Woman With Reason

G. Smith / R. Smith
(EMI)

Appears On:

• Steve Kilbey - Fire Down Below EP (1987), Track 2
• Steve Kilbey - The Slow Crack (1987), Track 3 (Side 1, Track 2 on Red Eye RED 15 LP [as "A Woman With Reason"])
• Steve Kilbey - The Slow Crack (2004 reissue), Track 2

This is a cover of the song by Company Caine, on their 1971 album A Product Of A Broken Reality. In the liner notes to the 2004 reissue of The Slow Crack, Steve wrote this about the song:

"Woman With Reason" is a cover version of a song by a fantastic Australian group circa 1970-71. They were called "Company Caine" (geddit?) and their lead singer, Gulliver Smith, was a wry, hip, ironic, Dylan-type who came out with the sort of titles and one liners that all the hep-cats at school would walk around quoting. Like "The Day Superman Got Busted" or "1969 the Thirteenth".

One day in the mid-Eighties I came across a cassette copy of [the] Company Caine (surely you geddit by now!) album "A Product of a Broken Reality" and became reacquainted with this beautiful song and I had to do my own version. Even though I got some of the words wrong, Gulliver later gave me his blessing. And that meant a lot...

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Lyrics (unofficial)

[rev. Nov. 26, 2018]

Got no hands and he got no bones
Probably end up in an old man's home without that girl
Stranger than fiction that's what it seems
Always says exactly what she means
Yes she does

She's a woman
A woman with a reason
She's got reason

Points to the sun and gives you the moon
Always early afternoon
Her book puts the true Mexican kings
They give her roofies, lots of things
Yes they do

She's a woman
Woman with a reason
She's got reason

Hangs onto the sky like it was a coat
Head ablaze and her hair afloat, hey now woman
She lives in the day and she waits for the night
She don't mind, she says it's alright
I do believe it is

She's a woman
Woman with a reason
She's got reason

Got the soul of a Cocteau book
The way she acts and the way she looks
I can't explain
She's warm like the sun, tries to touch everyone
That woman

She's a woman
Woman with a reason
She's got reason

It doesn't matter about the time or the season
That woman got so much reason
A woman with a reason
Gotta be with the Mexican kings
They give her roofies and lots of things
Woman with a reason
It doesn't matter about the time or season
That woman got so much reason
Woman with a reason
I can't begin to explain
That woman she got
Woman with a reason