Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy - Songs From The Real World (Commissioned Songs)

For All We Lack

There was music playing in our heads
All the children waiting to be fed
We were walking through the fields
The sun shone like a golden shield

But time just tick tick tick tick tick but never tock
Oh baby, who can turn back the clock
A voice was singing in the pines
I remember auld lang syne
Then we just turn and walk away
Can't remember where I am today

Shouldn't go very far
Shouldn't go very far away
??? [2:15] in the place I came to pray

And I wonder when we touch
If I want this so very much
And I'm dreaming of the day
For all we lack carried on our backs

 

Naomi And Maya

Here they come
Watch them grow
Love them so
Naomi And Maya

Budapest [0:57]
Deep blue eyes
Like the skies
Naomi And Maya

Maya and Naomi
You'll be surrounded by my love
And I'll be here if you fall
If you need anything at all you can count on me

Maya with her blanket white
Hold her through the darkest night
Naomi And Maya

Nimi [2:01] with her pink bear
Take her with me everywhere
Naomi And Maya

Maya and Naomi
You'll be surrounded by my love
And I'll be here if you fall
If you need anything at all you can count on me

Maya and Naomi
You'll be surrounded by my love
And I'll be here if you fall
If you need anything at all you can count on me

Naomi And Maya
Naomi And Maya
(Naomi And Maya)
(Naomi And Maya)
(Naomi And Maya)
(Naomi And Maya)

 

A Short Song About Eternity

Eternity
It's anything you want it to be
Eternity
It's a gulf between you and me
Eternity
It's the light of love in your hair
Eternity
It's something waiting for you when you are dead
Eternity
It's like nothing you ever had
Eternity
It's so very big, you think you going mad
Eternity
It's underneath the space and time
Eternity
It's up above where you cannot climb
Eternity
Eternity
Eternity

Eternity
It's all around, inside the smallest ant
Eternity
It's out there somewhere growing in a plant
Eternity
It's like an enemy to ignorance standing there
Eternity
It's like a summer breeze playing in your hair
Eternity
It's like a rainbow that stretches without end
Eternity
It's like echoes out in time that you send
Eternity
Eternity
Eternity
Eternity

Eternity
It's like the footprints of monsters in the snow
Eternity
It's just about the only place you can never go
Eternity
But I'll tell you about eternity
Eternity
And I'll tell you about eternity, yeah
Eternity
Eternity
Eternity (eternity)
Eternity (eternity)

 

Tomoko

At the end of the day when you're looking back
And the facts seem to blur in memory, yeah
Nothing would tempt me and life would be empty
If I didn't have you here with me

Running my hands all over her skin
It's like nothing I ever felt
Hearing her laughter fill the home, yeah
Her smell on the pillow when she is away
I'd go around the world for her any old day
Coming back to you from wherever I roam

I think about her, oh when the things go wrong
When I hit the wall, lost in some strange land, yeah
I know I gotta go back to Tomoko
I gotta get back, don't you understand, yeah

Running my hands all over her skin
It's like nothing I ever felt
Hearing her laughter fill the home, yeah
Her smell on the pillow when she is away
I'd go around the world for her any old day
Coming back to you from wherever I roam

Running my hands all over her skin
It's like nothing I ever felt
Hearing her laughter fill the home, yeah
Her smell on the pillow when she is away
I'd go around the world for her any old day
Coming back to you from wherever I roam

Running my hands all over her skin
It's like nothing I ever felt
Hearing her laughter fill the home, yeah
Her smell on the pillow when she is away
I'd go around the world for her any old day
Coming back to you from wherever I roam

 

A Song For Kris

Hi Kris
How is the weather down in New York
It's cloudy here in Providence
Is this a good time to talk

Well I wish I was going down to Lupo's tonight
To see 'The Departed'
I hope you're coming up this weekend
So I won't be too broken-hearted

Can't wait to marry you
To carry you across the threshold of my life
Can't wait to live with you
To give to you when you are my wife

Three long years on buses baby
Riding Amtrak
And every station from here to there say
I gotta get my baby back

Can't wait to marry you
To carry you across the threshold of my life
Can't wait to live with you
To give to you when you are my wife

Music brought us together, darling
So ??? [2:20] renders a part
They may say we are polar opposites
But you're my song, you are my heart

Can't wait to marry you
To carry you across the threshold of my life
Can't wait to live with you
To give to you when you are my wife

I'm gonna get on a train
And then I'm coming down fast
I said now come on baby
Got to make this thing last

