All Mouth No Trousers

Reverberation REV020. Released 5th September 2005.

We recorded the album over 4 main recording session [and a lot of random days spent mixing] with Bryce Moorhead at Zero Interference in Brisbane.

These took place between October 2004 and July 2005. We also recorded two songs, Trouble and Boys and Girls, with Magoo, at Black Box [Brisbane] in March 2005.

We mastered the album with William Bowden in his back garden in Stanmore. The words were all written by Tim and the music was all by Tim and Dean.

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Tim and Deans’ 2 piece band’s debut album from 2005.

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OH
It gets hard when there’s too much to know / I coulda given up a long time ago / I put my feelings on pause for a second and I don’t say a word while you speak then I can only say Oh / I didn’t know it was criminal / I can’t remember everything that I’ve ever done / Oh / I’m not trying to be minimal but now I feel I’m looking down the barrel of a gun / there are things you’d like me to forget / I was someone else before we met / if I was to deny them for a second I would turn forget into forgot / I would turn an e to an o / and you can’t do a puzzle with half the pieces missing and half of them fake / oh / and it’s gonna spell trouble when the picture that you’re looking at is all a mistake / cos it’s a hard question / I know / you’re coming on like a wrecking ball though / you say you care well it don’t show / I just called to say h e l l o / cos it’s a hard question / I know / you’re coming on like a wrecking ball though / you say you care well it don’t show / you say yeah but did you really mean no? / cos it’s a hard question / I know / you’re coming on like a wrecking ball though / you say you care but I can’t tell / I just called to say h e l l o

HONEY I AIN’T MADE OF MONEY
If I had money in my bank account I’d buy you a new pair of shoes / you can spend any amount on whatever you choose / but for now I’d better keep count ain’t got ten dollars to lose / but with a little good luck and a cash discount we can get ten dollars of blues / I would tell you different if it wasn’t true / I would laugh if it were funny / but I’m the one who’s always gotta tell you the news / honey I ain’t made of money / if I had cash and I weren’t in debt I wouldn’t put it in the bank / I wouldn’t act flash or try to get higher up the social rank / tell our friends in the horsey set I don’t feel too swank / putting a deposit on a cigarette and a bottle of sauvignon blanc / blanc blank / I would tell you different if it wasn’t true / I’d laugh if it were funny / but I’m the one to tell you the news / honey I ain’t made of money / jet set roulette television set / I ain’t there yet, no I haven’t even left the house yet / I said honey don’t be upset don’t let your eyes get wet just yet / cos I ain’t going far with the vcr cos the movie of my life is on a dvd-r / we will skip through most of it to get to the best bits / a few good lines but forget about the rest of it

TROUBLE
Join the army if ya trust yourself to be a soldier / fight for what you feel you must but not for what they told ya / but don’t pick up a gun if you don’t know what it’s for / and don’t fight in anyone else’s war / get out of your uniform if you want destruction / get on the microphone / make your introduction / don’t pick up a gun if you don’t know or you’re not sure / when to put it down again or you’ll start a war / there’s trouble / you started it / look what you done / I ain’t got my heart in it / ain’t got a gun / there’s trouble / you star in it / dropping your bombs / take out the world with a guitar and a drum / get your finger off the trigger if it’s time for violence / get on the kit / join the bigger struggle against silence / don’t play with a guns / play me a chord / it’s more fun than starting a war

SLUMMING
I went down to 610 I wanted to see a band / I took in 2 drinks I’ve only got one pair of hands / came outside at midnight / the crowd was 20 deep / it was like ann st was overrun with sheep / they all looked the same but it’s only cosmetic / I felt ashamed / I could relate to the aesthetic / appropriating culture is like picking flowers / but is a vulture what it devours? / I know when the milk runs black a bad rain’s gonna fall / down here quite literally the writing’s on the wall / I went round the corner / there’s no room to move / the valley’s full of fucking wankers with something to prove / I’ll stand back and watch the changing of the guard / I wish you the best and I send you my regards / but passing on the baton never should be very hard / I’ll stand up and watch rebellion take its course / tearing up the rule book never gave me much remorse / thumbing through the phone book looking for the stores to buy it / warming up your cheque book for when you can afford to try it / I don’t know much about fashion as a rule / we get around like we just got home from school / but I know a bad shirt and I know bad hair / is it such a crime being told what to wear? / is it the postmodern way / everything comes around? / ripping off the most superficial bits of the underground / down in the disco the sheep are wearing black / you can have it / I don’t want it back / I’ll stand back and watch the changing of the guard / I wish you the best and I send you my regards / but passing on the baton never should be very hard / I’ll stand up to watch rebellion take its course / tearing up the rule book never gave me much remorse / thumbing through the phone book looking for the stores to buy it / don’t put the same old saddle on the horse / pissing on the past won’t get you round the course / it’s only implied / you’re never gonna have to live by it / it’s only implied / you’ll never have to deny it

UNEDUCATED GUESS
Are you gonna come and have your dinner now or just let it go cold? / are you gonna surrender yourself unto the television’s hold? / are you gonna do as you are told? / sit there till you are very very old / I don’t know but since you mention it that’s the first time I’ve thought to question it / I’m not interested in questioning / I’m just into sitting and listening / don’t want to have to mess about / don’t wanna make an uneducated guess about / don’t wanna get up and get dressed and go out / because I couldn’t really care any less about / are you going to pay for what you’ve stolen or put it in your pocket and run? / are you going to buy what you’re being sold or will you just try to have some fun? / I can’t tell if it’s already begun / but if it has I would also like some

