Steve Kilbey

Diamond-hard heartthrob fakes displeasure As his duty finish rests around with his needs God, his face is like a sunken treasure Being dragged up from the violent seas And it's one for the woman that's never been had Two for the women that were always unc...

On to the next dream we run But still I feel like I've been stung With all the phrases I've been sung All the puppets I've hung among I can't forget their stupid eyes Their vague attempts to patronize The very nonsense I despise While sizing up their pi...

Oh it's just an arrangement No I don't care if they see You think you're sick of being yourself What you crave is somebody else Make an arrangement with me 

Angela carter puts down her typewriter And stares at the snow Her bones getting brittle, hair turning whiter Such a long way to go Counting the stars in the sky Wondering just where we are Dreaming that you didn't die Morning isn't that far She lives...

Max Sharp was an aquanaut With the gills and fin Especially bred for the oceany bed Waterproof head and skin Going down to the submarine town 20 fathoms deep Whoever thought a man breathin' water I wonder if there's trouble with the bubbles when he sle...

Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made Those are pearls that were his eyes Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell Hark, now I hear them Bell 

As love rides up, saw lone ranger Changed you into something, richer, stranger Stranger than fiction, truth or the dare I say "when you come down", you say "come down from where" Riding to the future would be easy for you To fall into your heart would be...

When I was a kid, I'd look at the sky Watching the birds, up there so high Waking up cold with the sun in my eye Shaking like a feather trying to fly I'm gonna fly, fly, fly somewhere (now it's monsoon soon) Fly, fly, fly somewhere (somewhere over the m...

Helicopters flying overhead [0:37] Saw me see ??? (beyond?) Bad dreams inside my head Everything keeps going wrong Sometime, that's right Television in every hall Telecasting our name Newspaper people writing it down Tell everybody our shame I've g...

The standing invitation to the back of beyond Beyond which no man dares tread They do the bossa nova in Wilmington and Dover In clover, over your head Saddle your cow We're leavin' right now Take off your skin Or we'll never get in The drummer's name...

I know you don't believe anymore So I wonder where you got the knowledge With our desire to acquire more In the service of your master You can take a faster door I know you don't pretend anymore I wonder where you got the silver I wonder how you got the...

China, saw your sister on the Nile/online When I asked her, he admitted they all love Come on down, we're gonna take you deeper You're gonna be fine, you're gonna be asleep And when the day comes Come on down, we're swimming in the black now Can't go f...

They packed us up in boxes, wooden boxes And sent us home Underneath the willow, near the river By my headstone And all you do is carry on It's snowing now it's winter, river's frozen And still you come I can almost see you, and touch you My pretty o...

Attracted by the metals in your teeth and in your earth We faint in amazement Along congested reefs our leviathans are berthed In a jagged arrangement Consider yourself conquered, consider yourself conquered Of that gray and mournful day when you set foot...

Red light, white light, shining, burning bright Cousin/Angel's staying overnight A ragged strip of flame, a fool's delight Drop in deep, horizon out of sight No I don't want to know (I don't know) And I don't want to see (I don't see) And I don't want...

Danielle, danielle Danielle you're looking old today Like someone came along, stole all your years away The pale sun will not forgive your face In shadows all the gentlemen who spent time in this place In hell, danielle, danielle Your bruises and your p...

Well you spoke about amnesia, as though it's where it's at Your lover had a seizure, while her brother fed her pussycat You were hanging from the railing, like a flag that's just been torn You were trying, you were failing, you were screaming through the st...

High, after the summer Find all the wells are drunk dry Miles and miles of starburn Branded on the hide of the night Diviner Low, before the winter Loser, these vessels are full Drop between drop of moonshine Slipping on the surface of our day Divi...

If you're still too big to accept my friendship I guess there's nothing I can do or say But don't rely on your friends They won't pick you up when you fall They can't hear you when you call They don't care at all 

If you know what you want I tell ya you can get it 'round here You better jet jam and ramble before it all disappears We've been hardwired Down here on dry dock Shining chromide Down here on dry dock Now we're down in the diamond mine digging in the...

Elizabeth makes abstract mistakes In chinatown when everything breaks Rain in the windows singapore eyes Under the ladder and everything twice Elizabeth green burned her machine Entered the ashes under column fifteen The days and the nights are gallantl...

Aren't you tired, aren't you sleepy (never going nowhere) Can't you see what's wrong with you (comes with someone) I am summer, gonna crush us (never going nowhere) Change our skin, leave us ashes I just wanna know How long you're going to keep me Lock...

D'you remember the story In the bloody chamber About the mad tiger He licks the skin off of women. I tell you samantha I could wear those stripes (straps ? !) for you. Have you prayed, have you chanted With the symbols and incense To both krishna and b...

