Out of Place
Fear is the footsteps you hear, you know they’re quickening so near
It’s the feeling in your stomach, that someone’s coming running
Slowly losing control, following everywhere that you go
Disappearing in the shadow, the truth thrown out the window
It’s not that I don’t care, I just need a little time to find a space
Between the look and the lies on your face.
CHORUS
We’re getting out of place… without a trace. We’re slipping out of place.
Fear is failure you taste, and all the mistakes you make
Try to run but just can’t stand, what you had just slips through your hands
It’s a walk in the dark when it falls apart, the echo of your sins from the past
Did you see it coming through walls? It’s coming for you, it’s coming for us all
Nowhere to run, nowhere beneath the sun
The battle’s never done, you know you’re not the only one
Try to make sense of where reality has gone,
Don’t let them think they’ve won
They try to change what you know is true, tell me, what you gonna do?
What you gonna do?
We’re getting out of place… without a trace. We’re slipping out of place.
Hard Yards
Waking up in the morning at a quarter past five, Before the sunrise to stretch the mind
Ride to work to begin the grind, got to find a way to unwind
Got no recourse, we got no time, ain’t got no fancy deal to cross the line
Don’t drink and smoke, don’t watch it on the tv, looking out for that piece of clarity
Try to give a little more each night, but it all gets too much
Gonna make a fight or flight, it’s never enough
Doing, doing the hard yards. We are doing, doing the hard yards
Your aching body on a slippery track, You lose your grip but you don’t turn back
Using all you have to make it through the day, hold the pieces up when they break
Divide your time to amplify, time to provide for the good, good life
I drink, and smoke, go swimming out in the sea, looking out for that piece of clarity
Try to give a little more each night, but it all gets too much
Gonna make a fight or flight, it’s never enough
Doing, doing the hard yards. We are doing, doing the hard yards
We got to unwind, could we just unwind? If I had some time, just you and I
Slow life, If we had some time, could we just unwind, just you and I?
I got to keep moving to, got to keep up
I got to keep moving to the finish line
We are Doing, doing the hard yards
Doing, doing the hard yards
King FOTU
Could that I would and I know that I should, Stand together against that man
King FOTU he came one day, said I tell you I know the way
Said this is all mine, I know I’m right
You think you got something to say? Be ready for a fight
Cause all my people, know who got the might
If all these people, should ever get wise to it
Cover them all in fire and smoke and slight of hand
These power people, will never understand
King FOTU he came since it began, until we make a stand.
Power of the powerful, Fear of the unknown
Hand in the hand of the hateful trying to take control
Would not believe if it did not, see it for myself
The common belief, to take like a thief, from everyone else.
If all these people, should ever get wise to it
Cover them all in fire and smoke and slight of hand
These power people, will never understand
King FOTU he came since it began, until we make a stand.
Power.
Running to money, running from time
Fear forever take over your mind
Power, Power, power power
King FOTU he took one look to see how the money flows
Said, I tell you I know, how it will go, said, I am the show.
Does it matter who is conflicted, when the end is just the same?
Said, I tell you I know, how it will go, wey-oh, wey-oh, wey-oh
If all these people, should ever get wise to it
Cover them all in fire and smoke and slight of hand
These power people, will never understand
King FOTU he came since it began, until we make a stand.
Could that I would and I know that I should, Stand together against that man
Could that I would and I know that I should, Stand together against that man
Could that I would and I know that I should, Stand together against that man
Undercover
Wait just a minute well I’ve seen your face before
In my memory mirror, I swear to god I saw
Like patches on your promises , and words beneath your clothes
Prosperity don’t fit your bones, peace don’t fit your soul
A wolf among the shepherds flock, spider in your hive
In your nest of nothin, nothin but a lie
Time won’t let you find your feet upon the floor
Or is it that your feet can’t stand the seconds as they fall?
Too many good ideas, trying to make sense
find your always fighting for what you thought they meant
Sipping on the champagne, doin’ all the cocaine
A wolf among the shepherds flock, spider in the hive
In your nest of nothin, nothin but a lie
Like patches on your promises, words beneath your clothes
Prosperity don’t fit your bones,
Peace don’t fit your soul, don’t fit your bones
Sipping on the champagne, doin’ all the cocaine
A wolf among the shepherds flock, spider in the hive
Snake Man
Sitting on my balcony, beneath the mango tree
The heat and steam of the afternoon gave me no relief
And the kitty cat, so sweet, came purring at my feet
Only as the sun goes down, with the Snake Man have you been?
