Released: 15 March 2013
Recorded: Sing Sing, Melbourne
Produced: Dean Reid
1. Footscray Park 2. Maps 3.Bruises 4.Don't Wanna Grow Up Anymore 5. Sitting In The Waiting Room 6. Get It Together 7. To Let You Down 8. In Another Time 9. Go 10. Nothing's Gonna Save Us 11. From Ourselves 12. What Else Is There? 13. Wonderful You
- Footscray Park - | Buy
- Maps - | Buy
- Bruises - | Buy
- Don't Wanna Grow Up Anymore - | Buy
- Sitting in the Waiting Room - | Buy
- Get It Together - | Buy
- To Let You Down - | Buy
- In Another Time - | Buy
- Go - | Buy
- Nothing's Gonna Save Us From Ourselves - | Buy
- What Else Is There? - | Buy
- Wonderful You - | Buy
MAPS LYRICS
ALBUM: FAMILIAR STRANGER, 2013
Maps and all the cities of the world
Make me feel so small,
I know I'll never live to see 'em all.
Faith in all the colours that we see
Makes the sky turn blue,
I know when I look up I'll find you.
Who would have thought
A star could break your heart?
Haven't you heard
That when we're gone the world
Just keeps on breathing?
Distant love and all of the above
Sometimes makes me blue,
I know when I look up I'll find you.
Now you're gone
To blue skies.
BRUISES LYRICS
ALBUM: FAMILIAR STRANGER, 2013
Bruises
They appear as if from nowhere
And you wake up wondering
How they got there.
Bruises
Bleeding blue and purple memories,
All the hurts and aches
And the soft heart breaks
Reminds me every day,
Yeah I know, let 'em go
Don't let them have their way.
Yeah I know, let 'em go
Just let those bruises fade.
Bruises
I grew up and now they're everywhere
And the years went by
But the pain remains there.
Someday
We will stare down all our enemies,
That we keep itching
Underneath our skin
But 'til then
That's where they'll stay.
DON'T WANNA GROW UP ANYMORE LYRICS
ALBUM: FAMILIAR STRANGER, 2013
When I was young
Everything came so easy,
Nothing much to do,
No point to prove.
Where did that sun kissed kid go?
Now you know I just don't wann grow up anymore.
I know what you'll try and tell me,
"Seize the day my friend
Until the end!"
It's true, I can't complain but
Still you know I just don't wanna grow up anymore
You know I just don't wanna grow up anymore
I'm told from the dust of stars we
Came into this world
And shall return.
It's foolish to try and fight it.
Still you know I just don't wanna grow up anymore.
You know I just don't wanna grow up anymore.
Come back,
Don't crack,
Come down and
Lie with me in the summer sun.
SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM LYRICS
ALBUM: FAMILIAR STRANGER, 2013
Sitting in the waiting room,
Doctor will be with you soon,
Kill some time and watch the tube.
It's clearly in the air
We're both a little scared,
And I don't have the words to make it right
I'm staring at the screen
She's reading magazines,
And I don't have the words to make it right
So I throw a little lie.
Sitting in the waiting room
Doctor says to come on through.
Now what can I do for you?
And first there is a pause
Before she starts to talk
And I don't have the words to make it right.
And even though I'm here
I'm helplessness and fear,
And I don't have the words to make it right.
Letting unknown forces take control
Let the unknown forces take control...
Walking out the waiting room
My eyes are white, the skies still blue
Now there's other stuff to do.
It's when she takes my hand
I start to understand,
I don't need the words to make it right.
When facing the unknown
No one wants to be alone,
And it's not words we need to make it right.
And further as we walk
And we begin to talk,
I don't need the words to make it right.
And soon we're in my car,
The lights are rushing past
And it's not the words we need to make it right
As we drive in to the night.
GET IT TOGETHER LYRICS
ALBUM: FAMILIAR STRANGER, 2013
That old had ain't what I need,
It's a rusty lock and key,
Now a distant memory
Get it together.
As a kid, man I was scard
Of the voices in my head,
Gonna put those fears to bed
Now and forever.
Cos I don't want to live
As if I'm chasing my tail around
Only to be told,
"You just got old"
And I don't want to die
Taking my place in a checkout line,
That's never going to be
Enough for me.
It got to get it together.
All the kids queue round the bend
And they strut, trying to pretend
They're in Vampire Weekend,
Get it together.
TO LET YOU DOWN LYRICS
ALBUM: FAMILIAR STRANGER, 2013
Sometimes, it's a quiet night
That stirs my troubled mind
And I wonder what I'd do
If ever I lost you.
Walking through an empty world
A shadow by my side
Well I'd go on I suppose
Wearing my old closthes.
You're the only one
Who means everything to me
And I'd hate to let you down.