Cold man is rich in luxurious heat White empty car at the end of the street Five thousand angels hang from their strings Drinking their bourbons and grooming their wings And they all rose up and flew This ethereal message down here to you A face at the...

Yeah, and somebody said, if you really want to get ahead You can make your bed, but you don't have to lie in it So keep your bad advice, I listened to it once or twice I'll just throw the dice and wait a minute Even as we speak, the headlines of the week...

So you fly, then you fall Why'd you learn to walk, when you can crawl Every hour God sends some wings Every hour God sends some stones You steal, and you scheme You think therefore you are, and you seem You seem a little nervous, just relax Just give t...

As you stumble into the future Remorselessly moving out of the past And you separate the reflex moments of living You drag down the morning into your room You can sing with your partner You can sing by yourself You can sing that everything takes forever...

And she dreamed that she was flying And she dreamed that he was holding her up And she dreamed that she was hiding From the fire below He was patient, she was not a girl anymore 

And she dreamed that she was flying And she dreamed that he was holding her up And she dreamed that she was hiding From the fire below He was patient, she was not a girl anymore 

I am not the kind of man, given to extravagance Even so I must confess a weakness for your elegance I came in through this door to another world A world that's been waiting for me Golden rays, and perfect days I'm so amazed by this sorcery Tell me agai...

First you offer fire Pure, deluxe Fire island You improved deal Real fine Fire island Foreign sea premium far Fire fire fire island Fire island (repeat) 

Fireman, I didn't expect to see you again The fever burning, hatred in flames I guess we just keep playing these games Hush now baby, don't you cry Momma gonna build you a great big fire And if that fire can't melt your bones You won't be smoking all alo...

Paper flowers tacked to the walls And cotton sheets back two by two Softness where the dreamer storms Leaves are crushing up on you Different hearts play on these strings Strangers waking, talking strange Bad nights on the pillow again Among the pretty...

Air hostesses are dreaming at the bar I thought I heard somebody say "i wish I was in america" There's been no surprises here, not since the crash There's been no survivors since the missus was blinded by the flash I can't see you anywhere But I look for...

You were always the favorite of all of my servants Tall as an oak when your forehead broke Revealing a head full of serpents Oh the silence where the smoke has blown Ah goliath, let's get stoned We're on our own You were only saying yesterday that they'...

Well does it please my honor to testify There's something that I've got to confess Me and the boys went looking for some trouble And I guess we found us a mess You know we were just chasing aliens 'cause those folks are different to us Someone started to...

Please let me in, I wasn't introduced I really want to be your friend I'd like to know, I wasn't introduced I really want to make amends There's a place that I know, it's so hard to find I'd like to take you there, if you've got the mind 'cause I never d...

Weaving dissolving patterns Forming our uncertain terms Passing into history Going to the worms I'll wait for you forever In my house all white with dust Falling into lonely hours Let the engines rust Heliopolis And who could tell the difference...

Barracuda metal slips through our conversation Shifting from insomnia to chaste acceleration Peeling out the pages from a book of random lullabies Sleeping off the chrysalis waking like a butterfly In the net In you get When you're standing in the ligh...

We got some rifles and they're loaded too We got our sights set on you Endangered species and bikini lines Well that's the pitch, hope you have a good time Well do you get it? Well do you get it? Well do you get it? Come sing the jack frost blues B...

I never intended to be kind of sane I cannot remember their glass or their pain I never expected to come here and stay And be waiting with you for the judgment day If I beat the odds you change the dice If I forget you memorize You're one of the special...

Waitress with the short hair is stoned She drifts amongst the tables Old ladies talk like birds That'd fly if they were able The coffee has a calming effect I'm nervous when I travel Red lights and steel worms Let the journey unravel Keeper She's a...

At the place pagal I'm sitting in a chair Waiting for some service, taking in the air My life spins past As I'm thinking of you The waitress comes up I look her in the face Say "bring me something fit for the human race" She doesn't hear a word She look...

Ate up the prophets, corrupted the saints Exhausted resources made us ashamed Hollywood won't touch you with a pole Jesus does not love you, lucifer does not want your soul Made a mistake, no one will forgive you The servants you love to dismiss all will...

In a room in hong kong, out of a cantonese song I met miss linda wong, she was looking for me She led me to her bedroom Wonderful things she said Too much for my head, like I'm all at sea Her bones shone through her skin Her eyes were green and tin (? )...

Alright She lives by the sea in a funny little house She's got an african manager and some indian cows She seems so distracted by the waves and the sand She practises white magic on a black baby grand It's not about right or wrong It's just a little so...

Well it's been a long day I can't wait to slip out of my skin And it's been a long way I can't decide what state I'll be in I live in the tower It's only an hour away from here I live in the tower Out of the pink sky Comes a spanish radio show Stran...

