Your lips speak Italian, Your eyes speak in tongues Are you like this with everyone? I see your face at the window, Light streaming behind Can I pawn my time' ...

God this is hard, you've had no sleep, You've thought of nothing else for weeks You begin your lines, you thumble with your purse It's been eating you, You don...

There's no comfort in a crowd Solidarity's cowed The panic bursts in bubbles above the heads of the crowd that are bowed The train into the station it balloone...

Headlines shout their announcements out About a baby boom Your mind grows restless, you pace the floor, Walking from room to room You're picking teams, You wan...

Liz hates her body, her baby body She thinks that everybody's looking at The way her figure's changed But she's on this bus, it always moves so Slow Regrets her...

Regiments of stoby poles, rabbits and erosion holes All bare beneath the sky To the untrained eye this land is dry, There's no waterholes in sight There are so...

This mistily remembered friend just breezed into town, Pulling all the cobwebs out and blowing my defenses down I think that I've been needin' some of her sprin...

Compression, sustain, Impression, remain I am not a guilty sentence Well I just get up and switch it off Separate temptations, standard frustrations Oh, you kno...

Listen now my sweet Anne I didn't mean to cause you pain We could have spent all summer Sitting here making daisychains I lie awake at night Staring at my roof...

I know something's wrong but something's going to change A frozen line of suits and ties displayed in their own cage I just walk on through I just walk on thro...

We were drinking, Yeah we started drinking, round two And the air was so heavy, Yeah the air was heavy, With hopes it couldn't fulfill This is as good as it get...

Watching the boats slip away As I raise my hands above my head Struggling against the waves Even the seagulls have left me for dead No one on the deck saw me fa...

[Alphaville cover] Let's dance in style let's dance for a while, Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies, Hoping for the best but expecting the worst, Ar...

Moved to Berlin, a new name In the ruins a place to start again The light fades on Friedrichstrasse, Your heart beats faster In the fuck club it's hard core Yo...

I had myself a good time And now I don't feel like myself I had myself a good time And now I don't feel like myself I went down to the railyards To buy myself ...

I gaze at the scenery He hasn't seen it since '93 He sleeps the sleep of the guilty And is guilty that he slept at all We agree that words are hard While he f...

He was invited so he came to the wedding, Even though he hadn't seen her For two months or three, And there over silver cutlery and bedding She told him that sh...

We're celebrating the end of call waiting I don't want to exercise choice, All I want to hear is your voice on the air I don't care, I don't care I've never fe...

Happy again for the precious time I steal For a minute there I thought my dream was real Sometimes you come to me as a flock of birds Sometimes you come dresse...

If my karma doesn't suit ya' I don't think we'll have a future How sad Won't that be sad I feel like a missionary Trying to resolve my penetrary ambitions I'll...

Deep inside their armoured vaults they keep your pathologic faults It's hard to know your body when you don't know where it starts and the drugs end "I know, I ...

Let go before I force it from your grip, Your ears are beginning to ring I will hold you as you start to slip, This will feel like dying You stagger like a las...

Lillian lies to avoid awkward questions Looks to the sky for intervention But she can't avoid judgmental Compassion In the void She puts on her face, makes it ...

He's buying property by the water Because the colour supplement said that he oughta' You'll see him ordering a pakora, But he thinks they should leave their opi...

I just changed my mind, I traded it in for a clean sheet of skin And tea with it The doctors couldn't prescribe anything else From the medicine shelf; Oh cure t...

Your letter came today I'm glad to hear the clinic's going ok I can, I can, I can, I can, I can see a way I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't see how yo...

All I am is a piece of wood Cut from something living Touch me I don't feel to good I'm cold but I'm not shivering You say I do not know, to say All I am is t...

Moving to the city, Was so hard to say farewell My girlfriends took me drinking at the RSL And I was flushed with glory From my victory And everybody tellin' m...

Pull down the blinds and stare at my blank screen Some voice is asking how my weekend's been! Planes go across the sky of Petersham One day I will see all the h...

Released under watchful skies into a town I didn't recognize I was a tourist with no story, lost in this purgatory Escaped the smell of chalk and shame, Pledged...

Babe, let's move to Sicily Just you and me And the Mediterranean Sea I'd work on a scallop boat, That would keep us afloat, The sun would burn my throat You'd...

I feel like hell, you feel like dancing, You know this bar curtains a world, Those empty bottles, like sentinels, Stand guard in the morning sun Then the light...

You lit the spark, the day dawn dark And your restless body swings In the breeze, I was laid back, laid flat, laid off And I didn't even want the job, Anyway it...

Did you find what you were looking for in room 13 of the 16th floor? Did it all become suddenly clear to you? Did you find what you were looking for in the sil...

The window held no answer Thoughts still ate my mind like cancer I studied the tendons in my hand But I couldn't understand Their purpose She struggled at the s...

The summer rain is falling like It's never going to stop Yeah it's been ages Puddles from on city corners Businessmen they leap between the edges Umbrellas ta...

The nominated councillors had a joke, To build the city's foundations on smoke They thought their idea so funny That their laughter it turned into a choke They...

The day is grey, don't love you anymore The sun smiles on the red tiles, I don't love you anymore The Frankston Line's full of teenage crime And the cops can't ...

The fin-de-siecle - that golden age All those bright young things with bright young things to say Nothing ever changes, history just rearranges Facts and dates...

Down in the valley, the industrial estate, He slaloms round beer cans in his escape He never got nothing, in death even less What'd you say? I bless Do what we...

I'm looking for oblivion Become the place where the horizon ends I am just flesh Sublimated my brain Made a mistress of lust And a slave out of fame And I have...

I'll meet you by the drain We'll run through leaves and shopping trolleys, gathering in the rain Cocooned in our nest of joyful folly We have no home This is ou...

I've lived in this town for 13 years, I've been around You see that window in that tower? That was mine Under that fluorescent light I made cold calls through t...

Stepping outside, a tap in my heart Why hasn't the sky fallen apart? Because inside this tower of sandston and Steel Someone just got served their last hospital...