Album(s)
- MY LUCKY DAY
- DIAL-A-PRAYER
- SIMPLE YET SACRED
- WILL YOU WAIT
- ALL I REALLY WANT IS YOU
- COUNTED THE WAYS
- FARAWAY
- SAILING HOME
MY LUCKY DAY
I tell myself it’s just a dream
I tell myself it can’t be real
The rumour’s goin’ round the town
You’ve found somebody else to drown your sorrows with
It’s my lucky day
A touch of lust, a taste of loneliness
It’s such a lovely mess
A sympathetic drunken ear
Pity laced with ice-cold beer, I can’t believe
It’s my lucky day
If you need a helping hand
I’m sure that your new friend can help you understand
A couple made in paradise
The snake is shy he’s been bitten twice
A crowd of angels fills the sky
And bids a fond farewell, goodbye to all those blues
It’s my lucky day
I tell myself it can’t be real
The rumour’s goin’ round the town
You’ve found somebody else to drown your sorrows with
It’s my lucky day
A touch of lust, a taste of loneliness
It’s such a lovely mess
A sympathetic drunken ear
Pity laced with ice-cold beer, I can’t believe
It’s my lucky day
If you need a helping hand
I’m sure that your new friend can help you understand
A couple made in paradise
The snake is shy he’s been bitten twice
A crowd of angels fills the sky
And bids a fond farewell, goodbye to all those blues
It’s my lucky day
He still dreams of mayhem after all these years
And though he’s no longer called upon
To clear a path or bend an arm
He walks tall before his friends
He used to ride the streets like a silent prince
With trigger finger and trigger head
He was a man of steel he had the whole world
In his hand
Now it’s dial-a-prayer, dial-a-life
Dial-a-whiskey, dial-a-wife
Self-love still saves in the mirror
Those sags don’t seem so bad when lit by lamp
And the smile’s quite debonair for one so lost
Now he haunts the streets in the dead of night
With a pain somewhere down deep inside that can’t be reached
It can never be relieved
Now it’s dial-a-prayer, etc.
Then the dawn arrives and he turns to dust
His flower fades with the rising sun
And he’s just one of many whose race has been run
Now it’s dial-a-prayer, etc.
And though he’s no longer called upon
To clear a path or bend an arm
He walks tall before his friends
He used to ride the streets like a silent prince
With trigger finger and trigger head
He was a man of steel he had the whole world
In his hand
Now it’s dial-a-prayer, dial-a-life
Dial-a-whiskey, dial-a-wife
Self-love still saves in the mirror
Those sags don’t seem so bad when lit by lamp
And the smile’s quite debonair for one so lost
Now he haunts the streets in the dead of night
With a pain somewhere down deep inside that can’t be reached
It can never be relieved
Now it’s dial-a-prayer, etc.
Then the dawn arrives and he turns to dust
His flower fades with the rising sun
And he’s just one of many whose race has been run
Now it’s dial-a-prayer, etc.
He peered through his fingers to a dim world far below
A cheroot on the coffee table stained the air with its memories
The girl lay on the bed like an afterthought
But deep inside her eyes, a coin was spinning lazily
Through her mind
Simple yet sacred, they offered no explanation
They were mundane yet miraculous
She relaxed as he ran his hand along her leg
A fleeting connection, they were lost in their own thoughts
In their minds
Simple yet sacred, etc.
The room service arrived; they watched a game show and a re-run of friends
He ran his hand along her leg - the air-con sent a shiver through the room
They dressed for cocktails sharing the bathroom
The TV flared and died and static filled the empty room
In their minds
Simple yet sacred
A cheroot on the coffee table stained the air with its memories
The girl lay on the bed like an afterthought
But deep inside her eyes, a coin was spinning lazily
Through her mind
Simple yet sacred, they offered no explanation
They were mundane yet miraculous
She relaxed as he ran his hand along her leg
A fleeting connection, they were lost in their own thoughts
In their minds
Simple yet sacred, etc.
The room service arrived; they watched a game show and a re-run of friends
He ran his hand along her leg - the air-con sent a shiver through the room
They dressed for cocktails sharing the bathroom
The TV flared and died and static filled the empty room
In their minds
Simple yet sacred
Supple as anger, tender as steel
Your back is the bridge that will help me to heal
Out there is the darkness, out there is the night
In here I am gone when we turn out the light
Kiss me in comfort, kiss me in fear
Kiss me in joy cos I think this is real
Open your eyes and I’ll open mine too
You only live once
Will you wait for the oceans to part?
Will you wait?
Blind to the danger, deaf to the gun
Dumb enough to look straight into the sun
Feeling like death now I feel like a life
Anything goes, the temptation is rife
Love really hurts, love is in the air
Love is a many-splendoured affair
The clichés abound so just open your eyes
You only live once
Will you wait for the oceans to part?
Will you wait?
