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Entertainment
05:04
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Julie your name is in it now
but you don't make the board
of this kind of company to tip toe around
to win yourself any friends
no if you have to roll heads you'll roll them
you know why you were brought in
you knew how you would be drawn
but you're not a cartoon villian, no
Julie when you were starting out
you gave them every idea you had
they took them gladly,
paying you badly
and you learnt back in the provinces
they'll put a man ahead of you
they'll put his face on your ideas too
but you didn't complain
you just worked your way right into the system, well
our people didn't ask for the rules to change
our people aren't afraid of a little dirt in the name
of entertainment
Julie you saved me
when you put me on the screen
I had become a great sportsman
stranded on fledgling teams
you were the one to convince me
to take the money
sell any dream
that could be used against me
so I didn't wait for the injuries to take me, well
our people didn't ask for an interview
our people aren't afraid of some higher minded truth
just entertainment
I was just a kid
with a perfect kicking leg
and what passed for an education
you gave me a shot and I'll always remember that
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2. |
Two Free Hands
04:29
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Ask her what she'd like to be
and she stares at her hands
ten million years passing by in my mind
the suspension in the arches of her feet
the development of her spine
that led her to stand
with two free hands
and so many of these kids
they are like seals on the land
they feel the beauty of their movements in a sea
that won't let them breathe
and here she stands
with her free hands
with her two free hands
if I could be a biologist
not a careers counsellor
I’d write the last wish of each species
as it left the earth
she doesn't want to do harm
she doesn't need anything grand
at the parent teacher evenings they never understand
they wanna know her plans
for her free hands
for her two free hands
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3. |
Old Images
04:06
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Only looking through
old images
do I understand
she carries albums in her mind
from another time
when the sun gave light in a different tint
her mother wearing hazel print
and though some remember doubt and fear
she remembers colourful years
and I'm not so radical
I still have my affinities
for the twentieth century
I have a driver's license and one day
I will drive her to the city that left this mark on me
I know our parents dreams were innocent
buy a house to shelter a couple of kids
and if the world didn't blow up by then
they'd grow up to do the same again
now she tells me not to blame them
for what became their great obsession
for open arms that ceased extending
or believing the world had finished mending
here's a photograph
of a young girl looking shyly into the camera
wearing a shirt that reads Australia
holding a rare butterfly in her hands
and I wish that I could visit there
be the air around her
hear the secrets she might tell
then but not now
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4. |
Leave Love Out Of This
05:21
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Bring no history
bring no secrets with you
we will put nothing at risk
spend an evening singing
in the war room
but leave love out of this
and when you're speaking, speak in
present tenses
stay in a moment that exists
the future is irrelevant here
the past isn't missed
so leave love out of this
leave love
to someone who believes in it
bury your anger tonight
bury your frustration
bury the signs you may have missed
and though it might appear
the only answer
leave love out of this
because revolutions
are founded like this
for illusions that we could still resist
if we could trade emotion
for clear mathematics, and
leave love out of this
leave love
to someone who believes
in it
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5. |
When I'm Wrong
05:10
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Who's going to hear my confession
if you're not awake for this call?
I used to be able to take on the world alone
I used to pride myself on having no allegiance at all
but I was mining myself
I was mining myself for too long
now I'm wondering where my resources have gone
when I'm wrong
I am wrong
and in the language of these cities
I can hear all the same themes
all the young and talented indentured to their dreams
I used to promise we'd never fall victim to those schemes
but now I wonder was I right
to fight with the stream?
you said
maybe you'll get what you want
maybe not when you want it
maybe there isn't a breakthrough you can time
when I'm wrong
I am wrong
well maybe I believe my detractors
count myself among the damned
but tonight I am their man
pretending that I understand
and I understand
how the loneliness is veiled
underneath the thinnest plans
because I've tried to disguise this
everyway that I can
you said
maybe you'll get what you want
maybe not when you want it
maybe at some great cost
maybe you won't recognise it oh
when I'm wrong
I am wrong
when I'm wrong
trust you to know
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6. |
Christopher
03:59
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Christopher it's true
you feel something for her
but you should have made that clear
when you met her
now she's confused
what is she supposed to do to keep her friends
from turning on her?
