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1. |
Fall & Rise Again
04:18
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1- Fall and Rise Again (N Birch, R Mayes)
Should we sit down
The tables round
We'll come to a decision
What’s to be done
With our beliefs, distrust and derision
Can’t see much hope,
Holding to nationhood and religion
One nation’s crime
Is another's sovereign position
Chorus
Time after time,
We fall and rise again
Fall and rise again
Year upon year
We fall and rise again
If we sit down
Accept we got this position.
We all got it wrong
We’ll clear the state and start new beginnings
What’s to be lost
Our fuelled conviction of our invention
Can’t you see scope
In raising our willful intentions
Chorus
Time after time
We fall and rise again
Fall and rise again
Year upon year
We fall and rise again
Fall and rise again
It’s clear then unclear
Still we fall and rise again
So time after time
We’ll fall and rise again
Fall and rise again
Year upon year
We’ll fall and rise again
It won’t be long
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2 - No Wonder
(N Birch, R Mayes)
What? Did we feel the fall?
Did we heed the call?
T'was only a matter of time.
We were menta-sliding slippery slopes of the mind.
Did you watch it all unfold?
Should we hold sway
or simply do as we're told?
Was this a playground fight for right and mine?
Did we grow up and out of this game that keeps us blind?
Oh oh
Chorus
It’s no wonder we're where we are now
It’s no wonder we feel we're down and out.
Did we feel the cold?
Wrapped in blanket truths to keep us warm
So lets say our journey re-defined
lest this future falls on the shipwreck of our kind oh oh
chorus
It’s no wonder
we came to wonder why
the flight recorder logged 'mayday over and out'
it’s no wonder we fell on where to right now
It’s no wonder we freed this holy cow.
Chorus
It’s no wonder we're where we are now
oh it’s no wonder we ask where to and how
it’s no wonder we feel down and were out
it’s no wonder we freed the holy cow.
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3. |
Remote Science
04:57
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3 - Remote Science
(N Birch, R Mayes)
This is real
Don’t let it go to your head
This is real
Almost feels commonplace
Bridge 1
If you should feel
That your feet can set out the door.
Oh, Call me
And I’ll be there
If this is real
Say you feel it in your bones
Cos yes it’s real
Feels like Critical Mass
Bridge 2
And you should feel your legs
Could make it to our door
And if you should feel you’ve reached
This place where there’s not choice
Chorus
We’re are here
We’ll all be here
Don’t you know?
We’ll all be here
Don’t you know?
No need to fear
No ho ho
Cos we’re all come on home
Come on home
So this was real
We let it go to our head
Don’t you feel?
You’re meant to be here
Bridge
And you should feel
That your need to break out from this hold
And if you should feel your feet
They brought you to this door
Chorus
We’re all here
We’ll all be here
Don’t you know?
No need to fear
Cos we’re all come on home
Cos we all come on home
Come on home
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4. |
We Be Free
03:15
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4 - We Be Free
(N Birch, R Mayes)
People I know would agree
Yeah all on this trip want to just be free
Most people that I know here would agree
There’s no one on this trip that don't want to be free
Oh oh just like you and me
Oh oh you'll see
The people on the street here that I see
Will step right up and tell you its not a dream, no
Chorus
I’ll tell you how this could well down
if your leaders won’t listen to the crowds
Everyone from north, west, south to east
with heads upon 2 shoulders down to their feet
Are gonna say the same it’s not just me, No
No one’s gonna tell you they don't want to
Chorus
Tell you how this could well go down
If no one listens to the crowds
Tell you how this could come around
They might just chase you out of town
Everyone from north west south to east
Everybody that I know just wants to be free
Everyone from north west south to east
So everybody here just wants to be free
Chorus
I Tell you how this could well go down
If no one listens to the crowds
I tell you how this could come around
They might just chase you out of town
Everyone here just wants to be free
No one here I know don't agree
Be Free
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5. |
What We've Become
04:09
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5 - What We've Become
(N Birch, R Mayes)
So what if we give this all a chance
Don't say, it is what it is,
What would you do that's different
If we should build this all again, I guess
Well maybe we'd do things different.
Like we're all kin, in the end
Chorus
This is the calling, who would have thought,
That we would dream it to the fore,
Be it a selfless kind of war, within,
Say if we could start all over again
Like way back when
No kingdom come
Oh vive la diff, vive la difference
With no pretence
Seems we’re getting too woeful petty
Too pretty up here on the fence
Chorus
Say what we've become stares at us in disgrace
What we've become is a mixed up human face.
