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Trickle Time Away: Verse1: Please be humble for the time it takes to make a change Banished on a stormy day, trickle time away, trickle time away Verse2: I am bestowed with things of principal I cannot even recognize The truth is held within the lies, trickle time away, trickle my time away And all the old man has got to say to me Don’t you burn your life in front of me Trickle your time away, trickle time away Chorus: I feel the air making a change, I feel the air breaking away, to some things I am blind. Trickle my time away, trickle my time away Verse3: And I see you now more beautiful than you’ve ever been Yeah, it’s just another thing, to trickle my time away. And all the old man has got to say to me Cloaked in the violent verse of tragedy Don’t trickle your time away, don’t trickle your time away Living with a Dead Man: Verse1: Dirt on my face, wind in my hair, second-guess my sobriety Ain’t no rhyme or reason, -----for the change of season Mesh my thoughts see if I care, my heart lies impotent, elsewhere For no reason, ----------it’s the change of season. Chorus1: Living with a dead man ain’t no fun, Reasons for believin’, I’m gonna get me some. Bridge: Got my footsteps ready to go. Verse2: Turkey slap my mind back to where it began, prophecies and indices Of emotional treason, -------it’s a change of season The promise of the physical, come on and roll the dice, truth or dare I see my friend you are leavin’, ----------for the change of season. Chorus2: Living with a dead man ain’t no fun, Come one come all, (hey)---I ain’t stopping for no one Verse3: Ridiculous the homage, by the firelight I pay, come sit by me, It just society feedin’---- on the change of season Terminate the crisis, dance amongst the stars, I miss your smile, And all the while I am bleedin’ for the change of season. Words: Verse1: Long I have found words (can) let me down I don’t want to go there Poets, priests and the friendships I seek, I feel the loss of a lover that was never mine to keep So --- I don’t want to go there You said that you wanted to come, X2 But I don’t want to go there Chorus: Can’t you hear me cry in the morning? Wipe my eyes I can see the mess I was born in I don’t want to go there Verse2: Signs make me weak, guns and lovers, take the time to make your peace ----But I don’t want to go there So this is goodbye and the end of it all, The raven gets the wounded and I still wear the fall. Still---- I don’t want to go there You said that you wanted to come, X2 But I don’t want to go there Chorus: Verse3: Superstitions, lies and facts lets get together right now and over-react So----- I don’t want to go there Cupid send the clowns ---one by one, make us giggle as children, nothing’s moving. So----- I don’t want to go there You said that you wanted to come, X2 But I don’t want to go there Chorus: Just Simple Conversation: Verse1: There’s only one woman, wholesome and true, it’s just simple conversation I need to have with you but you walk away, Hmmmmmm, you walk away. Bridge: I can’t stand it no longer, you don’t come around, You got the moves, you don’t come around You just walk away, Hmmmmmm, walk away. Verse2: It’s that look of indecision I will never forget And my eyes they linger longer than is politically correct I must practice civil obedience, and keep it to my self. Bridge: Chorus1: And your gonna make me stay -----------on my own, Your gonna make me all alone, -------I don’t wanna stay alone. Verse3: There’s only one woman who can do this to me, notarize my diatribes and I cannot reveal my list of vulnerabilities that guides the flight of my hand. -----I get the gist of it, I see you just like a wrecking ball, crashing through my walls. Bridge: Chorus2: And I want you now more than------------I can say And I want you now more everyday, everyday; I want you in every way----------- Verse4: Forbidden fruit comes calling, out of the blue I seal your hand to mine anytime, just something I have to do While people stay idle, words are often cheap; I see integrity in action and fruit upon the street, as you walk away, Hmmmmmm, as you walk away. Bridge: Outro: There’s only one woman, wholesome and true, just simple conversation I need to have with you but you walk away, Hmmmmmm, but you walk away, x 3 Surely gets me: Verse1: I can lay you down make you pray for the one