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The Sound of White 20 Year Anniversary Edition

PRE-ORDER: Shipping from Friday 5th April, 2023

LP1: The Sound of White

SIDE A

  1. All For Believing
  2. Don’t Ever
  3. Scar
  4. Ten Days
  5. Nightminds
  6. Casualty
  7. Any Day Now

SIDE B

  1. Katie
  2. The River
  3. The Special Two
  4. This Is How It Goes
  5. The Sound Of White
  6. They Weren’t There

LP2: The Sound of White – Live

SIDE C

  1. All For Believing (Live)
  2. Don’t Ever (Live)
  3. Scar (Live)
  4. Ten Days (Live)
  5. Nightminds (Live)
  6. Casualty (Live)
  7. Any Day Now (Live)

SIDE D

  1. Katie (Live)
  2. The River (Live)
  3. The Special Two (Live)
  4. This Is How It Goes (Live)
  5. The Sound Of White (Live)
  6. They Weren’t There (Live)
  7. Cry Me A River (Live)
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Watch Out

Watch out
I’m a one way ticket to a blood fight
Watch out
Got a head full of thoughts that ain’t right
Watch out
There’s a chip on my shoulder like a butcher’s knife
Ain’t nobody wanna mess with me tonight

Watch out
I’m a one way ticket to a blood fight
Watch out
Got my teeth bared ready for you this time
Watch out
There’s a crack in the middle of my mind
But who’ll be the last one standing
I’ll be the last one standing
Cause ain’t nobody wanna mess with my kind

Watch out
I’m the one you’ll be seeing in your rearview
Watch out
There’s a crack in the middle of the sky
Who’ll be the last one standing
She’ll be the last one standing
Cause ain’t nobody get away when the truth shines

oooh hoo hoo hoo

Watch out
Watch out
Who’ll be the last one standing
Who’ll be the last one standing
We’ll be the last ones standing
Cause ain’t nobody wanna mess with my kind

Written by Missy Higgins, Antony Partos and Matteo Zingales
Published by Mushroom Music Publishing / Sonar Music Pty Ltd

The Collector

Oh no you didn’t
You didn’t just go there
Keep pulling at the thread pretty soon you’re gonna
Unleash what’s in here

Oh no you didn’t
You didn’t push me again
I got a memory like an elephant honey, I never forget

They call me the collector
Cos they know I’m keeping tabs
They call me the collector
Cos they know I’m coming back

Oh no you didn’t
You didn’t just do that
Keep tugging at the line pretty soon you’re gonna
Regret what you catch

Oh no you didn’t
You didn’t try that again
I got a little book in my heart where names like yours get written down in red

They call me the collector
Cos they know I’m keeping tabs
They call me the collector
Cos they know I never lose track
And when the day comes honey
To collect my rent money
I’ll be back

I got everything you owe me etched into my soul
Under these bruises and blood is an animal
And the crevices you cut were so deep
But now the dark, dark water’s gathering

They call me the collector
Cos they know I’m keeping tabs
They call me the collector
Cos they know I’m coming back

So if you think you’re better
I dare you fella
Yeah, I dare you fella
Find out why they call me the collector

Written by Missy Higgins, Antony Partos and Matteo Zingales
Published by Mushroom Music Publishing / Sonar Music Pty Ltd

Edge Of Something

I’m on the edge of something
Got an itch in my bones
There’s a fire in the middle of my soul

I’m on the edge of something
And it’s gonna take time
But I’m doing it for you

No, no regrets
Got no further to fall
When you’ve hit the bottom

No, no regrets
I’m my mother’s daughter
I got plenty of fight left

I’m on the edge of the unknown
There’s a valley of secrets
Stretched out below

But I got you in my chest
And it’s giving me power
Yeah this kinda love don’t rest

No, no regrets
Ain’t no further to fall
When you’ve hit the bottom

No, no regrets
I’m a mother with a daughter
I got plenty of fight left

Everybody gonna know my name
I’ll be the one with her heart on fire
screaming from the highest stage

Everybody gonna know my name
Cos I’m the girl who’s gonna be everything
that’s ever made you afraid

hell hath no fury like a woman’s rage

Everybody gonna know my name
Everybody gonna know my name
Everybody gonna know my name
Everybody gonna know my name

