Your smile was so disarming You'd better mind your own affair Picking up the pieces Of a life that shone in tatters You're gonna come back if you dare Chorus ~...

Took a look around this cocktail landscape At the mud and the blood and the beer No more Balmain irony No more clubhouse cheer Red salmon running way up the riv...

Never want to fight the lonely fight Never want to talk all night Never want to feel the heat of battle Warning warning Chorus ~ Shipmates on icy blue waters C...

All these houses In a line Saying hey good morning So fine Singing Oh Security So good Sticks and Stones and Tombs of Burning wood Sticks and Stones and Tombs o...

Came every day-ay Ten ton caterpillar, loa-oading bay-ay Ships bearin' gifts from Havana She waved from the quay As they slipped away-ay-ay Cowboy's decree-ee T...

So far away you know you're lost little girl You're really not looking your best Close your eyes you're in your own little world The semi - trailers you know th...

One could go to jail for taking drugs all night I do believe the sea-bird's flow-own Two is in the ground, boy, he turned off that light When everything was so ...

You took a little white cloud And you're fixing up your silver lining You took a little black car And drove it all the way Your conversation It's so confiding A...

These boys are torn and tired They used to burn so bright They staggered into love or sin one night Turn down that light All of their battles are happy And all...

Rain slickered off the Lillian Way Brompton afternoon so cold and grey I was singing sky songs when I could You thought that I was burning witches I was just bu...

Every mor-orning when I wake from my bed I find I'm yawnin' just a-scratchin' my head I face the dawnin', I feel like I'm dead Oh baby, I been sleeping all alon...

I shot the glass And I cleaned the table And I went to water as soon as I was able Bone - tickled by those crazy Africans Woke up early you know I was dreaming...

My friend got out of jail today I picked him up and he just said Hi It was a victimless crime He said I'm never going back But I bet he will & I wonder why He ...

Be-ee my ritua-al, be my one desire Be my light, be my pure delight Be my purifier-er You'll never know what you do to me Five times a day-ay My self-destructio...

She talked in riddles She talked in three dimensional She held my lazy head when evening light was gone She called the breaks I ploughed the lower forty when Sh...

We just want a bit of peace And relative quiet Just one batsman at the crease If we could just buy it We never wanted interruptions Never want to run away We j...

When you move your stuff away from me When you caught the last train home When you move your stuff to where you want to be When you took that ride I'm torn and ...

Anglo Reptillian, Wrist watch radio titters She waltzes her way Through the aerodrome Powdering conversation With pigeon Indo She catches her plane To petty sun...

We caught the moon oh all things wasted Favours wealth and time Fools and minions powers pasted Thieves who rob by night Calling the lamp of heaven Sitting on ...

From the clatter of a honky tonk To the quiet of the range Been thinking 'bout silence golden Golden silence change Burning nights get damper And only moon was ...

He sits in the shade of the old Jacaranda Quietly reading a line A military man in his seaside weekender He sings to his old Valentine Chorus ~ Better not go n...

Living on the highway Way outside of town The lean to it is leaning Bent & broken down Got myself a hunting rifle A hunchback in my head Double barrelled misty ...

He's just a local boy Modelling for magazines Nun-Chukka Things are never quite as they seem He's got throwing stars He's got silver tops Mama's grabbed her jew...

Mr Sandman, got a good plan, it's the best plan Keep me awa-ake toni-i-ight Mr Sandman, got a better plan, you're the best man Let me sleep toni-i-i-ight Mr San...

I've seen all these faces Between the mountains & the beach Looking out for happiness Well it's out of reach There's a cars & women Running rich & fast Driving ...

She was young when she left home She was such a pretty thing She fell in love with some kind of sailor She heard the six bells ring She's been walking a beaten ...

Livin' under northern li-ights We're livin' under southern crosse-es We don't even know what's ri-ight Get together couple-a chargin' horses Ca-all me, ca-all m...

A world become one Of salads & sun Only a fool would say that A boy with a plan A natural man Wearing a white Stetson hat Unhand that gun begone There's no one ...

Fetch me a drink of water My head was about to bust She knows I stayed out all night long She don't make no fuss She's my outback women Outback women Hair dow...

Well I don't know the reason It came from nowhere But this street just got paved with gold Well I kicked my gong Right out of there Now I'm sitting on top of th...

RECKLESS James Reyne (Aussie Crawl) Meet me down by the jetty landing Where the pontoons bump and spray All the others reading, standing As the Manly ferry cut...

Looking out upon this endless day Just got better now I must get well Sometimes I think I'll never see A whole wide world in front of me There's always one more...

This river's running deeper Water's cold as ice This river's running deeper Water's cold as ice While we ricochetted from doorways And rolled the liar's dice No...

We were going through the motions You know I need you tonight Yesterday is over I got the red eyes And you are my sight Hi hi give me a chance Hi hi don't you ...

Love is pain And days are rain Can't see the morning light Buddies go And lights are low And nothing's going right Take your cares to weather fair That mean old...

There's a light in the valley There's a heart all alone And the door is always open Go away from your window Pull the shades way down low And in a whisper word...

I gotta message but I can't find the words to say I should have a plan but I lost it along the way Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians Somebody said oh no no...

I stood up for the first time when I was just eleven months old And ever since that day mama said I never done what I was told I never stood for nothing too muc...

It's everywhere Outside your window Just beware Just you chill Truth laid bare If this don't get you Next thing will The rag and bone man He's trying to scare ...

Well it's a hard time for the traveller And it's a high time for the poor Something's very wrong here This key won't fit the door I'm gonna call a lawyer Gonna ...

Freshly - showered jet jockey's In the Chico Club bar Drinking neat Wild Turkey They smoke Havana Cigars Screaming MIG fighter In the Latin night Big steel frei...

A long tall daddy And his common law wife Shuffled out of Buffalo The comfortable life Holding hands they went To meet their maker Just an old fella In his hey...

No trouble Gone away Blues-weary Lazy day No way no way yeah No pressure Big sky Coco - Cola My Lai No way no way yeah How many pitchers can a water man carry...

Went a`walking in the sunshine About a thousand Brumby ghosts Hunters bushmen bandits And fence wire on the posts Felt that ebony skin And felt the whole of the...

Watch the world turn It's a slow burn Smoking in the distant light See the big sky See it roll by Day is turning into night All your troubles Dust and rubble A...

Way out west where the rain don't fall Got a job with the company Drilling for oil Just to make some change Living and a`working on the land I quit my job and ...

Somewhere just along that line He lost control Singing sirens you ain't no shining star And everybody said Hey Mr Wayward Soul Tell me who the hell do you think...

Last ditch desperado Tore the temple down down down Tore it down Sermon on the mountain Arrogance of heat & lust Turn to dust Chorus ~ Don't swim where tides g...