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WHEN LIBERTY SMILES - VANILLA CHAINSAWS
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watching me
i can see there’ll be another day
somewhere i can find my way but you know there’s someone watching me and i
think that i can find somewhere there is piece of mind but you know there’s
someone watching me and i had the dream shining out just like a bats stream but
you know there’s something that i can’t see and i knew i was living there
and just because you know there’s someone watching me so i look around but it
cant be found but it’s somewhere you can spend my time while i drink my wine
looking somewhere
and i’m thinking i can find a
space somewhere i can hide my face but you know there’s someone watching me
and you know i think i’ll find washed upon the shores of my mind but you know
there’s someone watching me and i had the dream shining out just like a bats
stream but you know there’s something that i can’t see and i knew i was
living there and just because you know there’s someone watching me so i look
around but it cant be found but it’s somewhere you can spend my time while i
drink my wine looking somewhere
words:drew music:alexander/drew/lee
when liberty smiles
i drank the moonshine and i
listened to the talk i knew it wouldn’t last but i didn’t want to stop and
in the streets at night the colours are so pale and the shadows keep their own
alive as they drive you like a nail
said about the lucky land of the
greenback and dime take a walk in your own backyard before you take a walk in
mine i see your roads are paved but it sure don’t look like gold and and i
knew it was the only way it was the easytrucking motherf@*!ing only way and i
can see the way you lie i can read between the lines i can see it in your eyes
so when the call came thru and i didn’t wanna go i dug my heels in tight but i was dragging by my soul and liberty smiled at me a face so pure and wise and i knew it was the only way it was the easytrucking motherf@*!ing only way and i can see the way you lie i can read between the lines i can see it in your eyes
words:drew music: alexander/drew
feel alright
well there’s something gonna be
going on here in my room i get the notion that it’s getting stockpiling to get
away soon i feel the pressure start to build and baby it’s blowing your way
and if you think you got the game you’ll be getting some play because yeah we
gotta get away we gotta break today i’ll make you feel alright
if there’s one thing i know
i’ll tell ya i know it for sure i got a lion in my pocket and baby it’s
ready to roar and if the tamers not around y’no it’ll be looking to feed and
after it’s had a taste it’ll be looking to breed because yeah we gotta get
away we gotta break today i’ll make you feel alright
words: drew music:alexander
red Lights
questions are banging at my head
and answers don’t seem to make no sense and it’s daylight and i got no place
to go if it’s alright can i sit a while and watch in slo-mo and i can see the
red lights shining on your face and i can see the red lights shining on your
face
and then you came and you tried to
trap my soul with just one touch well that weren’t enough i wanted more and
i’m punch drunk and now i’ll have to move it and then you’ll know that i
got a suck and then i’ll groove it and i can see the red lights shining on
your face and i can see the red lights shining on your face
and she takes me and she strips me to the bone and i can’t win ‘cause i know i’m never gonna have to live alone and i’m punchdrunk and now i’ll have to move it and then you’ll say that i sucked you in and spat you out ‘cause I could see the red lights shining on your face and i can see the red lights shining on your face
words
& music: drew
ONSLAUGHT
(words: DREW music: ALEXANDER/DREW)
when you say it tell me it’s
forever /and when you say it tell me it’s now/so many broken dreams are washed
upon the shore/if you had access to them what would you live for/the struggle
seems to be the only thing that’s right/so take this farce charade and hold
onto your life/and just keep fighting/take the time to think about it take the
time to say /take the time to dream about/ it you’ll realise that they’ll
stand in your way/place your nose onto the grindstone /and hold your head up
high/take those fascist dreams and burn them/ don’t leave them to die/I've
seen it on the TV /I've seen it in your eyes/if you want to cope with life
you’d better fucking try/just fuck all the fighting/take the time to think
about it /take the time to say /take the time to dream about it /you’ll
realise that they’ll stand in your way
doom
doom yeah bring it on doom
well we got doom in the papers and
doom in the streets doom on the tv everyone’s completely down on the system
and down on this town how we gonna work it out if we ain’t around well we cant
live with each other can’t live with ourselves lives ruled by colour
birthright and wealth technologys crashing as doomsday arrives download this
systematic unix programming our lives where the rivers running down down bring
it on down
well we got doom in the system and
doom in the streets doom in the media ‘cause it sells completely down on this
system and down on this town how we gonna make it work if we’re never gonna
bring it down where the rivers running down down bring it on down……doom
words: drew music:drew/alexander/morabito
when worlds collide
walking i saw your eyes and you
never smiled for a moment walking i saw your eyes and i waited for a smile your
eyes seemed to carry all my fears and my hopes and in your frozen mirror i saw
the man that i’d been searchin’ for and i smiled at the joining of forces in
one perfect passing and dreams had been realized in a twinking in a moment that
moment called mine
your eyes carried furs and gold and
all the dreams i’d hoped for and all the lives that crossed your path your
eyes carried all my hopes and dreams for a moment
words: drew/harvey music: alexander/drew
what’s goin’ on
well i’m looking for something
more and you ain’t got what i’m looking for well you knew what you were
doing in the back of the store and what was going down when we crossed over the
floor was it the only way that the shit could have gone? my eyes were red as
blood as we limped thru the morning raking thru the pain we were shot by the
hourglass salt and sand and paste was cracked at the shows last glimmer of the
light and the story that coulda’ been take a look around and see what you
shoulda’ seen and can you see what’s goin’ on behind your fears and can
you see what’s goin’ on for all those years
and what about that time when we
were crossing the line and crashing thru the door and the breaking of time
don’t think we can replace what the countryman stole we didn’t even try to
hit on the dole our living was a crime when we drove to the north shore i had no
idea what we were even alive for look around and see for the story that shoulda’
been take a look around and see what you shoulda’ seen and can you see
what’s goin’ on behind your fears and can you see what’s goin’ on for
all those years and can you see what’s goin’ on and can you feel your life
so strong and can you see what’s goin’ on behind your fears
words:drew music:alexander/drew
T.S. (was it really me?)