Is it so?
Tell me what we’ve become
Just tell me what we’ve become
Chorus
This is the calling who would have thought
That we would dream it to the fore
Be it a selfless kind of war, within, oh oh oh
If we could start all over again, oh oh yeah
If we should all start all over again
Oh oh yeah if we could all start over
If we should all get over the fence
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6. |
Atonement
04:43
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6 - Atonement
(N Birch, R Mayes)
What’s it going to take
For us to set them free
What do we make,
Make of all this blood on our hands
How will we ever payback
For all this pain we have brought to bear,
And how will we make amends and atone
for all this gross misdeed
On and off the tracks,
Looking on, or looking back
From the sum of our deeds
We set the tone of our creed
Chorus
So how do we seek a life hack,
Or atone for all this pain we chose to share?
How do we view the fall out playback
From pursuits born out of greed?
On and off the tracks
Never focus on the cracks
So won't be long we know
Cos we've see this come and go
From the seeds we sow
You can't change what's gonna grow
Chorus
So what defines a human if we're still human,
But we don't know how to bleed?
I don't know
Can it be ever true then
If we place a life
Below our wants and our need
Chorus
So how will we ever payback
For all the pain that we brought to bear
And how will we make amends
And atone for all this gross
This gross misdeed
On and off your tracks
Never noticed all the cracks
No matter forward, or back
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7. |
Exit Here
05:25
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7 - Exit Here
(N Birch, R Mayes)
So what’s it gonna take
For you to see
You can’t pull the wool over our eyes
And walk from this scott free
But don't just take that from me
Cos when you step on up for your podium chats
You pull all the right from the wrong out of your magic hat
And your press puppets take us to be daft
Chorus
But your already gone
You have had your run
And to be fair
It’s time to go
As we already fully know
We cant wait to re-decorate
Your halls of hate
Oh yeah
So now you've had to fold
Melted the gold from your crowns
Who's the keeper of the keys,
Who deems the right from the wrong
Is it you and me
Or let’s say the whole dam family tree?
What’s the big conundrum?
Yeah, what’s the big idea?
Time begs the question,
What’s with all this fear?
Should we crack this human vault?
Who'll lead these people back home?
Chorus
But we’re already there
We never left, we've always been here.
But you played an early hand
Misjudged our grip to stand
Can see them hand in hand
Freedom lands
Oh yeah
Does it even matter either way
Would it matter what you say
Oh Yeah, Oh yeah
Does it even matter either way
What does it matter who holds sway
Who was wrong (would you believe it when you see it?)
Who is wrong (would you believe it when you see it, no?)
Who is wrong (Should you believe it if you see it?)
Move along (Would you believe it when you see it?)
Would you believe it if you’d be it?
Move Along (I could need it if I’d to free it?)
Oh does it matter either way (would you believe it when you free it?)
So what’s it gonna take for we to see
Future’s letting go of what we simply don't need
Once we freed of the creed of greed
Cos we stopped watering that seed oh yeah
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8. |
Asylum
05:30
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8 – Asylum
(N Birch, R Mayes)
She said, “this is not my world
All this war and strife”
She said, “this is not... my pain
Would you just make it go away”
This is not my life,
All this war and strife,
This is not my pain,
Make it go away
Chorus
All we ever want
is to feel peace in our bones
All we ever need
Is to just be left alone
This is not my world
Would you make it go away,
Bombs are blowing overhead
And I search the rubble for my friend
Chorus
All we ever want
is peace to lay our heads
all we ever need
is to just be left our homes
In our bones
Leave me alone
Leave us alone
This is not my world
I can’t see myself
This is not my pain
Won't you make it go away
Chorus
All we ever want
Is just to be left alone
All we ever need
Is peace to lay down in our home
Chorus
All we ever want
Is to feel peace in our bones
All we ever need
Is just to be left alone
All your life
Be left alone
Feel it in our bones
This is not my world
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9 - World View
(N Birch, R Mayes)
Up is always up
And down is then always down,
East is in the east
So your west is over there
What’s right in your view held fast
With no regrets
What’s wrong, well that’s declared
To resist with all your might but
chorus
So What’s streaming now
is that our own world view
is not immune
To what’s screaming out
Is that what’s true for some
might just not be true for you.
