When Theyre Trying to Bring You Down Get Up Again
Everybody Hither Hates Yous
Other – ane. Everybody Here Hates You
I experience stupid, I feel useless, I feel insane
I feel toothless, man you're ruthless, oh…yes
i go to Loving Hut, i get my hair cutting, i feel the aforementioned
i feel putrid, i'thousand getting used to it, these days
you said, "information technology's only in your head
they're probably thinking
the aforementioned matter"
i'm bleeding, yous're leaving, i experience foreign
you been distant, you seem unlike than yesterday
everybody hurts, everybody breaks, n everybody fades
we're gonna tell everyone information technology's ok
we're gonna tell anybody information technology'due south ok
y'all said, "it'southward only in your caput
they're probably thinking
the aforementioned thing"
How To Boil An Egg
Other – 1. How To Boil An Egg
All my clothes in milk crates, I don't sleep for days.
Wait until the letter of the alphabet's crimson until my bills get paid.
Aw tell me, tell me, tell me, when's it gonna change?
Every forenoon I feel more useless than before.
Trying difficult to meet the point in anything at all.
Aw I've been trying, I've been trying really hard.
Pull yourself together.
Pick myself autonomously.
Nil lasts for never so be still my bleeding heart.
Aw I've been dreaming, dreaming of a brand new showtime.
Y'all have a great abundance of axes there to grind.
Remember some people have existent issues next fourth dimension you whine.
Oh hang the washing, hang the washing on the line.
Yeah I've been trying, I've been trying really difficult.
Aw tell me, tell me, tell me when'southward it gonna change.
Let It Go
Other – 1. Allow It Get
What time do yous usually wake upward?
Depends on what time I slumber
Technicolour rainbow horror
Sweetness dreams
Go on on rolling on the impulse
Ignore backstage lethargy and
All those obligations lost in
Reverie
You lot've gotta let it go
Before it takes you over
Eastern standard open G
Transpacific malady and
At-home is more than conducive to the
Remedy
Speckled sunlight on my freckles
Salty h2o curls my hair
Run the race at your ain stride
You'll become there
What comes beginning - the chorus or the verse?
I'm a bit blocked at the moment
They say the more you acquire the less that
You know
You've gotta let it become
Before it takes you over
You've gotta let it become
Before information technology takes y'all over
Yous've gotta allow it go
Earlier it takes you over
You lot've gotta allow it go
Before it takes you over
On Script
Other – ane. On Script
On script every night
Similar a well-rehearsed stage show
Wet your lips, information technology won't have long
To interruption this old behavior
Wings clipped, no need to fly
What, exercise you think that yous're special?
No reflex, it'south just a bend of the elbow
I know it's getting old
Nondescript, every night
Like a well-versed get well card
Barely dressed, and I just might
Take you up on your offer, aye
Pickles From The Jar
Other – i. Pickles From The Jar
I say dance, you lot say trip the light fantastic toe.
I say French republic, yous say France.
You're from Adelaide, I'm from Hobart.
I say Hugh, you lot say Grant.
I say pot, you say plant.
You're from Adelaide, I'chiliad from Hobart.
We couldn't be more reverse if we tried.
Oh, chalk and cheese, nosotros rarely meet eye to heart.
I am dumb, you lot are smart.
We are fifteen years apart.
You're from Adelaide, I'grand from Mars.
I say ooh, you say aah.
I am careful, you like scars.
I like pickles from the jar.
We couldn't be more contrary if nosotros tried.
Oh, chalk and cheese, we rarely see eye to eye.
I say You lot, you say Am I.
You similar mornings, I similar nights.
I'll dear y'all till the twenty-four hour period I die.
You say Christopher, I say Walken.
You love, I love Christopher Walken!!!
I guess at least we have got one matter in common.
Small Talk
Other – i. Pocket-sized Talk
do you have whatever siblings?
i got a brother, Blake, he'south four years older than me
(n i approximate he always will be)
aye he's clever and he's got a cool girlfriend (hey Hayley)
aw but await, at present that they're engaged soooooo
i hope they take kids so i can be a absurd aunty
i'1000 waiting here for you
i'g waiting here for y'all
what'd you lot think of the ultimate ending?
i fast forrad, become busy pretending that i've seen everything.
can i become you anything? a soda? Campari? with lemon? you got it.
i got better things to exercise than shave my legs, my pits, oh yeh..
i'm waiting here for you
i'm waiting here for you
i'one thousand looking 'cross the room north hoping that y'all're lookin besides..
do yous have any siblings?
you got a sis yeh she'southward a detective,
well i bet she'due south got some adept stories.
i gotta go simply i promise we can keep in touch
i like very much beingness here with you
simply you run into, all this small talk is killin' me
i'chiliad waiting here for you
i'thousand waiting here for you
i'thousand looking 'cross the room north hoping that you're lookin too.. etc
Iii Packs A Day
Other – one. Three Packs A Solar day
I'yard downwards to three packs a mean solar day of Mi Goreng I tin't explain information technology.
Can't wait for you to go away cos i just crave that meagre sense of taste yeah.
Boil information technology upwards, water in the saucepan.
In a cup, drink it from a silver spoon.
That MSG tastes good to me, i disagree with all your warnings.
And it can't be true that they utilise gum to keep the noodles stuck together.
Two minutes seems similar a life-time.
Burn my tongue, patience is a virtue.
I'm down to three packs a day,
I sneak away to find a kettle.
I withdraw from all my friends and their dinner plans, I'm sick of lentils.
Boil it up, water in the saucepan.
In a cup, potable information technology from a silver spoon.
It'south no good, information technology's no good, you say it'due south no practiced for you.
Elevator Operator
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit – i. Lift Operator
Oliver Paul, twenty years old, thick caput of hair worries he'south going baldheaded.
Wakes up at a quarter past nine, fare evades his mode down the 96 tram line.
Breakfast on the run again, he'south well aware he's dropping soy linseed Vegemite crumbs everywhere.
