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Seven Day Cure

 "I Got Opinions"

You go I'll stay, don't feel like traveling today
Saint Chris, you tag along
hang around their necks maybe sing them a song
Try to do what the fools with power will do,
protect these boys and girls
Cos I got opinions that don't make any sense
I see divisions
but I was unaware that I helped build the fence
I learned my history from drinking
all night in a downtown bar and I had no idea at all
No idea at all that the blues
Could come so far

So you go
I'll stay don't feel like leaving the house today
Saint Chris, he's on a rest
so try to stick around it'll be for the best
We'll put on some music and we'll kick back in the yard
Anything more would be too hard, too hard


Cos I got opinions that don't make any sense
I see divisions
but I was unaware that I helped build the fence
I learned my history from drinking all night
in a downtown bar and I had no idea at all
No idea at all that the blues
Could come so far

You go I'll stay,
don't feel like traveling today
You go I'll stay,
don't feel like traveling today



  "Yesterday and Today"

Well the stairs don't get any easier with age
But they've got me down from the edge a few times
And we don't give too much notice now
to the learned and the sage
Cos they'll put us down, more often than not

And there's no doubt that the angels wings
will brush against the little party things
sooner than the do good boys or the killjoys
and the future looks more beautiful
precisely cos our heads are full
of yesterday and today
yesterday and today

Well temptation is no less tempting over time
But the difference now, is we know what we'll find
And we don't give too much notice now
To the ones who try to tell us how to settle in
How to tow the line

And there's no doubt that
the angels wings will brush against the little party things
sooner than the do good boys or the killjoys
and the future looks more beautiful
precisely cos our heads are full
of yesterday and today
yesterday and today

Don't stop looking forward
Don't stop looking forward



  "Looking Out On Monday"

Lunch time and we're still not dressed
All the old folks in their Sunday best
Last night thinks that you're awake
You feel it every step you take
This morning I can suddenly see
So much further than I did before
You can take credit you can take a bow
For opening up my heart somehow
Like a window, doorway, catch yourself always
Looking out on Monday
Like a window, doorway, catch yourself always
Looking out on Monday

I don't care what the weather man said
We'll stay right here in bed,
The sound of cars reminding me
Of all the places we should be
I told you a little white lie today
When I said I don't care what people say
It only hurts when you realize
Your failure is in you're your lovers' eyes

Like a window, doorway, catch yourself always
Looking out on Monday
Watching while the world goes flying past
You're like a dog that's got his nose against the glass

I know nothing you know best
You're insane and I'm obsessed
The postman must be on his way
I haven't stepped outside all day
Mud sticks if you throw it enough
The last few weeks have been pretty rough
You're a diamond through and through
I see it in the heart of you

Like a window, doorway,
catch yourself always
Looking out on Monday

Friday seems a lifetime away
When you're looking out on Monday



  "Say Hello To The Old Town"

Well I've been traveling a long long time
Sometimes on foot other times flying
and walking and crawling
The accents were drawling and nighttime came
sometimes when it should've been morning
And what I believe in I've tried to purvey
And where you have come from you cannot erase
Decades soon turn into days that keep turning
a heart that keeps yearning

Say Hello to the old town from me,
say hello for the old town from me
It wasn't so much that we fell out of love
In the end we just couldn't agree

Many new pastures and ladders I've tried
With you and the old crowd on the edge of my mind
All the parties like pictures go around in my head
All the friends that are living the lost and the dead
So many seasons pass summer and fall
Sometimes I wonder if I ever knew you at all
But for all the occasions we've parted or split
You never lost your commitment or loosened your grip

Say Hello to the old town from me,
say hello for the old town from me
It wasn't so much that we fell out of love
In the end we just couldn't agree

All the parties like pictures go around in my head
All the friends that are living the lost and the dead
So many seasons pass summer and fall
Sometimes I wonder if I ever knew you at all

Say hello to the old town from me
Say hello to the old town from me



  "Golden Stairs"

Well the long day leans back low behind you
Whomever your gods are they've been kind to you
The suns falls back waving as she goes
No need for tears in her last throws
cos my lover knows we'll see each other soon
We'll see each other soon

I won't be the one who says
We have to climb these golden stairs
Cos the heart is like a mountain too
I just hope that I can reach you

Rosewater and sandalwood yeah
These scents remind me of you
And the colour blue is nowhere to be found
My feet are on the ground once again

I won't be the one who says
We have to scale these golden stairs
Cos the heart is like a mountain too
I just hope that I can reach you

Night drops in like an old friend with wine
Here's four more golden stairs to climb
Expand each other's minds
Hold each other tight
Always stick together
Treat each other right

Cos the heart is like a mountain too
I just hope that I can reach you
I just hope that I can reach you
I just hope that I can reach you



  "Come Home"

It's been so long since we've had a party
I don't know where you've gone
I don't know where you've gone
No-one knows where you've gone
but you should come home
It's been so long since we've had a phone-call
I don't know where you've gone
I don't know where you've gone
No-one knows where you've gone
but you should call home
Cos I'm the only one who really knows you
And I'm well aware of all my conscience owes you
But the world is such a
I don't know where you've gone
I don't know where you've gone
No-one knows where you've gone
but you should call home
Cos I'm the only one who really cares
And I still collect your old mail off the stairs



