fracture mechanics

Hour Shill Isle Blues

Lyrics:

She limped along (with me)
Chasing hour shill isle away
We fell down that first time
We’ll get up another day

Clouds on Crutches

Lyrics:

Jodie completes herself again

Fills herself with love again

Heart inflates and deflates again

And Jodie is on her own again

untitled – provisionally “the flea market”

Lyrics:

four pink bricks were a seat for that bag of bones

sorry ol’ crack pipe raining like billy-o

she is dug at by gnats with poison pins

they drag out of her blood some secret things

those lost fractions are lost beneath the bowl

be still my whispering fingers running over her brow

the sun is ready to fall off the sky

pinned and needled, God, please let me die!

slowly insect engines cut deep from hell

set upon me in splinters like a tolling bell, and

i wait in that place where we wait where everyone died

where the sunshines all day and the children get crucified

where mothers smoke bones through the holes in the skulls of their young

and fuck up their insides with bottles and pass ‘round the rum.

*cough* *cough* “fucked up”

we told them to keep their fruit

they hate my swagger and my cheap brown suit

we are windows when i tip my hat and explain

why my name is so easy forgotten… why my name is easy forgotten.

“i went wrong”

You Are Fucking Awesome

Lyrics:

you are fucking awesome

I love your sweetest smile

I could kiss you all day long

and walk with you for miles

you are fucking awesome

i love the things you say

wont let me hold your hand

but I could hold your hand all day

you are fucking awesome

you’ve got the coolest hair

your eyes are big and brown

and I love the clothes you wear

you are fucking awesome

you’ve got the softest skin

I love the way you shake your hips

and your voice it makes me spin

you are fucking awesome

I love the things you do

you are fucking awesome

and sweetheart i love you

The Challenge Of Distance

Lyrics

she lived down the road with a couple of guns

who knew she was over now?

swells like a dead thing

our love swells like a dead thing

wrote my name in a wall

risked it and you were not there at all

drill a hole in my heart

drill a hole in my heart

drill a hole in my heart

drill a hole in my heart

drill a hole in my heart before I starve

you are a miracle

you are beauti[ful]

fly like train a-moving

wide world you love me

“see who can get the highest”

Dumbtown

lyrics:

Tate Fawn nights are gone
an’ he wrote to you:
“dear my heart is empty
we’re all broke in Dumbtown.”

How will you hold me
when you have no alms?
everyone is lonely
and broken down in Dumbtown.

I cant remember
exactly who’s to blame
cos’ we’re all disinfected
chasing junk in Dumbtown.

Help my skin is creeping
and falling off my bones
we can’t stop from weeping
we’re on our knees in Dumbtown.

Song Without Organs

Enough

Lyrics:

Take me down and wash me out
I got a punch and a kick in the heel
dont know why you wanna do it to me
but your pissing over how i feel

everything comes and everything goes
and i gotta get out of here
walls are closing in and sorry’s wearing thin
so I gotta get out of here

I Am A Drum… Beat Me!

lyrics:

he rattled under the door shaking and whining
“darling don’t look in my eyes when you know i been lying,
get on your knees and open wide please;
let me get inside where i can hide
cos’ sweetheart i feel like i’m be dying.”

“but i feel so disgusted,” she said,
“when i’m naked with you in my bed;
you make my skin crawl i could slide down the wall
and i feel like a ghost when you hold me.”

“i’m nothing without you” he moaned
from the pit of his stomach he let out a groan,
an’ crossed the room like a sulking buffoon
and he wept in her arms like a baby

“it is too late for all that my love,”
and she turned to button her coat
but he pulled her back close – said, “i love you the most…
please dont leave, please dont leave, god i need ya!”

“this love that you love wont last my dear
you can take what i’ve got and get out of here
i’ll find someone new and i wont think of you
there are plenty more crabs in the ocean.”

