Neil Finn Album

Hand me down my favourite coat
Show what you're made of, surprise us both
Fly in the night, slow down town
Brake too fast, and bring us round, bring us round
And the finest days have come
Summer nights go on so long
So high I might as well be gone

And you are magnificent
And I can see you with my eyes closed
You're the last one standing

Lean and hungry with a fire in your eyes
I'll play catch up, you can show me where it's at
I'll go along with anything that you want to do
Every day I'm making ground
So high I might as well be gone

And you are magnificent
And I can see you with my eyes closed
When you're walking into my house
I'll be the last one standing

If you want you can get there
Night vision can I find your
White doves land in your treasure tower
And I promise that I won't look back
Every day I'm making ground
So high I might as well be gone

And you are magnificent
And I can see you with my eyes closed
When you're walking into my house
I'll be the last one standing

And you are magnificent
And I can see you with my eyes closed
When you're walking into my house
I'll be the last one standing

Don't ask the question
You won't like the answer
Get up off your chair
There's nothing for you here

Where the guests like souvenirs
They play with you 'till you're all worn out
Back where the guests like souvenirs

Prison color blue
It's a uniform of choice
Count yourself lucky
That you don't write the software

Where the guests like souvenirs
They play with you 'till you're all worn out
Back where the guests like photographs
They hope you had a good night

Loosen up your tie
Make the viewers cry
I cannot pretend to cry

Memorise by heart
Every single part
There's nothing for you here

Where the guests like souvenirs
They play with you 'till you're all worn out
Back where the guests like souvenirs
They hope you had a good night

It's a dark and empty room
The sun beating hard on your door
Feel emotion roar within you
You're flesh and blood like anyone

Make some sense of your life
Move your hand and make the mark
I don't know why you're so confused
You're flesh and blood, there's no excuse

And the hunger inside
Won't go away, it's starting to rise
And the longer you hide
The more you deny
And the sea rushes in

The wind is howling at your back
The past is always overturned
It's a dead man who would refuse
and twice the man to fill his shoes

And the hunger inside
Won't go away it's starting to rise
And the longer you hide
The more you deny
And the hunger inside
Won't go away it's starting to rise
And the sea rushes in
Into my world

I can feel the king tide coming
All my senses overflowing
One night waiting out the back
Horns'll blow and cymbals crash
So paint a circle in the sky
I lay breathless in the arms of love
There's a bruise on my back
And a new understanding too

Tales from my head
Can't buy the book
No one's listening
But I guess you could
Try whistling this

You say you're tired
Liquid as water
But you'll succumb now
As I stroke your back
I'm the best that you know

And every time you think of me
I hope you're thinking true romance
And every time you want to leave
You'll give us both another chance

Warmest welcome
Violent stranger
He said come here
As he pushed me down
Impossible to do
In high heels
Walking into walls
Ever wondered
If you're here at all?
Try whistling this

And my words are ringing in your ears
Drawing your attention now to all the things that you ignore
If I can't be with you, I would rather have a different face
If I can't be near you, I would rather be adrift in space
And if the gods desert us now, I'll turn this chapel into flames
And if someone tries to hurt you, I will put myself in your place

I might be old but I'm someone new she said
I'm so sore that I could cry always
In the night lay your tired arms

She will have her way
But somehow I will still believe her

She's the life I've been frightened of
Seems like deathly silence and especially the dark
Feels like I am heavy and my spirit has died

She will have her way
But somehow I will still believe her
She will have her way
And one day I will come back
Yeah

Do do do, do do do
Do do do, do do do
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

Still no end in sight
Though I travel far and wide
A dying man is doing time
Thinker, soldier terrified

She will have her way
Somehow I will still believe her
She will have her way
One day I will come back

Do do do, do do do
Do do do, do do do
Do do do
Ah, ah, ah, ah

Do do do, do do do
Do do do, do do do
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah

(Hey)
She will have her way
(...)
Yeah she will have her way
She will have her way

See it anyone got my eyes got my face
Sing it everyone got my nose got my blood
Conscience plays upon me now
Safe until my luck runs out
Cukoos call, pendulum swings
I thought you knew everything
Lift my hands, make the cross

Sinner, I have never learned
Beginner, I cannot return
Forever, I must walk this earth like some forgotten soldier

These things, I should keep to myself
But I feel somehow strangely compelled
Under moonlight, I stood wild and naked
Felt no shame just my spirit awakened

Sinner
Seein everything
Got my eyes got my face
Fireball drop from the sky
All my dreams have come to pass
Where's my faith, is it lost
Can't see it 'til you cast it off

Sinner, there is no such thing
Beginner, I have learned to sing
Forever, I must walk this earth like some forgotten soldier

Today, I am still disconnected
To the face that I saw in the clouds
And the closest I get to contentment
Is when all of the barriers come down

These things I should keep to myself
But I feel somehow strangely compelled
And the closest I get to contentment
Is when all of the barriers come down

Sinner
Sinner
Got my eyes, got my face
Seein anyone
Got my nose, got my blood
(I must walk this earth)
Seein anyone
Got my eyes, got my face

The hangman's in the noose,
The prisoner is loose,
The wheel has come around,
And the velvet curtain coming down.
And I left it there,
A suitcase on a chair.
I feel my weight
And something tells me
There's a river underground,
In a place where there's no one to be found.

And no one came to see
The oldest show in town
And no one came to see
The oldest show in town
And no one came to see
The oldest show in town

Santa's on the cross.
Innocence is lost.
The music's in your mind,
And the windscreen wipers move in time.

