Time and Tide Album
| 1. | Dirty Creature |
| 2. | Giant Heartbeat |
| 3. | Hello Sandy Allen |
| 4. | Never Ceases to Amaze Me |
| 5. | Lost For Words |
| 6. | Small World |
| 7. | Take a Walk |
| 8. | Pioneer |
| 9. | Six Months In a Leaky Boat |
| 10. | Haul Away |
| 11. | Log Cabin Fever |
| 12. | Make Sense of It |
- Dirty Creature (T. Finn, N. Griggs, N. Finn) (4:02)
- Dirty Creature come my way from the bottom of a big black lake
Shuffles up to my window making sure I'm awake
S'probably gonna pick my brain
Got me in a vice-like grip
He said one slip, your dead. Ha.
Dirty Creature of habit
Little horror here to stay
Anyone in his right mind would tell it to go away
but the river of dread runs deep
full of unspeakable things
The creature don't mess around
I don't wanna mess with him
I don't wanna sail, I don't wanna sail
I don't wanna, I don't wanna sail tonight
Dirty Creature's got me at a disadvantage from the inside.
Tentacles on the brain keep me from falling asleep
I'm rooted to the spot
The beast don't know when to stop
Sneaking up from behind
Binds and gags my wits
Dirty Creature got my head exactly where he wants it
I don't wanna sail, I don't wanna sail,
I don't wanna, I don't wanna sail tonight,
Taniwha is waiting for me just below the surface so bright (Yeah)
Even as we speak the Dirty Creature springs a nasty surprise.
Dirty Creature knows my type found it in a magazine
He's seen the look of fear before splattered all over the screen
The animal magnet thug draws me out of myself
I need a dragon-slayer who can save me from myself
I don't wanna sail, I don't wanna sail,
I don't wanna set sail for the middle of nowhere tonight
Dirty Creature's got me at a disadvantage from the inside (Yeah)
I don't wanna sail upon the waters of invention tonight
- Giant Heartbeat (N. Finn, N. Griggs) (3:57)
- Heartbeat
Bearing down
On our world
It never sleeps
Feel like a Zephyr harmonizing with a flute
Notes are rising in familiar twos and threes
The time of yearning is the same at any age
The back is bending and the sky is growing pale
Sun up sun down fade to a look-alike
Hearts and souls move together in time
One step forward is a leap for all mankind
Old man river smiles on all he leaves behind
Ooh when temptation brings you down
I say you better spread yourself around
Red limbs, my body's torn apart
The boy's hand will squeeze the giant's heart
Sun up sun down fade to a look-alike
Hearts and souls move together in time
If anybody's listening, a giant heartbeat is fading
Fire burns
Water drowns
Hate kills
Our homes
Faith helps
Love heals
Sun up sun down fade to a look-alike
Hearts and souls move together in time
If anybody's listening
If anybody's listening
Is anybody listening, a giant heartbeat is fading
- Hello Sandy Allen (Neil Finn) (3:50)
- Hello Sandy Allen
The world's tallest woman
We made friends in New York
Don't know if you'll remember
I'm bound to say I felt uneasy
when I first laid eyes on you
But I liked the way you talked
Like a living hoper
Towering over our heads
in more ways than one
The hand that shook my hand was awesome
It still amazes me
Hope you're happy Sandy Allen
Hope your garden is blooming
We're all staring at the mirror
tryin' to put our faces on
Appearance never held you back
Must be when you're number one
you don't have to try so hard
Hello Sandy Allen, hello Sandy Allen, hello...
Hope you're happy Sandy Allen
Hope your garden is blooming
We're all staring at the mirror
tryin' to put our faces on
Appearance never held you back
Must be when you're number one
you don't have to try so hard
- Never Ceases to Amaze Me (Tim Finn) (3:03)
- Let's go walking around the block
Well you never know who you might meet
Every neighbourhood has a spot
There's a likelihood of a treat
It's a non-stop action world
Never ceases to amaze me
Insect singing up in the tree
makes a mockery of my voice
Hippopotamus in the mud
nips my arrogance in the bud
A little goes a long way
It pays to sell yourself
Let's get into the swing of things
Discontinue the downward trend
Put an end to our ennui
Never ceases to amaze me
Happiness is a broken heart away,
but you get caught up
because it's worth the risk
Never cease to amaze me...
Just when everything's going great
Something happens to break the spell
The unpredictable finger of fate
Puts the turtle back in his shell
It's a rough and tumble world,
Never ceases to amaze me...
Up on the high trapeze the artist flies
With a sense of daring, on a natural high
Never ceases to amaze me...
