Set Me On Fire

I got a lot to say I just don’t know how to say it / I know all the rules I just can’t seem
to play it / You can tick the boxes / follow the equations but the knife won’t budge until
you learn patience / I got notes to sing I just can’t reach the words / they’re out on a
ledge in the dark with the birds / but I’m trying to find them inside of you / Take my
brain and break it in two / Melody you’re the only one who saves me / Out of the cold
you take me (set me on fire) / You save me (set me on fire) / Melody, all I want is to
remember / what came before this winter (set me on fire) / Save me, set me on fire / I
got a rock between my heart and my mouth / I know how it got there but I can’t pull it
out and the bones that once moved my fingers over keys / are protesting in a fist on my
knees / Gotta find a way to unzip my skin cos this is a stranger’s I’m living in / Melody,
you’re the only one who saves me / Out of the cold you take me (set me on fire) / You
save me (set me on fire) / Melody, all I want is to remember / what came before this
winter (set me on fire) / Save me, set me on fire / What came before the winter? / Set
me on fire / Melody, you’re the only one who saves me / Out of the cold you take me
and set me on fire / You set me on fire / Melody, all I want is to remember / what came
before this winter (set me on fire) / Save me, set me on fire / Melody, you’re the only
one who saves me / You set me on fire…

Written by Missy Higgins, Butterfly Boucher & Dan Wilson © 2012

Hello Hello

I would have gone / with you that night / if you’d have asked me / and I wouldn’t
have left your side / but you marched / into the rain / stubborn as a child / while
right here I stayed / Hello hello, is anybody there? / This disappearing act is
getting harder to bare / Hello hello? / Oh when you gonna see / you have to take
me with you if you don’t wanna lose me / You know I’d fight/ dagger in hand /
beside you if only / I knew what you’re battling / but you crawl / out of the
dark / into my sunshine / and I don’t dare ask / Hello hello, is anybody there? /
This disappearing act is getting harder to bare / Hello hello? / Oh when you
gonna see / you have to take me with you if you don’t wanna lose me / Cos I
wanna follow / Just let me follow / I promise I don’t scare, don’t scare easy /
Ain’t much I haven’t seen… / Hello hello, is anybody there? / This disappearing
act is getting harder to bare / Hello hello? / Oh when you gonna see / you have to
take me with you if you don’t wanna lose me…

Written by Missy Higgins & Kevin Griffin © 2012

Unashamed Desire

Empty all my pockets and take what you like / Empty all my pockets if you like /
I’ve got nothing to hide / Empty all my pockets and take what you like / Empty
all my pockets if you like / I’ve got nothing to hide / My unashamed desire / is an
open fire / Unashamed desire / Open up my chest and take what you like / Open
up my chest if you like / I’ve got nothing to hide / Cut open my heart and turn
on the light / Cut open my heartache if you like / I’ve got nothing to hide / My
unashamed desire / is an open fire / Unashamed desire / And I’m not afraid to
love / Not afraid to love / Unashamed desire / We get one sweet moment in the
arms of youth / I don’t wanna waste time holding down the truth / I’ve got
everything to win and only pain to lose / This is my / Unashamed desire/
Unashamed desire / Unashamed desire / Unashamed desire / And I’m not afraid
to love / Not afraid to love / Unashamed desire…

Written by Missy Higgins & Butterfly Boucher © 2012

Everyone’s Waiting

I know all the lines to say / the part I’m expected to play / but in the reflection I
am worlds away / as I put my costume on / eyelashes one by one / been doing this
so long I can tie the knot / behind my back / And everyone’s waiting / but it’s
getting harder to hear what my heart is saying / cos everyone’s waiting / Just
swallow and breathe, she says / Remember this ain’t for you it’s for them / And
all of those painful lessons you’ve had to learn / you gotta use them now or
never / Cos everyone’s waiting / but it’s getting harder to hear / what my heart
keeps saying / Turn it off, I wanna turn it all off / When everyone’s waiting / it
makes it harder to hear what my heart keeps saying / Turn it off, I wanna turn it
all off / but everyone’s waiting / I hear that answers appear when you just stand
still / but make it all, how do you make it all stop / when everyone’s waiting?
Written by Missy Higgins & Dan Wilson © 2012