who takes you Look to the sky every night, for the ceiling to break through Sleeping is what I do all day, charges my batteries push you away Time won’t take away the face of whispers replaced Surely gets me every time Verse2: Retire the pain, retire the friendship, retire the things I have no meaning for I work beyond the call and lay down my arms in rested anger. I have spent all my life running in circles twice, gives no end to me I get the same old same old re-run TV, gives no end. Surely gets me every time Verse3: I’m gonna bite the leg of a rabid dog, rattle his chain twist his bones till he see’s it my way Oh can you bring to me, something you can say to me. I have spent all my life running in circles twice, gives no end to me I get the same old same old re-run TV, gives no end. Surely gets me every time. Surely gets me every time. Man In the Water: Verse1: There’s a man in the water, digging for gold, but his shovels to heavy, to carry on his own I cannot help you now The man in the water carries the fate and the fear. Repudiate the distance formed through out the years. I cannot help you now Bridge: So I walk on by the water, put my face in my hands-------. Chorus: It’s too damn hard, not to give away all the things I ever had It’s too damn easy to follow rhetoric words, and stick my head in the sand. When a woman cries it’s always bad, cry the tears of a lonely man Verse2: There’s a man in the water, carrying the load, but the gold is to heavy, to carry on is own. The man in the water carries the fate and the fear. Disparity of consequence, formed through out the years,------- I cannot help you now Bridge: Chorus: Verse3: Just be a man in the water, just be a man in the water, Just be a man in the water, innocent at play, man in the water, leave it well that way. Bridge: Chorus Bridge: Little Piece of Winter: Verse1: Got a little piece of winter in my hand, born to the storm, snowflakes on demand Will you stay till the end? The stench of other lovers make you weep Wham bam thank-you man; back out on the street, Will you stay till the end? Bridge: I can see the romance bleeding through your eyes and it sucks me to the floor And in the midst of it you never compromise and it steals my heart for sure. Verse2: You seem a lot like Jesus when you pray, balls to the floor, subtle in dismay. Will you stay till the end? Purse your regal lips, ------people stop to listen. They don’t understand -----your just pissing in the wind Will you stay till the end? When you walk on water, do your feet stay dry? I’m just a body in a bed for you, and you wonder why. (I don’t think so) Verse3: When a little piece of sunshine breaks the clouds, it’s the dawning of a warning coming on sooooooo ----loud Will you stay till the end? Sun within my hand melts the snow Soliloquy of make-believe, take it as you go Will you stay till the end? I can see you slinking, as time loses frame. Must be all that drinking, hey what’s your name. Bridge: Will you stay till the end? Will you stay till the end? Outro: Will you stay, will you stay------ till the end Hong Kong Steam: Verse1: Waiting on a Hong Kong Steamer, pack my bags ---taking my tuxedo, A little inspiration, --here we go Get me some steam. Bottle of Baileys for my midnight snack, Asian moon, snap that cap, here we go Get me some steam Don’t need no money--- no ‘pay my way’ ticket, Hit the ground running, save me just a little bit. of---- Hong Kong Steam Verse2: Won’t tell ‘em when, won’t ’em where I been Drinking on a steamer with a Hong Kong queen Here we go again! Taking all the stories from that------ wine. Feel a little lousy feel a little low, Hong Kong Steam show me, whoa no! Here we go again! Get me some steam. Verse3: Little by little in Hong Kong harbor, wayward junk go on steam a little faster My fair-weather fr----iend----s here we go again. Don’t need no money--- no ‘pay my way’ ticket, Hit the ground running, save me just a little bit. of---- Hong Kong Steam Bridge: Do you come to taunt me, do you come to make your play –on my day. Verse4: Dive in dirty, dive in--- I scream, Hong Kong queen, clean me up again, here we go my friend, I can make you a story from that time. Don’t need no money--- no ‘pay my way’ ticket, Hit the ground running, save me just a little bit. of---- Hong Kong Steam Outro: Hong Kong Steam, make you live a little, makes you live a little. Fly Away: (AKA