No one came to see
The oldest show in town
No one came to see
The oldest show in town

And the stranger was a ghost
The killer was a priest
Took the first excuse
Made the madness seem cute lipped
On your own you'll find your own escape
There are many ways to choose
And I don't know which one you should take

A home is all you want
On the back of a truck driving down the street
It doesn't seem so much
But it's all you need to make your life complete

No one came to see
The oldest show in town
No one came to see
The oldest show in town
No one came to see
The oldest show in town

No one came to see
I lean the slightest bit towards you
White turns into brown, light goes to black
Your eyes danced in my reflection
And the horse ate my trousers

Remember my loose tongue
Forget what I just said
I'll crawl over broken glass
If we could start again
Before our plans were made
When the world was young
The house was falling down
Because of my loose tongue

I shouldn't say so much
I shouldn't talk so loud
It's sooner on your lips
And it's all over town
In all our given days
How many gone to waste
A good man has been hung
Because of my loose tongue

Your skin is changing it's hue
Your god is coming down fast
Looks like someone I knew
Uncovered happiness at last

And all the wagging tongues
Too much information
In the future now
Under massive doubt
The papers on the street
Get trampled under feet
And they settle for a princely sum

Good will is coming down
And when it rains
Your well is full

You shouldn't ask me, shouldn't ask me
You want the real story, shouldn't ask me
You better find someone else with the house key
You know impression on his personal life
You know the man's walking on the edge of a knife
Your tail is getting long and your nose keeps growing
Perhaps some time you forget what you know and
Now I feel I'm getting caught with a psycho sycophant
And ... a kicked out tin can
Got the poor man nailed to the floor
And that's not enough when you wanna beat more

He's only halfway through his life
He's only used up all his time

Remember who we are
Supple and new
If I lose my way
You tell me the truth for all its worth
Lifting up your hand, show me, i rescue
What i said
Truth is worth more than pride
Truth is worth more than pride

Everything you do continues long after you've gone
Circle overheard
View from the bed
So high I'm lonely
Sixteen times a day
He comes to ground
To get some attention

What I said
Truth is worth more than pride
Truth just cannot be denied
Truth is worth more than pride

Where you've showered me with riches
If they say that I am worthy of their love and their attention
But they still don't know the truth

Everything you do continues long after you've gone
What I said
Truth is worth more than pride
Truth cannot be denied
Truth is worth more than pride

View from the bed
So high I'm lonely
So high I'm lonely

Truth, worth more than pride
Hey
View from my bed
So high I'm lonely
So high I'm lonely

You weightless astronaut
You sunset diving bird
You're cool wind set upon the branches of a tree
You're holding my attention
You are my first impression
And I can recognise the light that I've been given

One day they will discover you
Low cloud moving across the sky
One day they will uncover you
Young girl
Wash the sleet out of your eye

Dust on my piano
Wool rest never sleeping
All your best one-liners borrowed from a film
The thing that gets to me is
How you're never free, and
How the spirit yearns
Your body is a prison

One day they will discover you
Low cloud moving across the sky
One day they will uncover you

The thing that gets to me
Is how you're never free
And how the spirit yearns
Your body is a prison

Bright as her eyes
Wide in the night
Why can't you see me?
Come with the wind
Time to begin
There'll be no compromise
When all you want is wrapped around you
As those saints preserve us when we're dying
To pick us up from where we're lying
One day they will discover you
One day they will uncover you
Bright as her eyes
Wide in the night
They will discover you
They will discover you

Remove yourself from the past
Wherever you are, you don't have to stay
Old and wise, lion's eyes
I wish you were here to give me advice

Light-weight dream date
Fly or fall, its my call

In the club, halfway up
Whiskey at five, a weekend retreat
Brave and young, the bells have rung
You're playing the tune, I'm tapping my feet

Light-weight dream date
Fly or fall, its my call
Light-weight dream date
Fly or fall, its my call

Friend or foe, its hard to know
I wish you were here to give me advice

Light-weight dream date
Fly or fall, its my call
Light-weight dream date
Fly or fall, its my call

Close your eyes
Go to sleep
Close your eyes
Get so dizzy
The world is spinning
In your bed
I know where the sun goes
It's waking up the sparrows
In England it's morning

In time, you'll see that some things travel faster than light
In time you'll recognise that love is larger than life

Now you know what you're missing
Now you've seen that I'm willing
If you're looking for the message
Close your eyes

Do you hear what I'm thinking?
Is it how you've imagined?

In time you'll see that some things travel faster than light
In time you'll recognise that love is larger than life
And praise will come to those whose kindness
Leaves you without debt
And bends the shape of things that haven't happened yet

Close your eyes

Colours changing like a lizard
Close your eyes

I know where the sun goes
I have seen the world turning

In time you'll find that some things travel faster than light
In time you'll recognise that love is larger than life
And praise will come to those whose kindness
Leaves you without debt
And bends the shape of things to come that haven't happened yet

Hear the words a jumble, try this tongue twister
Kevin has a caterpillar squeezed between his fingers
Hear the mailman come, see what he delivers

And you wait
And it makes you feel strange
As if you were afraid
And you lie

With a look to the side
And you say
I was addicted to the drug
But now I know when I've had enough

Could curl up and sleep on the floor
But I'm riding the train a hunder miles an hour
It feels like this train might never stop

Watching static on the television
When the morning comes
And you wait
And it makes you feel strange
As if you are deranged

With a look to the side
And you say
I was addicted to the drug
But now I know when I've had enough

So far, you've come so far
You've come so far
We've come so far