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You didn't have to ask
You know you're always welcome here
It's good to hear your laugh
It really makes a difference
So tell me how you've been
Would you like a cup of tea?
Yeah I'm just the same
Well you know how things can be
And no I don't mind
It's not like I was doing anything
And you know I don't mind
It's not like I was doing anything
Or even remotely like it
It's little that holds my interest
That's another story
And no I don't mind
It's not like I was doing anything
And you know I don't mind
It's not like I was doing anything
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You tell me that you know all the answers
I tell you you're wrong
It's driving me out of my head
I want you to stay, but I can't seem to say it
The words just won't come
So I'm driving you home instead
Could I walk straight up to you, and
Could I be so tough
To collect you as I leave this joint and
Wrap my arms around you?
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When I lie awake I try not to think of you
but if that doesn’t work I just resign myself to you
Don’t want to feel like this ’cause thoughts of you unsettle me
What I really want is for you to mean nothing to me
It’s okay to dream but dreaming fades reality
What I really want is for you to mean nothing to me
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I wonder if you're happy
I wonder if you're high
I wonder if you sigh a lot
I wonder if you're blind enough for me
I see your face in winter
Winter makes me cry
Running out of summer time
Naked body lie
Here we go
Living out our life
Driving to the sky
In the summer
Tried to be what we could but we couldn’t
I’d like to call you maybe
I’d like to see you smile
I’d like to go on loving you
I’d like to stay a while
Here we go
Living out our life
Driving to the sky
In the summer
Tried to be what we could but we couldn’t
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Some time soon
The phone will ring
The conversation
will do something
to compensate for this empty house
This empty house
Waiting time
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There may come a time
when I've forgotten all the words to every song
Except the ones about you
that I wrote when we were young
If I hide a lie, between two truths
Doesn't mean that it's about you
There may come a time
when all my stars go out, one by one
And when that day comes
I hope you're standing here, by my side
To see you smile from across the room
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She was out walking on a quiet night in the city
Where all the little girls look so pretty
Where the carbon monoxide fumes had turned the sky yellow
Where one man led the parade and a thousand people followed
And he said
Little girl come back to my room
Where I can show you the stars and show you the moon
Show you the night by the naked glow of a 60 watt electric light
And if you show me your charms
If you show me a vision
Then I won’t have to talk to you
Just look submissive and I won’t have to think about you
Let me make your body shiver
Let me take your charms and hang them from my rear-view mirror
I can show you love is tragic
Let me take you in my arms pretending that you’re made of plastic
And he said
Little girl come back to my room
Let me put you in your place
Let me spread your lipstick all over your face
And if you show me your charms
If you show me a vision
Then I won’t have to talk to you
Just look submissive and I won’t have to think about you
And I won’t have to talk to you
Turn on the television
And I won’t have to think about you
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Disappointment comes when I fail to reach my dreams,
disillusionment when I succeed
Immobility numbs me
Does it really matter
when all that glitters is not gold
Slipping through your fingers,
red hot embers soon grow grey and cold
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In the light of day
it becomes more clear
that you don't want me here
At night,
At night you start to think
that you're in love with me
is it from the drink
or insecurity
What should I believe?
When you hold me in your arms
or hang up on me
When I call you on the phone
and you don't want to speak to me
Each time,
Each time I still want you
each time I start to cry
when you lie and say you'll stay
then you say goodbye
and we don't talk until the next time
Each time I wake
in the light of day
it becomes more clear to me
that you don't want me here
In the light of day
it becomes more clear
that you don't want me here
Each time,
each time I start to cry
when you lie and say you'll stay
then you say goodbye
and we don't talk
and we don't smile
until the next time.
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I know the seasons change
Makes me sad, but I won't tell
I think I know your dreams
Don't know you long, but know you well
You're always on my mind
You have love and I have time
I've always guessed your heart
Was not for keeps, but I don't mind
When summer's over we are too
You don't say, but I can tell
We were walking in the dark
The softest hands I've ever held
Just sleep like this a while
Arms around me feel secure
You say you're coming back
But hesitate to say you're sure
I know the seasons change
One with you was worth it all
I can't tell you anything
I know that you'll be gone by fall
This summer's gone and you are too
Sweetest voice I'll ever miss
We were talking in the dark
The softest lips I've ever kissed
Leaves are turning so will you
Golden arms I'll ever miss
You don't say, but still I know
The softest lips I'll never kiss again
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We made a cross at the wire
the Berlin Wall was never in doubt
And to the top of the tower
I looked away to the breaking storm
The radio's working and transmitting through
but I cant get over and out
And all I hear is the static
winding on and on and on
And if we were to ever meet again
would there be anything to say?
It's hard to imagine that there was a time
when we were both in love
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Walking up the street I was thinking about it
As I tend to do
Walking up the lane there’s no doubt about it
I was thinking of you
I can't quite say,
What is wrong but I want to tell you all about it,
I’m embarrassed to say it
But I guess its true;
I don’t know what I want
What I want you to do.
The problem is, I want you to think and believe the same things as me...
Why do I always act so dumb?
I can’t really say
what is wrong
but I want to tell you all about it if I can
In my dreaming
We were in a house
You were crying
I was cooking up some food
It’s the way that things are going to be from now on
(I was in a house
It’s the way things will be )
Walking up the street I was thinking about it in a vague sort of way
Walking up the lane there’s no doubt about it
I was thinking of you
I hadn’t seen you in well over three weeks
It seems longer than that
I dreamed last night we were in a house
Somewhere by the sea
I’m embarrassed to say it
But I guess its true;
I don’t know what I want you to do.
Walking up the street I was thinking about it in my vague sort of way
Walking up the lane there’s no doubt about it
I know you’re coming today
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Do you ever wonder what it was really like? What was your favourite childhood memory? And what did you want to be when you grew up?
I brought something for you. Something homespun and charming, sweet and starry-eyed. Something which holds a certain cuteness and even a certain brashness between its vulnerability and fright. It reminds me of the girl with the strawberry hair: puppyish but not puppy-eyed, effervescent yet sincere; trying and falling as the days go by.
Don't open it yet. There's beauty in its brevity but time goes too quickly. Assurance in dreams but inconstancy in all else, our memories of Marineville all but forgotten. We can run away with it, be alone with it and keep its wistfulness for ourselves.
Summerdays spent on 53rd and 3rd; popkisses shared under blue suburban skies. Fleeting autumnal nights when we were left in the rain. I think It's unashamedly lovelorn and I'm so bookish and shy.
I thought you'd like it.
released November 17, 2017
Compiled by Bayu and Moopie between August 2016 and July 2017
Mastered by Mikey Young
Vinyl cut by Mike Grinser at Dubplates & Mastering
Thank you Deborah Auchinachie, Guy Blackman, Mitchell Jones.