I just remembered a boy I used to know
     He lived up the road at 162
     Lots of rings and funny clothes
     He wasn't one to worry about what other people thought

     Peter Collard where are you now? 
     You used to walk past my house every day
     Your head half-shaved from the operation
     The doctor said nobody would notice
     Do you remember?

     Throwin' plums on your neighbour's lawn
     Then runnin' away when we saw their car comin'
     On Rocky Knob you taught me how
     To smoke cigarettes
     All these little memories
     I still haven't forgotten

     Peter Collard where are you now? 
     You used to walk past my house every day
     You know I'd still have those penny bungers
     You gave me
     But the police took them away

     A touch of madness a touch of sadness
     A touch of madness

     You bought flowers for a girl
     And every week you would bring her new ones
     No response would you get from her
     You weren't to know she was allergic to them

     Peter Collard where are you now? 
     You used to walk past my house everyday
     There's a drawing of you at my parent's house
     I'll have to look for it someday

Met my match she was five foot one
     Face goes red bouncing up and down
     Takes her pleasure eyes wide open
     Big green eyes looking through me
     Met my match she was pretty as a garden
     Gap-toothed as bright as a button
     So tiny curled up warm in bed
     Big green eyes looking through me
     I met my match
     And she's coming 'round to me and all my funny ways
     I'm never friendly on the phone
     It pays to remember that the boy she had before me
     Well he couldn't have been perfect or she'd be with him still
     I met my match pretty as a garden
     Met my match bright as a button
     I met my match
     Light the candles I'm coming over
     I met my match five foot one her face goes red bouncing up and down
     Close the curtains I'm coming over
     I met my match…

It's getting harder to decide
     on which way I should go
     Should I let myself down fast?
     I don't think I wanna know
     It's over-said but understated just how hard it can be
     Hey I think I've seen this road before
     and it's so hard to believe
     I'd be back this way again after I told myself to leave
     You never said that it was gonna be easy
     But I didn't know just how hard it would be
     I go 'round and 'round
     I'm lost and found
     I'm never happy in the middle I've gotta be up or down
     Just when I think that I've found level ground
     I turn around and destroy all of the life I've found
     Well self-destruction's kinda dumb
     but if you do it well
     You can find heaven if you can handle hell
     It's all part of understanding just how strange life can be
     Living a lie becomes so easy but now
     I just want to be free
     I feel inside out never thought I'd doubt my ability to work it all out
     Going forward to fall back
     working hard to relax
     I never thought that I would be following my own tracks
     It's going 'round…
     It's going 'round…
     It's going 'round

My sweet thing is pretending
     Does a fine line in deception
     What night did she fall
     Or does it mean more
     To know what I did the night before
     There's nothing I can do
     No way that I can hurt myself
     My sweet thing reveals nothing
     Does a fine line in deception
     My sweet thing is pretending
     Caught her on the phone last night
     There's nothing I can do
     No way that I can hurt myself
     There's nothing I can say
     And I'll be going out tonight
     It's 1995
     You can talk to beggars to feel alright
     You got a hundred dollar bill to spend tonight
     Her husband's in Florida looking for life
     While a drunk Australian's in bed with his wife
     You're allergic to cats, you better crash out
     Here's an American sleeping pill in your mouth

The light from the street it comes
     Filtering through your room
     Just another night just another dream you're putting yourself into
     And outside the streets are bare without a care as if no-one
     Dares to make a sound
     I said well ain't that the way
     That you like it
     Well I know with all the plans we had it was gonna be hard to succeed
     But harder than any of that is sitting here watching you bleed
     You're on a plane to the end of your world
     You're going down down down
     It's one hell of a way to go out
     Yeah and all around it's comin' down
     You feel the winter it's setting in
     Well the leaves they now fill the gutters
     The trees just branches in the wind
     And into an empty room my eyes they're open wide
     to try to find something that was inside
     to take the place of what was left behind
     You're on a plane to the end of your world
     You're going down down down
     It's one hell of a way to go out
     Well you know it's so quiet here
     It's like a country town
     Where all the drama's gone
     it's left far behind and now there's only piece of mind
     You never thought it was a crime
     To be so sad and lonely
     But now you're down down down
     It's one hell of a way to go out
     Out with a bang

Look at the moon above our heads
     Oh the night is old but it's not dead
     Let's talk of things that we used to do
     'Cause the future looks too bleak

     My body's floatin' up in the stars
     The alcohol seems to cleanse the scars
     As another bottle hits the ground
     I feel as empty as it sounds

     So pass the flagon down the line
     It don't taste bad for such cheap wine
     And now the only thing left to forget
     Is that picture of her

     Well I awake and everything's bright
     Oh my eyes they can't adjust
     To the morning light
     My body's achin' with the cold
     I feel about a hundred years old
     So I stagger down to the D.S.S. 
     To try to get myself a counter cheque
     But an hour in line's an hour of wasted time
     And I want to break their necks

     You see my wife she couldn't stand the pain
     Left one morning on the evening train
     And now the only thing left to forget
     Is that picture of her

     You see my dad was one too you know
     He couldn't forget
     I don't feel proud following his footsteps
     Although the backs of his feet
     Are just a memory
     >From sometime long ago

     Getting' back to the park again
     Johnny borrowed some money off a friend
     And we washed down the morning with
     Some port and curled up in the shade

     You see my job was boring
     So I got the sack
     Spent the next twelve years on my back
     And the mortgages came and
     Sucked my house down the drain
     Now those four winds they blow
     All around me

     You see my wife
     She couldn't stand the smell
     Left me here to rot in hell
     And now the only thing left to forget
     Is that picture of her

