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Instrumental
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Not for Pussies
02:47
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Not For Pussies
I'll always be indebted to Bette
As she took a slow drag on her cigarette
her response to the question of growing old
was a slug of whisky and a dangerous growl
Its not for pussies (I'm with you girl - It's a crazy old world)
They're hooked on Botox, lipo nip and tuck
but I'm a rebel - I don't give a fuck
This plastic cult of youth - pathetic wooses
I'm for growing older the natural way
But it's not for pussies (I'm with you girl...)
This life's for living
Sometimes it can be mean
It has to leave scars
You can't just wipe the slate clean
I'll always be indebted to Bette
As she took a slow drag on her cigarette
her response to the question of growing old
was a slug of whisky and a dangerous growl
It's not for pussies (I'm with you girl...)
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Seasons Change
03:11
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Seasons Change
We flew south of Labrador
500 miles an hour or more
heading westward into blue
watched over by a crescent moon
We left the day that Summer went
butterflies and flowers spent
the veil of Autumn drifting in
long fingers round the hill
I'd watched the swallows gathering
sweeping, swooping, chattering
The wires empty, now they're gone
south the Winter long
The planet spins, seasons change
things we love fall out of range
hearts are broken, people cry
we all must live and die
We're all involved in endless flight
The world revolves from day to night
and every living shape and form
watches for another dawn
It's not so hard to swim this tide
to feel the force at work inside
part of the earth and stars above
surrendering ourselves with love
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Decide
05:53
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Decide
You've got to decide
Don't hover in this in-between
this twilight world of fevers and dreams
You've got to decide
I won't hate you for choosing her
like I did when you chose before
You've got to decide
We've had our time to see things through
I'm all grown, but this isn't done
until you decide
You've got to decide
got to be a man
You've got to decide
don't just lay back and let it ride
This life isn't done
until you decide
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Stay
02:36
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Stay
This black hole swallows stuff up, twists things inside out
I lose all perspective, drowning in doubt
It's been like this forever and a day
I'm in awe of your tenacity - whatever makes you stay
This black hole swallows me up, twists me round and round
I can't see so clearly when I'm looking out
In my hands I hold a line, fingers eager for
the one thing ever-present in all of the doubt
"This thing is love" you look at me and say
I can't believe my luck, I'm completely blown away
I search deep in your eyes for whatever makes you stay
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Billie
04:28
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Billie
She was the favourite - the youngest of the three
She loved the stories papa told her on his knee
The warmth of her family was the only thing she knew
The house with the garden where the apple blossom grew
Life is hard - but there's beauty in it too
Love is hard - but it's always there in you
She never expected things to happen - life to change
But the world is big and bad and twice as strange
The people you love can leave - suddenly they're gone
She woke up one day to find that she was all alone
Life is hard - she gathered up all the pieces of her broken world
Love is hard - and cried her heart out for this lonely little girl
Life is hard - but you gotta, you gotta take part in it
Love is hard - you've just gotta open up your heart to it
Life is hard - but there's beauty in it too
Love is hard - but it's always there in you
YAHWEH..
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Beloved
03:53
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Beloved
If this is all there is
I am content
I am content, beloved
The morning and your kiss
I am content
I am content, beloved
The suffering and bliss
I want it all
The rise and fall, beloved
We live, we love ...
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Alice
02:49
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Instrumental
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Full Circle
06:03
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Full Circle
Daddy I want to take you in my arms
tell you stories, say a prayer, keep you from harm
stroke your hair and tuck you into bed at night
I want to tell you that it's all going to be alright
But I just don't have the wherewithal...
We've come full circle
There's a lot of stuff we both need to forget
like when I grew into a woman and was a threat
The innocence of little children is just a dream
gone in an instant like the sticks we sent downstream
And I can't find where we left it all...
We've come full circle
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Home
03:13
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Home
He sits for hours, perfectly still - hugging himself against the chill
This world is fading - it's bleak and cold
no one around to have or to hold
You really need to hold him - he's feeling so alone
the chill of having no one seeps into his bones
You really need to love him - he's feeling so alone
his world is full of strangers - he's never going home
He needed her love to see the light
and now he's stumbling in endless night
He's never been one of the crowd
they're way too superficial and way too loud
His dreams are all in the past tense
present or future make no sense
His body's useless, as good as dead
he's taken refuge deep inside his head
You really need to hold him - he's feeling so alone
the chill of having no one seeps into his bones
You really need to love him - he's feeling so alone
his world is full of strangers, he's never going home
Finally free
Love guide him home ....
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Rain
07:26
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Rain
There's the church and there's the steeple
but I don't know where all the people are
There's no more reason to the rhyme
and I can't slow the hands of time, no...
There's nothing to lose
nothing more to gain
we're all just waiting for the rain
There's nothing more to choose
no more roles to play
staring at the sky to numb the pain
Just waiting for the rain
to wash away our souls
fill us up
make us whole again
Waiting for the rain ....
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Grey Cardigan
02:12
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Grey Cardigan
I need a hug
gotta turn to the living
for some love
Your room is bare
someone else soon will live there
now you're gone
They took your shell
and in the fire it was
turned to dust
I hide my face
in your grey cardigan and
breathe you in
I will move on
but your grey cardigan will
comfort me
for now ...
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Dancing
04:19
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Dancing
Reach out - take my hand
You're safe and sound - ooh my man
Reel me in darlin' - hold me close
This is real I know
This is happening my love
Way above the clouds we're
we're dancing, we're dancing
Oh nothing can stop us now
we're dancing, we're dancing
The sunshine all around us now
we're dancing, we're dancing
We've left it all behind us now...
It's been so long - oh such an age
since I saw your face - felt your warm embrace
Oh I suffered years through a haze of tears
but now I have you here darlin'
Hold me Hold me
I always knew you'd come for me
All my prayers answered
It was all meant to be
This is our reality
We are dancing in the light
no more mourning in the night ...
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Not for Pussies Perth, UK
Not for Pussies came into being in 2008, although Brian and Janette Kidd have been together - and playing music together
(and with others) for much, much longer.
We felt we're into an era in our lives where Bette Davis' quote about getting older (it's "not for pussies") felt very apt - and our music reflects this - and the experience of having lived a little! ...
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