1. |
Bigger Love.
04:33
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Well I've always had guts enough
To take on what was dealt
But this is big and it's strong
And it's shakin' my bones
With both fear and love
And you've been creepin' up on me
No I wasn't ready
But now that I've turned around
And lookin' at your eyes
We gotta work it out
I remember
i wonder if you do
I bet ya don't but I won't
Forget the way you knew
You needed me
Days are they flyin'
A mix of smiles and sad
You put my head in my hands
Then you smiled at the right time
You just smiled at the right time
I can't promise everything
But what I do comes with love
What I give to you comes with love
Wherever this goes
Right now who knows?
But if we think when it's tough
It's got a chance to turn
into bigger love
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2. |
Beehive
04:20
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Was a third hand rumour on a landline
in a corner telephone box
You gotta see this band , I'm tellin' ya man
It'so good let's get goin'
A public bar band in Melbourne town
Was never too hard to find
But all new to me and it gave me a thirst
For that once a week local and live
Was just like a beehive
Trains and trams would take so long
Three sets of tunes was never enough
So we'd roll up our thoughts
and fall in the dark
And run through the city to find
the last song
But it was never enough
No it was never enough
Catch you on the Sandringham line
7:55 express
A pot and a joke at The Corner at 8
Always just enough time
Loud speakers sat on the tables
The band just stood on the floor
I remember the smell & the taste of the beer
Was underage & willin"
Country electric slide guitar
To Waits and Young and their own
First set slow to me and one man
And the last to a hundred or more
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3. |
Deer Country
02:58
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How do you sleep
when you lay down in bed
while you're runnin' round
wicked and wrong
Look at the eyes poppin' outta your head
Just like a deer being hunted at dawn
Slowly, slowly, wears you down so slowly
Slowly, slowly, it's un ravellin'
it comes around and it will come around
And hunt you down like a deer at dawn
Good intentions got up and gone
Couldn't turn temptation down
Clear as day and dark as night
You're gonna get what's coming around
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4. |
Forty Cars
04:05
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Forty cars right here in front of me
And I don't care where I need to be
It doesn't matter it doesn't matter
Every day it's all so easy
Why is it so goddamn easy
Every day it's all so easy
Why is it so goddamn easy
Try to make it breakin even
By only taking just a little
It doesn't matter it doesn't matter
All of my business just
sailed over the ocean
Where's the little that was in front of me
It doesn't matter it doesn't matter
Just when I was thinkin it
couldn't get any better
You drop another couple of
good time bombs on me
Here it comes here it comes
And there's my lover, or she was today
But it's tomorrow so that's is over
It doesn't matter it doesn't matter
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5. |
Let Me In
03:52
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Well now I am a poor man and all of my life
I've walked this earth in rags
I don't ask for much I'm content
with just a little
And I've tried not to sin Lord I've tried.
So let me into your paradise
let me in I've been told it's so nice
Let me in I can change my ways
Let me in oh Lord let me in
My parents lost in this bloody war
My children run for their lives
My woman's gone with another man
Still I've tried not to sin Lord I've tried
My time has come I can take no more
Of this troubled life
Please let me in to a better place
For I've tried not to sin lord I've tried.
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6. |
Black Ice
02:15
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Roll em' up it's another day
Where to start with no time to think
All the little bits
have got to go together big
The work shop is busted
and there's no time to say
Pushin' pushin
All push to get over the rise
Pushin' pushin
All push to get over the rise
It's just like that Black Ice
It's hard to tell which way to win
Slip and slide and scratch for your grip
It's up and over is the only way yeah.
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7. |
True North
03:43
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I'm what you' call a misdirection
I'm just havin me a ball
But true north comes with your discretion
My line is straighter after all
Shifting sand beside the water
Shifting sand before the breeze
But solid rock stands against the weather
Keeps me on my feet not on my knees
Hey when your head is in the sky
Sometimes it takes someone
to look you in the eye
When life's reality is just too hard to do
May the time and tide bring me
safely home to you
Oceans swirling in the winter
Seas so rough we can't get through
But your hand rests upon the tiller
Sun is warm and skies are blue
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8. |
Lily
04:54
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With a wink of her eye and that chardonnay smile
She said "boy do you wanna come dance a while?"
it was then that I thought that her grip on my heart
Would be stronger than everI'd known
Well her hair it was black like the coal from the ground and her eyes held me captive
My love I had found but if I was aware of the trouble I'd bear
I'd have turned around
and walked on alone
Ah Lily I was captive
Lily when you coming home
Lily don;t leave me here all alone
Our love it was fair, our love it was kind
our love was something most people don't find
It was something that tugged on the
mesh of our souls
It was something to never grow cold
Now I'd heard of those women,
of those ladies of the night
But I couldn't have dreamed that my Lily
She might
Please the men of that town
with her hair flowin' down on her shoulder
So bare and so bold
Ned Cutter that scoundrel that brute salty rogue
Has a passion for Lily or so I'm told
But passion turned sour in my love's darkest hour
And he cut her down dead as stone
I ponder our lives better times that we had
Standin' here at this cold marble slab
With a slash at her throat where her life had poured out
My love she will never come home
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9. |
Bad News Blues
04:12
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I thought our party was over
That our race had been run
Our record was broken
A straight line into the sun
I heard you'd left the county
You climbed aboard the last train
Left me smokin and ruined
I breathed a curse on your name
Tired tongues of twisting
Every word you claimed
Two riders left drifting
On a dried out dusty plain
A good friend just down the track
Imparted the sad news
You'd shot me in the back
With bad news blues
Travels with your name
Bad news blues
Go back where you came
Now every line you polish
Reflects a lie upon lie
Every starry eyed story
Stands to watch the truth die
My memory serves me correctly
Behind vanilla smiles
That polish infects me
Your hearts been cheatin all the while
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10. |
Simon
03:37
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I was a kid on five acres
Eastern side of the bay
No trees or fences
Summer Grass into hay
I caught the train to high school
It was the highlight of my day
I was always looking to do wrong
Always trying to slip away
There's too much of me here
To ever leave behind
I like to drive on country road
But I love my city life
Old enough I lived in Richmond
Was always drinkin' drunk
I burned my first house to the ground
I couldn't believe I got my bond back
I like to ride in a taxi
Up that Punt Road hill
Six o'clock in the mornin'
I've always had my fill
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The Pheasantry Melbourne, Australia
Spanning over 26 years , 6 albums , countless - pubs , clubs bars and lost weekends, The Pheasantry have earned
themselves a reputation for their rootsy Folk rock that has a distinctive Melburnian larrikin attitude .
The fella’s lived-in-tales’ explore life, love, hard knocks and the often funny side of the indefatigable human spirit.
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