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In the early 70s there was a horrible subject at school called Mechanical Drawing. Hunters and Collectors graphics and especially the cover of What's a Few Men really reminds me of that long dead subject.

 

Relief
This seems to be an ode to the difficult task of being a mother, but I may be missing some subtle underlying factor here. I always liked this song (as I like them all) Musically this song struts along nicely and moves into a nice chord structure during the chorus. Another really good song that has a sense of urgency about it, one would suggest to show the urgency of a busy mother's need to get some rest while everyone around her takes advantage .... With all the kiddies " too satisfied to care".


Lyrics
You can't make mother cry
You can't make her twist her ragged hair
You can't make mother groan
Even when her soldier sonny
shakes his iron cocktail in the air...
You can't make mother cry
You can't make her give consent
Though she flounders at the drain board
Though her back be down there and bent
If sleeping brings relief
She can go lie down and slumber
If sleeping brings relief
She can go lie down and slumber
If sleeping brings relief
She can go... lie down and slumber...
Slumber
She puts her hands down into the sink
Scrapes the grunge up off the bottom
Down there beneath the dishes
Where the knives lie crossed and waiting
She can't stop the kiddies talking
Their tongues be loosed upon the world
They flap until they lather
For the agony of millions
And if sleeping brings relief
They can go lie down and slumber
And if sleeping brings relief
They can go lie down and slumber
And if sleeping brings relief
They can... go lie down and slumber
Slumber...
And there be no release from anguish
For this slapstick generation
And there be no peace for all the kiddies
Cause they're too satisfied to care
And the field of gorgeous bodies
Primed and ready in the sun
And the white flag of peace
That is hanging
Limp and useless in the air...
And the white flag of peace
That is hanging
Limp and useless in the air, yeah!
And if sleeping brings relief
You can all go lie down and slumber
And if sleeping brings relief
You can go lie down and slumber...
Slumber...

 

The Finger
This is quite a relaxing verse structure musically. Lyrically the use of words is good, but perhaps someone could give me an interpretation about what he is actually singing about here, as I have never really been sure.
I really like the song and find it has a dreamy feel that sucks the listener in, but I have no idea what it is about. We used to use the term I fanged it, in reference to dumping the accelerator on the car.


Lyrics
Took a lie, took a lie, took a lifetime
Took a lie, took a lie, took a lifetime
Driven under 20k of rain
I had to crawl, I had to beg,
I had to pay for it through the nose
To get into this tiny shiftless room
With the barheater broken
And the stale chips in the oven
And the fly there on the table
With its legs stuck in the butterblock
Well here it is, here it is
The one place that's small enough to hold a finger tight
A well-oiled rat's nest on a shapeless summer night
Shapeless summer night

I fanged it, I fanged it
I fanged it, I fanged it
I fanged it, I fanged it
I fanged it, I fanged it

Took a lie, took a lie, took a lifetime
It took a lie, took a lie, took a lifetime
We made the whole building sway
Made the whole city shudder
You off in one corner
and me back here in the other
Well here it is
Here it is
The one place that's small enough to hold a finger tight
A well-oiled rat's nest on a shapeless summer night
Shapeless summer night

I fanged it, I fanged it
I fanged it, I fanged it
I fanged it, I fanged it
I fanged it, I fanged it

 

Easy Reference guide

The band - Hunters and Collectors Album thread
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Hunters and Collectors 1982 - Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 1 Talking to a stranger Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 2 Alligator Engine Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 3 Skin of our teeth Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 4 Scream who Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 5 Junket Head Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 6 BooBoo kiss Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 7 Tender Kinder Baby Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 8 Run run run Hunters and Collectors Album thread

World of stone & Payload EP's 1982 Hunters and Collectors Album thread

The Fireman's Curse 1983 - Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 1 Prologue Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 2 Curse Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 3 Fish Roar Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 4 Blind Snake Sundae Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 5 Mr right Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 6 Sway Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 7 Judas sheep Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 8 Eggheart Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 9 Drinking bomb Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 10 Epilogue Hunters and Collectors Album thread

