Marlon Williams

I’ve been a certain kind of vagrant One who forgets all that he learns It takes a long time to discover Just how cold a lonely heart can burn I smoke my mind across Australia I made a dreamer of the land I lie beneath the mighty river Just to find the b...

The art of Arahura, it ebbs and it flows It changes in ways, only rivers can know But when I was young, I studied those waves Now I kept them with me, through all of my days Rauparaha had the greenest of eyes He came a long way for a shimmering prize An...

Where have you gone? Must've left for the town Darlin', when you part You won't slow down Didn't you lay beside me In my mother's home? Hung like a pendant My little heart of stone Ooh! Let me wear you like a beautiful dress Let me love you Let me...

There's a letter I never sent that I wrote to your family Your mother and father, the people back home, 'bout some far-distant tragedy [Hold?] back when I took you away from the land where you had grown To a life up in these hills, you and me met in [?] O...

Panic comes in waves Letters written every day Jealousy's an awful thing Let her find her way to you Can I call you? Can I call you? Panic comes in waves, they say [Yes, and I believe it too] Letters written every day [They never bring the word of tru...

Down on the beach with pail and spade No shelter from the sun and the rain No, you're spreading the pain Digging holes just to fill them again Come to me There's nothing sweeter than you when you're blind Arms out feeling for the holes around you And...

My little blonde haired blue eyed boy One day you’ll grow up and be distressed One day you’ll grow up and reject everything I’ve set up out for you My only dear long wasteful son One day you’ll wonder what you’ve become One day all this could be yours...

Death don't have no mercy in this land Death don't have no mercy in this land He'll come to your house and he won't stay long Look in the bed, you'll see your woman gone Death don't have no mercy in this land Whoa, death don't take no vacation in this la...

Well my name it doesn't matter, my name I couldn't tell The reason I am standing here's to tell you how I fell They say a straw can break the back of a camel fully grown I use a straw to pick my teeth and my back broke long ago Once'd I had a family, once...

Heightened, enlightened, lucid and frightened Better roll on, try to tighten up the game Cause everyone’s got something to say Stay out, laid out This heart is played out And I’m made out like some wild bird of pray Cause everyone’s got something say...

Hello Miss Lonesome, I see you’re back in town It’s funny how I lose my mind when you come around Papa thinks, that he knows you Mama knows you more She knows where to hide when you come knocking at the door The King in his castle And the beggar on the s...

Didn't make a plan To break your heart But it was the sweetest thing I've ever done Didn't need a plan I just need a body I put it on the line And I won No more the tool Off daddy's back The water, it just blended With the wine Now all the tongu...

I...I know a jeweller A very private man Who doesn't claim To understand the deed he does If you ask him for The going price of gold He'll look you in the eye 'Til he knows that you've been sold Make me a ring for the one Who is too afraid to try A...

Friends, all ask me about you You're gone and they want to know why I've stopped even trying to tell them Tears fill my eyes, I walk away What can I say, where can I go without your love? What can I tell them now that you've left me? What shall I say,...

I can see that it’s time for to go And take her party out on the road I know she threw her wine on the floor I’ll settle up the tab and here’s a little more I know you’ve seen it all before But you haven’t seen the lonely side of her She drinks her mind...

How to see the sun go down Is a heart made of gold? From the land, little children watch it burn Fortune favors the cold People tell me: "Boy, you got lucky!" But I feel about as lucky as a snowman in the spring Mind over matter; head over heart Love'...

Make way for love Make way for love When, by design You are on your knees I'm no wealth comfort To afford you Then shall the wonder Of the ages Be revealed again Make way for love Only for you... Leading you on... All through the night Only fo...

Isn't it strange, impossible to claim your reward I cannot explain, emotions I can barely afford to contain You're the same, you hide away from anything that turns you on Nobody gets what they want anymore No words only scream, could possibly protect y...

Party boy... Everybody looks at you how they do Yeah, they really rely on you To pull the party through—to the dawn Fuckin' wild one, don't give the game away But the powder dried-up yesterday Party boy, I know there’s a part of you, boy That’s terrifi...

Oh, please don't let me love you Just because I'm feelin' blue And please don't let me kiss you 'Cause I know you'll be untrue Because you're sweet dear, I want to love you Please stay away from my heart And please don't let me love you 'Cause I know y...

Before the war I had no need for traveling Indeed, I do not know what made it so important to leave And after all this time I found that I'm avoiding thee For nothing more or less then fear Of what I have to gain from staying in the clear Although it's on...

I lost my wife in 1989 to a certain kind of undetectable cancer She left me alone in a 7 bedroom home Built upon the bones of fallen soldiers I don’t recall putting that picture on the wall The one of mother and child at Easter time I hear strange things...

Minnie was a mother to a hundred or more In Winton Town Red-faced mamas comin' knockin' on your door A whole ten pounds Winter in the south makes the heart beat slow But hearts beat slower in the garden below Three went missin' and the men start diggin'...

The fire of love Has burned me through No vow ever made That I wasn't given too Now the boys are feeding On every gift she brings And I'm left alone to tremble Like an adolescent king Perfect hands Claim what they will Know how to hold a heart Not...

I am a travelling creature, traveling through this land I serve as but a warning to woman and to man I saw a weeping woman in a far-off distant land I gave to her my warning and she gave to me her hand Oh Mother, come and hold my hand Oh Mother, hold up...

Well it's Halloween again and LA is a bore Everybody's lookin' like they wish they'd stayed inside And they were watchin' Frankenstein on their beds and on their phones Not me baby. Tonight I'm really living I'm a vampire again and I'm coming for you Ope...

Too late, too late to tell you I’m gonna build a world around you Too far, too far away for me to pull you in and show you Just what I can do with a lover who tries To bend with me too What’s chasing you? Ooh-ooh-ooh-hooo! What’s chasing you? Ooh-ooh-oo...

When I was a young girl I used to seek pleasure When I was a young girl I used to drink ale Straight out of the ale house down to the jail house Straight from the bar room and down to my doom Come mama come papa and sit you down by me Come mama come papa...

Sure then, why not? I'll take a whiskey on the rocks The price of a good time these days ain't a lot Yes, I'm here alone No, I don't want you to telephone You can't have my number, but you can take me home You don't ask and I won't lie You can leave an...