ALBUM: ECHOLALIA A huge thanks to Kane Quickenstead (kaneq@start.com.au) for some of these SONG: STUNT SHOW You hold me in mid air And you keep me A measure from impact You stop and ask me If the ringing in your ears might be the sound of thought You're like a long slow accident Time stood still while motion emptied you out And I watched you like a slide show 1, 2, 3, 4 And there you go We all stop and stare From start to finish Yeah we're measuring again You keep trying to show us How you can carry fifty times your own weight You've got a whole new story But your bound to your invention like a ball and chain And I watched you Like a stunt show Hold my breath And here we go How will you get yourself out of this one You stand by watching And this is how your life is turning out How will you get yourself out of this one Yeah you stand by watching And this is how your life is turning out ooh... How will you get yourself out of this one Yeah you stand by watching And this is how your life is turning out How will you get yourself out of this one Yeah you stand by watching And this is how your life is turning out SONG: THREE DIMENSIONS You're not the first to think That everything has been thought before I spoke to an echo and he said (I spoke) I'm not satisfied I want something more 'Cos I am bored with three dimensions I'm in love with three dimensions And if I listen to the seconds Reminds me of Echolalia What now? Fragments are found In the mess and in the sound 'Cos I am bored with three dimensions I'm in love with three dimensions And if I listen to the seconds Reminds me of Echola-la-la-la-la-la-lalia La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la Your not the first to think (Your not the first to think) Your not the first to think (Your not the first to think) That I am bored with three dimensions I'm in love with three dimensions And if I listen to the seconds Reminds me of Echola-la-la-lia Echola-la-la-lia Echola-la-la-lia Echola-la-la-lia Echolalia ooh... SONG: JERRY, STAND UP Jerry stand up Pull back the curtains and let some light in Quit your job Because you hate it and it's wasting you Once upon a time you were running Singing to the crowd every morning Once upon a time you were... Jerry stand up Am I the only one whose noticed that you've been missing? Remember yourself man Remember that you have chance and possibility Once upon a time you were running Singing to the crowd every morning Once upon a time you were crazy ooh... Jerry You're not getting any younger All you need is fresh air A nice new suit A walk in the park every day or two Fresh air A nice new suit A walk in the park every day or two Fresh air A nice new suit A walk in the park every day or two Every day In every way Every day Once upon a time you were running Singing to the crowd every morning Once upon a time you were crazy Crazy (Once apon a time you were) Crazy (Once apon a time you were) Crazy (Once apon a time you were) Crazy SONG: MONSTERS I was hanging upside down from the overpass Waiting to discover something about the world I couldn't get with the program and I couldn't listen to them It was like trying to think in reverse And I don't want to slide into apathy And I don't want to die in captivity But these monsters follow me around Hunting me down Try to wipe me out Wipe me out Wipe me out Wipe me out Yeah I was hiding away under water Waiting for distance and buying some time. Trying to be two hundred thousand years younger So I could excuse myself from human kind 'Cos I don't want to be a container Or a bastard with a ten page disclaimer But these monsters spin me around Get me down Just try and shut me out Shut me out Shut me out Shut me out Hold it in your head Hold it in your head Hold it in your head (Believe in me, believe in me, believe) I was hiding away under water (Shut me out) Waiting for distance, waiting for time (Shut me out) And I don't want to slide into apathy (Shut me out) And I don't and I don't want to live in captivity (Shut me out) Shut me out (wooh...) Shut me out Shut me out Shut me out SONG: OLD PICTURES Let these pages fly away Flag poles in the sun, same Saturday Reflected off a window, is where you'll stay Where you'll stay I turned you in I turned you into whispers I turned you in I turned you into old pictures I turned you in I turned you into whispers I build you out of nothing To have you near I remembered you on trains So now you're on every train I hear I turned you in I turned you into whispers I turned you in I turned you into old pictures I turned you in I turned you into whispers I turned you into old pictures I wished that you were gone So you're gone Let these pages fly away Flagpoles in the sun, same Saturday And reflected off a window Is where you'll stay Where you'll stay I turned you in I turned you into whispers I turned you in I turned you into old pictures I turned you in I turned you into whispers I turned you in I turned you into old pictures and whispers SONG: YOU ONLY HIDE... So I keep watch And you keep breaking Breaking formation to become Someone else And your eyes become corridors Where I wander With a candle Calling out to you And you only hide Because you know I'll find you You say you just wanna feel The way you used to feel The way you should feel And I wander I wander through the last city of you And you only hide Because you know I'll find you And you only hide Because you know I'll find you SONG: FEEDING THE BIRDS AND HOPING FOR SOMETHING IN RETURN He sees streets Waiting for him to decide Forcing directions on the air Insisting And he wants to move it up And he wants to move across anything Just anything In a city that rumbles like an impatient child He hears everything And I know the sound of panic And I know emergency And I know I've planned it like a battle But when I'm done shaking I'll be simple He hears trees Talking about the wind or something And he can't remember waking up So he refuses