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

Carry You

If they would let me trade
I’d give a year for half a day just
curled up on the sofa with you
We’d wander down to Cottesloe eat fish and chips in the final glow
I’d hold my breath for I forgive you

Sometimes I feel you with me in the dark
And your face is in the faces of the strangers walking by me in the park

And reflected in your eyes
Is all my love and all my lies
Is all my promise and my pride
Is all my fear and all my fight
Is all my dread and my denial

And though we cannot be together I know
that I will carry you wherever I go
I will carry you
Lord knows
I will carry you
I will carry you

(Instrumental)

And reflected in your eyes
Is all my love and all my lies
Is all my promise and my pride
Is all my fear and all my fight
Is all my dread and my denial

And though we cannot be together I know
that I will carry you wherever I go
I will carry you
Lord knows
I will carry you
I will carry you

Song For Sammy

This is the first time that I’ve ever loved anything more than life itself
I never knew my heart could expand to this size
This is the first time that I’ve ever jumped out of my head and left it behind and I don’t think that I wanna rush back inside
How could it be his little hands grew inside of me?
I never made anything so perfectly

This is the first time that I’ve ever seen beauty in dust caught by the sunlight
Falling around us in the quiet
This is the first time that I haven’t been able to keep out all of the pain that goes on
‘Cos every man now is somebody’s son
How could it be those little toes grew inside of me?
I never made anything so perfectly

Oh but the nightmares they won’t stop
The ones where I can’t find you or I’ve left you alone in the dark
And I run screaming shouting “where’s my baby, where’s my baby gone? Without him I simply could never go on.”

This is the end and also the beginning of everything we are
We were one, then two, now we are three
How could it be his little heart grew inside of me?
There’s so much to lose now it’s terrifying
But look what we made, isn’t he just perfect

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

Red Moon

Years ago before the water came
Before our time was up
And we were washed away
You’d held me under a golden sun
And on the silken sand we walked in bare feet making plans

And I feel you now when the darkness comes
And the red moon rises every part of me wants to run
To wherever you are
To wherever you landed
But I don’t know where to start
I got a heart left stranded

Years ago long before the flood
before the levee came down
And we were pulled under
You’d kissed me under a floral arch
Promising to stay through both the easy and the hard
Those days have past

But I hear you now when the darkness comes
And the red moon rises every part of me wants to run
To wherever you are
To wherever you landed
But I don’t know where to start
I got a heart left stranded

Are you thinking of me too?
Are you thinking of that day
Your fingers slipped through mine
And you were pulled away?
Are we looking at the same sky?
Are you looking up too?
Are we looking at the same night?
At the same red moon?

At the same red moon…
At the same red moon…
At the same red moon…
At the same red moon…

Years ago when our hearts were dry
When the sea lay still
And the moon was white
I’d loved you

Written by Missy Higgins & Alex Hope
Published by Missy Higgins Productions / Sony/ATV Music Publishing Allegro (Australia) P/L

How Was I To Know

When the order came to dig the well
To crack the earth to pull the oil
To take the blood out from my mother’s veins
Well I broke the ground to feed the mouth
I did not here the warning sound
I could not put back in what I took out

How was I to know
How was I to know
I’d be a stepping stone
To the end
The end of everything
How was I to know

On the day I built a house so high
It’s antenna did scrape the sky
Well everyone applauded in my shadow
So my neighbour built a higher one
Then again his neighbour after him
Till racing through the clouds was all that mattered
Up and up the buildings went
Glass and stone and hard cement
Till all the green was left to die below

How was I to know
How was I to know
I’d be a stepping stone
To the end
The end of everything
The end of everything
How was I to know

Long ago I caught a pretty fish
Blue and silver and delicious
And I knew she’d line my pockets green
So I bought a bigger boat that had
A net to scrape the ocean and
I fished until one day that net was empty

How was I to know
How was I to know
I’d be a stepping stone
To the end
The end of everything
How was I to know

And how are we to now
Turn these stepping stones around
Back to everything that matters
Can that place even be found or is it lost
Forever

The end of everything
The end of everything
How was I to know?
How was I to know?

Written by Missy Higgins & Daniel Dodd Wilson
Published by Missy Higgins Productions / BMG Gold Songs/Songs Of Big Deal/Sugar Lake Music (ASCAP) administered by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

Yesterday Must Die

The heart stops
The body lets go
The ground’s soft
Then the dirt’s thrown

An entrance
To a new world
In an instant
We’re in the circle

And something new and beautiful grows
But yesterday must die
Before tomorrow can be born

The last grasp
Is the strongest
Fingers clasped
All around it

The let go
Is the hardest
When you don’t know
What comes next

But something new and beautiful grows
Yesterday must die
Before tomorrow can be born

From the dirt comes
Something brand new
From the ground up
Let it build you

So when the ending
It breaks you
Let the sadness
Transform you

And something new and beautiful grows
But yesterday must die
Before tomorrow can be born

And something new and beautiful grows
But yesterday must die
Yesterday must die
Yesterday must die
Yesterday must die

Written by Missy Higgins, Butterfly Boucher & Cason Cooley
Published by Missy Higgins Productions / B2 G2 Music (BMI) / Look I Have Publishing (ASCAP)

