Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy - Things We Did On Earth

Reverie

The way you look tonight
I'll never forget this place
Or your face in the moonlight
The summer air falls gently on the scenery
I'm sure the door will always be open
I'm hoping
For a whole lot more

Come into my reverie
Join me in these memories
When the curtains come down and they turn the sound down low
Hello, you little star
Wherever you are

Well this cryogenics machine
Feels so cold
And they told me it would hold
All my life in here
Childhood days in the blaze of Maya
The fire of youth and the truth we stole
From the liar, a buyer of arms and legs

Come into my reverie
Join me in these memories
When the curtains come down and they turn the sound down low
Hello, you little star
Wherever you are
Together we are

(You little star
Wherever you are
Wherever you are
Together we are)

 

Jezebel

In a deep fever
I come across your book
Your hand upon my lever
And all the stuff in which I partook
And the miracles are stupid
They're so easily pulled off
All my pride, unjustified
My people, my people you've grown soft

Jezebel when you fell
Falling all around me
Jezebel can you tell
I wish you never found me
Jezebel what the hell
Throw your spell around me
Wish you'd never found me
Wish you'd never drowned me in your love

In a deep ravine
A prophet waits for food
And the Lord sends a raven to feed him
Depending on his mood
But the world is still evil
And Jezebel's your name
She flashed naked in my thoughts
Filling me with shame

Jezebel when you fell
Falling all around me
Jezebel can you tell
I wish you never found me
Jezebel what the hell
Throw your spell around me
Wish you'd never found me
Wish you'd never drowned me in your love

In a deep alliance
Connected to the grid
I got no faith in science
And all the misery that it hid
The water killed the swan
And the air killed the dove
Jezebel you come to me
But you ain't got no love

Jezebel when you fell
Falling all around me
Jezebel can you tell
I wish you never found me
Jezebel what the hell
Throw your spell around me
Wish you'd never found me
Wish you'd never drowned me in your love

 

Dysphoria

Grasping at impermanence
I'm clutching all these straws
I'm hoping for some kind of lenience
For all these broken laws
I'm so obviously framed before I was even named
It's a shame
I can't take anymore
Now I'm so easily tricked I was bound to be nicked
As I picked myself up off the floor

You got dysphoria
No one is sorrier than me
We walk around on this hallowed ground
We should throw ourselves into the sea

You got deliria
No one is wearier than me
We walk along and we sing our song
Oh baby, what a pity

Now I'm calling in a favour
While I'm stalling for time
Awaiting the arrival of a saviour, yeah
Wouldn't that be just sublime?
But it's so blatantly a bust
And I need more thrust
Can I trust you to hush up this crime?
I'm so easily caught
You're so easily bought
Hey sport
It's a goddamn pantomime

You got dysphoria
No one is sorrier than me
We walk around on this hallowed ground
We should throw ourselves into the sea

You got deliria
No one is wearier than me
We walk along and we sing our song
Oh baby, what a pity

 

The Dryad

With winter in his eyes
The sky falls heavily
Tonight we're alone
Without a meaning
We are exposed
And postponed

The little ways you loved me
The little days you gave me
In our age of stone
I took you under my wing
I let you sing but you flew
Away alone

You never say what you saw
What is it that comes before all this begins?
You never say what you saw before

With summer in her eyes
A beautiful dryad steps out of her tree
The forest spirits all manifesting
In this grove all around me

Up above the burning stars
Are so wild and free
Way up above us a red early moon
Is soon in the sea

You never say what you saw
What is it that comes before all this begins?
You never say what you saw before

I loved you baby
Why'd you leave me to die?
I loved you baby
Why'd you leave me to die?
I loved you baby
Why'd you leave me to die?
I loved you baby
Why'd you leave me to die?
I loved you baby
Why'd you leave me to die?
Why'd you leave me to die?

 

Turkey

I'm going to Turkey, baby
Do you want a ride?
You would look so cool
Walking by my side

And all the minarets
All the hotels
All the hashish you can smoke
All the spells

You look so good tonight
You look so good tonight
You look so good tonight
Tonight, tonight

I'm going to Turkey, baby
Do you wanna come?
We could sail tonight
And you could bring your mum

And all the cigarettes
All the ??? [1:54]
All the love you can stand
Under Turkish moon

You look so good tonight
You look so good tonight
You look so good tonight
Tonight, tonight

I'm going to Turkey, baby
Do you wanna hang?
We can meet the Caliph
By the reef where you sang

And all the hareems
And all the thugs
Let's go down to the water
Get a little tug

You look so good
You look so good tonight

 

You Are The One

An angel from the Lord with a flaming sword
Apprehended me in the city
She said your sins will burn and you'll have to return
Some place where they ain't got no pity

Under the neon light the halo was so bright
In her white robe she was so pretty
She put out her arms, held me with her palms
Full of latent electricity

You are the one
Your God loves the most
You are the one
You are the one

She said your beautiful world with money in your pocket
And your avenue all our trees
But see for yourself cause there's no one else
No one else can ever be thee

