THE WHITLAMS:- Eternal Nightcap [saybek's Waxing Lyrical] The Tracks: (1) No Aphrodisiac (2) Buy Now Pay Later (3) Love is Everywhere (4) You Sound Like Louis Burdett (5) Melbourne (6) Where's the Enemy? (7) Charlie No.3 (8) Life's a Beach (9) Tangled Up in Blue (10) Laugh in Their Faces (11) Charlie No. 1 (12) Up Against the Wall (13) Band on Every Corner The Lyrics: (1) No Aprohrodisiac A letter to you on a cassette `Cause we don't write anymore Gotta make it up quickly There's people asleep on the second floor There's no aphrodisiac like loneliness Truth beauty and a picture of you You'll be walking your dog in a few hours I'll be asleep in my brother's house You're a thousand miles away With food between your teeth Come up for summer I've got a place near the beach There's room for your dog There's no aphrodisiac like loneliness Truth beauty and a picture of you There's no aphrodisiac like loneliness Youth truth beauty fame boredom and a bottle of pills There's no aphrodisiac like loneliness You shouldn't leave me alone There's no aphrodisiac like loneliness Bare feet like a tom-boy and a crooked smile Truth youth beauty fame boredom and a picture of you A letter to you on a cassette No you shouldn't leave me alone Forty shaved sexy wants to do it all day With a gun-totin' trigger-happy tranny named Kinky Renee Tired teacher twenty-eight seeks regular meetings for masculine muscular nappy-clad brutal breeding While his wife rough-wrestles with a puppy all aquiver on a wine-soaked strobe-lit Asiatic hall of mirrors and a dash of loneliness There's no aphrodisiac quite like it Truth youth beauty fame boredom red hair no hair innocence impunity and a picture of you I got a video set-up me love you short time she pay me suck his finger with some fine wine (2) Buy Now Pay Later (Charlie No. 2) Charlie you're not my Charlie anymore you're screwing it up You're killing your soul with an audience looking on If I hadn't left early last night, I would have made a speech to you How you're not the only one you're going to hurt If you don't believe me I don't believe in you Makes it all feel better does it? Makes you feel like heaven does it? You loved it and you spent accordinglt You can't afford it now You'll try and you'll fail And love it like a little dog And feed it on the scraps you find And kiss it while you're still asleep You buy now and pay later So where's the problem you can ask if your head up But the road is long and you're feeling asleep at the wheel Here's a girl going crazy about you and I'm not far behind Can you care about your friends anymore? You buy now and pay later (3) Love is Everywhere Love is everywhere, I don't want to bend down and pick it up Love is everywhere, a shocking week but can Sunday bail me out Love is everywhere, I want to sit here and hear the sound of that thing What can an elfin do, but on a kettle for you? Leave your mother in the cupboard, the writing's on the wall I'm not coming back here no anymore Take it all from me, I don't want it Love is everywhere, I don't want to bend down and pick it up Love is everywhere, I might just sit here and look around Watching the day go by, putting all your eggs in the sky Catch a bus and read a poem, looke around there's no-one home I think that I might stay here for quite a while Love is everywhere, my mum's got a new boyfriend and I like the man Take it all form me, je ne veux pas coucher avec toi ce soir Love is everywhere, I want to sit here and hear the sound of that thing (4) You Sound Like Louis Burdett Had a little bit tod rink. There's a little thing I want at a do out East. Nothing too emotional, my good miss, I couldn't be serious in a room full of jack-knife eyes. Stop talking `bout the years - you sound like Louis Burdett. And we roll on to my backshed, play some poker, scratch my head. Look at the sky and spot the planes, where would I go on holidays? Roll with the punches, down the aisles, and down the street the weeks roll by. I'm chewing ice and grinning, I'm spewing up and spinning, it's billiousness as usual in my corner of the kitchen. Hey you, lose that friend before we go anywhere. What? Someone might see you alone? Stop baggin' out the band, `cause you sound like Louis Burdett. All my friends are fuck-ups but they're fun to have around, banana chairs out on the concrete, telling stories to the stars how Gemini's love Wooden Dragons, and how down the street the weeks roll by. The moment the night wears off, the bombsite reappers. They're all asleep but the morning tastes like wine, it tastes like wine in Tempe. I feel so good I just might wake him up, Pat him on the bald head - tell me about a dream Louis, something obscene Louis, your life's an open magazine Louis. I'm stoned in a bookshop, sober in a nightclub, sex is everywhere but nowhere `round me. By the time she gets to Marrickville we'll be masturbating. It never rains in Tempe but the planes remind me of family money and the lack down here. Stop talking frustrated, `cause I sound like Louis Burdett. Most of my friends are very fruity indeed, such fun to have