All In My Head

I woke / to the sound / of a single note / ringing out / and I thought / thought you
had left me / I thought you’d disappeared / It was sadder than any song / that I’d
ever heard / But now I know it was all in my head / all in my head / All this time
it was all in my head / all in my head / I walked / every street / Searched every
lonely bar where you might be / I thought / I’d never find you / I thought all was
lost / It was sadder than any song / that I’d ever heard / But now I know it was
all in my head /all in my head / All this time it was all in my head / All in my
head / I finally found you / Deep in my heart you’d been hiding out / I didn’t
know the dark night of my soul had been blacking you out / It was all in my
head / all in my head / All this time / it was all in my head / all in my head / All
this time / it was all in my head / all in my head…
Written by Missy Higgins & Butterfly Boucher © 2012

Temporary Love

You’re doing something / Something to my heart / Some kind of motion / that’s
pulling it apart / Cos I live on the other side / of the sea / This is temporary,
temporary love / Only temporary, temporary love / But something’s moving / in
places I’d forgotten / The knives you’re throwing / keep hitting the right spot / I
keep on trying to tell my, trying to tell myself / This is temporary, temporary
love / Only temporary, temporary love / This is temporary / Gotta keep
reminding myself that / This is temporary love (let the love in, let the love in) /
Yeah this is one sweet moment / but it ain’t going to last / You’re doing
something / underneath my skin / I never meant to / let you so far in / I keep on
trying to tell myself / This is temporary, temporary love / Only temporary,
temporary love / This is temporary, temporary love / Only temporary,
temporary love / Gotta keep reminding myself that / this is one sweet moment /
but it ain’t going to last…
Written by Missy Higgins © 2012

Watering Hole

Watering hole in my head / Watering hole in my head / Watering hole, the hole
in my head / I stretched and I scratched and I pulled at that hole / that watering
hole in my head / in my head / in my head / But every night one by one / all of
the beasts I once ran from / crawl out of the darkness and into my bed / These
vultures of light they must be fed / in my head / in my head / in my head / in my
head / Watering hole in my head / all that I pray is one night’s rest / but those
creatures arrive with a thirst they want quenched / and as hard as I fight / they
still get in / to my head / to that watering hole / in my head…
Lyrics by Missy Higgins & Amiel Courtin-Wilson. Music by Missy Higgins. © 2012

Tricks

I’m done with poetry / I’m done with prose / I’m done with dressing up these
words in delicate clothes / I’m done with dancing on this here box / like a
begging dog / I’m done with smoke screens / and fancy veils / I’m done with all
this petty decorating of myself / I’m hanging up these / whistles and bells / ‘cos I
can tell / that none of my tricks work on you / no matter what I do / you seem to
see straight through / Why don’t they work on you? / I’m done with high heals /
ribbons and bows / I’m done with pulling up my skirt so that you rethink saying
no / I’ve got no cards left up my sleeve / I’ve tried everything to please / But
none of my tricks work on you / no matter what I do / you seem to see straight
through / Why don’t they work on you? / Guess you should want me the way I
am / Truth is I want to be more than that / So I’m gonna find me someone to
believe / only the versions I show them of me / Yeah I’m gonna find me someone
I can / hold in the palm of my hand / Cos none of my tricks work on you / no
matter what I do / you seem to see straight through / Why don’t they work on
you? / Why don’t my tricks work / why don’t my tricks work / why don’t my
tricks work on you baby? / Why don’t my trick work, why don’t all my tricks
work / Why don’t my tricks work on you? / Cos you’re the only one I wanna
fool…

