stand off, a stand off we're off to the send-off you sit on the stairs lost in your hair what's that you're wearing? it looks like a necklace oh, how the stars ...

I'm not strong I'm not brave I'm not strong I'm not brave I'm not strong enough I'm not brave enough to say walk away I'm not weak I can't speak This is no mus...

I used to say dumb things I guess I still do I'm doing it again But that's what happens When you're in view More used to naked men You said leave the light on D...

Fire Fire Fire and rock and roll Fire and rock and roll Like Rome Like Rome 1952 Pre-anything Pre-almost anything Fired like an arrow in a bow You aim low You...

Were you born or just conceived? Whatever comes, crosses me Theres no routine, Ive never lived like this What can I say? Theres lightning on the hill tonight Ov...

ask he said, and ask is what I did a tone of plea for everything you get and I feel too much has been made of my fault, I don't call a spade ask he said, ask fo...

Hey wait, please wait, Don't rush off, You won't be late Wait, yes, he'll wait, The engine's running At the gate Don't believe what you've heard, "Faithful"'s...

make me last make me last through our love make me last new masquerade to be absorbed I had to act before now I talk and make me last make me last through our l...

You opened my mail Apart at the seams Now you know I live beyond my means Beneath my bed There's gold in the earth Above the price That gold is now worth Never ...

my head fits into my hands I roll it around and nothing comes out by chance, we fight by chance, struck a chord we'll stand tonight who broke who who screamed w...

A white moon appears Like a hole in the sky, The mangroves go quiet In la Brisa de la Palma A teenage Rasputin Takes the sting from a gin, "When a woman learns ...

We're both careful We're both kind I know you you're so easy to find Clumsy me, clumsy you Fell in love and we don't know what to do We make mistakes Things c...

I recall a schoolboy coming home Through fields of cane To a house of tin and timber And in the sky A rain of falling cinders From time to time The waste memory...

The clouds are here They aren't up in the sky I cupped them with my hands and reached up high I said to these clouds, "no more am I blind I have to see straigh...

What would you do If I told you To run from him? What would vou say If I told you to Abandon him? I khow you drink, You've had a lot to drink, Do you have to ta...

If the cliffs were any closer, If the water wasn't so bad I'd dive for your memory on the rocks and the sand I'd dive for you Like a bird I'd descend Deep down...

Lyric: Robert Remembered your name Evidently, you've forgotten mine You know a lot of people I know, a mind dulled by work and wine I got hired but I got tire...

like a ghost a ghost of something old it's cold and dusty in here just twenty years and six feet down I'm told I know your face I share your name in the dark wh...

I suspected for some time that you had other lovers But I didn't know that those men in your room weren't really your brothers And I was working in the ice-rink...

It starts with a birthstone And ends with a tombstone Cathedrals in London, Cathedrals in Rome, all stone And I just say (what do you say?) And I just say (wha...

I lived in seclusion for a couple of years In a german farmhouse just drinking beer And every morning I'd wake up with a smile from ear to ear I had one contac...

You sure gotta funny way Of hanging on to the Babylon Of the always gone and getting it wrong Because it makes no difference to anyone That you had your fun in ...

He's got a four wheel drive that he takes to Double Island Point He's got a relationship with a woman that he met in an Irish joint I know the land And the colo...

I'd never met her type she ignored me and that's alright Never to be friends or my body lie on her floor Her father works Her mother works in exports But that's...

How can I help you focus When all you do is choke us? Try looking for me and wishing for me And kiss me softer than the rest How can I help you dream When all ...

Under blue skies Under your eyes Under clouds so dark they make you cry I see red boats I see grey cars I hear sounds so white they could be stars Under blue ...

I think I'm getting it right this time; I can tell by the way she grins She put the postcards up on the head of our bed, I can see Algiers She said "don't the s...

She wiped the hair right out of my eyes Tempted me through with desire I was trying my best at this stage To set myself on fire then she said hello I just get c...

(Robert Forester) She knows that I'm not ready When my nerves are steady When my eyes are free of tears Someday She doesn't want to hurt me It's OK I'm allright...

If the Devil had seen your dress He would've changed his name Put down his fork and moved up above Why burn in hell when you burn for love? I know what I mean b...

One light One light's all you need to keep the dark out One look One look's all it takes to put the fire out Too close and he knew it His knowledge cost him eve...

Everyone knows everybody else Let's skip introductions Talk on little Joe His mother left for me to mind a 100 a week A lovely guy of 26 loves only the lonely l...

There's a cat in the alleyway Dreaming of birds that are blue Sometimes girl when I'm lonely This is how I think about you There are times that I want you I wan...

I'm ten feet under water Standing in a sunken canoe Looking up at the waterlillies They're green and violet blue Still the sun it finds A place to light me Stil...

Diamonds on the water at five o'clock Lovers lie around in tangled knots Pulling your picture from a cardboard box Forget you not, forget me not I don't want t...

I WANT YOU BACK Feel so sure of our love I'll write a song about us breaking up "The Traffic Lights on the Street of Love" Have just turned redturned red, and ...