CHORUS GHETTO
Tomorrow I will not be here any more / you wanted me home early I didn’t come home at all / tomorrow I’m gonna get on a plane and not come back / I don’t need to even come home to pack / and I feel I should belong in this boring part of town / but I know I don’t belong / oh yeah / I’m doing something that doesn’t feel quite right / but that’s only because it doesn’t really feel very wrong / oh yeah / monday I decided it would be best if I left / and on tuesday I felt just the same as that / wednesday I felt a little unsure and thursday I was even more unsure so I came back / friday and saturday I was so confused like why did I leave only to return? / on sunday I realised that you just gotta go round and round in a circle if it’s the only way you’re gonna learn / and I feel I should belong in this boring part of town / but I know I don’t belong / oh yeah / I’m doing something that doesn’t feel quite right / but that’s only because it doesn’t really feel very wrong / oh yeah / and though I feel I don’t belong in the places I come from / there’s good and bad things everywhere / oh yeah / and it’s confusing to think about me losing my sense of self if I wasn’t there / oh yeah / I was not lost but I knew not the way / I was not lost but I knew not the way / there is a cost that I will have to pay / and there is not a lot more to say

BOYS AND GIRLS
How long will it take you to work out you’re not the only person in the world? / it’s a big planet and there’s lots of other boys and girls / but the illusion has been put in place so well / don’t introduce me to your world we already know each other / when it lets you down like it did me you will discover / life ain’t like the telly or the magazine cover / don’t be sad to throw your world away when you are through with it / I would give you my one but you wouldn’t know what to do with it / you’ve got a big mouth and you want something to chew with it

WHERE WAS I?
I’m not involved with too many of the people I spent my early 20s or my youth hanging ’round / I don’t know where they all are but I know where the ones that matter are and they know where I can be found / it doesn’t matter if you remember wrong / there aren’t many things that last very long / I can’t pretend that I can explain how but I know that’s where I was before I was where I am now / I’m getting lazy with the details of my conception I’ve often been told of the occasion / dry leaves was dreamy and summer was setting the light mixed with smoke made me feel like forgetting / it doesn’t matter if you negate the question / the question is only have I learned my lesson? / I can’t pretend that I can explain how but I know that’s where I was before I was where I am now / the night air was cold and it burnt at my lungs / and my knee hurt and I could not run very far / the stars were gonna get put to bed any minute / like my teen years being folded up with everything in it / before I take a lighter to my past one more time I will reconcile with all the promises I would forget / cos things they never come out how you think that they’re gonna come out / and you won’t always get to where you think you’re gonna get / it doesn’t matter if you remember wrong / there aren’t many things that last very long / I can’t pretend that I can explain how / but I know where I was before I was where I am now / I know where I was before I was where I am now / I know where I was before I was where I am now / I know where I was before I was where I am now

WRONG WRONG WRONG
Good times they have been had / everything from now on is gonna be bad / we’re trying to wake up but we’re falling asleep / we’re wasting opportunities not to be sheep / and we blanche at the chance to get it right in case we’re wrong / you ain’t gonna sing if you can’t sing along / wake up you’ve had your fun / everything good has already been done / the last decade ended / it couldn’t get worse / we’re driving its ashes around in a hearse / like a sacred reminder of days that are gone / you will never get back to where you feel you belong / the future’s a glare / I don’t want to listen / the past doesn’t care and the present’s indifferent / I just said a prayer that it don’t last very long long long / let me get it wrong wrong wrong wrong / think back it won’t take long / everything exciting happened when you were young / you didn’t get faded you didn’t get drowned / you didn’t get jaded from injustices around / but compromise pervaded / you got cliched / the things that you traded were the wrong things to trade / one day you’ll change your mind / the future will come and it won’t be kind / if you can get yourself into a different shirt / you will miss a bit of the inevitable hurt / the body feels tight / the sleeves a little long / but you can’t leave the house if you can’t get it on / the future’s a glare / the present is hurtin’ / the past’s coming down around me like a curtain / I hope this uncertainty doesn’t last very long long long / just let me get it wrong wrong wrong wrong / the future’s reverting / the present is hurtin’ / the past’s coming down around me like a curtain / I hope this uncertainty doesn’t last very long long long / let me get it wrong wrong wrong wrong

EVERY LITTLE TEAR
I went to see the doctor / what did he say? / he said you’re gonna regret the moment that you let that girl get away / stop being so stupid / just get it into your head / stop worrying about your hurt feelings and every little tear you’ve already shed / cos there are emotions other than pride / you’re gonna cry an ocean for every little tear that you’ve already cried / every little tear / I don’t need to x ray you to tell you what I already know / nothing is actually broken if your dignity takes a blow / I’ll give you my prognosis it ain’t good but it won’t take long / I don’t need to look down your throat to tell you that you’re going about this all wrong / cos there are emotions that you shouldn’t hide / you’re gonna cry an ocean for every little tear that you’ve already cried / every little tear / cos there are emotions other than pride / you’re gonna cry an ocean for every little tear that you’ve already cried

ALL MOUTH
You’re all mouth and no trousers / coming on all cocky about how you’re so much fun / just keep talking / it allows ya to get on with the business of getting nothing done / you’re all tall talk and no action / none of your plans ever eventuate / find an excuse or another distraction / it will your inaction validate / in the aisles of the supermarket / in the pages of the magazines / there are people that I like to look at / and places I would like to say that I have been / you’re all mouth and no trousers / always talking up the things you’re never gonna do / a little bit of something’s better than a whole lot of nothing / which is what I’m realising it amounts to / you’re all bark and no bite and / you’re gonna smash my fuckin head against the wall / I’m not fifteen and I’m not frightened / next time you feel intimidatory give me a call / in the aisles of the supermarket / in the pages of the magazines / there are people that I like to look at / and places I would like to say that I have been / I hear you calling but you can’t come over / I hear you knocking but you can’t come in / a deep seated long standing issue about where you belong versus where you fit in / you’re all fur coat and no knickers / promising the world but do you think you will deliver? / I see through you just as quick as / it takes me to work out an equally facile response to give ya

