H.m.a.s. Australia

Here I am again in the ship's post office. I want to send a telegram. Send it to the captain. Asking where the hell I am. . I've been on this luxury cruise.

Fabulon

Buy a litre of Fabulon. Dare we spray down. In the scorched trail. of a Sunbream iron. . Paint your face with Revlon. To hide your frown. In the blue gloam glare.

Diamantina Drover

The faces in the photograph have faded. And I can't believe he looks so much like me. For it's been ten long years today. Since I left for Old Cork Station.

Caught In The Act

Change your name, get a new address. All it takes is gall. Fifty-five bucks a week's no social security at all. . It's a form of reprisal, a song of survival.

Carrington Cabaret

Are you proud white Australians wherever you are?. Beer in your hand and your elbow on the bar. All you people from Darwin to the south. With your blue faded jeans and a joint in your mouth.

Brown Rise & Kerosene

Julie did three years' trade school. I served my apprenticeship time. We made a modest living, but we were upstaged. Because computers don't strike or need holidays.

Beaumont Rag

I am a wealthy barrister. About 100 bucks a word. I've got a plum stuck in my mouth. I'm really such a. Really such a turd. . I attended PAC. I meet a wife at the prefects' ball.

The Center Of The Fire

Asio

White door, ninth floor, silent number, it's autumn on a cold avenue. Telex intercept, he sips a cigarette, warms up his V.D.U.. . He gets his kicks from microchips, orders from the C.I.A..

The Art Of Loss

Something Wicked This Way Comes

[m/l van Dyk]. . [Part I: Arrivals]. . October's a rare month for boys. When life is simple, pure and sweet. And the foolish youth can overlook. The wolf outside the door.

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Turned and tossed in this widening flight. And I can't find my bearings. The voice that called me once is lost. And the silence left is tearing at me.

Sapphire

The road I've walked for my whole life. Has brought me to this crossroads. And I'm standing here beside you.. . I know you've never been someone. To take things on a leap of faith.

Parker's Eyes

Look at you. You haven't seen anything. Your eyes so white and pure. Without a trace of red. No signs of self-abuse there. And no tears have yet been shed.

Nocturnal

[m. Versailles/Roy/van Dyk: l. Roy/van Dyk]. . When we enter its domain. Will the answers follow. Or will the wind and rain. Predict tomorrow. . Or will they combine.

Wish You Knew

lookout little stranger now i'm comin for your head,. and when I get my bounty filled i'm leaving you for dead, dead, dead.. a heart of gold with words to kill,.

Vietnam

my eyes still burn from the bodies all around,. my ears still ringing from the awful sound of your last words, walking away.. still i'm left remembering the day you left me for dead..

This One's For Burmingham

we're screaming murder,. so thank you hero for death of rock & roll,. for relighting the fire in our hearts back to the days of bloodied up and broken bones..

The Black Streets

on the black streets kill me quickly and try to forget me.. steal my home beneath my feet and hang us high and out of sight.. my blood, your hands: cut through the skin you'll see my blood on your hands..

Summer Of Love

in one shot you showed me what i was missing. and that i've got to make you mine somehow.. in one shot i knew it was you i should be kissing. and that i've got no regrets, no apologies..