Feeling sick at the sight of his computer he dodges his way through the Swanston commuters.
Rips off his tie, hands information technology to a homeless man, sleeping in the corner of a Metro bus stand.
He screams "I'm not going to work today! Gonna count the minutes that the trains run late. Sit on the grass building pyramids out of Coke cans."
Headphone wielding to the Nicholas Edifice, he trips on a pothole that'due south not been filled in.
He waits for an elevator, 1 to 9, a lady walks in and waits by his side.
Her heels are high and her handbag is snakeskin.
Pilus pulled so tight you tin see her skeleton.
Vickers perfume on her jiff, a tortoise-shell necklace between her breasts.
She looks him up and downward with a Botox frown, he's well used to that look by now.
The lift dings, and they awkwardly step in, their fingers touch on the rooftop button… "Don't jump little boy, don't jump off that roof, you've got your whole life ahead of you lot you're still in your youth, I'd give annihilation to have pare like you lot!"
He said, "I remember yous're projecting, the way that y'all're feeling, I'm not suicidal just idling insignificantly. I come upwards hither, for perception and clarity, I like to imagine I'g playing Sim City. All the people look similar ants from up hither, and the wind's the merely traffic you can hear"
He said, "All I ever wanted to be was an Elevator Operator can you help me please?!" ... "Don't spring little boy, don't spring off that roof, you lot've got your whole life ahead of you y'all're even so in your youth, I'd give anything to take peel like y'all!"
Hopefulessness
Tell Me How You Really Feel – 1. Hopefulessness
Yknow what they say
No i's built-in to hate
We learn it somewhere along the way.
Take your broken heart
Turn information technology into art
Can't accept it with you, can't accept it with you
(I don't wanna, I don't wanna know)
Empty bottle dejection
Sleepin' unlike rooms
Hardly a maverick
Lesser than average
Your vulnerability is stronger than it seems
Yknow it's okay to have a bad 24-hour interval
(I don't wanna, I don't wanna know)
Just become this one done, then you tin motion along
Tin can't take information technology with you, tin't have it with you
Yknow what they say, no one's born to hate
Getting louder now, getting louder now
Out Of The Woodwork
The Double EP: A Bounding main of Split Peas – 1. Out Of The Woodwork
I was busy underwater seeing how long I could hold my breath.
A drowning flower defenseless my eye and I had to come on up for air.
Only because you're older than me, doesn't mean y'all have to exist so condescending.
I even so see the same things that you run across, I'thou a trivial shady on my history.
I am ordinarily pretty forgiving but only if you are.
She's then easy.
I noticed yous stopped talking to me, at present y'all're talking to me all the time.
Do you know yous're no good at listening?
Only you're really practiced at saying everything on your mind.
It must be tiring trying so hard, to expect like you're not really trying at all.
I guess if you're afraid of aiming too high, and then you lot're not actually gonna have too far to fall.
I am normally pretty forgiving merely only if you are.
She's and so easy.
Climb aboard the railroad vehicle when it comes on through.
Bound upwards on your equus caballus and tell me how's the view.
Await over my shoulder when I talk to yous.
Where'southward the more of import person in the room?
Rae Street
Things Accept Time, Take Fourth dimension – i. Rae Street
In the morning I'm slow. I drag a chair over to the window. And I watch what's going on. A garbage truck tiptoes along the road. Calorie-free a candle for the suffering. Transport my best wishes with the wind. All our candles, hopes due north prayers, though well-pregnant they don't mean a thing, unless we see some change. I might change my sheets today.
Well time is coin and coin is no homo's friend. And all eyes on the pavement, I'one thousand not gonna bear upon ya don't worry and then much nearly information technology.
The day begins to shine. The parent teaches the child how to ride the bike wobbles side to side. Two dogs entangle, everybody smiles. The pair across the street; one's upward the ladder and one's on their knees, painting the faded brick. What's the signal, information technology looks fine from upwards here.
Well time is money and coin is no homo'southward friend. And all eyes on the pavement, I'm not gonna bear on ya don't worry so much about it. I'm just waiting for the twenty-four hour period to get nighttime.
Adjacent door the kids run amok. The mother screams "don't you ever close-upwards?" And at that place'southward one thing I know; the sun will rising today and tomorrow. Nosotros got a long, long way to go.
Well time is money and money is no man's friend. And all eyes on the pavement, I'k not gonna touch ya don't worry and then much virtually it. I'm just waiting for the day to become dark.
Shine those shoes n mow those lawns, allow's get back to normal. Lay information technology all on the table, you seem so stable, only you're but hanging on. Permit get that expectation, change the station, find out what out what you want.
Pedestrian At Best
Sometimes I Sit down and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit – 2. Pedestrian At Best
I beloved you I hate you I'm on the contend it all depends whether I'g upwards I'm down I'g on the mend transcending all reality.
I similar yous despise you admire you what are nosotros gonna do when everything all falls through?
I must confess I've made a mess of what should be a small success only I digress at least I've tried my very best I gauge.
This that the other why even carp, it won't be with me on my death bed, but I'll nonetheless be in your caput.
Put me on a pedestal and I'll only disappoint you.
Tell me I'k exceptional I promise to exploit you.
Requite me all your coin and I'll brand some origami, honey.
I think you're a joke merely I don't find you very funny.
My internal monologue is saturated analogue, It's scratched and globe-trotting, I've become attached to the thought it'southward all a shifting dream bitter sweet philosophy, I've got no idea how I even got here.
I'm resentful I'thousand having an existential fourth dimension crisis, what elation, daylight savings won't fix this mess.
Underworked and oversexed I must express my disinterest, the rats are back within my head what would Freud take said?
Put me on a pedestal and I'll just disappoint you lot.
Tell me I'm exceptional I promise to exploit you.
Give me all your coin and I'll make some origami, beloved.
I think yous're a joke but I don't find yous very funny.