Written by Missy Higgins & Katie Herzig © 2012

If I’m Honest

Darling if I’m honest / you’ve been on my mind / on my mind all day / And lately
if I’m honest / I can’t bring myself to think no other way / I’ve been finding all
kinds of reckless ways to forget your face / like going out on the town spreading
around all that love I’d kept for you / But no-one touches me like you used to /
It’s a shame but it’s true / Nobody loves me the way that you used to / Darling
I’ve been moving through seas of faces hoping to meet your stare / And dancing
towards any stranger with your crazy eyes or wayward golden hair / I’ve been
finding all kinds of useless ways just to push it all down / like spinning around,
spinning around till I’ve fallen to the ground / But no-one touches me like you
used to / It’s a shame but it’s true / Nobody loves me the way that you used to / I
painted over all the cracks / but now the paint is peeling back / It’s a shame but
it’s true (nobody loves me) / When the flame turned blue (nobody loves me) / It
burnt a hole right through / now nobody loves me the way that, that way that
you used to…
Written by Missy Higgins © 2012

Cooling Of The Embers

You put your hand on top of mine / you’re talking fast but talking blind / and I can’t
bring myself to meet your eyes / ‘cos death is slowly covering you / in galaxies of black
and blue / and under your skin all his colours bloom / And you’re only half here / like
someone left a frail body and took the rest / But I remember when you were strong /
Never wanted help from no-one / What you’ve become is not who I remember / Is this
the cooling of the embers? / She’s off again through summers past / the smell of rain
and freshly cut grass / Seems those ordinary days are the ones that last / Cos he was
there, the one you loved / the one you never did let go of / and there’s something you
know as you’re looking up / Cos you’re only half here / Like someone left a frail body
and stole the rest / But I remember when you were strong / Never wanted help from
no-one / What you’ve become is not who I remember / Is this the cooling of the
embers? / Is this the cooling of the embers? / Cos you are not who I remember / It’s
like you are a child, you are a child , you are a child once more / and all of our
yesterday’s have gone / You put your hand on top of mine / You’re talking fast but
talking blind / and I can’t bring myself to meet your eyes…
Written by Missy Higgins © 2012

Hidden Ones

She’s holding a torch in her hand / pointing towards heaven / and on the streets
below her people living out of trash cans / are trying to believe she’s got a plan /
We dug a hole under the sea / but nobody knows how to stop the bleed / There’s
999 channels on my TV / and I still have no idea what to believe / But there is a
choice / Follow the leader or use your voice / Cos this’ll just keep up until we
make a loud noise / and the hidden ones speak up / Over the water to the east /
two million in a square refuse to sleep / ‘till every pleading voice is heard and all
the world has seen their revolution pull a king down to his knees / Cos they
made a choice / not to follow their leader but use one voice / Shows ordinary
people can make a really loud noise / when the hidden ones speak up / Oh the
hidden ones / Oh the hidden ones / He started drinking too young / Tucked in his
jeans now is a gun / And the stories of his ancestors / they will never be sung /
for he’s going where they do not see the sun / Ah but look! There’s a circus in
town! / Watch as the lion eats the clown! / Tell me who is out there leading on the
ground? / Who will catch the boy before he drowns / if they’re busy putting
shows on for the crowd? / Oh there is a choice / You can follow the leader or use
your voice / Cos this’ll just keep up until we make a loud noise / and the hidden
ones speak up…

Written by Missy Higgins © 2012

Sweet Arms Of A Tune

He told her when she played / wings sprouted from her shoulder blades / and
every bone inside her seemed to change / So on her fingers moved / over notes
she hoped would soothe / his jagged soul and caress every groove / Oh and how
she longed to say / that she’d missed his troubled ways / oh and if she could
she’d do it all again / But sometimes every word has been used and there’s
nothing left to do / but hold the one you cant have in the sweet arms of a tune /
A year ago today / New York City seemed to fall away / to leave only the bed in
which they laid / But an island is just that / oh and when the world came
flooding back / all the pillars underneath them began to crack / Now he’s sitting
on her floor / she’s playing all the minor chords / wishing so damn hard that
he’d kiss her like before / But sometimes every word has been used and there’s
nothing left to do / but hold the one you can’t have in the sweet arms of a tune /
Yeah hold the one you can’t love in the sweet arms of a tune / Cos sometimes
every inch of you is bruised and there’s nothing left to prove / So just hold the
one you can’t love in the sweet arms of a tune / Yeah hold the one you can’t love
in the sweet arms of a tune…

Written by Missy Higgins © 2012

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