Experiment in Writing): You can fly away with my time, won’t you fly away with my time What I got to say to you---- been weighing on my mind Bridge:1 People say it’s just a party But I can feel the seeds of something starting You go your way and I’ll go mine. Verse2: What you bring me, subtle and sublime -----the aroma of reason Every time you pass ---me by You can have all the things I’ve sent you, you may not know it but they’re all just meant to help you,--- You go your way and I’ll go mine. Verse3: What you bring me, a body for my time And roses, picked before the prime You sign with circles and crosses, infused with lines long forgotten. You go your way and I’ll go mine. Bridge:2 All that I am is here in front of you, all that I’ll be is right beside you All I have to give you, I give you, now, -------- Verse4: You’re the one thing I could never find, I have been Down on my knees, howling at the moon, screamin’ and cryin’ But you come packaged with wishes; infused with things I’ve been missing You go your way and I’ll go mine.------- Verse5: You’re so soft, and I’m so rough You get to fly away when enough is enough But you come packaged with whishes; infused with things I’ve been missing You go your way and I’ll go mine. ------- Intro: Sydney Suburban Taxi Ride: Verse1: C Kids are playing footy, someone’s playing guitar, Mel’s upstairs watching TV, dogs barking in the yard and, You can share my secret, on my Sydney suburban taxi ride I have been summoned to serve; I have been summoned to enact these words. And I’m sure it’s going to try me, on my Sydney suburban taxi ride Chorus: Didn’t know it till the rain came, I didn’t know it till the rain came, I can see it all, (1) mirror, mirror on the wall (2) photographs on a memory’s wall (3) photographs through the urban sprawl Verse2: A final conversation, taste the cognac at the bar, A toast is made with dribbling siblings, life can be hard. You can share my secret on my Sydney suburban taxi ride I won’t pray for you,----- no need to pray when you know it to be true. You can rest awhile among the flowers and the gums on my Sydney suburban taxi ride. Chorus: Verse3: Driver says son you got to pay me for the talking, Bridge or tunnel don’t give me trouble, tell your story walking. You can share my secret, on my Sydney suburban taxi ride. Kids are playing footy, someone’s playing guitar, Mel’s upstairs watching TV, dogs barking in the yard, The world moves on, and that’s the way it was on my Sydney suburban taxi ride. Chorus Standing Ovation: Verse1: ( Walk on by the ocean; take the gun out of my shoes Walk on by the water, got nothing left to loose And I can dream, dream----- of a better land Give myself a standing ovation; cause no one else gives a damn. Verse2: People come on lightly, people come on so strange All the advice they give including all the blame And I can dream, dream----- of a better land Give myself a standing ovation; cause no one else gives a damn. Bridge: I can walk and walk, but not find my way You can talk the talk, but it never really matters what you say. To meeeeeeeeee------------- Verse3: My girl says hey I want you but I can’t see you any more Well hell honey I’ll get over it, I’ve heard it all before In my dreams, dreams----- of a better land Give myself a standing ovation cause no one else gives a damn. Verse4: Johnny come on lightly Johnny come on slow Johnny you’ll get over it, you got nowhere else to go But your dreams, dreams----- of a better land Give myself a standing ovation cause no one else gives a damn. When the Thunder comes: Verse1: (Reggae style rhythm) When the thunder comes, right around here And my body shakes, to dissipate the fear Working in the day time making money Working in the daytime making my way Working the day-(Bb note)--------------right around here-------and I got Chorus: Trouble, trouble I can't see--------and I got Trouble, raining down on me. The more I get trouble the more of a mess it makes of me Verse2: When the lightning strikes, right around here Comes with a bang and a flash and a mighty big thump And I can spend my nights, downing shooters just to get drunk Gives me trouble Chorus: Verse3: When the morning comes, and the sun buns my face where I stand, I’m feeling numb,--- perplexed, settled and grand. I can make my way----- To the road that leads me home------ gives me trouble. Chorus: and outro.