And the forests and the moons and the Gulab Jamuns
Everything about it just please
So you rock and you roll, you took and you stole
You threatened and you tease

You are the one
Your God loves the most
You are the one
You are the one

Baby get out, baby come back
Cause these chemicals got me enthralled
I got a million dollar shank and a five minute break
And I'll meet you down in the hall

But when an angel comes down I pull on a frown
But really I'm having a ball
We're waiting in a queue, we're all waiting for you
I know you're gonna forgive us all

You are the one
Your God loves the most
You are the one
You are the one

 

Disobey

When the glass fogs up
In your head again, baby
And the dogs and the hound
Are running you to ground

And the steam condenses
On your dreams of domination
I'm patiently standing here
It's got nothing to do with me

I don't obey you
I don't obey you anymore
I don't obey you
(I don't obey you anymore)

When the music stops
And the cops have got your violin
And the pop-gun smiles
They put you in a turnstile

And the time is scarce
All you need is a little more
A little more of what you adore
It's got nothing to do with me

I don't obey you
I don't obey you anymore
I don't obey you
(I don't obey you anymore)

(I don't obey you
I don't obey you anymore
I don't obey you)

I don't obey you
I don't obey you anymore
I don't obey you
(I don't obey you)

Well you said you didn't care if you saw me anymore
You disobedient so-and-so
I got my fiddle sorted out, the middle of the night
Muddled off in a puddle of lye

Well the petals of the dawn are chewy and soft
But the thorns of dusk they make me bleed
The tree of life
Has been blown down

 

Serafina

The morning light was just hanging round
And everything was in its place but it all seemed changed
A sudden realization that was snatched away
A sudden understanding, now it's gone

Ten miles to the nearest town
And the dark is coming down
Seraphina stay inside
Stay there and hide

Foxes and the deer come in the garden now
A nest of robins in the long dead traffic lights
It seems all the animals have lost their fear of man
My Bible in my hands, I walk down to the well

Ten minutes to the nearest fix
But I gotta cross a River Styx
Seraphina stay inside
Stay there and hide

The evening sun that slowly sunk
These engravings, no one here understands
Something in these pages, something for everyone
Everything was in its place but it all seemed changed

 

My Today

Hey
I just popped in to say
I really think, I really think
everything will be okay

I may
If I may drop in sometime
And I'd really like it
I'd really, really like it
If you say okay

Hey
I'm on a wild caravan
Crossing Sahara
And even further than that away

Star thunder
The star-filled sky
That's when I pray for you
That's when I pray you'll never die

Hey
Today is my day
Today is the day, today is the day
So stay out of my way

 

Formless Realms

I spent a bit of time in the formless realm
So sweet and heavy, so warm and quick
My mind emanated for thousands of miles
Fathoms below me, what can you show me?

Triple world receded before my eyes
Future, present and past
Each second lasted a million years
But the centuries were flying by fast

There was a diva who entered the space
A tiny starling, she was everybody's darling
She said, "Oh kind sir, why are you floating alone?
Please follow me back to my home"

Her gossamer wings were spun from the sun
Her tears were love in a drop
I hung inside a web woven in some god head
I didn't want it to stop

Her eyes were as wise as the holy owl
But she pounced just like a cheetah
Destroying nescience and Maya
The demons sent out to meet her
But they couldn't beat her

Now we live in Tír na nÓg
In satori, I'm in no hurry
One day we'll go back to the formless realms
For a holiday, you got no worries

 

Things We Did On Earth

I'll catch you later
I'm coming back, coming back sometime
I'm sitting backstage in a dream
I'm coming back, coming back sometime

And there's no limit
To what it is worth
You won't remember
Things we did on earth

Where's my invitation?
You're coming back, coming back sometime
We're going through a strange phase, baby
Going back, coming back sometime

They say there's no death
And there's no birth
You should remember
Things we did on earth

I'll tell you something
We're going back, going back sometime
And you can be anything you like
We're going back, oh going back sometime

All the way from the sea
All the way to the turf
That's when you remember
Things we did on earth

That's when you remember
Things we did on earth
That's when you remember
Things we did on earth
That's when you remember
Things we did on earth
That's when you remember
Things we did on earth
That's when you remember
Things we did on earth
That's when you remember




A Question In The Dark

[Bonus Track that came with the digital download of the album.]

I'm a shadow
I'm a question in the dark
And the answer comes too hard
At daybreak
I'm a memory
I'm a wound that never healed
A bone that never set
The heartbreak
Day after day
Alright
Night after night
Alright
Day after day
Alright
Night after night
I'm a stain
I'm a deal done in a bar
A kiss against a tomb
At nightfall
I'm an ache
I'm a dream of filthy things
A willing fool
An animal
Day after day
Alright
Night after night
Alright
Day after day
Alright
Night after night
When you come to the end of the world
When you come to the end
You gotta see it no other way, baby
Won't you run for me now
When you call
Hey won't you run for me now
Hey won't you run for me now
Baby, won't you look for me now, now?
Night after day, night after night
Day after day, night after night