“I Want That You Are Always Happy”
- Black Death 1349
- My Grandma Was Pearl Hall
- As I Go to See Janey
- Jesus Came to My Birthday Party, (Chords)
- Land of the Bloody Unknown, (Chords)
- Very Many
- Sydney to Newcastle
- Mount Morgan
- Months
- Dan’s Silverleaf
- Hunger Song
- Ninth Avenue Reverie
- Deep Water, (Chords)
- Mount Morgan End
- My Baby (Bonus Track)
“The Recordings of…”
“The Split EP”
Thanks to the many contributors to the lyrics collection, in particular: Sam H for the three “Split EP” songs, Chris Gillis for Beleriand, Pig Food and the rest of the hard to decipher songs from “Recordings of…”, Steve G for many songs from “I Want That…”.
If you have any more lyrics or corrections to these then send them to me by emailing to simon.baird@gmail.com or post a comment somewhere on this site.
Do you have lyrics to Beleriand or Pg Food..both absolutely stunning!
thank you!
No, I wish. They are pretty hard to decipher in some parts.
Hi, How can I find the songs of “The Split EP”? Thank you.
Go here:
http://www.myspace.com/sleepingintrains
There is a link where you can buy the CD
Beleriand:
When the truth comes out
The light telperion dies
Ungoliant
Barad-dir
Any band alive
There we find our fate
We find our darkness
That name Melkor in us
When the truth comes out
The line Elendil flies
Across the Sea
From Numenor Angband arrives
There we find our fate
We find our darkness
That name Melkor in us
Lyrics are derived from “The Silmarillion” by J.R.R. Tolkien. (One of the greatest works of fiction ever made IMO). If interested, these links can give more clarity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beleriand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgoth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungoliant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Trees_of_Valinor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barad-d%C3%BBr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elendil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BAmenor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband
all my thoughts are dead
sunk in the ocean of my head
they kept on crashing
they kept on talking
I can’t remember much of anything
been eating the pig food
we’re sick to the core
i’m under the influence
i’m under control
my body-like coffin
inside, a few dead man’s clothes
(I think the last word is clothes. Not sure.)
The Fall of Man:
let it all come down again
rise and fall, young and old
let it all crash down on us
we need it
the fall of man
the younger bred
we lift our heads
come quick
(repeat)
let it rush right back to us
breathe it in
wear it
let it fly right through us
we need it
Tsietsi:
the trees are burnt
the grass is brown
the sky turns red
when the sun goes down
for all the tears
in God’s green earth
we haven’t cracked
in this old town
cuz we’re holding onto youth
and we’re stubborn to the tooth
the smell of dread
and burning heads
is a sure sign
that you’re in town
and we’re holding off’ve youth
and we’re stubborn with the truth
here on the shores of the sea comes the end
here on the floor on our knees comes the end
here on the shoulders of these comes the end
here when you replace me comes the end
comes the end
(repeat)
comes the end
You are an absolute angel, I’ve had this song on repeat for the last week it’s so moving!
Thanks a heap!!
I didn’t even realise until a second ago that the title is in my native tongue SeSotho which means trouble/ problems.
Again, thanks!
Dirty Looks:
I read the words of a thousand books
And gave away my dirty looks
And I cleaned out all my cupboards
One by one
I quit the job that I hated most
My pockets full of hundred dollar notes
But there’s not enough to buy back
What I lost
Now I wash my hair and I clip my toes
I leave the room just to blow my nose
And I shower twice a day with soap
But I don’t feel clean like I thought I would
My sins don’t wash away so good
They stick to me like glue
Like glue
So I pack my bags and change my name
To something that nobody can say
And I’ll squander all my hard earned cash
I speak too slow when I’m most in need
Your skins too soft and your hearts too clean
To be caught up in this awful mess
With someone like me
anyone have the lyrics to the original Gold from the split EP?
Can somebody PLEASE tell me where I can get the split EP in Melbourne? I can find it anywhere on the Internet (iTunes, myspace link doesn’t work) thanks a heap xxx
hi, just wondering if you could ‘desipher’ me the lyrics for ‘months’ off their newest album ‘i want that you are always happy’
thanks a bunch! :)
ps i only need them after a certain point.
heres what i managed to get myself so far
wake me in the morning
gonna wake me up at night
aint got no use for sleeping anymore
aint got enough time for myself
or time for my friends
and i cant even roar
just wake me up, its fine
let me go away
away from where weve grown
ive got dirty and in wandering through bars and foreign family inns (not sure of this line…)
and id have never came to be alone
now i just wana feel how you would feel left at home
?????
Hey hitch, hey hitch, I’m coming home
Hey ma, hey pa, I’m coming home
Hey dirt, hey tree, hey little girl, I’m coming come
Hey heat, hey Cliss, I’m coming home
Well I seen many places
And they all been seen before
I done lost my jack luck spirit
I’m goin’ back to hitch at home
(No idea about “Cliss” but maybe it’s a name, like short for Clarissa…)
I think between us we’ve got it.. Will post this one up soon-ish…
http://visitthemiddleeast.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/lyrics-months/
Hey could you post the lyrics for the Hunger Song, great job on the website btw.
Here’s my take, Caleb. Obviously there are a couple of bits that I can’t decipher, especially the last line. Perhaps it refers to something Australian that a Yankee like myself wouldn’t recognize?