ALWAYS
I know there’s things you’ve been waiting to hear / I wanna tell you them each time I see ya / but it’s a non starter this new career of giving you what you have earned / how can I relate to you if you can’t relate to me? / I’m not saying I know you / not saying it’s too late for me / how can I show you what I’ve been thinking lately and presume you’d be concerned? / always always maybe never ending / talking to no-one just to feel something / making a circle out of a square / trying to work out if you would care about things that I know if they weren’t only shared between me and a couple of mates / cos I’ve got a key only I’m scared of breaking it / forcing the lock is as pointless as faking it / as pointless as pushing the point by taking it further than my garden gates / always always maybe saying nothing / talking to no-one just to feel something / always always maybe never ending / longing for belonging / not always just pretending / always always nothing fits completely / nothing will complete me / always always if you can say it sweetly you get out of it cheaply / you can say what you like because no-one will hear / it’s easy to come across insincere / I don’t want to be ya / just wanna be near enough to whisper in your ear

ZINEY ANECDOTAL
I’m taking aim now / aiming at your knees / you’re calling in the army and you’re calling in the police / you said it was an eye opener / I said it was just a tease / have you got a can opener? / can you open these? / I came to tell you it ain’t what you know / I like kicking around you know / but not when I fall off the wall / I took all your longing and soon broke into song / it was uncomplicated and lent itself to me singing along / can I can I come out tonight? / can I come out too? / like you kinda own me / but I don’t own you / it is like a candle to my getting to know ya ball of steel / like your kinda ordinary worlds that make me feel / it’s like a fever / I am never cold / I won’t feel the winter on my lips or so I am told / got caught up in the dancing / and on a whim I crawled a little further out along my limb / talk about the filament of feeling I will feel it soon / I am not a camel I can’t make it through the afternoon / I can’t turn myself off like a tap that you left on / I can’t stop the movie rolling once it’s begun / I can’t stop the dogs from howling / I am one

Flour

Survival Records SUR532CD. Released in May 1992 on Survival through Shock.

Our debut album, re-mastered in 2014 for vinyl and expanded digital release on Poison City Records, Melbourne.

BEFORE FLOUR THERE WAS THE DEMO. It must have cost the band a small fortune in postage because I remember every man and his dog having a copy of that cassette. I lifted mine from the Half a Cow shop. When FLOUR was released it was obvious just how ahead of the curve “the ‘feeder” were. While most of us were still trying to figure out how to write a tune, the songs on FLOUR had structure, wit, melody, and dynamics. It became an instant fixture on my new “5 disc carousel CD changer”. So much so that later, when the stereo was stolen, FLOUR went with it. We covered ‘Bugging’ for a while. Sung about wanting to “play second guitar” for them in one of our songs, and recorded a version of ‘Over’ for Mo Poontang. Top debut.
Tom Morgan (Smudge, Godstar, Sneeze) March 2014

Walking Through The Village was recorded at Pyramid Studios, in June 1990 when we were still The Madmen, with Cam Hurst on bass guitar. It was engineered by Jamie Carter, and produced by Murray Nash & Tim. The rest of the album was recorded at Vibrafeel Studios, Inala, between November 1991 and January 1992 right after we changed our name. It was engineered and produced by Mick Borkowski, and released in June 1992 on Sydney’s Survival Records.

After a while we realised that as a document of where the band was at in late 1991 the album sufficed, but we felt the songs deserved more. The experience we gained from a few years of hard touring and further recording meant we could come back and give the album some better treatment and presentation. Also the record was never really mastered the first time around.

So in 1996 we put some new vocals down, re-mixed most of the songs, improved the cover, and re-mastered it. This later version of FLOUR is what you’re hearing here, re-mastered afresh – for the Poison City Records vinyl release – in 2014 by Alan Douches @ West West Side, New York.

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Our debut album – originally released in June 1992 on Survival records. Recorded by Mick Borkowski at Vibrafeel in Brisbane.

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Tower

There’s no one else around / and you’re the best thing in the world / so what do you want to want? / because there’s sadness in your eyes / and some place you wish you were / so let the light embrace / because we’re still heavy on this earth / I wish everything went around / and I wish there was a sound / I don’t want to be in faraway places / never is anything coloured / or does it flower / this is the closest to my heaven transmission tower / if you’re scared you should have stayed / this is the place where no one goes / the edge without a seam / and we’re without a colour scheme / our eyes will swallow up the sky / never does it get darker / or does it change / never will the clouds lift / so they can make space / never will they let go / so they can take the test / never will they take flight / never leave the nest / never will they make the heavens or see the stars / never will they see the future or make the past / never is anything coloured or does it flower / this is the closest to my heaven transmission tower / there’s no one else around and now we’re more afraid / now they know how / and they’ve got the power / they’ve worked it out and they’ve built the tower / we’re more afraid

Over

Could you be where I wanted you to be? / could I hold you when you would always say? / I never wanted a fast or happy ending / you made the brew that I could never taste / because it’s over before it starts / it’s over could you get out of my heart? / it’s over the end is face to face / and your face is the last face that will not remain / sitting on the front fence stroking my soul / thinking of a romance that could never take hold / dreaming for a second of glimpses that pass / wishing that your glimpse was the last glimpse and it wouldn’t last / could you be where I wanted you to be? / could you face and trust everything I’d say? / you said you faded the moment that you met me / but my life started on the day you went away

Pepper

From deep within me / I’ll always hate it / too tired to shake it / so I just take it / I hear my number / as I slip under / you feed me pepper / and I just bet you / I’ll hate it / my hand’s a hammer / my heart won’t train it / your mind’s a spanner / and you’ll just drain it / I hear my number / I’m right above you / did I create it / for you to break it? Your eyes are razors / your mind’s a grater / can I get off now / if it won’t faze you? I’m hearing my number / I’m just getting number / you’re feeding me pepper / and I just forget it / I hate it

