Powderfinger

Despite the miseries
And the lessons learned from history
The pattern still repeats
Never to surrender don't you ever repeat

How far have we really come?
Until the ones who are leading us
Make peace their resolution tonight
Make peace your resolution tonight

There's an arms race to be run
Building bigger better dagger headed bombs
So let's drink to the daughters and sons
Never to return to their mother's arms

For every battle lost and won are these the ones that we offer up?

Baby I've got you on my mind
Honey you won't ever know
How much i need ya by my side,
Promise you I'll never go
I won't take no from you this time
'Cos baby I've got you on my mind
And honey I gotta show just what i can do
Cos I think I know what you're going through

I Hope you feel it the way I feel it
Hope you feel it the way i feel it too
I feel it too

So if I had this all my way
Honey you won't ever know
I'd be there to every night and day,
Promise you I'll never go
I won't hold back from you this time

'Cos baby I got you on my mind
Honey I gotta show ya just what I can do
'Cos I think I know, what you're going through
Hope you feel it the way I feel it
Hope you feel it the way I feel it too

Cos baby I got you on my mind
I won't take no from you this time
How much I need ya by my side

Babe I got ya on my mind
Yeah on my mind

I tell you I won't wait for another day
My heart died when you lose the chains (x2)

Cos honey I got you I got you on my mind
(x3)
I got you I got you on my mind
Yeah honey I gotta show

Baby, don't you weep
The world is at your feet
Did you think I was always gonna take your side

Grevellea's in bloom
Right outside your room
You can keep your honour
I can save my pride

Keep your hands up on the table
Well, I don't like the way that they've been carrying on

I never was one to complain about the way that things are done
If it spits like rain on the window frame
Come to wash way the morning sun
I never was one to complain about the way that things are done
If it spits like rain on the window frame
Come to wash away the morning sun

There is nothing left to lose
No matter what I choose
I never thought that your face would burn so bright

The rest of it is fixed
I'm heading for the ditch
So I think that you better come and claim your prize

Who's that man there by the window
Well, I don't like the way that he's been carrying on.

I never was one to complain about the way that things are done
If it spits like rain on the window frame
Come to wash way the morning sun
I never was one to complain about the way that things are done
If it spits like rain on the window frame
Come to wash away the morning sun

Come to wash away the morning sun

You come to wash away

Come to wash away the morning sun

I got to keep moving to stay 'cause I'm freezing in this room
And if I prove no good here I'll skip to where I should
It's only an imaginary vigil we keep
You salvage what you need I'll take the love you leave

I love your way
I can't explain
What made me change

I'm wading in deeper ever deeper as I go
I drown the whole idea as I drift away from you
It's only an imaginary vigil we keep
You salvage what you need I'll take the love you leave

I love your way
I can't explain
what made me change
I love your way

And as the memory gathers dust, buried in its crust
Are the remains of what we've done and the seed of what we've just begun
The tapping of the rain beats a corrugated drum
And the city glows well it pulses on 1(to the city hum)/2(Until the day is done)
(x2)


I love your way
I can't explain
what made me change

How many more times will you say that you love me
How many more times will you wake up beside me
You think that you told me what I'd like to hear
But I think you should tell me how you really feel

I'll be your pawn, I'll be your king
I'll bear your scorn, I'll wear your ring
Our feet won't hardly touch the ground
We'll float away without a sound
You want to reach out and touch my hands
You promise you'll do everything, everything, everything you can

Now how does it feel that I strung you along
You're bound to try to conceal that maybe you had it wrong
There's too many true feelings you've had to contain
When you wake up tomorrow will you still feel the same

By now you know that I never arrived
I was too tired to move
I was gonna invent an elaborate excuse
But I'm tired of them too

Little pockets of air in the atmosphere
Make it easy to breathe
So farewell to unpleasant scenes
I want you to stay, stay, stay

The blinding flash of circling stars
Left relatively shallow scars
You played your faux renaissance card
To starry eyes and wild applause

It's not your destination
So something, something better happen

tell me where I'm supposed to begin
an unhappy life working some kind of dead end job
everything you thought you had
has gone from worse to bad

lean to the side
whisper it quiet
end is in sight
working all night around the clock
everything you thought you had
has gone from worse to bad

but it's not my kinda scene oh yeah
footprints on the other side
remind me where I've been oh yeah
I'll watch from the other side

tell me where I'm supposed to begin
an unhappy life working some kind of dead end job
everything you thought you had
has gone from worse to bad

so I'll just wait and watch the wheels
while you're turning back

but it's not my kinda scene oh yeah
footprints on the other side
remind me where I've been oh yeah
I'll watch from the other side

ooh throws me over
and it drags me under
ooh throws me over
and it drags me under

singing:
tell me where I'm supposed to begin
an unhappy life working some kind of dead end job

voice over (with Bernie doing a semi American/Aussie accent...nice work...):
tell me where I'm supposed to begin
an unhappy life working some kind of dead end job

aah aaah etc

but it's not my kinda scene oh yeah
footprints on the other side
reminds me where I've been oh yeah
I'll watch from the other side

but its not my kinda scene oh yeah
footprints on the other side
reminds me where I've been oh yeah

