STARDUST BLUES LYRICS

CUT MYSELF LOOSE

Deal me a mean hand

If I wasn’t sitting here

I’d probably be somewhere else

You got a sharp tongue

You cut me a mean smile

Jesus you look tired as hell

If I cut myself loose

Cover up my shark tooth

Trick you into hanging ‘round

If I cut myself loose

Fall into the soft dark

Step into the great unknown 

If I cut myself loose

Cover up my shark tooth

Trick you into hanging around

If I cut myself loose

If I cut myself loose

If I cut myself loose

If I cut myself loose

I was on my way back

From the dark side

On the Messianic wave 

You were right beside me

Swimming like a killer whale

Moving like a blessed beast

If I cut myself loose

Lie down with the enemy

Write you up the perfect song

If I cut myself loose

Cover up my shark tooth

Trick you into hanging ‘round

If I cut myself loose

Cover up my shark tooth

Trick you into hanging around

If I cut myself loose

If I cut myself loose

If I cut myself loose

Sunrise kids

We’ll be fine

Nothing can stop us now

Bruised eyelid

I’ll be fine

Don’t try to stop me now

Don’t try to stop me now

Don’t try to stop me now

—

LIGHT A CIGARETTE

Billie said she needed company

I brought over cards and beer

She said what’s with the bruised eye my brother you’re confused

I don’t believe it when you say you’re clear 

Bill, I’m not sure what I did,

Where’s the box we buried back when we were kids?

Were we dreaming?

I ran into Magic Steven  

I was just coming out of Rooks Return

Walk me down to the tram i’m sick of this city

Man, I’d kinda like to watch it burn

He said you’d loose everything in the blaze 

Then we ducked into Slow Grind I lost him in the haze

We were dancing 

Light a cigarette, go slowly

Find a corner to haunt

Things are starting to turn creepy

Tell your friends that you’re gone

Slipping into the night you say

How could you be so hard  

It was easy

It was easy

Rita says she’s got no energy

But she’s been ringing like a little bell

It’s almost dawn and out here on the lawn

It’s getting icy but we’re drunk as hell

Stevie’s said nothing 'til he stands to go

He says I could be wrong, but I think you all should know

We’re just dreaming

Light a cigarette, go easy

Take a drive outta town

Light a fire on Thirteenth Beach 

Night surfing you drown

Slipping out of your jeans you say

How could you be so hard

It was easy

It was easy

—

DIRTY RIVER

{V1}

Oh dirty river

I know you so well

I’m glad you’re still here

Everything else went to hell

And now it’s over

You call me down

I’d tell you everything

But it’s hard to remember now

Oh dirty river

Where do you end?

Oh gentle water

You may be my closest friend

Oh torrent of love

Where do you end?

Oh gentle starlight

You may be my closest friend

{Bridge} 

Walk around the timid town

Talking shit to the night

Gus says despite the evidence

It’s gonna be alright

But I do wonder 

What the future will bring

Will we stand empty handed

With nothing but songs to sing 

{V2}

I’ve got to go now

I’m not sure where

There’s a world inside me

There’s a world out there

And will you still be here

When I return?

Whispering once more to me

It’s time to unlearn everything you’ve learned

Oh dirty river

Where do you begin?

Oh gentle water

You may be my closest friend

Oh torrent of love

Where do you begin?

Oh gentle starlight

You may be my closest friend

{Part 3}

Come on the night is young it’s just a child

It’s waiting for you but it won’t wait long

Let’s go to the old graveyard and kiss beside some forgotten tomb

Before day breaks and all the lost souls come around asking for you

It’s ok the night is young it’s just a child

Babe, the night is young its just a child

It’s just a child

——

SYWD

I slip out the back door

I don’t need no grand farewells and goodbyes

I creep into the sunlight

Past Buck throwing up 

On the rose bush outside again

It’s only midday 

I got nowhere to go

Doesn’t mean I’m going nowhere

You ask why I called you

Because I’m still not sure how not to 

But hey...