Everybody gonna know my

We’re on the edge of something
But we gotta jump now
Cos we’re doing it for them
We’re on the edge of something
Possibly beautiful
Possibly beautiful

Written by Missy Higgins, Antony Partos and Matteo Zingales
Published by Mushroom Music Publishing / Sonar Music Pty Ltd

Total Control

Looking counter clockwise
Knowing what could happen
Any moment maybe you maybe even you
Steadfast collapse
Always certain any moment
Maybe you maybe you
Maybe even you
Recline complete dream too sweet
I can’t do it not with you
Not even with you
Maybe never with you

And I’d sell my soul for
Total control
Yeah I’d sell my soul for
Total control

Street wet tonight, lovers touch
It’s pure delight
Always certain any moment
Maybe even you
Stay in bed stained sheets
My head hurts I repeat
Maybe you maybe you maybe even you

And I’d sell my soul for
Total control
Yeah I’d sell my soul for
Total control
Yeah I’d sell my soul for
Total control
Over you

Street wet tonight, lovers touch
It’s pure delight
Always certain any moment
Maybe even you
Stay in bed stained sheets
My head hurts I repeat
Maybe you maybe you maybe even you

And I’d sell my soul for
Total control
Yeah I’d sell my soul for
Total control
Yeah I’d sell my soul for
Total control
Over you
Over you
Total control over you
Over you
Total control over you

Written by Jeff Jourard & Martha Davis
Published by Mushroom Music Publishing / Reservoir

Big Kids

Everything comes down
To what may happen now
Hold me as I wait
Four lifetimes in a day

Feet on ancient land
Carry me like I know you can
This can’t wait
Today I’m playing where the big kids play

Every dream I’ve chased
Has led me to this place

Feet on solid ground
Hold me up, don’t let me fall down

Gonna show them I’ve got what it takes
Today I’m playing where the big kids play
Today I’m playing where the big kids play

And I’m gonna show them
I am here to stay
That I belong here
Playing where the big kids play

Written by Missy Higgins
Published by Mushroom Music Publishing

I Take It Back Lyrics

I take it back
You’re going down
I’ve had enough of you dragging all of my shame around

I take it back
You’re gonna bruise
Cos I got something you don’t, I got nothing to lose

You had my trust
I gave you that
I gave you that

Gave you my power
But I take it back
I take it back

You don’t remember
But I can’t forget
So I’m gathering up everything I ever tried to suppress

Now I’m a walking weapon
A bleeding history book
¬¬¬¬I see you closing your eyes but I’m gonna make you look

Cos you had my heart
I gave you that
I gave you that

Gave you my power
But I take it back
I’m taking it back

oooohs

The power to speak my mind without attack
To hold my head high and shoulders back
The power to turn this table round
To stand up when you want me down
The power to choose what’s right for me
For my future for my family
The power to burn these filthy walls
I take it back
I take it all

My light. My dark. My fire. My spark. My Story. My vision. My choices. My decisions. Count the minutes. Count the hours. I’m taking back my power.

And when I take it back
You’re gonna wish you treated me better than that.

Written by Missy Higgins
Published by Mushroom Music Publishing

Total Control

Mini Album Released: 4th March 2022

  1. Watch Out
  2. The Collector
  3. Edge Of Something
  4. Total Control
  5. Big Kids
  6. I Take It Back

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The Special Ones

Album Released: 23rd November 2018

  1. Arrows
  2. All For Believing (Demo)
  3. Scar
  4. Ten Days
  5. The Special Two
  6. Steer
  7. Where I Stood
  8. Peachy
  9. Unashamed Desire
  10. Everyone’s Waiting
  11. Set Me On Fire
  12. Shark Fin Blues
  13. NYE
  14. Futon Couch
  15. 49 Candles
  16. Cemetery
  17. Oh Canada
  18. Throw Your Arms Around Me (Live)
  19. Torchlight
  20. Run So Fast

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Starting Again

Your father was always the rational kind
He followed the news he read all the science
There’s no room for more, no room to expand
Would you really give birth astride sinking sand?
For the world is a lung we barely breathe through
Why make a new life to pass it on to?
So I searched for a way to keep you a dream
One that lived in my heart and would never be seen

But you, my son, you broke through it all
Through every reason each side of the wall
You, my light, my hope at the end
You my son, my starting again
My starting again

Your father was always a practical man
The oceans are rising, the hole is expanding
I’ve seen what’s coming, the ash in the sky
He told me “My woman, we don’t have a right
You’ll never find a reason better than this
To keep your heart in a closed fist.”
So I searched for a meaning bigger than you
Tried telling myself the right to do

But you, my son, you broke through it all
Every reason each side of the wall
You, my light, my hope at the end
You my son, my starting again
My starting again
My starting again
My starting again

When you appeared
It was louder than sense
Stronger than life
Bigger than fear
Yeah when you appeared
It was fire and God and tears and oceans of light and suddenly hearing his heart loud and clear
Like he was starting again
Starting again, starting again, starting again, starting again
Yeah we were starting again, starting again, starting again
Your father was always the rational kind, till you arrived…

Written by Missy Higgins & Pip Norman
Published by Missy Higgins Productions / Mushroom Music Publishing

Cemetery

I believe I did everything I could
I believe I did everything by the book
I believe I did lose the fight, lose the fight

Cos it wasn’t enough to give you everything
Was not enough to let you deeply in
I ran through dark city streets to hold you through the night

But where’d you end up now
Do we even still live in the same town?
Do you ever think about that time
We snuck into the cemetery at night?
Oh where’d you end up, tell
Do you still have a hole your heart as well?
And do you ever think about that time
We snuck into the cemetery at night?

Get out, get out get out of my mind
Get out get out get out of my mind
I want to forget that night

Cos laying upon the dead with you
Laying upon the dead with you, my love
I’ve never felt so alive

I believe I gave everything I had
I believe I lost what you never gave back
I believe I did lose my mind, lose my mind

Cos it wasn’t enough to let you call the shots
Was not enough just letting you be lost
I fell through hell every time you disappeared, cos I loved you still

But where’d you end up now
Do we even still live in the same town?
Do you ever think about that time
We snuck into the cemetery at night?
Oh where’d you end up, tell
Do you still have a hole your heart as well?
And do you ever think about that time
We snuck into the cemetery at night?

Get out, get out get out of my mind
Get out get out get out of my mind
I want to forget that night

Cos laying upon the dead with you
Laying upon the dead with you, my love
I’ve never felt so alive

I’ve never felt so alive
I’ve never felt so alive
I’ve never felt so alive

Now all the scars have finally faded, I realise
Since then I’ve never felt so alive

Written by Missy Higgins, Pip Norman, Daniel Kyriakides & Steph Jones.
Published by Missy Higgins Productions / Mushroom Music Publishing / Big Deal Music / Disney Music Publishing

Futon Couch

I was sitting on a futon couch
In a far off town where the desert meets the sea
You were only wrapped in a towel when you walked out the spare room of my friend’s house
Oh I feel I’ve met you before
Something inside me is trying to remember a story
Oh I think I’ve loved you, I’ve loved you before
Something is tugging my sleeve like a secret whispered from the future

Maybe this is us now
Maybe this is us

Hey hey, wadda ya say
Wanna make history start today
Hey boy wadda ya say we jump from here?
Hey wadda ya thinking
Leaning against the kitchen sink
Cos I see everything now
Sitting on this futon couch
Sitting on this futon couch

You were never gonna leave that town
Where your friends always dropped by unannounced for tea
Oh and where the pain of the world was swallowed when the sunset wiped you clean
Oh I knew I’d heard it before
Nothing is changing till everything changes at once
Oh I knew I felt it right down to my core
Something was writing itself on the walls of our future hearts

Hey hey, wadda ya say
Wanna make history start today
Hey boy wadda ya say we jump from here?
Hey, know what I think you’ll be
Kissing me against the kitchen sink
Cos I see everything now
Sitting on this futon couch
Sitting on this futon couch

Cos I see water spilling over land
I see a frosted window and the prints of a small hand
I see the lights out, fingers intertwined
I see a cup thrown in silence and the breaking of the night
I see me walking towards you to the sound of Colin Hay
I see the earth split down the centre of our pain
But I see it’s worth it
Cos I see it all now

Sitting on this futon
Sitting on this futon
Sitting on this futon
Sitting on this futon

I’m on the edge
Sitting on the edge now

Written by Missy Higgins & Pip Norman
Published by Missy Higgins Productions / Mushroom Music Publishing