Hell Land

Lyrics:

The terns were drunks were hypodermic in her licking tongue
and crows of holy smoke swelling beneath [sung, “under”] her hand grenade
Nightjar weather coughed dead stars around her skin and bone
and suns were bursting from the mornings ancient child lung

she is like the rain
comes and then she disappears

the flesh sea fell off its bone of broken pencil stones
and half the sun cast half a smile over private nursing homes
where old men sit and pick the teeth out of the rolling sky
bent behind a crooked matchstick shining penny eye

they are like the rain
come and then they disappear

a million sons with twisted fates strap guns across their backs
unbuttoned plumes of shadows loom across the chimney stacks
a dead man’s claw punched out towards Gallipoli’s red sand
and I became a gulf between my writing and my hand

We are like the rain
come and then we disappear

Don’t Get Off The Train Maggie

Lyrics:

Oh wont you ride
the trains in my head

Oh wont you love
Me ’til I’m dead

Blues Is The Devil’s Work

Lyrics:

that girl’s making a fool out of me
running around town
she give me the blues
and i dont know what to do

give me a shot of “what’a ya got”
I’ll drink away my sins
i think i’m getting out
but really i’m getting back in

I can paint you a picture in my head
wouldn’t look like the sun
Well kill me girl
cos’ i don’t want anyone

Satan Dont Owe Me Nuffin

Lyrics:

where are you woman
can’t see you no where
think you’re pretty special (maybe ‘babe’?)
but cant see you nowhere

i get by
i get by

wondered in the day
raped and climb the wall
don’t know what i’m doing
got no where to fall

i wanna take you home
i’m gonna take you home

we waited for you
wrapped up in a sail
you came back to us with a little pot of glue
we took it back and stuck it on the sun
we get nowhere and nothing go

i get by
i get by

wrap me up in your blanket baby
cos’ i got something to say
(inaudible)… marry you my dear
but i can’t stand the light of day

hat’s off my head so i can feel a heart g-growl…
strings are hanging from my eyelids but I know who’s got ‘em

you cant blame a kickin’ but a kickin’s what you got…

Asked Dont Beg

Lyrics:

Where do you go,
I got a bible for an eye
I ate seven sins
and I took you in
I ate seven sins
I cant get your god out of my head
cant get him out of my head

why don’t you babe
I said “please please pease
honey why don’t you love me?”
and this is what she said,
said “ask don’t beg” 3x

I have nothing left in my pockts
not even a single thing
Sky’s falling around me honey
and everything’s getting thin
blue sky’s are turning grey
an’ eyes turn away
I said “mister please please please
spare me a dime”
and this is what he said,
“ask dont beg” 3x

I feel a spot of rain on my head
think
think
think
think i love
think i’m in love

I said “please please please please
darling marry me
Marry me i’m down on my knees”
and this is what she said
“ask don’t beg” 3x

Soft Times Hard Matter

Lyrics:

thinking about you
i’m down in a hole
wont let you love
but they wont let you go

and we’re bound to mess it up
co’s we’re bound to waste our time

didnt you hear them
the crashing of waves
the ringing of bells
and time digging our graves

but we’ll fix the break of day
or forget it anyway

better get up
and get after it quick
whatever it is
life is running on slicks

so i better chase it down
or stay and hold my ground

I Have Stones In My Pocket

Lyrics:

I have stones in my pocket
plastic art and a bottle rocket
follow me and we can start a fire

all these people making noises
shotgun fire in their voices
they all sound the fucking same to me

caught between the earth and sun
the dawn is broke and on the run
but hasn’t got the legs to carry me

send me stars and send me meaning
make me feel something worth feeling
follow me and we can start a fire

Blues Around E

Lyrics:

met a girl she was fine
didn’t know she’d blow my mind

met a girl she was hard
didn’t know she’ll break my heart

met she was fair
didn’t know or didn’t care

crawling home on my knees
haven’t got a dime to squeeze

drink a hole through my head
blow my doll I must be dead

Sea-Threw

Lyrics:

I’m like the ocean
I’m like the ocean
I’m blue as dawn
I cannot see
Your face anymore
I scream:
“I’m green,
I’m green,
I…”
I’m blue in the morning
And I’m green sea
Can’t hang this feeling
Oh my
(Better get away… oh no)
Where did the wild wind go?
I’ve only got this mou… this mountain
And found my soul inside the ocean.
You haven’t said a word for days,
And I know just what you mean
No one wants to get out of here
It’s so good
It’s so clean…