7-11

I hear my name being called from machines along the walls / I move towards my goal / paper cups and chicken rolls / all lined up evermore / I have it in my soul / I know I can’t go home / please take me to the store / open up the oven door / don’t have to wait no more / microwave heaven is here / some noodles and some beer / and a vid for later on / for me alone / the store looks hot it looks quite packed tonight / and we could stop and stare if you just slowed a bit / and if we had some money we could go spend it / and we could stay and ogle at the counter chick / I gave my hands to her / show me where the best things are / drinks chill and coffee spills / and popcorn pops for me / at 10:55 we’ll see / she stacks the shelves so well / with tacos toothpaste gel / to clean me feed me brush my teeth / but they don’t make it heaven

End of this Day

At the end of this day will I know what you’re trying to say / or will I know how to make a start? / end this day end of this hour / I will open you up like a flower / and then I will know what’s inside your heart / at the end of this day will you know what I’m trying to say / or will you know how to make a start? / end this day end of this summer / now I think that my time has come / and now I know what’s inside your heart / at the end of this day will you have anything left to say / or will you know how to play your part? / end this day end of this year / is anything anymore clear? / and now do you know what’s inside my heart?

Car Man

There’s too much fuel in my tank / no overtaking turning vehicles, man / hope it gets me home tonight / hope it gets me through all this / catching all the orange lights / going to stay up late tonight / they can’t get inside my car / they can’t get inside my mind / my windows are wound up tight / they can’t see in through my eyes / saw nothing / travelled for miles / saw nothing / I looked down deep inside / can’t see an end in sight / biting my nails every block / I can’t slow down for all the stops / can’t slow down at all / might crash out tomorrow / drown every sound / kill every motion / I can’t turn around / I hope it gets me through all this / car man

Bugging

All these little things keep bugging all the time / I don’t know how I let them keep getting at me / and how it takes so long to block out of my mind / and how to keep them gone when they stop at me / swim it through the ocean and drag it up the sand / beat it on the waves until I understand / all these little things keep bugging all the time / I feel them in the water and they’re crawling under / and heaven knows just how they got inside my head / they’re just below the surface where sometimes I forget / floating on the water / washed by the tide / going to come and meet me by the waterside / flushed down the river / going to push it down / going to hold it under / going to make it drown

Turn Over

Turn over / turn it on / if I bury my trail will I be gone? / hey look out he’ll kill you / and I don’t care about him anymore than / you’re the last thing that I would ever walk away from / having it all is having nothing / and I don’t care about nothing any more / you are the last thing that I would ever care about at all / if I’m gone would you follow? / I’ll burn my trail if I think you’ll come / you don’t like me here so you might like me gone / but if you don’t like me today then you will hate me tomorrow / hey slow down little thing and come in from the road / something made me slow when I want to explode / and I don’t care about / and I don’t want to go / you turn over / you don’t want to know

Walking through the Village

If I could hold onto one day long enough / if I could hold it back whenever it got rough / if I could lay it out for only me to see / then I could walk home through the village / easy / I climb the mountain and I see the houses still / and I hear stories about the city in the hills / I see the suburbs under 20 feet of snow / traffic lanes are gone but stars say where to go / they’re hanging cables and they’re digging up the ground / they’re ripping highways out and laying new ones down / they’ve made an overpass so we can get around / add 2 to 2 and you don’t always get 4 / here is the score: the hill is in the city / and it ain’t awful pretty / we’re sitting in the snow / and the freeway don’t always take us home / because I can walk home through the village

Through with You

I know I told you yesterday that I don’t mind but I’ve forgotten how to be kind / hope you don’t cry or let it hurt because it’ll hurt me 10 times worse / there’s something nagging in my head / and yes I know I thought I said / but now I’m looking for something to do / and I’m through with you / now all the promises I’ve made have fallen through and I feel like a bastard because I said we’d last / and I’ll feel sad when I see the photographs and all your things / guess this is what falling in love brings / now you can colour me terrible but I still think I should go / this will be better for both of us in the end you know

Cut

Torment torment you never did so much / well not a such / hammer hammer until my head was slush / until I’d had enough / harm me not on my turn / now it’s my turn / to your hands I did my life entrust / so I could clutch / to something solid at least I thought as much / so I could touch / time to rise away from you / now it’s my turn / time to drive myself away / you turned me loose I did not stray / I found my place today / to my blood you slipped your talons in / when I was fresh within / hammer hammer until I felt so thin / you turned me loose on everything / turn me loose I’ve cut my reins / now it’s my turn

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7 Year Glitch

Shock Records HIP 013. Released early 1995 on The Hypnotized Label

A haphazard collection of 27 rare and previously unreleased demos, outtakes, acoustic songs, pre – screamfeeder songs (from Tim’s old band The Madmen), radio sessions, and general bits and pieces. Recorded all over the place by a lot of different people.

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Everything And Nothing

I call you by your only name and whisper in your ear / you should have brought a camera for the things that you hold dear / and you hold me / and everything turns to nothing and nothing means that much / and these times they’d be the best / if we could keep in touch / with hands across a distance with hands across a hole / withholding information with secrets from your soul / and your soul is sweet / when everything turns to nothing / and nothing means that much / show me the ways that i’d be saved / throw me something to clutch / i got here by my own device / i’ve never felt so near / too close for you to turn away / am i loud enough to hear? / and i’m calling you / and everything turns to nothing / and nothing turns to black / even if you were to leave me here / no promise you’d be back