Give it up now

Give it up now

Give it up

Let it go now

Let it go now 

Let it go

Come on

Come on

Come on

Do something you wouldn’t do

I walk through the holograms

Of sunlight half in a dream half mid-air

I know I can make it

But I don’t know how 

And I don’t know exactly where

Meet me at the fountain

In the park by the lake

At the end of a long time

You’ll say that you’re in love

And you’re glad that I am in love too 

But hey…

Give it up now

Give it up now

Give it up

Let it go now

Let it go now 

Let it go

Come on

Come on

Come on

Do something you wouldn’t do

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PAPIER-MÂCHÉ EYES

1.

Missed you down at Red Bluff Bay

Billie said she saw you walking away

With some guy she didn’t know

I waited a while but you never showed

I followed your foot prints they led me to the sea

2.

You said 'Summer nights got me mischievous' 

Your mischief Mary got me starting shit

I’m about as friendly tonight as a scorpion sting

I took a shot but I missed everything

I never even saw him coming

Chorus 1.

You drew me a map back to your street

I caught a train to the Eagle’s Eye

It was my birthday but for the life of me I couldn’t eat

On the way back it started to rain

Your map in my pocket just melted away

I made papier-mâché eyes

3.

I came to, in a nest of eyes

A buzzing swarm of wheres and whys

Someone said we should call the police

I said Bill help me to my feet

It’s ok I had it coming

Chorus 2.

I broke three promises already

I kissed a girl, dragged a smoke

Bought a bottle even though I was broke and clean

We made our way to Romantica

But stopped at a party on the south side and I

Saw your papier-mâché eyes 

Outro.

Sometimes a man gets to thinking about the big things in the small hours

I don’t wanna assume but I guess that sometimes a woman does too (insert question mark)

And sometimes a man gets to wondering if he’s fallen from the height of his powers

And a woman looks him square in the eye and says that it’s indubitably true

Love…is that you?

Love…I can’t do this again.

Love…is that you?

Love…Just say when…you’ve had enough…I’ve had enough

---

QUICKSAND

Gimme a break 

I was just trying to explain

A little thought 

That was scratching my brain

I guess I’m just beat

You say, you need to sleep

As I fall in a heap

I say I don’t know what you mean

Man, we’ve been talking since three

Just a minute

While I catch my cool

Your ice berg smile is

Sinking ships and

In the darkness

Of my little room

I search the gone days

They catch me like quicksand

I’m surfing through streets of water

Carving through the highways of night

Wash up on your beach in the morning

Think I almost turned into light

Grab my sleeve

Drag me out to the street

What the fuck are you

Doing here man

I told you not to come

I needed to see you

I know you don’t wanna see me

Before I finish 

You punch me in the face

And kiss me with your tongue

Just a minute

While I catch my cool

Your ice berg smile is

Sinking ships and

In the darkness

Of my little room

I search the gone days

They catch me like quicksand

I’m a bad dancer 

But what I lack in 

Moves I make up for

With my madness

And If I’m dancing with you

No one sees my bruised eye 

They’re blinded by your brightness

Took the 5.30 train

I guess I’ve been up for days and days

Lay out in the morning sun

I wonder if Billie’s awake 

—

BRUISED EYE

Bruised eye keep your head down walking crispy morning bruised sky over head 

Chipped tooth talking fish eyes salty seaside heaving green cliffs wake the dead

Fuckers wake the dead

Stealing flick knife picking their pockets

For a bottle of wine and bread

City babe we’re not gonna make it 

But they better catch us dead

Fall asleep in the terrible morning 

With our boots and high heels on 

Buzzing like a couple of hornets

In the trembling air

Of a shivering morning song 

Peachy baby peachy why so steely why so deeply unimpressed?

Silent Stevie's got me thinking seriously about the way my words are dressed?

Why so unimpressed?