The Difference

Am I gonna die, am I gonna live, or am I gonna sit on the edge of it
Am I gonna fall, am I gonna fight or am I watch from the outside
Sometimes I wake from the deepest sleep, oh and I feel tomorrow in me
Like I don’t wanna let the hand of yesterday hold me back

But everything I see, everything I watch, makes me wanna hold my ears till it stops
Makes me wanna run, makes me wanna hide, makes me wanna set this house alight

Oh but I remember my mother’s voice
Telling me that every day’s a choice
For where there’s good, there’s bad
But my child you always can

Be the difference
Be the difference
I know the world’s gone mad it’s true
(she said) be the difference
(you can) be the difference
cos I see a fighter locked in you

Be the difference
Be the difference
When hope is a hand you don’t wanna trust
(She said) be the difference
(you can) be the difference
Cos darling the future’s watching us

So am I gonna open everything up, am I gonna let fury fill my cup
Am I gonna be an anthem singing in the dark, gonna light up this burning heart
Am I gonna still as rock, while everything shakes and tumbles off
Am I gonna remember the truth

Cos I wanna be nasty, wanna be brave, not let his fear make me afraid
I don’t wanna pretend I’m too small to jump the wall
I’m just trying to remember her voice
Telling me that every day’s a choice
For where there’s good there’s bad
But my child you always can

Be the difference (be the difference)
Be the difference
I know the world’s gone mad it’s true
(she said) be the difference
(you can) be the difference
Cos I see a fighter locked in you

So you gotta fight it
You gotta resist
Every days a choice to light the dark

You gotta sing loud
You gotta shout out
Fear is not a choice but you can choose to be the difference

Be the difference
I know the world’s gone mad it’s true
(she said) be the difference
(you can) be the difference
Cos I see a fighter locked in you

Be the difference
Be the difference
When hope is a hand you don’t wanna trust
(She said) be the difference
(you can) be the difference
Cos darling the future’s watching…

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

Don’t Look Down

I can hear it getting closer
Feel the darkness in the wind
Hear the roaring of the thunder
As the sky falls in
Come inside and lock the windows
We’ll be safer in here
I’ll do everything I can
To keep you safe my dear

But if this is the end, this is the end
If this is the end, this is the end
Let it begin

And hold me
Like there’s no need to be scared
Like we never needed our bodies
Like we have a life to spare
Hold me like we never needed this town
Like the worlds not falling around us
And don’t look down
Don’t look down

I’ve been waiting for this moment
Tried everything I had
Begged a god I don’t believe in
To let us start over again
Cos we made mistakes I know it’s true
We put ourselves above the rest
But if we knew that it would bring us here
We’d never have made this mess

But if this is the end, this is the end
If this is the end, this is the end
Let it begin

And hold me
Like there’s no need to be scared
Like we never needed our bodies
Like we have a life to spare
Hold me like we never needed this town
Like the worlds not falling around us
And don’t look down
Don’t look down
Don’t look down

So let it begin
Let it arrive
Let it wash us from the earth
Let it erase us from time
Let it begin
Let it arrive
Let it arrive

And hold me
Like there’s no need to be scared
Like we never needed our bodies
Like we have a life to spare
Hold me like we never needed this town
Like the worlds not falling around us
But don’t look down

Written by Missy Higgins, Butterfly Boucher & Cason Cooley
Published by Missy Higgins Productions / Look I Have Publishing (ASCAP) / B2 G2 Music (BMI)

Hallucinate

All I got is questions, tethered to a string
All I got is questions flailing in the wind
It’s like I’ve been on the outside staring in
But I’ve been thrown into the ring now
And all I’ve got is questions
About what’s going on
Is this what it’s like to come undone?

Cos nothing feels certain
Nothing feels safe
now that I’ve woken and I’m face to face
With all that I ran from, all that I thought I’d escaped

Tell me the answer
Tell me the truth
When I looked into the future
And I saw a beautiful view
Did I hallucinate?

Cos all I got is questions no one seems to hear
All I got it questions swallowed out of fear
It’s like I’ve been on the outside now I’m here
But it’s more grey than it is clear
And all I got is questions, picking up their pace
Is this what it’s like to slowly break?

Cos nothing feels certain
Nothing feels safe
now that I’ve woken and I’m face to face
With all that I ran from, all that I thought I’d escaped

Tell me the answer
Tell me the truth
When I looked into the future
And I saw a beautiful view
Did I hallucinate??
Did I hallucinate??
Did I hallucinate??

Did I? Did I? Did I????

Written by Missy Higgins & Alex Hope
Published by Missy Higgins Productions / Sony/ATV Music Publishing Allegro (Australia) P/L

49 Candles

Another one down
Another life lost
Another night freedom comes at a cost

Another big story
Another headline
Another excuse for spinning more lies

But our voices, where do they go?
Calling out but nothing follows
All our voices where do they go, where do they go?
While 49 candles burn
in Orlando
in Orlando

Another new bullet
Another gun fired
Another mother is told her son has died

Another wall built
Another point made
Another excuse for living this way

And our voices, where do they go?
We’re shouting loud but the sound is swallowed
All our voices where do they go, where do they go?
While 49 candles burn
49 candles burn
While 49 candles burn
In Orlando
In Orlando

What’s it gonna take?
What’s it gonna take?
What’s it gonna take?

