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Pendulum

by Liz Stringer

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1.
Over The Sea 05:16
Oh my love I am falling See the winds of change, they swept me right up to the sky And now I fall with my wings burning And the sea below me swells from the tears in my eyes I dreamt last night of a beautiful bird taking me high and away from the world Well I didn’t believe this I couldn’t believe that life it changes as fast as it does But the wild wind loves the heart that is lightened And leaves on the ground the souls that are bitter and tough I dreamt of you last night as a beautiful bird, taking me high and away from the world Oh sweet baby, I was always on your side In the eye of the storm kept you sheltered and warm, swept up troubles that you left behind And when I wake and I don’t see your face, a panic creeps to me But I know that you’re safe in some other good place That’s all that I have to stop ruin from closing my lead But for now, happy and wild and free, flying over the sea Over the sea
2.
Drawn To You 05:59
There ain’t no going back if I go down this road with you But I’m still swimming in that ocean, those eyes I fell into And its difficult to see straight when you got a dizzy heart No use thinking ‘bout an ending when we haven’t made a start Sitting ‘round in the dark You might break my tender heart in two, but I’m drawn to you I drink so much these days it’s hard to know what’s real But I’m so sick of second guessing every single thing I feel So blindly I tread forward, down this road I turn It’s just a matter of time when both ends of a candle burn Sitting ‘round in the dark I might break your tender heart in two, but I’m drawn to you And when that road came to an end we found ourselves facing a raging sea And try as I might I couldn’t stop the tide from turning there in front of me I saw you yesterday when I was driving in my car I forced my eyes to turn away, dragged on my cigarette real hard We both had our scars, now some of them are raw But I never liked perfection, it’s such a fucken bore Sitting ‘round in the dark Guess we broke each other’s hearts in two, but I’m still drawn to you
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4.
Baby Jane 05:44
Our baby loved the east coast She had done all her life She said she liked that when she pointed her pretty eyes north She had the ocean on her right She loved to have people all around her And see the streetlights shining in the dark The way the city smoked of fun and danger The waiting spark She got a ride on a road train He fed her speed and travelling tales When they arrived in the western end of Sydney She opened all her sails We got letters every week for the first month Told us of kindred souls, the friends she’d made But when the summer closed in, the longer Between letters we would wait Baby Jane, she ain’t ever going to see the sun rise Baby Jane, over the Southern Ocean deep Baby Jane, not one moment with our child forgetting Baby Jane, we wait for her to come home To her father and me Last time we heard from our baby That letter screamed between the lines A debt, a lover and an iron will breaking Nothing said, a thousand times So when we see the western sun setting And hear the Currawongs fly over the plain I watch my husband’s tears, the dry dirt they be wetting For our pretty baby Jane Baby Jane, she ain’t ever going to see the sun rise Baby Jane, over the Southern Ocean deep Baby Jane, not one moment with our child forgetting Baby Jane, we wait for her to come home To her father and me
5.
I was coming down, got a little sleep And was woken by the sound of the pouring rain It pounded down on the windscreen, washed the dirt from the road And left that black tar clean again The pretty feeling of the motion of those wheels Made me feel I was free from the fight But that’s all I have for you tonight We were young then, hopping countries Like they were stepping-stones across the sea Running from the life I knew, but would never know again as true Pulling lint from the chains that shackled me Left my heart open to be broken many times But I gained love too from flinging those gates wide Buts that’s all I have for you tonight All I have for you tonight Don’t want you to see me in the cold morning light All I have for you tonight It ain’t no surprise that everything fell in a heap That road I was walking was narrow and steep So I pulled those gates closed, got myself on the road home And here I am with the secrets I keep And though I’m scared as hell of all the shit that I still hide Maybe you’re the one to help pull these gates back open wide But that’s all I have for you tonight All I have for you tonight Don’t want you to see me in the cold morning light All I have for you tonight
6.
Alone 04:37
Sharks they swim through shadows round the rocks where I was born Worn smooth by the wrath of a thousand rainstorms They watch me for I am friends with the creatures of the dark The alley-dwelling bottom-feeders near and far Oh they know my way, keep to myself and the bad keeps away They understand what it is to be alone I remember my mother well, she was gentle and she was tall I still smell her faded apron and hear her dinner call And when she lost her eyes, I gladly gave her mine Those last years were summer days and strawberry wine Oh I know what she’d say, she’d scold me now for living this way She’d say “Don’t you stay alone” I read in a magazine that was washed up on the shore It said this Autumn’s colour is navy green and all office girls are whores I never knew the city well, I don’t do pretty talk But I understand the cicadas’ rhythm and the birds’ call Oh it don’t make sense to me, for the colour of the seasons are the colours of the sea And the ocean decides the colour of the sky And I am alone
7.
