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Good Intentions
03:54
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I could waste my words like water / or spend them on you / I could waste my time in education / just to know what to do / I was all good intentions / when I saw you today / and I'm learning slowly / to mean what I say.
yes I was all good intentions / when you came up to my room / and all my good intentions were up there / orbiting the moon / and I saw a sign in your eyes / that said don't look away / and I shed all of those bad disguises / you could see through anyway.
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Inconsequences
05:53
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it's ok / for Rita May / to wake me up at three in the morning / drunk and thin / hankering / I let her in / she asked me twice / I told her twice / told her what I wanted from her / I wanted more than anything / to hear her sing.
then we spent christmas eve in a basket / we spent boxing day in a box / making up for missing something / by always changing locks / until we're lost in consequences of the past / & I'm awaiting separation to come at last.
I asked her twice / she told me twice / told me that she'd never sing for me / but what's all this analysis / of a goodbye kiss / still there's two things / I never told her / apart from that I'm loose & cheap / well one I'm holding on to what I took from her / & two is that she sings in her sleep.
then I spent new year's eve looking forward / I spent new year's day in the past / making up for getting nowhere / by driving faster and faster / I spent new year's eve looking forward / I spent all new year looking back / & I'm making up for bad decisions / by painting the whole thing black...
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A Message I Remember Now
04:00
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well I sleep too much / my hands aren't steady / there's this hum / it's in my head / & words come out / before they're ready / to be said / I've been feeling so uninspired / it's not even / up & down / & all these things that once I so required / are just hanging 'round.
cynical / I'm not / afraid of what I've got / a concentrated shot / I'm 29 so what / it's a lesson that I'm learning twice / because I never took my own advice / it's a message I remember now / came back to me somehow.
I'm gonna put them deep / & get them dirty / get more than time on my hands / I know it's there / and I'll be ready / when inspiration lands / I'll put a brand new bulb in that socket / a brand new dust bag in my head / & I'll take my hands from the pocket of the dead.
typical / I'm not / aware that i've been shot / I'm cold & then I'm hot / I'm falling down so what...
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It's a Love Song
03:47
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it's a love song here I go / but it's a language I don't know / it would help to be in love I'm sure / I love to start & I love to quit / I'd love to work on the other bit / but I just can't do what's best for me no more.
as I'm in love with love & not with anyone / I'm in love with love what should I do / where's that one true lover that was promised me? / it's not true.
yeah she's playing hard to get / so hard I haven't met her yet / one step ahead I'm playing hard to want / I know it goes in ebbs & flows / & it's a rhythm that I know / it's a love song & it's my only confidante...
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Gravity
05:37
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heavy hearts & slow machinery / & water fall down to the sea / I didn't know how heavy things could be / until I made that deal with gravity / I didn't know / I'd get so low / so wish me well / as down I go.
I said "gravity hold me down / gravity hold me down / I can't stay where I should be / I'm floating around".
I thought I needed heavy things to say / or some windy day I'd just blow away / once I lived such a life of levity / until I made that deal with gravity / now I can't tell / from where I fell / so wish me well / 'cos down I go...
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What Are We Waiting For?
04:09
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she was almost there / almost there / but she lay herself out bare / she was talking fit to burst / he did not mind at first / but soon it just got worse.
he thinks "what do I come here for? / there must be something more / I'm not just here for you to score".
& with such heavy touch / she was made up way too much / in her hope to look more like such & such / well she came on too strong / came on too strong / she held his eyes for just a bit too long.
she says "what are we waiting for? / there may be nothing more / the worst that we could do / is waste a day or two / the worst that we could do / is do no more.
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Out Here, So Long
04:37
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I used to be a city kind of guy / head full / feet dry / I was living with my back to the sea / I turned around / & it was looking at me.
I used to be a lot more like you / head full of nothing new / I was twisting away from change / again & again / but the time came / now I've been out here so long / I'm gone.
but now I can't tell the sky from the ocean / I can't tell if it's blue or it's green / I can't tell when the ship will go down / but hell I'm not afraid of that now that I've been...
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Taxi
04:23
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your car is parked outside / you're in for a hell of a ride / tonight in the darkness / I can't tell / if your eyes / are open as well / so I'm laying lines / & putting up signs / because you can't tell the difference / between taking my love & my time. if only I knew how / I'd stop these clocks right now / and we'd wait / but wait I hear the taxi / they got the call / I can see the lights flash pretty colours on my wall / they'll come up & they'll get us / they'll carry us down / they'll put us in the taxi / and we'll ride around.
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Jaded
05:59
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well I'm a cheerful little guy / just watch me smiling when I should cry / & I'm completely infatuated / but she's so jaded / she says he's got the whole world / in a mess / she says the old songs are the best / & there's nothing to believe in / no she's not easy to impress.
I've been walking with my eyes closed / speaking someone else's lines / I thought that I could see what's coming / but I hit the lamp-post every time / it's just a question of perception / she says I'm really just naive / when all my wisdom is caught between / my sleepy head & my dream.
I can't explain it / it's the exception to the rule / she's so jaded / she's complicated / yeah she's jaded / & beautiful.
she keeps a pair of dice in her pocket / because she's always playing games / she keeps her bathtub full of water / sometimes she just goes up in flames / now I don't understand the attraction / I'm not supposed to I suppose / here it comes now / ah distraction / my resolution / there it goes...
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Out
01:15
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Chris Chapple Melbourne, Australia
In 1998, Chris, one time guitarist for Melbourne quartet Autohaze, self-produced & released his debut solo album It's A Wonderful Life. In '02 he released his 2nd, Whisky Bay, with full band. He continues to play guitar (& BVs) with Julitha Ryan & Band, and is producing recordings for local artists. ... more
Chris Chapple recommends:
A wonderful, rich & mysterious record... and my first professional production credit: recorded, produced & mixed.
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Debut full-length album form Melbourne 90's shoe-gazers. Recorded at Fort Apache in Boston, 1994, with Tim O'Heir. Mixed by Wayne Connolly & the band at Sony Studios, Sydney & Metropolis Studios.
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Weight of the Sky - compilation
by Autohaze
NME: "the mantle of pop genius has not passed them by... god bless Creation for making several of Autohaze's forays into godliness available... cherish a bright future for pop in these hands"
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