Schfifty-five Lyrics

Hey Mike, you busy?All this sunshine’s making me dizzyWent outside, all my clothes driedAnd if I’m babbling, please forgive meBut it’s the first hint of sunshineFor a week or...Read Full Lyrics

Good Friday and I’m miles awayAnd missing you alreadyFrom a backyard in BalmainTo the post office and back againI bought a postcardI’m getting closeBut I haven’t got around t...Read Full Lyrics

When it’s hot the whole town goes to the swimming poolWhen it’s not the whole town stays insideWalk past the war memorialTowards the water slideAnd on your leftIs all that’s ...Read Full Lyrics

Where I Started In the midst of this cruel healing I find myself out in the cold An eastward murder caught me staggering You're here but I'm alone In the phosphor blue of this nig...Read Full Lyrics

It was everything you’d hope for at the start of the dayEvery feeling you’d want that words would not conveyI heard all my favourite numbersAnd all my favourite namesAnd I coul...Read Full Lyrics

Have you been drinking?’Cause it’s not too late to startThere’s still a weekBefore they come and pull the place apartAnd I was thinkingI have sorrows to be drownedToo complet...Read Full Lyrics

Darling roll the window downI can't breatheAnd I want to feel the northerly down my sleeveI love a sunburnt elbow pointing to the seaAnd, darling, can't you find us something on th...Read Full Lyrics

Here’s me in 1981Squinting into a sinking sunAnkle-deep in the PacificIn the foreground are my friendsGrinning madly at the lensThey look heliolithicAgain in 1993A Polaroid you t...Read Full Lyrics

Here comes the blow-in againBlowing kisses from the doorwayDon’t just stand there, let him inWe want to hear some of his storiesWe’re the people that he knowsWhen there’s now...Read Full Lyrics

It’s already FridayAnd soon it’ll be Friday nightAnd if you’ve got something plannedI suppose I’ll understandBut give me half an hourAnd I’ll meet you in the gardensI’l...Read Full Lyrics