Crowded House Album

Not everyone in New York
Would pay to see Andrew Lloyd Webber
May his trousers fall down
As he bows to the queen and the crown
I don't know what tune that the orchestra played
But it went by me sickly and sentimental

Can I have another piece of chocolate cake?
Tammy Baker's got a lot on her plate
Can I buy another cheap Picasso fake?
Andy Warhol must be laughing in his grave

The band of the night
Takes you to ethereal heights over dinner
You wander the streets
Never reaching the heights that you seek
And the sugar that dripped from the violin's bow
Made the children go crazy, put a hole in the tooth of a hag

Can I have another piece of chocolate cake?
Tammy Baker must be losing her faith
Can I buy another cheap Picasso fake?
Andy Warhol must be laughing in his grave

And the dogs are on the road, we're all tempting fate
Cars shooting by with no number plates
And here comes Mrs. Hairy Legs

I saw Elvis Presley walk out of a 7-Eleven (that's right)
And a woman gave birth to a baby and then bowled 257
The excess of fat on your American bones
Will cushion the impact as you sink like a stone

Can I have another piece of chocolate cake?
Tammy Baker, Tammy Baker
Can I buy another cheap Picasso fake?
Cheap Picasso, cheap Picasso fake
Can I have another piece of chocolate cake?
Kathy Straker, boy could she lose some weight
Can I buy another slice of real estate?
Liberace must be laughing in his grave

Can I have another piece of chocolate cake?
Can I have another piece of chocolate cake?
Can I have another piece of chocolate cake?
Can I have another piece of chocolate cake?

Ice will melt, water will boil
You and I can shake off this mortal coil
It's bigger than us
You don't have to worry about it
Ready or not here comes the drop
You feel lucky when you know where you are
You know it's gonna come true
Here in your arms I remember

It's only natural that I should want to
Be there with you
and it's only natural that you should
Feel the same way too

It's easy when you don't try
Going on first impressions
Man in a cage has made his confession
You've seen me at my worst
And it won't be the last time I'm down there
I want you to know I feel completely at ease
Read me like a book
That's fallen down between your knees
Please let me have my way with you

It's only natural that I should want to
Be there with you
It's only natural that you should
Feel the same way too

It's circumstantial, it's nothing written in the sky
And we don't even have to try
and we'll be shaking like mud, buildings of glass
Sink into the bay they'll be under the rocks again
You don't have to say I know you're afraid

It's only natural that I should want to
Be there with you
It's only natural that you should
Feel the same way too

It's circumstantial, it's something I was born to
It's only natural, can I help it if I want to

can I help it if i want too...

I'm really close tonight
And I feel like I'm moving inside her
Lying in the dark
And I think that I'm beginning to know her
Let it go, I'll be there when you call

And whenever I fall at your feet
You let your tears rain down on me
Whenever I touch your slow turning pain

You're hiding from me now
There's something in the way that you're talking
The words don't sound right
But I hear them all moving inside you
Go, I'll be waiting when you call

Yeah, whenever I fall at your feet
You let your tears rain down on me
Whenever I touch your slow turning pain

The finger of blame has turned upon itself
And I'm more than willing to offer myself
Do you want my presence or need my help
Who knows where that might lead

I fall
Whenever I fall at your feet
You let you tears rain down on me
Whenever I fall (at your feet)
Whenever I fall

Watch out big ships are waiting, salt frozen on your cheek
I saw a girl and boy arriving and a steamer put out to sea

Tall trees stand in the distance
Remember when you were green
Don't wipe the salt from your skin
You must keep running the distance

Sun sleeps on misty morning, light years from channel three
I feel halfway to zero, call me a hero, I might just agree

Tall trees stand in the distance
Remember when you were green
Don't wipe the salt from your skin
You must keep running the distance

And the roses you grow have a powerful scent
They'll be breaking your heart by the morning

I feel halfway to zero, call me a hero, I might just agree

Tall trees stand in the distance
Remember when you were green
Don't wipe the salt from your skin
Tall trees
Tall trees
Don't wipe the salt from your skin
You must keep running the distance
Tall trees

Walking 'round the room singing "Stormy Weather"
At 57 Mt. Pleasant Street
Well, it's the same room, but everything's different
You can fight the sleep but not the dream

Things ain't cooking in my kitchen
Strange affliction wash over me
Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire
Couldn't conquer the blue sky

Well, there's a small boat made of china
It's going nowhere on the mantlepiece
Well, do I lie like a loungeroom lizard
Or do I sing like a bird released

Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go, always take the weather
Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go, always take the weather
The weather with you

Everywhere you go (everywhere you go)
Always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go (everywhere you go)
Always take the weather
Everywhere you go (everywhere you go)
Always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go, always take the weather
Take the weather, the weather with you

Everywhere you go

Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go, always take the weather
Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go, always take the weather
Take the weather, the weather with you

Dull, dull grey, the colour of our times
Cool cool space that I still hope to find
Far beyond the veil
The sound of whispers and moans

Slow time bomb, the clamour of the street
I hear this town it never goes to sleep
And I will catch the taxi driver
Weeping like a wounded beast

Then I wake up in your room
Share one piece of your life
When tomorrow comes
We may not be here at all
Without your whispers and moans
Here you come to carry me home

Love that sound, time erase
Tension wheels, cool heels
Won't ya come on open the bid before too long

I wake up in your room
Share one piece of your life
I'd give anything to be a fly upon the wall
And hear your whispers and moans
I like to hear your whispers and moans
Here you come to carry me home

We are the mirrors of each other
In a lifetime of suspicion
Cleansed in a moment, a flash of recognition
You gave your life for it
Worth its weight in gold and growing empires
Art collectors and Alans sound investments
Will one day be forgotten, one day be forgotten
YEAH!

