PENDULUM - LYRICS

1. Over The Sea

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

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 it’s 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

3. You Say So Many Things

Laying tracks on a heavy night
Stumbling through the dew
We were laughing and touching each other’s hands
But I was missing you

You’d found a good place to watch me dance
We been together for so long, but you ain’t ever had that chance

I stayed on your arm for the whole night through
But when those coppers came and shone their torches I lost you
So I ran out into the dark with a man I met that night
We found our way home by that cold moonlight

Oh, it don’t really matter at all
You don’t mind at all
Oh, it don’t really matter at all
You don’t mind at all, you say
But you say so many things, baby

You came home with the long night on your breath
And that sadness crept from you like a tiny death
I told you that nothing happened and you turned away from me
And since that night we ain’t ever danced as close as we used to be

Oh, it don’t really matter at all
You don’t mind at all
Oh, it don’t really matter at all
You don’t mind at all, you say
But you say so many things, baby

4. Baby Jane

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 sunrise

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. All I Have For You Tonight

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

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. Get Myself Together 

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

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. The Summer they Slept Under The Pines

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. Having Trouble Sleeping

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. Those Wheels Rolling

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