I said I get on a train
I said I'm coming down slow
When I'm gonna get there
Baby nobody know

I'm gonna get on a train / Can't wait to marry you
And then I'm coming down fast / To carry you across the threshold of my life
I said now come on baby
Got to make this thing last

I said I get on a train / Can't wait to live with you
I said I'm coming down slow / To give to you when you are my wife
When I'm gonna get there
Baby nobody know

 

Emerald Lake

Up in Alaska
Where all your tears freeze
I'm gonna stop by Emerald Lake for awhile
Oh, just as long as I please

I don't know how much music I could make
For your lovely sake
Emerald Lake, Emerald Lake

I don't know how much music I can take
For your lovely sake
Emerald Lake, Emerald Lake

And Emerald Lake by the morning light
And Emerald Lake through the arctic night

I never felt so calm yet wide awake
For your lovely sake, ahh

I never felt so calm yet wide awake
For your lovely sake
Emerald Lake

 

Lucy

??? [0:12] I could ??? [0:13] with her two sisters
Who could resist her
Oh, I really dig that she's a vegetarian
A blue supporter, a hot reactor
Ah, you better come back here
Ahh, she's so egalitarian

And once she takes a stand
She don't back down or waver
And when she takes my hand
Just like a dream come true

You're the apple of my eye
Talkin' about Lucy and I
You're the apple of my eye
Talkin' about Lucy and I

Oh yes she loves to laugh
Like water for chocolate
Oh yes she love to live
She like a dream come true

You're the apple of my eye
Talkin' about Lucy and I
You're the apple of my eye
Talkin' about Lucy and I

(You're the apple of my eye)
(You're the apple of my eye)

Oh yes she loves to laugh (you're the apple)
Like water for chocolate (of my eye)
Oh yes she love to live (you're the apple)
She like a dream come true (of my eye)

And once she takes a stand (you're the apple)
She don't back down or waver (of my eye)
And when she takes my hand (you're the apple)
Just like a dream come true (of my eye)

 

Holly

To say you're a good, good friend
Would be an understatement
If it ever came to the end
Ah, there could be no replacement

Been so kind to me and my family
The way that you believed in me
Always means so much to me
Show me the art is part of my heart
And helped me start and helped me stop, we're not apart [0:57]

And all the responsibility
It seems that you must bear
Yet for all of that
When we need you you're always there

Been so kind to me and my family
The way that you believed in me
Always means so much to me
Show me the art is part of my heart
And helped me start and helped me stop, we're not apart [2:02]

Been so kind to me and my family
The way that you believed in me
Always meant so much to me
Show me the art is part of my heart
And helped me start and helped me stop, we're not apart [2:24]

I remember driving up some highway
Sharing our sad histories
How your old Ford keeps going, Holly
That's one of life's greatest mysteries

And all the responsibility
That it seems you must bear
Yet for all of that
When we need you you're always there

 

Transformation

It was always out there, if I only knew
God and the universe waiting to come through
It's all in myself if I can only get still
Still it's gonna take some love and some will

Take care, be aware
The spirits under transformation
Take care, be aware
The spirits under transformation

Looking 'round in circles, hark come hither here
And my head is asleep, the heart's messages unread
I wonder sometimes how to tread through this dread
I wonder sometimes what Jesus would've said, said...

Take care, be aware
The spirits under transformation
Take care, be aware
The spirits under transformation

The angel showed me the river of the water of life
Sparkling like crystal, coming from the throne of God, over land
Flowing down the middle of the city street
On each side of the river was the tree of life
Which bears fruit 12 times a year, once each month
This leaves of the healing of the nations [2:46]

Om mani padme hum
Om mani padme hum
Om mani padme hum
Om mani padme hum

Om mani padme hum
Om mani padme hum
Om mani padme hum
Om mani

(Om mani padme hum)
(Om mani padme hum)

 

Life's Sweet Decay

Creek still runs while the sun
My heart sky hue is a child's eye blue
Banks of green
Smell of sorrow unseen
Until today
Life's sweet decay

Shadows fall on my wall
My head made of sand
Oh I understand
Forest breathes out
Summer leaves today
Life's sweet decay

I could love her
As dry roots love the rain
I could hold you
As branches in the wind brandish petals
Forgive me for speaking so soon

Let your heart look on
Watch seaspray and be lonely
Lovers are fools star
A ring of stars
They mention my name
And then forget me
Lovers are fools star

Creek still runs while the sun
My heart sky hue is a child's eye blue
Banks of green
Smell of sorrow unseen
Until today
Life's sweet decay

