James Reyne

Your smile was so disarming You'd better mind your own affair Picking up the pieces Of a life that shone in tatters You're gonna come back if you dare Chorus ~ Ain't it always the way You get just one chance Ain't it always the way Ain't it always th...

Took a look around this cocktail landscape At the mud and the blood and the beer No more Balmain irony No more clubhouse cheer Red salmon running way up the river Red sky's a sailor's delight Mother's stand in their calendered kitchens Blue Hills broke...

Never want to fight the lonely fight Never want to talk all night Never want to feel the heat of battle Warning warning Chorus ~ Shipmates on icy blue waters Come be my bride on the sea She gives me no quarter My mistress my girl Here in this black a...

All these houses In a line Saying hey good morning So fine Singing Oh Security So good Sticks and Stones and Tombs of Burning wood Sticks and Stones and Tombs of Burning wood Now that's a fire A big bonfire A big 3 - storey mansion It's a smoulderi...

One could go to jail For taking drugs all night I do believe the sea - bird's flown Two is in the ground Boy he turned off that light When everything was so home - grown Three was such a terrier a tearaway As bloody blue as she can get Four would sing...

You took a little white cloud And you're fixing up your silver lining You took a little black car And drove it all the way Your conversation It's so confiding And we could talk about tomorrow 'Cause we got a little time today I know natures calling G...

These boys are torn and tired They used to burn so bright They staggered into love or sin one night Turn down that light All of their battles are happy And all of their songs are sad Confusion of slow novas Burning clear and fade away Confusion of sl...

Every morning when I wake from my bed I find I'm yawning just a'scratchin' my head I face the dawning and I feel like I'm dead I been sleeping all alone Well every daybreak as I wake from my sleep I find I'm aching as I drag from the deep If I were a Mus...

I shot the glass And I cleaned the table And I went to water as soon as I was able Bone - tickled by those crazy Africans Woke up early you know I was dreaming you know I was flying woods and cities teeming Bone - tickled by those crazy Africans Ther...

My friend got out of jail today I picked him up and he just said Hi It was a victimless crime He said I'm never going back But I bet he will & I wonder why He was such a good guy But now he's got it all wrong The days down in the tap room Blinking...

She talked in riddles She talked in three dimensional She held my lazy head when evening light was gone She called the breaks I ploughed the lower forty when She called me plough boy Say what paddock were you on Summer sun when my day is done God help...

When you move your stuff away from me When you caught the last train home When you move your stuff to where you want to be When you took that ride I'm torn and tremble way inside Chorus 1 House of cards house of sticks Where you gonna put 'em all your C...

Anglo Reptillian, Wrist watch radio titters She waltzes her way Through the aerodrome Powdering conversation With pigeon Indo She catches her plane To petty sun white Two tone heaven Chorus ~ It's only natural You should be where you want So ordin...

We caught the moon oh all things wasted Favours wealth and time Fools and minions powers pasted Thieves who rob by night Calling the lamp of heaven Sitting on the edge of the world All things are gold or given Don't forget to follow that girl The spi...

From the clatter of a honky tonk To the quiet of the range Been thinking 'bout silence golden Golden silence change Burning nights get damper And only moon was cool And the steam of danger rose From a ripple - less darkened pool Came to America Stoppe...

He sits in the shade of the old Jacaranda Quietly reading a line A military man in his seaside weekender He sings to his old Valentine Chorus ~ Better not go near the water Better stop fooling around Chasing your waterfalls Deep in your corner Lay yo...

He's just a local boy Modelling for magazines Nun-Chukka Things are never quite as they seem He's got throwing stars He's got silver tops Mama's grabbed her jewellery Hidden in the bathroom Calling the cops Bridge Give me somewhere to go Don't give...

Mr Sandman Got a good plan It's the best plan Don't keep me awake tonight Mr Sandman Got a better plan You're the best man To let me sleep tonight Mr Sandman With your sandbag It's a big bag Dust my bed tonight yeah Mr Sandman I'm a big fan Nu...

I've seen all these faces Between the mountains & the beach Looking out for happiness Well it's out of reach There's a cars & women Running rich & fast Driving down the freeway This fun it won't last Bridge ~ Cigarette boys Like Evelyn W...

She was young when she left home She was such a pretty thing She fell in love with some kind of sailor She heard the six bells ring She's been walking a beaten track Riding with some friends of mine Out where the others play and sing Having a really goo...

