Mick Harvey

A day like any other Where I am left all by myself Why, why, Anna, Anna Do you sit alone on the shelf? A day like any other He will come to me and then say I love you Anna, Anna On that day all things will change 

What else is a life of the senses but a movement alternating Between desire and disgust And from disgust back to desire From desire to disgust From disgust to desire The soul floats always in limbo between the fervour which renews The fervour whic...

Annie loves all-day suckers Suckers of aniseed Annie's suckers Of aniseed Give her kisses A taste like ani- Seed as the slick barley sugar Perfumed with aniseed Flows into her throat then Annie Finds it heavenly For a few pennies Annie Gets her lollypops of A...

Baby teeth Wolfy teeth Baby teeth Wolfy teeth You, you're a growing boy Nothing but a baby wolf You have baby teeth Not the teeth of a wolf Yes, I'm a growing boy Just like a baby wolf I have the baby teeth The baby teeth of a wolf Baby teeth Wolfy teeth Ba...

Have you never been there? It’s the first symptom, I read that somewhere A jam session of percussionists It is in my eyes, the image reversed I say to him “neither you nor you”, I tell him “her”. She has to know, you have to know at the same time that I...

I know of the sorcerers who summon the jets From the jungles of New Guinea They survey the skies coveting the money That pillaging would bring them from that freight On the Coral Sea, in the wake of that Machine, those creatures who have no need Of reason, th...

I love your colour its coffee Your coiffure of coffee Your décolletage of coffee I love it when you dance for me Then I hear the jingling Of all your pretty things Bracelets, ankle rings At your feet they sway and swing Coffee colour How I lo...

The rhythm she made pierced my heart to the core You down on the earth, you have your doctors I need a transfusion of mercury I lost so much blood from this injury Take away my helmet and space suit Wipe the moon dust from my cosmic boots To make this clear...

Deadly Tedium Comes to me When I am With you Deadly Tedium Takes a hold Feeling glum Step by step The day that I can find the guts to leave You and let Let you go, that day That day, oh yes that day, I think I could Think that I Fi- -n...

It’s not going, it’s not going, stay still It’s the only way to move in here Or I’ll smash my mouth, kill myself You have anyway considering what you have done to me, What’s left to say about it, rien, Mon Dieu, rien Good god, she is her, she is not her....

God is a smoker of Havanas I see his grey clouds in the sky I know he smokes them even in the night Just like me, love of my life You're just a smoker of Gitanes I see your blue billowing clouds Sometimes it brings tears to my eyes, I'll avow You are my maste...

I envisage the hold-ups On 5th. Avenue I envisage the bomb threats On the news I envisage your make-up Throw it away Out on Sunset Boulevard Where’s my car anyway I envisage trench warfare How it failed Some turbine driven robots Neither...

Ich liebe dich, ich liebe dich Ja, ich liebe dich Ich dich auch nicht Oh, meine Liebe - Wie eine Welle ungebrochene - Ich gehe und komme tief rein - In dich hinein - Ich komme tief rein - In dich hinein - Und dann halte ich ein Ich liebe dich, Ich liebe dich...

If I should leave younow Try to remember the good times Warm days of sunshine And just a little bit of rain And if you look back Try to forget bad times Lonely blue and sad times And just a little bit of rain And just a little bit of rain ~~~♫♫♫ ~~...

The loves that we have lost They must remain star-crossed And lovers left in the lurch Must keep on with their search Loves that we have lost Are never far away Cause lovers left behind Can't forget - love is blind All the vows of the heart All the vows of l...

Everything can be If she just sees me Life’s reality Has its limits too Yes, everything can be She might not like me With photographs it seems One just never knows With her everything is possible For me it will be wonderful the first time If...

I'm walking out for love I'm walking out really down, really cool breeze I'm gonna be late again, driver wait for me, please I'm running all in vain trying to catch this train ref. Time don't fool me no more I throw my watch to the floor, it's gone craz...

Oh how I'd like you to recall For you this song was personal It was your favourite and I'm aware That it's by Kosma and Prevert [And every time, the leaves that have fallen Bring back to you my memory Day after day the lovers who've passed on Are blown away l...

I'm a puppet made of wax A puppet made out of songs The sounds that are etched in my heart are strong Puppet of wax a puppet of song Am I better off in fact Than a mannequin in a salon? Life through a rose-coloured delusion Puppet of wax a puppet of song My...

Une histoire sensuelle et sans suite It goes crack it goes psshhht Crack I take the boy and then psshhht I just split They all fall for me those little twits I'm the crack for those petites Crack they're on their backs and I psshhht They submit Their hearts...

So these are senseless assassins An assassins association Since the Anschluss these suckers Exsanguinate the sweet jew SS c’est bon, c’est bon c’est bon So silly one senses no stress As it is censured and suppressed In Silesia outside Prussia...

Is it for you I do this strip-tease? What do you want me to tell you, please? One by one, day by day My illusions go away Every night, it's another autumn Discarding my leaves is utter boredom And all this, for what, for whom? Is it for them or for you? If it...

Oh oh oh he who has never been under lock and key Oh oh oh will never know what it is to be free Me, yes, I know this, I am an escapee Oh oh What does it take to see a full blue sky and sea To look into a black sky for four days out of three I can lo...

Turn and spin Come closer in Now, try again And dance The decadance Your hips unwind Slowly in time Right there in front of mine Yes, it’s fine Stay right behind In balance The decadance Your hand is pressed Upon my breast My heart is yours Please do...

As you drift off in the current On the river of memory Running along the embankment I cry to you come back to me But slowly I move away As you run your reckless course Piece by piece you can reclaim A little of the ground you've lost Now and then you sink rig...

When one has lost it all, there's nothing any more Just the eyes to cry You expect nothing more, there's nothing left at all Just the eyes to cry When someone wounded you, there was nothing left to do But for eyes to cry When one has ravaged you, when you hav...

In my black book When my choice is done A funny little one I put him under My arm till dawn That funny little one Un Petit Boudin It's good for what I have It is fun A little pudgy one It's easy and Commitment there is none To the little pudgy ones Les Petit...

I am the man with the cabbage head Half guy but vegetable from the neck For the beautiful eyes of Marilou I took to the pawn shop jew My typewriter and my wheels on spec I was in the dumps without a sous At the end a nervous wreck From the day th...

While rereading your letter I became aware That writing and you are not a good pair It's you I love Apostrophe above Don't say that there's A full-stop It's missing one That you don't care I'm begging you Please dot the I For clear answers I am the slave That...