I wanna wash out my head with turpentine and cyanide, I dislike this internal diatribe when I effort to catch your centre I hate seeing you crying in the kitchen I don't know why it affects me similar this when you're non even mine to consider.
Erroneous.
Harmonious.
I'thousand hardly sanctimonious.
Muddy dress, I suppose, nosotros all outgrow ourselves.
I'm a fake, I'chiliad a phoney, I'm awake, I'm alone, I'm homely, I'm a Scorpio.
Put me on a pedestal and I'll only disappoint yous.
Tell me I'm exceptional I promise to exploit you.
Give me all your coin and I'll make some origami, honey.
I think you're a joke but I don't find you very funny.
City Looks Pretty
Tell Me How You Really Feel – 2. Urban center Looks Pretty
The city looks pretty when you been indoors
For 23 days I've ignored all your phone calls.
Anybody'southward waiting when you get dorsum home
They don't know where yous been, why you gone so long.
Friends treat you similar a stranger and
Strangers treat you similar their best friend, oh well
Spare a thought for the ones that came before
All in a daze bending backwards to reach your goal.
Sometimes I become sad
It's not all that bad
One day, maybe never
I'll come around
The city takes compassion on your injured soul
N heavenly prose ain't enough good to fill that hole.
Anybody's soaked in antagonism
Information technology's vicious in winter, you never say what y'all hateful.
Friends treat you lot like a stranger and
Strangers treat you like their best friend, oh well.
Wakin' up to another dismal twenty-four hours
You got a ways to go, you oughta be grateful.
Sometimes I get mad
Information technology's non one-half as bad
Pull yourself together
Due north simply calm downward
I'll be what you lot desire oh when you desire it
But I'll never be what you need
And the city looks pretty from where I'm standing…
Don't Utilize Compression Gently
The Double EP: A Sea of Divide Peas – ii. Don't Apply Pinch Gently
Tell me what yous're thinking, what you're thinking about.
Tell me when you lot're finished perchance I'll come up around.
Had enough to bring me all the way to the ground, I don't have to tell you what I'm thinking about.
Y'all have made your bed, I know amend than to sleep in it.
Ameliorate off dead than the hell that will go of it.
You lot have hurt my head but I'1000 not denying that I did non bring it on myself.
I take pieces of myself from everyone effectually me.
I'm not individual enough for you.
I replicate the people I admire but at least I'm non bitter and sad.
I may non be 100% happy but at to the lowest degree I'k non with you.
Sunfair Sundown
Things Take Time, Take Time – 2. Sunfair Sundown
Oh what a day, and congrats on the keys to your place. You've escaped the rat race equally they say. Now y'all're settling in for the stay anyhow you lot got a blank slate to renovate.
Take it all. Yep you reap what you sow and so it goes. What you put in the ground comes effectually when you don't even know what you're missing at all.
In a shock I can picture show you whittling away, with such care with such patience and grace. And I smile when y'all say that you'll build me a tabular array i day well, I'd exist so grateful.
Sometimes information technology's hard, getting lost you lot say is a fine art. Put the map down and follow the stars. Shall we exit? Are you sure? Let me grab my handbag nosotros can sneak out through the side door.
In the dark, are you scared, did you hear those dogs bark? northward exercise you ever wonder what sets yous apart? Shine the torch on the path, darling please don't permit go of my arm.
When you slumber, are you warm, tin can you experience my cold anxiety? Are you good, are y'all making ends meet? At the end of the mean solar day, you're awake with your thoughts and I don't want you lot to exist alone, and I don't desire you to be alone, yep I don't want yous to be lonely, and I don't want you to be alone.
An Illustration Of Loneliness (Sleepless In New York)
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Merely Sit – iii. An Illustration Of Loneliness (Sleepless In New York)
I lay awake at four, staring at the wall, counting all the cracks backwards in my all-time French.
Reminds me of a book I skim read in a surgery, all about palmistry I wonder what's in shop for me.
I pretend the plaster is the skin on my palms and the cracks are representative of what is going on.
I lose a breath, my love line seems entwined with death (could be a web)…I'm thinking of you too.
I lay awake at three, staring at the ceiling.
Information technology'due south a kind of off-white, maybe it'south a foam.
There's oily balance seeping from the kitchen, information technology's art-deco-necromantic-chic all the dinner plates are kitsch with Irish wolf-hounds, French baguettes wrapped loose effectually their necks, I recollect I'm hungry…I'k thinking of you as well.
I'm thinking of you as well. I'chiliad thinking of y'all too. I'm thinking of you lot.
Wondering what you're doing, what you lot're listening to, which quarter of the moon you're viewing from the bedchamber.
Watching all the movies, drinking all the smoothies, pond at the pool…I'm thinking of yous also.
I'm thinking of you too.
I'chiliad thinking of you too.
I'g thinking of yous besides.
I'm thinking of y'all too.
I'chiliad thinking of you.
Charity
Tell Me How Y'all Really Experience – 3. Clemency
At the finish of every flavour I'm spent upwards
Keep thinking this will exist the i.
Hesitation lingers till I'm unreasonable
Every bit if you intendance, I know you got your own stuff going on
Y'all must be having so much fun
Everything'southward amazing
So subservient I make myself sick
Are you listening?
Tin can't we talk nigh it once we've slept?
When tin we, aye can nosotros, work information technology out?
Meditation just makes you lot more strung out
I wish you had a guru to tell you to let it get, allow it go
You must be having so much fun
Everything's amazing
And so subservient I make myself sick
Are you listening?
Yous don't have to pretend y'all're non scared
Everyone else is just as terrified as you lot.
Medication simply makes yous more than upset
I bet y'all got a lot to testify I know you're still the aforementioned
You must be having so much fun
Everything's amazing
Then subservient I make myself sick
Are y'all listening?
Avant Gardener
The Double EP: A Bounding main of Split Peas – three. Avant Gardener
I sleep in late another day oh what a wonder oh what a waste.