Loneliness is a locked up heart away
So you make an effort, and ignore the risk
Never ceases to amaze me
Never ceases to engage me
- Lost For Words (N. Griggs, T. Finn, N. Finn) (3:00)
- Tell me sir what would you do if you were me
Hop, skip and jump like a kangaroo if you were me
I'm wide awake in a dormitory city if you were me
What would you do to stop the noise if you were me
I can't relate, to your vicious excuses
The damage has all been done, and talking is useless
Tell me sir what would you say if you were me
I'm lost for words ... if you were me
I'm scratching my head, and focusing my eyes
No lack of information, but I can't explain it
I'm looking it up, I'm writing it down
I couldn't read it if I tried
I'm looking for words, oooh
I give it all I got, ooooh
And I'm lost for words, you don't even listen
It's all been said before, so I'll just turn and walk away
- Small World (Tim Finn) (3:35)
- It's a small world, and you must agree
it's not a very big house, for a large family
People moving out or making home improvements
but the basic problem never seems to go away
It's a small world
It's common knowledge, satellite looks on
and a Russian man is sent to spy upon us
It's enough to make a man feel uncomfortable
Someone else's leader needs kill Pacific Atoll
It's a small world
Oh, well there's only just enough to go 'round
Wanna shout about it, shout about it
Small world, and it's getting smaller
There's no getting away from it all in a small world
Baby boom-town, and the population swells
There's a broken circuit no one tells the truth
Are we mammals with a future in this nutshell
When you're small it should be easier to pick things up
It's a small world
Oh, wanna hold it in my hand
Gonna roll it like a ball
Oh, we're a drop in the ocean
Gonna shout about it, shout about it
Small world, and it's getting smaller
There's no getting away from it all in a small world
Yes and it's a strange place for bringing up your children
When there's no guarantee that they'll have a future
In a small world
- Take a Walk (Neil Finn) (3:34)
- Time to slip out my back door
Sunrise dancing on my wall
Heading down off beaten tracks
Try to get that feeling back
I could take a walk again
Up a mountain to a stream
Standing on the open rock
Looking out over the sea
Funny when we move ahead
Never worry what we leave behind
I could always find some peace
In the back of beyond
Kind voice from yesterday
Give love fill up every space
But now I laugh at simple truth
Sneer and frown like we all do
When the long night awakes
With memories a midnight feast
Feel the boy in me escape
There's a field of frost beneath my feet
Run, never tire, run boy, forever and ever
I could take a walk again
Up a mountain to a stream
Standing on the open rock
Looking out over the sea
Funny when we move ahead
Never worry what we leave behind
Remember what a friend of mine said
You gotta be kind
- Pioneer (Eddie Rayner) (1:30)
- This song is an instrumental.
- Six Months In a Leaky Boat (T. Finn, Split Enz) (4:20)
- When I was a young boy
I wanted to sail around the world
That's the life for me, living on the sea
Spirit of a sailor, circumnavigates the globe
The lust of a pioneer, will acknowledge
No frontier
I remember you by, thunderclap in the sky
Lightning flash, tempers flare,
'round the horn if you dare
I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Lucky just to keep afloat
Aotearoa, rugged individual
Glisten like a pearl
At the bottom of the world
The tyranny of distance
Didn't stop the cavalier
So why should it stop me
I'll conquer and stay free
Ah c'mon all you lads
Let's forget and forgive
There's a world to explore
Tales to tell back on shore
I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Six months in a leaky boat
Ship-wrecked love can be cruel
Don't be fooled by her kind
There's a wind in my sails
Will protect and prevail
I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Nothing to it leaky boat.
- Haul Away (Tim Finn) (2:26)
- I was born in Te Awamutu
25th of June 1952
Ten pounds of boy
Haul away, haul away, haul away
My mother and father's pride and joy
Richard and Mary, drink to my journey
Haul away
I left home at the age of thirteen
Went to boarding school on a scholarship
Small fish, big sea
Haul away, haul away, haul away
No more happy childhood days for me
Catholic condition
Strength through exhaustion
Haul away
At 21, I was thirsting for experience
And my brain was about to burst
Stare at the rug
Haul away, haul away, haul away
That novel approach worked like a drug
Nothing was different
Everything changed then
Haul away
Years ago in an Auckland flat this odyssey began
Motivates me still, Northward I'm bound
Haul away, haul away, haul away
Ambition has lost me friends and time (telling them all about Split Ends)
Young men are waiting, lapping at my heels
Haul away
Now I'm having a nervous breakdown
But my mates will see that I don't go down
Love goes all wrong
Haul away, haul away, haul away
It's all we can do to carry on
Everyone has their own little story
Haul away
- Log Cabin Fever (Neil Finn) (4:34)
- Downstairs in the cellar drums are beating
Wounded no discomfort emotions bleeding
In the river alone always alone out of my depth
Headlong to the ocean with I sink or swim
Heard them tell the story of mad old Jim
Found him in his cabin with his head caved in
Waiting out the winter was a little too much for him
It's cold out hear the wind howl down the chimney
Wish I could just cry out to someone, help
but we live in isolation of the cruelest kind
Scared to show our colours to the world
Time to break away from my condition
Rejoin the human race, see what I'm missing
Try to face the day my private passion
Is eating me away
Log cabin fever
It's a remote possibility
Log cabin fever
It's an impossible delivery
Log cabin fever
It's not an impossibility
- Make Sense of It (Split Enz) (3:33)
- From deep within the forest, eyay, eyay, eyay
The heart of man still hollers, eyay, eyay, eyay
In the Congo where life began, eyay, eyay, eyay
Living proof of a master plan, eyay, eyay, eyay
When you're driving home from a day at work
and you stumble on some forgotten truth
Pounding down like a hammer through glass
If you could only make some sense of it, yeah
Don't lose your sense of humour, eyay, eyay, eyay
Boycott the guilty party, eyay, eyay, eyay
In the midst of human crisis, eyay, eyay, eyay
Goodwill triumphant rises, eyay, eyay, eyay
If you need a friend you can rely upon
Someone to help make some sense of it
If you shed a tear when the nightmare breaks
Just remember dreams go in opposites
You're holding on
Yeah you're holding on
Yes you're holding on to make sense of it
You realize you're not the only one
Who's trying to make some sense of it
When you're in the arms of the one you love
You can forget the daily push and shove
You need a friend you can rely upon
A bit of help to make sense of it
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Last updated on July 17, 2004.
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