Christopher you need to own this now
now in this time of year
when you hear the private planes landing
and think of the champion sons
the athletes taking their positions
it's enough to make you angry with everything
but take a step back
she has nothing to do with that
she just loves a man and
let's say he loves her back, well
you can't blame chivalry for that
however much you claim to have
and if you won't wear your true intentions
if you must hang on things unsaid
what kind of chivalry is that
but a myth we must forget?
and Christopher it's true
you feel something for her
maybe you've been a friend to her
where ever your motives were
but don't believe it's love
that makes you feel the way that you feel now
Christopher
you need to own this now
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7. |
Peacetime Orders
06:26
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Difficult for the family
now you're living in Japan
without our peace broker
to sue for long term plans
but you found a lasting work
saving that country from its cracks
here in California
they're getting upset
at the water flowing back
I hear rumours of you
your quotations ripple through the news
you didn't need to wait long
to see your warnings proved
did you?
come on, say it
General MacArthur
had a love for the far east
so they made him an emperor
told him to win the peace
yes, we know proclamations
oh fine intentions never
really plugged a leak
you wouldn't be first to come and go
leave no mark on the sea
but we still wish in secret dreams
that you could feel
feel what he felt
knowing peacetime orders would have been carried out
left without a peace to broker
you just scuttled the plans yourself
tidings of you
written into barrels of waves
rolling into sea
with all you tried to save
too late
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8. |
Mataura Paper Mill
05:38
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Mataura Paper Mill
words are lost on this waterfall
if you search out the photograph
you will feel the power it held
I went over the bridge
to bypass Gore
I saw a world
we just failed to fight for
I came down I couldn't help myself
a neighbour drawn to watch the fire
but who am I to try to save this town
from a toxic ammonia cloud?
Mataura Paper Mill
hearts are lost in the detail
some protest
others not at all
what greater minds decide to mothball
and greater minds will always cross this bridge
to give their promise to the council
and greater minds always incorporate
so that no one can be held
responsible
Mataura Paper Mill
filled with dross from the smelter
all things flow in their natural course
to leave us with the liquidator
but I am here I couldn't help myself
a neighbour drawn to watch the fire
who were we, left to save this town?
from a toxic
come on
from a toxic
ammonia cloud
come on
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9. |
Lockheed Bomber
06:24
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Lockheed Hudson Mark II Bomber
from Melbourne to Canberra
from the air you wouldn't know
that the world is at war
just another mild winter
the snow surrenders from the highest hills
how did you get here?
from a dream you left the farm for
to the sky you guard
boys at your command
and this morning you arranged
for yourself and the war minister,
the chief of staff
and the people around you
to make the trip in a beautiful new plane
from the U.S.A
you've been waiting
to get your hands on
but wait until Canberra
to talk about the war
leave until Canberra
all that's looming over
when you were twenty years old and shot down
only a buggered arm to tell
you knew it couldn't always end so well
meeting the ground
but once you have your wings
it's hard to keep your head down
you ran for office in your district
you put an airstrip on the farm
and you taught your brother to fly
he taught his wife
and she flew them on a sunday in thirty five
right into the ground
now you look at this perfect machine
it took another war to give it its wings
and you've got boys in England
ready to do anything
like you were
when you were seventeen
take this young pilot, he calls you sir
he says the landing is hard to do
but if you wanted the controls
he would do as you tell him to
and who knows
if you asked for the controls?
what will you see, what will you see
when the plane comes down?
you believe in God
but you really fear the ground
and it calls you now
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Anthonie Tonnon New Zealand
Anthonie Tonnon is a songwriter and performer based in Whanganui, New Zealand. In recent years, his work has focused on the immersive live shows, A Synthesized Universe and Rail Land. He has released two albums and three EPs, and is releasing the new album, Leave Love Out Of This in July. ... more
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