1. |
Don't Quit
05:38
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I’ve been running away from my life for so long
Muting my own voice for so long
It’s time to stop
It’s time to think
Maybe I’ll let myself care for a bit
Seeing you care made me feel like I could it
Be content
I’ve been drinking too much beer for too long
Living in a state of fear for too long
It’s time to stand
It’s time to shift
Maybe I’ll stop drinking for a bit
Seeing you stay sober maybe me feel like I could do it
Be present
Other people do it other people don’t quit
Other people do it other people stay fit
I’ve been punching myself in the face for too long
Kicking myself in the teeth for too long
It’s time to change
Or it’s over in a blink
Maybe I’ll let myself breathe for a bit
Seeing you breathe made me feel like I could do it
Just live
Other people do it other people don’t quit
Other people do it other people stay fit
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2. |
Mary
04:31
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Mary is working freelance in the back of her parents shed
The house is worth a million to a landlord who’s nearly dead
She can’t afford the dentist
She can’t get full time work
Somebody somewhere is trying to calculate her worth
She wants to be deluded
She wants it to be fair
She wants to be forgiven
But there’s no one there
Mary has been on the phone to centrelink for hours now
She feels the frantic Mozart is appropriate somehow
She wants to speak to a human but the machine just hangs up
They say that you’ll succeed if you just work hard enough
She wants to be deluded
She wants it to be fair
She wants to be forgiven
But there’s no one there
Ooooh oooh
It’s hard out there
Ooooh oooh
It’s cold out there
Ooooh oooh
I cannot bare
How some people get the lift
While others get the stairs
Mary’s mum is dying she doesn’t know what to do
She needs constant care for the pain she’s going through
Mary’s not just cash poor, she’s time poor too
They will have to sacrifice just to make it through
I want to be deluded
I want it to be fair
I want to be forgiven
But there’s no one there
Ooooh oooh
It’s hard out there
Ooooh oooh
It’s cold out there
Ooooh oooh
I cannot bare
How some people get the lift
While others get the stairs
Mary’s on her own now
She’s trying to meet a girl
Someone to help her tackle this cruel world
She’s sick of being lonely, she’s sick of being blue
We all want someone just to tell us what to do
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3. |
Flat Coins
04:03
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I’ve been sneaking out to put coins on the tracks
Drinking, smoking, kissing different boys trying to relax
And down at the boathouse where I work
My boss tells me to pull down my shirt
Cos that’s how girls get work
It’s alright brush it off we’re cut from a different cloth
Something else, something else, you’re something else
Turn around, shed a tear, but to them your eyes are clear
If you breathe, you survive, you exist
I’ve been sleeping, thinking, dreaming of those days
Name still scratched on the platform waiting for that same old train
And down at the high school where I work
The kids tell me how flat coins still burn
Cos we get what we deserve
It’s alright brush it off we’re cut from a different cloth
Something else, something else, you’re something else
Turn around, shed a tear, but to them your eyes are clear
If you breathe, you survive, you exist
Cos we all get what we deserve
We we get what we deserve
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4. |
Go Back
04:49
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I can go on
I can go on
I can go on
I can go on
That’s the way it starts, I take comfort in your heart
I think you are essentially good
Then you show your range, I think I can change
But I am essentially bad
Glittering and cold cold shaking
Even though my heart is breaking
I can go on
Yes I want to go back yes I have to go back one more time
Yes I want to go back but I have to stay here in my mind
Yes I want to go back yes I have to go back one more time
Yes I want to go back but I have to stay here in my mind
You’re so full of luck I think that maybe I’m just stuck in the mud
When will I turn around
I don’t know who you are but you feel so far away
That I might never be found
Glittering and cold cold shaking
Even though my heart is breaking
I can go on
Yes I want to go back yes I have to go back one more time
Yes I want to go back but I have to stay here in my mind
Yes I want to go back yes I have to go back one more time
Yes I want to go back but I have to stay here in my mind
I don’t mind
I don’t mind
I don’t mind
I don’t mind
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5. |
Sartre's Crabs
03:37
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Well you know I wanna be
Friedrich Jacobi
Cos I’m a nihilist in the streets
An existentialist in the sheets
I wanna be Sartre
Have the crabs follow me round
I feel the loneliness after
I fear that I am more lost than found
I wanna care about something
I wanna care about anything
I wanna care about something
But I don’t
What would you rather me be
A piece of rotting meat
I’m alone but you don’t see me
That’s the way they all treat me
I wanna be Sartre
Have the crabs follow me round
I feel the loneliness after
I fear that I am more lost than found
I wanna care about something
I wanna care about anything
I wanna care about something
But I don’t
I’d rather be lost than found
I wanna care about something
I wanna care about anything
I wanna care about something
But I don’t
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6. |
Promise
06:31
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Burnt trees and ashes across my room
God’s hands must come down on us soon
The pieces of the puzzle lie piled and upside down
Like the soldiers in the forest hell or heaven bound
And the choices we’re making might end the world
Like the links in your jumper that quickly unfurl
I’m very selfish but so are you
In the history of romance that is nothing new
And I promise that I’ll see you forever
I promise that I’ll see you again
I promise that I’ll see you forever
I promise that much
Maybe it’s only been a couple of weeks
But these things that I’m feeling they are starting to keep
I can’t kick it
I can’t kick it
