Conflicting Emotions Album
- Strait Old Line (Neil Finn) (5:00)
- This could be heaven, or this could be hell
Life could be falling down a bottomless well
I stumble to the left, I stumble to the right
I fumble for the switch of a disconnected light
(Stay with it) don't let temptation be your load
(Stay with it) but there are bandits on the road
Don't look to the left (look to the left)
Don't look to the right (look out to the right)
Just follow that strait old line
Don't look to the left
Don't look to the right (look to the right)
Just follow that strait old line
The road of ambition, is a casualty trail
Press gangs wait to ambush
The weak and weary (stay with it)
But I had to explore the light and dark
to see the sharp and flat
There's a hundred or more good reasons
not to ever turn your back
Don't look to the left
Don't look to the right
Just follow that strait old line
Don't look to the left (look to the left)
Don't look to the right (look to the right)
Just follow that strait old line
- Bullet Brain and Cactus Head (Neil Finn) (4:15)
- Send a message to the brain
Two men climbing down opposite poles
The one with hair upon his face
Sprouting like the weeds on his soul
The other is a law unto himself
His brain is like a lump of steel
and they'd love to break each other up,
Into tiny pieces
It's strange how they're always together
Bullet Brain and Cactus Head
Always beating heads together
Bullet Brain and Cactus Head
Watch them fall into the dirt
Desperate to make a point
No trace of human doubt
Confrontation they can never avoid
Despising what they've both become
Always looking for someone to blame
They think they're worlds apart
But they're exactly the same
Always will be
It's strange how they're always together
Bullet Brain and Cactus Head
Always beating heads together
Bullet Brain and Cactus Head
Which one of you's the liar
Bullet Brain and Cactus Head
Fanatic believers, obsessive achievers
Yippees and yahoos, felons and fiends
Preachers and leeches, offenders, defenders
All on their way down to the depth of extremes
Pip squeaking passion to head-on collision
Too set in your ways to give way or concede
Oh my, oh my, oh my, what will become of the macho pretender and his enemy
And it's strange how they're always together
Bullet Brain and Cactus Head
Always beating heads together
Bullet Brain and Cactus Head
Which one of you's the liar
Bullet Brain and Cactus Head
Rise up from the mire or wake up in a sea of red...
- Message to My Girl (Neil Finn) (3:49)
- I don't want to say I love you
That would give away too much
It's hip to be detached and precious
The only thing you feel is vicious
I don't want to say I want you
Even though I want you so much
It's wrapped up in conversation
It's whispered in a hush
Though I'm frightened by the word
Think it's time that it was heard
No more empty self-possession
Vision swept under the mat
It's no new years resolution
It's more than that
And now I wake up happy
Warm in a lovers embrace
No one else can touch us
While we're in this place
So I'll sing it to the world
This simple message to my girl
No more empty self-possession
Vision swept under the mat
It's no new years resolution
It's more than that
Though I'm frightened by the word
Think it's time I made it heard
So I sing it to the world
Simple message to my girl
No more empty self-possession
Vision swept under the mat
It's no new years resolution
It's more than that
No there's nothing quite as real
As a touch of your sweet hand
I can't spend the rest of my life
Buried in the sand
- Working Up an Appetite (Tim Finn) (4:07)
- The righteous rhythm in your soul, moves like an unborn baby
You've got to let it take control, without ever thinking twice
Start building up your greed for good and hunger for understanding
Unless you want it desperately, how can it be
I wish that it was nearer, and clearer today
Working up an appetite, for some wisdom
Working up an appetite, for the real thing
Working up an appetite, appetite
Our passion is a careless flame, we fan it with abandon
But everywhere confusion reigns, we've already paid the price
Remember when you saw the light, in everything around you
A pleasure to be on this earth, when we thirst for gain
I wish that it was nearer, and clearer today
Working up an appetite, for some love now
Working up an appetite, always learning
Working up an appetite, lust for justice
Working up an appetite, appetite
Working up an appetite, for some wisdom
Working up an appetite, for some love now
Working up an appetite, always learning
Working up an appetite, working, working...
- Our Day (Neil Finn) (4:55)
- Let our love create another life
It's growing even as we speak
He don't know what's waiting for him here
Suspended in his dream sleep
His mother's all around him
His father's just a sound to him, singing gently
We have promised him a future
So I'm hoping that tomorrow
Is, was, and will ever be
and we're waiting now
Waiting for our child to come
The old age is near the end
The new one's just begun
There's a face that I will come to love
That I have never seen before
There's a brain that's absolutely free
From any kind of conscious thought
You are me, and you are she
It won't be long 'til we meet
And I'll be going on a journey
In a flimsy paper boat upon a stormy sea
and so we're waiting now
Waiting for our child to come
The old age is near the end
The new one's just begun
Yes we're waiting now
For something burning far away
Tear the old age down for good
Welcome the young one
I'm shaking like a leaf
Wound up like a spring tonight
You say this ain't no place for children
Oh God, I hope that what we've done is right
Am I vain to feel as if the world
Owes anything at all to me
Searching, burning, tossing and turning
Desperately
And so we're waiting now
Waiting for our child to come
Can't imagine what the future holds
Just hoping there is one
Yes we're waiting now
For something burning far away
Tear the old age down for good
Welcome the young one
Hear this my son, I promise you the best that we can do
We love, we love, we love, we love, we love, We love you...