The Jaws Of Life 1984 - Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 1 42 wheels Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 2 Holding down a d Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 3 The way to go out Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 4 I couldn't give it to you Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 5 It's early days yet Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 6 I believe Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 7 Betty's worry or The slab Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 8 Hayley's doorstep Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 9 Red Lane Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 10 Carry me Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 11 Little Chalkie Hunters and Collectors Album thread

The Way To Go Out 1985 - Hunters and Collectors Album thread
Throw your arms around me - Hunters and Collectors Album thread
The way to go out Hunters and Collectors Album thread
Little Chalkie Hunters and Collectors Album thread
Follow me no more Hunters and Collectors Album thread
I couldn't give it to you Hunters and Collectors Album thread
The slab Hunters and Collectors Album thread
Carry me Hunters and Collectors Album thread
I believe Hunters and Collectors Album thread

Human Frailty 1986 - Hunters and Collectors Album thread
More album and song info - Hunters and Collectors Album thread
singles info Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 1 Say goodbye Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 2 Throw Your Arms Around Me Hunters and Collectors Album thread
by Crowded House Hunters and Collectors Album thread
by The Doug Anthony Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 3 Dog Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 4 Everything's On Fire Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 5 Relief Hunters and Collectors Album thread
track 6 The Finger Hunters and Collectors Album thread

Live on Rock Arena 1986
The way to go out Hunters and Collectors Album thread
Everything's on fire Hunters and Collectors Album thread
Is there anybody in there Hunters and Collectors Album thread
Stuck on you Hunters and Collectors Album thread
Red leather belt Hunters and Collectors Album thread
Betty's worry or The slab Hunters and Collectors Album thread
Dog Hunters and Collectors Album thread
Say goodbye Hunters and Collectors Album thread
This morning Hunters and Collectors Album thread


Horn Of Plenty (box set) essay - Hunters and Collectors Album thread

 

99th Home Position
This song opens with a great riff and beat. In reality this is probably the weakest track on the album, but certainly not trash. I wouldn't even call it filler, I think it just isn't as good as the rest of this album, which is certainly no insult as the songs on this album are quite sensational.


Lyrics
If the man must be
Sleepin' at home all the time
And the woman must be
Out workin' all the time...
Yeah, no matter which,
No matter which woman he has
And no matter how many
How many men she has
They all gotta go...
Back to home position
They all gotta know
The 99th home position
Do you wanna work?
Do you wanna be sanctified?
Oh do you wanna come round?
Do you wanna be right--do you wanna be right?
Yeah see you in the desert, see you in the town,
Here's your precious life
Buried underground
I hear you singin'
Hear you comin' round
Now you are lost--
Do you wanna be found?
Do you wanna be found?
Hear me call...
Hear me call
Do you wanna know...
The 99th home position
Yeah the man must take her
Indoors all the time
And the woman must take him
Outdoors all the time
Yeah no matter which
No matter which man she keeps
And no matter how long,
No matter how long he sleeps
They all gotta go...
Back to home position
They gotta know...
The 99th home position
They all gotta know...
The 99th home position

 

Is There Anybody In There?
"Is There Anybody in There?" is the twelfth single by Australian pub rock band Hunters & Collectors, released in 1986.[1][2] It was released as the fourth and final single from the album Human Frailty. It was released on the album on 27 October 1986 in both 7" and 12" formats.Is There Anybody in There? peaked at number 41 on the Recorded Music NZ.
Another good song, but i would have reversed the single myself and had Dog as the A-side.


Lyrics
Well, I was lookin' out the window
There's nothing there to see
I needed inspiration
So I turned on the TV
Is there anybody in there?

Well, Reagan finally cracked
And the Yankees went to war
We peeled away the bandages
And looked into the sore
Is there anybody in there?
Is there anybody in there?
Is there anybody in there?

Yeah, well...

Well everyone was watching
As we counted out the dead
All these people bleeding
In someone else's head
Is there anybody in there?
Is there anybody in there?
Is there anybody in there?

Don't leave it uncovered
Better cover it over
Don't leave it uncovered
Better cover it over
Don't leave it uncovered
Cover it over

I got the box between my hands
I shook it all around
I got Judgment Day on long form
But there wasn't any sound
Is there anybody in there?

So I bolted out the backgate
I can't watch TV no more
What with all these dyin' children
Screamin' at my door.
Is there anybody in there?
Is there anybody in there?
Is there anybody in there?