around. Terror, like charity, begins at home. Chris don't like madness, but madness likes him. He's got a finger in his chest saying how it should have been. (5) Melbourne She paints pictures on the wall She eats all of the garden And has an aversion to conviction She calls her dog "the bear" In love with this girl And with her twon as well Walking `round the rainy city What a pity there's things to do at home She paints pictures on the wall I awake to see the feelings from the night before She eats all of the garden, it's a jungle out there And we won't return by dawn If I had three lives I'd marry her in two I'm dreaming of a time That we sit when the music stops She has an aversion to conviction She's more confused than ever Won't pay her fines and wonders when the cops will get her She calls her dog "the bear" And walks me with him to the corner In her pyjamas (6) Where's the Enemy? He thinks it's best to criticize his own kind An animal of greed, best to sew that social seed I thought by my thoughts all would come clear to me Yeah I can shoot a gun, maybe I should join the army Is there a quiet place to lie? Maybe watch this all go by Wonder how can we survive Wasting energy, where's the enemy? I'd soldier on and walk the curcy line so straight But I would fall behind, amybe I am not so blinded You talk of so much pity that is self-related Blaming not yourself, said the fault lies somewhere else Repeared when the feeling's high I wish it all could just rely On the depth of you and I Wasting energy, where's the enemy? (7) Charlie No.3 He'll need some time ot get over this But a moment is all he can spare His buddies out there in the city's lights And he is trying to care See him offering himself to the world Staring down from the fifty-sixth floor I'd be happy just to catch him again We go out we don't always come back The night pressing in on his weary mind There's a half-eaten moon in the sky Nothing is calling him back to bed And no-one is saying goodbye See him offering himself to the world Staring down from the fifty-sixth floor He's not happy it's the weekend again We go out because we go Back and back... (8)Life's a Beach Burning all the photos, sorting through the clothes You brought this new for me and now it's full of holes Remember babytalk in the morning What's the hurry my girl? You don't need any coffee if you take the day off school We're all over and I'm all over town We've got work here tearing it down You know it's quicker packing for a holiday `Cause I'd see these things again I loved you in this T-shirt of mine You can have it - it say's "Life's a Beach" There's a beach umbrella, couple lying in the sun And for once in my life it's not the people from the suburbs It's me's got it wrong On through the evening and into the dawn Journey me, journey me Where love keeps on Burning all the photos, they have a habit of mocking a single man I'm keeping the first one, we're not even holding hands We're all over and I'm all over town We've got work here tearing it down There's a beach umbrella, couple lying in the sun And for once in my life it's not the people from the suburbs It's me's got it wrong (9) Tangled Up in Blue Early one morning the sun was shining I was lying in bed I was wondering if she had changed at all If her hair was still red And her folks they'd said our lives together Sure was gonna be rough They never did like mamma's home made dress Papa's bank book wasn't big enough And she was standing on the side of the road As rain is falling on my shoes I'm heading out for the old east coast Lord knows I've paid some dues Getting through - tangled up in blue And she was married when we first met Soon to be divorced I helped her out of a jam I guess But I used a little too much force So we drove that car as far as we could Abandoned it out west Split up on the dock's that night Both agreeing it was best And she turned around and looked at me As I was walking away I hear her say over my shoulder "We're gonna meet again someday on the avenue" We got tangled up in blue So I had a job in the great north woods Working for a cook for a spell But I never did like it all that much And one day the axe just fell So I drifted down to New Orleans Where I was lucky enough to be employed Working for a while on a fishing boat Right outside of Delacroix But all the while, I was alone The past was close behind me I seen a lot of women but she never escaped my mind Yeah, I just grew - Tangled up in blue She was working in a topless place And I just stopped in for a beer I just kept looking at the side of her face in the spotlight so clear Then later on, as the crowd thinned out, I was just about to do the same She was standing me at the back of my chair sayin' "Tell me, don't I know your name" I noticed something under the breath She studied the lines on my face I must admit I felt a little uneasy when she went to tie the lace on my shoe We got tangled up in blue So she lit the burner on the stove and offered me a pipe "I thought you would never say a note" she said you looked like the silent type Then she opened