John Butler Trio Album

Don't call me a hippy, cause the way that I look
Cause I got a recipe, and you know I can cook
And I come forth with only good intent
You know I am heaven bound but I'm surely hell-bent
On getting the job done like I know I should
Get the job done like my mama told me too
Only one thing can remember she said
You gotta earn all of the respect

And I don't care what race or what colour or what creed
All that shit don't bother me
Only one thing that you should not forget
You gotta treat yo mama with respect
And I don't care what fashion, or the styling of your hair
I don't care about the car or the clothes you do wear.
One thing that you should not forget
You gotta treat yo mama with respect

I got a couple of friends up in a tree in Northcliff
you know they're doing their part you know they're doing their bit
Trying to save our Mother for all this greed
You know, they know what she wants
You know they know what she needs
I got a couple of sista's in South Australia
Stopping the Uranium from coming up
Oh yeh man you know they know what she needs
They're stopping all of that government corporate greed

Well theres far too many questions to ask
To answer any of them tonight
For I wear too many masks
To tell you if any of them are wrong or right

And confusion casts a shadow upon me
Like a great big cloud in the sky
And now I pray for rain
Cause its been so long since I let myself cry

CHORUS:
For so long
I've sang this sad ole song
And it feels like my time is up
For she came and landed in my arms
And she filled my half empty cup
Yeah she filled my half empty cup

There you are
Right in front of me
A brand new day
Sunrise over sea.

No longer my cup half empty
Cause there you are
You and your mum in front of me
Infront of me

Now I look up above me
And I thank that great ole God in the sky
For telling me my cup aint half empty
It took my little girl to show me why

CHORUS:
For so long
I've sang this sad ole song
And it apears my time is up
For she came and landed in my arms
And she filled my half empty cup
Yeah she filled my half empty cup

There you are
Right in front of me
A brand new day
Sunrise over sea.

No longer my cup half empty
Cause there you are
You and your mum in front of me
Your peaches & cream to me
You both are peaches & cream to me
You both are peaches & cream to me

All I know is
All I know and
I love you
Yeah, I love you

Ben got a job, at the mine along the way
He said eveything was fine until that fateful day
That's when his life started to change,
The day he went to help and go blow up that mountain range
He been moved to town a year ago or maybee more
Straight out of high school,
The whole he had in store,
Wanted to travel, needed some dough
Eveybody worked the mines why should he say no

But don't ask him why,
He can't explain,
Why now things for him have changed
It's not his land
They're not his songs
He can't work out why he don't belong

(chorus) x2
Part of company
Part of company
Part of company sin
Won't someone please tell the lad when humbug did begin.

Now legend has it,
Or so they say
The bones of an ancient people,
Yeah thats where they lay
And their decendants hold close to heart,
Oh that mountain range Ben was helping to blow apart
And so I said things for ben weren't quite right
Now he's waking up screaming man every single night
Hearing voices in different tounge
The screaming of the old
Yeah the screaming of the young

Don't ask him why,
He can't explain, why
Why now he feels in so much pain
It's not his land
They're not his songs
He can't work out why he don't belong

(chorus) x2
Part of company
Part of company
Part of company sin
Wont someone please tell the lad when humbug did begin.

(guitar)

Now Bens moved on
Job left him a while back
Now he's thanking God that his boss gave him the sack.
But in the mirror, yes he can face
The day he stopped helping go blow up that sacred place

(chorus) x2
Part of company
Part of company
Part of company sin
Now he knows when all that humbug did begin

What you want to say
Wait till you get home
I'm sick of communicating
Over the telephone

But tell me how you feel
For I am lonely too
Need you to know
I'm just as cold & numb as you

But I could fly away
Or I could be no one
And you could be the
Sunshine falling over the Mountain

Or you could come to stay
You could come right home
Dont see why I have too
Live this life all alone

I know there is a way
To make up for old mistakes
And I know whats happening
Is for a reason I know....

where you run is where you hide
better hope your hiding well
cause when the angel catches you
you know your damned to hell

Damned to hell is what you are
can you hear the church bells toll
and all the money in the world
can't save your sorry soul

and when you reach the pearly gates
and peter reads your tale
he'll send you back from whence you came
back to your living hell

Damned to hell is what you are
can you hear the church bells toll
and all the money you have made
can't save your sorry soul

and i believe there comes a time
where justice does prevail
it may not be in my lifetime
for you thats just to well

Damned to hell is what you are
can you hear the church bells toll
and all the money you have made
can't save your sorry soul

Hello, Hello, whats going through your head,
Hell there boy better get it read'

You used to be so real
And all of your love everybody did feel
But now your turning into a fake
And all our hearts yeah you do break
Cause all those drugs that you do take
One big asshole of you it does make
Sticking say all that shit up your nose

Hell man that's where all your money goes.
Then you start ripping off your friends,
Hell yeah man that's where my story ends
Going around to your Mum and Dads

Sticking all their valuables into bags.
Going around to the hockshop
So once again man you can go and get ripped off
But what your looking for inside
It's up jumped gone and died

Don't your see your wrongs
They can't all be right.
Can't you see your days,
They've turned into night.
Can't you see the sun,
Can't you see the moon,
Can't you see that Karma will be coming for you.
Hello!

Ripping off your friends,
Now I don't mind just a little indulgence,
But you gotta do it with a conscience.

Now all your into is drugs.
Talking your shit man hanging with thugs.
Speed equals confidence imagine that
But you be acting like a spoiled brat,
Thinking that everythings your way
Getting what you want but you don't have to pay

Don't listen to a word anyone say .
Your gonna wind up in the lockup some day ~
Don't your see your wrongs
They can't all be right.
Can't you see your days,
They've turned into night.
Can't you see the sun,
Can't you see the moon,
Can't you see that Karma will be coming for you.
Hello!
Hello!