HUNGER SONG
I’ve got a hollow inside my stomach
That I can’t seem to fill
With all the things that I believe
I fiil it with mead and I fill it with bread
And I fill it with drink on a Saturday evening
To Sunday morning
But I’m still hungry for
Something to fill me
Ah, make me whole again
So I won’t be hungry anymore
My own neighbor knew wood and skin
He was good with his hands always
Heavy with drinking, my own neighbor
My own neighbor’s wife came over
In the early morning
She grabbed the little girl
And she took off in the half light
To the Best Western
Now he’s looking for
Something to feel this time
To give his heaviness
Something involved, oh
Feel this time
To give his heaviness
Something involved, oh
But if you’re
If you’re coming back
To me blindly
But if you’re coming
I’m calm and hungry
I’m on the die (?)
You’re needing form
You would form a baby
For your whole life
Form a lovely
For your vidilu (??), oh
This is very good, thanks heaps Steve.
I’m not sure but i think
But if you’re coming
I’m calm and hungry
Is
But
if you’re coming home
Cold and Hungry
Thank you for the Hunger Lyrics. I’ve been looking everywhere for them. They sound pretty accurate too. Thanks again.
My Grandmother Was Pearl Hall
Mothers
Love their children
Even when they
Are violent.
‘Cause all good
Sons and daughters
Love the ones they
Look like.
Fathers
Keep their kids safe
On the street
Men died.
‘Cause all good
Sons or fathers
Know that kids are
Frightened
Of them.
Went home
With your rocket
But a nearing
Spirit.
Survived
A death adder
But you drowned in
Liquid.
You learned
From your father
How to husband
Animals.
And I learned
from my father
That all men
Are animals.
Jesus,
you’re a fire
In my foreskin
everyday.
Burning
Oh you’re burning
Dead and lonely
You remain.
(got that from wowlyrics)
Isn’t the last line ‘Oh you’re burning, til only you remain’?
hi, do you know the chords for Ninth Ave Reverie? such a beautiful song, i’d love to play it.
If anyone can figure out the lyrics to Mount Morgan that would be sweet.
If anyone can figure out the lyrics to Mount Morgan they deserve an award.
Obviously a little help is needed here…
BLACK DEATH 1349
(two, three, four)
Black Death, 1349
Rats are coming down the Rhine
Pretty girls, little boys
Bring all just a-and-b’s (?)
In the void (?)
Picking with (?) 13 Jews
Ain’t you ever heard the news
With all those (?)
Little babies in the void
Jesus Christ was what a noise (?)
Saviour coming down the Rhine
Black Death, 1349
Feeling pretty good about this one.
AS I GO TO SEE JANEY
There’s six Spanish sailors
Drifting, aimless
Through the moonlit night
Of sweet Marseilles
And there’s a broken feeling
But nobody’s bleeding
Any secrets to the night
As I go to see Janey
She is lonely
In the moonlight
In the churchyard
And the Counts are restless
Thinking of the Princess
She’s shivering
Warm evening
And they say she’s dying
And all the men are crying
As they raise the flags to the wind
As I go to see Janey
She is lovely
In the moonlight
In the churchyard
To see Janey
She is lonely
In the moonlight
In the churchyard
Just an attempt here. I always find Rohin hard to decipher. Perhaps someone can translate better than I and fix this one up.
VERY MANY
Seldom never came out soon enough (?)
That animated it by fire (?)
Now he’s stranded first on runways (?)
Growing hungry in all a cron (?)
I feel a tension in a morning doubt (?)
Lands a first on (?)
Joseph done a bad house brother (?)
Down in like a minnow jog (?)
The tiki made it look at us harden (?)
You could smell her chlorine dance hard (?)
I should have ate, mama never never made (?)
That first tongue
Ooh, these thoughts
They just came back to my aid
Ooh, I can man made them (?)
Oh, through the waters of my mind
And I do make songs
Well, I make songs of them
This is my favorite song by them, just the explosion of weeping violins with about a minute to go…
This is my interpretation of the lyrics, damn hard to decipher:
Seldom never came on soon enough
That never made it by fire
I’d be staying every first on Broadways
Going hungry in the hallway cryin’
I feel a tension every morning that
That was the first time
Joseph downed a bad house brother
Drowning like a little chalk
The tike make him look at what his heart had
You could smoke the rains outside
I should have ate, Mother never never made
And that was the first time
Oooo, these thoughts, they just come back to my head
I can’t mend it back
All through the walkings of my mind
And I do make songs
I make songs of it
I’m fairly certain you can ignore the first three lines of mine, very very hard to tell what he’s singing. I’m pretty sure of 4/5 and from “And that was the first time” ’til the end are correct, although I could be way off here.
tiki* oopsie doopsie
Relatively confident about this one as well.
NINTH AVENUE REVERIE
You say you want to be buried beneath a mango tree
Where if in the northern summer you come back to life
You say you want your ashes mixed up with your lover’s salt
Where every Sunday night he’ll eat a little more of you
You say you can’t stop crying, it’s just the power of the song
Riding on the midnight bus again
And you say that you loved him but you were just too young
You say that’s why you still wait in the rain
You say a lot of things
And you say that your daddy was a painter of sorts
But I never saw him paint a thing
He just kept the tins underneath his bed
And sniffed a different colour every night
And dreamed of a place up in the sky
Where everyone’s a painter till they die
You say you don’t like flying on aeroplanes
That even seabirds must get lonely out there
You said you were quitting after your next pack
And you said once that I was beautiful
But for all the pretty ladies in Beijing
I couldn’t stop my drinking
And you say a lot of
You say a lot of
You say a lot of things
You say you can’t stop dreaming about your funeral day
Where all your long-time friends will be crying for you
And I’d be up the back with a rose in my hand
And I’d give to you in death what I could not in life
can anyone decipher the lyrics for ‘Western’? (the track off the Jesus Came To My Birthday Party EP)
Can anyone decipher the lyrics to ‘Western’? (that track off the Jesus Came To… EP)