Here

The city lights are bright so let’s drive / i’m looking for something to blow my mind / most things feel fine alright / set my body alight / but i can’t come home tonight / and i can’t tell you why / so won’t you come inside / where i will hide you here / where you might find what you’ve been looking for / you’re running around looking for something you haven’t got / do you know who it is or even what? / or must everyone live their lives remembering what they might have had some time ago? / or is it to late to say just what you think your life is for? / signs in the sky tell me which way to fly / signs in the street tell me which way to move my feet / but i don’t listen and i don’t read the signs / that point towards the eventual decline / but i can’t come home tonight / and i can’t tell you why / so won’t you come inside / where i will hide you here / where you may have second thoughts about / whatever it is you’re running away from / i have nothing here to offer you but the safety of my arms / and i’ll keep everything here inside of you / and keep you from any harm / can you come down and see how we all feel? / because words escape me and i’ve forgotten what is real / some reason hat you might have had is slipping from you / and now you’re lost / i will hide you here / and keep you from all your fears

I Believe

Saw you on tv tonight i didn’t know you were that good / gonna try and reach you but i don’t know if i should / after all this time and i still think that you’re ok / because when things descend on you you don’t let them come my way / i’m going to look around and see what’s true / and i believe in reincarnation too / i look at you and i wish i could see the world right through your eyes / it would be so easy if we could see right through their lies / so if you’re gonna change / then i want to be with you / if you’re going somewhere / then take me along too / because you’re my hero / and when you laugh i cry / and if you leave then i will die

End Of This Day

At the end of this day will i know what you’re trying to say or will i know how to make a start? / end this day end of this hour i will open you up like a flower / and then i will know what’s inside your heart / at the end of this day will you know what i’m trying to say or will you know how to make a start? / end this day end of this summer / now i think that my time has come / and now i know what’s inside your heart / at the end of this day will you have anything left to say or will you know how to play your part? / end this day end of this year is anything anymore clear? / and now do you know what’s inside my heart?

Metal Baby

I’d like to see if you’re alive / i’d like to know if the stars still survive / the sky is blinding the temperature is down / i get the feeling that you won’t be around / i’d like to know if you’ve awoken / and if your consciousness comes crawling for the day / will it make it through unbroken? / or will it end up like the promises you made? / and i could have stopped the burning / but i couldn’t stop my head from churning / so far from your returning / not close enough to be discerning / you made a policy to choose the wrong direction of all your avenues / the guiding lights on the road you drive on have dimmed and blurred and slowed down all your motion / and i don’t want to hate / don’t want to have a clue / it’s not what i create / but it’s all that i’m getting from you

Conquering Fears

I dress and shave for you each day / you said i missed a bit but that’s ok / i sit down here and try and write a love song / but they’re too hard to write right? ? I stop and look / you’re such a pretty pretty girl / we’ve both grown up a bit and that’s alright / because i’m her friend and it’s never gonna end / i think about that a lot / that’s how with heads together we’re conquering fears / so you wait and stop and circumnavigate / no need to expand upon / if you cannot / so afraid to sit and try and write a love song / well take it from the top / and / you’re so afraid of when it comes so slow out from / and / she’s my friend / see her forever / yeah i’m gonna see her now / that’s how with heads together we’re conquering fears / and we tear it all apart now / and no one but ourselves left / and she’ll be here for good now / and all else to forget / we’re conquering

That’s Ok With Me

The lights are out through town / the radio’s buzzing and the telephone wires are down / all i want to do tonight is stay here at home / and do the things we used to do when we were alone / do the things we did that time we were alone / the space between us is solid / so let’s break it down tonight / i know this feeling from before so let’s try and make it right / the lights are out / the house is dark i’ve got nothing to hide from you / so let’s stay home and be alone and do the things we used to do / tonight i’ll leave it up to you / well that’s ok with me / not doing things you never wanted to / well that’s ok with me / if you want to leave tomorrow / well that’s ok with me / or you can stay another day / well that’s ok with me / have things how you want them to be / well that’s ok with me / you can dictate the terms to me / well that’s ok with me / take my hand and walk with me / well that’s ok with me / i’m used to treading delicately / well that’s ok with me

Surprise Me

Please guard this like a diamond in your mind / please save my thoughts for they’re all running wild / but you remind me of a flailing butterfly / as you quiver there in your fragile little – fragile little life / your weaknesses are betrayed in your face / something in your life slightly out of place / we all fall down but you fall with more grace / and heights are always higher in your – in your case / this night started out ok / i hope it ends that way / i feel so detached from everything / don’t know how you act so cool / my head feels like a swimming pool / with people jumping – people jumping in / you can walk the line if you’ve got the time / surprise me / surprise me / please guard this like a diamond in your mind / someone is gentle someone is unkind / someone stays someone leaves you behind / someone saves your life and you will – you will find /this night started out ok / i hope it ends that way / i feel so detached from everything / don’t know how you act so cool / my head feels like a swimming pool / with people jumping – people jumping in / you can walk the line if you’ve got the time / surprise me / surprise me

Book One

Some things change / some things fade / some things become frayed / there’s something in my head and it wasn’t there yesterday / oh how i really wish you’d stay / or go away / go away to stay / today i learned about space rockets and the stars / moving motionless the days fly by so fast / 1969 an astronaut’s walking on the moon / before they sent a dog up there but she came down again pretty soon / sun keeps us warm / stars shine at night / rain gives us water and moon gives us light / snow falls in winter we can skate on the ice / wind’s blowing the trees / turning frost into ice / look back on twenty years and see how far you’ve come / the story of your life was written when you were so young / can you see exactly where it is you’re coming from? / your whole life is in front of you / and this is your book one

Smoke From Tinsel

It happens to me ten times a day and as it happens i don’t know another way / perhaps i should have worn a wetsuit to keep out of the rain but i just want it to happen again / having to hold on tightly or i’ll be thrown away / having to let go slightly so i can stay / curse me again / call my name / give a damn / how much this time? / how much will i get? / i’ve been giving it away for free and i ain’t going to stop yet / how many good or bad things will it take to change this time? / it ain’t going to take much more to change my mind / having to treat my instincts as though they’re always wrong / promises made but left behind for later on / turn yourself around / have control / have control / how to get to you before it turns around / and i’m happy when my mind can find its way around / take your time and tell me if i frown / having to wind in gently / having my mind made for me / torn in two / follow through / it’s hard to do

