Numbers Fall

You ain’t got nothin’ that you need so bad
That you couldn’t give it up for a choice of two
An unseen chance is gonna come your way
Before this night is through

Blackjack, baccarat, matters of the heart
If you’ve just got the money
You’re a loser to start
And you can fold away your dreams as they come true
Dreams come true

Walkin’ down Forbes Street,
Early hours of Wooloomooloo
Chancy games in a hotel room
On Springfield Avenue

And if the numbers fall
And if the numbers fall right
And if the numbers fall
I know all my dreams come true

I know you’re old
Cause all you’re laying down is
Easy gold
You never take your heart uptown anymore
You don’t bleed anymore
The Forbes Street croupiers
Are lookin’ like cashers at a
Black and White Charity Ball

Roll ’em up once
Roll ’em up twice
The rustle of the money
And the click o’ the dice
Five-fifty dollars on the wheel
Oughta make it
For six I’ll teach your sister to
Shake it, shake it, shake it

Rich girls, bad girls
Jumpin’ on a fad girls
Cuttin’ things fine is how I first met you
Livin’ outside in the real estate
You know we stake a little more
Than just a dollar or two

And if the numbers fall
And if the numbers fall right
And if the numbers fall
I know all my dreams’ll come true

Taipan

Taipan
He’ll get you when he can
Ooh
He’ll get you when he can

Makes his home in a mangrove tree
Sleep plantation family
White man planter, Bundaberg rum
Childhood rattle, trumpet and drum

Stay with me
Stay with me, oh yeah
Until the morning comes

Taipan
He’ll get you when he can
Ooh
He’ll get you when he can

These days, I can’t explain
But I can smell the monsoon rain
Seasons come, and seasons turn
More and more, canefields burning
Early in the morning, the afternoon
Pathways blazed in a mangrove moon
Burning down my eyes

(Railroad goes, Kalamia mill
If the heat don’t get you, Taipan will
Six o’clock, the whistle sings
C.S.R. is the sugar-cane king)

Stay with me
Stay with me
Taipan
He’ll get you when he can
Ooh
He’ll get you when he can

When The War Is Over

Ain’t nobody gonna steal this heart away
Ain’t nobody gonna steal this heart away

When the war is over
Got to get away
Pack my bag to no place
In no time no day
You and I we used each other’s shoulder
Still so young but somehow so much older
How can I go home and not get
Blown away

You and I had our sights set
On something
Hope this doesn’t mean our days are numbered
I got plans for more than a wanted man
All around this chaos and madness
Can’t help feeling nothing more than sadness
Only choice to face it the best I can

When the war is over
Got to start again
Try to hold a trace of what it was
Back then
You and I we sent each other stories
Just a page I’m lost in all its glory
How can I go home and not get blown away

Ain’t nobody gonna steal this heart away
Ain’t nobody gonna steal this heart away
Ain’t nobody gonna steal this heart away

Ain’t nobody gonna steal this heart away
Ain’t nobody gonna steal this heart away
Ain’t nobody gonna steal this heart away

Wild Colonial Boy

I am a wild colonial boy
My name you’ll never see
My land is ruled by Anglophiles
And forces foreign to me
I do not curse your referees
In boardrooms far away
Yeah who am I to question these
Who plan their final day

I’ve never known the jealousies
The overcrowded pain
I live and breathe the silences
The dust where no man reigns

I’m in love,
I got blazing light
Ten thousand miles of ocean
I’m alone
And there’s more like me
Ignoring the end of their show

And when they shaft my brother dear
And pay him off with lies
I fill my hand with the Union card
And aim between their eyes

And if I smile,
When they crawl around
Too condescending to blame me
I am young,
Baby they’re so old
Gothic, religious and tame

I am just a wild colonial boy
My name you’ll never see
I breathe the silence that destroys
All their desperate harmony

You Got Nothing I Want

You got nothing I want
You got nothing I need

You got nothing I want
You got nothing I need

You got nothing I want
You got nothing I need

I don’t need crying lies
I don’t need stupid alibi’s
I don’t need convertible cars,
And don’t think you can push me too far
You got the money, I got the time,
Nothing better to do, so you might just change my mind.

You got nothing I want
You got nothing I need

You got nothing I want
You got nothing I need

I don’t want to see you again
I don’t want you for a friend
I don’t want you hanging around
I don’t mind just putting you down.
You got the money, I got the time
Nothing better to do, so I might just change my mind.

You got nothing I want
You got nothing I need

You got nothing I want
You got nothing I need

I don’t have to tell you
How that you should do your job,
I don’t want to have to be the one to shock your happy home.

You got nothing I want
You got nothing I need.

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