Released: 12th Jul 2004
Recorded: Kingdom Studios, Perth
Produced: Jebediah
- More Alone -
- Loaded Gun -
- It's Over -
- No Sleep -
- Sew Your Life -
- First Time -
- Braxton Hicks -
- The Seven Signs of Ageing -
- You Oughtta Know -
- Nothing -
MORE ALONE
ALBUM: BRAXTON HICKS, 2004
I've been doing the strangest dreaming
I left not knowing where I was going
And you're so misty and I'm so twisted by the way I feel
I'm spinning like a wheel
My love is so surreal
Walked for ages through different stages
Of all my failures and past disclaimers
And in this city being lost aint pretty like it used to be
Now when my mind is free
Things get on top of me
Oh, I'm more alone when I'm with you
There, you got me
There's no hiding the future's riding
On coming clean with the past I'm fighting
Cos when you're with me I'm forced to see me as I really am
I'm not s'posed to be thinking of you
At least not this way but now it's too late
And you're so misty and I'm so messed up in this reverie
I'm never gonna be all that I hoped I'd be
Oh, I'm more alone when I'm with you
There, you got me
I'm done with holding out for the sky
Opportunity passes me by
Cos it's true you don't think of me
The way I think of you
Come on admit it it's true
Oh, I'm more alone when I'm with you
There, you got me
LOADED GUN
ALBUM: BRAXTON HICKS, 2004
I'm a grave digger
I'm a thief stealing your bones
You're an old liar
History revisionist
You're trying to be cool but you're falling asleep at the wheel
And how do you think when your heart is the last place you feel?
And every time you're saying
"Everything's fine".
And I don't know why
But this loaded gun is just what I've been waiting for
I'm a wanderer
I'm a dreamer, dreaming away
You're a long distance memory I rescusitate
You're trying to be cool but you're falling asleep at the wheel
And how do you think when your heart is the last place you feel?
And every time you're saying
"Everything's fine"
And I don't know why
But this loaded gun is just what I've been waiting for
It's just what I've been waiting for.
IT'S OVER
ALBUM: BRAXTON HICKS, 2004
Long ago in days gone by
It was much simpler for the guy
And when The Cure sang "Boy's don't cry"
I said I had something in my eye
You were right when you said I was wrong
It's over
And right before the storm I told you everything
I know thats not good form but feeling is the most peculiar sport
I might get bored but I could never tell you that it's over
Spent too long staring out for stars
I lost control and crashed my car
I hadn't even got that far
Left my good fortune at the bar
You were right when you said I was wrong
It's over
And right before the storm I told you everything
I know that's not good form but feeling is the most peculiar sport
I might get bored but I could never tell that it's over
It's over.
NO SLEEP
ALBUM: BRAXTON HICKS, 2004
You got your very own Watergate
There ain't no easy way out
And if you wanna be social oh yeah
You better scream when you shout
I'll take you out where you wanna go
Yeah we can buy us some thrills
It's not the size of the night out oh no
It's the size of the pills
Come on
No sleep Sunday
We don't do it to get away
Only to Amplifier
And we don't wanna get fucked up on no
We just wanna get high
So come on, come on I got a feeling it won't take long
Get out, cut loose I got a feeling you know what to do
Come on
No sleep Sunday
SEW YOUR LIFE
ALBUM: BRAXTON HICKS, 2004
In light of recent trends come gather round your friends
So much to talk about but words just won't come out
Oh no
The future is heel bent it won't stop when you say "when"
This atmosphere is staid just why are we so afraid?
Cos we're always impatient with the mess we created
And we're always frustrated or something
But you can sew your life back together
You can sew your life back
In light of recent trends come gather round your friends
Cos something's going wrong it hits just like a bomb
Cos we're always elated with the prize overstated
It's like we're always inflated or something
But you can sew your life back together
You can sew your life back
FIRST TIME
ALBUM: BRAXTON HICKS, 2004
There's a first time for everything
You don't have to be the alter boy to sing
There's a last time for nothing
Until you die of course in which case there may be
But I'm holding on to the learning and the reading I've been doing
About what awaits us on the other side
There's a first time for everything
So if you want it don't be shy girl just jump in
You might find out if you do nothing
You'll regret it for as long as you're living
And I know that it's not easy to believe in what I'm saying
But if we're gonna make it we just gotta try
When on a losing streak day will everything wind up ok?
This could be the end of the line or this could be just like our first time
I've been a fool for so long
Could something so right be so wrong?
This could be the end of the line
Let's make it just like our first time
And I know that it's not easy to believe me, lord knows I agree
To the point where I can't even believe it myself
Believe it myself
But if you do I will
But if you do, yeah if you do
There'll be a first time!
BRAXTON HICKS
ALBUM: BRAXTON HICKS, 2004
Consider all you've got to lose
Consider life and what you choose
Consider everything cos you might not get it back
I've got an itch under my skin
I'm walking balancing on pins
With nowhere safe to fall and the walls are closing in
I got a truth that noone knows and my desperation grows
There must be something that I missed tell me that there's more than this
I got a womb to call my own
I got a room to crawl in alone
And when I make it out I'm gonna do it on my own
And all these lights on in my head
Are put out in my sleep instead
Dreams of black and white are waking up to life in red
I've got a truth that no one knows and my desperation grows
There must be something that I missed tell me that there's more than this
Braxton Hicks!
THE SEVEN SIGNS OF AGEING
ALBUM: BRAXTON HICKS, 2004
The seven signs of ageing's gonna strike when you're alone
The seven signs of ageing's gonna shake you to your bones
I hadn't noticed that the lights had changed
I only noticed you were gone a long, long lonely time ago and it really shook me up
What on Earth had I done?
The seven signs of ageing's gonna strike when you're alone
The seven signs of ageing's gonna shake you to your bones
When you've got the sun in your eyes don't let them see you cry
Some people walk along this avenue with hands in pockets and eyes to ground
Just lost, lost in this city slowly growing old
At least that's what I've found
The seven signs of ageing.
YOU OUGHTTA KNOW
ALBUM: BRAXTON HICKS, 2004
Your eyes are just like mine
I wonder what you're thinking about
I can't figure it out
You climb right up my spine
Just so you can get a better look at what's on my mind
I've got opinions that I can't afford to say
And my words don't really matter anyway
You've been gone for so long do your friends know what's wrong?
Why don't you run away?
Your lies are just like mine
I wonder what you're trying to hide
Tell me what's up inside
Or I'll climb right up your spine just so I can get a better look at what's on your mind
I'd live on your street but I can't afford the rent
And my memories shot I can't think where it went
You've been gone for so long do your friends know what's wrong?
Why don't you run away?
Now the whites of your eyes give away your disguise
Why don't you run away?
All your friends that you just gotta vist more
The further you're kept away the less it makes you wanna stay
You oughtta know
Yeah now you oughtta know.
NOTHING
ALBUM: BRAXTON HICKS, 2004
I'm on the outside.
And now there's nothing left to think about
Because there's nothing going in or out
And now there's nothing left to live without
With so much nothing left to go around
And now there's nothing left for me to do
Because there's nothing small that's getting through
Now all the nothing makes up everything
You just can't be a part of anything
Think about nothing
In. Out. Nothing
Nowhere. Nothing.
Bring out your dead!