It's a monday, it'south so mundane, what exciting things will happen today?
The g is full of hard rubbish it's a mess and I guess the neighbours must think nosotros run a meth lab.
We should ammend that, I pull the sheets back, it's forty degrees and i feel like i'k dying.
Life'southward getting difficult in here and so i do some gardening.
Anything to take my mind away from where information technology'southward sposed to be.
The overnice lady next door talks of green beds and all the nice things that she wants to constitute in them.
I wanna abound tomatoes on the forepart steps.
Sunflowers, edible bean sprouts, sweet corn and radishes.
I experience pro-active, i pull out weeds, all of a sudden I'm having problem breathing in.
My easily are shaky, my knees are weak, I tin't seem to stand on my own two feet.
I'm breathing merely i'm wheezing, feel like i'grand emphysem-in'.
My throat feels like a funnel filled with weet bix and kerosene and oh no, next thing i know they call upward triple o.
I'd rather die than owe the infirmary till I get quondam.
I get adrenalin straight to the heart, I experience like Uma Thurman post-overdosin' kick start.
Reminds me of the fourth dimension when i was actually ill and i had too much psuedoefedryn and i couldn't sleep at night.
Halfway down high street, Andy looks clashing, he'southward probably wondering what i'm doing getting in an ambulance.
The paramedic thinks i'thou clever cos i play guitar.
I think she's clever cos she stops people dying.
Anaphylactic and super hypo-condriactic, should've stayed in bed today I much prefer the mundane.
I take a striking from an asthma puffer.
I do it wrong.
I was never good at smoking bongs.
I'm non that expert at breathing in.
Here's The Matter
Things Accept Time, Have Time – 3. Here's The Thing
Here's the thing, can't stop thinking about you.
Yeah I'm writing, it's the only matter that I know how to do.
I don't know what to say, you're far abroad, I don't wanna be annoying.
I don't know what to say, you're so far away, and I feel insecure.
The windowsill, is momentarily filled with dominicus.
N information technology's these small thrills, that get me through the 24-hour interval until the side by side i.
And I'm not agape of heights possibly I'chiliad merely scared of falling.
And I'm not afraid of heights perchance I'g just scared of falling.
I'm your man, mysterious at your control.
And it'due south understandable, that you lot're in such loftier demand, information technology's true.
I don't know what to practise, looking like I'll never leave this room again.
I don't know what to do, gonna write this letter to yous that I'll never send.
Pocket-sized Poppies
Sometimes I Sit and Remember, and Sometimes I Just Sit – iv. Small Poppies
I stare at the backyard information technology's Wednesday morning, it needs a cutting just I'll leave information technology growing.
All dissimilar sizes and all shades of dark-green, slashing it downward just seems kinda mean.
In a way it'due south a shame you become abroad thinking it's just a game.
Who am I to deny myself a pawn for you to use? At the stop of the day it's a pain that I keep seeing your proper noun but I'm sure information technology's a diameter beingness you.
I don't know quite who I am oh merely human I am trying.
I make mistakes until I get it right.
An center for an eye for an eye for an centre, I don't agree with that why can't nosotros but talk nice?
Oh the calamity I wanna go to sleep for an eternity…who am I to deny myself a pawn?
Oh the humanity I wanna disappear into obscurity…but I'chiliad certain it's a bore beingness you.
I don't know quite who I am oh but man I am trying.
I make mistakes until I get information technology right.
An heart for an eye for an eye for an eye, I used to detest myself but now I think I'm alright.
I don't know quite who I am oh just human being I am trying.
I make mistakes until I get it correct.
An center for an eye for an middle for an heart, I dreamed I stabbed you with a coat hanger wire.
Need A Niggling Time
Tell Me How You lot Really Feel – 4. Demand A Little Fourth dimension
I don't know a lot well-nigh y'all merely
You seem to know a lot about me and so
I have a petty time out, I take a little time out
I'm sorry that I lost my patience
You deserve amend it's true
I demand a niggling fourth dimension out
I need a petty time out
From me
And you lot
Open up your insides evidence the states
Your inner most lecherous
I'll rip it out carefully
I promise you lot won't feel a thing
Everybody wants to accept their say
Forever waiting for some car crash
I need a piffling time out
I demand a little time out
From me
And you
Shave your head to encounter how it feels
Emotionally information technology's not that different
Just to the hand it's cute
(Yeah to the mitt information technology's beautiful)
You seem to have the weight of the globe
Upon your bony shoulders well hold on
You need a little time out
You demand a trivial time out
From you
And me
History Eraser
The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas – 4. History Eraser
I got drunk and fell asleep atop the sheets merely luckily i left the heater on.
And in my dreams i wrote the best song that i've ever written…can't recall how it goes.
I stayed drunk and vicious awake and i was cycling on a plane and far away i heard y'all say you lot liked me.
We drifted to a political party – cool.
The people went to high-sounding schoolhouse.
They made their paints by mixing acrid wash and lemonade.
In my encephalon I re-arrange the letters on the page to spell your proper noun.
I found an Ezra Pound and fabricated a bet that if i found a cigarette i'd driblet it all and marry you lot.
Only then a song comes on: "you tin't always get what you desire" – the Rolling Stones, oh woe is we, the irony!
The stones became the moss and once all inhibitions lost, the hipsters made a mission to the subcontract.
We drove by tractor there, the yellow straw replaced our hair, we laced the dairy river with the cream of sweet vermouth.
In my encephalon I re-arrange the letters on the page to spell your name.
Y'all said "we only live once" so we touched a footling tongue, and instantly i wanted to…I lost my railroad train of thought and jumped aboard the Epping as the doors were slowly closing on the earth.
I touched on and off and rubbed my arm up against yours and even so the inspector inspected me.
The lady in the roof was living proof that zippo really ever is exactly as it seems.
In my brain I re-arrange the letters on the page to spell your name.
We caught the river gunkhole downstream and ended upwardly beside a team of angry footballers.