(words & music: DREW)
Where did you go and who did you
see /what did i do and what did i be /turn of the century cities of grey /work
becomes lives and lives becomes graves/and i wonder was it really me/and i
wonder was it really me/dissatisfaction with cities of grey/using a pen to look
for escape/years move quickly and no-ones to blame/lives without hope and we
just can’t cope/and i wonder was it really me /and i wonder was it really
me/he was a brave man braver than me/i tried the lock but he had the key/opened
our hearts and opened our minds /using a pen his life became mine/and i wonder
was it really me/and i wonder was it really me
LIKE YOU
(words & music: DREW)
i can see the way I’m turning out
i don’t want to be like you/with the breeze in your hair you never seem to
care and/in another country you take what you can get /ruin, rape and
plunder…. westernising the modern world and i am the exponent/i can see the
way I’m turning out i don’t want to be like you/stuck on shore a couple of
thousand whores and/in another country you take what you can get /with the
breeze in your hair you never seem to care /and we ride as we write on those
four walls that/i can see the way I’m turning out i don’t want to be like
you/so we took this as far as we could take it/ it changed us all inside/and i
knew that when i looked back at today / that I’d be just like you/but i don't
want to be like you.....I don't want to feel like/ Ican see the way I’m
turning out i don’t want to be like you/i can see the way I’m turning out i
don’t want to be like you
take us home
looking back on life she said there
is not much time we’ve left but you know there’s love enough enough to take
us home looking back on life she said there is not much time we’ve left but
you know there’s love enough enough to take us home
looking back on life she said there
is not much time we’ve left but you know there’s love enough enough to take
us home looking back on life she said there is not much time we’ve left but
you know there’s love enough enough to take us home to take us home to take us
home but there is love enough enough to take us home
words:drew music:alexander/drew
24 HOURS
(words: DREW music: ALEXANDER/DREW)
twenty-four hours that’s the wav
that i kill time /twentv-four hours that’s the way that i kill time/and now
it’s lying on the floor/the only thing i wanted time for/when you were last
here your blood touched the floor/bittersweet memories dogs howl at your
door/and i can’t hold you and you don’t want to know/just twenty-four hours
it seems so long to go /and now it’s lying on the floor /the only thing i
wanted time for/and now your fall has crossed my eyes /it’s so transformed
I’m redefined/and I’m lost in my mind when there can be no/answers for the
twenty-four hours i killed/and I’d kill again with time /I’d kill again with
time....