Well my darling I hope that this letter finds you well I’m on the road to somewhere, I think it might be hell For those lights dragged me in as a moth to a flame And now my soul lies a bloodied corpse on the river’s edge Oh, it’s when I lost my mind Gotta get myself together but now just ain’t the time I was born in the suburbs, I worked hard all my life Never had the cash to buy a diamond for my pretty wife So I saw my chance and I took it with both hands But that jewel in my city’s crown hides in the shifting sands Oh, I fooled myself, I was fooled in kind Gotta get myself together but now just ain’t the time Do you know how it feels to have your pride ripped from you Like you were only ever half a man? Do you know how it feels to have your only son recoil When you stretch out one trembling hand? Well maybe it was always lies, I dunno shit no more But it was a promise broken from a rich man to the poor And as I drive down this western road I’ve never seen I think about how big that big win could’ve been Oh, shame made me blind Gotta get myself together, but now just ain’t the time So my darling I hope that wherever you are You think of me in the high rollers’ room smoking a fat cigar I made you so many promises, I broke every single one I dug myself a big dark hole, and now my digging’s done Oh, forget me and move on with your life Gotta get myself together but now just ain’t the time
8.
Lady Luck 04:59
I was born in Brisbane on a hot spring day Among my kin a big storm brewing And when Dad got a job up Port Moresby way That big old storm it blew in It scattered us around like autumn leaves Mum in Melbourne, brother in Manly I started sowing trouble seeds My dad’s new missus hated me My father looked at me sometimes As cold as a Melbourne outer eastern squall I went to find my mother when I was nine And hung with new mates by the station’s wall By thirteen I was drugging and wagging class Changed schools ‘bout a thousand times I’d never really fit in anywhere Been moving ‘round all of my life But Lady Luck she comes and goes And she leaves this gentle warning For what you have tonight, who knows If it’ll still be there in the morning But there’s always a new day dawning I left school and got an apprenticeship Sweeping hair from a salon floor Gave up the drugs when I lost some friends Couldn’t see what the madness was for The road was good I was travelling on For the first time the sun was shining But when I met that man and thought he was the one That old road started winding We moved in ‘cross the train line down Croydon way ‘Cos he told me I was pretty But his soul, like his fists, got harder every day It was the needle he adored and not me But then one night my hibernating pride Woke just like a black snake A friend and I we headed north Drove all night for my life’s sake But Lady Luck she comes and goes And she leaves this gentle warning For what you have tonight, who knows If it’ll still be there in the morning But there’s always a new day dawning And now I’m sitting on the deck of my Buderim house I’m pulling double shifts and living clean I think of all those dark angels back in the south All the places that I’ve been When I talk to my mother I can hear her smile Feel her mighty strength and reason She taught me that though there’ll be storms to come Life keeps changing faster than the seasons And that Lady Luck she comes and goes And she leaves this gentle warning For what you have tonight, who knows If it’ll still be there in the morning But there’s always a new day dawning
9.
Well singing songs from town to town There ain’t no time to settle down Driving east from Portland, stinking Christmas eve Drunk from driving, window down Red hot wind through an ice-cream town All our guitars cracking, swelling from the heat I saw her leaning by the kitchen pass, drinking water from a glass Her working shirt clung to her, I wished that I could too Fire to make this cold heart light, a vision there in sweat and white I gotta talk to her I thought as I began to blush Well I never thought I’d meet the one who made me want to stay Who’d pull me up like buttercups when I had gone astray But I was young and restless, roamed at my will I burned a lot of bridges, and I weren’t about to build Things are gonna change That summer we slept under the pines All day I held her hand in mine I’d go singing, she would wait on tables after dark I met her mother, she met mine We smoked Marlboros and drank red wine And I remember thinking I think now is the time Well I never thought I’d meet the one who made we want to stay Who’d pull the strings and see the things that I had shut away I was young and restless, she just knocked me hard I’d burned a lot of bridges, so she built one to my heart Things are gonna change
10.
Rain runs down your cheeks mixed with your tears Breaking the drought that’s been drying you out for years Those memories come back like a pendulum’s swing Pain nips at your heels, you’re so tired You’re lying in your bed, rest your pretty head but you’re still so wired And all through the night you drift in and drift out The morning comes like an axe swinging ‘round And you start on this journey again And you’re having trouble sleeping So lay your pretty brown hair down And take these moments, however fleeting That tell you that things, they will turn around So come over, come ‘round here and sit with me at my place Let’s drown some of that sorrow that’s darkened your face I’ve known you so long, its like we’ve got the same blood in our veins So when you hurt, darlin, I feel the pain And if I could I would take it away from you And you’re having trouble sleeping So lay your pretty brown hair down And take these moments, however fleeting That tell you that things, they will turn around
11.
It’s hard to know just what to say Goodbyes never were my thing My chest tightened as that train pulled away Carrying you on big wheels rolling You were more of a talker than I ever was I was always much better in a fight When the memories come, like those wheels rolling I’m missing my old friend tonight I showed you who I was from the start Never done that with no-one You know every inch of this broken heart You’ve seen my pride come undone I’ve been as sober as a judge, been on benders five days long You still read my eyes in the darkest of light When the memories come like those wheels rolling I’m missing my old friend tonight My grandmother she kept telling me “You don’t want regret when you’re old Don’t you let your life roll on endlessly Without telling the ones that need told” So next time we’re together, I’ll pour us both a glass I reckon what I have to say I’ll say right When the memories come like those wheels rolling I’m missing my old friend tonight When the memories come like those wheels rolling

