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Tracks 40 - 52 of the 52 songs project

by Dave Walker

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1.
Seems like all my friends are breaking up and moving on, two halves no longer make a whole. Seems like everywhere there’s people lost in mirrored rooms wondering how it all went so wrong. There’s no point being together if you can’t make it any better Might be in the right place in the wrong mind or the wrong place in the right life. The right moves but all the wrong lines. You might be the wrong girl with the right man, the wrong guy with the right plan. Clear the dust from your eyes Clear the dust from your eyes Looks like mother earth is getting set to pull the rug and take us to a new way of being. Looks like all of you who close your minds and fear the change will get stuck with your own misery There’s no point just ignoring when everything is screaming out a warning Feels like all the angry people of this world have all had their day in the sun Feels like all the bitter postcards that they sent are falling off the fridge one by one. There’s no point just complaining, when all your hopes and dreams start a fading
2.
Take Me Home Never fall like cane when the money's out Waiting for the tune Your eyes will say what your mouth can't speak When you're reaching for the news Help me now Help me make it right Read the lines Then you let them out While you watch them fading slowly Take Me Home Like the slow ball and chain on the midday show Take Me Home I know you're there but I won't ever go You turned off the lights when the door was closed The only thing to do You came right back to let me know The signs were far and few
3.
Throw me down this jar of clay And drain this quart of blood I borrowed for today Tomorrow's only just a thought, yesterday's a hidden word So you do your thing and I'll do mine Despite what you say I'll roll down that free free road I'll be on my way Then I'll walk those empty halls, where the highway melts and fades into the shore And the people turn to light, and say goodbye, to all they know then they'll all line up for the show.
4.
See the man on the slippery slope, got no grip got no smile, Blaming everyone for all that is wrong in his life The anger boils, the vices wage war, Wakes up one morning and thinks there’s got to be something more to this Than sleep walking through this life, pushing through the daily grind, never feeling satisfied Takes one step to start a journey, so go within to stop the hurting and think of all the things you love and then you hold what you’ll become Music words and dance and love puts you in touch with all above, Take some from here and some from there, whatever works for you my friend It’ll be alright in the end.. See the man on a summer day, his shoes are off his worries gone He remembered how to play get back to the pure soul The deepest sense of peace and love that he’s ever known, he wakes up every morning and knows that there’s no reason to be sleep walking through this life, pushing through the daily grind, never feeling satisfied Takes one step to start a journey, so go within to stop the hurting and think of all the things you love and then you hold what you’ll become Music words and dance and love puts you in touch with all above, Take some from here and some from there, whatever works for you my friend It’ll be alright in the end..
5.
Coming Home 03:21
You're always looking right through me I say come on down you need to see what I see Cos when I'm knocking at your door You'll know the reasons I won't cross the floor I'm Coming Home You chain my body to this wall But my mind is mine and can't be held and won't be called To flatter you for your pride Or tell you things are right when hope has died I'm Coming Home So I've been knocking down your door ... You told me crazy doesn't live here anymore... It's like I'm scratching on my arms And you're fixing me on dreamless charms I'm Coming Home
6.
You’ve got to build the walls before you break them down but your habits are holding strong and the light is fading slowly on the shiny quiet streets It’s yellow and it’s down A pale imitation, like that smile you shared with the guy at the station and he thought you touched your hair and thought about you there and I said… Take me as I am or don’t take me at all So you held your ground when the moon was high and you felt the ceiling change and your stories had more meaning when you heard the heavens calling, You gotta write them down You can be a man at 20 or a boy at 35 Sit on the hill for a while watch the moon go down and take a little time
7.
8.