Your gentle pace it provides a rhythm for the unwashed few of us
Lock and loaded past is a prison for the crimes of the universe
Do you have the information to decide whether you really care
C'mon you know that it's hard to complain about the way you live

So please don't let it roll right by you
Just think if the same thing happened to you
Would you be happy to walk in my shoes

I'm already tired of your chronic compassion fatigue
The final turd in the dungheap of every post modern disease
Are you in the situation to decide whater you really care
It's hard to believe you'd look me in the eye and turn away again

I got to feeling low for making light of whatever you said
The pain went straight to my head chopping me up turning me to morose
You've got a thing or two coming soon so I'll get out of your way
Beat blue, blackened and bruised chopping it up at the end of the day

You better step back and see the mess that you left
Won't you tell it to somebody who cares
I'm stumblin' all the way 'cause its not such a beautiful day

You stopped to see the show but don't believe everything that you read
The pain's still there in my head pulling me close now that I'm here alone
Don't stop because of me you'll never know just how long you'd have stayed
So sleep through the slackening screws cutting me loose at the end of the day

It's not such a beautiful day
But I'll stumble through all the same
The bright lights are fading away
It's not such a beautiful day

If I invite danger
It might just do some good for me
Slack jawed little stranger
Slip and shuffle on your feet
If I set a trap
I'll raise suspicion and keep eyes on me
I'll just keep kicking at the cracks
'Til it all falls in on me

Big fat payback bleeding like a smokestack
I'm running
We got a dud pump speed bump burning like a fuel dump
I'm coming
Don't panic

So come and join my collective
Every man and woman for themselves
I never felt so well protected
Just hanging up here on the shelf
There's no way I'm turning back
I'm tired of sailing on the same old seas
I'll just keep kicking at the cracks
'Til it all falls in on me
Take a run for the money
Give you something to show
Now we're almost ready and away I go
So go cat go

Sunsets over the beaches from now on
Each day looking for new ways to go

Maybe I should drop by
Maybe I should have called
Maybe I should have followed you and beat down your door
Maybe it's gonna be breaking you every time you fall
But to shower you with pity will do you no good at all

Slow burn watching the world turn from my arms
New way of measuring each day till it's gone

Maybe I should drop by
Maybe I should have called
Maybe I should have followed you and beat down your door
Maybe it's gonna be breaking you every time you fall
But to shower you with pity will do you no good at all, no good at all

Sunrise building a reprise in my heart
Regret tight around my chest plays its part
until its gone
yeah, until its gone

But to shower you with pity will do you no good at all, no good at all

Watching the sunset sunset sunset sunset
over the beaches beaches beaches beaches
(x4)

I got to keep moving to stay 'cause I'm freezing in this room
And if I prove no good here I'll skip to where I should
It's only an imaginary vigil we keep
You salvage what you need I'll take the love you leave

I love your way
I can't explain
What made me change

I'm wading in deeper ever deeper as I go
I drown the whole idea as I drift away from you
It's only an imaginary vigil we keep
You salvage what you need I'll take the love you leave

I love your way
I can't explain
what made me change
I love your way

And as the memory gathers dust, buried in its crust
Are the remains of what we've done and the seed of what we've just begun
The tapping of the rain beats a corrugated drum
And the city glows well it pulses on 1(to the city hum)/2(Until the day is done)
(x2)


I love your way
I can't explain
what made me change

Baby I've got you on my mind
Honey you won't ever know
How much i need ya by my side,
Promise you I'll never go
I won't take no from you this time
'Cos baby I've got you on my mind
And honey I gotta show just what i can do
Cos I think I know what you're going through

I Hope you feel it the way I feel it
Hope you feel it the way i feel it too
I feel it too

So if I had this all my way
Honey you won't ever know
I'd be there to every night and day,
Promise you I'll never go
I won't hold back from you this time

'Cos baby I got you on my mind
Honey I gotta show ya just what I can do
'Cos I think I know, what you're going through
Hope you feel it the way I feel it
Hope you feel it the way I feel it too

Cos baby I got you on my mind
I won't take no from you this time
How much I need ya by my side

Babe I got ya on my mind
Yeah on my mind

I tell you I won't wait for another day
My heart died when you lose the chains (x2)

Cos honey I got you I got you on my mind
(x3)
I got you I got you on my mind
Yeah honey I gotta show

Who'd you say is you?
Where'd you say you hide your proof?
You're swollen like a lexicon
If you hurry we'll be home real soon

If you meet me in the morning, gonna make my day
The sky will fall and the planets swoon,
Feel like tomorrow coming up too soon

Gonna bend and shake it loose
Use whatever gets you through
You're swollen like a lexicon
If you hurry we'll be home real soon

Happy memories I remember
Home spun remedies for stormy weather
Juggling scissors in the afternoon
Picking up signs from across the room

If you live your life like a castaway in the hold neatly tucked away: