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v Spy v Spy - Fossil
Fossil
Released: May 1993 (Australia)
Label: Sony
Tracks: 11
Peak chart position: 42 (AUS)
Tracks
COMES A TIME
THIS WORLD
STAND OUT
BECAUSE
HOME SWEET HOME
HARD WAY
BULIMIA
HEAD IN HANDS
THE GATHERING
ONE WAY STREET
SO FAST
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v. Spy v. Spy members
Craig Bloxom — bass guitar, vocals
Cliff Grigg — drums, percussion
Michael Weiley — lead guitar
Album Credits
Produced by Peter Cobbin, Les Karski, v Spy v Spy
Recorded by Peter Cobbin and Dave Pascoe
’Stand Out’ engineered by Guy Gray
Mixed by Peter Cobbin
Mix Assistant: David Pascoe
Mastered by Leon Zervos
Craig Bloxom - Bass, Vocals
Michael Weiley - Guitar, Vocals
Mark Cuffe - Drums, Vocals
Compiled by David Macquarie
Recorded at Studios 301
Lyrics
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COMES A TIME Comes a time When the drinks don’t work Comes a time When you don’t wanna work Lost emotions Pile up like clumps of dirt Well I see where you’re looking And that way doesn’t work Comes a time When the drinks don’t work Comes a time when you don’t wanna work And your life’s like a vapour Or a puff of smoke Comes a time when you want to know the truth Rivers running For millions of years No consolation, in a world of fear So I urge you to thinking ’Cause there’s eternities there The whole creation is groaning ’Cause the end seems so near! Comes a time When the drinks don’t work Comes a time When you feel like a jerk And your life’s like a vapour Or a puff of smoke Comes a time, when you want to know the truth Kids are crying And there’s unknown fears Lost emotions in a thousand tears Mans philosophies growing And his fruits are there too Comes a time when you want to know the truth |
THIS WORLD Big ship turns in a storm at night Young boy runs from his father in fright! Running scared with the fear of the world in his heart To a big town with not many trees Betrays his heart so his passion flees He wakes up with his pockets turned out in the park Take this away from me I wanna be with you This world Will bring you to your knees This world Its vanity and dreams This world Will shake you to the ground This world will break you and bring you to your knees What this world tries to pump into me Live fast die young and pay till you bleed Little girl you better learn fast ’cause your time will come Toast is brown my coffee’s still warm Hey little child has just been born With a little hope my faith will grow larger than my thumb Take this away from me I wanna be with you Life is so temporary I wanna be with you |
| STAND OUT Some things eat away at you time Reasons to strive get lost just like fairy tales Broken and bare but we survive Life can depend upon a cheque lost in the mail So take care what you say and do Cause this could haunt you It could turn you inside out and upside down Just remember you got to stand out And if you’re not made of sand then stick to it stand out Decide; make up your mind You fall in, or you’ll fall behind Symptoms will betray their causes Strange points of light strike you eye So be sure if you follow through That this could help you It won’t turn you upside down or inside out Just remember you got to stand out And if you’re not made of sand then stick to it stand out |
BECAUSE The times you’ve had won’t come again forevermore And after all is said and done there’s nothing there U always wind up where u began U never give a thought to tomorrow Why where u going now Sho where u been to When where u coming from Where what it show u If what u doing now What where’d it leave you Why where are u going now Because I see u are alive and well and looking good But your road is winding to the end So be prepared! And what u get is what u give Don’t think that anything means any- thing |
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HOME SWEET HOME With a dollar in my hand left standing all alone Arguments that never end but when we were at home We’d talk of things we knew When we went to school In a place so dark and grey But our friends would never stay for long We covered it up when they started to fight Slamming doors and shouting at night Set the table ready for four But mum and dad don’t talk anymore Making up jokes, hoping they won’t start Yes this is Home Sweet Home With the money running out At my school desk i would dream And the spoken word today Will leave each other cold With the problems cutting deep A frustrated person screams In the morning tensions rise And you scream out loud and you hide your eyes |
HARD WAY I learnt it the hard way You’re going the wrong way I learnt it the hard way God says it’s the wrong way Long suffering, self control I foot my head i learnt it the hard way Green hair Fear is the thing you fear the most Freeway stinks The motors cry Feelings of a freezing night The unforeseen eyes the crowd Who will look and who will hide I learnt it the hard way I’m a fossil before him The toilet stinks No self control Learnt it the hard way Long suffering Where did it take you Blame everybody else What’s the answer Gotta know I can’t sleep |
| BULIMIA If you’re falling out of favour It’s hard to live up to expectations Of magazines and films so listen to some reason For what u see on the silver screen It isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be And it’s dragging u down U should know better than that And there’s a sadness in your smile And I can see in your eyes, it’s dragging you down Reach in to your pocket For pictures of those perfect people Built up in you head So see thru the illusion Images of glossy pages Are living in a world of pretend What u are is what u are Don’t look in the mirror and see All of those things u wish u could be Just be at peace, be yourself |
HEAD IN HANDS There’s a girl Looks like me with her hair tied back Head in your hands, stomach cramps Empty storage rooms The smell of unleaded fuel Head in your hands Filth on the street Smell of unleaded fuel Head in your hands |
| THE GATHERING It’s already over The gathering soldiers And the fire will burn right thru You’ve got America go down And the guns are aimed at you Better, repent or burn It’s already over The gathering soldiers And the fire will burn right thru You’ve got Australia go round And the guns are aimed at you Better, repent or burn |
ONE WAY STREET Spit it out I took a chance on a second story I crossed the road on a distant morning I look to the left and I see the sunset I’ve got the wind blowing in my hair I cut my teeth on the falling foreshore God’s soul everywhere Recall the child in you You can go your own way You can learn to touch tomorrow If I said that you got the right one You gotta chance and you beat the right one There’s a place where you can hide away There’s a place where reality will keep From convincing you to do the right thing next time Harry’s reasons say; Why don’t you change You can take the right way You can take the wrong way I can hear your heartbeat from here You can take the right way You can take the wrong way You can take the one way street There’s no mercy in the system There’s only pain beyond belief Shout out loud behind fences Lock you up throw away the key |
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SO FAST Come take my hand, let’s go walking And we’ll jump along the road Whisper your favourite song in my ear And make your deepest thoughts known The tide has come in But don’t sleep dreaming Time goes fast with its ticking, The trees have grown, I wish upon a star, I got nowhere with my good works, Time goes so fast A joke sometimes works when you’re suffering And a trial always has a downhill Pressing on to the high calling Where my heart will never grow cold So sing me your song, but don’t stop laughing |