Broken old record, what did you find? The honey is spiked, I thought you liked it Make up your mind Fools took the boy, boy did they throw him Into the lake Wades through the weeds, comes to the party What a mistake And now, now he's waiting for a mira...

My birthday, the moon festival My life in the sea of tears My holiday, a misadventure My soul, a short career Like a lizard the road crawls forward Into regions unexplored By their boats the mayans stirred Gold and silver soon flow aboard My birthda...

Well I came to this land where the snow and the sand Cover my footprints with ice The cool gray sea calls me "come and be free" And I almost take that advice And in the night I cling to the names Of the women I wanted and the men that I blamed And their...

There's no such thing as remindlessness There's no such thing as time There's no such thing as endlessness There's no such kind of crime There's no such thing as distance There's no such thing as doubt There's no such thing as magic, no And if there was...

You fell through the ceiling Into the party below Somewhere south of the border Where they grow the blow And all your good ideas Celebrated mistakes/Celebrating the stakes [0:45] Calculated, she wakes In the fall It's no time at all Filming a docume...

Excuse me, you know I hate to complain But I never argue, I shouldn't have to explain There's a million restless reasons in here I can't repeat again Lizards eating flies in the oriental sun Swaying towers, lean attention And I'm jumping from your hands...

Hey, get out of my way, I cannot stay I cannot adore you Drained, leaving the game, chasing this train That they put before you You lied, there's nothing inside Say the river jordan is chilly and wide Once I told you I nearly tried You, you're so unpr...

Plane crash in the desert, everybody walked away Suitcase open to the breeze, light lifting up pretty heavy So we climbed out, looked around us Your shirt stuck to your skin Wreckage shimmered under sky, nothing on the horizon I know you can keep me warm...

You arrive here unexplained I can't believe the chance you took I can't believe you're back again Sister come in from the rain Those images are fading now You shouldn't bring them back again In the othertime, in a bargain basement You were recognized...

Dionysus and apollo are up in the sky Their brand of contradiction makes me want to cry For four thousand years I've been accruing my bones Looking for a God who won't leave me alone It's not easy to find Should put it right out of my mind Boys I must...

It's easy on the man who tries It's easy when he tries to buy surprises Ravens in the black sky It's easy when the angel cut her hair And said despair you've got the righteous They're waiting for disaster I don't know if you're coming to I don't know if...

I turned around to see the clown He made no sound, his face was down He was crying, dying to laugh another smile Down the empty avenues I stood inside his worn-out shoes I was flying, trying just to come down The circus crowd, cruel and proud Existing i...

Remember when I told you You were pretty lost It seems you had it up to here You just paid the cost All I have, all I need, all you got, is providence You're looking pretty tired Seems you lost some weight You made it through, I don't know how That's...

The very second time I walked in this room You knew that I was gone And just the way the sun slanted in Made it all seem wrong I know you say you love me And somewhere I think that you do I love all the tricks you've shown me I'll cut myself in two It...

Good times are a'coming Well I saw it in a vision I heard it in evangelist's sighs Down beyond the station Yonder lies salvation In the afternoons and the skies A child has been born Who can converse with the corn Who has access to the sadness of the t...

You never shoulda used magic To summon me back here The consequences could be rather tragic But that's a real good trick my dear And all the time I'm under the impression Riding on the borders like an ace You almost smiled, surely my discretion Lost in...

At the heart of her outrage There lies a veil of tears Stories of lost times She'll spread among the fields And we touched the land Of weeds where nothing grows And she watched my eyes And she knows She says love will never stay She looked upon our ye...

Hello sweet creature Won't you give me some bloodlike guarantee I've been listening to myself too long And they're making a prophet out of me I'm as empty as a shell can ever be I've been walking through the desert No it must have been the library Readi...

The silence is wrong He/You can't find the hotel It was a while back It's just a shell And the place where it stood Just a field full of weeds It's a done deal (don't forget the silencer) In a black mood In a gray land It's king harvest again In the...

Silvermine, I'm falling into this Silvermine and no way through Silvermine I can't relinquish this Silvermine neither can you I led him down to it Can't get 'round to it I led him down to it too I let him loose in it Can't get used to it I let him lo...

Well I'm a skyscraper carnivore Living on the thirteenth floor The wife's got scabies, the dog's got rabies The kids are having fun just having babies And the guy next door says, "Well you're a cool cat But a long-haired hippie could do better than that"...

In some lysergic africa, you've come back as a warrior In abyssinia Now the elephants are dead and gone And everything's been put back wrong Ivory and diptheria In some lysergic africa 

The oceans are drying, children stop crying We're trying, we're dying to leave this island to you No recovery, each day's a terrible discovery Under the wound they cover me, is this true What do you want me to want Something that means something What d...