Ripping off your friends,
Now I don't mind just a little indulgence,
But you gotta do it with a conscience.

I walk for miles, circumnavigate these lands.
Walking blindly, holding out my hands.
And I pass the stones, that remind me why I am here.
I follow the setting sun, and you were there.

Don't you see what she done to me.
I was running blind, but now I can be.
If there's just one sign, hell you know I can see.
Girl I'm meant for you, you are meant for me.

Chorus:
So I say,
I'm bound to ramble,
All my days with another.
All my days.

Her teachings in every day.
And boy I know she ain't preaching, but I feel the need to pray.
She's like the ocean size pounding on my shores.
Knocking down all my walls, opening up all my doors.

Chorus

My love of you.
Ramble away.
'Cos I'm bound to ramble.
With my lover, all my days

I'm bound to ramble........ohhhh yer x 8
I'm bound to ramble...

Why do I deserve such a visit
From the one I thought I'd never meet.
Beyond my greatest expectations.
You exceeded everything.
Well here I am

Take me for what you see
For I'm transparent in the light of you.
And look inside,
See that fire burning bright
The same one you rekindled inside me

My mouth was dry
only you quenched my thirst
I thought I was last
You told me I was first.

And I thought I was seeing Angels
And now I know I was.
your wings around me
Feel good they always does .

So there I was
Ain't the same man I used to be
But do you still like what you in me.
For I am frightened
Shed so much I clung onto
The only thing I got left is this guitar and you.

Nowhere to run
Been out here too long
Under the sun.
Am I too afraid
To get some.
To afraid to give myself some shade
I hope and pray I do some day.

There'll come a time
When you may want just a little more
Societys luxuries are not what you had in store.
They offer no security for your soul.
So Mother Earth is what you need
Maybe this is what you be looking for.

Oh Mother Earth
Got to respect her
She's all around me
Under my feet you know I got to remember,
Mother Earth
Got to defend her.
And to defend her I must respect myself
You know I got to remember
I must remember.

There'll come a time
When we can't take anymore
When the air that we breath
Has left us rotten to the core
And the water that we drink
You know its no good to drink any more
Do we have to let it go,
Do we have to let it go this far?

Beautiful moon shining over the ocean
Don't you know I'll do it all for you.
Give up my days and my tomorrows
If the words I singing are not true.
Cause in this world and the others
Not a thing that I wouldn't do
Mother Earth your in my soul.
It's my blood your running through.

Must respect myself to respect her,
Must respect myself to Defend her.
Must respect myself to respect her.
Must respect myself.

I could be loud man, I could be silent
I could be young man or I could be old
I could be a gentleman, or I could be violent
I could turn hot man or I could be cold
I could be just like the calm before the storm boy
Waitin' for all hell yeah to break loose
I could be innocent or I could be guilty
Doesn't mean that I don't believe in the noose
So I'm singing ...

(La bom bom bom bom, bom bom bom bom, bom bom bom bom bom ect)

I could be rich like a wandering gypsy
I could be poor like a fat wallet lost
I could be the first man or I could come last
It's not who breaks the ribbon boy it's how you get across
I could be red, blue, black or white sunset
Darkest at day boy or brightest at night
I could be the sun boy or I could be the moon
I'm made up from the stars, yeah I'm shining so bright
So I'm singing...

I could be asleep boy, or I could be awake
I could be alive man or be the walking dead
I could be ignorant or I could be informed
I could lead my life man or I could be lead
I could be anything I put my mind to boy
All I gotta do is give myself a half-a chance
I could bring love back into my life
And share it with the world if I got some balance

(LA DA DA DA DA ect)

[No lyrics]

Old man he looks out the window
You know he gets quite a fright.
Whole world has gone and changed on him
Feels like it was overnight.
He saw a world war yeah it came and went
The man walked on the moon right there in his living room
Saw that TV become a relgion ,
The Wall came down and Big Mac beat the communists.

Feels like it was overnight.

Old man looks out the window
You know he can not open it anymore.
The air outside its gone to rancid
And the doctor said for him you know it wouldn't be so good for
He saw a hole start opening up in the sky
He's buying water man he doesn't even know why
The smog alerts don't let him even go outside
And then he start he start to think
When the Earth it start to die.

Feel like it was overnight

Enjoy your last.
Last taste of freedom!

Old man he bars up the window
You know he does not feel so safe anymore.
he come from those supposed good ole days
When you did not even have to go lock your doors
He saw security man look Police man
Saw the Police start looking like the Army Man,
He saw Army start acting like the C.I.A
And guess what, the C.I.A was the president.

Feels like it was overnight
Enjoy your last.
Last taste of freedom!

If you just want to know something.
All you got to do Is ask me.
Cause though the sunsets all around us
The truth is often plain to see.

I know you been going through some hard times
Yes I have been there too before
And thought the truth is sometimes hard to hear
It's harder still to ignore

It doesn't gotta be this way
You don't gotta worry about what everybody might say
You just gotta follow your heart.
Right now yeah man right from the start.

I know we don't always see eye to eye
I guess it's different things that were trying to find
But if we can't look each other stone cold in the face
Yes you know we might as well be blind.

Does not mean one of us is wrong man
Does not mean one of us is right
Does not mean yeah we just get along
Just because we don't fight

I be up sometimes, down sometimes
We're often in between but mostly in the middle
You be up sometimes, your down sometimes
We're often in between but mostly in the middle
I'm up sometimes, your down sometimes
We're often in between but mostly in the middle
You're up sometimes, I'm down sometimes
We're often in between but mostly in the middle
We be up sometimes, we're down sometimes
We're often in between but mostly in the middle