Airport Departure Lounge Lyrics

Track 1. Growing Pains

Paratroopers falling like petals

Filling the suburban sky

Simone in Denim lethal like venom

A mushroom cloud in my mind

And she loves me

And she loves me not

Confusion clamps my heart

And she smiles at me as she turns away

Just like a movie star

Oh I’m fourteen

In 1984

Growing Pains

Is she making eyes at me?

Growing Pains

Come here go away

Drop your bombs and we all run for cover

As rusty dust covers the sun

It’s Friday night are you ready for adventure

Or awkward and insecure?

Oh and we’re fourteen

In 1984

Growing Pains

Is she making eyes at me?

Growing Pains

The sting in her beauty

And I can’t

No I can’t look away

Growing Pains

Yes, she is making eyes at me

Growing Pains

Cut right through me

Growing Pains

Surrounded by double think

Yes it’s 1984 and love feels so lonely

Track 2. Not in the mood for you

A picture of you on my phone is calling

A shooting star form the night is falling

I can not believe that it is has been a year since we’ve been talking

And do you still do that thing where you are not awake, but you’re sleep-walking?

A distant song in my ear is playing

That little ear-worm has got me swaying

And I wonder do you still love the rain falling on a tin roof?

Or does it feel more now like a pain cutting right through you?

Coz there is so much bittersweet since that day that you withdraw

Life is much deeper now with emptiness perfect sky blue

But even with this

I don’t want to see you

My loneliness is more dependable

And though that mess was full of beauty and colour

I could not take it any longer or I was a goner

Now the scars inside are drawn upon me

Art must find its way of breaking through me

Love can never be contained or chained up

And light will always leave its shadow upon me

I’ve got a new tattoo inspired by you

But your name is not upon it

I’m not in the mood for you

Somehow, it’s true

My heart is moving forward

I’ve got to get over you

My world is blue

I must continue onwards

I’m not in the mood for you

Your call has gone through

To my new found silence

Track 3 Airport Departure Lounge

Morning comes crashing

Into my dreams

As time wakes up and I face up

To the new day

Yesterday brought the change

Now beginning

Haven’t packed a single thing

Except the debt I’m carrying

To the pain that’s birthed, to the love that’s cursed

To this flight I have rehearsed that now is leaving

Boarding Pass Shaking with vertigo

As time speeds up

And my heart keeps up

Suddenly racing

With no way back

Like a train on track certain of crashing

Haven’t packed a single thing

Except the debt I’m carrying

To the pain that’s birthed, to the love that’s cursed

To this flight I have rehearsed that now is leaving

Hold me in your arms

Pull me closer

Squeeze me tight my love

Now I’m the loser

Hold me in your arms

Pull me closer

Squeeze me tight my love

Now I’m the loser

I wake up

Your face is lost and I am weeping

With no way back like a train on track certain of crashing

Our hearts have been broken

Haven’t packed a single thing

Except the debt I’m carrying

To the pain that’s birthed, to the love that’s cursed

To this flight I have rehearsed that now is leaving

Run now baby

Free yourself again

4. Sunset or Sunrise

I can’t decide

If everything you like

Is just a piece of you?

And I don’t know why

I try so hard

To catch a piece of you?

When deep down inside

I’m wondering if I

Would rather live like you?

We’ve got one life

To find the things that help us thrive

And help us break ourselves in two.

I’m breaking

But am I breaking through

I’m breaking

But am I breaking through

I can’t deny

All the things that shine

Or the way I feel with you

As I stand in line

About to board my flight

I’m just another fool

I picture in my mind

Your tiger burning bright

So fearsome and so beautiful

We only got one life

We got to leave behind

Everything that we held true

I’m breaking

But am I breaking through

I’m breaking

But am I breaking through

So let it go now baby

And let it fly

Is it sunset or sunrise?

Yeah let it go now baby

And let it fly

Is it sunset or sunrise?

5. Aerophobia Lyrics

Mother

I’ve got this fear of flying

Something in climbing higher

Reminds me I’ll fall

Mother

I’m so afraid I’m dying

Thanatophobia

Lost to it all

Terrified, mortified

Circling the drain

Questioning, doubting any wisdom in chains

Whilst I’m laying myself naked here

Exposed to it all

Divided we stand

United we fall

Arrogance, stupidity will ruin us all

Mother

I need your love

Mother

I’m scared of these times we’re in

How easily we are deceived

And where will this end?

Love lift me up

Lift me up

Lift me up

If there

If there ain’t no other way

As the darkness does cover me

I’ll remember your light

Love lift me up

Lift me up

Lift me up

Track 6. Sleeping In

Blue as a cloudless sky

Till the day that you drifted by

In that dress you really caught my eye

I tried to speak but my tongue was tied

Red as my bleeding hand

I played guitar and I made my stand

It didn’t go quite as I planned

I wrote a song but it never landed

She

Had a way of being

The way she looked at me

And tried to set me free

Gold as a painted sun

The yellow road calls to everyone

We chase our dreams of freedom

Ironically then our freedoms gone

Grey as a Melbourne sky

I may be wrong and I may be high

I wrote a song and I told a lie

I guess I needed some place to hide in

She

Had a way of seeing

Some kind of deeper meaning

In that sleepy feeling

She

Had me sleeping in

Somehow she had me believing

That I wasn’t dreaming

Blackberry pepper hair

She wore a sign and it said beware

I asked her name and she said, “It’s Clare”