I fed the ducks some krill and then we were sucked confronting our volition into the welcome doors of the casino.
Nosotros drank green margaritas, danced with sweet senoritas, and we all went abode as winners of a kind.
You said "i guarantee we'll have more than fun, potable till the moon becomes the sun, and in the taxi dwelling house i'll sing you a Triffids song!"
In my brain I re-arrange the letters on the folio to spell your name.
Before You Gotta Go
Things Take Time, Have Fourth dimension – 4. Before You Gotta Go
Before you gotta go, go, go, get; I wanted you to know, know, know, know; you lot're always on my mind, you're ever on my mind. If something were to happen my dear, I wouldn't want the concluding words you hear, to be unkind, to exist unkind.
We got angry, said some devil-may-care things, who was wrong remains unclear.
Pride similar poison. Always keeping score. You don't have to slam the door.
Before you gotta get, become, go, go; I wanted you to know, know, know, know; you're e'er on my mind, you lot're ever on my mind. If something were to happen my dear, I wouldn't want the final words you hear, to be unkind, to be unkind.
Don't you know I'm non your enemy, maybe let'south cut out caffeine.
Tomorrow's too late to reminisce, call me when you go this.
Before you gotta get, become, become, go; I wanted you to know, know, know, know; yous're always on my mind, you're always on my mind. If something were to happen my beloved, I wouldn't want the last words you lot hear, to be unkind, to exist unkind.
Money down the drain,
Funny how things alter,
You got to get away,
Yeah I know and I don't blame you lot.
Depreston
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit – 5. Depreston
Y'all said nosotros should look out further, I guess information technology wouldn't hurt us.
We don't accept to be around all these coffee shops.
Now we've got that percolator, never made a latte greater.
I'm saving twenty-three dollars a week.
We drive to a house in Preston, nosotros see police arresting a homo with his paw in a bag.
How's that for first impressions? This identify seems depressing.
It's a "Californian bungalow in a cul-de-sac".
It's got a lovely garden, a garage for two cars to park in ("or a lot of room for storage if you lot've just got ane").
And it'due south going pretty cheap you say? "Well it'due south a deceased estate….aren't the pressed metal ceilings great?"
Then I see the handrails in the shower, a collection of those canisters for coffee, tea and flour, and a photo of a swain in a van in Vietnam.
And I tin can't call up of floorboards anymore, whether the front end room faces southward or northward, and I wonder what she bought information technology for.
(If yous've got a spare half a million, you should knock information technology downwards and showtime rebuilding)
Nameless, Faceless
Tell Me How You Really Experience – 5. Nameless, Faceless
Don't y'all accept anything improve to do
I wish that someone would hug you lot
Must be alone
Beingness angry
Feeling over-looked.
You lot sit lone at home in the darkness
With all the pent-upwardly rage that you lot harness
I'm existent sorry
Tour whatever happened to y'all
I wanna walk through the park in the dark
Men are scared that women will express joy at them
I wanna walk through the park in the dark
Women are scared that men will kill them
I concord my keys
Between my fingers
He said "I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup
And spit out meliorate words than you"
But you didn't
Human you're kidding yourself if you think
The globe revolves around yous
Yknow yous got lots to requite
N so many options
I'm real sorry
Tour whatever happened to you
I wanna walk through the park in the dark
Men are scared that women will express mirth at them
I wanna walk through the park in the dark
Women are scared that men will kill them
I hold my keys
Between my fingers
Go on tell me
You're just kidding
He said, she said
Nameless, faceless
David
The Double EP: A Body of water of Separate Peas – 5. David
If you run across me when I'chiliad feeling downwards, I don't know if I want you lot around.
Don't desire yous around…I don't really like any of your friends, merely it'southward non that hard for me to pretend.
Hard to pretend…Come on Davey, let's get plant a tree.
You bring the spade, I'll bring the seeds. I'll bring the seeds…
Turning Green
Things Take Time, Take Time – five. Turning Green
Y'all been around the world looking for the perfect girl turns out she was just livin down the street, livin down the street. When you got the time can I get you on the line? I want you to tell me everything, tell me everything. I never seen you so happy.
The copse are turning light-green n this springtime lethargy is kinda forcing you to come across flowers in the weeds. When you got the time can I get yous on the line? I want y'all to tell me everything, tell me everything. I never seen y'all so happy
I hear all your fears and they are understandable my friend. Why don't you let go of those ideas, they're never gonna serve you in the end.
Aqua Profonda!
Sometimes I Sit and Remember, and Sometimes I Just Sit – 6. Aqua Profonda!
I saw you in the lane next to me.
You were doing gratuitous-mode.
Then you switched it around to a little bit of backstroke.
I couldn't run into underneath your swimming cap simply it appeared that you had dark coloured hair; maybe it was blonde for all I know.
I had goggles on.
They were getting foggy.
I much prefer swimming to jogging.
I tried my very best to impress you, held my jiff longer than I normally practise.
I was getting silly.
My pilus was moisture n frizzy.
Felt my muscles burn, I took a tumble-turn for the worse (it'south a curse my lack of athleticism).
Sunk similar a stone.
Like a first owners home loan.
When I came to, you and your towel were gone.
I'm Not Your Mother, I'm Not Your Bitch
Tell Me How You Actually Feel – 6. I'm Not Your Female parent, I'm Not Your Bitch
I'yard not your female parent, I'm not your bitch
I hear you lot mutter, under your breath
Put up or shut upwardly, it's all the same
It's all the same, never change, never modify
I'1000 not your female parent, I'm non your bowwow
d-did I stutter, a fiddling bit
sit down down due north close up, it'southward however
it'south all the same, never modify, never change
I get most self-defensive
When I know I'k wrong
Call back nosotros all tin can concord
I endeavour my best to be patient
Just I can only put upwards with so much shit
I'thousand not your mother, I'm non your bowwow
I hear you mutter, under your breath
Put upward or close up, it'southward all the same
It's all the same, never change, never change
Anonymous Club
The Double EP: A Body of water of Split Peas – half dozen. Anonymous Social club
Permit's outset an anonymous club, we can sit close in the dark.