  "Overly Susceptible"

I wear your heart on my sleeve,
in the place mine used to be
I share your vision I share your dreams
but it's not as democratic as it seems
And I am overly susceptible to your schemes,
your twisted schemes
My ideas are your ideas
I drink too much to fake these fears for you
it's like a state of grace
While for me I'm only off my face again
and I am overly susceptible to old friends
But if there was somebody I would ask,
to lead me up the garden path
It's you and you alone my love
You hold me like a puppet glove
I'd jump in any old lake you asked me too
Darlin it's true, I am overly susceptible to you

Wear your heart pin it down always
look for the common ground
Beauty she just comes and goes clichés
like the poison rose are true
And I have always been susceptible to blue

But if there was somebody I would ask,
to lead me up the garden path
It's you and you alone my love
You hold me like a puppet glove
I'd jump in any old lake you asked me too
Darlin it's true, I am overly susceptible,
overly susceptible, hopelessly susceptible to you
Anything you ask me darlin I will do
Anything you ask me darlin I will do
Anything you ask me darlin I will do



  "Bulldozer"

I was sitting in a southern town
On the thirteenth floor of a hotel straight down
On the street below,
My friend Sam he yelled out here we go
My friend Sam he yelled out here we go
He said we're using a bulldozer to do a job
that a teaspoon could do Using a bulldozer to do a job
that a teaspoon could do

And although it was freezing cold,
warm was the laughter long were the stories told
We talked about living with a women,
we talked about getting old
We talked about
Using a bulldozer to do a job
that a teaspoon could do

Well I think about you,
I wonder if you're thinking about me too
we talked about food,
the ozone hole and all for a barrel of crude
I think about you, and I wonder if it's true
Have we been
Using a bulldozer to do a job
that a teaspoon could do



  "Even When"

Calendars have come and gone, we barely spoke a word
I got news from mutual friends, not so good I heard
You got shut down,
new girl left town with half the house and car
I hear you're holding up Ok things being what they are
And even when everything is wrong
And even when everything is gone
You can count on me,
you can call my number
you can land on my doorstep
with a suitcase in your hand,
and your heart in your hands
and you know I'll,
you know I'll understand

Do you remember Sylvia from nineteen ninety-two?
She got married really young the way some people do
A year to the day she just walked away
she said this was a mistake
Told her folks she'd be in touch
she'd earned herself a break

You can count on me,
you can call my number
you can land on my doorstep
with a suitcase in your hand,
and your heart in your hands a
nd you know I'll,
you know I'll understand
That all the best laid plans
can fall right through your hands,
can fall right through your hands

And even when everything is wrong
And even when everything is gone
You can count on me,
you can call my number
you can land on my doorstep
with a suitcase in your hand,
and your heart in your hands
and you know I'll,
you know I'll understand



  "Tennessee Train"

Oh Tennessee train, don't wake me up
when I'm dreaming bout home
You and your faraway sound must be heading south
down to the river's mouth
Mine is not the first spine that shivered at your call
A narrow beam of light
shone down from the end of a darkened hall
Oh Tennessee Train don't wake me up in the Memphis rain

So much further south than tracks will run
Over giant ocean swells the misty morning sun
Is rising over windy beaches and rugby fields

Good folks we meet along the way we meet along the way
So much to talk about and always more to say
Your words and laughter blend and soon turn into mine
There's always one more sentence left for one more time

But oh, oh my Tennessee train
you woke me up to the delta blue
And your song
it just reminded me that wherever you are
we're just passing through
Oh Tennessee train don't wake me up
when I'm dreaming bout home



  "I Remember Sunshine"

Summer ain't sunny without you baby
I've been waiting here with the bed unmade
And each passing day that you're not here to lure the sun in
Is a… another day in the shade
Just another day in the shade
Winter is twice as cold without you love
Ice and snow keep piling high and high and high
God knows I've tried to say, I'm sorry for these mistakes I've made
But it's just another day in the shade
I remember sunshine
Falling for your beautiful eyes
I've been such a fool
That when the morning came
I got up and pulled down the blinds
Now funny ain't funny without you laughing too
And even grey is just another shade of blue
I keep dreaming that you'll burst in with your lights set on full beam
But it's just another day in-between
I remember sunshine
Warming up your beautiful skin
If I fell before you with my heart right in my hand
Could you make the sun shine again
Surely this is cruelty,
leaving me in the half belief
that you will still receive me,
when and if you ever choose the place
if you ever choose the time



  "Highlights"

There's a window open and it's banging like a movie star
I'm digging around in my wardrobe for an old guitar
A camera is watching a man who's painting the stairs

My neighbour is starting his car
I don't think it'll go

What would you say if I asked you for the highlights
What would you have said if I'd asked you back in school
What would you say if I asked you for the highlights
Would you lie and tell me, it's all been beautiful

There's a row of birds has landed on the red roof tile
A half-hearted dog starts barking for a little while
The camera keeps watching the man who's painting the stairs
A TV talks in a room where there's no-body there

What would you say if I asked you for the highlights
What would you have said if I'd asked you back in school
What would you say if I asked you for the highlights
Would you lie and tell me, it's all been beautiful
Would you lie and tell me, have no fear
The sky can never fall
Highlights