*** That's What I Call Finn ***

Finn Brother Lyrics


Finn Album

1. Only Talking Sense
2. Eyes of the World
3. Mood Swinging Man
4. Last Day of June
5. Suffer Never
6. Angels Heap
7. Niwhai
8. Where Is My Soul
9. Bullets in My Hairdo
10. Paradise (Wherever You Are)
11. Kiss the Road of Rarotonga

Only Talking Sense (N. Finn, T. Finn) (3:04)
 
There's a wild thing in the woolshed
And it's keeping me awake at night
A devil in the closet
And a feeling I'd prefer to hide
He is religion
He won't hear me when I cry for help
He has a vision of me
But I am somebody else

We talk the pillow
There are times when I'm tied up to the fence
Only talking sense

There's a mirror lake before me
But I'm frozen when it's time to jump
It's like maybe I'm afraid of what I'll find
When independence comes
You steal my shadow
You make my blood run dry

We are true only when we talk the pillow
There are times when I'm tied up to the fence
Only talking sense

Did you suffer as a child
That's why you want me to cry
You are afraid of me
That's why you're so unkind

You won't deny it
When your child is tied up to the fence
And I'm only talking sense
Lonely when we talk the pillow
And your child is messed up in the head
I'm only talking sense

 

Eyes of the World (N. Finn, T. Finn) (2:52)
 
You're nothing in the eyes of the world
But you're riding up and down in the elevator still
Feeling just a little surprised
Like you discovered Englebert Humperdink or something
Inside the fairy light
It's often hard to tell
The way you see yourself
Will lead you to despair
The eyes of everyone will look right through your scene
It's nothing new to me
That's what I used to be
 
Someone in the eyes of the world
You look into the eyes of the world
Hoping to catch your reflection again
Missing all the real life action
So calm and dignified you rise up from the chair
Put the powder on and climb the slippery stairs
Inside a sleazy room with a Bible for companion
Bleeding fingernails
You'll never know yourself
 
The eyes of the world they look right through you
Your nothing in the eyes of the world
The hint of a smile appears on your face
When you realize
There's nothing in the eyes of the world
 
Mood Swinging Man (N. Finn, T. Finn) (4:06)
 
He's a mood swinging man with his bag of tricks
Never know where he's at
The life of the party when he's doing his flips
A drag when he's flat on his back
This town feels empty now he's gone away
Please understand
The wheels in his hand
 
He takes me up
He brings me back down again
Flash in the pan
Mood swinging man can't pretend
 
Tall dark stranger of the restless kind
Shadow of a shadow
I'd like to wander through his mind
He's hard to get to know
He wakes you up in the dead of night
to tell you he's in love
he can give you a heavy sleeper a terrible fright
 
And no one can keep up
 
With the mood swinging man
He'll be back down again
He lights up
He's a flash in the pan
Mood swinging man
No idea who I am
I'm the mood swinging man
 
you know where he's at
He will crave your attention still
All too familiar
Mood swinging man

 

Last Day of June (N. Finn, T. Finn) (3:18)
 
The firelight plays on me
The choir ignites behind me
The rising voice of discontent
All the guardian angels
You can bang the drum
Look what we've become
I hope there might be one of us
Who calls the tune
Last day of June

The so called third dimension
Hardly deserves a mention
The first and second stages
Have been confused for ages
Knowledge has been lost
How much does it cost
I hope there might be one of us
Who calls the tune
Last of June
Who breaks the news
Last day of June

The city draws it's breath in
I can almost hear it thinking
There are people within my walls
See their wild disorder
Driving their machines
Swarming like a million bees
I hope there might be one of us
Who calls the tune
Last day of June
Who speaks the truth
Last day of June
Who breaks the news

 

Suffer Never (N. Finn, T. Finn) (4:00)
 
Has she fallen from the sky so heavy of heart
The sigh was on her tongue, the grief was in her arm
She will suffer never, I mean her no harm

She'll come slowly rising on the air
Lift her weightless on the air, on the air

And the silence was enough to shed my guilt
She will always know my wishes cos I remember how it felt

Kisses slowly rising on the air,
Lift her weightless on the air, on the air

She will suffer never, I mean her no harm

 