Oh oh true for you
how about you
and what about me
Sure, I love my family
and you surely love yours too
We all should be free to dream,
What we want directly into view
The maxim of 'do no harm'
stretches till its well diffused
Scattered means to our ends
But when's a good day to admit
it's all well confused
Chorus
What’s streaming now,
Is that our own world view
Is not immune
To what’s screaming out,
Is that what’s true for some
Might just not be true for you
And you, And we too
Don't forget about you
Chorus
So what’s streaming now
Is that our own world view is not immune
To what’s screaming out
Is that what’ s true for some
Might just not be true for you
Oh oh, what to do
When's a good day, to admit that
It’s all a little confused
It’s stretched and over used
And its all a little abused
But well get through it someday somehow
Chorus
Cos what’s streaming now
Is that our own world view is not immune
To what’s screaming out
Is that what’s true for some
Might just not be true for you
Yeah what’s streaming out
Is that our own world view is not immune
To what’s screaming out
Is that what’s true for some
might just not be true for you
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10. |
So Be It
03:48
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So Be It
(N Birch, R Mayes)
Seems to me it’s getting trickier day by day
to clear all this garbage right out of your way
To get yourself some needed breathing space
From the broken truth that’s blasted in your face
So what’s your thinking and how'd we all get so displaced?
Why keep moving the marker of this human race?
Chorus
So it is, so be it,
It what it is so get over it
We're so defined by the past
It’s a tense weird view through the looking glass
So it is, so be it
It is what it, just get over it
We're so defined by the past
It’s a tense weird view through the looking glass.
Oh oh what to do?
So all in all are we good with it?
Do we laugh it off or do we resist?
When the ugly truth’s in our face
Do we sit it out bathing in our disgrace?
Atrocities creeping up your street
Do you step on up or do you retreat?
Into your safety cell
If your free or not ...well who can tell?
Chorus
So it is, so be it
It what it is, just get over it
We're so defined by the past
Oh it’s a tense weird view through the looking glass
So it is, so be it, it what it is just get over it, ohhhh
We're so defined by the past
It’s such a tense weird view through the looking glass
oh oh.
Chorus
So it is so be it,
It’s not what is so won't get over it
When you're misinformed by the past
It’s a tense weird view that you're free to pass
So it says, so be it,
It’s not what it is, so won't get over it.
If you're so damn blind to the task
Switch your lenses, rear viewed and you're free to pass.
Oh oh, What you gonna do
Oh well, I’ll whistle back into my cave
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11. |
Doubt Benefit
05:32
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Doubt Benefit
(N Birch, R Mayes)
Verse 1
Watch how the story goes
So much that we don't know
Should we question everything?
Do you think we're mad
like we're off the rails?
This story's in your head
Chorus 1
Trace back the years,
and all the fallen ones
Not linking to fears
You’re deciding who you can trust
Should we make it there
So we feel it in our bones
Must protect that with all your might, oh oh
Verse 2
Come on that can’t be true
We'd never do that to you
You must be off your head?
How did you dream this up?
Why would you think like that?
All we need is love
Chorus 2
But checking back through the years
All the wars build an ocean of tears
And all the power so few tightly grip
What do we do when we see your freedom slip
just a little bit, Then just bit by bit
“I’ve got your back with all my might”
Bridge 2
Come on, Who’d have though,
How could we know
Cos we always felt like
(With all my might)
It’s best to give
the benefit of the doubt
Come on, all your might
Is it right,Oh oh oh, oh oh
Do you know, do you believe
I don't think I'll go to sleep
Would you believe it if you caught it in your lap?
Would you believe it if you held it in your hand
oh oh, here we go
so long, been good to know, Come on
Verse 4
Come on that can't be true,
We'd never do that to you
you must be off your head!
How did you dream this up?
Why would you think like that?
all we need is love
Checking back through the years
no oh ... oh oh uh oh oh
Back we go oh oh
Say good night Dick
And that's all from me
and that’s all from you
and so good night and sweet dreams
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Formed in NZ in the early 80s they released 3 iconic emotively beautiful singles before taking a 30 year break. The band returned recently with a 2019 album Tenterhook and continue exactly where they left off with contemplative melodic music under social and politically observations aimed at the heart and mind. ... more
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