While 49 candles burn
You’re never the same as you once were
When 49 candles burn
In Orlando
In Orlando
49 candles burn
And 49 souls will not return
While 49 candles burn
In Orlando
In Orlando

Written by Missy Higgins & Daniel Parker
Published by Missy Higgins Productions / Big Deal Music

Strange Utopia

Street lights cutting circles in the night
And i’m wandering between them with my hooded coat pulled tight
Headphones on, breath like smoke
When everything is sleeping I am woke

Something happens when i’m out here alone
Some little piece of my old self comes home

It’s a strange utopia we have
How did we end up here?
It’s a strange utopia we have
Nobody tells you it’s not how it first appears

Walking over a strange utopia…

City lights illuminate a distant sky
Years ago we would’ve danced beneath them all night
But life arrives like a north wind
Pulling us from the clutches of the children we’d once been

But something happens when i’m out here alone and you’re sleeping
Some little piece of my old self joins me on the road

It’s a strange utopia we have
How did we end up here?
It’s a strange utopia we have
Nobody tells you it’s not how it first appears

How did we end up here?
It’s a strange utopia
Do you see the crack in the veneer?
How did we end up here?
A strange utopia
Nobody tells you it’s not how it first appears

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

The Old Star

Touch down on the old star
Scan to the left, scan to the right
Little to report but dust and rubble
Little to report
Ash and ice

Report back from the old star
Scan to the east, scan to the west
Signs of struggle, human belief
They were not of nature
But elite
So sad

Tears for the old star
So sad
Tears, tears, tears
Tears for the old star
Tears
Tears for the old star
Tears for the old star

Last report from the old star
Scan to the north, scan to the south
Everything here was once perfection
Everything here destroyed by self
So sad
So sad

Tears, tears for the old star
Tears for the old star
Tears
Tears for the old star
Tears, tears, tears
Tears for the old star
Tears
So sad
Tears for the old star
Tears for the old star

Written by Missy Higgins & Butterfly Boucher
Published by Missy Higgins Productions / B2 G2 Music (BMI)

Torchlight

Torchlight on their shadows
Daylight to the black
I’ve been holding onto something but I’m giving it back

If I could reach out to you dear
If I could reach back over time
Well I would hold you and tell you that one day we’ll be alright

But some times people let you down
And sometimes evil is a quiet town
Where nobody wants to hear your truth
And nobody’s wants to believe you
But I do, I do and someone out there will too

Torchlight in a locked room
Unwind and untangle this mess
If I could go back I’d hide you somewhere they would never guess
Cos you’re a blank page right now
But they’ll cover you in ink and black your heart out
If anybody tells you not to tell, don’t listen

‘Cos sometimes people let you down
And sometimes the wrong kings are crowned
And nobody wants to see the truth
And nobody wants to believe you
But I do, I do and someone out there does too
Torchlight on you

Unwind and untangle this mess
Unwind and untangle this mess
Unwind and untangle this mess

And hold on tight we’re gonna drag the dark into the torchlight

Oh Canada

He was carried from the water by a solider
And the picture screams a thousand different words
He was running from the terror with his father
Who once believed that nothing could be worse

So he’d handed a man two thousand precious dollars
The way you’d rest a bird in a lion’s open jaw
And he told his boys that Canada was waiting
There was hope upon her golden shores

But at night he said a quiet prayer to the wind

Oh Canada, if you can hear me now
Won’t you open up your arms towards the sea?
Oh Canada, if you can help me out
All I ever wanted was a safe place for my family

Well the days were long but the nights were even longer
And the babies never left their mothers’ side
But the boat was small and the waves were getting stronger
And they began to fear they’d not survive

So the father said “We gotta hold each other tighter
I’m not losing everyone I love tonight
And we’ve come so far I know that out there somewhere
There’s a place where we’ll not fear for our lives”

But as he held onto the side of the boat he looked up at the sky

Oh Canada, if you can hear me now
Won’t you open up your arms towards the sea
Oh Canada, if you can help me out
The sea is turning and I think we’re going down

Anyone if you can hear me now,
Won’t you open up your heart towards the sea
Anyone, please help us out
All we ever wanted was a safe place for our family

There’s a million ways to justify your fear
There’s a million ways to measure out your words
But the body of Alan being laid upon the sand
Tell me how do you live with that?

Written by Missy Higgins. Published by Missy Higgins productions.

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

They Weren’t There

You breathed infinity into my world and time was lost up in a cloud and in a whirl. We dug a hole in the cool grey earth and lay there for the night. Then you said, “wait for me we’ll fly the wind, we’ll grow old and you’ll be stronger without him” but oh, now my world is at your feet. I was lost and I was found, but I was alive and now I’ve drowned.
So now I will be waiting for the world to hear my song so they can tell me I was wrong…

But they weren’t there beneath your stare, and they weren’t stripped ‘till they were bare of any bindings from the world outside that room. And they weren’t taken by the hand and led through fields of naked land where any pre-conceived ideas were blown away… so I couldn’t say “no”.

