All my debt to you All my pleasure in pain Dimwit I was, Dimmer I'll be Dim all the lights and we'll see what we see I am music, a song made for playing These d...

A Tuesday night in Winter, holed up in the city of ravens, The owls in the hills hoo-hooing and eyeing off the field mice down in the cold grey centre, Addle Br...

The children of this cold coast Are throwing themselves off cliffs, We know that they don't want to But memory insists - Memories of water, Fantasies of fins, S...

Over the airwaves tonight, Sailing by a love lonely light, Isn't it blue, but isn't it brighter Than the pilot of a domestic flight Well under this low, lonely...

I dreamt, I got a snakebite Just a dream but upon waking up My head felt light My arm felt tight Where the serpent struck A mark so faintly There upon me With ...

Believe me Believe me Believe me Believe me Believe me Believe me I came to warn you Believe me I came to warn you I came to warn you Believe me I came to warn ...

Blind to the charms Of the Toecutter Arms, My labor to the east by knit and by darn, Looking for the world like a whelp at sea, The discoverer's cottage had a l...

Your issue may walk among fine moral spires, But if they went up somebody else built them Your store is a small one, your goods have no buyers Your parents are ...

They married, a dandy and a back alley tough, on the foreshore while kids in the needling rough, stayed low, in, and laid till they'd had enough of the somersau...

Shining city on the plain No more sorrow, no more pain City of rescue, I don't know Is that where all good people go? If that's where all good people go Leave ...

It's too hot babe, pull the covers back, Don't touch me babe, I don't remember ever liking that, Don't touch me babe, roll over O brother, you don't know what ...

There must have been a light in your eyes That you didn't see the devil in me When he was right there inside, in my low company That I never made an effort to h...

I didn't know you, I never knew you, Now I'm never gonna see you again. An acquaintance all my childhood years I could never call you a friend. I was afraid tha...

Scoop my brains and let my heart have action In it's thousand million lots, In the dumb city dawn I am senseless and drawn to the sun As the blackbirds and the ...

Here comes the night Roll on you careless evening, When we unite Not a force concurs, Not hell nor heaven, So let it come, let it rain, Let it burn though you a...

At ten o'clock is when I rise from my grave, and cast my eyes over the ideas that I couldn't save, become regret and break upon me now wave after wave, bid me r...

Well it's my very little wonder and it's one that I will keep, But you can take it with you if it helps you when you're trying to sleep and the men who are a cu...

As the cold comes to claim up I take the air and know your pink aroma And I should haunt your very vestibules And hover like the smoke over Tecoma If I could d...

To be, A bee, a moth Four wings spread for the soft last touch Of glory sun, Remembering blood plums and lips and lemons - One hundred different suns In a hundr...

"Well met, well met" said an old true love, "well met, well met" said he, "I have just returned from the salt salt sea, and all for the love of thee" From pole ...

Well versed I am in the taint of my birth, my diminishing role in this sphere, But sometimes I require a communiqu? from the Mother to make it clear, Well Engla...

O Genevieve, would that I could see you growing older With my right hand so cold 'round a colder can of Coca-Cola... I walk through the uni, lazy campus, lazin...

You can't walk through the Isle of the Dead, you can't lie still in the guest house bed, there's a pair of black eyes staring down at you from the mountain top,...

Rattle, rattle, face to the battle, Set your jaw for the hour of war O, once more, once more. Pretty kitten with your poor paw to mitten, Padding out the plan ...

You don't keep me company, You all turn out wrong, If you are my daughters, if you are my sons, I can only hold you inside for so long, O song, did I lead you o...

Should you expect to see something that you hadn't seen In somebody you'd known since you were sixteen If love is a bolt from the blue, then what is that bolt b...

Level your fretting I won't be forgetting the flush of your face When I lifted you level to me and a wattle tree framed your body In whispers welling with the d...

Just an ordinary day, I knew that autumn was on it's way, I could see by the gilt of the clouds, the burnish on the bay, A ring of effusia settled on the city l...

