My best friend said to me "What are we gonna do with ourselves? Eighteen is no age to be locked on somebody's reference shelves" (chorus) So stand up for your rights Grab your baby and hold her tight If they don't love you, well it's OK We're all gonna die anyway My best friend said […]

Well I made good time but took some bad advice I got lost in the salt lakes maybe once or twice Days went missing, weeks they folded in two I lost track of them. I don't pine for you You're either on my arm or under my heel Hurt me all you can, you don't […]

Nothing happens here Nothing gets done But you get to like it You get to like the beating of the sun The washing of the sun In Spanish blue We sit on the footpath We drink all day The roads are in disrepair I don't know when they haven't been that way They've always been […]

I was sick and tired of my old friends Felt like they were dragging me down Felt like moving up to something bigger and faster Turning my back on that small town scene There was a place I knew I could go No-one would follow I let myself slip Into the snake pit All my […]

I lived in a story I didn’t believe I didn’t know how it ended But I always thought I could leave It took me a long time Took me through some strange turns But like a fool I sang along All down the song of no return Through the song of no return I sang […]

Is there someone watching over me Keeping me safe in His mighty hand? When I’m adrift, out alone Is He the one that guides me home Bird and beast at his command? I know true faith is left unspoken Strait and narrow is the way Though I’m barely coping Still I pray With one eye […]

Boys like him make love out of nothing very fast, Leaving people behind is what he does for a living, It pays handsomely but it doesn’t last, His fingers are limousines, his lips are hotels, He confuses you with some Dutch girl called Gabrielle, He swears you’re the core of his flame, But he’s mistaken […]

I'm setting you free Giving you change, giving you keys I'm setting you free Lifting you up, letting you see What you've become, what you could be You are all that I have But I'm setting you free You say you're a tough girl and who am I to doubt you You picked me up […]

No foreign pair of dark sunglasses will ever shield you from the light that pierces your eyelids, the screaming of the gulls feeding off the bodies of the fish thrashing up the bay till it was red turning the sky a cold dark colour as they circled overhead. He swam out to the edge of […]

Well it doesn't look much like we'll see the new year Cos all the bright young faces are here And I can't see us rising to their occasion any more No, not their Christmas cheer Time is against us, even love conspires to disgrace us And with things being what they are ... Yes and […]