Angels Heap (N. Finn, T. Finn) (2:53)
 
News travels fast
There's an old wreck in the underpass
Wine in a glass
And a well traveled bad
Down the length and breadth of the motorway
Down the information highway

I took a ride in an angels heap
And she took me away to where the hills are steep
Yeah I took a ride

In the still mind of a child
There's a live bird on her shoulder
She could swallow a lie
Like she's drinking a flagon of beer
I'll never be the same again
Let the black wheels fly over

I took a ride in an angels heap
And she took me away to where the air was sweet
And she made me come alive in a red vinyl seat
Yeah I took a ride

Let the black wheels fly over

 

Niwhai (N. Finn, T. Finn) (3:37)
 
Niwhai she's so fly
Making it happen
Niwhai be my witness
Five satellites in just one night
 
Niwhai pacific sister
Her fathers son
She was something precious
Now we all love what she's become
Strange attractor
Something wicked
Paint her golden Buddha
You're a blinding flash across the sky
 
Niwhai sequined slipper
Fly by radiating light
Grant her secret wishes
Five satellites in just one night
 
Niwhai she's so fly
Making it happen
Grant her secret wishes
Five satellites in just one night

 

Where Is My Soul (N. Finn, T. Finn) (4:11)
 
Wick in the candle
What lies beneath
Look in the shadows and the spaces in between
A vision ghosted appearing on my screen
 
Soul where is my soul, where is my soul
 
I seek contentment
I'm acting still
All airs and graces with a smile before you kill
Hold back the hostile crowd before they trample you down
 
Soul where is my soul, where is my soul
 
I'll go up with my conscience clean
Down below they're looking for me
And I know you've got my soul
 
Oh holy ancient
I'll smoke you up
I'll take your wisdom and I'll turn you into dust
You fill my ashtray
The one I've come to trust
 
Soul where is my soul, where is my soul
Soul you've lost control of all you've had
Soul where is my soul, where is my soul

 

Bullets in My Hairdo (N. Finn, T. Finn) (3:00)
 
There's junk mail in my letterbox
And all the catalogues
I can't wait to buy it
No matter what it costs
The whistle of the sniper
The crashing of the bombs
Put a spring back in my step
Keeps me feeling young
 
And this shopping is a curse
Every time it's getting worse
I got bullets in my hairdo
The hairs on my shirt
 
Many ways to spend your money
There's not a lot to choose
The tanks are rolling over
My hundred dollar shoes
You can never find a taxi
To drive you into town
I'm always in a panic
I won't go underground
 
And this shopping is a curse
Every time it's getting worse
I got bullets in my hairdo
And holes in my purse
 
All quiet on the street
Silence breathing down
Bullets in my hairdo
Jewel in my crown
And this shopping is a curse
Every time it's getting worse
I got bullets in my hairdo
And holes in my shirt

 

Paradise (Wherever You Are) (N. Finn, T. Finn) (3:57)
 
Endless travel, can't remember
Where I've been
Lying in this hammock, feeling tragic
Like the ones you hear so much about
Can't wait to tell you what I've seen
 
Calm the water, South Atlantic
Ocean grey
Always searching for his mate
Lonely albatross cannot find them
The ones you care so much about
They're lost and you're losing your way
 
Too much pressure, gin and tonic water
They'll forget you
The ones you care so much about
They'll surrender to the need
 
Paradise, wherever you are

 

Kiss the Road of Rarotonga (N. Finn, T. Finn) (3:26)
 
I kiss the road of Rarotonga
 
Speed through the night
My gritty eyes so fever bright
Scars on my hand
The gravel stones I took a bite
 
I kiss the road of Rarotonga
Taste some gravel
I kiss the road of Rarotonga
 
My barefoot nurse
Whisper sorry when it hurts
Black sea slug sand
A velvet sky and the roosters cry
Bird flapped its wing
Man I robe like a king
 
I kiss the road of Rarotonga
Taste some gravel
I kiss the road of Rarotonga
Stand up and flow, push it on push it on
Island I'll stay with you
 
I give thanks to Rarotonga
I kiss the road of Rarotonga

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