Johnny lives on a corner in Angeltown In a house that his grandad built, they nearly tore it down To make way for the freeway and the shopping mall He heard it ...

Candy & I used to run around, tearing up this one horse town Everyone looked down their nose, the so-called respectable folk Too much was never enough for Candy...

Well, she married a millionaire by the time she was seventeen But she soon got tired of competing with the bourgeois scene For her twenty-first birthday, he bou...

Well I drove into town last Sunday With one thing on my mind Get my kid and get on the road Leave the past behind We were married five long years Sometimes it d...

Woke up late in the afternoon Sat up straight and rubbed my raccoon eyes Only to find the sun stopped shining down I saw the moon rise Bobby got killed last Sat...

In a French cafÈ, under the moonlight Feel like I'm living in a Truffaut film In a French cafÈ, under the moonlight And I can't walk away again I spent a year ...

My family ain't got money, I still wear hand-me-downs We live in a shack by the freight train track In the low rent part of town My girl that I wanna marry, sh...

Mary waits at the Tudor Hotel Strong and assured, yet so feminine Stands so firm, not so much for herself As for the unborn baby she carries within She's there ...

She's sitting in her favourite chair Look at all that land out there Homemade wine in her hand She don't go for the fancy brands Another day's work is done Anot...

Well, she said she knew Elvis, said she used to be his friend Yeah she said she knew Elvis, like the back of her hand And who was I to doubt her, someone had to...

Don't need road maps to tell me where to go Don't need postcards from people I should know Don't need lawyers to plead insanity Take 'em all away, they don't me...

Strangers come and strangers go, I guess that's strange enough They say don't ever trust a stranger, and never call his bluff The cards on the table, they're de...

The old man wore a grey uniform I recognized from the war He just sat there in that old armchair, drenched right to the bone A woman's voice called from the oth...

I first met Louie in 1986 he was hanging around St. Kilda, down by the pier We got to talking about politics and injustice Louie said let's go across to the Esp...