I could love you
As dry roots love the rain
I could hold you
As branches in the wind brandish petals
Forgive me for speaking so soon

I could love you
As dry roots love the rain
I could hold you
As branches in the wind brandish petals
Forgive me for speaking so soon

I could love you
I could love you
I could love you

 

Anastasia And Jens

Here comes Jens
That boy's got a lotta sense
He's curious and alert
He's gotta know how everything works

Little Anastasia
Her aura's bound to faze ya
She's a water baby daughter
And she came right out of the water

Children are our treasure
Our future and our pleasure
A permanent fixture
A perfect mixture of both of us

A child-like world
And we were boys and girls
The memories come back
So I never lose track of where I was

Children are our treasure
Our future and our pleasure
A permanent fixture
A perfect mixture of both of us

A child-like world
And we were boys and girls
The memories come back
So I never lose track of where I was

Ahh yeah
Anastasia and Jens
Ahh yeah
Anastasia and Jens
Ahh yeah
Anastasia and Jens
Ahh yeah
Anastasia and Jens
Ahh yeah
Anastasia and Jens
Ahh yeah
Anastasia and Jens
Ahh yeah
Anastasia and Jens

 

Michou

If you need somewhere to go
If you got some time you know
I could see you
Down the Michou

And if you want a place to meet
We could talk and we could eat
I could meet you
At the Michou

And I'm standing in the rain
By the markets on the waterfront
And I'm coming back again
Wonder if you'll still be there in Seattle

If you're ever feeling down
And you're on this side of town
I could see you
Down the Michou

And if you're walking up Park Place
And you wanna see my face
I could meet you
At the Michou

And I'm standing in the rain
By the markets on the waterfront
And I'm coming back again
Wonder if you'll still be there in Seattle

If you need somewhere to go
If you got some time you know
I could see you
Down the Michou

(And I'm standing in the rain
By the markets on the waterfront
And I'm coming back again
Wonder if you'll still be there in Seattle)

 

Elly

It seems like only yesterday
I turned around and you were gone
Come on Elly, it's so hard getting used to it
Your memory lingers on and on

And on Sundays, on Sundays
It just don't seem the same
Sometimes I wonder, Elly
If this feeling'll go away

Elly
All I want to say
All I want to say to you
How we miss you every night
And every day

Elly
All I want to say
All I want to say to you
How we miss you every night
And every day

She loved long walks in nature
Where she raised her seven kids (All I want to say)
She showed 'em warmth and grace
In everything she did (All I want to say)
Such a lovely mother
No other quite like you (How we miss you every night)
Your loving and your kindness
Everything you do (And every day)
Everything you do
Oh every...
Everything

 

My One

Have you ever met somebody and knew at once
They were the one for you
Well this is the story of David and Gina
That came true

Oh was it really so long ago
In 1985 they were to meet
They felt an instant connection
Man was [0:40] knocking it off of their feet

And every now and then late at night
Just sittin' and drinkin'
David's stolen kisses let Gina [know]
What his heart was thinkin'

Then there's the church at the corner
There's the parties on the stairs at his house
After Trojan women and the Eveline [1:19]
He said 'Babe, we will take those vows'

You're my one
You're my stars in the sky
You're the moon
And you are the sun

Always best friends
One day a kiss in a restaurant brought her heart to life
She worried she'd lose her best friend
He knew she was gonna be his wife

People said it's about time
We hoped so all along
But David always knew it
Now together forever in this song

You're my one
You're my stars in the sky
You're the moon
And you are the sun

You're my one (You're my one)
Together forever
And now it's only just begun

You're my one (You're my one)
You're my stars in the sky
You're the moon (You're my one)
And you are the sun

You're my one (You're my one)
Together forever
And now it's only just begun (You're my one)
(You're my one)
(You're my one)
(You're my one)

 

More Of The Same

Bella mia [0:09]
Please be a friend
Take away the final day
Before the story ends

And when I see ya
Down in the yard
If you can't remember my name
I won't take it too hard

The shadows of the empire
Are fading in the gloom
The evening falling down on me
And crawling in the room

You got my number truly
You got my name
You got everything and more
More of the same

The party's over
Please take me back
I've got the same old laugh
Hounding me to crack

And when I told her
I was outside
I miss a noise
I hear her voice
Coming from inside

The mirrors of the beautiful
Are fading in the gloom
The evening falling down on me
And crawling in the room

You got my number truly
You got my name
You got everything and more
More of the same
More of the same

Well she's a singer
Without a song
Without life both day and night
Blind to all that's wrong