Pucker up now don’t be a phoney

Careful steps in concrete boots

Sister Egg says I look kinda boney

Says I need to plant some roots

It’s like someone keeps pulling the carpet

Out from underneath my feet

And with this bruised eye I look kinda shady

I can see the fear

In the eyes of the kooks I meet

Bruised Eye get back in the ring

A bruised eye ain’t no broken wing

—

Wristwatch 

With my beanie pulled down over your eyes

Hunched in sleep

And my coat wrapped around you two times

I watch you breathe

I put on my wristwatch

Set the time to five thirty am

Throw my phone in the fire

Then leave before I change my mind again

I float up to her and say what are you doing

At a place like this?

She says you can be the astronaut man

I’ll be the hypnotist 

Your mouth is working swiftly 

It’s just a little nimbler than your mind

But I’m leaning and I’m woozy

Walking through the blue dawn

With waves of you

Sailing through my blood

Keep the fire burning 

I am coming down 

To meet you in the flood

——

KINETIC

Do you feel the tiny tremor

Is it a message from the future

Is it the end or is it 

...the morning waking with a shudder

The past forgetting never ever

The party’s over the day is

…young and so are we, are we?

Are we younger than we’ll soon be?

Or older than we’ve ever been

…before we part let's promise

To never say forever and this

Right now is all we’ll ever need

…to be is flashing kinetic

One part pain and one part magic

Try in vain to catch it 

If you go down to

Romantica

You might see your life

In a coffee cup

There’s still time to try

To try

To try

To be free 

Wake up

Turn around

You were lost

Now you’re found

In the heart

Of the blazing melody 

--

FOXES OF CAULFIELD

Every day that rolls around

Rolls in like a storm

Every day that rolls around

Takes a little more

Every moment next to you

Reminds me of god 

God reminds me of my friend

Sitting on the corner down the road

Everything undone

We move like the foxes of caulfield

And we go like this

In the night

Yeah, there’s something about tonight

Yeah, there’s something about tonight

Set your lookalike alight 

Yeah I guess I’m alright 

Every arm that wraps around

Holds a little tight

Every time you come around

You come right on time

Every wheel that turns around

Carries us away

Every wheel that carries us

Carries us like children in the wind

My mind is my mind...

————

HEARSE ON A HIGHWAY RAINBOW

(Stardust Blues)

Monday morning 5am

We’re all out of money

I step outside and lose my friends

Watch the sun come up

Gus says I should go to sleep

But I never get tired

I just waste time

I caught the train at 6am

Fell in love with a woman in a pants suit

I should have said hello

But my mouth wouldn’t do what it’s supposed to do

doooh//oh

I search my pockets for her note

Might have used it for a rollie 

Dust the starlight off my coat

My watch says 7am

Beneath a thin veneer of sleep

I turn a giant page

In the book of time

I call the Fox at 8am

I woke up outside his window

He says he’d been dreaming of leaving town

In a hearse on a highway rainbow

Right on time

Monday morning 5am

We’re all out of money

I step outside and lose my friends

Watch the sun come up

Gus says I should go to sleep

But I never get tired

I just waste time

I caught the train at 6am

I caught you right on time

Right on time

—

MY DARLING GHOST

Light the way

Light the way

Light the way

Light me to the safety of your home

Lead the way

Lead the way

Lead the way

Lead me down the hallway to your room

I’m alone

I’m alone

I’m alone

In some sicko's fish bowl dream (it’s just me)

So come on

Come on

Come on

Come on

Come on

Come on

Let’s go

But I’m bone tired

I’m bone tired

I’m just so tired of trying to

Work it out

I need to be rewired

My friends, rewired 

Like a broke junkyard machine

Let me tell you, it’s dark out here

On the scrap heap

{I’m just ohhhhh

You know what I mean}

Light the way 

Light the way

Light the way

Light the way with nothing but the moon

Lead the way 

Lead the way

Lead the way

Lead me even though you know not where

Light the way

Tip the devil

Kiss her ghost

Lead the way

Love forever

Miss you the most

Oh my darling ghost

Now that I 

Am in love 

With someone

New 

Oh, love, you know what I mean 

Fin.