Living under northern lights Living under southern crosses We don't even know what's right Getting together a couple of charging horses Call me call me Pick up the payphone and dial my number We don't even know what's right We doze in fitful slumber I...

A world become one Of salads & sun Only a fool would say that A boy with a plan A natural man Wearing a white Stetson hat Unhand that gun begone There's no one to fire upon If he's holding it high He's telling a lie Chorus ~ I heard it was you...

Fetch me a drink of water My head was about to bust She knows I stayed out all night long She don't make no fuss She's my outback women Outback women Hair down on her shoulders Her eyes were as black as coal She's got voluptuous hips And sensuous li...

Meet me down by the jetty landing Where the pontoons bump and spray All the others reading standing As the Manly ferry Cuts it's way to circular quay Hear the Captain blow his whistle So long she's been away I miss our early morning wrestle Not a very...

Looking out upon this endless day Just got better now I must get well Sometimes I think I'll never see A whole wide world in front of me There's always one more soul to sell Another night lays it's hands on me Don't remember how it used to be It's not...

This river's running deeper Water's cold as ice This river's running deeper Water's cold as ice While we ricochetted from doorways And rolled the liar's dice Now would you ever hurt me Or leave me in the lurch Now would you ever hurt me baby Or leave...

We were going through the motions You know I need you tonight Yesterday is over I got the red eyes And you are my sight Hi hi give me a chance Hi hi don't you know Hi hi show me a picture You got the word and you won't let go Chorus Rumour it's a r...

Love is pain And days are rain Can't see the morning light Buddies go And lights are low And nothing's going right Take your cares to weather fair That mean old world is round Pack your bag and jump the jag And seek a sweeter sound We're always wait...

There's a light in the valley There's a heart all alone And the door is always open Go away from your window Pull the shades way down low And in a whisper words are spoken Bridge ~ Higher and higher Taking you there You've got to fly You've got to...

I stood up for the first time when I was just eleven months old And ever since that day mama said I never done what I was told I never stood for nothing too much all through my schooling years But I stood as much as I could stand I guess that's why I'm sti...

It's everywhere Outside your window Just beware Just you chill Truth laid bare If this don't get you Next thing will The rag and bone man He's trying to scare you Drag you down Feeling fine Don't you frown Waiting at the end of the end of the line...

Well it's a hard time for the traveller And it's a high time for the poor Something's very wrong here This key won't fit the door I'm gonna call a lawyer Gonna call the president Sure I heard the words you said I just don't know what you meant Chorus...

Freshly - showered jet jockey's In the Chico Club bar Drinking neat Wild Turkey They smoke Havana Cigars Screaming MIG fighter In the Latin night Big steel freighter To dock they might And the soldier had his problems On and on it goes Please excuse...

A long tall daddy And his common law wife Shuffled out of Buffalo The comfortable life Holding hands they went To meet their maker Just an old fella In his hey day suit Dreaming all the dreams About the film he'd shoot He said Hey you know I ain't...

No trouble Gone away Blues-weary Lazy day No way no way yeah No pressure Big sky Coco - Cola My Lai No way no way yeah How many pitchers can a water man carry How many pitchers can a water man draw Gunslinger Golden eye November Long good - b...

Went a`walking in the sunshine About a thousand Brumby ghosts Hunters bushmen bandits And fence wire on the posts Felt that ebony skin And felt the whole of the ivory coast Not flying away flying away Never been across the ocean man You didn't sail it...

Watch the world turn It's a slow burn Smoking in the distant light See the big sky See it roll by Day is turning into night All your troubles Dust and rubble All the cares you had today There's no big sign On the hardline Washing all your cares awa...

Way out west where the rain don't fall Got a job with the company Drilling for oil Just to make some change Living and a-working on the land I quit my job and I left my wife Headed out west for a brand new life Just to get away Living and a-working on...

Way out west where the rain don't fall Got a job with the company Drilling for oil Just to make some change Living and a`working on the land I quit my job and I left my wife Headed out west for a brand new life Just to get away Living and a`working on...

Somewhere just along that line He lost control Singing sirens you ain't no shining star And everybody said Hey Mr Wayward Soul Tell me who the hell do you think you are And the nightingale Sing's it's fairytale In the Stardust Bar The sooner we get o...