POWDERFINGER:- Parables For Wooden Ears [from Waxing Lyrical] Track Listing: (1) Walking Stick (2) Tail (3) Hurried Bloom (4) Father's Pyramid (5)Bridle You (6) Citadel (7) Sink Low (8) Grave Concern The Lyrics: (1) Walking Stick Spoon fed from a dirty plate A diet designed only to agitate A veil of pride and gospel truth To cover the hidden fist that he used Oh Ohh And I won't say a word You've sewn me in my skin Hypocrite walking stick man Silent grave And the sunken heel kinda slows me down Dogs and children lift their legs To tattoo a teenage mothers breasts Widows of precocious days Wear slogans resurrected late Parables for wooden ears Steer vehicles of wisdom All the wisdom And I won't say a word You've sewn me in my skin Hypocrite walking stick man Silent grave And the sunken heel kinda lights my way Oh Ohh And I won't say a word You've sewn me in my skin Hypocrite walking stick man Silent grave (2) Tail I'll take the lead you follow me Come and relieve the friends that I keep They're sick of me Small minded creed blisters and weeps Swallow the shit that jealousy feeds And choke on it And I may have a point to prove I might just have a few enemies that I might just like to lose I'll take the lead you follow me Come and relieve the friends that I keep They're sick of me Come and relieve the friends that I keep They're sick of me And I may have a point to prove I may just have a few memories that I might just like to lose Here I stand with my tail between my legs And I'm set to confess to these sins I didn't commit Small minded creed blisters and weeps Swallow the shit that jealousy feeds And choke on it And I may have a point to prove And I might just have a few enemies that I might just like to lose Here I stand with my tail between my legs And I'm set to confess to these sins I didn't commit No It's alright I've been saved It's alright I've been saved It's all right I've been saved Here I stand with my tail between my legs And I'm set to confess to these sins I didn't commit Oh with my tail between my legs Oh and didn't commit No I didn't commit Oh here I stand (3) Hurried Bloom She has a hand full of reasons to loose him He liberates her often hidden smile She buried trust faded away He swallowed any promises they made Darkness to weave its silent track Stars decorate a shroud of black Night closed the door on a fertile mind And captured the light that the day worked so hard to provide Vibrant golden hues Melt into morning's hurried bloom Whisper the secrets from night to day Bird announces the dawning and fills it with praise And the wound slowly heals Voices inferior Voices inferior And the wound slowly heals Moon raise your head From a soft horizon bead Shine on a thirsty ground Merciless sun steals the water for the sky to drown Moon raise your head From a soft horizon bead Shine on a thirsty ground Merciless sun steals the water for the sky to drown She has a hand full of reasons to loose him He liberates her often hidden smile And the wound slowly heals She buried trust faded away He swallowed any promises they made (4) Father's Pyramid Born into peace Born into ignorance My family gave me strength Bonding my brothers And the war was her enemy Shed her mother's tears Broke her mother's heart Broke their feeble bond And I'm stripped from my love Could you find me a cure Stone by stone I build For my fathers' Born into peace Grown to respect the other My religion gave me strength More than a bond And the law was her enemy Bred her brother's fears Sparked his call to arms To force himself upon And I'm stripped from my love Could you find me a cure Stone by stone I build For my fathers' ohh pyramid My fathers' pyramid My fathers' I build Stone by stone by stone And the war was her enemy Shed her mother's tears Broke her mother's heart Broke their feeble bond And I'm stripped from my love Could you find me a cure Stone by stone I build For my fathers' ohh pyramid My fathers' pyramid My fathers' I build I build I build For my fathers' Build Build (5) Bridle You Strip me down Wash me white Leave the sparks in my eyes Novelty Wearing thin Overload of truth and advice Narrow minds With hollow mouths To taste the foot that they bite To make ??????? And I see you don't lose so well Viscous (I've never seen) Blind (All ??? free) Savage (I'll bridle you) Save you from yourself Strip me down Wash me white Leave the sparks in my eyes Novelty Was wearing thin Overload of truth and advice Narrow minds With hollow mouths To taste the foot that they bite To make ??????? And I see you don't lose so well Fragile beautiful Scratch on ????? Feeling so betrayed Viscous (I've never seen) Blind (All ??? free) Savage (I'll bridle you) To save you from yourself Who am I to judge? Save you from yourself Who am I to judge? Save you from yourself Who am I to judge? Save you from yourself Who am I to judge? Viscous Blind I'll bridle you I'll bridle you I'll bridle you I'll bridle you (6) Citadel Patron pushed vows aside Parents blest shine with pride Lay child down force inside I play on my position of trust Leave the child to self destruct I play on my position of trust Leave the child to self destruct Child ashamed silent oath Fallen heard shows no growth