You sighed and I was lost in you, weeks could’ve past for all I knew. You were there blanket of the over-world and so I couldn’t say, I wouldn’t say “no”. But they all said, “you’re too young to even know, just don’t let it grow and you’ll be stronger without him” but oh, now, my world is at your feet. I was lost and I was found, but I was alive and now I’ve drowned.
So now I will be waiting for the world to hear my song so they can tell me I was wrong…

But they weren’t there beneath your stare, and they weren’t stripped ‘till they were bare of any bindings from the world outside that room. And they weren’t taken by the hand and led through fields of naked land where any pre-conceived ideas were blown away…

But they weren’t there beneath your stare, and they weren’t stripped ‘till they were bare of any bindings from the world outside that room. And they weren’t taken by the hand and led through fields of naked land where any pre-conceived ideas were blown away… so I couldn’t say “no”.

Written by Missy Higgins. Published by Control.

The Sound of white

Like a freeze-dried rose, you will never be, what you were, what you were to me in memory.
But if I listen to the dark, you’ll embrace me like a star, envelope me, envelope me…
If things get real for me down here, promise to take me to before you went away – if only for a day.
If things get real for me down here, promise to take me back to the tune we played before you went away.

And if I listen to, the sound of white, sometimes I hear your smile, and breath your light.
Yeah if I listen to, the sound of white ..
You’re my mystery. One mystery. My mystery. One mystery.

My silence solidifies, until that hollow void erases you, erases you so I can’t feel at all. But if I never fell again, at least that nothingness will end the painful dream, of you and me…
If things get real for me down here, promise to take me to before you went away, if only for a day.
If things get real for me down here, promise to take me back to the tune we played before you went away.

And if I listen to, the sound of white sometimes I hear your smile, and breath your light.
Yeah if I listen to, the sound of white sometimes I hear your smile, and breath your light.
And if I listen to, the sound of white.

I knelt before some strangers face,
I’d never have the courage or belief to trust this place,
But I dropped my head, ‘cos it felt like lead,
And I’m sure I felt your fingers through my hair…

And if I listen to, the sound of white sometimes I hear your smile, and breathe your light.
Yeah if I listen to, the sound of white.
The sound of white,
The sound of white,
The sound of white.

Written by Missy Higgins. Published by Control.

This Is How It Goes

Suddenly I can’t stay in this room. You’ll never sway, and I have nothing left that I can think of to say.
What do you want me to think of my thought? Bear it in mind, if I cannot believe in me who will I then be?

And so I’ll run but not too far, incase you chase me, oh…
But this is how it goes, baby.
I’ll get angry at your words and I’ll go home
And you won’t call after me ‘cos I’ll be back before you know, you know…

So give me a tooth full of that smile, and know-it-all eyes you show me just to prove that you don’t need to lose it.
You tell me I’m your fortress of desire but is it a crime for me to say my own view and want then not to fear you?

And so I’ll run but not too far, incase you chase me…
But this is how it goes, baby, I’ll get angry at your words and I’ll go home then you won’t call after me ‘cos I’ll be back before you know, you know, yeah I’ll be back before you know…

La di da di da………..
And so I’ll run but not too far…

‘Cos this is how it goes, baby, I’ll get angry at your words and I’ll go home, then you won’t call after me,
‘cos I’ll be back before you know, you know…

yeah, I’ll be back before you know…
and so I’ll run but not too far…

Written by Missy Higgins. Published by Control.

The Special Two

I’ve hardly been outside my room in days,
’cause I don’t feel that I deserve the sunshine’s rays.
The darkness helped until the whiskey wore away,
and it was then I realized the conscience never fades.
When you’re young you have this image of your life:
that you’ll be scrupulous and one day even make a wife.
And you make boundaries you’d never dream to cross,
and if you happen to you wake completely lost.
But I will fight for you, be sure that
I will fight until we’re the special two once again.

And we will only need each other, we’ll bleed together,
our hands will not be taught to hold another’s,
’cause we’re the special two.
And we could only see each other, we’ll breathe together,
these arms will not be taught to need another’s,
’cause we’re the special two.

I remember someone old once said to me:
“that lies will lock you up with truth the only key.”
But I was comfortable and warm inside my shell,
and couldn’t see this place could soon become my hell.
So is it better to tell and hurt or lie to save their face?
Well I guess the answer is don’t do it in the first place.
I know I’m not deserving of your trust from you right now,
but if by chance you change your mind you know I will not
let you down ’cause we were the special two, and will be again.

And we will only need each other, we’ll bleed together,
our hands will not be taught to hold another’s,
’cause we’re the special two.
And we could only see each other, we’ll breathe together,
these arms will not be taught to need another’s,
’cause we’re the special two.

I step outside my mind’s eye’s for a minute.
And I look over me like a doctor looking for disease,
or something that could ease the pain.
But nothing cures the hurt you bring on by yourself,
just remembering, just remembering how we were…

When we would only need each other, we’d bleed together,
these hands would not be taught to hold another’s,
we we’re the special two.
And we could only see each other, we’d bleed together,
these arms will not be taught to need another’s,
’cause we’re the special two.

Written by Missy Higgins. Published by Control.

The River

She ran until her face was numb with cold and wore a cotton gown that blazed the night untold. She ran until her feet refused to hold so heavy a heart for someone merely ten years old. And when she reached the river her knees began to shiver, her head with pounding voices from home. Behind her was a vision, a painful apparition of a darker world that no-one should know.

