1. Sat in Your Lap
2. There Goes A Tenner
3. Pull Out the Pin
4. Suspended in Gaffa
5. Leave It Open
6. The Dreaming
7. Night of the Swallow
8. All the Love
9. Houdini
10. Get Out of My House

 Sat in Your Lap

I see the people working and see it working for them,
And so I want to join in, but then I find it hurts me.
Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap
Some say that knowledge is something that you never have
I see the people happy, so can it happen for me?
'Cos when I have no energy, there's nothing that can move me
Some say that knowledge is something that you never have
Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap
Some say that heaven is hell, some say that hell is heaven.
I must admit, just when I think I'm king (I just begin)
Just when I think I'm king, I must admit (I just begin)
Just when I think I'm king
(I just begin)
I've been doing it for years, my goal is moving near
It says "Look I'm over here" then it up and disappears
Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap
Some say that knowledge is ho ho ho
I want to be a lawyer, I want to be a scholar
But I really can't be bothered, ooh just
Gimme it quick, gimme it, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Some say that knowledge is ho ho ho
Some say that knowledge is ho ho ho
Some say that heaven is hell, some say that hell is heaven
I must admit, just when I think I'm king (I just begin)
Just when I think I'm king, I must admit (I just begin)
Just when I think everything's going great (I just begin)
Hey I get the break
Hey I'm gonna take it all (I just begin)
When I'm king (just begin)
In my dome of ivory, a home of activity
I want the answers quickly, but I don't have no energy
I hold a cup of wisdom, but there is nothing within
My cup she never overfloweth and 'tis I that moan
and groaneth
Some grey and white matter (give me the Karma Mama
A jet to Mecca, Tibet or Jeddah
To Salisbury, a monastery
The longest journey, across the desert
Across the weather, across the elements
Across the water)



 There Goes A Tenner

Okay remember, okay remember
That we have just allowed
Half an hour
To get in, do it and get out
The sense of adventure
Is changing to danger
The signal has been given
I go in
The crime begins

My excitement
Turns into fright
All my words fade
What am I gonna say?
Mustn't give the game away

We're waiting

We got the job sussed
This shop's shut for business
The look-out has parked the car
But kept the engine running
Three beeps means trouble's coming
I hope you remember
To treat the gelignite tenderly for me
I'm having dreams about things
Not going right
Let's leave in plenty of time tonight

Both my partners
Act like actors
You are Bogart
He is George Raft
That leave Cagney and me
(What about Edward G.?)

We're waiting

You blow the safe up
Then all I know is I wake up
Covered in rubble
One of the Rabble
Needs Mummy
The government will never find the money
I've been here all day
A star in strange ways
Apart from a photograph
They'll get nothing from me
Not until they let me see
My solicitor
Ooh I remember
That rich windy weather
When you would carry me
Pockets floating in the breeze
There goes a tenner
Hey look! there's a fiver
There's a ten shilling note
Remember them?
That's when we used to vote for him.



 Pull Out the Pin

Just as we hit the green
I've never been so happy to be alive
Only seven miles behind
You could smell the child
The smell of the front line's survival
With my silver Buddha
and my silver bullet
(I pull the pin)

You learn to ride the Earth
When you're living on your belly
And the enemy are city births
Who need radar?
We use scent
They stink of the west
Stink of sweat
Stink of cologne and baccy
And their Yankee hash
With my silver Buddha
and my silver bullet

Just one thing in it
Me or him
And I love life

Just one thing in it
Me or him
And I love life

Just one thing in it
Me or him, and I love life
I love life
I love life

I've seen the coat for me
I'll track him 'til he drops
Then I'll pop him one he won't see
He's big and pink and not like me
He sees no light
He sees no reason for the fighting
With my silver Buddha
and my silver bullet
(I pull the pin)

I had not seen his face
'Til I'm only feet away
Unbeknown to my pray
I look in American eyes
I see little life
See little wife
He's striking violence up in me
With my silver Buddha
and my silver bullet

Just one thing in it, me or him
And I love life
Just one thing in it, me or him
And I love life
Just one thing in it, me or him and I love life
I love life, I love life



 Suspended in Gaffa

Out in the garden, there's half of a heaven
And we're only bluffing
We're not ones for busting through walls
But they've told us unless we can prove
That we're doing it
We can't have it all.