She tripped me over coz love is not fair

She

Liked the dirty city

She had a deeper theory

For that sleepy feeling

She

Put a spell on me

Some how she had me believing

That she was never leaving

Track 7. Into the Blue

Got a book in my pocket

Bought from the airport

Titled, ‘What lies ahead when there’s no future’

Gotta take whatever

Pain from the pleasure

Draw the meaning and colour from your loss

From up in the sky

Your problems seem small

Just like the buildings twinkling down below

Whose lights look oh so pretty

How beautiful that city

There’s a darkness there from up here you don’t know

Through the grey we go

Into the blue

I realize now that I

Never really knew what it was to be free

Into the blue

With my head now above the clouds

I found the breath I forgot to breathe yeah

Into the blue

Love is a window

If you dare to peak through

All that it takes is all that it gives to you

Yeah, I’ve known sorrow and I’ve known pain

I’ve known the longing just the same

And I have known the shame

It broke my back to carry that

On a tight rope without a net

Right or wrong that’s the tight rope we walk on

Through the grey we go

Into the blue

I realize now that I

Never really knew what it was to be free

Into the blue

With my head now above the clouds

I found the breath I forgot to breathe yeah

Into the blue

No gods, no kings but I’m

Silently in awe of a deeper truth yeah

Into the blue

No longer in two minds

I finally let go and free fall

Into the blue

Track 8. Radio Song

Drip feed the dopamine

Caught in a ludic loop

Psychometric

Life in a bubble

Drugs to stop the weeping

No time for dreams - Just sleeping

Sing along

Let’s sing along with the radio

And wonder why?

Nobody’s playing our song

Yeah the music’s the way we feel

And we’re done with being naïve

Coz we would rather be the fool

For what we love

It picks me up from the very beat

Unlike this new kind of tyranny

That robs me blind of perspective

And leaves me all alone

We found out what trickles down

Seems bullshit knows no bounds

We got inflation and sleep deprivation

Ain’t life grand in this gas lit nation ?

Never sorry

Like Simon says

Sing along

Let’s sing along with the radio

And wonder why?

Nobody’s playing our song?

Yeah the music’s the way we feel

And we’re done with being naïve

Coz we would rather be the fool

To what we love

It lifts me up from the very beat

Unlike this new kind of tyranny

It sings with a soul full of empathy

And full of love

Yeah the music’s the way we feel

And we’re done with being naïveCoz we would rather be the fool

To what we love

It picks me up from the very beat

Puts a bounce back into my feet

It’s a beautiful relief from the smog

Yeah the music’s the way we feel

And we’re done with being naïve

Coz we would rather be the fool

To what we love

It lifts me up from the very beat

Puts the flight back into my feet

It provides me a window seat

View from above

Track 9. The wounded Deer (On The Road Again)

Just like a deer caught in the headlights

Hypnotised I’m on the road again

REM and white line fever

The music blares the tunnel takes me there

Images built on each other

The semiotics; each sign says, ‘BEWARE’

Reality is given over

A kaleidoscopic ride into thin air

Playing dot to dot in my head

With every single word that you said

I lost the plot just near the end

Now I’m on the road again

We’re speeding up

We’re going faster

Destination obscured by the glare

All jumbled up are we getting closer

I never felt more far away from my friends

A little blue

I’m pulling over

Weeping eyes

Wipers on

This blurry vision never seems to end

A little blue

I’m pulling over

I missed the signs

I missed my turn

I’m lost in a maze that never seems to end

Playing dot to dot in my head

With every single word that you said

I lost the plot just near the end

Now I’m on the road again

Like a game in a VR headset

I’m drifting off and leave the earth again

Without a care where I am going

Frida Kahlo’s deer in Dali’s memory

A little blue

In a distant sky

All around the darkness seems to be everywhere

A little blue

The sun is gone

Nothing shines

Your little sparkle seems to come to life

Playing dot to dot in my head

With every single word that you said

I lost the plot just near the end

Now I’m on the road again

The wounded deer caught in the headlights

Hypnotised, I’m on the road again

REM and white line fever

The music blares the tunnel takes me in

Images built on each other

The semiotics; each sign says, “BEGIN AGAIN”

Reality is given over

A kaleidoscopic ride into my head

Playing dot to dot in my head

With every single word that you said

I lost the plot just near the end

Now I’m on the road again

Alive

Tonight

Arrive

Tonight

Track 10. Sunday Blues

I was aching

I was blue

I wanted to escape into you

I had everything

On my mind

You were nothing

But kind

You were dancing

You had rhythm moving on my lap

I was certain that your smile

Was some kind of trap

I was dreaming

On a high

Lost and nowhere

In a lie

I was shaken and hungover from the night before

I knew I’d blown my chance when my flight left at dawn

Feeling low

In the Sunday blues

Neon glow

Of the Sunday blues

Still I’m chasing what I don’t know

I was watching

Through my glass

Would this danger

Ever pass?

Velvet curtains

Dressed in red

I have instincts that want me dead

You were dancing

You had rhythm burning in my lap

I was certain that your smile would catch me in its trap

I was shaking

Full of shame

As you whispered, “What’s your name?”

You said, “Darling you’re a fool. You know you’re going nowhere.”

You had the cards to play me with the flick of your hair.

Down so low

In the Sunday blues

Neon glow

Of the Sunday blues

So lonely

Sweet Sunday blues

Oh, how you know me

Ms Sunday Blues

Still I’m chasing what I don’t know

So long

So alone

In the Sunday blues

So alone

In the Sunday blues

So long

Ms Sunday Blues