credits

released January 1, 2008

Adam May: Drums and percussion (tracks 1-5, 7, 8, 10, 11)
Tim Keegan: Upright bass (tracks 1-5, 8, 10, 11), vocals (tracks 8, 11)
Jordie Lane: Acoustic guitar (tracks 8, 11), electric guitar (track 3), banjo (track 4), vocals (tracks 2-5, 8, 11)
Matt Walker: Harmonica (tracks 7, 8), electric guitar (track 7), nylon string guitar (track 2), pump organ (tracks 5, 10), vocals (tracks 4, 7, 8, 11), percussion (track 4)
Jen Anderson: Violin (tracks 1, 4, 10), viola (tracks 1, 10)
Michael Hubbard: Electric guitar (tracks 2, 3, 10), pedal steel (tracks 1, 4, 5)
Lou Bennett: Vocals (tracks 2, 4, 5, 7)
Jaimi Faulkner: Vocals (track 7)
Dan Sultan: Vocals (track 7)
Liz Stringer: Vocals (tracks 1 – 11), acoustic guitar (tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 11), resonator guitar (tracks 4, 5, 7, 7, 10), amplified resonator (track 1), cello (tracks 1, 10), pump organ (tracks 8, 10), piano (tracks 2, 5, 7, 10), banjo (tracks 8, 11), archtop guitar (track 10), lap steel guitar (track 11), tambourine (track 3)

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Liz Stringer Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne born musician Liz Stringer is one of Australia’s most respected and versatile songwriters and instrumentalists. A lauded guitarist and vocalist, Stringer has released 5 full-length albums since 2006, her powerful and emotive live performances and melodically rich, story-based songs delighting fans and festival-goers throughout Australia and a growing audience in North America + Europe. ... more

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