The plague burns on and on It's pitiless, it's vivid in the sky (in the sky) The sun glows out and on It's merciless, even when you're up this high (in the sky) And you really think you've got my number Just don't forget, I know who you are I know what...

You are altogether beautiful Oh girl companion of mine And there is no defect in you There is no defect in you With me from lebanon my bride With me from lebanon, may you come May you descend from the top From the top of anti-lebanon From the top of sa...

All this body gets in the way (it's so far away) A reminder, a viewfinder for you Poor old mr. faust, he had to sign in blood Surrounded by temptation, brimstone and mud I'm never gonna be the one to say I wouldn't stop to love you this way (hey baby)...

I am the spirit of christmas yet to come The future, the source of your grief And all the little details and the things left undone Catching you up underneath Gray snow falls, cold night comes down Into the hearts of the men in this town Chains on the st...

It's opening night, everything's going fine Finally finding a timeless time It's an open line And angle your way through the actors and sets Entrance, exits, dressing rooms Cigarettes Black blight/light White spot Can do Cannot You surface again f...

Music in starling st sounds like the wind Down the cafe when the daylight has thinned Harry and dorothy say let's begin You clap your hands for a jug of fine wine Two ugly jail-workers both ways men stare (? ) His house down the lane, the life he leads t...

I once had this woman, a surrealist woman She changed before my very eyes One minute revolving, next minute dissolving I wish that it had been otherwise I followed her home, I followed her back I followed her where I did not choose She swallowed me up,...

(I, I, I, I) I take the things from their leather cases And I arrange them in their special places I collected people like you might collect flowers But they only lived for a couple of hours A famous flicker in these flames And hear the waiting and playe...

Pinocchio he loves her Like anybody wood. But if she pulls his strings again tonight I'm leaving her for good. In alexandria I know a place we can go: They serve amnesia. You better blow if you wanna catch the show. The crooked fox, he worships her:...

I walk alone, this ashphalt eden I must have outgrown Just flesh and bone, no indication, no way to get home Now feel their hands, and their demands And understand the way that it could have been I remember myself as I wanted to be When you walk past my c...

Well I saw you at the opening Somebody's hand was up your dress You were showing off everything Except your finesse Thought that i Thought that I was over you Thought that i, thought that i Thought that I was over you In a shack one night in brisbane...

I can barely bear to be with you tonight I can hardy stand to see you in this light How can I even try to deny it I can barely bear to be with you tonight How long will you keep me waiting I can only hold you in the dream tonight I won't even think wha...

When it's time to say goodbye When it's time to say goodbye When it's time to say goodbye Waiting for you in the sky Born alone everyone Everything under the sun Stay that way till kingdom come again When it's time to leave you here Waiting for you t...

How much do you want, how much do you want it How much are you willing to spend Superseded model bargain number special profit margin How much were you willing to lend The man at the desk Who takes everything he can find It's more a transaction than a br...

Telegram lines in meadows of junk Jewels stay late to shake and I'll be sunk Small eyed sellers with conquering ties And I know those sins carry dangerous crimes Yes we're sitting down the back with a head full of haze Coming to terms with our yesterdays...

I hadn't thought about mrs. morgan for years, until I read in the paper That she had died. when I was a boy, mrs. morgan played solo with my Mother every tuesday afternoon. there were two other women there, but I can't remember their names anymore. monkey,...

Where'd you get the stolen impression Where'd you get the wrong direction Where'd you get the answer where there isn't one Where'd you get the idle nerve from Where'd you get the angle uncut from Where'd you get the ending when it's just begun Everybody...

Uncomplicated, not a reason nor a whim Uncompared, and unprepared to start Satisfied our living by the steel Riding high upon your golden cart Oh tyrant Undignified, uncivilized, but always worth a thrill There's never been a world that didn't end U...

The day we left for January The maelstroms lashed outside/our side [0:45] Tore us away from the glass world obeyed/of faith [0:50] Where the impulse engines died We scrambled up the crow's nest Could not believe our luck Our terrified cries vibrated thr...

Well then I dreamed we were washed up in new guinea Castaways on a hostile shore Purple waves on the salty ocean breaking The music flowing underneath your bedroom door Wouldn't you know it, that's a fact Wouldn't you know it, just in time for your vani...

Well the worm, deep down and cold Has finally turned, burned down and sold See the day, three more to go Pull up it's wings and fade And you find you're easily gone And you think something's moved on But you're wrong, yeah you're wrong And I believed yo...

Got no hands and he got no bones Probably end up in an old man's home without that girl Stranger than fiction that what it seems Always says exactly what she means Yes she does She's a woman, woman with a reason She's got reason Points to the sun and...

Caught in a driving winter's rain Two people wait for a train They don't know where it's going to I don't think it matters, do you? You don't know what life is You don't know where life is taking you You don't know what life is taking you Out of you...