Yeah, is there anybody in there?

Did you ever ask yourself?
Did you ever wonder why?
Why you quake and tremble
When you look up at the sky?

Don't leave it uncovered
Better cover it over
Don't leave it uncovered
Better cover it over
Don't leave it uncovered
Cover it over
Yeah

 

I must be one of the few Hunnas fans that absolutely loves this song. As was mentioned in post 142 above, it was one of their big live songs and I always looked forward to it when seeing them in concert. I was rather disappointed when it wasn't played at their final Melbourne concert in 2014. Yet we got four songs from Cut, an album I'm not very enamoured with.

 

i really like the song, but Dog is one of my three favourites off the album, and the other two weren't singles either lol
i guess i wouldn't be the guy to pick the singles from an album haha

 

One thing I've always found intriguing about Human Frailty, why does the original CD have a different running order? Discogs seems all over the place on this as the CD with catalogue CD 53205 (DIDZ 10232) has the running order below. This disc that I have is fully manufactured in Japan (disc and artwork), is at odds with the Discogs entry.

Say Goodbye
Is There Anybody In There?
Throw Your Arms Around Me
Everything's On Fire
Relief
The Finger
99th Home Position
Dog
Stuck On You
This Morning

I am pretty sure that this was the original CD issue, not a reissue.

 

i found that myself. i have no idea. that's why i was confused about the last three songs earlier in the thread ... i have had both versions, but when i got horn of plenty i moved my other copies on ... i'm not one to get multiple copies

 

Stuck On You
A mournful Violin opens this tune and then Seymour comes in with a sad and weary vocal. This is one of my favourite songs on this album. It is almost a reply to Everything's On Fire. In this instance the male is the one that may be being cheated on and instead of being angry or vengeful, the man resigns himself to be mournful and stick it out because he obviously loves the wandering woman. I find lyrically musically to be incredibly effective.


Lyrics
I've been hearing round the town
You've been out and getting round
Whether it's right or whether it's true
I'm stuck here and I'm stuck on you

Oh no, I heard you talk in your sleep
You keep your head down and you stare at your feet
You won't look up, but you won't look away
You give the same answers no matter what I say
No matter what I say

I've been hearing round the town
You've been out and messing round
Whether it's right or whether it's true,
I'm stuck here and I'm stuck on you.

Oh no, I heard you talk in your sleep
You keep your head down and you stare at your feet.
You won't look up, but you won't look away
You give the same answers no matter what I say
No matter what I say

No matter what I say

I've been hearing round the town

 

This Morning
This is my favourite song on the album (and that's saying something, because this is a great album)
It is a perfect way to end the album and the dynamics give it so much power it could just about leap out of the grooves.
I'm not going to go into some kind of description. If you're familiar with the track, you know how good it is. If you're not familiar with it, but you have listened to some of the songs on here, give this song a listen and let it wash over you.


Lyrics
I know, I know
She's gonna go this morning
No sun will shine today
And this body's feeling strained and dispossessed
Full of fear and trembling for her
Her last words to go away
Yeeeaah

But blind faith's trying to tell me it isn't over
Tell me it do not have to be
And storm water's weeping on my bedroom window
Blow me up and throw me up and

Please, come on and please me
Tease, come on and tease me
Please, come on and please me
Come on and tease me

If you say you want me
I won't say no
Because nothing's gonna pacify, satisfy
That rattlin' window

If you say you want me
I won't say no
Because nothing's gonna pacify, satisfy
That rattlin' window

I know, I know
She's gonna go this morning.
No sun will shine today
And this body's feeling strained and dispossessed
Full of fear and trembling for her
Her last words to go away

But blind faith's
Trying to tell me it isn't over
Tell me it do not have to be
Storm water's weeping on my bedroom window
Throw me up and blow me up and

Please, come on and please me
Tease, come on and tease me
You gotta tease me

If you say you want me, I won't say no
Because nothing's gunna pacify, satisfy, pacify, satisfy, pacify, satisfy
That rattling window

 

Living Daylight

EP by Hunters & Collectors
Released 13 April 1987
Recorded February 1987
AAV Studio 1, Melbourne
Genre Rock
Length 11:38
Label White/Mushroom (AUS)
I.R.S. (US)
Producer Greg Edward, Hunters & Collectors

Living Daylight is the third extended play by Australian rock music group, Hunters & Collectors, which was issued on 13 April 1987. It was co-produced by the group and Greg Edward; and reached No. 41 on the Australia Singles Chart and No. 25 on the New Zealand Singles Chart.