Somebody’s bed will never be warm again, the river will keep this friend.
Yeah somebody’s bed will never be warm again, no never again.

She dived beneath the water’s icy skin, hoping the cold would kill the smell of angry gin, and her eyes grew wider than they’d ever been just wishing the numbness to cut deeper with its pins. And as her body lay there she decided to stay there till darkness came to pull her away. And beautifully she sank as up river was the bank where some bodiless troubles would stay.

Somebody’s bed will never be warm again, the river will keep this friend.
Yeah somebody’s bed will never be warm again, no never again.

Somebody’s bed will never be warm again, the river will keep this friend.
Yeah somebody’s bed will never be warm again, no never again.

Lyrics by Missy Higgins. Music by Missy Higgins and Clif Magness
Published by Control / Blue Iron Gate Music Inc / EMI April Music Inc.

Katie

Katie was a little girl who said “I’ll find a way”. Katie was a little girl who said “it’ll be ok”. Till one day she found a little bit of something she used to drown. She said “I’m alive and I am free, but you see I have control over me.”

But will you draw the line?
Turn a blind eye to all the faces that you know?
And she said, “go”.

Katie was a little girl who never found the way. Katie was a little girl who never was ok. Cause one day she found a little bit of something she used to drown. She said “I’m alive and I am free, but you see I have control over me.”

But will you draw the line?
Turn a blind eye to all the faces that you know?
And she said, “go”.

She said “I’m alive and I am free, but you see I have control over me”…

But will you draw the line?
Turn a blind eye to all the faces that you know?
And she said, “go”.

And she said… “go”.

Written by Missy Higgins. Published by Control.

Any Day Now

How long, how long, how long will we take to come undone? If you know the answer tell me now and I’ll write up a calendar for our count down. ‘Cos what if what we see is all, is all we’ve got?

Say you’ve kept some fire aside to set light to me some surprising night. And say you’ve locked some fire away to set light to me some surprising day. To me some surprising day, any day now…

How come, how come, how come I’m now on a road holding out my thumb? If you know my destination please buy me the fastest car and throw me the keys. ‘Cos what if what we see is all, is all we’ve got?

Say you’ve kept some fire aside to set light to me some surprising night. And say you’ve locked some fire away to set light to me some surprising day.

‘Cos finger by finger we’re losing grasp and I’m questioning the reason why nothing beautiful does last…

Say you’ve kept some fire aside to set light to me some surprising night. And say you’ve locked some fire away to set light to me some surprising day, to me some surprising day… any day now.

Written by Missy Higgins. Published by Control.

Casualty

Give me my dream and give me a scene
where you have a past of which you are clean.
Oh, give me a lie.
Tell me you fell ‘cos of my grace and not to help you erase her face.
And oh, make it your best lie.
‘Cos I’m holding up a crystal glass dove in my hands and if it does
fall, if you do fall, it’s my fault

So I don’t wanna be with one more casualty
‘Cos all you’re gonna give me is pain
And I’m not gonna be with one more casualty
‘Cos all you see’s a human bandage

Tell me I’d find you’re happy inside and if I end this you’ll be fine,
Oh, tell me a lie.

Just look at me and say honestly that I’m all you want, not what you need.
And oh, make it your best lie, love,
‘Cos I’m holding up a crystal glass dove in my hands
And if it does fall, if it does fall it’s my fault.

So I don’t wanna be with one more casualty,
‘Cos all you’re givin’ me is pain
And I’m not gonna be with one more casualty
‘Cos all you see’s a human bandage

And I’ve been playing games
And now I’ve change my ways
The character I always played
Helped me to forget my name
But now I know,
So get out of my way!

‘Cos I’m not gonna be with one more casualty
It’s been too long since I looked after me …
I’m not gonna be with one more casualty,
‘Cos all you’re givin’ me is pain
And I’m not gonna be with one more casualty
‘Cos all you see’s a human bandage
I’m not gonna be with one more casualty,
‘Cos all you’re givin’ me is pain
And I’m not gonna be with one more casualty
‘Cos all you seem to give me is your pain
I’m not gonna be, no …

Lyrics by Missy Higgins. Music by Missy Higgins and Kevin Griffin.
Published by Control / Tentative Music Inc. (Admin. by Warner Chappell)

Nightminds

Just lay it all down. Put your face into my neck and let it fall out.
I know
I know
I know.
I knew before you got home.
This world you’re in now, it doesn’t have to be alone, I’ll get there somehow, ‘cos
I know I know I know
when, even springtime feels cold.

But I will learn to breathe this ugliness you see,
so we can both be there and we can both share the dark.
And in our honesty, together we will rise,
out of our nightminds, and into the light
at the end of the fight…

You were blessed by a different kind of inner view: it’s all magnified. The highs would make you fly, but the lows make you want to die.
And I was once there, hanging from that very ledge where you are standing.
So I know
I know
I know,
it’s easier to let go.

But I will learn to breathe this ugliness you see, so we can both be there and we can both share the dark. And in our honesty, together we will rise out of our nightminds and into the light at the end of the fight.