Car Man

There’s too much fuel in my tank / no overtaking turning vehicles, man / hope it gets me home tonight / hope it gets me through all this / catching all the orange lights / going to stay up late tonight / they can’t get inside my car / they can’t get inside my mind / my windows are wound up tight / they can’t see in through my eyes / saw nothing / traveled for miles / saw nothing / i looked down deep inside / can’t see an end in sight / biting my nails every block / i can’t slow down for all the stops / can’t slow down at all / might crash out tomorrow / drown every sound / kill every motion / i can’t turn around / i hope it gets me through all this / car man

Snail Trail

I see you / you walk my way / i see you / you walk away / you don’t like me any more / i hear you / the words you say / if i had a gun i’d blow you away / i had a dream / i dreamed of your breath / i had a dream / i dreamed of your death

Weird Day

Weird day / thoughts carry me away / no feelings to convey / get up anyway / hope it makes some sense today / and i hope we find a way / ok / weird day / don’t know what to say / forgot it all before i said it / said you lost your mind / i think that i’ve lost mine / but i’ll get it back in just a minute / spilt my drink out of my cup / spilt my mind you wiped it up / spilt my heart you walked away / i tripped over myself / i was trying to say what a weird weird / weird day / weird in my brain / you don’t turn around before you’re gone / thoughts lead me astray / i always drift away / it’s been pretty strange here all day long

Hole Of Blood

There is a lot of major carnage in nature and we can only let it pass / real guys don’t want to watch the tarantula annihilate / they’d rather watch the cowboys kicking ass / but when she says she can’t have you because her hole of blood is keeping her whole / there’s a lot of bad inside the hand of every man / we don’t have to act like ants / we don’t live for the tribe / don’t have to live by the tribe to survive / it’s better to die / it’s better first that you should know some about the forces keeping you alive / don’t beat it to submission / it’s always fear that always underlies / too scared to adore / fresh orders to obey / keeping you unsure / keep your hate at bay / or does it make you bigger? / getting things disfigured / you are your own worst enemy / just admit it you don’t like alternatives / there’s a lot of indiscrepancies on board / contradictions are the only thing that’s sure / real guys don’t want to see a death they couldn’t create / they want some real action so they can relate

Thick And Shitty

All along you crave / what’s the song you gave? / little thoughts to save / now they’re gone – it’s late / little bits i keep / little loads to heap / lose em all in sleep / let em die, i leave / **i can’t remember these 2 lines** / did you learn it wrong / little locks i glue / stale crumbs of food / known a lot of untruths / thought i could have used / i should just let em fall / i get caught and snagged / i should forget them all

Know You Now

I never saw the world through your eyes / i never stopped to realise / because you’d never stop to communicate / the things i’d like were the things you’d hate / because i know how / and i know you now / and i know what it’s all about / did you ever stop to tell the truth? / did you ever let me in on the real you? / because i couldn’t understand the things you’d say / you thought i’d like you better that way / did you feel afraid to know? / or show me what you’d never show? / because all your thoughts and all your doubts / you don’t know what the hell they’re all about

Almost Past Caring

A month ago it would have hurt me / a month ago it would have made me cry / because i’ve given everything that i’ve got to give and now i’m quite content to let things lie / can’t think what you want from me / i certainly don’t want a thing from you / you’re trying to get me back for things i never even did or is that just another excuse / i’m almost past caring / i’m tired of wasting my time waiting for something that’ll never happen / and i’m tired of pretending that there’s something worth waiting for / i was dangling from a string waiting on your attention / but i’m not hanging there any more / a month ago it would have hurt me / a month ago i wouldn’t have known which way to go / rather than face you i would have curled up to die / but i’m over it now / well almost/ almost past caring / almost past caring

Cool Kinda Kid

Cool kinda kid has had enough of all his stuff / pushed to the edge / pain in my head / it ain’t that tough / hell bent on hell / like every next one / no more of this / cool kinda kid / cool kinda kid / it’s not what you will do / but what you did / can’t we wind up? Can’t we wind back / every little bit? / getting all wound out / getting all wound back / white turns to black / cool kinda kid getting kinda sick of all his shit

I Can’t Live

Saw you near the edge of town it was the other day / saw your long hair blowing round and then i heard you say / i’m waiting for my man and it’s been such a long time / he says he misses me but won’t tell me if he’s mine / and i’m looking and i see / and i’m thinking what can it be? / and i know that i can’t live if you don’t love me / saw you near the edge of town it was the other day / the night was coming down and then i heard you say / said i’m still waiting and i’ve lost all track of time / he says he misses me but won’t tell me if he’s mine / ch / turn turn around / turn turn around

Hold On

Ain’t got the flame to burn out your name / ain’t got the hammer to shatter the chain / can’t find the knife to cut you a slice / to kill off your hunger and dry out your eyes / hold on it’s nearly all gone / ain’t you going to tell me i’m wrong? / can’t find the words to make myself strong / ain’t got the strength to let it go on / ain’t got the heat to warm up your seat / ain’t got the spark to try and compete / can’t find the sugar to sweeten your mouth / i ain’t got the money to call you now / hold on it’s nearly all gone / can’t you see that it just is wrong? / ain’t got the words to make a new song / ain’t got the strength to let it go on / ain’t got the lips to give you a kiss / ain’t got the body to fulfill your wish / ain’t got the voice to sing you goodnight / ain’t got the arms to say it’s alright / hold on it’s nearly all gone / can’t you see that it just is wrong? / if you want me i won’t be along / ain’t got the strength to let it go on