I'd really hate to let you down.
Always thought that I was full of
Really big ideas,
I might have fooled everyone else
I was fooling myself.
When your hope is gone
Or it hurts too much to carry on,
That's when I'd hate to let you down.
I'd really hate to let you down.
And I know it's true
As great empires fall
That me and you,
We're different to them all!
Yeah, I know it's true
Like writing on the wall.
You could do less foolish things than
Give your heart away
And if I ever let it break,
That would be my worst mistake.
When the lights go out
We don't have to be alone.
'Cos I'd hate to let you down.
I'd really hate to let you down.
IN ANOTHER TIME LYRICS
ALBUM: FAMILIAR STRANGER, 2013
Going to make my way through the crowd and
Into your party.
I can handle this like the adult I'm supposed to be
When the moment comes and we make eye contact
I'll just pretend
We're old friends.
Nothing ever happened anyway.
Can't you see you're the last thing I need right now
Interrupting my world?
Finally just when I think I'm cured
Your lingering ghost returns.
And in another time we might have been something
But now I'm tired of draggin the memory of you around
Please don't hate me when
You're confronted by my cold shoulder.
We just can't move past awkward conversation.
Don't get me wrong,
I've moved on
Honest, I don't ache for you that much.
Can't you see you're the last thing I need right now
Interrupting my world?
Finally just when I think I'm cured
Your lingering ghost returns.
In another time maybe we just might have been something
But now I'm tired of dragging the memory of you around.
GO LYRICS
ALBUM: FAMILIAR STRANGER, 2013
Love.
When it's in your veins
It infects your brain
Til your dying days
And I couldn't wait for the time
When I found a heart like mine.
We were lost, we were soft
We were unripe on the vine
But there's no way that I could wait for tomorrow,
C'mon I'm ready to go!
Break
All your thick skin rules.
They're just a big excuse,
They will become your noose
Til you cut them loose.
When you're down and the next one comes around
Make it big, make it brash,
Make it bigger than the last
Cos there's no way the world can wait for tomorrow,
C'mon get ready to go!
Lovin' is the best
And it's good to get it off your chest.
You've got to wonder why
We all laugh about it, shout about it
Til it makes us cry.
And right now is the time
I got yours and you got mind.
We are lost, we are soft
We're just hangin' from the vine
But there's now way the world can wait for tomorrow,
No there's no way that I can wait for tomorrow,
C'mon I'm ready to go!
NOTHING'S GONNA SAVE US FROM OURSELVES LYRICS
ALBUM: FAMILIAR STRANGER, 2013
Losing ground
In a battle of age,
Broken bones
Gently wither away.
Shadows from a slow descending moon
Cast themselves across an empty room.
Nothing now,
The silence we shared
Suffocates and floats in the air.
Autumn leaves have fallen from the trees
Scattered like the dust of memories.
Nothing's gonna save us from ourselves
Running dry like water in the well.
You can keep your heaven and your hell
Cos nothing's gonna save us from ourselves.
Heavy night
Blacker than tar,
Lying back
Looking up at the stars.
I've been holding on for so long
To something love had led my heart to find.
Laid to rest upon a night stand,
Our memories are all we leave behind.
WHAT ELSE IS THERE? LYRICS
ALBUM: FAMILIAR STRANGER, 2013
All we know is nothing anyway.
All that we can do is give our love away.
Making ourselves vulnerable,
It's crazy!
Makes no sense to chance our hearts so easily
But what else is there?
What else is there?
All we own is nothing anyway.
All we've got is all we'll leave behind some day.
Fall in love and drive ourselves insane.
Makes no sense to do it but we're all the same,
Cos what else is there?
What else is there?
WONDERFUL YOU LYRICS
ALBUM: FAMILIAR STRANGER, 2013
When I can be prone to indulging in sadness
You are the light through a dark sky in June
And that's how I know I can always find sunshine
With my wonderful,
Wonderful,
Wonderful You.
Now who would have thought that the smallest of gestures
Could make the whole world seem alive and brand new?
The curl of a lip and I'm hopelessly falling
For my wonderful,
Wonderful,
Wonderful You.
And I know there'll be
Times when we won't see things eye to eye
But that doesn't mean
I'll ever stop tryin'.
In truth sometimes life can feel more like a series
Of mundane events we're all forced to live through,
But I love even the most ordinary moments
With my wonderful,
Wonderful,
Wonderful You.
And I know there'll be
Times when we won't see things eye to eye
But that doesn't mean
I'll ever stop tryin'.
And I know that long
After everyone's gone
You'll be there still,
Listening to me
Singing your song.
So in to the great unknown future
We walk on.
I can't promise I'll always know what to do,
But I'll be here for ya
Come hell or high water.
You're my wonderful,
Wonderful,
Wonderful You.