…and in our honesty, together we will rise out of our nightminds and into the light… at the end of the fight…

Written by Missy Higgins. Published by Control.

Ten Days

So we’ve put an end to it this time. I’m no longer yours and you’re no longer mine. You said this hill looks far too steep if I’m not even sure it’s me you wanna keep.
And it’s been ten days without you in my reach, and the only time I’ve touched you is in my sleep.

But time has changed nothing at all- you’re still the only one that feels like home. I’ve tried cutting the ropes and I let you go but you’re still the only one that feels like home.

You won’t talk me into it next time, if I’m going away your hearts coming too. ‘Cos I miss your hands I miss your face. When I get back let’s disappear without a trace.

‘Cos it’s been ten days without you in my reach, and the only time I’ve touched you is in my sleep.

But time has changed nothing at all- you’re still the only one that feels like home. I’ve tried cutting the ropes, tried letting go but you’re still the only one that feels like home.

So tell me, did you really think… oh tell me, did you really think I had gone when you couldn’t see me anymore? When you couldn’t…

‘Cos baby time has changed nothing at all- you’re still the only one that feels like home. And I’ve tried cutting the ropes, I let you go but you’re still the only one that feels like home, yeah, you’re still the only one that feels like home, you’re still the only one I’ve gotta love. Oh yeah…

Lyrics by Missy Higgins. Music by Missy Higgins and James Major Clifford
Published by Control / Spankin Scared/EMI April Music

Scar

He left a card, a bar of soap and a scrubbing brush next to a note
That said “use these down to your bones”
And before I knew I had shiny skin and it felt easy being clean like him
I thought “this one knows better than I do”

A triangle trying to squeeze through a circle
He tried to cut me so I’d fit

And doesn’t that sound familiar? Doesn’t that hit too close to home?
Doesn’t that make you shiver; the way things could’ve gone?
And doesn’t it feel peculiar when everyone wants a little more?
And so that I do remember to never go that far,
Could you leave me with a scar?

So the next one came with a bag of treats, she smelled like sugar and
spoke like the sea
And she told me don’t trust them, trust me
Then she pulled at my stitches one by one, looked at my insides clicking
her tongue and said
“This will all have to come undone”

A triangle trying to squeeze through a circle
She tried to blunt me so I’d fit

And doesn’t that sound familiar? Doesn’t that hit too close to home?
Doesn’t that make you shiver; the way things could have gone?
And doesn’t it feel peculiar when everyone wants a little more?
And so that I do remember to never go that far,
Could you leave me with a scar?

I think I realized just in time, although my old self was hard to find
You can bathe me in your finest wine but I’ll never give you mine
‘Cos I’m a little bit tired of fearing that I’ll be the bad fruit nobody buys
Tell me, did you think we’d all dream the same?

And doesn’t that sound familiar? Doesn’t that hit too close to home?
Doesn’t that make you shiver; the way things could have gone?
And doesn’t it feel peculiar when everyone wants a little more?
And so that I do remember to never go that far,
Could you leave me with a scar?
Could you leave me with a scar?

Written by Missy Higgins and Kevin Griffin.
Published by Control / Tentative Music Inc. (Admin by Warner Chappell)

Don’t Ever

Let’s take the train to anywhere,
I wanna feel the wind in my hair with you.
Let’s tell them all, that soon they’ll know
how very wrong they were to think we’d never go,

and if you tell me yours I’ll tell you mine
and we will clean the cobwebs out of one another’s minds.

Don’t ever say you’ve tried to leave me in this life
Don’t ever say you’ve tried for the last time.

We’ll get a house where the trees hang low
and pretty little flowers on our window sill will grow
We’ll make friends with the milk man
and the butcher Mr. Timms will give us discounts when he can,

and if you tell me yours I’ll tell you mine,
and we will clean the cobwebs out of one another’s minds.

Don’t ever say you’ve tried to leave me in this life
Don’t ever say you’ve tried for the last time
LA DI DA DI DA…

Don’t ever say you’ve tried to leave me in this life
Don’t ever say you’ve tried to leave me in this life
Don’t ever say you’ve tried for the last time…

Written by Missy Higgins and Kevin Griffin.
Published by Control / Tentative Music Inc. (Admin. by Warner Chappell)

All For Believing

Pull back the shield between us, and I’ll kiss you,
Drop your defenses and come, into my arms.
I’m all for believing, I’m all for believing.

CHORUS:
I’m all for believing if you can reveal the true colours within.

I know you blanket your mind so much that I am blind, but I, I see you’ve painted your soul into your guard,
I’m all for believing, I’m all for believing

CHORUS:
I need to know just how you feel, to comfort you; I need to find the key let me in, into your heart, to find your soul.

Pull back the shield between us, and I’ll kiss you,
Drop your defenses and come, into my arms.
I’m all for believing, I’m all for believing.

CHORUS:
I’m all for believing, if you can reveal, the true colours within, and say you will be there for me to hold, when the faith grows old (I’m all for believing) and life turns cold, (I’m all for believing) when the faith grows old, (I’m all for believing) and life turns cold.

So if you’re cold I will stay, maybe fate will guide the way. I believe in what I see and baby we were meant to be,
(Baby we were meant to be, baby we were meant to be, baby we were meant to be)
Just belieeeeeeeeeeeeve. Just belieeeeeeeeeeeve. Just belieeeeeeeeeeeeve.