Your back is the bridge that will help me to heal
Out there is the darkness, out there is the night
In here I am gone when we turn out the light
Kiss me in comfort, kiss me in fear
Kiss me in joy cos I think this is real
Open your eyes and I’ll open mine too
You only live once
Will you wait for the oceans to part?
Will you wait?
Blind to the danger, deaf to the gun
Dumb enough to look straight into the sun
Feeling like death now I feel like a life
Anything goes, the temptation is rife
Love really hurts, love is in the air
Love is a many-splendoured affair
The clichés abound so just open your eyes
You only live once
Will you wait for the oceans to part?
Will you wait?
Finish work it’s nearly five
Comin’ home I close my eyes
And think of you
Just can’t wait for that first kiss
Drink it deep it’s such sweet bliss
And I wonder if this time it will last
I wonder if this time we can have it all
All I really want is you
And to stay together
Sunset strip we’re feeling fine
Locked inside your skin is mine
Slip into the drifting dark
Til nothing’s left just one small spark
To feed the flame
Feels like the storm’s about to break
The evening is warm and here’s your face before me
All I really want is you
And to stay together
Comin’ home I close my eyes
And think of you
Just can’t wait for that first kiss
Drink it deep it’s such sweet bliss
And I wonder if this time it will last
I wonder if this time we can have it all
All I really want is you
And to stay together
Sunset strip we’re feeling fine
Locked inside your skin is mine
Slip into the drifting dark
Til nothing’s left just one small spark
To feed the flame
Feels like the storm’s about to break
The evening is warm and here’s your face before me
All I really want is you
And to stay together
The cigarette, the break-up friend
Home at dawn to make amends
A flippant word, a cruel aside
The worm is turning deep inside
The darkened eye, the loosened hair
I can’t pretend that I don’t care
The cigarette, the missing band, the cigarette
I have counted the ways
And the waves that break upon the shore
The three-day stubble, the gloomy looks
Won’t find the answer in your goddamn books
The secrets mounting, the seed is hot
The tempers frayed, the nerves are shot
The stain is spreading, it bleeds right through
Voice is fading no longer true
Can’t change the river, can’t change the sea
Can’t change the tide back to me
I have counted the ways
And the waves that break upon the shore
Home at dawn to make amends
A flippant word, a cruel aside
The worm is turning deep inside
The darkened eye, the loosened hair
I can’t pretend that I don’t care
The cigarette, the missing band, the cigarette
I have counted the ways
And the waves that break upon the shore
The three-day stubble, the gloomy looks
Won’t find the answer in your goddamn books
The secrets mounting, the seed is hot
The tempers frayed, the nerves are shot
The stain is spreading, it bleeds right through
Voice is fading no longer true
Can’t change the river, can’t change the sea
Can’t change the tide back to me
I have counted the ways
And the waves that break upon the shore
Smoke and tequila swirl in her mouth
As she drifts her way down my neck
And her fingers they play me
Like piano wires
Sometimes she feels so far away
But tonight she’s so intense
It’s a fickle hour and there’s more going on
Than meets the eye, than meets the eye
I embark on a kind of silent pleading
I can’t read the look in her eye
Sometimes she feels so far away
But tonight she’s so intense
And it seems to work
Maybe she finds it amusing
And the sun, it starts to rise
And one long kiss just doesn’t seem enough
Sometimes she seems so far away
But tonight she’s so intense
As she drifts her way down my neck
And her fingers they play me
Like piano wires
Sometimes she feels so far away
But tonight she’s so intense
It’s a fickle hour and there’s more going on
Than meets the eye, than meets the eye
I embark on a kind of silent pleading
I can’t read the look in her eye
Sometimes she feels so far away
But tonight she’s so intense
And it seems to work
Maybe she finds it amusing
And the sun, it starts to rise
And one long kiss just doesn’t seem enough
Sometimes she seems so far away
But tonight she’s so intense
Far, far from home
On a lost night in a strange motel
Love’s on the horizon as the twilight fades
Let’s sit here in the bar and sample the top shelf
If you could only bottle seduction, here it is
Outside the wind it whips and the rain it falls
Along the jubilee highway
Lies a field of fallen pine like a graveyard
Run beyond it to the forest so dark and inviting
A clear sky and a brilliant cold
Whips the flames like your fate so rich
Further on to Corangamite and Wendouree
Ghosts everywhere in the roadside stops and the cattle yards
I’m sailing home to you, my love
Yes I’m sailing home to you, my love
On a lost night in a strange motel
Love’s on the horizon as the twilight fades
Let’s sit here in the bar and sample the top shelf
If you could only bottle seduction, here it is
Outside the wind it whips and the rain it falls
Along the jubilee highway
Lies a field of fallen pine like a graveyard
Run beyond it to the forest so dark and inviting
A clear sky and a brilliant cold
Whips the flames like your fate so rich
Further on to Corangamite and Wendouree
Ghosts everywhere in the roadside stops and the cattle yards
I’m sailing home to you, my love
Yes I’m sailing home to you, my love