Tell me now, does he know the game?
Is he out there in the dark, does he know my pain?
He’s in the water, waiting for the rain,
Calling out, come find me here, calling out your name
Oh Snake man don’t lie to me
He still wants you, I can see
Oh Snake Man, get out of my head, oh Snake Man, don’t bake my bread
Little kitty cat, on the top floor, from the shadow moving slow
So assured I’ll let you in, oh I will she knows
To the top floor, only after dark, she says she put her claws away, but oh she left a mark
Oh Snake Man don’t lie to me
He still wants you, I can see
Oh Snake Man, get out of my head, oh Snake Man, don’t bake my bread
My Size
Couldn’t put you on a bumper sticker baby,
No nothing like that ever gonna getch ya.
So many ways I tried to reach ya,
Back off accelerator, I’m just about to meet ya
You know it’s too hot to hold, too good to waste,
Too quick to catch and too sharp to taste
I know that sting, I know that burn, for ever and ever, she said, for ever and ever.
Love ain’t no bumper sticker boy,
Get on, you know she’s just gonna mow you down
Love ain’t no bumper sticker boy,
For ever and ever she said, for ever and ever, she said…
You’re my size, you’re my size,
You got to catch up, No I got to slow down,
You got to give it all, No I got to hold back,
You’re asking why? How? Can’t think you’re way out of here
Don’t try to hide, dancing without a care
You know it’s too hot to hold, too good to waste,
Too quick to catch, too sharp to taste
I know that sting, I know that burn, you you you you freaky style dancer
Your Love ain’t no bumper sticker boy,
Get on, you know she’s just gonna mow you down
Love it ain’t no bumper sticker boy,
For ever and ever she said, for ever and ever, she said…
You’re my size, she said, you’re my size,
Never felt so alive, she said you’re my size
You’re my size
Suggest
S s s s suggest, what you can do best. Suggest, fate make the rest
Suggest, suggest the possibilities, opening up with ease,
saying words that come easily
Tell me please, did you happen to see?
She slipped, through the ripple right over me
The haze in this place got my brain in a maze,
I’m looking out for just one particular face
Gonna say it out loud, gonna cut through the crowd,
Can I suggest how it’s gonna play out?
Take a breath step over to talk to her, be sharp for ever and afterwards
Do you, do you, do you mind? Do you, do you, do you…
If I talk to you? If I talk to you?
Can’t go with no fear, from over there to here
Can’t make it alone sometimes, and it’s getting cold
The things I learnt when I was 10, I had to learn them again
In the moment I was living, it was all happening
Take a trippy tip I learned from the time between,
The greatest gift is what you fear
Take a breath step over to talk to her, be sharp for ever and afterwards
I’m easy, I just go with the flow,
Some things that I am shown. I just seem to know
Some things I cannot see, and they’re just out of reach,
She’s a wild headed woman, she said hold this for me
My father said find a good woman son, I feel it in my bones that this is the one
If there’s just one thing that I could suggest, so simple son, you just gotta say yes
Take a breath step over to talk to her, be sharp for ever and afterwards
Here We Are
In there hiding, reaching out, searching blind, back to the light
Down this mountain, sound of night, calling out, out to the light.
Try to find a way with the light of a moon beam,
Pass it already or is it just ahead of me?
Out of the darkness, edge of the precipice,
Started this together almost never thought we’d reach this
Burning, yearning to know, how deep do you want to go?
Looking out from inside, emerging from where we hide
Are you ready to step out for beauty?
Look in between and tell me how far do you see?
I know this, we exist, we share this fate forever more
It’s in here, just in reach, and in this way forever more
And here we are, and here we are… And here we are, and here we are…
I am the night, I am the cold, I am the stars and every fold
I am the walk and I am the way, I am the will and what you say
Turning choice by choice, just want to hear that voice
Looking out from inside, emerging from where we hide
Are you ready to step out for beauty?
Look in between and tell me how far do you see?
I know this, we exist, we share this fate forever more
It’s in here, just in reach, and in this way forever more
And here we are, and here we are… And here we are, and here we are…
I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe it, so, so here now
And I need, I need, I need it, so, so here now
Move together, hold forever, found together, bound forever
I know we all are, pure energy, I get this same emotion, with such certainty
And here we are, are are…..
