Roadtrip
You flash your teeth at my face
I’m trying to stay fixated with my feel
Cruising slow, it’s not a road race
Trying to turn these salty wheels
You say we’re running out of time but we’re just running out of wine, oh woah
You say this car’s about to break down so let’s set up our camp now, oh woah
Cause I live on the edge, let’s skip this turnoff
And chase the sunset
Watch the amber wear off
Let’s try to get some sleep amongst the ocean breeze and the whistling trees
On the coastline I don’t mind if we’re caught
It’ll make for a story when we head back to work
You say we’re running out of time but we’re just running out of wine, oh woah
You say let’s be back by eleven but right here’s a slice of heaven, oh woah
Cause I live on the edge, let’s skip this turnoff
And chase the sunset
Watch the amber wear off
Cruising slow
And breathing out
It’s not a road race
It’s not a road race, yeah
Cause I live on the edge, let’s skip this turnoff
And chase the sunset
Watch the amber wear off
Cause I live on the edge, let’s skip this turnoff
And chase the sunset
Watch the amber wear off
Lip Addiction
How many have you had tonight
I’m running out of words to write
But what else can I do to save you
I saw you yesterday but I saw a stranger
Do you feel the same as I do
I run against the grain to surprise you
But what else can I say to persuade you
To give it another go but this time take it slow
You don’t run this town
And I can’t touch the ground
LSD is not for me but then again
I kiss your lips and all I taste is cinnamon
Do you feel it now, it’s a lip addiction
It’s a lip addiction
You made me lose my way
You made me question my sanity
But I can still hear your acid tongue
Spitting out flames and spitting out love
Spitting out words and spitting out blood
Spitting out all that we could ever want
I can still hear your acid tongue
Spitting out words and spitting out love
You don’t run this town
And I can’t touch the ground
LSD is not for me but then again
I kiss your lips and all I taste is cinnamon
Do you feel it now, it’s a lip addiction
A lip addiction
You don’t run this town
And I can’t touch the ground
LSD is not for me but then again
I kiss your lips and all I taste is cinnamon
Do you feel it now, a lip addiction
A lip addiction
A lip addiction
A lip addiction
A lip addiction
Sunbleached Girl
She wants less I want more
She wants peace I want war
As the mist fades over the Chevrolet
She wants him I want her
It's not my pot to stir
Pour a little sugar she knows
I've got a sweet tooth for her ways
I'm addicted to her gaze
One step closer to the sunbleached girl who gets undressed, when she wants
One step closer to the sunbleached girl who gets undressed, when she wants
La da da da dah da dah
La da da da dah yeah woah
La da da da dah da dah
La da da da dah yeah
As I lay back there
On my bamboo chair
And the shore break sings but brings her back in my head
She said she wants space but I just wanna see her face
Pour a little sugar she knows
I've got a sweet tooth for her ways
I'm addicted to her gaze oh yeah
One step closer to the sunbleached girl who gets undressed, when she wants
One step closer to the sunbleached girl who gets undressed, when she wants
One step closer to the sunbleached girl who gets undressed, when she wants
One step closer to the sunbleached girl who gets undressed, when she wants
La da da da dah da dah
La da da da dah yeah woah
La da da da dah da dah
La da da da dah yeah
Coconut
You say complication
I say fascination cause
It was all for us, still tastes like coconut now
And you say you've sobered up here
I say I'm still drunk off my own tears
Cause something tells me this is the last I'll hear of you
Why can't you see through the cellophane
Indulge my heart and take away the pain
Catch the salt and throw away the vinegar
See you in 12 months if you come back here
You say you've run out of patience
I say I'm still waiting for the cadence cause
You cracked me open like a coconut, girl
You started to twiddle your thumbs and I sung words I wouldn't want sung to me
Cause this ship has sailed why can't I bear to tell the tale
Why can't you see through the cellophane
Indulge my heart and take away the pain
Catch the salt and throw away the vinegar
See you in 12 months if you come back here
(If you come back here)
Why can't you see through the cellophane
Indulge my heart and take away the pain
Catch the salt and throw away the vinegar
See you in 12 months if you come back here
Oh no, if you come back here
Mmm, if you come back here
Loosen Up
Nothing less, nothing more
Just my fingers bruised and sore
Not a whisper but a snore
Curled up deep inside my pores
Picturesque but meaningless
The face of beauty with a wicked dress
Who am I to play fair
It’s a game to win so feed the bear
Sleeping free on a street unseen
Colour grade in a faded dream
Will there be a path out for you
Or is this a catch 22
You leave your life to chance
Loosen up and have a dance__
Do it like you do in your room
Dance__
Like no one’s watching you
Birds in flight, owls at night
Both nonchalant delights
You play the game but you’re hard to tame
You’ve got your gloves on but you can’t fight
Is it lust or a lost of trust
Pretty much sums up us
And when there’s nothing left to love
Find belief in wanderlust
Leading me on no reveal it seems
Will there be a path out for you
Or is this a catch 22
You leave your life to chance
Loosen up and have a dance
Do it like you do in your room
Dance, like no one’s watching you
You leave your life to chance
Do it like you do in your room
Like no one’s watching you
Loosen up and have a dance
Do it like you do in your room
Dance, like no one’s watching you
Dance, do it like you do in your room
Dance, like no one’s watching you
Headland
Sign here to say no
For fear and foe to grow
I forget all the words
To my favourite songs, cause I know
It's better just to bop along
And who will I meet
To sing songs when I'm 83
And still carve our names in the bark of the mango tree
Whose memories will I keep
In a shoebox under my sheets
Which headland will I land on
(ooh’s)
I'm self sufficient
