestle through the night
Limp through days with dull achin’ knees
They crawl back from hate, serve up love on a china plate
Y’all playin’ a role in a primordial plot
Scrapin’ muddy pots, rubbin’ sore spots and what not
Daily performing invisible feats
Like when they crawl back from hate, serve up love on a china plate
I eat and once again am told, of granma burned in coals at three
Doctor’s grim at the danglin’ limb
But it’s ma knows the thing for dying kin..
Fancy now at ninety-two, ancient scars like hardened glue
Pulled from the ether and she’s goin’ back up
She’s goin’ back up yeah
Easy as you please she’s gonna pull up a chair
Cash in her chips and she’ll be gettin’ her share
For fightin’ the fight in the alleys and caves
She crawl back from hate serve up love on a china plate
No more coffee in the coffee pot
Sugar’s on the table, stove’s still hot
But I see what you are, and what you’re not
Not in my coffee pot
No more honey hot buttered toast
You’ve had your fill, now you’re just gonna move your way on up the coast
I was cookin’ up a Sunday roast
Now you want it in the post
No more sugar, and no more beers
Shoulda know that it would end in tears
No more coffee, no more cigarettes
I’m s’posed to think this is as good as it gets
Shoulda known I coulda laid down a bet,
Sure as coffee is wet
INST
No more sugar, and no more beers
Shoulda know it would all end in tears
No more coffee, no more cigarettes
I’m s’posed to think this is about as good as it gets
I shoulda known I coulda laid down a bet,
No more late night duets
No more coffee, yeah but I ain’t got regrets
I’m drinkin gin… till I forget
We take a ride, you take the wheel
I’m holding to the way it used to feel, my dear
When we were so near
In your eyes, still see the man I love
But just like a ghost I can’t touch your heart
It’s so near and so far
Used to be a smile from me, was enough to make you happy
But now..the winds of change are shifting
And so we ride, two little too polite smiles
And say ‘Let’s take a break for a while’
I wonder why – we were so near, and so far
You know the story by now
One small step and the walls come tumblin’ down
Watch the curtains, no time for hurtin’ – it’s showtime now
The leadin’ lady’s got a permanent frown
Roses are red now you’re blue,
Time for regrets and kisses meant for two
Won’t you wait up, honey we can make up
Can’t you see, what tools we’re being
In the lonely hours,
I wonder why we keep on playing these parts
The tension rises and there ain’t no goin’ back until the fat lady farts
So if the doctor is in
Please tell him I’m waitin’, hopin’ and prayin’
He’ll have a tonic, something therapeutic like a case of gin?
Let the show begin
Ici
Soleil, la lune, le ciel, les heures que passes tout seules c’est toi ici
Le froid d’hiver passé, lumiere des etoiles tres fraiches, c’est toi ma vie
Le sens magique que vient aux yieux ma vie m’amour tu portes a moi
Printemps a moi, ici
Ici encore et toutes tristesses les restes non plus sont tout parties
C’est toi encore c’est vrai tu portes un grand beaute c’est toi, ma vie
Alors m’amour m’embrasses et doucement me dont les bises encore
Une fille, garcon, amour, amour les deux tout seules
Tout seules savoir la joie, savoir l’amour tout seules
Soleil, la lune, le ciel, les heures que passes tout seules c’est toi ici
Well you can’t choose your neighbor but you can build a wall
You can choose your flavour but you can’t have them all
You can go out all night dancing, have a ball,
But you can’t choose the moment when the acorn falls
Well you can choose your partner not the mother in law
You can plant a garden can’t choose the rainfall
You can draw a tattoo on your sister’s doll
But you can’t choose the moment when the acorn falls
Well you didn’t choose your name but you can choose your reputation
Loudon’t choose the war but you can choose your protestation
You can choose your poison but you can’t choose the toll
And you can’t choose the moment when the acorn falls
(Break down)
Well you can take a lover, go and knock yourself out
You can leave ‘em wondering what was that all about
But you can’t choose the moment, when true love calls
And you can’t choose the moment when the acorn falls
No you can’t choose the moment when the acorn falls
The sun ain’t yellow it’s chicken he says
Petty little quarrels they run roun’ my head
Keep comin’ back to the way we met
You know we’re too far gone
The sign on my door it says back in 5
You walk right in this little soul dive of mine
What makes you think you’re the one for me?
I say yeah, yeah, yeah
Coz baby we’re on – a one way street
Still tryin’ to find our way
Too far gone, for thinkin’ ’bout another
We fuss n fight anyway
We’re carryin’ on, until we’re beat
You can’t win if you don’t play
‘Coz babe we’re too far gone for love to lose it’s way
There’s 20 million dollars ridin’ on a white horse
The bankers and the taxman they’re headin’ for the course
They say ‘Come on get in – what’s the matter with you?’
I don’t care, no no
He says we’re not really here we’re just passin’ through space
I say well pick up your clothes ‘coz it’s not just your place
You hold my hand and it feels so fine
I say yeah, yeah, yeah
Coz Baby we’re on..
This wouldn’t be a real love story
Without the part about inadequacy
One and one can make 13
Babe when you’re too far gone
You know there’s love and there’s habit
And there’s in-between
But we still duck down the alley
Where we can’t be seen
Babe ‘coz we’re too far gone – too far gone for love
You know we’re too far gone for love to lose it’s way
What does she know, when she’s all on her own
Can she sing herself a tune? Will it fill an empty room?
Make the darkness go?
Early dawn, before the day is born
Does she greet it with a smile, or has it been a while
Since she greeted it at all?
Years they roll on by, and it takes a train to make her cry
Travellin’ down the road, such a heavy load -Who knows why..
Night-time comes, she loved it once
And as the four winds blow, can she grab an oar and row?
What does she know –
Night-time comes, she loved it once,
Can she ever love again? Who knows where or when?
Can she give her heart a chance?
And let it flow, just let it go –
What does she know?
What’s In a Kiss?
Secret door to a world of bliss..
Was the moment long?
Did the world stop still?
Did time go on?
Who can tell..
If either party fell for it
I heard you did
That is, I heard you kissed
Kissed a girl like me,
But she wasn’t me..
What’s in a Kiss?
I guess that is the jist
Of the problem, honey
We were invincible
Two hearts that beat as one
Walkin’ down the street as one
Two lips that meet as one
Indivisible
And it started as a kiss,
Secret door to a world of bliss,
The kiss became a song
Who’d have thought it could all go wrong
Now it’s come to this
What was in that hidden kiss?
And though I know you well
Would you kiss and tell?
I’ll have to kiss and let the kiss tell me
Gonna tell you a story, you’ve heard it before
Woman meets a man, we play another chord
They run around together … then they have a blue
Are you wondering do they make up?
You fool, you
He goes off to war, she’s with another guy
But every night they’re gazin at the same star in the sky
The music gets softer, the moonlight’s dim
She looks into the distance and she’s thinkin of him
Are you wondering do they make it?
You fool, you
Now she’s waiting on a platform for the 2:19
Cutest little outfit that you’ve ever seen
You’ve been sitting in this movie since half past ten
You’re wondering what the lady even sees in him
But you paid good money, just to get in
You fool, you..
So just to be helpful, just to be kind,
I’m gonna tell you something’s gonna save a lot of time
Every love story that you read or see
Is nothing like the way it’s gonna really be
Coz if you think it’s gonna go like the stories do,
You fool, you.