Come round to mine, nosotros tin swap dress and drinkable wine all night.
Plough your phone off friend, you're amongst friends and we don't need no interruptions.
Leave your shoes at the door, along with your troubles.
Allow's start an anonymous club, I'll brand us proper name badges with question marks.
Come round to mine, we can swap wearing apparel and drink wine all dark.
Turn your telephone off friend, yous're amongst friends and we don't need no interruptions.
Go out your shoes at the door, forth with your troubles.
Thanks for cooking for me, I had a really nice evening, just you and me.
Take It Day By Day
Things Take Time, Take Time – 6. Take It Twenty-four hour period Past Twenty-four hours
Accept it twenty-four hour period by day, you gotta put
One foot in forepart of the other
Yous'll become what you want,
I promise, but don't give upwardly just yet,
Perhaps tomorra
Could be time well spent, reflecting,
On all the footling things you keep projecting,
On everybody that you lot're and then obsessed with
Have a look at yourself
Tuesday night I'm checking in
Merely to encounter how you're going
Are you adept are yous eating
I'll call you lot back next week
Don't stick that knife in the toaster
Baby life is like a rollercoaster
And in that location's nothing wrong with getting older
Go on one eye on the prize.
Don't give up simply yet, you got it.
Don't worry your pretty trivial head,
Soon you'll be in bed
Oh what a long, long solar day information technology's been.
Tuesday night I'g checking in
Just to see how you're going
Are you practiced are you eating
I'll call yous dorsum side by side week
Dead Fox
Sometimes I Sit and Recollect, and Sometimes I Simply Sit – seven. Expressionless Play tricks
Jen insists that we buy organic vegetables and I must admit that I was a fiddling skeptical at first; a little pesticide can't injure?
Never having too much coin I get the cheap stuff at the supermarket, but they're all pumped up with shit, a friend told me that they stick nicotine in the apples.
If you can't see me I can't encounter y'all.
Heading down the Highway Hume somewhere at the cease of June.
Taxidermied kangaroos are littered on the shoulders.
A possum Jackson Pollock is painted on the tar.
Sometimes I recall a unmarried sneeze could be the end of us, my hay-fever is turning upward, only swerved into a passing truck.
Big business overtaking, without indicating; he passes on the correct, been driving through the night to bring us the all-time price.
If you can't run across me I can't come across you.
More people dice on the road than they practise in the ocean, maybe nosotros should mull over culling cars instead of sharks (or merely lock them up in parks where we can go and view them).
There'due south a featherbed over Holbrook now, paid for with burgers no doubt, I've lost count of all the cows.
There'll be no salad sandwiches. The police force of averages says we'll finish in the adjacent boondocks where petrol price is down (what exercise I know anyhow?) If yous can't see me I can't encounter y'all.
Crippling Self Doubt and a General Lack of Confidence
Tell Me How Y'all Really Feel – 7. Crippling Self Dubiousness and a General Lack of Confidence
Yeah they say whoever pays
The piper calls the tune
Let's avoid the truth
Brand yous all experience special
Your desperation stinks
I can smell it on your breath
A sure absolut anosmic
Got yourself to arraign for this
(Tell me how you actually feel)
I don't know, I don't know anything
I don't owe, I don't owe anything
Your opinion ways a lot
Well tell me what'due south the employ?
I never feel every bit stupid
As when I'm around you
And indecision rots
Like a purse of last weeks meat
And I guess it's hard to go along
Everybody happy
(Tell me how you lot really experience)
I don't know, I don't know anything
I don't owe, I don't owe anything
Lance Jr.
The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas – vii. Lance Jr.
I masturbated to the songs you wrote.
Resuscitated all of my hopes.
It felt wrong only it didn't have likewise long.
Much appreciated are your songs.
Doesn't hateful I similar y'all man.
It just helps me get to sleep.
And it's cheaper than Temazepam.
I nether-estimated your intelligence.
A picayune bit of weed mixed with some sentiment.
Over-rated films marked 'Thirty' Come on play it with some tenderness.
If I Don't Hear From Yous Tonight
Things Take Time, Take Time – 7. If I Don't Hear From You Tonight
Stars in the sky, are gonna die, somewhen it'south fine.
Just similar a lonely satellite, drifting for a piddling while.
If I don't hear from y'all tonight, if I don't hear from you tonight.
And information technology's so quiet outside, with this curfew lullaby.
Is now an okay time to, tell you that I like yous?
I wait for your reply, wait for your respond.
If I don't hear from you tonight, if I don't hear from yous tonight.
And I swear i'll never mention, this ever once more.
Just now that I got your attending, I don't wanna bore the brains outta your head.
All my fears collided, when our common friend confided in me that
There'south a ninety-9 percent take chances that it's requited.
I read my bible left to right,
I fantasise I'thousand by your side.
I lay awake and wonder why,
I pray for pelting and angels cry.
If I don't hear from y'all this evening, if I don't hear from you tonight.
Babe I need reminding, I got feelings too.
And I tried my best to hide them, but I don't wanna hide anything from you.
Stars in the sky, are gonna dice, eventually it'south fine.
Yknow that every morning I'm ascension with you on my mind.
If loving you lot'southward a crime, then gimme those front end page headlines,
across the country and worldwide, singing I won't give up this fourth dimension.
If I don't hear from you this night,
I know you probably airtight your eyes,
And everything will be alright,
If I don't hear from you tonight,
If I don't hear from you tonight,
If I don't hear from you lot tonight,
If I don't hear from you this evening.
Nobody Really Cares If You lot Don't Go To The Political party
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Simply Sit – viii. Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Get To The Party
You e'er get what yous want and y'all don't even try.
Your friends hate it when it'south ever going your way, but I'm glad that you lot've that got luck on your side.