When I asked about your poor bodies, "Were the murderous too?" You said "It had many bearings Upon the likes of me and you" So we buried them to neck height And...

In the chest of a dealer hammers and smelts a foul charge, As he smoothes sour cream from his moll's pony and metes her an unholy barrage, (o the living is hard...

The pillar, peak and palm that makes you dream O the sun is your alarm, the church that's leaving Come to Bahamas, to 1971 When you weren't even the grain of an...

Some go high and very low, none too different or the same you know, I know cos I've seen them come and go When summer comes the valley hums with medicine trucks...

You are the queen of a dust bowl, Ex to a crier in a town of ashes, This is what happens when a great love crashes Tonight you let me see you, For the first tim...

O fraudulent mirror, O rank rainbow toad, I'd break apart too, if I knowed what you knowed, I'd fall from the wall, I'd leap from the road, You take cover in th...

Honey goes candy in the condiment cupboard, Unwax it unplug it, What you discover in August nights, Like children walled in and papers drawn up for life - That ...

Duty, who's your master? Who gave you fingers? Who gave you to me? And why do we always dream of disaster When we pay our dues to disaster with some loyalty? An...

There's a place I've been told, and when I grow old I may go there, I've been told that my family's bones may lie under the snow there, And with my little bag, ...

Well our dogs get along, but have you noticed how easy evil dialogues of ours come out of wanting, for so long, an easy laughter, to feel guilty for some - Thr...

Here sits a once good gardener, pale as a shadow of a doubt, Once a happy dweller of a garden good, once a sleepy sinner, once cast out To the sea where the cro...

What do the men say To the women when they lay down at night All naked of arms from the old imagined fight? And how do the women hear? In kind and in likeness o...

This honey month I'm telling you Don't go turning your radio on, A one and a two, should I talk to you, Like the others do? Get yr knees up beneath the bar, I'...

What's wrong, sad Prince? The body is soft, the heart is cold, You were tongue-in' for danger, but danger bites back, It only lays down for the reckless and you...

How sweet it is to be loved by you, And taking your medicine, And feeling individual, And audio-visual, You see I'm hearing everything you see, And seeing every...

How sweet it is to be loved by you, And taking your medicine, And feeling individual, And audio-visual, You see I'm hearing everything you see, And seeing every...

Well it tastes like a Sunday, There should be music in the front room, And the markets a'milling With the people in the afternoon And there's a question to be a...

This is a song, not like the other ones, Secret and selfish and somewhat hollow In the middle of this song there seemed to grown another Of indeterminate length...

Pity the boy in front of me He was only 16, Lifted up my axe then down, Split his head like a cord of wood. Not for me the huon pine, Not for me the ankle iron...

The golden sun is ever gentle in the Valley of Making, Where it's the middle of the Autumn when it isn't high Spring, There are men of many colors and women of ...

There is no such place, o yes I have seen it too Just a little different from how you do, A river winding blue among the dunes and a marble bed A sun that doesn...

There is no such place, o yes I have seen it too Just a little different from how you do, A river winding blue among the dunes and a marble bed A sun that doesn...

There's something at the bottom of the black pool, I daren't dredge it up not while the weather's still cool, It's a feathered thing, its origins are mixed and ...

Here on the hill above the settlement, the buildings are talking, A tower to a terrace says the word's on the street, the dead are walking The brows are arched...

We will adjust to this new condition of living like a man with his entrails now out him not in After certain techniques of torture accustoms himself to a new co...

Are you lit from the inside, is that why your teeth are bright? You smile as the sun sets on the window, and the car fills up with light, Make a smile tulip, do...

Autumn leaves are flying, (each a baby's brittle boat), The season's dying, (Winter's mottled pigeon throat) Sings the coo-cool air, The old sun's pale and ri...

O how my great liberal heart labours, With the piss in my rivers and gall, Before gleaming ceremonial sabres, Who falls on them falls for us all Every night I ...

This light doesn't hide in a bushel anymore, But I don't know what you could use it for. I've got the courage and I've got the same fear, So gather round now an...