Waves
Like the ocean we are swept away, who am I to stop the wave?
Across the infinite I can feel the weight, I hear the gravity today
All embracing, so entangled we are moving, simultaneous revolutions
And I give chase through the break
The barriers evaporate, the distance we can communicate
I hear waves in motion. I see waves in motion.
I feel waves in motion. We are waves in motion
The edge is high above, do you feel it too?
The space between the fall is you
The possibilities open, at the seams
Through the shadow of our dreams
All embracing, so entangled we are moving simultaneous revolutions
And I give chase through the break
Chasing the edge, so much higher, the waves
Chasing the edge is so much higher, fall away
The barriers evaporate, the distance we can communicate
We try to do more than survive this
And we try to find out why it’s broken,
Through these tangled lines
On the other side
I hear waves. I see waves in motion.
I feel waves in motion. We are waves in motion
We are waves.
Find A Way
Gonna put out a question of a choice to the wind,
Some say take action, some say rescind
When is it alright to hate? Alright to defy?
When’s the right time to listen? The right time to cry?
You can bury your head down deep in the sand,
but then all we do is mis-understand
When you wake in the morning, feel it in your bones
Well I feel it too, So we’re not alone
Those moments you don’t want to know, they come back again and again
Those moments you just don’t want to let them in
You can believe it or don’t in the end, it just seems to happen all the same
We will find a way
I can see it in your body, I can see it in your eyes when you lose control
When it’s in your body, when it’s in your heart and in your soul
You can like it, you can love it, you can hold it, You can show it,
you can grow, it’s everywhere that you go.
Those moments you don’t want to know, they come back again and again
Those moments you just don’t want to let them in
You can believe it or don’t in the end, it just seems to happen all the same
Until we find a way
Find a way, got to find a way
To hold, to feel, to learn, its real, to know, to love, to burn, to heal
To see, to make, to catch, to break, to hear, and listen…
Find a way
Absence of Fear
Never again, never again, never again
Is it fear I’ve got that stops me from breathing?
Is it fear I’ve got that makes me feel sad inside?
Is it fear I’ve got that drives me insane?
Is it fear disguised as my pride?
What is love, but the absence of fear?
Oh I gave it all away, throw it away, throw it away gonna
Oh i couldnt if I wanted be afraid
Never again, never again, never again
Is it fear I’ve got that traps me like jealousy?
Is it fear I’ve got that drags me underground?
Is it fear saps me, sickly with hatred?
The fear that binds me, blinds me to be unbound
What is love, but the absence of fear?
Oh couldn’t if I wanted be afraid (never again, never again, never)
You, you you take it all away, (take it away, take it away, take it away)
Free from obsession, the lesson: the best man
Lesson better, better, lesson learned
The key to confession, your tension is less than
Key to confession, your tension is less
Release, me decreed to be led by cessation
Leed me decreed, release me
Intentions of dispensing of expectation
Take it, take it, take it, take it away!
What is love, but a crazy no pants dance?
Take it away
Oh couldn’t if I wanted be afraid, never again, never
You take it all away, take it
Take it away
Dangle Down
It’s been a hell of a week and I’ve had it up to here
Time for worries and my pants to disappear
Sick of all the nitty-gritty upon my skin,
Gonna let things out that were that were tight within
Step outside and enjoy the trees,
feel the sweet cool breeze blow past my knees
Instead of saying, ‘Slim, you look, like a dead end’
They’re gonna ask, ‘Hey won’t you share your secret friend?’
Down, dangle down
Getting home from work, no need to be uptight
Can it be so wrong when it feels so right?
I need some ventilation everything’s coming off
Getting into the swing in my batik cloth
When I’m fetching the mail my neighbour’s looking confused
Is he a tropical scot or some cross-dressing dude?
I’m feeling a draft, the wind’s starting to blow
I flash him a wink and do a Miss Monroe
Gonna leave my worries upon the floor
Out in the open, out of my drawers
No care, thread-bare, in the breeze, I’m easy
Well the weekend is here and I hear the call
I got to get myself a Laksa from a market stall
I turn my blind eye to my jocks and slacks
And dangle down in my sarong with a view, to relax
I hang loose with my juice amongst the hustle and the bustle
If I need the stakes raised then I’ll use my own muscle
Even ladies undies are too tightly bound
Dangle out with us, show your upside down frown.
Down, dangle down