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Quiet Room
03:59
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The Quiet Room
Wisdom comes with movement, comes with motion, let's be clear
It does not come from silence, from compliance nor from fear.
You should forget your state religion and the obedience you revere.
What did we overhear?
A Beach at Tamarama where the grommets surf and squeal
with delight in the Pacific ‘cos it’s so restless and serene.
But who does this silence benefit? To whom would it appeal? What can we feel?
We take then to the Quiet Room, where stillness defines peace.
There’s no more singing, no more surfing , and we will tell you what to read
The Quiet Room is waiting. Make yourself useful,
make you weep, and no one can speak
It’s quiet now ‘neath my furrowed brow, hold the steering wheel,
but the cyclone blows inside my toes and I pray for sleep
And the whitewash is my home
I wonder where my vision is, I wonder where’s my soul
and the whitewash is my home
I wonder where my vision is, I wonder where’s my soul
and the whitewash is my home.
It’s quiet now ‘neath my furrowed brow, hold the steering wheel,
but the cyclone blows inside my toes and I pray for sleep
Wisdom comes with movement, comes with motion, let’s be clear
It does not come from silence, from compliance nor from fear.
And who does this silence benefit? And to whom does it appeal? What can we feel?
Forget your state religion and the obedience you revere.
What can we hear?
We take them to the Quiet Room
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Hank Williams’ Funeral Sonnet
We are sin, we are sin, the jukebox begins,
and so starts the song of your life.
We are given much more
We are given the law
you must take a job and a wife
Well Sally she says she loves me
You know it’s a lie
And I just want to hear Hank Willliams’ Funeral Sonnet play
Corrugated tin, corrugated tin
Is wrapped round you all of your life.
Axles in the crib,
our toys are machines.
We all think in metal and lines.
Well Sally she says she loves me
You know it’s a lie
And I just want to hear Hank Willliams’ Funeral Sonnet play
Well Sally she says she loves me
You know it’s a lie
And I just want to hear Hank Willliams’ Funeral Sonnet play
Can you truthfully say with your dying breath
We are sin, we are sin, till there’s no breathing left?
Can you truthfully sing of a time yet to come
No axles in the crib
In that time yet to come?
Can you truthfully say with your dying breath
Singing metal and lines, till there’s no breathing left?
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Bitumen Roads
03:41
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Bitumen Roads
In work we become human, but this work it cruels my soul
Working just to keep the rigs alight
We are But Children,
dreaming
of a world from Long Ago
Children singing Eidelweiss on the burning Bitumen Roads
Hey Na Na, where else can we go?
Poor fellow my country she said
listening to the wind
It’s blowing to remove the Human Stain
The heat is coming, the heat is coming, I can feel it in my bones
Draw the curtain, the heat is coming down the Bitumen Roads
Hey Na Na, where else can we go?
Hey Na Na, where else can we go?
This is my sunburnt country all aglow
This is my unburnt country all aglow
Bless my sunburnt homeland and the future I can’t know
Hey Na Na, where else can we go?
I have lived a long time with this soil beneath my feet
And from this soil there’s one thing that I know
When it burns it Blows
When it burns it Blows
When it burns it blows
Hey Na Na, where else can we go?
Bless my sunburnt homeland and the future I can’t know
Hey Na Na, where else can we go?
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Old Mate
02:50
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Old Mate (Who Owns the Law?)
We walked, so we did, in the Garden of the Blessed
In Mildura
In the sunshine
In the vines
She sang of our dreams with her hand on her Breast when a jealous wind went running up her spine
She said
I was your saviour and she was your whore
And the world was your oyster but it won’t be no more
Hotel beds - we never sleep out on the road
Under the stars, those southern skies, the law is not our own
The only thing we should have kept from Europe’s moral code
Is Dare to Know, Dare to Know
Who owns the Law?
Old mate said, they only serve us prison wine
We stand outside the Chinese caff, the police watch us dine
But carnage for ourselves and No One else is not a crime
It’s not a crime
The levellers and the straighteners
They covet
These open clearings
For their car-yards and their prisons
Wardens!
All we need from Europe is the watchword
Dare to Know
Who owns the Law?