After their fourth studio album, Human Frailty, was released in Australia in April 1986 Hunters & Collectors toured North America twice later that year.[1][2]The band's line-up was John Archer on bass guitar, Doug Falconer on drums, John 'Jack' Howard on trumpet, Robert Miles providing live sound and art design, Mark Seymour on lead vocals, lead guitar, Jeremy Smith on French horn and Michael Waters on trombone, keyboards.[1][2] They returned to the studio in February 1987 and recorded three songs, co-produced by the band with Greg Edward.[1][3] These tracks were then released as their third extended play, Living Daylight on 13 April 1987.[1][4] Rock historian, Ian McFarlane, felt it was "something of a stop-gap measure".[1] The three-track EP appeared on the Australian Top 50 Singles Chart peaking at No. 41 on the Australia Singles Chart and No. 25 in New Zealand.[5][6] Following its release Hunters & Collectors toured the US and Canada for three months. Upon their return to Australia they went back to the recording studios in September 1987 and recorded their fifth studio album, What's a Few Men?, also co-produced with Edward, which was then released in November.[5]

In July 1991 White Label Records re-issued the band's Human Frailty album on CD, which also included the three tracks from Living Daylight.

1. "Inside a Fireball" 4:03
2. "Living Daylight" 3:13
3. "January Rain" 4:25
Total length: 11:38

This is a great little EP. To be honest this is my first listen to it. I was never one to buy singles or EP's, it didn't suit my listening practices....
We have three really good songs and on some versions the three songs are supplemented by The Slab and Carry me.
Thanks to the folks on here for mentioning it, otherwise I would have completely missed it.

 

Inside A Fireball

 

Living Daylight

 

January Rain

 

What's a Few Men?


Studio album by Hunters & Collectors
Released 16 November 1987
Recorded September 1987
Metropolis Audio, Melbourne
Genre Rock
Length 54:28
Label White/Mushroom (AUS/NZ)
I.R.S. (US)
Producer Greg Edward, Hunters & Collectors
Hunters & Collectors chronology
Human Frailty
(1986) What's a Few Men?
(1987) Ghost Nation
(1989)
Singles from What's a Few Men?

1. "Do You See What I See?"
   Released: 5 October 1987
2. "Still Hangin' 'Round"
   Released: 1 February 1988
3. "Back on the Breadline"
   Released: 20 June 1988

Fate

1988 US release (I.R.S. Records)

What's a Few Men? is the fifth studio album by Australian rock band Hunters & Collectors, which was released on 16 November 1987. The album's title was drawn from Albert Facey's memoir A Fortunate Life. The album peaked at No. 16 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart and No. 9 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. It provided the singles, "Do You See What I See", issued in October 1987 and "Still Hangin' Round", in February the following year. "Do You See What I See" reached No. 33 in Australia while in New Zealand it became their highest charting single at No. 13.

The band's label in the United States, I.R.S. Records, required the album to be renamed and a number of the songs to be replaced before they would issue it. What's a Few Men? was subsequently renamed Fate, with an altered track listing including four new songs, and was released in North America in September 1988. This version included the track, ""Back on the Breadline", which was issued as a single in the US and charted at No. 6 on the BillboardModern Rock Tracks.

Hunters & Collectors toured the United States twice after their previous studio album, Human Frailty (April 1986). Their line up was John Archer on bass guitar, Doug Falconer on drums, Jack Howard on trumpet, Robert Miles on live sound, Mark Seymour on lead vocals and guitar, Jeremy Smith on French horn, and Michael Waters on keyboards and trombone.[1][2] They released their third EP, Living Daylight,[2] which was co-produced with Greg Edward, in Australia in April 1987.[1][2] Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane felt it was "something of a stop-gap measure".[2] The three-track EP appeared in the top 50 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart and reached No. 25 on the New Zealand Singles Chart.[3][4]

It was followed by their fifth studio album, What's a Few Men?, also co-produced with Edward and released on 16 November 1987. Seymour provided the album's title from Albert Facey's memoir, A Fortunate Life.[2] It relates a tale of a British officer complaining about the smell of rotting dead bodies on the battlefield at Gallipoli during World War I. When told that cleaning up the corpses would result in even more Australians getting shot down by the Ottoman Turks, the English Colonel's response was "What’s a few men?".