Shows no growth chose no growth I play on my position of trust Leave the child to self destruct I play on my position of trust Leave the child to self destruct (7) Sink Low It sure is quiet around here The phone never rings anymore So i'll wallow in silence And nail my soul to the floor 'Cause I'm angry and jealous And sick and tired of untruth And I'm lonely my pride is bruised My wheels sink low Loves candle burns slow If I spread my wings Will I ever leave the ground All of these painful scenes That drag me down My wheels turn slow Loves candle burns slow And now my eyes are dressed in rags To hide the scars from what i've seen And my fall form grace Could it be a lesson to you And if I trade my place Would it make it better for you (8) Grave Concern Somebody screaming that the end is nigh Never seen nobody with hopes so high Uneasy feeling creeping up on me Justify a weary trinity And I can hardly contain my joy Let me hear just a little bit more Will its release ever set me free Creepy feeling easing up on me And I'm covered in a shroud of mediocrity No entry to the place where answers lie It's a language unavailable to you and i And I can hardly contain my joy Let me hear just a little bit more Will its release ever set me free Does it devour everything I believe Every fear and superstition I breed I can hardly contain my Sliding now - goodbye hesitation and doubt Sliding down - down the hollow that swallows the rules that I follow Is there a turnaround? Will the spirit rise from a corpse that's been rotten' in the ground? Is there a turnaround? Will the spirit rise from a corpse that's been rotten' in the ground? Somebody screaming that the end is nigh Never seen nobody with hopes so high Uneasy feeling creeping up on me Justify a weary trinity And I can hardly contain my joy Let me hear just a little bit more Will its release ever set me free Does it devour everything I believe Sliding down - goodbye hesitation and doubt Sliding down - down the hollow that swallows the rules that I follow Is there a turnaround? Will the spirit rise from a corpse that's been rotten' in the ground? Is there a turnaround? Will the spirit rise from a corpse that's been rotten' in the ground? Turnaround turnaround turnaround Will the spirit rise from a corpse that's been rotten' in the ground? (9) Solution There's every sign That every mind must bear a little frustration When souls collide We're all bound to leave sometime If you were my only problem Then I couldn't confuse you with the solution Mmm I think I better ease back And let the demons slide There's a season ahead A celebration of life If you were my only problem Then I couldn't confuse you with the solution Yeh so pretty So pity There's a season ahead Oh it's gonna be a celebration Oh everybody knows The seems are getting frayed Feels like something's ready to break The seems are getting frayed Feels like something's ready to break So pretty so pity So pretty so pity And that just a little lie Oh and it's keepin' in (10) This Syrup To Exchange It's a early rise His teeth are firm And cleanse with hands to hunt and hope The sun divides Imagine leaves A shelter while I sleep There are many years To cloud my mind But no burden It's heavy like a tipping load Early day On a bloodied patch Only noise and brick surround Tradition sinks In the soil here As a rock is swallowed in the mud The polluted skin Of my brittle earth It keeps me bleeding and grey This syrup sweet and thick to exchange me My spirit has rearranged Crippled, dampened, lame Wooo mmmm As it goes The syrup fills my eyes The days faces fade to black And I don't feel And I can't fight For my home anymore Anymore And I return to an open land Where bloods blanket shielded me This syrup sweet and thick to exchange me My spirit has rearranged Crippled, dampened, lame Crippled, dampened, lame Crippled, dampened, lame (11) Namaste (Instrumental) (12) Blanket Is it obvious that you have had it wrong? You're attitude and angst seem to have gone Is there no way you can be what you have said? Another self You can stand and eat your breast While they feed on the fruit of their sweet You've got it rough Haven't you got it rough So you shoot shoot shoot From the left While you emulate the man that touched your heart Imitate at due cost You're coming on positions out of reach Contradict the very words you preach You can stand and eat your breast While they feed on the fruit of their sweet You've got it rough Haven't you got it rough So you shoot shoot shoot From the left ??? I just know I won't show - remember your name I just know I won't show - remember your name I just know I won't show - remember your name You've got it rough Haven't you got it rough So you shoot shoot shoot From the left But it's rough (13) Save Your Skin If all the people that you ever knew Pooled all their money and gave it to you Do you think you could raise enough to save your skin? Mmm mmm mmm mmm Save your skin Save Save If all the people that you ever knew Pooled all their money and gave it to you Do you think you could raise enough to save your skin? I don't know I don't mind how high you climb No I don't mind that climb is mine Save your skin Save your skin Save your skin