You're maxim definitely maybe.
I'g proverb probably no.
You say you lot'll sleep when you're dead, I'm scared i'll dice in my sleep, I estimate that's not a bad way to go.
I wanna get out but I wanna stay home.
Why you so eager to please? I article of clothing my heart on my sleeve.
Gets harder in the winter, gotta be a fake or shiver, Information technology takes a great bargain out of me.
Yep I like hearing your stories, just I've heard them all before.
I'd rather stay in bed, with the pelting over my caput, than have to pick my brain up off of the floor.
I wanna go out but I wanna stay abode.
Assist Your Self
Tell Me How Y'all Really Feel – 8. Help Your Self
Darkness depends on where you're standing
Jump the creek northward watch the sunshine swim
You found inner peace in the inner north-eastward.
Got a momentary bend
Gimme dreams up-stream
Lower Dantian screaming
You lot got a lot on your plate
Don't let it go to waste
Humble only hungry
Need validation
Y'all catch the moon so carefully
Breath out, breath in
This tiger claw gets patient
Pull back n release.
The sign on the shelf says
"Please help your self"
Won't you tell me something new
You're in tune with who surrounds you
You lot got a lot on your plate
Don't allow information technology go to waste
Apprehensive but hungry
Need validation
Yous got a lot on your mind
You know that half the fourth dimension
It's only half every bit true
Don't allow information technology swallow you
Are You Looking After Yourself?
The Double EP: A Body of water of Carve up Peas – 8. Are Y'all Looking After Yourself?
Are you lot working hard my darling, we're and then worried, e'er thinking of you and nosotros just desire you to exist so happy, keep on going.
I don't desire no ix to 5, telling me that I'thou alive and 'Human, yous're doing well!'
Have you got some money saved upward for those rainy days?
You lot should start some sort of trust fund only incase you fail.
My friends play in bands, they are better than everything on radio.
Did you see that special on Tv the other eve?
No my Idiot box, it stopped working when we got here (it's been 4 years).
Are you eating? Yous sound and so thin.
I don't know what I was thinking, I should go a job.
I don't know what I was drinking, I should become a dog.
Should become married, have some babies, watch the evening news.
Write A List of Things to Look Frontwards to
Things Take Time, Take Fourth dimension – viii. Write A List of Things to Look Forward to
Nobody knows, why we keep trying, why we keep trying.
And so on it goes, I'm looking forwards to the next alphabetic character that I'yard gonna get from y'all.
A baby is born, as a man lay dying, every bit a human being lay dying.
And so on it goes, I'chiliad looking forward to the next letter of the alphabet that I'm gonna become from you.
Sit beside me, watch the globe burn, we'll never learn we don't deserve prissy things.
And nosotros'll scream, self-righteously, we did our all-time but what does that even mean.
I'chiliad walking effectually, walking around.
With my caput down, my head down.
I'm pushing away, I'g pushing away.
Yeah I'chiliad pushing away, pushing away.
Debbie Downer
Sometimes I Sit down and Call up, and Sometimes I Just Sit – ix. Debbie Downer
Tell me when you're getting bored and I'll leave.
I'm not the ane who put the chain around your anxiety.
I'm sorry for all of my insecurities, but information technology'southward merely part of me.
Envy is sparse considering it bites but never eats.
That'due south what a nice old Spanish lady once told me.
Hey Debbie Downer turn that frown upside down and merely exist happy.
I don't ask also much of you, it'south truthful, and I can't read your mind.
Don't stop listening I'k not finished yet.
I'yard not fishing for your compliments.
I'yard growing older every time I blink my optics.
Tiresome, neurotic everything that I despise.
We had some lows nosotros had some mids we had some highs.
Sell me all your golden rules and I'll meet if that's the kind of person that I want to be.
If I'm not happy I'll be glad I kept receipts.
I won't ask likewise much of y'all, I used to wonder what to habiliment.
Don't stop listening I'm non finished yet, I'grand not fishing for your compliments.
Walkin' On Eggshells
Tell Me How Y'all Actually Feel – 9. Walkin' On Eggshells
Before nosotros get started I'll clean this up
No use drinkin' from a leakin' loving cup
Yknow what I hateful?
Non really information technology seems
N when we get going' we'll keep it sane
Change is every bit good equally a holiday
I'm not claimin' I'chiliad some patron saint
Say what you want
Don't got a lot
Oh only what I got
I'd give
It all away
Walkin' on eggshells gets tiring
Pullin' teeth, white knucklin'
N I don't wanna hurt your feelings
And then I say nothing
Sorta self-rightous my heart of gold
Just sit down back, exercise what you're told
If yous spot it you lot got it
Well possibly I got it too
(and it goes, and it goes, yep it goes away…
say what you hateful to say)
Say what you want
Don't got a lot
Oh but what I got
I'd give
Information technology all away
Say what you want
Don't got a lot
Oh simply what you got
Y'all'd throw
Information technology all away
Scotty Says
The Double EP: A Sea of Split up Peas – 9. Scotty Says
In my wallet is a photo of yous.
The day we split I ripped it in ii.
Stuck it back together with glue.
Tear my posters downwardly from the wall.
Don't wanna worship no expressionless heroes.
Everything I owned I sold.
I got lost somewhere between here and there, I'm not certain what the boondocks was called.
In my pocket is a bottle of blue.
Drink it when I'g feeling misconstrued.
Don't like the taste but I like the overview.
I made a lot of money in my days.
Spent it all on the current craze.
I don't see no need to salve.
I got lost somewhere between here and there, I'm not sure what the town was called.
Splendour
Things Accept Time, Take Time – 9. Splendour
I say, why are yous always leaving me?
You say, y'all're the i leaving me.
Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no,
oh no I am really gonna miss you.
Really gonna miss you.
Remember when we watched that sunset?
Deep in the desert, on the cliff edge.
Some day, then soon, I'll exist seeing you
I'll be seeing you.
Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no,
oh no I am actually gonna miss you.
Really gonna miss you.
Kim's Caravan
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit – 10. Kim'south Caravan
Watermarks on the ceiling.
I can see Jesus and he'due south frowning at me.
I see a expressionless seal on the beach.
The quondam human says he'southward "already saved it three times this week. Guess it just wants to dice?
I would wanna die too (he said) "With people putting oil into my air but to be fair I've done my share guess everybody'south got their different bespeak of view."
I was driving down sun ready strip (Phillip Island, not Los Angeles) Got me some hot fries and a cool drink, took a sandy seat on the shore.
There's a paper on the footing, it makes my headache quite profound equally I read it out aloud (It said) "The Great Bulwark Reef information technology own't so neat anymore, Information technology'southward been raped beyond conventionalities, the dredgers treat it like a whore."
Drank till I was sinking, sank till I was thinking, that I'm thankful for this view.
Drank till I was sinking, sank till I was thinking, that I'one thousand thankful for this view.
We either think that we're invincible or that we are invisible but realistically we're somewhere in between.
We all think that we are nobody only everybody is somebody else'south somebody.
Don't enquire me what I actually mean, I am only a reflection of what you really wanna see and then take what you want from me.
So take what you want from me.
And then take what yous want from me.
Then take what you want from me.
And so have what you desire from me.
Satellites on the ceiling, I can Jesus and she'south smiling at me.
All I wanna say is…
Sunday Roast
Tell Me How You lot Really Feel – 10. Sunday Roast
Don't come with your arms swinging
Throw them around me
Some kind of sweetness relief
I hope you never leave
It's notwithstanding to me
Simply bring yourself
Y'all know your presence is
Present enough
I got a front row seat
It's all the same to me
I spend a lotta my fourth dimension
Doin' a whole lotta zippo
I know you're doin' your best
I recall you're doin' just fine
I know it's been a long week
And now you're takin' your time
Some kindness goes effectually
Some kinda backfires
It's all the same to me
Ignore that voice
It puts you down
You lot make your choice
I'm here for you lot
It'south all the same to me
I got a lot on my mind
Just I dunno how to say it
I know you lot're doin' your best
I retrieve you're doin' just fine
Keep on keepin' on yknow you're not alone
And I know all your stories merely I'll heed to them once again
And if you move away yknow I'll miss your face
It's withal to me yknow it's all the same to me
Canned Tomatoes – Whole
The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas – ten. Canned Tomatoes – Whole
I walk slowly to the shop, you don't live hither anymore
Y'all used to alive circular the corner (cigarettes and alcohol)
Concluding week I turned twenty-four, you don't call me anymore
We used to speak every morning time I was sleeping on the flooring
I still get the postal service for yous, I leave it at the door
Every alphabetic character seems a warning, pay your rego by the fourth
Monday morn laundry or coffee on the garden wall
You lot're good 'crusade you're never boring, yous should probably call me more
Oh The Night
Things Accept Time, Accept Time – x. Oh The Night
Oh the night, goes and then slowly,
anytime, I become low.
And I don't really need reminding,
I know information technology's only in my listen.
And you say that'south prove biz babe.
Zero always stays the aforementioned.
But I'k the same child, always laughing
At your jokes the aforementioned old way.
Sorry that I been slow yknow information technology takes a niggling,
Time for me to prove, how I
Actually feel. Won't y'all meet me somewhere in the middle
On our ain time-zone.
And the days seem so familiar
Similar a motion-picture show ya never seen.
Nevertheless you yet go that foreign nostalgia
In the sentimental scenes.
Sad that I been slow yknow it takes a little,
Fourth dimension for me to testify, how I
Actually feel. Won't you lot come across me somewhere in the middle
On our ain time-zone.
Oh the nighttime, goes so slowly,
someday, I become low.
And I don't actually need reminding,
I know it'south merely in my listen.
Boxing Day Blues
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit – eleven. Battle Day Blues
I know that I allow you lot downwardly.
You're not dandy on what yous plant.
When'due south the funeral, practise yous want me to come up?
I'1000 not what you're looking for.
My business firm has an open door.
You lot need a lock and a central.
I honey all of your ideas.
Yous dearest the idea of me.
Lover I've got no idea.
Lover I've got no idea.
Lover I've got no idea.
Boxing Day Blues (Revisited)
Sometimes I Sit and Retrieve, and Sometimes I Simply Sit – eleven. Boxing Twenty-four hours Blues (Revisited)
How was your day?
Mine was OK.
Worked my fingers downward to the os.
How virtually you, what did you practise?
Spent my whole dark dreaming of you.
Like a Christmas tree on Boxing Day: thrown away.
Why don't you feel for me anymore?
I'thou feeling fine, except the times I'm not.
Why you so calm? I wanna shout.
I wanna rip my goddamn pharynx out.
Similar a Christmas tree on Boxing Day: thrown abroad.
Why don't you feel for me anymore?
Nosotros're only like two icebergs in climatic change: globe-trotting away.
Why practise you feel for me anyhow?
Porcelain
The Double EP: A Body of water of Separate Peas – xi. Porcelain
I institute you at the store, pretty as porcelain.
Y'all are worth and then much more, than what you're going for.
Don't allow them handle you, you lot amend start praying.
That own't no mode to be, I got a color Television receiver.
I'll listen a thousand times, you can repeat yourself.
If information technology helps clear your listen, it's simply another night.
Call me when you are washed, I'll count my tickets upwardly.
No need to feel so low, you're but every bit low every bit you could go.
Ode To Odetta
The Double EP: A Ocean of Carve up Peas – 12. Ode To Odetta
I sing loftier, you sing depression.
I swing by, and you're not abode.
Oh, oh, O-detta won't you come home.
I sing plainly, you sing pretty.
Everything you say sounds piece of cake.
Oh, oh, O-detta won't you lot come domicile.
Source: https://courtneybarnett.com.au/lyrics
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