In September 1987 Seymour told Karen Middleton of The Canberra Times that "Australian musicians are using the political cutting edge a little too often. And it's getting blunt. And boring".[5] Whereas Human Frailty was largely centred on his love-life, the new tracks "aren't really about me anymore ... I've got my personal life out of my system".[5] The album peaked at No. 16 in Australia and No. 9 in New Zealand.[3][4]

What's a Few Men? provided the singles, "Do You See What I See", released in October 1987 and "Still Hangin' Round", released February 1988.[2][6] "Do You See What I See" peaked at No. 33 in Australia while in New Zealand it became their highest charting single at No. 13.[3][4] "Still Hangin' Round" failed to chart in either territory and the band's US label, I.R.S. Records, deemed it to be too "Australian", as a result it was cut from the US configuration of the album, together with "Give Me a Reason". I.R.S. Records also insisted that the album be renamed, so it was retitled Fate, and released in September 1988.[2][6] Three new tracks were recorded for the US CD version, including "Back on the Breadline", which was issued as a single in Australia in June and charted at No. 37 on the Australian Singles chart. I.R.S. released "Do You See What I See?" in August and "Back on the Breadline" in November, where it reached No. 6 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks.[7]

In the liner notes for the compilation album, Natural Selection (October 2003), Seymour described "Back on the Breadline" and wrote "This song spearheaded the North American campaign of 1987. We were signed to I.R.S. Records, and What's a Few Men? would've been our second album with them. Unfortunately they couldn't hear a single. Stoically, we wrote more. 'Back on the Breadline' was one amongst several which went on a compile with the best of the rest from the What's a Few Men? album ... I could have sworn this song had 'hit' written all over it. How wrong can you be? Just before getting on the plane, standing at the terminal gate, waiting to fly home after I'd been to what felt like every radio station in North America promoting the track, the managing director of the record company asked me, in all seriousness, 'Hey young fella, can you tell me, exactly what is the breadline?'".[8]

On 11 August 2003 Liberation Music issued a remastered release of What's a Few Men, which featured all 15 songs from the two versions.

In September 1987 Karen Middleton of The Canberra Times noted that the group's "jaunts to the US have made an impact on Seymour's writing" and that the album "was one of variety, combining a handful of specific social songs and some more lighthearted numbers".[5] Also that month her colleague, Stuart Coupe, compared Hunters & Collector's offering with other forthcoming Australian releases and found "to my mind the most astounding [one is theirs], which is undoubtedly [Seymour]'s finest collection of songs to date, and the best playing I've ever heard from the band".[10] He rated it as better than Midnight Oil's Diesel and Dust (August 1987), Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls' Under the Sun (December) or Richard Clapton's Glory Road (October).[10]

Ira Robbins in Trouser Press felt the album "is accessible, has a nice clear, guitar-driven sound and its share of catchy hooks; nothing to alienate the casual listener."[11] Chris Woodstra on AllMusic described it as "the finest moment of their later period, Fate is a cohesive and tightly produced album with an edge."[12] Option magazine considered the album as being "filled with raw power, energy, and the belief that the world can be changed and that people do care."[13] A review in Musician stated "Rough-hewn and raw-edged, there's nothing slick or commercially accommodating about Hunters & Collectors. Yet, beneath the band's brassy bluster there's a disarming, almost endearing sentimentality."