My grandad paid me a visit last night, even though he’s been dead for near twenty years. He said why don’t you tell them a bit about me and all that I went through to keep this place free. I said where do I start Pop, there’s a fair bit to say, should I pull up your war file and start from the day that you signed up with your mates at the Caulfield town hall and joined the commandos down on the prom. He said sing me another bloody war song, Sing about the blokes who answered the call and fought in New Guinea and we bet on flying pennies My body was broken and my mind was all torn. Did all his training down at Tidal River, learning the skills that would keep him alive, a long winding train trip right up to Townsville then a low flying plane to Port Moresby by night. There were too many fights and too many deaths and too many ways to wind up insane. There were three tours in total – 800 days service, and at just 21, he was an old man. He came home near death at the end of the war, he’d seen the fight through til the battle was done. Scrub typhus, dysentery and a dose of malaria, New Guinea trifecta but the bookies had won The old Austin Repat was his home for three months, along with the diggers who’d been wounded and maimed. He walked out of there with a handful of medals a new wife by his side and a lifetime of pain.
9.
Well you've got your morals while it helps your cause But when it comes right down to it all you've got are words There's nothing there of substance, there's nothing there that's real You bow to the dollar and you turn on your heel So don't you stand in the shade Don't you breathe in this air Cos you can't have it both ways you know You're all concern but no care Your smiles are full of promise but your handshakes are so limp Your weasel words spin around and round but you don't give a fig The splinters they will hurt you while you're sitting on the fence, But that's nothing like the pain of never seeing sense When you see something happening and you know that it's so wrong You know you just can't turn away and hope that it gets gone Your policies and processes, committees and your plans, Well they're not worth a pinch of shit Unless you make a stand
10.
Never shies from the solid truth, never hides from showing proof Never talks when the deeds shine through, never knows what the words will do There's a takin' on the side, a money to be made, a little bit here and a little in the shade There's a brown paper bag and a tap on the nose, there's a scratch of the back and easy as she goes When you see yourself in the mirror and you don't know where it's at You know that loneliness is the last refuge of the honest man There's a pushing and a shove, truth speaking love, a feeling deep inside that you should never deny, It's easier to turn and let it slowly burn than face it head on and lessons are all gone… When you see yourself in the mirror and you don't know where it's at You know that loneliness is the last refuge of the honest man
11.
I’m reading that you’re critically acclaimed I’m hearing words I’ve heard before today You’re spinning lines to hide the cracks, Make a jump and get your record back Cos I don’t owe anyone and I don’t pave my lines with gold You shake your head and you’re quoting Lester Bangs, but the bennies don’t sit so well What you say about me says everything about you I’m reading that you’re beatle-esque But seventh chords need more than cardigans And your guitars are perched so high If Brian saw your hair he’d be glad that he died
12.
Soul Do Mend 02:58
Once again a new direction Choice of death or resurrection Chance to grasp that which denied by my self and my foolish pride Pain and Passion my oldest friends This gift I grasp and my soul do mend Dreams of castles in the sky Paper clouds that fill my mind Upon them all a million words That call to me when eyes are blurred
13.
Two days of radio silence and it’s eerily quiet I take comfort in the blissfulness of ignorance We had a brief encounter, a step back melodrama That resolved itself in a kind and gentle way, or maybe it was just because there was nothing left to say. I still feel, a thousand miles away from you Although it’s only five minutes in an automobile I’m quivering with freedom, but the moment keeps on leaving like remembering a dream in the morning. I tried to walk away from all that we have made I tried to make something out of nothing And I can’t say I’ve failed, even though it looks that way (straight into chorus) We ran before we crawled and we walked before we cried And I wouldn’t have wanted it to happen any other way And I’m carrying the burden of my own expectation I’m holding three wounded hearts in my hands and It’s all I’ve got to show that I took the time to understand There’s something I gotta ask you and I hope that you’ll come clean - (I won’t paint you into a corner when you’re working on being serene) Will you be my consort or will you be my queen?

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Tracks 40 - 52 of the 52 songs project
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released January 3, 2013

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Dave Walker made his first record in 1998 and has been churning them out ever since. Variety of styles and a whole range of different musicians.

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