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The Pheasantry

by The Pheasantry

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1.
Bigger Love. 04:33
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
2.
Beehive 04:20
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
3.
Deer Country 02:58
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
4.
Forty Cars 04:05
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
5.
Let Me In 03:52
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.
6.
Black Ice 02:15
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.
7.
True North 03:43
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
8.
Lily 04:54
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
9.
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
10.
Simon 03:37
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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New release March 2017

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released March 26, 2017

Recorded by Matt Campbell from October 2015 to July 2016 at various locations around Melbourne. Australia.
Mixed at Rimfire Studios, Australia.
Mastered at CrystalMastering by Joseph Carra.
Artwork by The Pheasantry and Dennis Miller.
Photographs by Laura Grogan. lauramaygrogan@gmail.com

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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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