Four seasons in one day
Lying in the depths of your imagination
Worlds above and worlds below
Sun shines on the black clouds hanging over the domain

Even when you're feeling warm
The temperature could drop away
Like four seasons in one day

Smiling as the shit comes down
You can tell a man from what he has to say
Everything gets turned around
And I will risk my neck again, again

You can take me where you will
Up the creek and through the mill
Like all the things you can't explain
Four seasons in one day

Blood dries up like rain, like rain
Fills my cup, like four seasons in one day

Doesn't pay to make predictions
Sleeping on an un-made bed
Finding out wherever there is comfort there is pain
Only one step away, like four seasons in one day

Blood dries up like rain, like rain
Fills my cup, like four seasons in one day

What'll I tell him when he comes to me for absolution?
Wouldn't you know it, hope I don't make a bad decision

Cause I'd like to believe that there is a God
Why sinful angels suffer for love
I'd like to believe in the terrible truth, in the beautiful life

I'd like to know you, but in this town I can't get arrested
If you know me, why don't you tell me what I'm thinking?

Hey, don't look now, but there goes God
In his sexy pants and his sausage dog
And he can't stand Beelzebub
Cause he looks so good in black, in black

Hey, don't look now, but there goes God
In his sexy pants and his sausage dog
And he can't stand Beelzebub
Cause he looks so good in black, in black, in black

There goes God
There goes God
There goes God
There goes God (There goes God)
There goes God

There is a God
There goes God
There goes God
There goes God
There goes God

Fork lightning in your hall
Break the skin when you break the fall
I'll be the one to fix it up

Love children of the new age
Just a hippy with a weekly wage
There's no rebellion, just a chance to be lazy

When fame is in your blood
You follow the science of love
Wave the magic wand, and hang on

Now the rest of us are living in a daze
Keep thinkin' 'bout the choice to be made
Here come the handmaidens of end time

Lost treasure from a primitive race
All your lives written on your face
Can't fill the canyons of your mind

When fame is in your blood
You follow the science of love
Wave the magic wand, and hang on

Now you've changed (now you've changed)
And jumbled the pieces you've changed
(Now you've changed)
You're better before you talked (before you talked)
To a roomful of strangers

Here come the handmaidens of end time

When fame is in your blood
You swallow the science of love
Wave the magic wand
All of your stars will fall
And all of your spells will break
So look out for number one
When fame is in your blood

All I ask is to live each moment free from the last
Take the road forgotten, don't leave me here
Oh, please let me stray far from familiar things

All I ask is to live each moment
All I ask is to live each moment free from the last

Strange roads going nowhere, going nowhere in particular

All I ask is to live each moment
All I ask is to live, live each moment free from the last
Free from the last
All I ask

Make your decision now, rely on no help from above
Living is luxury, I want everything you throw out
I'll do anything you want to

Please let me go with you, I'll wear the smile on your face
Big, black and beautiful, I want it, everything you throw out
There must be something you can do without
Cause I am as sure as I am

I couldn't care less for what might go wrong
And I'm as happy as sin in a fear shaken world

I pity the rhino, down there it's becoming extinct
Killed for a love potion, sad thing looking like a dead flower
I want it, everything that you throw out
Cause I am as sure as I am

I couldn't care less for what might go wrong
And I'm as happy as sin in a fear shaken world

Don't wanna be there, don't wanna be spared
I'll wear the smile on your face
I am as sure as I am

I couldn't care less for what might go wrong
And I'm as happy as sin in a fear shaken world, world
Couldn't care less

I bring you plates from Rome
You say they look fantastic
I say we're having fun
Nothing like that Italian Plastic

I bring you rocks and flowers
You say they look pathetic
You pick me up at night
I don't feel pathetic

Chorus:
When you wake up with me
I'll be your glass of water (uh huh)
When you stick up for me
They you're my Bella Bambina (uh huh)

I say we're on a trip
Looks like we're on vacation
I say we're having fun
In our little constellation

Chorus

Then I'll be your Balle Bambino, your man from the moon
I'll be your little boy running with that egg on his spoon
I'll be your soul survivor, you worst wicked friend
I'll be your piggy in the middle, stick with you till the end (Oh)

Chorus

Pretty soon you'll be able to remember her
Lying in the garden singing
Right where she'll always be, the door is always open

This is the place that I loved her
And these are the friends that she had
Long may the mountain ring to the sound of her laughter
And she goes on and on

In her soft wind I will whisper
In her warm sun I will glisten
Till we see her once again in a world without end

We owe it all to Frank Sinatra
The song was playing as she walked into the room
After the long weekend, they were a lifetime together

Appearing in the eyes of children
In the clear blue mountain view
The colouring in the sky and painting ladders to heaven
And she goes on and on

In her soft wind I will whisper
In her warm sun I will glisten
Till we see her once again in a world without end

(Repeat)

She goes on
She goes on
She goes on

Escape is on your mind again
Escape to a far away land
At times it seems there is no end
To long hard nights of drinking

Chorus:
How will you go
How will you go
Drive through the wind and the rain
Cover it up
Cover it up
I'll find you a shelter to sleep in

I fell over on the couch again
But you know not all sleep is wasted
Your dreams are alcohol inspired
You can't find a better way to face it

Chorus

And you know I'll be fine
Just don't ask me how it's going
Gimme time, gimme time
Cos I want you to see
ROund the world round the world
Is a tangled up necklace of pearls

Chorus

I'm still here
I won't go away
I'm still here
I've come to rain on your parade
I'm still here
It's getting late
Well, I'm still hangin' round
Keepin' my fingers crossed
I still wanna get laid