Highlights

Monsieur Gaskell

My Tainted Eyes

Doubtful Eyebrows

Inside and Out

Lyrics:

Well, I like feeling down
Especially when you’re around
Yeah, I like feeling down
Especially when you’re around
Well, I like feeling down
Especially when you’re around

When you came knocking on my door
I thought I’d better let you in
To not would be a sin

Though you brought groove, and you brought goof
Underneath my roof
You’re sad in truth

Sweet Melancholy, hold me tight
If this be dark, I hate the light

And I like feeling down
Especially when you’re around
Yeah, I like feeling down
Especially when you’re around
Well, I like feeling down
Especially when you’re around

Lonely city, far away
Maybe this time I can stay

Long, sad drive home
Thinking of you, on my own
Maybe next time, I can stay

Ding, dong, move along
I cried those tears, I wrote that song

But I like feeling down
Even now you’re not around
Yeah, I like feeling down
Even now you’re not around
Well, I like feeling down
Even now you’re not around

Yeah, I like feeling down
Especially when you’re around
Yeah, I like feeling down
Especially when you’re around
Well, I like feeling down
Especially when you’re around

Like Feeling Down

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
Forget your silly songs
Of reconciliation
And stick it to the sons
Of fantasy propagation

Oh, you can give to them
The special revelation
That their faith is not based
On special revelation

Pre chorus:
(Ooo hey hey hey)
The sun, it rises
The sun, it sets
And hastens back to the horizon
The world is full of weariness
One cannot utter it
The eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing

Chorus:
What has been is what will be, and
What has been done is what will be done
There is nothing new under the sun

Verse 2:
The doctor is a quack
The terminator never came back
And now you’ve got nothing to show
But your atheistic musical show

Oh, you can give to them
The general revelation
That their faith is not based
On general revelation

Pre chorus
Chorus

There is nothing new x6

Chorus

There is nothing new under the sun x2

Nothing New Under The Sun (Rework)

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
His mind, they meant, with study to refine
He took his mind and squandered it on life
His friends reproached his venture, oh, so low
Their ivory towers were proof that they should know

Chorus:
Where are you going?
You’ve left your umbrella
It may not be raining
But who knows the weather?

Verse 2:
He blew a kiss, alas[/a lass] he did not miss
His love was mist he parted with ham fists
He clasped her hands, but feared for her lips
But lives, and laughs, strange dancing did eclipse

Chorus

She heard their words, a warning of a lie
To her, their words, a bias did belie
Now three had left, and only one returned
The elders tried not to look too concerned

I’m just trying to find the light
I’ve found nothing, now, in spite
Of my search in the night

There must be something that is true
Is it worth listening to you
In your comfortable creed

Chorus

Who knows the weather?

Who Knows The Weather (Rework)

Lyrics:

Tell me when life's over, and I'll just watch the highlights
I've no great problems, I'm just sick of earthly sights
And there are those good days, they are scattered here and there
Why are those good days growing so rare?
I could probably answer, but do I really care?
Where did my passion go? It isn't fair!

So I sing this song because I feel so strange inside
As if I'm waiting for a deity to decide
Decide what it's good for me to do with my little life
How can I nourish love and do away with strife?
I could probably answer, but do I really care?
Where did my passion go? Was it ever there?

They say that you came to save me
I'd say that you enslave me
And I've spent my life waiting for a deity to decide

They might resuscitate me
If my friends tolerate me
But I've spent my life waiting for a deity to decide


Highlights (Rework)

Lyrics:

I realise that my mood isn’t like the colour of my hair, where
Even if I dye it, it’s still brown under there
I tend to think, no matter what I do
I’m still blue under here
And yes, it’s true
My smile doesn’t change my heart
But some things do
So I’ll seek them out, near and far

Some days I find myself drawing smiley faces in the condensation
Other days, well, it isn’t a smiley face
And then the irony of it all hits me, it’s a happy sensation
Sometimes, all you need to be philosophical
Is a little condensation

So let good thoughts
Condense into action
You’d be surprised
At your heart’s reaction

And realise that your mood isn’t like the colour of your hair, where
Even if you dye it, it’s still red, black, blonde, or grey under there
La la la la
doo doo doo doo doo
Mm mmm mm mm mm
Mm mmm mm mm mm mm

Yeah realise that your mood isn’t like the colour of your hair, where
Even if you dye it, it’s still yellow, green, or blue under there
La la la la
doo doo doo doo doo
Mm mmm mm mm mm
Mm mmm mm mm mm mm

Doo doo doo doo doo doo ooo

Condensation (Rework)

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
Talking to you is just so easy, I don’t know why
You calm me down as if you’re singing a lullaby
I asked you out, and when you said no, it was okay
And then we had no trouble with knowing what to say

I think we make better friends than lovers, anyway
You’re wrong about too many things for me to here say
But disagreeing with you is so therapeutic
If we were lovers, it’d be like a bomb, tick, tick, tick

Chorus:
I’m glad we’re never gonna date
This isn’t just rejection hate
I’m glad to keep you as a friend
My friend, my friend, only a friend x2

Verse 2:
It’s so convenient that my mind suddenly changed
I saw our differences would make us get so estranged
I couldn’t see it, but now it’s become very clear
Why did I ever think that we were a good idea

Chorus x2

Talking to you is just so easy, I don’t know why

Only A Friend (Rework)

Lyrics:

Let me sing back to my carefree days, my childish ways in holidays
Let me la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

Only my monsters to fear in the dark of the night
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

We’re driving with music
At the end of the day
By hill and paddock
Down Lismore way

Remembering Wooyung
Back then makes me glad
When I was too young
To know what I had

Let me

Sing back to my carefree days, my childish ways in holidays
Let me la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

Only my monsters to fear in the dark of the night
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

Let me sing back to my carefree days, my childish ways in holidays
Let me la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

Let me feel the gentle breezes lighting on my face again
Let me never let the sunshine slip right through my fingers, like golden rain

Only My Monsters

Lyrics:

Verse 1
I had been looking for a fling
You were to fly away that spring
Back to your Spanish lover’s den
And I’d be free to love again

I didn’t think we’d laugh so much
You understood, you cared, you touched
Something inside, perhaps my soul
Without you, I just don’t feel whole

Chorus
Since you left me for that player
Everything’s been so much greyer
Please come back, my sweet soothsayer
Please come back some day, Mireia

Verse 2
As soon as he had lured you in
He dashed your hopes upon a whim
Abandoned like a hackneyed toy
Why love this heartless little boy?

I know I’m calling you a fool
Every time I call him a tool
A sweeter fool could never be
I wish you’d be a fool for me

Chorus x2
Please come back some day, Mireia x2

Mireia

My attempt to do justice to a hidden gem from Paul McCartney’s first solo album.

Nathanael Holtby

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