Trust in me.

Written by Missy Higgins / Published by Control

Forgive Me

Oh my son look at what I’ve done
But I am learning still
Learning still
Know that I am learning still
And oh my wife you are my life
And I am burning still
Burning still
Know that I am burning for you still

And all, all, all of my light is for you
And home, home’s anywhere you are too
So take this one fallen man on his knees
Saying please forgive me

Oh my God how you make it hard
Not to pick the apple
Pick the apple
And Lord I long to give it back.

And I was on shakey land
Lost and unsure I opened my hand
And she held it like sinking sand

But all, all, all of my light is for you
And home, home’s anywhere you are too
So take this one fallen man on his knees
Saying please

All, all, all of my light is for you
And home, home’s anywhere you are too
So take this one fallen man on his knees
Saying please forgive me
Forgive me
Forgive me

© Missy Higgins 2007.

Going North

I wanna dance the tango with chance
I wanna ride on the wire
Cos nothing gets done with dust in your gun
And nobody respects a liar
So goodbye for a while I’m off to explore
Every boundary and every door
Yeah I’m going north

I wanna know where children would go
If they never learnt to be cool
Cos nothing’s achieved when pushed up a sleeve
Till nobody thinks you’re a fool
So goodbye for a while I’m out to learn more
About who I really was before
Yeah I’m going north

Up where the hunted hide with ease
Under the arms of eye-less trees
Up where the answers fall like leaves
Oh and your love is all I need
Yeah I’m going north

© Missy Higgins 2007.

Peachy

It’s not my fault
It can’t be my fault
That you speak to me the way you do
Now I’m split in two
I’m half me and half you
But I hate us both, don’t you?

No of course you don’t of course you don’t
You say life is peachy without me
Of course you don’t of course you don’t
You say life is peachy without me

It’s not your fault
It’s can’t be your fault
That I let you crawl inside my head
Cos you know my places
And you know that face
But I hate this taste, don’t you?

No of course you don’t of course you don’t
You say life is peachy without me
Of course you don’t of course you don’t
You say life is peachy without me
Un-grip me
Un-learn me
Un-grip me

It’s no-ones fault
It’s nobody’s fault
That I fell on you and you on me
That’s what humans do
Then they pass on through
But I think we can’t, don’t you?

No of course you don’t of course you don’t
You say life is peachy without me
Of course you don’t of course you don’t
You say life is peachy without me

© Missy Higgins 2007.

Angela

Clear the way she’s coming through
With her eye-shadow of satin blue
And her fingernails all painted blue
She’s a danger you’re addicted to

Angela, Angela you’re a danger he’s addicted to

So move aside she has arrived
With her baby neck and sleepy eyes
She has heels that walk all over you
She’s a danger you’re addicted to

Angela, Angela you’re a danger he’s addicted to
Oh Angela, Angela you’re a danger he’s addicted to

And I try to be more like you
Speak louder and prouder and hide my love but it spills out

Angela, Angela you’re a danger he’s addicted to
Oh Angela, Angela you’re a danger he’s addicted to
So I’ll try to be more, more like you

© Missy Higgins 2007.

The Wrong Girl

So the floodgates open but nothing comes out
I’m feeling no relief in my head, just doubt
But my heart keeps telling me “Hold your ground
You’ll never learn a thing if you bail out now”

And I’m lonely again tonight
I can feel it like a knot in my side
They keep saying this is part of the ride
But I’m not getting stronger

Yet hold me against the light
And do you see any bullet inside?
Wouldn’t find one if you magnified
Because you’ve got the wrong girl

Had my fingers around the back of your chair
You’d never miss a thing but you missed me there
And I just kept thinking “Am I prepared
To pull it out from under your trusting stare?”

Now the house is quiet as a hollow head
And I’m walking round bumping into things you said
This has not been as easy as I thought it would
I’d be cooling down the fire if I thought I could

And I’m lonely again tonight
I can feel it like a knot in my side
They keep saying this is part of the ride
But I’m not getting stronger

Yet hold me against the light
And do you see any bullet inside?
Wouldn’t find one if you magnified
Because you’ve got the wrong girl

© Missy Higgins 2007.

Warm Whispers

Your warm whispers
Out of the dark they carry my heart
Your warm whispers
Into the dawn they carry me through
And I’m weeping warm honey and milk
That you stay surrounding me, surrounding me

Your warm whispers
Letting me drown in a pool of you
Your warm whispers
Keeping the noise from breaking through
And I’m weeping warm honey and milk
That you stay surrounding me, surrounding me
Yeah I’m weeping warm honey and milk that you
Stay surrounding me, surrounding me
Honey stay surrounding me

© Missy Higgins 2007.

Secret

You were from the North, I was from the South
We were from opposite places, different towns
But I knew it was good and you knew it was too
So we moved together like a ball and chain
Minds becoming two halves of the same
It was real, but in shadows it grew

Cos you’ve got a secret don’t ya babe?

