Тексты песен «Mutton Birds»
Mutton Birds - Anchor Me
(Don McGlashan) Full fathom five Someday I'll lie Singing songs that come >From dead men's tongues Anchor me, anchor me As the compass turns And the glass it falls Where the storm clouds roll And the gulls they call...
Mutton Birds - Another Morning
(Don McGlashan) She turns her face to the wall She won't let anybody see her The winter comes and sits Where the window doesn't fit And she cries herself awake another morning Across the street a cafe And the sound of...
Mutton Birds - April
(Don McGlashan) Joey said that you'd been calling I guess that means we're through our falling out, April But don't begrudge my being wary Of the hatchet you'd like to bury I've still got the scars, April April you tied...
Mutton Birds - Dominion Road
Dominion Road is bending Under its own weight Shining like a strip Cut from a sheet metal plate Cause its just been raining Jane reached the point where she knew What it meant before he opened his mouth He couldn't say...
Mutton Birds - Esther
(Alan Gregg) Esther's been reading books She's changed the way that she talks and the way that she looks Her coffee is black now and so are her clothes She's shaved off her hair and put a ring through her nose Esther's...
Mutton Birds - In My Room
(Don McGlashan) In my room I can keep everything within reach All the switches and fittings are new I have tapped on the walls and I've paced out the floor And I know every inch of the ceiling too But I keep seeing you...
Mutton Birds - Like This Train
(Don McGlashan) I never thought that it would come to this To watch myself leaving you behind But you went to great lengths to clear my way And like this train, you'll take a long, long time To reach the end of the line...
Mutton Birds - Ngaire
(Don McGlashan) The plane touches down The lounge fills up again With retired couples from the midwestern USA They blink in the foreign light And admire each other's shoes I've seen a lot of new shoes today You should...
Mutton Birds - No Telling When
(Don McGlashan) Are these the hands of a man? I suppose so I recall them shaking the hands of other men Now all they seem to do is write in this log book That's all they've done since I can't remember when And there's...
Mutton Birds - Queen's English
(Don McGlashan) On a West Coast station there was a US Congressman, he was a Guest on a talk show on the Subject of language And he said "I'm a great one For giving people their due, But you have to draw the line...
Mutton Birds - She's Been Talking
(Don McGlashan) At the high tide line Driftwood and shells That's where she said we could leave our clothes Where the moonlight dissolves in the wet sand There's no-one here tonight The whole town's still at the show...
Mutton Birds - Straight To Your Head
There's a river flowing up into the sky To the sky, to the sky There are trees with human heads parading by Sailing by, sailing by And the hands of giants hold the gates In the clouds, in the clouds Up there where the...
Mutton Birds - The Heater
Frank bought a heater An electric heater The elements were made of wire and clay He reached out to touch and he heard a voice say And he heard it say "Come on and plug me in I want to feel that heat begin Don't move...
Mutton Birds - There's A Limit
You can tell tall stories till the cows come home In a way that makes people believe them What you lack in honesty is made up in charisma And no one notices as you deceive them You can make excuses till the cows come...
Mutton Birds - Too Close To The Sun
(Words: Don McGlashan - Music: David Long/Don McGlashan) It's so dry here One spark and the whole place could go up I think I'll stop and get a drink here Something like the picture on the poster I saw a few miles back...
Mutton Birds - Trouble With You
(Don McGlashan) There's trouble with you And I'm going under again I'm going under again Seems like this night won't end There's trouble with you And I can't stand myself I can't stand myself Wish I was someone else Me,...
Mutton Birds - Wellington
(Alan Gregg) I wish I was in Wellington, the weather's not so good The wind it cuts right through you and it rains more than it should But I'd be there tomorrow, if I only could Oh I wish I was in Wellington I wish I...
Mutton Birds - When The Wind Comes Round
(Don McGlashan) You wake up You've been dreaming Words fly round your head and you write them down Get yourself a drink All around you waters rise You'd be surprised to see How you're hanging on If you stopped to think...
Mutton Birds - You Will Return
(Don McGlashan) It's a big flat land And it's right next door Strong strong coffee Pimps and whores The heat comes down Like a hundred suns Girls with tans Cops with guns Oh Susannah Don't you cry for me Just come...