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The Light​-​Filled Corner

by The Grownups

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1.
What You Had In Mind 03:11
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I feel like an old man Pining for his adolescence Like a wind-up toy with Built-in obsolescence Maybe everyone’s great When there’s no pressure on It’s only at crunch time That we hear your song And once again, I find I’ve done something wrong As usual, it hasn’t taken me all that long But as you shake your head and bring me to task All I want to do is find the courage to ask you … Am I the idea you had as a little girl Am I the hope you kept alive in a great big world Am I the poem you held close to your chest Am I what you found when you’d sorted through the rest You control the conversation Like a lightly felt ghost And contribute with all the sincerity of a talk show host I feel staked-out, mapped measured and mined Like I broke a social contract I never knew I’d signed Once again, I find I’ve done something wrong As usual, it hasn’t taken me all that long But as you shake your head and bring me to task All I want to do is find the courage to ask you … Am I the idea you had as a little girl Am I the hope you kept alive in a great big world Am I the poem you held close to your chest Am I what you found when you’d sorted through the rest Am I the lyric you scratched out on a pad Am I everything you couldn’t get from your mum and dad Am I the thing that drove you on through the rain Am I the drug that took away a little of your pain Am I the reason, the wish, the longing, the thought Am I the solitary moment your pocket-money bought Am I the daydream you used to get through the time Am I even close to what you had in mind So that’s your palette That’s it, your emotional range What narrow means To get your own way We didn’t get too far at all today But I suppose I’ve said What I came here to say
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You Are All 04:05
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You took a long time to get home Such a long time to get home And it’s raining outside Like it’ll rain forever Inside the dreams of simple men Are fading As a simple man lies here Waiting And in that ugly-beautiful moment When you finally realise What you’ve got, and how quickly You could lose it all Cos you are all You are all You are all You are all And the pain that had defined us is now hollow As the pleasure that now binds us grows And in that awful-happy instant You become what you’ve become And nobody round here Troubles you at all I felt your heart beat yes When you took on this whole mess And the lights came on When you started with your song And the sky burned blue Trying to keep in touch with you And the time ran out It ran out too soon Cos you are all You are all You are all You are all …
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My Hideaway 04:29
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I feel desperate some days Feel like metal some days She takes the red, takes the grey Because she is my human hideaway They expected us to wait How can they expect us to play it their way They’ve got another thing coming today Because she is my human hideaway You get fragile some days You get sort of far away I’m here to tell you, I’m here to stay Because you are my human hideaway Hideaway, Hideaway You know, you are my human hideaway I get angry some days Don’t know why I feel this way Gonna get you, we will get away Cos you are my human hideaway Hideaway, Hideaway You know you are my human hideaway I said that, some days are lonely days You know that some days are lonely days You know that some days are lonely days Some days are lonely days, some days are lonely days, yeah but These days are crazy days You know that, these days they are crazy days You know that, these days are crazy days And I can’t wait to reach my hideaway! Hideaway, hideaway Cos you are my human hideaway Hideaway, hideaway You know, you are my human hideaway You know, you are my human hideaway I’ll be home tonight It’ll be all right I’ll be home tonight I will be your human hideaway Hideaway, Hideaway I will be your human hideaway I will be your human hideaway
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I Found The Border 03:50
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I found the border ragged hem Where you begin And I end I found the border hazy grey where you mean everything you say I found the border fraying ends where your enemies are also your friends Waves crashed us Maybe a hundred times We clung to everything Not over the sides We crawled through trenches [gritted in the gale] We tasted the blood [of the martyr’s nails] We rose from inside [our barricade] Crushed by the fading [hope that remained] The little hope that remained [the little hope that remained] Then we found the border scissored ledge where peace begins battle ends We found the border the picket fence where experience discovers it’s lost innocence When our breath left us One question remained Would we just lie there Or would we get up again Well, we got up again We got up again We got up again We got up again Got up through the darkness Up through the pain Up through the night That had no day There was no day There was no day There was no day Till we found the border Razor’s edge Where new beginnings meet Those terrible ends I found the border Ragged hem Where you begin and everything else suddenly ends It suddenly ends. It just ends …
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Suddenly I Love My Life 04:14
