Simon London + the Spirits - Side B (Tracks 7-12)

Snare
Finally made it to your place the other day
Was the first time since you went away
Wasn't the hard whack I was expecting
Just more of that blunt aching pain
We made small talk in the kitchen
Talking our way 'round your name
Your car in the carport, your coffee machine, your sister on the fridge
Your drums in the mezzanine
The air loaded and heavy, like something's going to break
That leaning feeling, mate

Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-o-oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh
Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, o-o-o-o-oh
Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh

Thought I'd try and be useful, there was a broken chair
Headed out to the shed, the kids were cracking on your snare
Your driver bits on your workbench
All the boxes and the screws
All the sizes organised, different touch stones of you

Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, o-o-o-o-oh
Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh

I mostly found what I needed, we know it's never what we want
Left the chair in better shape anyway
It didn't take very long
Your snare in the background still sounded the goods
The 'knives and forks draw' still making the grade
The songs and the stages and nights that we'd played
Wiped the wet from my eye and put your tools back in their place
Some things you just can't ever replace

Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, o-o-o-o-oh
Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, o-o-o-o-oh
Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh

Don't You Forget About Me
Do you remember the Roxy and the Whiskey
And the green room at the House of Blues
Going swimming in the deep cold Tahoe water, Sausalito with Pele Juju?
All those lost nights down in the changerooms
The gig at the Kelmscott fair
Singing Maralinga with your roto toms and your broken baritone?
Do you remember the Pier up at Hedland
Sleeping rough all through the tour
Setting your drums up in the dirt of the Western Desert, like a tether keeping me all good?
You always had my back for me, on you I could always count
Don't you forget about me
Don't you forget about me

All those nights spent drinking on the rooftops
All those nights spent dreaming at the stars
Winnie Red and Blue, Welcome to The Boomtown
The sweet taste of gadang guarams
Those Leeming nights washed out in yellow
All the street lights looking down
Starfish and Sisters, The Breakfast Club verbatim
You were Bender without a doubt
You always had my back for me, on you I could always count
Don't you forget about me
Don't you forget about me

Safe In The Hands of Love
The winter rain is everywhere
It fills the drains and cleans the air
Drive home into the setting sun
In my eyes, rays golden
The harrier it circles 'round, feathertips on air
Scans the ground for movement to catch you unaware
It won't let you know it's there, no second chance
I don't know why we think it would
We all cling to life, with a blind-sided grip, tight

When I make it home to you
Tired and broken, burned and used
Your open arms are where I'll be
Safe in the hands of love

Kestrel holding space and time
Aloft unmoving, that eye the sky
Winter wind it pushes sheer
Whispered voices to her ear
They sing within their ancient song
Carried forth on air
They will spirit in her movement, bringing her aware
She can't tell you why or how, no circumstance
I don't know why we think it would

When I make it home to you
Tired and broken, burned and used
Your open arms are where I'll be
Safe in the hands of love
When I make it home to you
Tired and broken, burned and used
Your open arms are where I'll be
Safe in the hands of love

Wheelspray
In the light of the wheelspray, billows over, work at play
Horizon light it, pulls me straight
My mind's eye like an angry crow, raven pictures that I can't know
Nothing more than, a trick of light
If I'm right
In the hail I walk slow, too proud and I, I should know
In the cold, I won't let it show

Rear mirror shows, full rainbow, the hunger grows, for things out beyond, my
Words, the rule of thirds, the centre blurred, friends, it's a long journey home

Raptor watching from the tallest pine, silhouette, outside of time
And I still toil for nonsense and rhyme
In the spirit of the broken tree, there's an image that I can't see
But I'm not sure it's meant for me

Rear mirror shows, full rainbow, the hunger shows, for things out beyond, my
Words, the rule of thirds, the centre blurred, oh my friends, it's a long journey home

Going Home
Floating, lifting up among the love and
Circle strong around me
Holding, trusting in the safe hands of love
Easing, the vessel that has held me thus far, tired and aching broken, afar, surrendered
looking down from above
Feel, feel me here beside you
Standing, your witness, silent, outside of view
We released you into the southern swell, grey-green blue, submerged, returned
the drum was beating low, dogs scratched and played, before we turned to go
to walk away, we cried for our losing, cried for our losing you

All you can believe
The moon and stars and sea
Bring me home
Set me free
All you can believe
The moon and stars and sea
Bring me home
Set me free
All you can believe
The moon and stars and sea
Bring me home
Set me free
It is what it is, that's what you used to say
All of the sentiment, washes it away
It is what it is, that's all that I can say
Riding in my heart, as I rise to greet the day

Troposphere
Floating up here, in the troposphere
All my anguishes, they fade away
My fingers are so cold, here in the troposphere
But I don't mind, my easy heart, it's singing
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

It's a beautiful day, here in the stratosphere
Everything out of reach, all the troubles and strife
The beauty in you, the beauty in me
Those clouds down there moving, the cerulean sea
Oh my heart swells, I sing to it now I sing to you now
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

Oh, my arms outstretched, I'm floating in air
My love tipping down, to you on the ground
Oh my loves, this much I can tell, step out of yourselves
The way of the world is not as it seems

Breathe the light, the morning light
Tell yourself, a passenger, laugh at everything
Breathe the light, the evening light
Set yourself, a passenger, to leave all this behind

Oh, my arms outstretched, I'm floating in air
My love tipping down, to you on the ground
Oh my loves, this much I can tell, step out of yourselves
The way of the world is not as it seems

Oohh-oohh-oohh, Oohh-oohh-oohh

Floating on air, floating on air
Floating on air, floating, everywhere

Written by:
Simon London

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