1. _ Gillian
Gillian (written by Josh Cunningham)
Oh Gillian, you’re up with the sun
You’ve done a hundred things before half past nine
By the time most folk are up and gone
You’ll be starting on one hundred and one
There’s not enough hours in a day
To do all the things she’s just got to do
When the daylight fades and the night invades
She’s only just begun
Weary as you lay at night waiting for the sun
Planning out tomorrow now before this day is done
‘Gillian you work to hard’
But don’t you try to slow her down – she’ll tell you
‘Idleness is good for none works how I get my fun
Idleness is good for none works how I get things done’
Gillian you’re the one you’re the one
Shining in my life, you’re my eternal sun
I’m trying to thank you now for what I’ve become
But I’ve only just begun
Your influence has been profound and I’m proud to be your son
Your blood is my blood we are forever bound
You’re the inspiration to the way I live my life
I’m singing,
Gillian if you weren’t my mother I would make you my wife
Gillian if you weren’t my mother I’d make you my wife
Gillian if you weren’t my mother I’d make you my wife
Gillian if you weren’t my mother I would make you my wife
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2. _ Jealousy
Jealousy (written by Josh Cunningham)
Now’s the time you’re leaving you got to do what you got to do
When you come in from the cold I’ll still be warm for you
And I won’t be bending backwards like you never done for me
When you look at what’s left inside
You’ve only got your jealousy
It’s wearing me thin, all this trying to please
I’m looking within and I can see for miles
And I’m trying to grin as I’m trying to please
I keep looking within, you know I can still see for miles
Like a player in a show you never gonna wait around for what remains
If you go and play your games of jealousy
I don’t want to deal with that again
It’s your jealousy baby
You got to lose it
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3. _ Waif Song
Waif Song (written by The Waifs)
We drive an old beat up car
We play our out of tune guitars
Mother Nature keeps us safe
Even when we’re off our face
A waif is all I want to be
Not better for you no worse for me
You’ve got a mobile phone and heaps of money
We ain’t got much but at least we’re free
You may sit and talk and stare
But he’s not gonna cut his hair
Not gonna patch my jeans or wash my face
Going to keep on being a waif
A waif you see is an unloved child
A kid that’s stray and gone kind of wild
You can change your name, change your look
You can even change your style
But why don’t you come and live with us for a while
We pick up work when we can
Our clothes are all second hand
Harmonicas are old and abused
But she can still play the blues
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4. _ Company
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5. _ Circles
Circles (written by Vikki Simpson)
What’s your excuse for living like
You’re somebody different
You’re nobody different
You’re just somebody
Tell me what’s the reason behind
All your frustrations
It’s a bad situation
Can you trust me
Do you think that maybe you live your
Life in circles
Going round in circles
Heading nowhere
If you wanna sort it out you gotta
Talk about it, live without it
Come on and talk about it, live without it
What’s your excuse for living like
You’re somebody different
You’re nobody different
You’re just somebody
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6. _ I Believe
I Believe (written by Vikki Simpson)
Seems like only yesterday I thought I had my life together
Ain’t it funny how some things change
For it is today I feel uncertain about my whole world
All once familiar is now strange
I’ve become so dependant on those things that I once rejected
I’m rejecting all I believed
I’m so open minded that it leaves me undecided
Now I’m forever caught between two extremes
I believe
I found some time to get away on my own
I came to a place where nobody knows my name
With the hope it would help me see things clearer
It has for now I realise that it was nothing but a planned escape
I believe
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7. _ Crazy Train
Crazy Train (written by Donna Simpson)
Crazy train, rolling down that crazy track
Crazy train, rolling down that crazy track
Going to New Orleans and I ain’t coming back
Crazy train, where do you think I’m bound
Crazy train, where do you think I’m bound
Bound for New Orleans
Gonna play the blues in that blues town
Crazy train, steaming through that crazy night
Crazy train, steaming through that crazy line
Got on this morn’ and I’ll be there in the morning light
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8. _ Intimate
Intimate (written by Josh Cunningham)
Now we are so intimate do you think we could ever part
Though there’s little love left in it something seems to make it hard
I’d like to stand up I’d like to stand up on my own
But I fear that you will forever be my crutch
Did I save myself or was I saved
Though I knew it was killing me - I did it anyway
When I think of all those years I led myself astray
Knowing it was killing me – I did it anyway
I see it all from the other side
The prison walls around your minds
These are the subtle scars I hide
I’m looking in from the other side
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9. _ Take It In
Take It In (written by Josh Cunningham)
Now she’s thinking of the red soil and the mango trees
In her mind she’s still splashing round down on Cable Beach