He's gonna wangle a way to get out of it
She's an excuse
and a witness who'll talk when he's called
But they've told us
Unless we can prove that we're doing it
We can't have it all
We can't have it all

CHORUS:
      Suddenly my feet are feet of mud
      It all goes slow-mo
      I don't know why I'm crying
      Am I suspended in Gaffa?
      Not until I'm ready for you
      Not until I'm ready for you
      Can I have it all?

I try to get nearer
But as it gets clearer
There's something appears in the way
It's a plank in me eye
With a camel who's trying to get through it
Am I doing it?
Can I have it all now?
I pull out the plank
and say thank you for yanking me back
To the fact
That there's always something to distract
But sometimes it's hard
To know if I'm doing it right
Can I have it all?
Can I have it all now?
We can't have it all

CHORUS

I won't open boxes that I am not told to
I'm not a Pandora
I'm much more like
That girl in the mirror
Between you and me
She don't stand a chance of
Getting anywhere at all
Not anywhere at all
No, not a thing
She can't have it all.

CHORUS



 Leave It Open

With my ego in my gut
My babbling mouth would wash it up
     (But now I've started learning how)
          I keep it shut
My door was never locked
Until one day a trigger come - cocking
     (But now I've started learning how)
          I keep it shut
Wide eyes would clean and dust
Things that decay, things that rust
     (But now I've started learning how)
          I keep them shut
          I keep them shut

CHORUS:   Harm is in us,
          Harm in us, but power to arm
          Harm is in us,
          Harm in us, but power to arm

Narrow mind would persecute it,
Die a little to get to it
     (But now I've started learning how)
          I leave it open
I kept it in a cage
Watched it weeping, but I made it stay
     (But now I've started learning how)
          I leave it open
          I leave it open

CHORUS:   Harm is in us,
          Harm in us, but power to arm
          Harm is in us,
          Harm in us, but power to arm
          Harm is in us
          Harm is in us
          Harm in you and me
          What you letting in?
          Tell me what you're letting in
          Say what we're gonna let in

We let the weirdness in.



 The Dreaming

``Bang'' goes another Kanga
On the bonnet of the van
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land)
Many an Aborigine's mistaken for a tree
'Til you near him on the motorway
The tree begin to breathe
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land)

Coming in with the golden light in the morning
Coming in with the golden light is the New Man
Coming in with the golden light in my dented van
        Woomera

CHORUS:
        DRE - A - M - T - I - ME

The civilised keep alive the territorial war
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land)
Erase the race that claim the place
And say we dig for Ore
Or dangle Devils in a bottle
And push them from the Pull Of The Bush
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land)
You find them in the road
(See the light bounce off the rocks to the sand)
In the road

Coming in with the golden light - in the morning
Coming in with the golden light - with no warning
Coming in with the golden light - we bring in the rigging
        Dig, dig, dig away

CHORUS

M-M-Many an Aborigine's mistaken for a tree
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land)
You near him on the motorway, the tree begin to breathe
Erase the race that claim the place and say we dig for Ore
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land)
Dangle Devils in a bottle
and push them from the Pull Of The Bush
(See the sun set in the hand of the man)
``Bang'' goes another Kanga on the bonnet of the van
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land)
You find them in the road
In the road
(See the light)
Pull of the Bush
(See the light bounce off the rocks to the sand)
Push them from the - Pull of the Bush
See the sun set in the hand of the man



 Night of the Swallow

The night doesn't like it
Looks just like your face
On the moon, to me
And I won't let you do
What you want to do
It's funny how, even now
You're laughing
I won't let you do it

If you go, I'll let the law know
And they'll head you off when you touch the ground
Ooh please,
Don't go through with this
I don't like the sound of it
It's funny how, even now
You're miles away
I won't let you do it
I won't let you do it
I won't let you go through with it

