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Head On Rong
03:06
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I can't, finish this song
Maybe it's because my head's on wrong
Maybe it's because my head's on wrong
that I can't, finish this song
Y o u Don't Belong!
Seems to me you got your head on wrong
seems to me you got your head on wrong
you... don't belong
I'm walking.. down the street
don't stop and stare
got my... head on wrong
and I just don't care
be part of the throng
where you won't stand out, with your head on wrong
where you won't stand out with your head on wrong
BE part of the throng
don't know, how long
can't think straight with my head on wrong
can't think straight with my head on wrong
don't know, how long
I'm walking.. down the street
don't STOP and stare
got my, head on wrong
I just don't care...
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2. |
Pull The Plug
04:06
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I always wanted to write, the ultimate song
to get me in the winners pen, where I belong
I always wanted to be the guy who he
wrote what others read and thought to themselves that's me
A beatnick charm that declines with every passing year
the dot gets smaller on the map that says you are here
All the time I'm drinking more and thinking less
when my achievements so far are caught up in an awful mess
There's a pulse here that sometimes comes and goes
I can feel the breath of people dead from so long ago
I've waded thru the shit that makes up so many lives
so many dreams but it's just the shit that they leave behind
you can always say it won't get me
but you know that's the way it'll always be
you start your life with ticker tape parades
but always ends in fallen plaster dust, lies & charades
<break>
why does it always end in tears and shouting and regrets
all life is suffering and the suffering hasn't ended yet
I suppose it could be easier just to end it all now
but with so many ways to do it you haven't worked out how
There's time and thinking things might just pick up
there's just too much doubt involved in just giving up
I wish I could wipe the bloodstains off my bloodied hands
I keep on washing and wiping but the world doesn't understand
There's a rage that wants to bruise and break the skin
there's an anger that wants to burn, now hidden within
You can be immortal if you only live on TV
eternal youth and eternal reruns is the place to be
nobody loves you when you're thirty, your age won't allow
You don't, you can't, you won't end it all now
take what you keep down so you can end all the lies
now we pull the plug and then the picture dies
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3. |
What People Think
04:18
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How many more lives will you ruin
how many more lies will you tell
How much will it take for you
to sign away the secrets you have to sell
You can't even trust yourselves
you ruin all that you see
it may be what people think
but it's still means nothing to me
It's all nothing but malice
it all just seems like a game
it's gone too far to stop now
you have no sense of shame
let's revive the salem witch trials
let's have a kangaroo court
it may be what people really want
but it's nothing I even bought
I never believed in mob rule
and that justice is might
I'm now an outcast in my own country
an outsider in my own right
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Neutralise
04:19
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Three miles down where battle psychosis
smells sweeter than summer
blood on my lips tastes like wine
I know I never thought
things are getting down and dirty
like living in the same backyard
I'm saying and doing things
I know I never ought
if I ever lost my sense of timing
I'd be a dead man after all
neutralise the modern credo
say it you can't see the blood
wiping my life on the back of my hand
maybe I'm going too fast
There's a feeling in here
smells like something died
moving like ghosts through the dust of my life
something seems distant,
something is lost, thinking it through
maybe something got fried
CH
<break>
Do we have an understanding?
I have things you have an interest in
Let's not waste too much time
talking tiny, tiny amounts
you want information
I want a good account
we can do a deal
that's all that counts
CH
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5. |
No Light Escapes
05:25
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B5
This is what we are
and the way it's going to be
E5
if you want compromise
then don't come to me
I live like this cos I like it,
I've seen too much to pretend
Let's sit here together
and wait for the end
G5
I'll get a message to you, no matter what it takes
Gb5 F5 BACK TO B5
cos I'm sitting in a room where no light escapes
While we're talking shelf life,
let's see your God
What's he got to do with,
life and love and jobs
I rely on nothing
to help me stay alive
That's why there's no real reason
I've managed to survive
Too much water's flowed
under the bridge
There's no going back
no matter what you wish
Maybe you've changed your mind
but mine still stays the same
It's a miracle that after so long
you still know my name
I think back to being happy
and it seems like someone else
someone less preoccupied
and wrapped up in themselves
If there's some hidden meaning
it's all lost on me
I used to be top dog but
now just one of three
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Pictures of Skin
04:02
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I bet you thought things couldn't get much worse
I bet you thought you'd hurt enough
Bet you'd thought we'd forgotten all about you
Bet you thought things got too rough
I'm looking at you, through pictures of skin
Nothing can get me out of the trouble I'm in
I'm out in the street wearing nothing at all
I'm rubbing my eyes and worked is so small
I've no sense of proportion and no sense of shame
I'm just shrunken and shirivelled and stuck in the rain
I'm looking at you, through pictures of skin
Nothing can get me out of the trouble I'm in
The empty bottle rolls onto the floor
It joins the dead soldiers, there's room for one more
Come, crack open, open another, let's have some more beer
I've seen what tomorrow holds, we might as well stay here
I'm looking at you, through pictures of skin
Nothing can get me out of the trouble I'm in
Give me three hours and I'll show you the world
Or at least what's important to the boys and the girls
the lies and corruption if you've got the time
If you've 10 minutes I'll broaden your mind
I'm looking at you, through pictures of skin
Nothing can get me out of the trouble I'm in
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7. |
Fly In Amber
03:13
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A5 F5 G5 D5
Feeling trapped like a fly in amber
this isn't the future you sought
tied to the floor, try to run but the rope gets shorter
regardless of whoever you've bought
The old men sing songs brought back from the war
trying to keep the reader at bay
but there's one old man at the end of the bar
who's drinking his darkness away
I've spend a liftime staring into the abyss
with nothing staring me into space
millions of miles of nothing at all
and all my dreams boiled off into space
I don't want anyone misquoting my words
twisting them round to change what they mean
thought I'll die a prophet without honour
that's somewhere I've already been
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What People Want
02:12
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I've never been too heroic
that never appealled to me
but if it's what people really fear
then it sounds pretty good to me
<when you see...>
When you see the remains of your victims
will you still sleep at night
but you're all ok and popular
so that makes it all right
<you're standin...>
You're standing in a wasteland
mistrusted and unknown
but if that's what people really want
I'd rather they left me alone
<I've never...>
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metal postcard records Sydney, Australia
Metal Postcard Records is an independent record label based back in Sydney and influenced by the likes of Fast Records /
Factory / Postcard / Island / Stiff and Bill Drummund's wonderful Zoo records
We believe in new music from around the world ... not world music !
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