Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy - Inside We Are The Same

Amenia

Imperial power
Shower me with sparks
I'm alone in my race for the dark
The hours are not ours
Towering overhead
I'm alone in my flowerbed

Amenia
Only one more to go
Only one more to go

Amenia
Only one more to go
Only one more to go

Unseemly dreamer
Beaming through the night
I'm alone and I'm alright
The minutes are not limitless
The sinners all have names
I'm alone at the start of the game

Amenia
Only one more to go
Only one more to go

Amenia
Only one more to go
Only one more to go

 

This Merciful Blur

[rev. May 4, 2015]

The sun in the room
Illuminates the spoons and plates
In the summer afternoon
The time slipped away
Providing sliding focus
A locus in today
And I wanna know where you're going
And I wanna know where you will stay
The fields and the trees
They say, 'Listen man,
Now she can do as she please'

Wherever you are
Wherever you've been
You can always return here
You know that's a given

The merciful blur
Of distant memory
To shelter me
In its lovely curve
The sound of her voice
Exacting soft vengeance
On the remnants of my little joys
And I wanna know where you're staying
And I wanna know where you will go
The familiar haunts
They say, 'Listen man,
Now she can do what she wants'

Whatever you are
Whatever you say
You can always return here
On almost any day

Wherever you are
Wherever you've been
You can always return here
You know that's a given

Whatever you are
Whatever you say
You can always return here
On almost any day

(Wherever you go
Or ever you see
This merciful blur
This magical lie
This merciful blur
Spread forth and fly)

 

Oh My Glad

When you first came around here
Mistakes abound here
I wonder what you found here
When you were first hanging around
You said the ground was moving
And hound me to improving

When you last went around there
What a sound there was
Like a divine force
When you were last hanging about
You shouted out to me
Flouted my authority

Oh my glad
You're a bad girl
It's a mad world
Oh my glad
You've been had girl

Oh my glad
You're a bad girl
It's a mad world
Oh my glad
You've been had girl

The presence is experienced directly
He works through others tongues
Men like me record these words
Perhaps they will mean something someday
I emerge at your window in Dallas
Chasing your shadow in spring
I melt with the snows in Andorra
I felt one with everything

Oh my glad
You're a bad girl
It's a mad world
Oh my glad
You've been had girl

Oh my glad
You're a bad girl
It's a mad world
Oh my glad
You've been had girl

 

Amenia II

Instrumental

 

This Is The Universe

[rev. May 4, 2015]

Across the glistening blistering sea
A first class aristocracy
Right now they're probably having tea
And though I's banished long ago
I still make reference in my show
I know they probably will still keep missing me

Breathe inside your bubble
Oxygen is trapped in
All the pilots must be seated
Everybody strapped in

The shipwreck crashes through the ice
Antarctica on your device
Right now they're just about for free
And though we'd sunken long ago
I am still swaying to and fro
They're probably saying a little prayer for me

Passengers keep quiet
Light is lightly trawling
Look outside the window
Where the night is falling

This is the universe
This is the universe

The horses forces us off course
As we keep searching for the source
Of course they vanished at the poles
And though I was banished long ago
I still make reference in my show
I know they probably will still keep my soul

Breathe inside your bubble
Oxygen is trapped in
All the pilots must be seated
Everybody strapped in

This is the universe
This is the universe

This is the universe
This is the universe

This is the universe
This is the universe

This is the universe
This is the universe

This is the universe

 

Shegaze

I was a temporary man
In the eternal city
I worked pretty hard to survive
I get good stuff if I can
Well I've had enough
It's a rough time to be alive

And its all crumbling grandeur
I demand a halt
But I'm just a regular man
In the puzzle of this town
I guzzle the next drink down

The engines of kings
The songs that she sings
The smiles on all their stupid faces
The places I run but nobody home
The motors of queens
The rotors and sheens
And the lies in their turgid dreams
Its seems I fly but I'm too shy

Well I drove the removal van
Things went missing
Everybody guessing it was me
And I deliver if I can
If the rivers and the seas
Haven't started to freeze

And it's all dirty washing
I just keep sloshing it down
'Cause I'm just a regular man
In the zoo of a jungle
I fumble the prophecy