Meet them over at Dover
I'll just pilot the motor
Take them over the water

CHORUS: With a hired plane
        And no names mentioned
        Tonight's the night of the flight
        Before you know
        I'll be over the water like a swallow
        There's no risk
        I'll whisk them up
        In no moonlight
        And though pigs can fly
        They'll never find us
        Posing as the night
        And I'm home before the morning

In Malta, catch a swallow
For all of the guilty to set them free
Wings fill the window
And they beat and bleed
They hold the sky
On the other side
Of border lines
I won't let you do it
I won't let you do it
I won't let you go through with it

Meet them over at Dover
I'll just pilot the motor
Take them over the water
Like a swallow flying to Malta

CHORUS

Give me a break
Ooh let me try
Give me something to show
For my miserable life
Give me something to take
Would you break even my wings
Just like a swallow
Let me, let me go

But you're not a swallow



 All the Love

The first time I died
Was in the arms of good friends of mine
They kiss me with tears
They hadn't been near me for years
Say why do it now
When I won't be around, I'm going out?

``We needed you to love us too, we wait for your move''

Only tragedy allows the release
Of love and grief never normally seen
I didn't want to let them see me weep
I didn't want to let them see me week
But I know I have shown
That I stand at the gates alone

``I needed you to love me too, I wait for your move''

CHORUS:
    All the love, all the love,
    all the love we could have given
    All the love, all the love,
    all the love you should have given
    All the love, all the love,
    all the love

The next time I dedicate my life's work
To the friends I make
I give them what they want to hear
They think I'm up to something weird
And up rears the head of fear in me
So now when they ring, I get my machine to let them in

``I needed you to love me too, I wait for your move''

CHORUS

``We needed you to love us too, we wait for your move''



 Houdini

I wait at the table and hold hands with weeping strangers
Wait for you to join the group
The tambourine jingle-jangles
The medium
       Roams and rambles
Not taken in,
       I break the circle
I want this man to go away now

With a kiss, I'd pass the key
And feel your tongue
Teasing and receiving
With your spit still on my lip -- you hit the water

Him and I in the room
To prove you are with us too
He's using code that only you and I know
This is no trick of his
This is your magic
I'd catch the queues watching you
Hoping you'd do something wrong
Everybody thinks you'll never make it
But every time you escape
Rosabel believe, not even Eternity
Can hold Houdini
       Rosabel, believe

Through the glass, I'd watch you breathe
Bound and drowned
And paler than you've ever been
With you life the only thing in my mind
We pull you from the water
       Houdini

You and I and Rosabel believe



 Get Out of My House

When you left the door was (slamming)
You paused in the doorway
As though a thought stole you away
I watched the world pull you away
(lock it)
So I run into the hall
(lock it)
Into the corridor
There's a door in the house (slamming)
I hear the lift descending
I hear it hit the landing
See the hackles on the cat, standing
With my key I (lock it)
With my key I (lock it up)
With my key I (lock it)
With my key I (lock it up)

I am the concierge, chez-moi, honey
Won't letcha in for love or money
My home, my joy
I'm barred and bolted, and I
      Won't letcha in

CHORUS:
   (Get out of my house)
   No stranger's feet
   Will enter me
   I wash the panes
   I clean the stains away

This house is as old as I am
This house knows all I have done
They come with their weather hanging around them
But can't knock my door down
With my key I (lock it)
With my key I (lock it)
This house is full of m-m-my mess
This house is full of m-m-mistakes
This house is full of m-m-madness
This house is full of, full of, full of fight
With my keeper I (clean up)
With my keeper I (clean it all up)
With my keeper I (clean up)
With my keeper I (clean it all up)

I am the concierge, chez-moi, honey
Won't letcha in for love or money
My home, my joy, I'm barred and bolted and I
      Won't letcha in

CHORUS

Man: Woman, let me in
     Let me bring in the memories
     Woman, let me in
     Let me bring in the Devil Dreams

Woman: I will not let you in
       Don't you bring back the reveries
       I turn into a bird
       Carry further than the word is heard

Man: Woman, let me in
     I turn into the wind
     I blow you a cold kiss
     Stronger than the song's hit

Woman: I will not let you in
       I face towards the wind
       I change into the mule
       "Hee-haw"

Both: "Hee-haw"
      "Hee-haw"...

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