MELUSINE

He came out of the water and took me for a swim
With a glint in the eye and a flick of the fin but I was so afraid of going under.
And I know that sometimes we should just get wet
And I know that
I loved you
No one else
Nobody else wear you shoes.
It’s the things you know before everybody else
With your slippery scales and underwater view.
Bigger Better Stronger
I’m sure that’s what you said.
Benevolent and generous that’s who.
And I know that
Sometimes we are not ready
And I know that
I loved you and nobody else
No body else can wear your shoes
It’s the things you know before everybody else
With your slippery scales and your underwater view
Chewing alabaster till the words run dry
I couldn’t find the watering hole
Although I did try.
You see cause I loved you
Nobody else
Nobody else can wear your shoes.
It’s the things you know before everybody else
With your slippery scales and your underwater view.
He came out of the water and took me for a swim
With a glint in the eye and a flick of the fin
But I was so afraid of going under.

LOVE ME

The deed is done and it needs to be digested
A savoured gain and not to be expelled
There’s only one of me where you can find it
It may be gold but you can never tell
Cause if you love me baby
Love every thing about me
Breath it in and when you have absorbed this
You will never be alone
You’ve got that certain something I need
It’s like a light when there should be a well
You make me shine your my good luck charm
Don’t you give up on me now.
Cause if you love me baby
Love everything about me
Breathe it in
And when you have absorbed this
You will never be alone
Just say you love me baby
Love everything about me
Breathe it in
And when you have absorbed this
You will never be alone.
You will never be alone.

BURGER GENERATION

I will not be one to take part of
The Destruction of passion.
And I, will not line up in rank
To become part of the thirty-second Burger Generation
I want, I want I want
That thing so badly
Give it to me
I need, I need I need
That thing so badly
Give it to me now.
Seeing is believing
We believe in what we see
So we do it too,
If somebody else is doing it that way
Don’t leave me out I’ll do it too, oh.
Too, oh.
I want, I want it wrapped up
So nicely
Spare me what’s inside
To lose the edge
The human condition means the thought of it
While it scares my mind
It freezes my bones
And I don’t think my heart could take it
Seeing is believing
We believe in what we see
So we do it too,
If someone else is doing it that way
Don’t leave me out I’ll do it too, oh.
Too, oh.
I’ll do it too.
I will not be one to take part of
The Destruction of passion.
And I,
Will not line up in rank to become part of
The Thirty-Second Burger Generation.
My revelation
Takes dedication
My generation.

READ ABOUT IT

I’m going to read my way around the world
Jump on a dream and go real far
I’m a Duffy kid so I’m a star
And I read about it
And when I tell my story, then I know I’ll have the words
And when I tell my story, then I know I will be heard.
Going to read it. Read about it.
I’m a Duffy kid and so proud of it
You can do it. Nothing to it.
I can help you if you want me to.
Tall as a Totara Duffy Kids will read around the world
If you want to know what makes things go
If you want to know how the flowers grow
If you want to learn how to be the best you can
You just read about it.
And when I tell my story, then I know I have the words.
And when I tell my story, then I know I will be heard.
Going to read it. Read about it
I’m a Duffy kid and so proud of it
You can do it. Nothing to it
I can help you. If you want me to
Tall as a Totara Duffy Kids will read around the world

MY COMMAND [CASSANDRA'S EARS]

Wish at my command
I hardly know where to stand
The picture is completed
The story is defeated
Say you will go out and do
Don’t hang around it will not prove
It will not prove
Don’t believe for a second that I can’t handle myself
Don’t believe for a second I don’t know where people are at
‘cause I’ve seen them in the gutter and I’ve seen them down and out
I know that some are bad right through
I’ve had a taste of that
I just cover my eyes and I get by.
Say you will go out and do
Don’t hand around it will not prove
It will not prove
I don’t believe that I’ll get caught by the witches in the wood
No I’m not a little Goldielocks or a red riding hood
I’ve come to get by this far
Through the serpent’s den
Handled new revelations and I’ll do it once again
I just cover my eyes
And I get by…….

PRIVATE WASTELAND [CASSANDRA'S EARS]

When you get to the middle of the outside looking in
And you think that maybe it’s easier not to look out from within
Hold on to your small mind feelings never look around
Take the view for certain and you’ll always go without
And you’ll see where you are in the distance not far
‘cause you’re trapped where you are
You try to be so damn different
But you do nothing but stay just where you are.
Trapped inside your Private Wasteland
Don’t smell the sea don’t touch the ground
Have fantasies ties up with money
You have no sight or touch or smell.
Private Wasteland blistered sky
You smell the sea but you don’t know why
Hold it down can’t see for certain
You’re never going to make it but you don’t know why.
And you’ll see where you are in the distance not far.
‘Cause you’re trapped where you are
You try to be so damn different
But you do nothing but stay just where you are.
When you get to the middle of the black hole that you’ve made
You’ll find that you’ll remain there because there is no other way
Everything is stationery
Static life it does not move
In the darkness nothing grows there
In your life you’ll always be without
And you’ll see where you are in the distance not far
‘Cause you’re trapped where you are, not far
You try to be so damn different
But you do nothing but stay just where you are…..