Five Pointed Star

They’ve lost the focus / and all the hocus pocus / they want to be stock brokers / nothing like their folks / saying hippy mom and dad / look at all the fun you’ve had / the times have done their changing and now they are just bad / you tell them about twenty five years ago / you’re lucky if they can remember ten / pity you can’t just go back again / two turns and you can’t win / the world keeps getting its fingers in / secrets don’t last a second once out from within / never stop coming back again / they’ve lost the plot / out in all the empty lots / a five pointed star is all they recognise as god / satan’s in the suburbs / i saw his name written there / paint it on your bedpost / you probably wouldn’t dare / do you have a clue what your caper is / or are you trying to impress your friends? Is there really nothing else within? / do you really give your soul to him? / they’ve found the potion to drain them of emotion / got to keep it flowing / keep a constant coating / they’ve lost the exit / they can’t find the opening / you gave your soul to him / you can’t remember anything

7-11

I hear my name being called from machines along the walls / i move towards my goal / paper cups and chicken rolls / all lined up evermore / i have it in my soul / i know i can’t go home / please take me to the store / open up the oven door / don’t have to wait no more / microwave heaven is here / some noodles and some beer / and a vid for later on / for me alone / the store looks hot it looks quite packed tonight / and we could stop and stare if you just slowed a bit / and if we had some money we could go spend it / and we could stay and ogle at the counter chick / i gave my hands to her / show me where the best things are / drinks chill and coffee spills / and popcorn pops for me / at 10:55 we’ll see / she stacks the shelves so well / with tacos toothpaste gel / to clean me feed me brush my teeth / but they don’t make it heaven

Who’s Counting?

Put out the rubbish today / there’s a lot of things that i just can’t say / most of them wanting to be heard / all of them choking on a word / it’s a call that i can’t respond / since most of what i’ve said is at best half right / it’s all half wrong / facts are burnt but they’re not gone / they remain and i can’t remember one / can’t remember one / took a walk down my street today / there’s a lot of cars parked in the way / reminds me of words that don’t make my mouth / a million ways to block it out / so our conversation’s lame / here’s hoping my questions don’t sound the same / they’re thick and fast / i’m just trying to hold what’s past / if i can’t forget then how will i make it last? /i can’t recall the last / i can’t recall the last / filled up a box today / with all the things i managed to not say / still it’s a call that i can’t make / a message that no-one else can take can’t take / there is a word that i can’t fake / the sound of a voice going straight to tape / still it’s a call that i can’t make / a message that no-one can take

Better Let Go

Better let go if you’re holding too tight / better let go if the end is in sight / better not give up without a fight / better not fall asleep tonight / you know you won’t go but you know that you just might

Tower

There’s no one else around / and you’re the best thing in the world / so what do you want to want? / because there’s sadness in your eyes / and some place you wish you were / so let the light embrace / because we’re still heavy on this earth / i wish everything went around / and i wish there was a sound / i don’t want to be in far away places / never is anything coloured / or does it flower / this is the closest to my heaven transmission tower / if you’re scared you should have stayed / this is the place where no one goes / the edge without a seam / and we’re without a colour scheme / our eyes will swallow up the sky / never does it get darker / or does it change / never will the clouds lift / so they can make space / never will they let go / so they can take the test / never will they take flight / never leave the nest / never will they make the heavens or see the stars / never will they see the future or make the past / never is anything coloured or does it flower / this is the closest to my heaven transmission tower / there’s no one else around and now we’re more afraid / now they know how / and they’ve got the power / they’ve worked it out and they’ve built the tower / we’re more afraid

A Silence

Though i feel kind of easy there’s no one left that can hear / and the wind keeps blowing outside / and there’s nothing left i can fear / so i watch this yellow butterfly make a stand and make itself clear / and a rumble in the distance / and a mighty hum that’s bringing all fear / and a silence seems to watch me / and a silence seems so near / as a finger grates down a blackboard / it’s a silence i cannot hear / an unearthly movement through the crust / something wants to make itself known / and a dwelling through the ages / and a curse is carried home / and a grasping at the roots of all that we have known / and a grip with shivering tension as a silence turns to stone / and a silence seems to watch me / and a silence seems so near / as a finger grates down my backbone / and a silence makes me its lair / and a silence seems to watch me / and a silence seems so close / like the force of dew in the morning time / subtle / still it takes control

Fill Yourself With Music

Shock Records HIP 006. Released early 1995 on The Hypnotized Label (Shock)

Recorded in 1994 by Wayne Connolly at Paradise in Sydney.

Remastered in 2014 by Bryce Moorhead and released on Vinyl and expanded digital editions by Poison City Records, Melbourne.

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Our 3rd album from 1995. Re mastered with loving care. Available on black or white vinyl, or on original CD from the 90s.

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Lost in the Snow

It didn’t hurt / we kept right on playing / we hadn’t heard the faithful praying / with all we had it didn’t seem to matter / the news was bad / the future badder / falling into a hole was pointless and just wrong / we only wish you what it takes to get along / it didn’t rain / skies didn’t open / the world spun on / angels were hoping / it didn’t hurt / it was a lesson / snowing on dirt / you were a blessing / you lost your vision and forgot your golden star / and when it did rain they weren’t tears for you at all / you kept it from us you were losing it / the angels watching over you just let you slip away so painlessly / they were the only ones who knew / now the snow has frozen up both your cities / the angels disappeared from view / they left before we could have owned them / like they had nothing left to do

My Dad’s Hands

Temperature’s low / check my pulse / just found out that my fingers come from someone else / my cover is blown / I’ve been shown my moves / I feel the results of things I’ve yet to do / I realised I’ve got my dad’s hands / if I look back and calculate / I can work out which feeling was the bad trait / but I don’t mind what he might have done wrong / because I can’t help but repeat what he’s done / the mold is taking hold / the picture’s drying / at three and a half I could only stare / I knew for sure what I was loving there / I don’t know if I love it now that it’s here / but I’m trying

