Kuala Lumpur 1983

S. Kilbey/S. Polinski/D. Abiuso/C. Berwick/J. Kilbey

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Lyrics (unofficial)

[rev. Aug. 31, 2015]

Kuala Lumpur, Ambassador Hotel, 1983
December, rain, night, insects, insects
Some confusion over something

Where were you
Waiting for you all my life
Where were you
Singing someone else's song
Where were you
Singing someone else's song

Kuala Lumpur, Ambassador Hotel
Footsteps sounding in me
Where were you
Kuala Lumpur
Something I can't face at all

1983, shadows, morning, empty
A something over there
A foothold female, flash, narcissary [2:39]
Probable, not possible
In your space, wondering what we ought to do

Kuala Lumpur, 1983
Traffic slows
(Knock, knock)
Energy, blinding stars
Whizzing out from a flaming center
(Knock, knock)
Sick carnival in the distance
(Who's there)
Calliope gone mad
Everything going backwards in my sight

Where were you
Singing someone else's song
Present time
Wondering what the hell to do
Kuala Lumpur, January
We scrape the resin from the cylinders of the plane
(Sometimes I feel like they're just making this all up)
We have no protection against the moisture
(It's meaningless to describe)
Present time (sometimes everyone here is crazy)
Wondering what the hell to do (the photo is sorry [5:00])
Present time (wishes they were)
Justify the ends and means

Can't you drive me down to Denpasar
Simply (can I speak to him) move me out to Malabar
Or I could swing down to Zanzibar
Just get me out of here
Get me out
I've been here too long
Oh you can help me
1983, February
February we attend the funeral of a friend (friend, friend...)

"Hello. Hello.
I'm trying to place a call to Australia."
"Hello. Hello."
"Yes, uh..."
"Which floor?"
"Yes, I'm in room..."
"Which room?"
"1313"
"Which room?"
"On the 13th floor."
"OK. Just you wait."
"I'm trying to place a call to Australia."
"Which room?"
"I'm in room 1313."
"Which floor?"
"On the 13th floor."
"Please you waiting. Hello. Hello."
"I'm trying to place a call to Australia."
"Yes, yes. Which room?"
"And I'm in room... hang on, hang on a minute. I..."
"Hello."
"I, I'm in room 1313, on the 13th floor."
"Please you wait. Connect."
Trying to place a call
Kuala Lumpur
Room 1313
"Hello."
(Knock knock)
Trying to place a call
"Please you wait."
Did you phone?

Can't you drive (he started singing) me (meaningless syllables) down to Denpasar
Simply move me out to Malabar
Or I could swing down to Zanzibar
Just get me out of here
Get me out
I've been here too long on my own
Everyone will see you, everyone will know
Everyone will be here, everyone will go
Everyone will free you, everyone will be
Everyone will know that everything you see
Everyone will be there, everyone will know
Everyone will see there everything you show
Everyone will be there, everything you know
Everyone will be there, everything you show
Everyone will be there, everything you know
Everyone will be there, everything you sow
Everytime I see you
Something new has occurred
Looking for the angles
"Hello. Hello."

"Hello."
Looking for a subject
Looking for a rhyme
Looking for some space
Looking for some time
Looking for some time ("Hello")
Looking for some space
Looking for a portrait
Looking for a face
Looking for a face
Looking for some rhymes
Looking for the woman
Looking for a child ("Hello")
Looking for a child of mine
Looking for my girl
Looking in the corners
Looking in the sw--
"Hello."
"Connect."