to believe that he ever was asleep and he's exhausted He sits under a tree Feeding the birds and hoping for something in return And I hate the silence in here Its all emergency And I know I've planned it like a battle But When I'm done shaking I'll be I'll be simple I'll be Simple Simple Simple Simple Simple Yeah And he sees the buildings waiting He sees them tired and leaning on each other But all the words I had escaped And all the things I saw I shaped But I'm forgetting everything faster Than I can remember what I'm missing I'm missing everything I'm missing everything I'm missing everything I'm missing everything I know I've planned it like a battle Yeah but I know I've planned it like a battle Yeah but I know I've planned it like a battle But when I'm done shaking I'll be SONG: TWENTY YEARS He is alive and kicking Screaming Calls it gymnastics Calls it velocity You spend twenty years climbing And never change your mind or change direction And you call it the path that leads to resistance You have everything you ever need So you sing 'If you can't beat them join them' All the way up to your floor Memorise and repeat it And sing it like you mean it They are talking to me And I'm nowhere to be found There's somewhere else I had to be Call it necessity Mutiny, entropy They think I'm down they tell me I should brighten up That's just 'cos they don't know an explosion when they see one And they sing 'If you can't beat them join them' All the way up to your floor Memorise and repeat it And sing it like you mean it All the way home to your front door Yeah you better believe it Sing it like you mean it They are talking to me And I am nowhere to be found So you sing, so you sing If you can't beat them join them All the way up to your floor Memorise and repeat it And sing it like you mean it SONG: SAY SOMETHING Tonight is like space invaders There is nothing at work The faces have become like traffic Multipurpose conversation I stand like a lighthouse I have become a lighthouse That if we met We would exhaust this place And if you spoke then this world Would short circuit Say something Make it a direct hit Say something make me never forget I don't want to stand and compute I want days and weeks To burst out of you I am listening for dear life I want you to talk like Its a breakthrough ooh, ahh.... Say something Make it a direct hit Say something Make me never forget this This Say something (Say something, say something, say something) Say something (Say something, say something, say something) Say something (Say something, say something, say something) Say something ooh (Say something, say something, say something) SONG: MANMADE HORSE Ask me how I am Ask me how I've been And then stand and watch and hope and wait And with any luck I will be an earthquake And I will clear a space here Where you can put pictures and silence and sleep And you can stop asking Cos you'll be You will be You will be You will be Down in the centre of the earth with me Now you see me Now you don't bother looking twice I picture myself like a column of smoke When questioned I see myself Riding around forever on a manmade horse And you And you You will be You will be You will be Moving randomly You will be Yeah you'll be And now you see me Now you don't bother looking twice (don't bother looking twice) So you can go through all Keeping secret Try to crawl You can do it Do it Do it Yeah Yeah you will be Riding round forever You will be riding Riding Riding round Forever forever Riding round forever SONG: HAPPY ENDINGS This town makes my mind slow down I've got lines on my face like highways now I'm chasing breezes kicking boulders And all of the while just getting older I leave pieces of paper Pieces of myself along the way Out the window Out the window I tell myself that I'll come back for them before I go Then I won't sing this song tomorrow Reason calls I'm never listening There's always something more distracting And you take everything so seriously Then you leave and burn up on re-entry The happy endings All these little victories Gather up and hung on the wall Like trophies I tell myself that I've been down this road before So I won't sing this song anymore (anymore) Anymore (anymore) Anymore (anymore) Yeah-heh ooh... Said I've been down this road before So I won't sing this song anymore (anymore) Anymore (anymore) Said I've been down on myself enough before So I won't sing this song anymore ooh... SONG: SEASICK You make it look so easy You seem to fit inside your own skull so comfortably But I haven't been myself lately And thankyou The pleasure has been all mine As I wait for my pulse to catch up with me If I can leave here today then I would If I could change my face and my name then I would If I could run to some technicolour place then I would If I could learn from my mistakes then I would The lights come back on And what has my imagination done for me lately I sit in this chair Concentrating on a crack in the ceiling and And thankyou Thankyou The pleasure has been all mine As I wait for my pulse to catch up with me If I could see with your eyes then I would If I could change my face and my name then I would If I could run to some technicolour place then I would If I could learn from my mistakes then I would wooh... You make it look so easy Yeah you make me s-s-s-seasick If I could leave here today Then I would If I could change then I would If I could run then I would If I could fly then I would I would SONG: WHITE You think of white Somewhere outside Somehow connected to your brain Or about to knock on your door Eternity is a policy Magnetism and mystery Wishful thinking and fantasy And I hope that you're not hoping for me You think of sight Reason collides Somehow transmitting from space Asking you to line up and take your place Infinity is a reality Life jackets and sympathy Bullshit daydreams I know you can't be knowing for me And I hope that you're not hoping for me