Already Yesterday

Kilbey/Koppes/Ploog/Willson-Piper
(Peermusic Pty Ltd)

Appears On:

• Heyday (1985), Track 3
• Deep In The Shallows: The Classic Singles Collection (2007), Disc 1, Track 11
• Released as a single (1985)
• Videos:
  • The Church (1986)
  • Heyday (1985) - EMI Australia 2002 Remaster, CD 2 [QuickTime format]
• Compilations:
  • For The Record (1985)
  • The Great 1¢ Cassette Sampler (1986)
• Covers:
  • George Elliott - Sword Leaves Scabbard (2006), Track 17
  • Arturo García - Bajo un Cielo Prehistorico: Un Homenaje a The Church (2014), Track 21

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Lyrics (unofficial)

[rev. Mar. 6, 2011]

It's already yesterday
We're off the calendar
I heard the sirens play
Just like an orchestra
Mechanical bird of prey
Sing for your emperor
Last broken flash of love
Still in the camera

We don't feel those locks and chains
We won't listen to the lizard part of our brains
Giving the orders
Another morning we'll be gone
I start the car for Ten Mile Beach
Or maybe Avalon
Across the water

It's already yesterday
And nobody's answering
Disconnected, drift away
Nobody's questioning
Head of silver, feet of clay
Who is surrendering
They fall in our heyday
I am remembering

We don't feel those locks and chains
We won't listen to the lizard part of our brains
Giving the orders
Another morning we'll be gone
I start the car for Ten Mile Beach
Or maybe Avalon
Across the water

We can't feel those aches and pains
We won't listen to the voices in the city rain
Giving the orders
Another morning I'll be gone
I start the car for Violet Town
And then to Babylon
Over the border

Another morning we'll be gone
I start the car for Ten Mile Beach
Or maybe Avalon
Across the water

We don't feel those locks and chains
We won't listen to the lizard part of our brains
Giving the orders
Another morning we'll be gone
I start the car for Ten Mile Beach....