And her eyes, they are as rich and faraway as the sunset there
She’s not taking in a word I say
Well I might as well be talking to myself
Take it in, take it all in
Now is a time that will not come again
Take it in, take it all in
This is a day that is here for the living
So we step outside into this Melbourne weather
With a shock it brings her back to where she is
Now we’ve made this place our home
Surrounded by unknown
We’re gonna stick it out until it comes together
Take it in, take it all in
Now is a time that will not come again
Take it in, take it all in
This is a day and it’s here for the living
We’re only living for a day to come or some days gone by
Never taking in each moment
Never knowing what you had until it passed you by
And it’ll pass you by
Take it in, take it all in
Now is a time that will not come again
Take it in, take it all in
This is the day and it’s here for the living
Take it all in
Now is a time that will not come again
Take it in, take it all in
This is the day and it’s here for the living
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10. _ Brain Damage
Brain Damage (written by Josh Cunningham)
I’m going out to damage my brain
You won’t come; you say you’re staying at home
It’s no shame; night and day we see each other anyway
We’ve got to move, we’ve got to get away
It’s a long cold night but there’s a better day
Wouldn’t you say, correct me if I’m wrong
But we’ve got all the good reasons for time on our own
You see me all the time
You see me all the time
You see me all the time
Hey babe throw me some line
It’s him and her; it’s this and that
I feel my tyres going flat
There’s no get up and go for getting it on
We got all the good reasons for time on our own
You see me all the time
You see me all the time
You see me all the time
Hey babe throw me some line x2
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11. _ Sunflower Man
Sunflower Man (written by Donna Simpson)
I’ll never forget I was singing in the streets
You laid a sunflower in the case at my feet
Threw a smile and you rolled right away
People cheered on the day that I fell in love
Yeah I fell in love
My head was heavy my clothes they were torn
I’d never felt like anybody’s princess before
If you knew how much you blew me away
I’d want to go and relive that day
It was the day that I fell in love
Yeah I fell in love
Oh Sunflower Man, throw me a dollar, reach out your hand
Lay a big sunflower down at my feet
It was a buskers dream the way I fell in love
I fell in love, when I fell in love
The day you gave that big sunflower to me
We lay together and we spoke till the dawn
We spoke of poetry and we sung some songs till the daylight came
I’m not always good at saying how I feel
This song to some people it’s not a big deal
But you know who it’s from and you know who it’s for
I was a poor lonely busker the day I fell in love
Yeah I fell in love
Close your eyes lay your head in my lap
You know I really love that
I thank God for the day that I was singing in the street
I earnt twelve dollars, a sunflower and you to keep
And I fell in love, I fell in love, I fell in love – and I’m still in love
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12. _ Shiny Apple
Shiny Apple (written by Josh Cunningham)
Shiny apple rotten on the inside
Skin is smooth but you soul is soft
Oh you look so appetising but
Taste the truth it’ll make you spit
And how long have I known you now
But I knew after just one taste
And how long has my mouth been sour
It’s been sour ever since that day
And how long can I go on like this
Knowing what I know anyway
But it makes me feel helpless to
Stand and watch while you rot away
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13. _ Billy Jones
Billy Jones (written by Donna Simpson)
Well we grew up together in an urban town
Just me and Billy Jones always hanging around
He was a Mumma’s little boy, he was an only child
His clothes were always neat and his hair carefully styled
All the games we’d play I couldn’t understand why
I’d have to play the groom and let Billy be the bride
All those pretty dresses that he’s love to wear
I’d wear a floppy hat Billy he’d put flowers in his hair
He’d even wear my underwear and put flowers in his hair
A few years later you know we kinda drifted apart
My family moved south to make a new start
I missed Billy, Mum said that was wrong
Dad said ‘That boy just don’t know where he belongs’
Where does he belong?
A few years later I was working in a bar
It was smoky and dark, there was a blues man playing guitar
When in walked a woman wearing emerald green
With a voluptuous figure, she was beautiful and lean
She was looking pretty mean
A full martini shaken not stirred
It was only until about after her third
I started looking closely, man I should have known!
It was my old friend; you guessed it, Billy Jones
Oh my god Billy Jones! Oh shit Billy Jones!
Tears filled our eyes as we began to speak
He’d been living a lie, a life so discreet
It made me feel sad to hear him say
In a voice so sweet ‘Honey you can call me Jane’
As the night wore on we spoke of yesterday
And how Billy has always known that he was gay
I never knew how much a person could change
From little Billy Jones to lean, luscious Jane
Billy Jane Jones this comes from my heart
I hope your nights are filled with a thousand stars
But don’t waste your sweetness in the empty air
‘Cause you don’t know how cold and dark it is out there
This is the ballad of Billy Jane Jones
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