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Laneways of Melbourne
04:07
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V1
Back in Bougainville
A local murdered a woman and child
I rest my head on the ground
The memory still sickens me now
A roadside bomb and my second tour down
Half of Corporal Anderson don’t exist now
Bridge
You don’t get it, do you?
Should you?
Chorus
In the laneways of Melbourne I lost my mind
My heads spinning; a moment frozen in time
I see your face and you bring me back
I give myself to you
Middle 8
And it’s moving on slowly,
These heavy days,
It seems to drag on forever,
For my fatigued brain
V2.
I face a different challenge now
Mortgages, bills, and a furrowed brow
My wife don’t take our kids
I swear I’ll adjust to this
Bridge
You don’t get it, do you?
Should you?
Chorus
In the laneways of Melbourne I lost my mind
My heads spinning a moment frozen in time
I see your face and you bring me back
I give myself to you
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2. |
Haze
04:31
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V1
A painted face, a lonesome grace
I watch you stare into the face of the revolution
A toast to the façade, of a banker’s charm
That’s not to say you agree with their solution
Bridge
Don’t you smell the blood and the greed?
Doesn’t the thought bring you to your knees?
I’m ashamed of what is real
Is it that their logic has appeal?
Chorus
You should wait, we should hope, I should throw myself on to you
V2
A saintly glow, a corporate show
That’s not how we seek evolution
You raise your sign, like a relic of time
From your eyes I can see you’ve found resolution
Bridge
Don’t you smell the blood and the greed?
Doesn’t the thought bring you to your knees?
I’m ashamed of what is real
Is it that their logic has appeal?
Chorus
You should wait, we should hope, I should throw myself onto you
Middle 8
It was a crazy thing to do, to throw myself onto you
The thought of me challenging them right now is pushing me past the point of despair, of despair
Coda
It coddles you, cause it’s righteous and needy, it fills you up cause it’s righteous and needy, brings you down cause it’s righteous and needy
The haze survives
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3. |
Fox of Truth
04:18
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V1
Every day, I drive down the same damn road
Every time that fox stares at me, it’s a carcass I know
Chorus
Every time I drag myself down
You’ll be there to pull me back in
My oldest friend, I’m graceless and hollow
Graceless and hollow
V2
Every night, that fox is in my dreams
A road kill of truth, some immemorial goo
Chorus
Every time I drag myself down
You’ll be there to pull me back in
My oldest friend, I’m graceless and hollow
Graceless and hollow
(Instrumental break)
V3
A month later, it’s withered down, just skin and bones
Then the thud of tyres brings my wandering mind home
Chorus
Every time I drag myself down
You’ll be there to pull me back in
My oldest friend, I’m graceless and hollow
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V1
You sidle up and whisper not now
Wearing that expression that makes me wonder how
How can you see what I choose to ignore?
Especially those feelings I see as a bore
Bridge
Stamp on that low feeling, it takes me away from you
Get off that high horse, brings me nothing but misery
Get on that loving feeling now
Chorus
Let the rain wash away our sins
V2
Take a breath and swallow the fear
Let’s settle down and turn this ship around
Those stormy seas are getting so near
Bridge
Stamp on that low feeling, it takes me away from you
Get off that high horse, brings me nothing but misery
Get on that repentance journey now
Chorus
Let the rain wash away our sins
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Waiting for the Man
03:57
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V1
I’ll retreat to the solitude of nothing, an impetus of naked ambition
Cause I’m still waiting on the man
The politician stood in an empty room, with clarity of mind he spoke
My aspirations have changed nothing
Cause I’m still waiting on the man
V2
The drones fill my head with a strange song, of doubt and dread
Guess I’m waiting on the man
My anxiety and shame is a tangled web, of a hollowed notion
I’m still waiting on the man
I’m still waiting on the man
I’m still waiting on the man
I’m still waiting on the man
Bridge
Try as you might, you won’t escape
He’ll come up to you in the dead of night
Cold and sweat pour of your brow
Such is the terror of your traumatised ego
I’m still waiting on the man
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6. |
Beth
07:31
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V1.
Another day, another quiet day watching as you slip and fall
Foiled again, as I try and pull you out of the hole
But you never reached for my trembling hand, as it slowly withers into a pile of sand
V2.
Another change, another hopeless moment as I slowly blame my rising desperation
In the end, what were we apart from friends?
And I watch your face, cold and colourless; like those dolls of china, wishing, waiting that we could talk about it
Bridge
Spoke about it
Chorus
And I don’t want to hear you pray
And I don’t want to face today
And I wish I had your way
And I wish you were here to stay
V3
Another lie; another time to cover up the demons inside
Look at you, so big bold beautiful, and out of touch
What remorse, aren’t we happy now we know we lost?
Bridge
Know we lost
Chorus
And I don’t want to hear you pray
And I don’t want to face today
And I wish I had your way
And I wish you were here to stay
Coda
Sometimes, it don’t go the way you planned
Oh no, it just ends up breaking
And aren’t we the ones that should put it right?
Don’t walk out on me without a fight
You were the one to made me see the light
Now I’m nothing but blind sight
So give me some sympathy
A little hope, and empathy
Cause I’m lost without your dignity
So glad I can no longer see
‘Cause all it took was a forsaken look,
Smoke cigarettes and drink wine all day
Take love like its no right to me
Now I need you to be
Don’t say we’re too different to be right,
‘Cause anytime day or night, when you’re too alone to know how to fight,
I’ll be there; I’ll be there
So anytime I’ll come running, pick you up from the mess that you’ve made
I’ll be there; I’ll be there
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Rhys Tranter Newcastle, Australia
Just another musical nobody doing my own thing.
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