The ponies and dogs
The phonies and the cogs
And the fog upon all their dim ideas
I hear it's nice out but I'm all diced up
The ponces and tools
Ensconced in the schools
The subtle subtext of their extra sexting
I'm expecting rain but my app says more pain

Billie darling, bring me a lolly
Because I love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love you

Billie darling, bring me a lolly
Because I love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love you

(Bring me a lolly
Bring me a lolly)

 

Elude

You have eluded me
Oh my clever love
Above me in a sky
You have deluded me
And I see it
I see it in your eye

You have unchained it
Oh elusive friend
Pretend it isn't there
You've really brained it
Oh tiny mind
But I can't find it there

I'm calling home
Within the souless air
Walking alone
I phone a zone away
You have eluded me

I'm talking down
Under the ground down there
Feeling a fool
I cool my foolish heels

 

Swansea

Well they said his head is finally fully dead
All the fortunes flown away
Oh they know too slow to ever really go
Blow me down, show me today

In Swansea were we
Unseaworthy

A seen got my routine, you know just what I mean
All the monkeys and the clowns
Woe Lot and Noah, I got my lawyer on the blower
He said expect more ups and downs

In Swansea were we
Unseaworthy
In dawn's sea were we
Insolvent sea

See the movement folding
Free the moment holding
Dream the being
You wanted me to be
Be the ending coming
For thee forever coming
See the being
You wanted to set free

Few they knew his cue was well and truly blew
Of all the actors in this world
And backstage in the black a galaxy lay cracked
The curdled darkness was uncurled

In Swansea were we
Unseaworthy

 

Theodora

[rev. May 4, 2015]

We all go away happy
Nobody goes away empty-handed
I saw your baby at the party
I saw the party was movin' on

Theodora
There remains nothing
Theodora
Now that explains everything

We all go away wondering
I wonder why you mothers bother
I saw your baby in the sauna (Theodora)
Looks like things were heating up

We all go away eventually (Theodora)
Eventually you'll grow up and then you fly (Theodora)
I saw your baby in the graveyard (Theodora)
Looks like things are cooling off

Theodora
There remains nothing
Theodora
Now that explains everything

(Theo) Theodora
It involves everyone
Theodora
Aw it revolves around no one

Theodora
Theodora
Theodora
Theodora

 

Ho Chi Min

Poisonous vial, a trial by ordeal
Change a dial, a smile you can feel
All the while the miles in between
Pylon in, let the nylon begin

Oh Ho Chin Min
I know it ain't been for long
Oh Ho Chin Min
Oh can't you sing along

Treacherous rocks, it shocks us to crash
Change the clocks, it blocks us to clash
Change my socks, I'm only feet away
Box my ears, I'm only here today

Oh Ho Chin Min
I know it ain't been for long
Oh Ho Chin Min
Oh can't you sing along

 

Once

I followed you
To the ends of this earth
Where the hollow go
Before their god
I swallowed your words
That I overheard
In a shallow slumber
Your number just came up

I call your name
It's bizarre and profane
What do you gain
From any of this
I stand by your side
Like the land that you ride
Inside, we are the same

Ohh we're going under now
Ohh we're knowing wonder now
Low and sweet
We're breathing

I am inverse
I'm the best and the worst
I'd burst before I let you in
You are reverse
Cursing your fortune
Before soon
Must be mercy

Ohh we're going under now
Ohh we're knowing wonder now
Low and sweet
We're breathing

[a round of multiple voices]
I followed you
To the ends of this earth
Where the hollow go
Before their god
I swallowed your words
That I overheard
In a shallow slumber
Your number just came up




Never Tomorrow

[Non-Album Track, Free for subscribing to the Kilbey-Kennedy mailing-list]

[added May 20, 2015]

From a distance you look beautiful
But up close it's all gone wrong

In an instant you were wonderful
But up close it's mostly gone

There will be good days to follow
But never another tomorrow

In a moment you were plentiful
But up close it's overdone

There will be good days to follow
But never another tomorrow

From a distance you look beautiful
But up close it's all gone wrong