up a book of poems Handed it to me Written by an Italian poet in the 13th century And every one of those words rang true Felt like burning coals It's pouring off of every page Like as it did in my soul From me to you Tangled up in blue And now I live with them in Montague Street In a basement down the stairs There was music in the cafe's at night A revolution in the air Turned finally into dealing with slaves `Til the inside of him died She had to sell everything they owned And froze up inside And finally as the bottom fell out I became withdrawn The only thing I knew how to do Was to keep on, keeping on like a bird that flew We got tangled up in blue Well now I'm going back again Gotta get to her somehow All the people that we used to know They're an illusion to me now Some are mathematicians, Some are carpenter's wives We don't know how this got started Don't know what we'd do with our lives Me, I'm still on the road, Heading for another joint We didn't always see the same And we started from a different point of view Tangled up in blue (10) Laugh in Their Faces We fall into old habits And talk about giving it up after getting right on Letter to your mother say's you're doing everything you can And I'm gald she won't get the joke You're as free as a ten year old With a room of your very own Doesn't matter at all what all those people say at home With your good humour you're a hero And you can stop them dragging you down They've got nothing better to do Sometimes you've got to laugh in their faces It doesn't matter if your guitar is in hock It doesn't matter if you owe us all a lot `Cause you're getting happier by the mintue And they wouldn't have a clue about what it's like to be lazy when you've got too much to do (11) Up Against the Wall To think it was going so well We'd go out at night come home and fight like hell Good fights about big things You know just pushing around in the dark To think I was scared to open the box New love on the doorstep isn't it funny there's nothing on how it works Go on have a look inside You won't know what you did without it Well you slept You met interesting people And you slept with them I'm up against the wall now Hotel room, a silent phone A packet of fags, a bottle of wine, a suitcase you call your own When the darkness comes from the inside out And even the barmen are pricks Vitriol, the cigarettes A long night of thinking and the search for the best vignettes Yeah well it was good wasn't it Then it got bad Some say love it only comes once in a lifetime Well once is enough for me She was one in a million So there's five more just in New South Wales There's a show on the television now A man in the jungle with monkeys, he's saying we've come so far Yeah well it's news to me I'd better go and evolve now To think it was going so well We'd go out at night come home and fight like hell Good fights about big things Like "who wrote the book on men?" Well it was me I'm up against the wall now And I'm afraid to say I must fail her (12) Charlie No.1 We've seen her type before Sandals and the hair They fall in love with big dumb boys And we sit and stare So we walk the long way home Glasses in our hands When the last of the ice is eaten Throw them as far as we can There's a problem There's no sleepy girl to wrap you in her loving arms There's a lizard on the doorstep And there is music in my head We put the world on hold Two young men growing old We talk of years like lost weekends And the harbour shrugs Because friends are getting fewer And we vow life will be fuller But if the last of our dreams is broken We'll walk the same way home There's a gold star on your forehead But there is trouble up ahead Charlie what'll become of us? I had my dreams for both of us You might be unworthy But you remember what I remember And that's enough to care You don't fall of the rails (13) Band on Every Corner Well there's a band on every corner But I'm not in one I hat threee out of every four of them But I haven't got a gun I was ten hours asleep But I stayed in my room I forgot to remember What I wanted to do As the glare turns to twilight My thoughts turn to food Yeah and of what the hell happened To the girl in the nude Ah she gave me a pill She said it helped her in bed When I lay down beside her Couldn't even raise my head What a fool am I `Cause my dream was so bright But I'm drowning in the city With no saviour in sight Well this night I'll go walking Like the truth it's so near I'll be back I imagine To the boys and to the beer There's a hole in my belly I try and fill it with food So i order a pizza And the pizza-maker is rude Lady in the jacket Is looking just how I feel So I sigh in my corner And I ask for the bill There's a band on every corner But I'm not in one I hate three out of every four of them But I haven't got a gun There's a band on every corner I only play in my room Where the filth is familiar And the piano's in tune ____________________________________________________________ http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/7399/lyrics.html saybek's Waxing Lyrical