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I said that she was pretty The moment she was gone But love will never get me Well, even I was wrong I thought that I would take her But she has got me by the … And I am weak as the day is long And suddenly I love my life I thought my friends were honest And I was to be married To a gang of single boys Who turned out to be not much like me Well I thought that I could stand up But I fell down to the floor I thought I was in for the night You kicked me out and you slammed the door I said, boy oh boy I said, boy oh boy I said, boy oh boy Suddenly I love my life Well I thought I’d met my match But like so many others She just fell, undone And I just passed her by So I can rule the world now And no one here can touch me But pride became my tripwire And I fell, happily I said, boy oh boy I said, boy oh boy I said, boy oh boy Suddenly I love my life Well, I thought my friends were honest And I was to be married To a gang of single boys Who turned out to be not much like me at all I thought that I could stand up But I fell down to the floor I thought I was in for the night You kicked me out and you slammed the door And I said, boy oh boy I said, boy oh boy I am face down in your gutter And suddenly I love my life I said, boy oh boy oh boy Boy oh boy oh boy I’ve got a mouthful of your garden And suddenly I love my life I said, boy oh boy oh boy I said, boy oh boy oh boy I said boy oh boy Suddenly I love my life Yeah
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The Very Move (The Very Twist) 04:11
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Strong, like the needs of a child Rushed, like weeds growing in the wild Thrown like a tantrum, like a vision, like a scream Unfelt like history, an incision, a dream Cast upon the sea, a boat adrift The slightest breeze, the greatest gift A source of pride and derision I am history’s latest revision The very move, the very twist Tell you the truth, this is bliss The very move, the very twist Don’t even bother trying to resist The very thought, the very gist Is this why we all exist? The very move, the very twist I don’t know why, but I need this I need this I need this I need this Not every job you do will earn you money Not every joke you make will be funny Sometimes you’ll win Sometimes you’ll lose But make every move A dance move All the power of addiction All the joys of affliction A constant source of elation A constant source of temptation Your needs are important to us Someone will be with you soon Welcome to the light-filled corner Of the world’s darkest room Where, the very move, the very twist Tell you the truth, this is bliss The very move, the very twist Don’t even bother trying to resist The very thought, the very gist Is this why we all exist The very move, the very twist I don’t know why, but I need this I need this I need this I need this Not every job you do will earn you money Not every joke you make will be funny Sometimes you’ll win Sometimes you’ll lose But make every move make every move make every move make every move make every move make every move A dance move Warmer, colder Closer, near You cannot see me Cos I’m not here
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Thick Skinned 04:41
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You came roaring back to life You came roaring back to life Down the freeway, five gears, Nothing but strife You were the centre of good We were the open two You were the right thing I knew I had to do Of course you’re right I realised Then I slipped right back behind my disguise Cos you are you And I am me And you are everything I hoped you would be So it leaves me sad It leaves me blue It leaves me mad about the way I left you Thick skinned, I need to be Thick skinned, I need to be Thick skinned, I need to be I cannot be this raw, Anymore Such pretty thoughts Such pretty scenes So much more than they could ever have been Now it’s 3 AM again I wish I wasn’t here I wish I could just click my fingers and disappear Cos you are you And I am me And you are everything I hoped you would be So it leaves me sad It leaves me blue It leaves me mad about the way I left you Thick skinned, I need to be Thick skinned, I need to be Thick skinned, I need to be I cannot be this raw, Anymore So it leaves me sad It leaves me blue It leaves me mad about the way I left you Cos you are you And I am me And you are everything I hoped you would be
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When I Discover You 03:20
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What are you doing in there? What and who and when and where? What secret thing? What secret sting? What are you doing in there where no one can see? A secret plan you plan to use to against me? Well I will see through you If that’s what I have to do I’ll see right through you And I’ll discover the truth When I discover you I will come in and I will break it down I will hear you sing your silent sound I will know before you can act it out I’ll find the truth You can have no doubt I’ll stop you before you stop me It will be my victory It will It will Cos I will see through you If that’s what I have to do I’ll see right through you And I’ll discover the truth When I discover you So I open the door And there’s you sitting on the floor So carefully Wrapping a gift for me
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To The Dunes 03:56