AS I AM IN SKIN [CASSANDRA'S EARS]

When you walk into the room I know it’s time to shed my skin
Who could like such skin as this, in all of it’s imperfection
To hear it in your heart
To see it as it’s seen
To know yourself the way it should be
And never change a thing.
When I’m in your room.
To shade the light a subtle hue
Hides the face of all desire
Compress thy lungs in times of need
So that you can’t be heard
So you can’t be heard
And it’s a dream, and it’s a dream
That you could like me as I am in skin.
In skin
In skin
And it’s criminal
That you should want to make me feel like her
And it’s criminal
That you could make me feel so insecure
All of the time..
All of the time….
When you’re in my room.

CRYSTAL (CALM BEFORE THE STORM) [CASSANDRA'S EARS]

You take the weight off my shoulders and break my back in two more
places
And I ride the crest of a wave in to nothing
Nothing at all
If there was a ship then I’d be on it now and I wouldn’t say no
And I wouldn’t be afraid
I’d ride with the black crystal
We’d be safe and strong
Like the calm before the storm
Like the calm before the storm
I’d ride the rest of eternity
Searching for nothing but the knowledge of the truth
And I will see into the dark, into light into nothing, nothing at all
Like the calm before the storm
Like the calm before the storm
And you, you take the weight off my shoulders
And break my back in two
I forgot to mention
This shouldn’t happen to you.
If there was a ship then I’d be on it now and I wouldn’t say no
And I wouldn’t be afraid
I’d ride with the black crystal
We’d be soft and strong.
Like the calm before the storm
Like the calm before the storm

SENTIMENTAL FOOL

He brings me flowers every morning
He likes me even when I’m bad
He never minds when I’m running where the wild things are
because his arms are always open when I get back…
I’m such a Sentimental Fool
Loving every moment
everything that comes my way
The fool
My heart is loaded, I always wanted to stay that way.
(dah dah dah dah)
Don’t have to anymore,
pretend that I am tough
Or a brooding caricature
of all that rhymes with rough
And he likes it when I talk all day
and he never puts me down
He likes the colour, not the gouache
He pulls an eraser out when I start frowning and you,
And you wonder why…
I’m such a Sentimental Fool
Loving every moment
everything that comes my way
The fool
My heart is loaded, I always wanted to stay that way.
(dah dah dah dah)
He comes into the room,
picks me right up off the floor
He says “Don’t you worry about a thing girl.
You don’t have to face the world alone.”
And I go
“dah dah dah dah…”
(dah dah dah dah)
I want to taste it all,
I need him when I fall
He moves me right along when he makes me smile
It took a while but he never left,
and he never lied
A tremendous test.
And he’s always there,
like he’s always been
He’s got nothing to prove cause the proof’s in me
The fool
The fool (dah dah dah dah)
Such a fool (dah dah dah dah)
dah dah dah dah
The Fool (dah dah dah dah)
dah dah dah

STUPIDEST THING

You never knew me
Oh it must have been somebody else
You never held me
Oh it must have been
just a sordid piece of your imagination.
These things they happen
Apparently it is some sort of disease
Something so real
Turns out to be
Just a joke, or wishful thinking.
It’s the stupidest thing that I ever did hear
Spitting on people is less absurd
You can’t strangle the air
You can’t use a hole
Make something from nothing
You’ll just be a fool
It’s the stupidest thing that I ever did hear
If it doesn’t exist then it isn’t there
That is all, that is all.
What’s all this complaining
Where did all this come from?
Maybe too many movies
Maybe one too many lovesongs
There’s a few, that’s a clue.
It’s the stupidest thing that I ever did hear
Spitting on people is less absurd
You can’t strangle the air
You can’t use a hole
Make something from nothing
You’ll just be a fool
It’s the stupidest thing that I ever did hear
If it doesn’t exist then it isn’t there
That is all, that is all.
Goodbye, My Darling
Good luck have a pleasant trip abroad
What’s your name, My Darling?
That is all, that is all.
It’s the Stupidest Thing that I ever did hear.
It’s the Stupidest Thing that I ever did hear.
It’s the Stupidest Thing that I ever did hear.
It’s the Stupidest Thing that I ever did hear.