Sweet Little Oranges

Just like a flaming lip / enough spit would extinguish it / I feel its gentle fit / I’ll burn my hand a bit and I won’t change / I can’t retune my own preset personal frequencies / don’t need to reduce any of my inadequacies / I won’t respond to your accusations of negligence / I can’t relate to pretensions of non-intelligence / they burn a hole in me / found my insecurities / they’ve got a minute hand / I’ve got a grain of sand and all the power it holds / but I can’t release the energy for an eternal flame / the box of matches inside me has gotten wet again / they warm me up in little bursts each time a spark is thrown / and when the whole box caches light then I will burn alone / it is a recipe between a clenched up fist and sweet little oranges / it is a precipice / it is a hand to kiss and mine are flaming lips

Bad Time to be Leaving Town

Can’t rearrange at all / I move the lamp against the poster on the wall / these little words mean things I can’t recall / they echo down the hall / one by one my defenses go down / you picked a bad time to be leaving town / roads are closed to vehicles going west / information isn’t flowing the best / these small words they seem to be a test / hope I can guess the rest / never bothered to pretend I knew / now I’m relying on them to get me through / highway lights burn out and fall leaving dark holes formed / found my life was just a cold and closed off road / lines are torn severing words from lips I can no longer warm / I try to kid myself that I can make it home / can’t recreate at all / communication is impossible / these small words are all I can recall / can’t kid myself I will survive at all

Low

I’m going home I’m alone and I’m cold / I’d telephone but my call would be placed on hold / I’ve taken all I need for all my short term ends / never wanted to disregard or be distant from my friends / I know I’m being silly and I know I’m playing games / they make the clear picture fuzzy again / I know I fail in your view but it ain’t up to you / some games I can and some I cannot do

Numb

To the kitchen so I can leave the room / standing with the fridge light on / I don’t move around with ease no more / but you don’t mope around alone / seems I don’t listen to a word you say / leaving conversations dumb / but I pick up on each and every way we find to leave each other numb / we traveled to this place called nowhere it took so long to get this far / with all the signs we saw and all the wise words that we heard we only learned to grow apart / now only when I try to talk to you it seems you only want to try / but with all your chances gone / all the words that I can give ain’t enough to get you by

Fill Yourself with Music

Fill yourself with music let the good vibrations flow / if you ain’t heard the message then there’s something you should know / cos’ there’s guys to make you cry they start with e and b and m / and girls who’ll twist your world and you will be grateful to them / fill yourself with music! / fill yourself with song let the music do the rest / elation to depression / extreme emotions are the best / my baby’s gone away / I can’t get by without her around / just turn it up and drown myself in sound / fill yourself! / walk out in the sunshine let it fill you up with light / and curl up with your radio to make it through the night / there’s special songs for everyone to make you feel alright / they open up your heart and bring your pain to the light

Who’s Counting?

Put out the rubbish today / there’s a lot of things that I just can’t say / all of them wanting to be heard / most of them choking on a word / it’s a call that I can’t respond / since most of what I’ve said is at best half right / it’s all half wrong / facts are burnt but they’re not gone / they remain but I can’t explain you one / can’t pertain to one / walked down my street today / there’s a lot of cars parked in the way / reminds me of words that don’t make my mouth / I find I prefer not to talk it out / so our conversation’s lame / but who’s counting the ways we can be inane? / they’re all the same / but we drag them out again / can’t react / it’s a trap and it’s a game / there are cracks I can’t explain / got cracks I can’t explain / filled up a box today / with all the things I managed not to say / they can’t stay / because they’re no help / can’t throw them away all by myself / because they are cracks I could not foretell / I’m tracing them straight back to hell

Made of Stone

I have slept and I’m ok / a little more like you each day / you don’t phone and I don’t write / made of stone we do alright / I had dreamt that I was cracked / saw two statues interact / I was cold I couldn’t feel / I’m warming to your heart of steel / I awoke I too was clay / little fragments fall away / break my bones and I won’t fight / made of stone / we do alright

Three Way Punishment

Lines get crossed / connections fuse / messages lost / carriers abused / when the dark comes and you’re frightened / you need a well adjusted friend / because the guilt that you grew up with / you will carry until the end / it will bring you to your end / lines are broke / connections gone / we still have ropes / to drag along / when the causes are forgotten and circuits they are blown / they’re not secrets they’re just problems that you’ve never shown / too late to come unsewn / anger born from repression learned at home / fear taught – there’s no cure for being alone / love was wrong / self expression it was restrained / thought that was gone / ’till my best friend went insane / can I make a call? can’t make it back / emotions are mauled and burnt to black / when relations get mangled / confidence is a chore / it’s derision yeah makes me angry / to think somehow it’s my fault / what’s religion? what’s forbidden? / it’s a pit in which you crawl / it’s the room where you were born

Become Undone

And all my colours have run / my knots have slipped and come undone / my foot is caught / I have fought / I’ve been told / but I’m not taught / I’ve been sold but I’m not bought / and all my pieces have come apart / the sentence stops / before it starts / too tough to bend too late to mend / I can joke but can’t pretend that I won’t be broken until the end / and all I’m hoping is you’re still my friend

Lost all Trace

I used to satisfy your moods / I walked a thousand miles in shoes that you slipped on my feet / and upon the road of pain / I never felt your presence gain / but memories they don’t sleep / if you look upon with loss i’ll search my pockets to retrieve the cost / and if your feelings turned to stone / I’d dig an early grave for a place I could call my own / I’ve lost all trace of home / I set a question on betrayal / hope the answer’s in the mail for the fate that awaits me / it could have rectified the tune / presented futures on a spoon / but the mailman didn’t save me / when I see your options prosper i’ll search to see how much it cost you / I got your postcard from LA / I lit a cigarette and watched the black and white turn grey as it burned in the ashtray

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