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Well I refuse To think of you Somewhere in my minds eye That horizon is still blue Through the rushes to the sand dunes Looking out to the sea In that deathly moment Time stands still for me Ah lost lover Do you think of me Do you surface Or do you sink beneath the sea Ah the sea Do you sink With me With me Through the rushes to the sand dunes Are you in that place Where no light can reach Looking out to the sea Dragged down by the burden And the beach In that frozen moment Through the rushes to the sand dunes And the shining sea Time stands still for me In that frozen moment Where all will ever be Ah, lost lover All will ever be I sill see your face Did you finally surface I refuse Or sink without a trace I refuse I refuse To think of you Ah, lost lover Did you make it to shore Are you caught in the riptide Adrift for ever more ever more Well I refuse To think of you
10.
I Wish 04:17
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I wish I wish I wish I wish It was all just as simple as this And I could tuck you right into my sleeve And take you along with me I wish I wish I wish I wish I was that and them and not this I wish I could float right out to sea Without all those waves crashing over me I do not hate you, I never did It was all just love keeping well hid I think it’s time we took our chance And blew it all on our own romance Yeah I know it got the better of me I know it set too many things free But if you put me back on the carousel This time round I will get off well Cos I wish I wish I wish I wish It was all just as simple as this And I could tuck you right into my sleeve And take you along with me One day I will find my own God He’ll be rough and sore and slow and odd And he will take me by the open hand Travel me to an open land And he will speak of things I can not say And he will walk me through those backsliding days And he will wonder why I was never told There was more than darkness in my soul And I wish I wish I wish I wish It was all just as simple as this And I could tuck you right into my sleeve And take you along with me
11.
Let's Get Psychotic 04:28
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There’s a sickness in me In my whole my family A genetic lock No key For all the grins and the smirks For all the no way that lurks For all the bullies and the jerks I hope this works Let’s get psychotic Big car, small engine A family of seven Wrapped around a baby All gone to Heaven Well I’m left gutted and guessing About everything There’s no way left for me But free Let’s get psychotic What if it was meant to be …
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Lucky Me 03:44
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Just me Finding the truth Me and the burden Of proof Lucky me We find we’re right We find we’re wrong It ends too soon It takes too long How could I resist Your kiss After tonight You don’t exist Again I hear that Barking dog In my inner Monologue Lucky me Oh lucky me Well I forgot who I was talking to I forgot what’s what I cannot sleep Running too hot That’s what I get That’s what I got Life of regret Caught in my own net For all the good it’s done I’m still an unfired gun Show me the door I don’t need this any more I found the circle The inner few From the trail of bodies That led to you Lucky me Oh lucky me Someone get me a drink Someone get me some water
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Beautiful 03:40
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This rain is beautiful This rain is beautiful Cold and driving Life reviving Beautiful This home is beautiful This home is beautiful Rough and tumbling Warm and humbling It’s beautiful This life is beautiful This life is beautiful It’s blind and twisted Blink and you’ve missed it But it’s still beautiful Even this grief is beautiful Yeah this grief is beautiful It’s timeless and lengthless And it’s grip is relentless But it’s still beautiful Because you are beautiful Yeah you are beautiful When you least intend it Like you came here to mend it You make everything beautiful For me
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The Grand Illusion (free) 04:47
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The Grand Illusion keeps us safe The Grand Illusion gives us shape The Grand Illusion keeps us warm The Grand Illusion gives life form The Grand Illusion It knows our name The Grand Illusion It feels our pain The Grand Illusion It keeps us going The Grand Illusion feels like growing The Grand Illusion It knows our way The Grand Illusion It has our say The Grand Illusion It knows our name The Grand Illusion takes aim ... Take it The Grand Illusion of fear of forage The Grand Illusion of knowing and knowledge The Grand Illusion of debt and doubt The Grand Illusion let’s shout it out The Grand Illusion through which we’re flowing The Grand Illusion that keeps us owing The Grand Illusion of gain and foregoing The Grand Illusion is not worth knowing [It is yours] The Grand Illusion It has your name The Grand Illusion controls the game The Grand Illusion It reaps what’s sewing The Grand Illusion cannot keep going No

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The Grownups' debut album - 20 years in the making!

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released August 21, 2011

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The Grownups Melbourne, Australia

The Grownups appeared on the Australian independent charts in the late 80s with two singles (Into The Beyond and Snakebite) and an EP. They reformed in the 2010s as a recording-only project. Their debut album, The Light-Filled Corner, features 20-year-old songs alongside recent tracks. ... more

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