DUMBFOUNDED

I wanted to write a beautiful love song
that wasn’t schmaltzy like some other girls
Or even sort of quirky like those sensitive new age bands.
I wanted to rip the heart out of the most hardened of men
and make him bleed tears
I wanted to show the world that maybe I was thinking of you.
I decided in a moment that I was wasting my time.
He doesn’t want me
I don’t want him that’s not the problem here
The problem is
I am staring at mangroves and birds are shitting in my hair
I never knew him and I never wanted to and I never will again.
And if I ask,
which I wont cause there really is no need
and I don’t seem to see the point
and I am so tired I got nothing
I’ve got nothing left for anyone.
Dumbfounded.
So I cried that way for the last time
there is no way I’m ever going to cry that way again
What the world needs now is not
another helpless hapless pathetic being
When she’s OK
So take a hold
and rock n roll
and sell your soul too cheaply
I am weak, totally numb, weak of the soul
and I’m confused and I’m hurt
and I want to know more
and I want to know less and I want to know why!!
Totally dumbfounded.
I am hurt and dumbfounded.

MAN FROM THE WEST [CASSANDRA'S EARS]

He came from the west
Shouted out to the whole damn world
He said “See how bad I am or how so tough”
He didn’t like to smile all that much
You see his jaw was so rugged and so damn tough
That it would smash like glass
Into to a million pieces
If he did.
He was a dreamer, this Billy the kid.
He taught me how to dress in fine black lace
Made me hate my body because of it’s shape
And dressed me in clothes that did not fit so well
He was a dreamer and he did it well
He was a dreamer and he did it well.
And he came from a place that didn’t laugh enough
Came from a place that didn’t cry enough
Came from a place that didn’t cry enough.
And he bragged about being a hedonistic sponge
Sucking up lots and giving out to none
And he burned everything that got in his way.
He was a dreamer and he did it well
He was a dreamer and he did it well.

WORKERS LAMENT [CASSANDRA'S EARS]

You ask me why
I don’t understand the way you feel
I don’t have the time
To understand myself at all
You don’t know what’s like
Not to have the time to think at night
You don’t know what it’s like
What it’s like
And you ask me
Why I don’t read your philosophies
I don’t have the time and hell I can’t even read
You don’t know what it’s like
Not to have the time to think at night
To come home to a fight at night ‘cause you can’t pay the bills
You can’t pay the bills.
I’ve had my inspiration
I’ve tried to touch the stars
I didn’t get that far
But I got a new car
And it’s fast.
And even now
You don’t understand what I mean
‘cause you don’t have the eyes
For anything but your very own needs
You don’t know what it’s like (repeat)
I’ve got to work again (repeat)
It’ll take some time but one day maybe I can change
But you have to change too.
Hell I think that’s the least you should do.
What does it take for you to come down form the place that you put yourself on
To realise that I’m the foundation your life depends on.
You don’t know what it’s like
I can not read and I can not write
I can’t read the books that make you look around
If I did I wouldn’t have the time any how.
I can’t read, I can’t write, I can’t read I can’t write.

SILVER SHEEN [CASSANDRA'S EARS]

I’ve seen a man dressed in purple glowing with a silver sheen
Looking out across the land and crying out to everything he’d seen
When will he appear.
I’ve seen a woman dressed in green holding the land or so it seemed
Looking out across the land and crying out at everything she’d seen.
When will she appear
I’m looking out in expectation waiting for the man to appear
I’m looking outward for that woman wherever she is
She’s not here.
I’ve seen it not far
In a box behind a car
Where are you
When will you appear.
I’ve seen an old man looking out from his straw like hair
Wondering where his friends all were and why they didn’t care if he was
dead or alive
When will they appear
There’s an old woman lost and lonely
Never found her one and only
Realised a little late that there would never be a time or a place
For her love to appear.
I’m looking out in expectation waiting for that man to appear
I’m looking outwards for that woman wherever she is
She’s not here.

YOUR ESTIMATION [CASSANDRA'S EARS]

Does anybody else get caught up in a vacuum.
Spinning along just bouncing off the walls
You may think that you have got a choice in the matter
You really got no choices at all
Oh but I don’t want to face this one alone
But it looks like I will
I’m tired of being told what I’m supposed to be doing
Super media always makes it rather plain
They say “Go ahead, indulge yourself”
They never said that it could kill somebody
And I, I go down in your estimation
And I’m sorry because I go down in my estimation too.
If only you would stay
(Lets hide our heads in the sand)
And never leave
(You and I could live forever)
But I forgot
(There would be nothing to worry about)
You’ve already gone
(There would be nothing)
Please Stay
Please Stay
The world wasn’t big enough for one friend of mine
Come to think of it it’s not big enough for plenty
Say good-bye to that poor misshapen soul of his
It was fouled so much he finally had to shed it.
Oh and I, I go down in your estimation
And I’m sorry I go down in my estimation too.