No sign of heaven here Just some run-down imitation white cloud So you been crying hard Wake up and up to what you been lying on I don't ask for the earth and...

alright come on no-w-w-w-w the main gate to the mansion is locked it's on my street -- on my block I went in but I got chased off the store-keeper said 'why don...

Your pride's my pride Your on your side and I stand, tongue tied with my lies You see things in black I see things in white It's just a twist in the light Like...

I hear you skating on the ice And wonder why you left me twice The eerie sound of blade on lake Cracks my skin and I fill with ache But I don't want this heart ...

I've been having bad dreams A mother couldn't find her milk Five days from melbourne I didn't feel too good myself Wool in the hold A blaze in the sky The water...

Come and have a look, beside me A fine line of tears, part company That's her handwriting, that's the way she writes >From the first letter I got to this her Bi...

A town without trains He runs to meet you Rehearsed a first line It's left him, thank goodness And I've grown to accept that people know the next steps To and...

The heater's on The windows are thin I'm trying hard To keep this warmth in I turn to her She's sound asleep Someplace I don't know Doesn't matter how far you c...

You stupid man Can't collect your stupid thoughts With a pay cheque Fist to fist your hands shake Careful to choose the laws you break You can't say that It's ...

It rains for days So you stay inside And lock your door Crying all the time Crying for You don't know what for You say your're undone by his kiss, But don't you...

Lyric: Grant It is neither fair nor reasonable to expect sadness to confine itself to it's causes Like a river in flood, when it subsides and the drowned bodie...

I got myself a mortgage, It didn't save the marriage We weren't insureed, Insured against breakage If you believe in orphans There's still a chance for love (Th...

Can't find my way down my own street, Got to get my dream feet back on it's feet I'm trapped in my house On first name terms with it's mouse Don't sav this hous...

I've got tickets To the best show in town If you want to come on down and listen I'm ready And I might come along With something that you've been missing I've...

I was slowly dying in a clinic just outside of LA You came and saw me (thank you) that picked me up straight away You said "Learn to dance, learn to act, learn ...

Dressed in a white shirt with my hair combed straight Here in my black shoes and me without a date Me without hindsight, me without When will change come, Just ...

Chorus Round and round, up and down Through the streets of your town Everyday I make my way Through the streets of your town Don't the sun look good today? But...

We used to get our kicks reading surfing magazines Some good looking people wearing Lee Cooper jeans They're breaking on the headland, they're breaking on the s...

in search of a new voice you burnt all your lyrics and flew to a new town "one of the has beens" that was your phrase but what about show-biz? that way that way...

They had problems with their father's law They sleep in the back of a feminist bookstore The Clarke Sisters The eldest sister keeps a midnight vigil The younges...

Candles and tambourines shine in the dusk Monkees and Spoonful float through the musk Why when you come here Does the rainbow turn black? Spitting and burning, ...

(Grant McLennan) I don't wanna let you out of my sight Don't wanna let you onto your flight The fortune teller might have been right The bad old world can turn ...

A widows life is no life at all Look said the ghost, there in the hall Her big brown eyes And northern beer Pulled her through her living years Wont you wear th...

It took you a week To say one day You were A virtuoso A virtuoso The girls have moved Some brass band and a marching girl She likes it that way She likes it t...

You and I together, with nothing showing at all, In a darkened cinema, I'll give you pleasure in the stalls Want to give you tenderness, and my affection too If...

A ruby waistcoat won't hide my fear At 12:31 watch my teeth disappear People buy watches then tell the time By the punctual keeling and crack of my spine But if...

Lord I feel you made the hills, watch them roll I've seen the promised land, and that is all Please be kind Please be kind What the others take; I let them beli...

A trader in furs living in exile Boy what a kook Look at that passport Stale bread and paper without privilege If you live here learn the language When the rain...

Never tought I'd ever hear from you My slapped face has healed so has the misunderstanding And what brings, what brings you around Amidst this torrid time With ...

She walks me home There's a Mercedes parked in our street So we stop and we discuss Who on earth the owner could be That's just like me I'd evade waking up if t...

I haven't heard a voice that I can trust and all this sweetness turns a throat to rust I'm standing on a quay wrapped up in mist the steamer's left with someone...

He was brought up in a house of women In a city of heat that gave it's children Faith in the fable of coral and fish, Told them the world was something to miss ...

(Grant McLennan) She comes home and she's happy She comes home and she's blue She comes home and she tells him Listen baby we're through I don't know what happe...

When she sang about angels She looked at the sky Anybody else, anybody else, but I let it go by When she sang about the fields She raised up her arm As if she w...

(Robert Forester) You can have hearing loss when you're Boyfriend says he's boss you're scared of A new endeavor What can be tempting You? Who can be tempting...

Tallulah took a shower for an hour, Then walked down the street feeling beautiful and clean Taulah met a man at a newstand, Who asked her how does she dream Wha...

All that's left of me, of me that was, is a former shadow, Once amidst great work, then she came, and then she came, That's your point And right here's for me; ...

Heard it, heartache Your turn, my turn Show it, your face Your turn, my turn Same place, some grace Your turn, my turn Stand it, stand it Something involving a ...