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The Invisible Man
03:38
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The Invisible Man Once I had no doubt Once I had no fear Hung my washing out For all the world to wear Once I had a game Once I had a plan But now I have become the invisible man You can see what I have done But you’ll never understand You can’t find me cos I am the invisible man Once I had a wife Once I had a home Took a vow for life It didn’t last that long You can see what I’ve become But that’s not who I am You can’t touch me cos I am the invisible man You think you’re looking though me But what do you see The way I cut my hair and the clothes I wear That’s not really me Once I had no doubt... didn’t know the word Once I had no fear... a voice I never heard Hung my washing out... when the weather was fine For all the world to wear You can’t see my fingers Slipping through your hands You can’t hold me cos I am the invisible man.
Copyright © ℗ Greg Williams 1999
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Nine-to-Fivers’ Daily Grind No time to stop No time to think To time to wait for a minute Not even time to blink There’s no free ride Nowhere to hide From the minute that you go to sleep to when you open up your eyes You better get up get dressed Always looking your best Getting to work on time Phone rings all day No-one’s got a thing to say Stuck in a rut and a bind you’re in the... Nine-to-fivers’ daily grind Where what you seek’s not what you find You can’t be tied You can’t be told You can’t believe that this is how people grow old If you lose your faith And you buy their lies Then you’ll become the very thing that you despise And when you get off it’s rush Everybody push shove Only one thought on their minds Get home then eat Watch TV sleep Get up again and you find you’re in the... Nine-to-fivers’ daily grind Where what you seek’s not what you find.
Copyright © ℗ Greg Williams 1999
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The Man Who Used To Be On TV I’m the man who used to be on TV You could see my face each day for free Now wherever I go and whatever I say People look at me in a familiar way They say I know who you used to be Meet the man who used to be on TV I’m the man who used to be on TV Everybody wanted to have a piece of me I sat down in a chair with the lights in my eyes The cameras circled around while I spoke my mind Now no-one minds at all I’m off the screen Meet the man who used to be on TV I used to talk about the world in a popular way But after a while I had nothing to say And the only one who was surprised was me Meet the man who used to be on TV I’m the man who used to be on TV...
Copyright © ℗ Greg Williams 1999
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Open My Eyes
03:43
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Open My Eyes
I've been dreaming
That I'm awake
I'm under a spell
That I can't break
Oh why do I always want
More than I can take
If you let love in then it can change you
I've heard that love is blind
Open your eyes you never know what you'll find
I'm trying hard to open mine
To open my eyes
I've been a liar
And I've been a fool
I took a long time time to learn
What I already knew
If you let love in then it can change you
I've heard that love is blind
Open your eyes you never know what you'll find
But I'm trying hard to open mine
To open my eyes
Open my eyes
Uh ah ah
Uh ah ah
I'm not gonna build my world
Round the places that you hide
Cos I've heard that love is blind
Open your eyes you never know what you'll find
I'm trying hard
To open my eyes
Trying hard
To open my eyes
To open my eyes
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Inside This Skin
03:17
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Inside This Skin Inside This Skin You could strike it lucky You could strike it dumb You could spend a lifetime waiting for a kick that never comes You could lock the door You could hold the key And still find nobody knows you like me And nobody knows just what its like When I breathe out you can’t breathe in And nobody knows what its like to be stuck inside this skin You could drive me crazy You could drive me sane You could ask a different question and find that the answer still comes out the same And nobody knows just what its like When I breathe out you can’t breathe in And nobody knows what its like to be stuck inside this Ah-hah stuck inside this skin Ah-hah stuck inside this skin You say it’s the same for everyone but everyone’s not anyone and anyone’s not me It’s a play where my lines are thin but no-one knows just what its like to be stuck inside this skin Nobody knows just what its like When I breathe out you can’t breathe in And nobody knows what its like to be stuck inside this Ah-hah stuck inside this skin...
Copyright © ℗ Greg Williams 1999
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I Can’t Live With Anyone But You It’s not guilt It’s not regret It’s something I have not named yet It’s not the fear that makes me sweat like I’m on fire It’s not love It’s not hate It’s not chance It’s not fate It’s what weighs me down and makes the load seem lighter I can’t live with anyone I can’t live with anyone I can’t live with anyone but you Anyone but you It’s not found It’s not lost But it’s not without a cost What I gained from giving up I used up forgiving I can’t live with anyone I can’t live with anyone I can’t live with anyone but you Anyone but you And it’s not sure there will be doubt And it will never be worked out And the less it’s talked about Will be the better for me and you I can’t live with anyone I can’t live with anyone I can’t live with anyone but you Anyone but you I can’t live Anyone but you.
