I can hear the timer ringing I can hear the whistle blow I can hear the customers, they're saying "Yes, it's time to go home" Everything has been delivered Everyone has called it a day There's the doorman checking in his pocket for his weekly pay And from this window, I can see the street […]

In this time of weakness you may have to hold me You may have to tell me little things that just aren’t true Say “Come to bed now honey”. Say “Everything’s alright I won’t let nothing out there get you this or any other night” Though you may not beat it when you squeeze my […]

I have to yodel, I have to moan Loss of heart and hearth and home Petrol stolen from my car Money missing from my kitchen jar Suspect my neighbour I search his house Follow his every movement about Even spying on his kin Taking note of every place he’s been Photograph of every place he’s […]

It drains the blood from your veins And the colour from your cheeks The summer from your eyes And the days from your weeks Everyone needs something if they're gonna survive This one needs a soul just to keep it alive In the moment at hand In the shrapnel and the dirt Vows are exchanged […]

This boy is in a mess This boy is in a mess (this boy is in a mess) All his clothes are on the floor His excuses out the door Get outside boy Get in the sun Take some air boy Take a run Say hello to your old girlfriend You’ve not seen her since […]

I knew him as a gentle young man I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline We watched him fade before our very eyes And years before his time Surrounded himsef with shiny things First night tickets, ermine, pearls upon a string And disappeared in all the pestilence That sudden pleasure brings He […]

I packed my bag Left a note on the fridge And I drove off the end of the Tarrilup Bridge. Now you read about me in the papers They say I'm going to be a big star They're making a movie about my life And you're going to play the starring part Now my drinking […]

Driver let me tell you a secret A secret in the shape of a song Heard something move in the dark outside I lay awake hardly breathing shaking all night long It came out of the southern sky It drove into our humble town We lay our hands upon its side My sister she laid […]

by the time you reach Vaughn avenue the sun is quietly bleeding the day is just a shadow of its former self shake the rain off take the stairs put the key into the lock remove your coat plug in electric fire winter came so early jesus what happened to the summer? the papers all […]

There's someone standing in the rain like they have no place to go Maybe that someone is you, maybe someone you don't aim to know Maybe lost possessions Maybe stolen property You just lie around waiting on a signal from heaven Never had to heal any deep incision Darling you are not moving any mountains […]