But without a garden cause I
Am eating up my thoughts
I forget all the moves
And where to move my feet cause I know
Life choreographs me
And words are gonna let you down sometimes
So just taste the peach sky and they'll start to rhyme
Who will I meet
To sing songs when I'm 83
And still carve our names in the bark of the mango tree
Whose memories will I keep
In a shoebox under my sheets
Which headland will I land on
(ooh’s)
Who will I meet
To sing songs when I'm 83
And still carve our names in the bark of the mango tree
Whose memories will I keep
In a shoebox under my sheets
Which headland will I land on
Crack The Code
Mayhem tonight will bloom steadily as we take off like seeds into the breeze
Take your time casting memory lines, that’s what she’d say to us before we fell asleep
I get no consolation staring through constellations in your eyes
and then you Cracked the code
felt the warmth build like a raging storm you’d seen coming for years
Jaded to the sea always bearing down, continents conjoined in your rhythmless world
waving goodbye to the rail long gone as the gravy train runs, the gravy trains gone
We lay there that night thinking unsteadily, whether we’ll stand up or fade like dust in the breeze
Waiting for a train that’ll never leave up the memory line it’s a one way ride, that’s what she said to me
I get no consolation staring through constellations in your eyes
The sooner we’d lie about floating through the days of our lives and we felt between your new lines.
Then you cracked the code, felt the warmth build like a raging storm you’d seen coming for years
Jaded to the sea always bearing down, continents conjoined in your rhythmless world
waving goodbye to the rail long gone as the gravy train runs, the gravy trains gone
Time Wasted
You and all your friends looking at a U-bend taking those pills with no flavour
Maybe you’ll take your own advice for once
but man wait don’t you wake up now say you knew it all along say you knew where I was coming from
and can you say it now that you’re older than before, that Time was Wasted
Yeah look, it’s a hard line
self prescribed help without the tests or the human connect
to make our time burn best it’s a waste and a bloody mistake
so catch a wave be centre stage write yourself a real page
take a plane jump right out feel what the skies all about
what you could do without
but man wait don’t you wake up now say you knew it all along say you knew where I was coming from
and can you say it now that you’re older than before, that Time was Wasted
Back in Our Day
Back in our day, show after show just running, round this town circles of people tripping over themselves
and your always caught up in their talking and looking now
and now you see that those feelings are, the need to always be part
Bloodshot eyes I want you to see the skyline fade before we fall asleep
Good luck follows us down the beaten Backbeach road doing what we always should of
Screaming down the highway island to island chasing clear skies and waves
up and down miles of coastline far from the haze of real life
your always caught up in their talking and looking now and now you see that those feelings are the need to always be part of
Bloodshot eyes I want you to see the skyline fade before we fall asleep
Good luck follows us down the beaten Backbeach road doing what we always should of
Bloodshot eyes I want you to see the skyline fade before we fall asleep
Good luck follows us down the beaten Backbeach road doing what we always should of
Bloodshot eyes I want you to see the skyline fade before we fall asleep
Good luck follows us down the beaten Backbeach road doing what we always should of
The Pub
She’s always late to the pub, hair streaming down, the words were all there but I just can’t find them now
and the middle bands smoke on from dusk until dawn passing out in the corridor regrets coming up with the sun
and meanwhile we’re gone continuing the search while the winds fading offshore cause you know airday’s here
and the radio’s on the one night lovers are gone the melody’s peaking then the moments is gone
The melody the moment, the moment, is gone
The melody the moment, the moment, is gone
Lieing on the pier feeling the sun seer, blonding out the ends of your hair as you talk about your year
and the bonfire’s loaded everybody’s got their chair, the nights standing still as we scream how good is it to be here
and meanwhile we’re gone continuing the search while the winds fading offshore cause you know airday’s here
and the radio’s on the one night lovers are gone the melody’s peaking then the moments is gone
The melody the moment, the moment, is gone
The melody the moment, the moment, is gone
Blonde hair, Brown eyes what can I make you feel make you decide
white heat, brown skin, when I’m with you the worlds evaporating
no day could wander by, floating in the salt under this southern sky
where you don’t wake up with half the day gone and the world turning by your side
The melody the moment, the moment, is gone
The melody the moment, the moment, is gone
Stolen
It’s like the wild west in our backyard
while they were smiling holding hands you caught them off guard
watch them sing slow their spirits charred
now they drain the blood and oil from their backyard
He was 21 and he’d never seen the wide open skies near alice springs
she was 17 and didn’t know if her mother was alive or gone
and I watched you walk home that summers eve
and you could see the dust storms turn from the end of our street
Only time will protest the meaning of their ancient place as the modern age is dreaming of
a way to take the words that are leaking out of the mouths of the people that are speaking out
she was 35 and didn’t know there was a problem at all
and I watched you walk home that summers eve
and you could see the dust storms turn from the end of our street
and I watched a generation burn like it was on TV
and you are giving them their peace as the sun turns red and this plane flies east
and I watched you walk home that summers eve
and you could see the dust storms turn from the end of our street