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Brother Fiscalini’s Bones
Well the Holy Sisters are singing with the currawongs and crows
Angelus Bell’s ringing
Brother Fiscalini, Brother Fiscalini, Brother Fiscalini’s bones
There’s an orphanage in Collingwood and they’re singing with those crows
and everybody’s celebrating
Brother Fiscalini, Brother Fiscalini, Brother Fiscalini’s bones
Well be he alive or be he dead and we kill ourselves at work
Be he alive or be he dead and I am dancing in the dirt
O- ho ho ho Brother Fiscalini’s Bones
There’s an orphanage in Collingwood – it’s a lost boys home
and everybody’s celebrating
Brother Fiscalini, Brother Fiscalini, Brother Fiscalini’s bones
Well be he alive or be he dead and we kill ourselves at work
Be he alive or be he dead and I am dancing in the dirt
O- ho ho ho Brother Fiscalini’s Bones
Well the Holy Sisters are keening and they are looking so forlorn
The Boree Log is burning on the Presbytery lawn
Well they’re telling everyone they’re singing and they’re grieving for the unborn
But is not them for whom they mourn
O- ho ho ho Brother Fiscalini’s Bones
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Tanami
03:11
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Tanami
Is this the way that Ludwig Leichhardt came?
Standing by your river eating stale Chow Mein
where those dumping pesticides
talking suicide
Hey Lo Har the drunks they go.
He was a Barber when the Pickers were there
Is it safe to say he’s prone to melancholia?
And they never knew
what he was gonna do
Hey Lo har the drunks they go
We don’t cry, we don’t cry
Tanami
Is this the way that Ludwig Leichhardt came?
Some flee from ignorance and some they flee from pain
A Coober Pedy dishwasher
Talking about the Ustache
Hey Lo har the drunks they go
We don’t cry, we don’t cry
Tanami
We don’t cry, we don’t cry
Tanami
Tanami, Tanami, is this where we are going?
Tanami, Tanami, there’s no love in the dust when its blowing
Tanami, Tanami, is this where we are going?
Tanami, Tanami, is this where we are going?
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Slaughterhouse
03:00
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Singing in the Slaughterhouse
It’s show-time back in Slaughter-town and those Carnies are on the streets. With their
smash-up derbies and their dodgem cars, and the lure of fresh sweetmeats
Forgive me, but it leaves me so
cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold
How do you keep on singing in the Slaughterhouse? Singing in the Slaughterhouse?
Watch the
Carnival from the cooler room, it’s all football, knives and beer
The Head Boner smiles when the carcass falls, his children live in fear
His daughter Monday lives so near
Monday’s got no child to hold, they took him from her home
He volunteers at St Vincent de Paul
but her heart’s as black as coal
coal, coal, coal, coal, coal, coal, coal, coal
How do you keep on singing in the Slaughterhouse? Singing in the Slaughterhouse?
Some kick up and some kick down, some hide far away from this house
And the slaughter that we all condone, mocks the morals in our mouths
When the boning knives lay still tonight, our town will then just bare its soul
It’s a hell hole, hell-hole, hell-hole, hell-hole
How do you keep on singing in the Slaughterhouse?
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Hold Me In The Water
03:51
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Hold Me In The Water
I’m writing on the water, on its surface with my hand
The memories of your loved ones are now memories of the damned
I hear their voices
Their voices so low
And now the river, the river’s so cold
Hey ho hold me in the water
Hey ho don’t wait for the rain
Sometimes you’re drawing my portrait in the sand
Speak softly of the future
you think I’ll understand
I’m waiting by the willows
I’m waiting by the road
And now the river, the river’s so low
Hey ho hold me in the water
Hey ho don’t wait for the rain
Hey ho hold me in the water
Hey ho don’t wait for the rain
I never knew that you’d be so cold
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The Great Dividing Range
Driving station wagon wondering why they kept on breathing
Hot north-west wind blowing from the desert,
Who?
Could not doubt that sleep was better
Than this roadhouse coffee, this RSL Club stew?
Wasted youth in the main street sneering at Picasso
Family drives on through the Western Plains
Ignoring traffic signs like good country families do
My father’s eyes were really cobalt blue
Everyone said his eyes were black, I never noticed
Never noticed before you
Everyone said his eyes were black
His black eyes were really cobalt blue
Tattered copies of Hamlet in the truck
Sad eyes watching the coal mining trains
and his black eyes would then explain
Lend me your learning, your soiled education
We fled to the city, cross the Great Dividing Range
And recoil in contempt at the lure of mere sensation
We fled to the city, cross the Great Dividing Range
Can beautiful minds survive in rural isolation?
Now we must return to the Great Dividing Range
Hey, I’m heading west across the Great Dividing Range
I’m heading west across the Great Dividing Range
I’m going home, I’m going home
Sad eyes watching the coalmining trains
Can beauty and love survive amidst these treeless plains?
I’m heading west across the Great Dividing Range
I’m going home
I’m going home
Going Home
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Fovndlings Walcha, Australia
Coming out of the wildlands east of Walcha NSW,
Fovndlings write original music that explores themes of
landscape and loss.
Fovndlings are
Adrian Walsh & Hugh Cook,
featuring "The Band", Stephen Tafra, Brendan Passey and Tom Walsh
... more
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