I can’t kick it no more
If I have to stay here but I’ll knock down the door
And I promise that I’ll see you forever
I promise that I’ll see you again
I promise that I’ll see you forever
I promise that much
And I promise that I’ll see you forever
I promise that I’ll see you again
I promise that I’ll see you forever
I promise that much
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7. |
Red Gum
04:21
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My dad says my hands are too small for a trade
My mumma says I only got half a brain
But I lay carpet tiles in Footscray
The boys at work yeah they’re bossing me round
One day I’m gonna burn this goddamn place to the ground
Believe me I’ll strike
Red gum we burn our problems away
Red gum we burn our problems away
Two kids down and there’s one on the way
I wanna jump on the V-line to Castlemaine and just go
Jump in the Dam and drink a Guiness
Cos I wanna fuck a girl and I wanna smoke weed
Wanna stop watching Family Feud on TV and just go
Forget about anyone else’s business
Red gum we burn our problems away
Red gum we burn our problems away
I can’t hardly stand I can’t hardly walk
I got nothin left so I talk the talk
And I say - it’s just another day
I can’t hardly stand I can’t hardly walk
I got nothin left so I talk the talk
And I say - it’s just another day
Red gum burn Red gum burn
Red gum we burn our problems away
Red gum we burn our problems away
My dad says my hands are too small for a trade
My mumma says I only got half a brain
Red gum we burn our problems away
Cos I wanna fuck a girl and I wanna smoke weed
Wanna stop watching Family Feud on TV
Red gum we burn our problems away
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8. |
People Like Me
06:05
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What would you rather me do
Be just like them or but just like you
What should I say
To make these thoughts go away
Cos Melbourne’s getting much smaller
And I’m not getting any taller
Should I smile
Or stay asleep for a little while
Cos I’ve got all my names in all the wrong files
And I’ve got all my skin in all the wrong piles
And i’ve got all this spit in my throat that’s turning into bile
And people like me we’re not anything like you
Despite what you think I don’t wanna be anything like you
You see me I’m just trying to make it through
And people like me
It’s been raining all Summer
I’ve been pulling a runner
Not trying to make things hard
Just trying to get far.. Away
I’ve been getting further away
From wanting to go but don’t want to stay
Cos there’s been too much rain
And I’ve got all my clothes in the back of my car
Despite what you think I’m not trying to make things hard
Cos I got all this fight but you won’t believe me until you see the scars
And people like me we’re not anything like you
Despite what you think I don’t wanna be anything like you
You see me I’m just trying to make it through
And people like me
Oooohhhh
The passion burnt behind my eyes
And time went slow but now it flies
And the edges get a little rougher still
Rage and empathy are numb
Your mind is old but mine is young
But nothing’s ever full until its filled
The men they came with boots and beer
And what they wanted was quite unclear
But they tried to make it white that once was brown
I see them there behind your eyes
the ghost that scratch and then they lie
That haunting feels like healing this far down
And I want it to be simple
But It’s still unclear
And I wanted to be there
But I’m still here
Despite what you think I’m not trying to make this hard
Despite what you think I’m not trying to make this hard
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9. |
Struck
04:39
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Baby’s hair it pricks up fast
I’m the one who saw you last
I think about your face
It cannot be replaced
Teardrops fall on my window
Like rain on a tin roof so slow
I think about your face
It cannot be replaced
I been hit by
a train
a truck
a car
a bus
Baby I been struck by you
By you
By you
Nostalgia stings me in mid week
It’ll rise and rise until it peaks
New memories make it go
They’re all I have to show
I’m so bored with what I do
Why can’t you just try something new
New memories make it go
They’re all I have to show
I been hit by
A train
A truck
A car
A bus
And I don’t give a fuck about you
About you
About you
About you
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10. |
Misery Acres
04:57
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Looking out at Misery Acres
Yeah I’m doing fine
Freaked out insecure neurotic
Emotional all of the time
It’s a place I go
When I say I wanna die
It’s a place I go to get bored
Get busy get by
Cos when I get to the party
See all of my mates from back home
We’ll drink cheap beers from Geelong
Listen to Crowded House and Devo
Talk shit all night under stars that are bright
In the morning we’ll go back home
Cos if we’re all out here then we can’t be alone
I feel like shit that I can’t hear about my friends’ grief anymore
Now that I got clean and I’m sober and
I guess it makes me happy
I don’t know but it’s making me sore
It’s a place I go
When being focused has become a chore
At misery acres
I don’t gotta think no more
Cos when I get to the party
See all of my mates from back home
We’ll drink cheap beers from Geelong
Listen to Crowded House and Devo
Talk shit all night under stars that are bright
In the morning we’ll go back home
Cos if we’re all out here then we can’t be alone
Listen to Paul Kelly and the Big O
Blondie and Hall and Oates
Community Radio
Just Put on a song that we all know
Yeah put on a song that we all know
Yeah put on a song that we all know
Just put on a song that we all know
Cos if we’re all out here then we can’t be alone.. We can’t be alone
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Porpoise Spit Melbourne, Australia
Porpoise Spit generates a stirring brand of rock that merges heartfelt ballads, raucous energy, thrashing guitars and a socially progressive punk spirit. This group of Melbourne mates carve out the best bits of intimate and uncharted, cosy and chaotic. With new music coming out throughout 2023 and a recent signing to local label Psychic Hysteria, it is fast becoming the year of the Porpoise. ... more
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