- No Mischief (Neil Finn) (4:13)
- No mischief, no mischief, no mischief
I don't need the aggravation
This ain't no time for foolin'
Let's get down to business
No mischief, no mischief, no mischief
I don't need the aggravation
No foolin', let's get down to business
There's a crowd outside
That's screaming for your blood
They want action now
From a man whose name is mud
They don't want no mischief, no mischief, no mischief
I don't need the aggravation
This ain't no time for foolin'
No horseplay, it's passé
Let's get down to business (all right)
No mischief, no mischief, no mischief
You're a constant irritation
The power goes to your head
So go get your brain read
Or you'll be out of business
Private profiteer
Our loss is your gain
The things that we revere
You're pouring down the drain
It's no game
When you are a leader
People want to swear by you
So swear by the truth
Still I live in hope
That you might disappear
Off the face of the globe
We won't miss you round here
Have no fear
No mischief, no mischief, no mischief
This ain't no time for foolin'
No horseplay, it's passé
Let's get down to business (No mischief, no mischief)
No mischief, no mischief, no mischief
I don't need the aggravation
The power goes to your head
So go get your brain read
Or you'll be out of business
No mischief, no I don't want no mischief
- The Devil You Know (Neil Finn) (3:33)
- I long to see the other side of things
Hung on the cliff, in search of something big
I can't look down, I can only retreat
Who knows one day I'll dive into the sea
Here we all are sitting like fools
Stuck by the rules of fate
Is what we are what we've grown to believe
Better the devil you know
Live for the day we throw caution to the wind
All we need is the courage to begin
I might get hurt but never be scared again
At once to feel the pleasure and the pain
Into the city, into the city every day
Into the city, piling through the factory gates
It's not easy, it's not easy to escape
All the decisions that you've already made
I long to see the other side of things
Hung on the cliff, in search of something big
I can't look down, I can only retreat
Who knows one day I'll dive into the sea
Here we all are sitting like fools
Stuck by the rules of fate
Is what we are what we've grown to believe
Better the devil you know
- I Wake Up Every Night (Tim Finn) (4:47)
- You arrive at the station, right on time
Catch a train to the city, metro line
Meet your friends at the corner for a drink
Maybe find a girl who can give you everything
All aboard, let's go travelling, up we go
You never know what you got `til you start letting go
I wake up every night, dress up and travel light
Without a worry on my mind
I wake up every night, go out and look for life
You never know just what you'll find, I wake up every night
Every day taken over by detail
Come the night I'm a free man, off the rails
There's emotional baggage in my head
Heavy dreams weigh me down like lumps of lead
I wanna liberate myself from all these things
You never know what you got til you stop worrying
I wake up every night, the stars are shining bright
There's magic in the evening air
Another day is done, go out and have some fun
Endeavour to be near someone, I wake up every night
I wake up every night
I'll follow my dreams tonight, as we go voodoo dancing,
Mood romancing
You wake up and feel alright and you can hold the shadows, hold the shadows
I wake up every night, I wake up every now and then
I wake up every night, I wake up every now and then
I wake up every night, the stars are shining bright
There's magic in the evening air
I wake up every night, my stomach muscles tight
Excited feelings everywhere
I wake up every night
- Conflicting Emotions (Tim Finn) (4:30)
- Conflicting Emotions
I've always let my feelings flow
Like water from the tap
Running hot and cold
But it's only myself I con
It's safer to do nothing, with so much going on
I will resolve the conflict, the convict has a longing to be free
Conflicting Emotions, never let me be
Conflicting Emotions, always in the way
Conflicting Emotions, making everything so hard for me
The main obstacle in my way, is terminal indecision
I waver and I sway
My friends don't know who I am
One day I'm in clover, next day in a jam
And all of my tomorrows and all my yesterdays belong to you
Conflicting Emotions, never let me be
Conflicting Emotions, always in the way
Conflicting Emotions, making everything so hard for me
Conflicting Emotions, never let me be
Conflicting Emotions, always in the way
Conflicting Emotions, making everything so hard for me
- Bon Voyage (Tim Finn) (4:02)
- Please don't forget me, bon voyage
I remember days of summer in your arms
Lonely and weary, bon voyage
All too brief an introduction to love's charms
And all that I give you, is brighter than the stars above
And it makes no difference what was said, we were in love
Bon Voyage, lady fare thee well
It's impossible to say when I'll see you
But you never can tell
Bon voyage, bon voyage
We were connected, side by side
It was only for a few years, but what a ride
Both of us crazy, but we came
To a secret understanding all the same
And all that I wish you
Is brighter than the stars above
And it makes no difference what people think
When we're in love
Bon voyage, lady guillotine
I was glad to lose my head
But I didn't expect to lose my heart as well
Bon voyage, bon voyage.
Bon Voyage
Bon Voyage
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