Written & produced by Alex Lindner of Flood for the Famine.

Lyrics:
Well it rings out like a joke
You know it’s all gone up in smoke
All that sweet talk that we spoke
I see it floating away

She wrote it nice and neat
Nearly swept me off my feet
Made me realise I can bleed
Made realise what I need

Just peel me back
Every scar and every crack
Put it all inside a frame
Light it up now watch those flames

I held her up on a pedestal
Filled her up till she was full
Made her feel about 10 feet tall
Let her know she’d never fall

You know I don't like looking back
You keep on moving or you get fat
It’s just an anchor in my mind
It’s just a thorn in my side

Just peel me back
Every scar and every crack
Put it all inside a frame
Light it up now watch those flames

Every memory I had with you
I’ll stick them all inside my shoe
So when I walk down an empty street
I got you spread underneath my feet

I saw love turn to a brawl
I saw a man taught how to crawl
I saw a brown-eyed angel fall
Don't you hear them church bells toll?

Just peel me back
Every scar and every crack
Put it all inside a frame
Light it up now watch those flames
Watch them glow

Up in Smoke (Edit)

Music Video: https://youtu.be/eeVKkgfLu-8

So I’m stood outside the strip club at nine in the morning
I’m gonna get my money back

Well I’ve been stood out here forever but nobody’s answering
Nobody’s answering, nobody’s home
I’ve been stood out here forever but nobody’s answering
& now everybody’s watching me

I waited four whole hours before this guy shows up
He says “I’m just the cleaner - sir I’m just the cleaner
Now there’s nothing that I can do for you
You’re gonna have to come back tonight”

So I come back at midnight and it’s fifty to get in
I come back at midnight, I speak to the bouncer he said
“boys it’s fifty to get in tonight”

Sir I need to get my money back, I’ve got bills to pay
I’ve got my rent the next day
Sir I need to get my money back
Now you need to get me the manager

Now that damn cleaner comes out
This time with slick back hair
He’s got the moon in his stare
He’s in designer wear
“Yes I am the manager - now tell me what can I do for you?”

“Well if I remember you were tasting my fruit
You were drinking my wine
You had a hell of a time
And now you want your money back
Well that just don’t seem right to me”

“But I’m sorry to hear you’re dissatisfied with your purchase
Yes I’m sorry to hear that you feel that way
Now here’s a complimentary lap dance”

Fine I’m going in for one last time
If I can’t get my money back I’m gonna get my money’s worth

Nine in the Morning

You've Got A Way

LYRICS:

Cos it's all waiting to happen
Yeah it's all just waiting in the wings
They're up there with their fingers on the buttons
Who's gonna stop them
Tell me who?

I'm entranced by six topless women
With their dancing so tender and so free
And there's pain in their beauty
And beauty in their pain
It's all the same
It's all the same 

One comes over and she whispers tenderly
Give me heart and I'll throw it in the sea
And we can float in with the tide
And float out with ecstasy
Just come with me
Just come with me

And it's all just waiting to happen
Yeah it's all just hanging in the air
I can taste it and smell it with every last breath that I take
Just breathe it in
Breathe it in

Now I come outside to see a man weeping
In his suit he's weeping like a little lost child 
He says I've lost it all
I've lost everything I had
Tell me who
Who's gonna love me now

Now I swear this happened and it happened just like this
The bouncer comes over and holds him in his big old arms
He says you had to lose it all
So you could start over again
Now in this rain 
You are baptised

And it was always waiting to happen
Sometimes we're just actors in a play
And they tell us what to think
And they tell us what to say
Just let it play
Let it play

And it was always waiting to happen
Sometimes we're just actors in a play
And they tell us what to think
And they tell us what to say
Just let it play
Let it play

Waiting To Happen

Corona Days

Alex Lindner - songwriter/producer

Maker of songs and patterns in the air

Flood for the Famine

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