Copyright © ℗ Greg Williams 1999
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Arizona
04:14
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Arizona
Woke up this morning and it looked like rain
Running down my mirror not my window pane
Dripping down the dresser to the floor
Running through the cracks between the boards
Live fast die young
That's a song that alreadhy has been sung
Live long grow old
It's a story that's never told, never told, never told
And now I lay me down to sleep
With my body aching
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
That it may find me waking
Hey hey hey hey to another day
Hey hey hey hey another day
It's hard to let your lover go
harder still when you're the last one to know
Live fast 'n die young
That's a song that alreadhy has been sung
Live long grow old
It's a story that's never told, never told, never told
And now I lay me down to sleep
With my body aching
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
That it may find me waking
Hey hey hey hey to another day
Hey hey hey hey another day
Hey hey hey hey to another day
Hey hey hey hey another day
Copyright © ℗ Greg Williams 1999
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I Will Be There
04:00
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I Will Be There
And when you're awake
I will be your sun shing day
And when you're asleep
I'll dance the edges of your dreams
I wanna see the world
See the world through your eyes
Touch the world with your hands
I wanna hide in time
Round every second of your life
I will be there
I will be there
When you were fifteen
I was singing with you in that tree
When you were sixteen
I was the metal wrapped around your teeth
I wanna see the world
See the world through your eyes
Touch the world with your hands
I wanna hide in time
Round every second of your life
I will be there
I will be there
And for all your life
Have you felt haunted by a shadow
Tell me as you're running through your mind
The shadow looks a bit like me
I wanna see the world
See the world through your eyes
Touch the world with your hands
I wanna hide in time
Round every second of your life
I will be there
I will be there
Copyright © ℗ Greg Arnold 1999
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I Wanna Get High
03:59
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I Wanna Get High
You can be anything
Anything you can be
You can see everything
Everything there is to see
You can go anywhere
Anywhere you want to go
You can know everything
Everything there is to know
It's a great big wonderful world full of possibilities
Only trouble is I can't decide
I wanna get high
I wanna get stoned
I wanna forget everything that I've ever known
I wanna get high
I wanna feel numb
And there's no way out but up and I've been down too long
You can't unsay anything
Anything that's been said
You can't pretend anymore
That your life hasn't started
If I've learned anything
It's that Ive got a lot to learn
You can give something baby
And get nothing in return
It's a great big wonderful world full of possibilities
Only trouble is I can't decide
I wanna get high
I wanna get stoned
I wanna forget everything that I've ever known
I wanna get high
I wanna feel numb
And there's no way out but up and I've been down too long
[Third verse same as the first]
I wanna get high
I wanna get stoned
I wanna forget everything that I've ever known
I wanna get high
I wanna feel numb
Don't wanna remember where I'm coming from
I wanna get high
I wanna get stoned
And there's no way out but up
I wanna get high…
And there's no way out but up and I've been down too long
Copyright © ℗ Greg Williams 1999
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A Long Way To Go
04:13
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A Long Way To Go
How long have I been living this way
Every day this week seems like Tuesday
This week's gone slow
I wait for tomorrow but she just don't show
Tomorrow I'll be waiting for Wednesday
And the days wash over me
The weeks don't carry me
I tried so hard I did my best (ah)
I gave my all but I still flunked the test
I got a long way to go
You and I don't have a lot to say
But we go on taling anyway
The same words go round and round
We must love that carnival sound
The same horses going up and down
You may have set me free
But I'm not at liberty
I tried so hard I did my best (ah)
I gave my all but I still flunked the test
I got a long way to go
But where I'm going I don't know
I got a long way to go
A long way to go
Sell all my records sell my clothes
Where I'm going I won't need any of those
Pack up my bags and my guitars
When you travel light you travel far
And I've got a long way to go…
Copyright © ℗ Greg Williams 1999
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Splurge Australia
Splurge is to quote MOJO magazine “a song-packing Melbourne four-piece” that has released three albums—Splurge (1999), Heavy Weather (2002) and The Cure For The Cure (2007). MOJO heard the ghost of Lennon in the way “they rock, they play it gentle, they deliver the hooks” and in songwriter Greg Williams’ “expressive and emotionally direct” voice are echoes of Grant McLennon and Steve Kilbey. ... more
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