I would’ve shouted loud and broken through
I would’ve given it all to belong to you
But there were different plans, different rules
You said “where I’m from there is a lock and key
If you’d be so kind as to follow me
I will show you the way to the rest of my sins”

Cos you’ve got a secret don’t ya babe?
Yeah you, you got a secret don’t ya babe?
And I should know
Yeah I should know

So this room was damp where your sins laid
There was that smell in the air of an old place
That hadn’t seen much daylight in years
And you threw me down, said, “If ya don’t mind
I’m gonna leave you here until night time
Then we can do what we want my baby out of the spotlight.”

Cos you’ve got a secret don’t ya babe?
Yeah you, you got a secret don’t ya babe?
And I should know
Yeah I should know
For I’m your secret aren’t I babe?
Yeah I’m your secret aren’t I babe?
Aren’t I babe?

© Missy Higgins 2007.

Sugarcane

Baby ballerina’s
Hiding somewhere in the corner
Where the shadow wraps around her
And our torches cannot find her
She will stay there till the morning
Crawl behind us as we are yawning
And she will leave our game
To never be the same

So grow tall sugarcane
Eat that soil, drink the rain
But know they’ll chase you if you play their little games
So run, run fast sugarcane

You see my peep-show booth is handy
There’s a one-way-only mirror
So I can dance here with my hair down
But I don’t see if you get bitter
And there’s a button right beside me
If I happen to want a wall to hide me
If only the ballerina had one too

So grow tall sugarcane
Eat that soil, drink the rain
But know they’ll chase you if you play their little game
So run, run fast sugar cane
Yeah you better run, run fast sugarcane

And she said always be afraid
Yeah you should always be afraid…

To grow tall sugarcane
Eat that soil, drink the rain
But know they’ll chase you if you play their little game
So run, run fast sugar cane
Yeah you better run, run fast sugarcane

© Missy Higgins 2007.

Steer

Feel it falling off like clothing
Taste it rolling on your tongue
See the lights above you glowing
Oh and breathe them deep into your lungs

It was always simple, not hidden hard
You’ve been pulling at the strings playing puppeteer for kings
And you’ve had enough

But the search ends here
Where the night is totally clear
And your heart is fierce
So now you finally know that you control where you go
You can steer

So hold this feeling like a new born
Of freedom surging through your veins
You have opened up a new door
So bring on the wind, fire and rain

It was always simple, not hidden hard
You’ve been played at a game called remembering your name
And you stuffed it up

But the search ends here
Where the night is totally clear
And your heart is fierce
So now you finally know that you control where you go
You can steer

‘Cos you’ve been listening for answers
But the city screams and all your dreams go unheard

But the search ends here
Where the night is totally clear
And your heart is fierce
So now you finally know that you control where you go
You can steer
Yeah get out of the box and step into the clear
‘Cos now you finally know you can steer

© Missy Higgins 2007.

100 Round the Bends

I follow complications like a bloodhound
So pick me up, twist me round and throw me all the way back down
‘Cos I find my feet addicted to the ceiling when hanging upside
Your smile’s a frown- it’s all too easy on the ground

So jump in my car we’ll go 100 round the bends
We’ll take this road until we’re back at the start yet again
Jump in my car we’ll go 100 round the bends
And we’ll pretend that feeling rage is feeling real
That feeling is feeling real

So I’ve got a brand new rubber band for you boy
Go on and give it a stretch, I can see you’re itching to
Frustrations on the boil
But then I see my damn reflection in your eyeballs
And I want nothing more to do with all
The things you’ve made me think I am

So jump in my car we’ll go 100 round the bends
We’ll take this road until we’re back at the start yet again
Jump in my car we’ll go 100 round the bends
And we’ll pretend that feeling rage is feeling real
That feeling is feeling real

You were everything for a little while
But I broke it I broke it I broke it I broke it didn’t I?
You were everything for a little while
But I broke it I broke it I broke it I broke it didn’t I?
Oh didn’t I

So jump in my car we’ll go 100 round the bends
We’ll take this road until we’re back at the start yet again
Jump in my car we’ll go 100 round the bends
And we’ll pretend that feeling rage is feeling real
That feeling is feeling real…but feeling rage ain’t feeling real

© Missy Higgins 2007.

Where I Stood

I don’t know what I’ve done
Or if I like what I’ve begun
But something told me to run
And honey you know me it’s all or none

There were sounds in my head
Little voices whispering
That I should go and this should end
Oh and I found myself listening

‘Cos I don’t know who I am, who I am without you
All I know is that I should
And I don’t know if I could stand another hand upon you
All I know is that I should
‘Cos she will love you more than I could
She who dares to stand where I stood

See I thought love was black and white
That it was wrong or it was right
But you ain’t leaving without a fight
And I think I am just as torn inside

‘Cos I don’t know who I am, who I am without you
All I know is that I should
And I don’t know if I could stand another hand upon you
All I know is that I should
‘Cos she will love you more than I could
She who dares to stand where I stood

And I won’t be far from where you are if ever you should call
You meant more to me than anyone I ever loved at all
But you taught me how to trust myself and so I say to you
This is what I have to do

‘Cos I don’t know who I am, who I am without you
All I know is that I should
And I don’t know if I could stand another hand upon you
All I know is that I should
‘Cos she will love you more than I could
She who dares to stand where I stood
Oh, she who dares to stand where I stood

© Missy Higgins 2007.