Track listing for US release as Fate

1. "Back on the Breadline" 4:02
2. "Wishing Well" 4:12
3. "You Can Have It All" 4:04
4. "Do You See What I See?" 3:37
5. "Around the Flame" 3:47
6. "Faraway Man" 3:17
7. "Under the Sun" 5:03
8. "What Are You Waiting For?" 2:24
9. "So Long Ago" 3:15
10. "Real World" 4:03
11. "Something to Believe In" 3:50
12. "Breakneck Road" 2:42
13. "What's a Few Men" 3:08
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This is a great album. I can't comment on the US release, as I don't know much about it, perhaps some of our US friends can let us know any differences as they come up.
I personally prefer Human Frailty, but as it is one of my favourite albums that isn't really a put down of this album. The band are tight as a fist, the writing is of a high standard and the sound is not too dissimilar to Human Frailty. The cd I have is the 15 track version and we'll go through all of those. The original album having a lean and strong 11 tracks.

Let us know what you think of the EP back there, and also this album.
Does this album take you back in time?
I know it takes me back in time, there was a bit of a buzz about this album when it came out and DO you see what I see was a strong lead single. I was starting my first band and all the hangers on were buying and talking about this album.

Anyway, give us some feedback folks

 

So im watching the under one roof dvd ... the weird thing is, i have had it for ten years now and it's the first viewing i have given it ....
The band are great, the sound is good, it's a shame it's dd rather than dts, but good none the less.
I'm struck by what a good singer Seymour became. He started off emoting well, even though the emotion was anger. By the time we get to human frailty he has gotten control of his sound and style, and in this 1998 concert he is virtually flawless.

 

Faraway Man
Starting with a somewhat Stonesy sounding guitar, this song has a nice melodic twist in the chorus. I could only find the Fate? version on youtube... Does anyone know if there is a difference?


Lyrics
I see headlights burn
As we go down over the river
And I hope so hard
With visions full of you

All along the weekend
Another overnighter
Then it's time for you to go
And me to follow through

Cause I'm waiting for Sunday
And I hear the wind blow

I see people fall
And the memory makes me shiver
Remind me again
Myself I will deliver

[Chorus:]
Cause I'm waiting for Sunday
And I hear the wind blow
Come up and see me
The faraway man
The faraway man

You and me and the tribe
We all belong together
Sunday is coming
But the weeks go on forever

 

Do You See What I See?
The lead single from the album and extremely popular in Perth Western Australia at least.


I spy your humble home
I see the tea towels fly
In a blinding flash
I see the years go by
Memories twisted around
Somebody's finger
Behind me now
Oh but I still remember
Do you see what I see?
Do you see what I see?
Do you see what I see?
Do you see what I see?
We go north to the ocean
We drive so far
But last year's light is shining hotter than the sun
Looking for someone
In a city that I know
But I wasn't round for long
I had somewhere else to go
Do you see what I see?
Do you see what I see?
Do you see what I see?
Do you see what I see?
I see the safest place around
In that city down below
My hands are empty now
And I waving as I go
You were gone for a little while
It was a fine fine line
Between first and second thoughts
We left them all behind
Now we barely falter
Now the long drive has begun
North to the ocean
Hotter, hotter than the sun
Do you see what I see?
Do you see what I see?
Do you see what I see?

 

Around The Flame
This feels like it was this albums attempt at Throw Your Arms Around Me. It's a very good song and works well. The chorus is memorable melodically, and this song may not have grabbed the public's imagination in the way that "Throw" did, but there's nothing unusual about that.


Lyrics
I held your face between my fingers
I turned around and pushed you through the door
I heard words from a foreign shore
You said “I’m coming back” but no man can be sure

And in your place I held a picture
An empty hall with beer cans on the floor
If I could have just one minute more
I’d tell it you’re face, this boy knows the score

And every day I hear the sound
Of running feet cross the open ground
Into the future this nervous game
We’ll always circle around the flame

If you come back it will be easy
To see the truth when I look you in the eye
I’ll see the flame the only release
It flickers on my life in your face

And every day I hear the sound
Of running feet cross the open ground
Into the future this nervous game
We’ll always circle around the flame

And every day I hear the sound
Of running feet cross the open ground
Into the future this nervous game
We’ll always circle around the flame

And every day I hear the sound
Of running feet cross the open ground
Into the future this nervous game
We’ll always circle around the flame

I held your face between my fingers
I turned around and I pushed you through the door
I heard words from a foreign shore
You said “I’m coming back” but no man can be sure