My first customer was Megan
     She came in for a hamburger with the lot - no meat
     "Hey that's a salad roll" I said and we started going out
     My second customer was Susan
     she came in for Diet Pepsi morning tea
     Each day and I said "You don't need to be on a diet.
     Do you wanna come out tonight?"
     I said "I'll bring Gringo he's got a lot of money
     And he'll take us to the bars where they've got a view.
     He'll buy us all those beers they give it to you in bottles
     They put lemon in the top it don't taste too bad I'm telling you"
     My third customer was Maria she came in for hot chips and sauce
     "More sauce" she said. I said "now you're talking"
     and she took me home to meet her mother
     My fourth customer was Sandy she came in for nothing I could see except me
     So it was I too, was eating a hamburger of sorts within an hour
     I make hamburgers I get all the girls
     and I take 'em out to dinner and I give 'em all a whirl
     and If they work I keep 'em If they don't I keep 'em too
     But I teach 'em all how to be dirty girls like you

No doubt you're crying three suburbs away
     Life goes on me I'm walking around the block
     You said we never should have bothered
     But I looked into your heavy eyes & I said "No"

     You'll find a way to be happy again my love
     You'll find a way to be happy again my old love

     You can't say they were bad times
     Remember you laughing yourself off the bed? 
     Ain't sex funny something to be done
     Occasionally with someone you don't hate

     You'll find a way to be happy again my love
     You'll find a way to be happy again my old love

     We had a fine time dancing with the fairies
     But time has left me so reserved again my love
     Time has left me so reserved again my old love

     You'll find a way to be happy again my love
     You'll find a way to be happy again my old love

Don't love too long, I loved too long
     And fell out of fashion like an old song
     Over the years our thoughts were the same
     Then in a minute she changed
     And you remember you saw me there
     I was feeling so lucky sinking in my chair
     Don't love too long I loved too long
     And fell out of fashion like an old song

I've been watchin' you
     For so long now
     You know I feel just
     A little ashamed
     You know I follow you
     Wherever you go
     Hoping one day
     Things might change

     Maybe someday you will notice me
     And this won't be just a game

     You know I've seen every show
     You've ever done
     You don't even know my name
     You don't even know my name

     Maybe Monday hopefully someday
     Yeah all my luck will change
     'Til then I'll just follow you
     Wherever you go
     You don't even know my name
     You don't even know my name

I can see it shinin'
     It's coming for me comin' out of the night
     Everything is hummin' it's scarin' me now
     It ain't feelin' right
     Think I might just hide a while wait for the night to return
     Dark and cold and lonely
     Is how I feel and it feels nice
     Don't want any company it just wouldn't feel right
     I used to be so happy I could smile
     And everything seemed to work out
     Now my eyes are starting to close down
     I can see you again in my dreams
     You're starring my lost and lonely friend
     We used to have such good times
     Why did you leave before our time was through?
     Everything looks pretty we're far from the city
     And I'm holding you in my arms
     You feel so alive and so do I
     Isn't it a pity that soon I'll wake and soon I'll cry
     I can't stop reminiscing about what is missing in my life
     I'm scared of everything
     I got nothing to hold onto
     if I believed in God then maybe I could give myself up too
     But I'm not too sure about the after-life
     So I'm just gonna go on dreamin' of you

I get high when trouble arises
     Something in me surrenders and falls
     Say my goodbyes when trouble arises
     I smell trouble I look to the door
     I used to think I'd been down for so long
     Then I get back my health it don't seem right
     Some of us are just born to be wrong
     And you and me Stevie
     We were wrong from the start

     When I get worried
     I'm usually worried about Tim
     Maybe too much maybe the lack of him
     I call up all my friends and say
     Why don't you help me
     I need a reason to get out of bed
     Why don't you remind me?

     I got home and I look in the mirror
     Puff out my cheeks - I'm still the man
     I get home and look through my pockets
     Where's all the money gone? 
     Numbers and no faces no names in my head
     Numbers and no faces no names in my head
     I'll say goodnight to me goodnight to me
     Goodnight tockley...

Inside a hollow log a rabbit makes its home
     It burrows deep inside it's sheltered from the storm
     And when the rain has stopped
     The rabbit gets the urge to hop
     And hops and hops and hops and hops

     He loves the city lights the circus and the sound
     He loves the buildings and the holes in the ground
     He plays and bounces 'round until he sees
     the moon go down
     then back home again he hops

     Oh hollow log hollow log
     He loves his hollow log
     Living on his own
     No hot water and no telephone

     Now two years later he has a family
     He and his pretty wife a sprout of thirty three
     They're all gathered 'round
     Listening to the sound
     Of the rain falling on their...

     Hollow log hollow log
     They love their hollow log
     Living in harmony
     Ma and pa and - 1 2 3 4 5 6 - thirty three

I could while away the hours
     Conferrin' with the flowers
     Consultin' with the rain
     And my head, I'd be scratchin'
     As my thoughts were busy hatchin'
     If I only had a brain

     I'd unravel ev'ry riddle
     For every individ'le
     In trouble or in pain
     In my head I'd be thinkin'
     I could be another Lincoln
     If I only had a brain

     Oh, I could tell you why
     The ocean's near the shore
     I could think of things I'd never thunk before
     Then I'd sit, and think some more
     Oh I could tell you why
     The ocean's near the shore
     I could think of things I'd never thunk before
     Then I'd sit, and think some more

     I would not be just a nuffin'
     My head all full of stuffin'
     My heart all full of pain
     And perhaps I'd deserve you
     And be even worthy of you
     If I only had a brain

     Ohh.....

Tired, drunk
     But I'm still faithful

     She said "No, no way
     Not with you"

     Yeah I'm still faithful
     I'm still faithful