blows my mind
the streets are feeling hot tonite
it’s like all the hoods on the corner are out for a fight right and i don’t
feel like getting jacked got my blunts on my feet as i move past the mobs back
yeah i ain’t in the mood for jacking wanna go to the club where the grooves
are just smacking and the beats got heat and meat to move your soul and the
chicks are all pumping they wants to take you home yeah i don’t give a shit
about no thang head for the bar gets a beer for the ghost train and get real
high ease up skeeze up as the speakers blow my mind yeah the speakers blow my
mind while i’m hitting the ragtime
and something makes me feel like up
all the posses around and they ‘re saying like shits fucked up and watch your
back ‘cause there’s always some punk hanging round packed and fully strapped
but it don’t phase me it’s the middle of summer must be over a hundred
degrees chicks are looking fly too hot for their clothes what they wear just
makes me blow my mind what they wear just makes me blow my mind while i’m
hitting the ragtime what they wear just makes me blow my mind
now we’re cruising and boozing and loosing the plot son club to club street to street girl to girl gets across one and end up at goodbar downstairs knuckleheads make their beds when they face one of me and my crew i’m feeling so laid back my crew does what they gots to do and the nights just getting better i get faced by a fly chick in a sleeveless midrift sweater and she says it’s real hot i feel my eyes go POP POP as she peels that sweater up and out to the car down bondi road to lecrepe and the sports bard and we head for the dance floor bump and grind grind and bump while the dj flows chaka khan barry white all the old school jams and not a fight in sight tripping as fast as i can and now i’m looking back got a smile on my face a new girl on my lap gettin’ back to the track head to bondi road and kick the f@#k back you can’t be found
words:drew music:alexander/drew/morabito
THE SHORE
(words: DREW music: ALEXANDER/LEE)
gonna take your hands welcome to
the shore /and listen to the things that make you want to know/and you’re
flirting and you’re waiting/and you’re flírting with life/so you take your
hands and you get unsure /and you’re wondering what was the fighting for/and
now you say that you care about this /and you’re thinking about the way it was
/you’re thinking about the was it should have been/waiting on the shoreline
with the wave in your hair /you know the colours right the colour had
transformed/the scars were left before…./watching every shoreline it was the
waiting that hurt/it was the scars were left too bare/and I’m waiting on the
shoreline/there was nobody there to help you/crosses made to bear/crosses made
to bear/you made them to bear
WINE DARK SEA
(words: DREW music: ALEXANDER/LEE/
HERNÀNDEZ)
i stand alone by the waters edge/
my feet are buried in the sand/and the water could be anything /as it lines this
dusty land/if i could start again would it mean much more than that /cause the
world don’t change you only get one chance then that’s that/and the water
could be anything /but mostly it’s just mud /red dust sits on the city
streets/ creates an epidemic flood /with the rising blood of future kings
/shines as black as coal/the politic of the underling/ with no hope at all/if i
could start again would it mean much more than that /cause the world don’t
change you only get one chance then that’s that/and the wine dark shines as
black as coal and the world won’t change/you hold the promised land but is
slips right through like sand
FACE A NEW DAY
(words: DREW/HARVEY music:
ALEXANDER/DREW)
face a new day face the sun/
cannons firing lives exploding /pray for time and pray for god /miracles are all
we can hope for /lust reloads the guns of war /and bludgeoned minds repeat the
orders die for country die for greed /we die for leaders sowing seeds of
power/and all of us are powerless/ in our innocence from their decisions /taking
lives and taking ours/ to scar the hills with small white crosses /horizons line
the sky with fires/ that burn in the children’s tortured dreaming /of why we
came and the lies we gave/face a new day face the sun/ face the truth of our
submission /slaughtering to liberate /we chain the freedom of our thinking
/horizons line the sky with fire/ and line the burning conscíence of our crime/
of why we came and the lives we gave
YEARS GO BY
(words: DREW music ALEXANDER)
well i listen to the stories that
you tell/ lived a life on earth in hell/i can see this in your eyes /and i know
the reasons why you came/had to justify the blame /of why you gave into
yourself/you were waiting on the corner waiting for your life/and i know I’ll
never fight like this again/ I’ll never make you understand I’ll never take
it in my arms /and i know the reasons why you came you had to justify the blame/
of why you gave into your arm/you we’re waiting on the corner waiting for your
life/and all you really wanted cuts you líke a knife/that’s because yeah
/don’t you know the reasons /don’t you know it’s treason/you can’t say
that’s justified /and i know the reasons why you came/now things will never be
the same/now you gave into your life/you we’re waiting on the corner waiting
for your life/and all you really wanted cuts you like a knife/how the years go
by how the years go by/how the years go by and on and on and on
everything
(words: DREW music: ALEXANDER)
place your hands in the air
doesn’t matter anywhere/don’t you know you mean everything /'place your
hands at your feet doesn’t matter very deep/you condemn but you don’t
understand/place yourself in the crowd doesn’t matter very loud/don’t you
know you mean everything /place you hands in the air doesn’t matter
anywhere/you condemn but you don’t understand....... and keep on walking/place
your hands in the air doesn’t matter anywhere/don’t you know you mean
everything /place your hands at your feet doesn’t matter very deep/you condemn
but you don’t understand
THE JOURNEY
(Words: DREW music
ALEXANDER/LEE/HERNANDEZ)
catch a shooting star from the sky/catch a shooting star from the sky/cause........./I don’t know the way it feels/but sometimes it seems so real/i don’t know the way it feels/catch a shooting star from the sky/catch a shooting star from the sky/catch a shooting star from the sky/catch a shooting star from the sky/i almost held it in my hand/i could smell the foreign land/as we marched across the sand/catch a shooting star from the sky/catch a shooting star from the sky/catch a shooting star from the sky/catch a shooting star from the sky/ hey yeah......../i don’t know the way it feels/but sometimes it seems so real/i don’t know the way it feels
