Undertones

Slightly sexy, a bit deranged
Slapped a bandit on the outbound Wollongong train
You're an unsolved mystery constantly challenging me
But I want to hear it all, you got to go in to get out

Can I sleep next to you
Can I surf your mind through
You’re outlandish
And perfectly cool

Hey Jack where you been
There’s no ice but have another gin
And get the car keys pack ‘em in
I know they’re crazy look at ‘em shouting into the wind
A lovely kind of crazy, shouting into the wind

Can I sleep next to you
Can I surf your mind through
You’re outlandish
And perfectly cool

Stow your loose items
She strengthens under the clouds
But she blossoms under the sun
In the waves near her house

Drink it up while you can
Looking out for the perfect man
You’re lovely you’re okay
In another life one might say

Can I sleep next to you
Can I surf your mind through
You’re outlandish
And perfectly cool

Sirens in my head, stop looking at what’s ahead
Height of the ceiling, lows of healing
Candid colors, of fading summers
The old in her demeanor she must be from another time

A place where distractions fade, I can imagine it’s homemade
She must be a dreamer, eyes of a healer
Imperfections feel better, they show true weather
I’m afraid of losing time, let it sit, let it shine

Sirens in my head
Sirens in my head
Sirens in my head
Sirens in my head

Apparently teeming with thoughtless scheming
Laughing at your foreign views, of what’s happening inside my shoes
From the other point of view, it can’t be true
I won’t be moved, even if it weighs on you

Sirens in my head
Sirens in my head
Sirens in my head
Sirens in my head

I’m a cool breeze feeling fine, no trace in her eyes
Just a pure minds wise, reached the end of it’s time

I saw you staring at me and decided to say hello
Where you going now?
And when we parted it appeared there was some allure
We were both longing for

In the depths of your sanity
Of your precious companionship
I found a beauty to keep
And in your lips it read before we sleep
Share your mind with me
Won’t you please

Looking upon your frame
Looking upon where you came from
I recall how it all laid
When you came forth that day

You were awaiting for
The slow speed train
I was leaving down
Another lane
Where you came from?

I saw your life, you saw mine
Yours wasn’t pretty, mine wasn’t fine
We went our ways, and lived our lies
Over the hill, I passed you by

The black crow swoops on the side of the road
The cat crosses fast then turns back home
I can’t forget your shining eyes
The world’s shaking in my head tonight

Don’t kill me now

Over the hill
Over the hill
Over the hill
Over the hill

Don’t kill me now

Your birthday was a day ago, I didn’t send you a thing
A little problem we’re having has got me on the downswing

The early morning plane brings me back to better days
Lazy hangs, lazy Sun, you told me I was the one
You’re a mistress of etiquette, sometimes fire sometimes gold
Trying to hold my own, while I’m here all alone

Ooh
I’m down, on the downswing
Ooh, ooh
We are nowhere, we are nothing

What happens when we are older, and you still call me
And I still look at you, through my memories
And I’ll say man, you’re old but still so beautiful
But still so beautiful

Ooh
I’m down, on the downswing
Ooh, ooh
We are nowhere, we are nothing

An angry flip of hair, another deadly stare
Close but still so far, touching your arm trying to find your heart
A scary start, interrupted by years apart
Intermission of love, weighing down on my head

Your lips bleed into me, a new life that I need
Your touch blows me apart, it’s been hard to steady my heart
And it’s been hard to steady my heart

The way you look at me, when you see that it’s me you see
I’m riding down your street, in full obscurity
I see your picture from a far, away from you keep
Fragments of you, living inside me deep

Your lips bleed into my, a new life that I need
Your touch blows me apart, it’s been hard to steady my heart
And it’s been hard to steady my heart

Who are you
Who are you
Who are you
Who are you

I was driving through a rainbow on the coast
And in my mirror, I picked up a ghost
I said you got luck in your eyes, and a beautiful disguise
She said let me in, I’ll take you for a ride

There’s a red moon over me, and a black cloud descending
The January birds are flying away
We found your place late at night, the headlights turned bright
In my imaginary storyline, it was just in time

I lived for a while in your head
Dreams flying and our thoughts begin to blend
Look at the bigger picture won’t you please
I had to break out of your box, to join your company

There’s a clothesline out back, where she hangs her past
Come a little higher with me
There’s a trail near her home, where she loses time alone
Come a little higher with me

I lived for a while in your head
Dreams flying and our thoughts begin to blend
Look at the bigger picture won’t you please
I had to break out of your box, to join your company
I had to break out of your box, to join your company

There’s an American rug that we’re all stepping on
It gets pulled and shoved and does us all harm
Swallowed up in fog in the early morning shine
The dreams you dream while working are getting left behind

There’s a man on a roof and he’s hammering nails
Even though he’s working the bills come bigger in the mail
You try and try but you’re running through mud
You get pushed and shoved, stomped on like a rug

In the eyes of the world, you’re doing just fine
Until you get home the darkness seeps out the vines
A Mississippi barge, she’s up for sale
Fewer they run, through the old Southern trails

And when you finally come on up for air
There’s another man waiting with a manic glare
You try and you try, but you’re running through mud
You get pushed and shoved, stomped on like a rug

There’s an American rug that we’re all stepping on
It gets pulled and shoved and does us all harm
Swallowed up in fog in the early morning shine
The dreams you dream while working are getting left behind