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My Friend the Devil
04:29
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I ran away with the devil I was just a girl
I didn’t know any better
He took me down to the depths of hell
I thought I’d be there forever
For a while I thought I belonged
I thought I’d found my place
I thought I’d never be worth nothing more
And I lost my faith
So I went down with the devil I had no idea
Just what I was missing
But something told me I had to know
So I went and found him
We made a deal and he let me go
And I climbed back up all on my own
He promised to leave me alone
If I would do him the same
I always wondered if he would come,
Try to take me back to where he’d come from
But I said why tonight, all dressed in white, all dressed in white
I waited for the demons and hellfire
For the ground to swallow me whole
I said, hey Devil what'd you come for?
I’ve simply got to know
And he flashed his crooked smile and he said
Because I missed you child
Don’t you know you will always be mine
Don’t look so surprised to see me
My face went white as the sky turned red and
I saw those ghosts I thought were dead
He came to me disguised as a lonely lover
His eyes and mine they met each other
I asked him why he’d come to find me after all this time
He seemed to think I ought to know, ought to know why
He flashed his crooked smile and he said
Because I missed you child
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2. |
After Midnight
04:00
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Under the streetlight
I can see that you have nothing to hide
It’s well after midnight
This my love is when we come alive
We are the creatures of the night
It’s nice to finally have some company
I find no comfort in the daylight
And my city, she shines, she shines, after midnight
And my city, she’s mine, she’s mine, after midnight
See I’m no good at nine to five
You know I never get it right
And lord knows I’ve tried
Every day, sit on a crowded train
It smells like sweat and misery
Every face looks just the same
Thinking where would I rather be
Every face looks just the same
But not me
And my city, she shines, she shines, after midnight
And my city, she’s mine, she’s mine, after midnight
I know the city she needs the people on the trains
Going to their banks and their institutions
The city she breathes through the day
She feeds on the paper chase
But when they’re all gone
Sleeping in their beds and getting ready for another day
The city she wakes with me
And comes out to play
And my city, she shines, she shines, after midnight
And my city, she’s mine, she’s mine, after midnight
You and I, you and I we are kindred souls
And she watches over us
Cause she never wants to let us go
I found you here under the streetlight
I never would have believed in love
Not for somebody like me
I found you here under the streetlight
I never would have believed in love
But the city she brought you to me
After midnight
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3. |
Suitcase
03:24
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It isn’t often I arrive, right on time
I’m way too late again
I lost the picture of an ex lover I had in my wallet
Now I don’t feel the same
And I am losing patience
With my own frustrating games
I have confidence in my ability
To always do it the hard way
And I won’t be needing your advice
On my own two feet I’ll be just fine and
When I’m breaking on the inside
When I'm bleeding on the inside
I can count them on one hand
I can count on them to understand
Well I’m sick of waiting tables
And I’m sick of wasting time
Did I lose my way again
I lost my money I was counting my pennies
And I threw them all down the drain
Well I don’t believe in a god above
Looking down on me and holding my hand through it all
I don’t believe in the perfect love
I know the honeymoon is gonna be over after all
I know when I’m alone again
I might have lost my lover
But I’ll still have my friends
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4. |
Blue
04:46
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Blue was the colour of that old sedan
I used to ride in with mum and dad
Blue was the colour of the wishing well
Where all my good intentions fell
Blue was the colour of the first CD
That ever brought me crying to my knees
Blue was the colour of that living hell you fell, you fell into
And I knew that the blood was on my hands
And I wanted so bad to turn around
And go back to the place where I
Could have made you change your mind
And did you ever wonder if what the philosophers say is true
Time is a circle not a line
If you ever did run out of things to do
You could really bend your mind
Maybe you were always gonna fall
Fall into the blue
Maybe there was nothing we could do
Nothing we could do
Blue was the colour of the cigarettes
I forced myself to smoke at twelve
Blue was the colour of that awful dress
I wore through the winters
Blue was the colour of the ribbons in our hair
They reeked of innocence
Blue was the colour of that living hell you fell, you fell, you fell
And when she told you about the poison dreams
You laughed, you said they’d never make you scream
You thought you were so strong the paranioa’d never get you
You’d be flying high above the rest forever
But of course the fall was coming
I remember feeling sorry for you
You were living in that studio apartment
That excuse for a home
On the other side of town
It wasn’t often that you found the time to sleep
Among your dirty sheets
But the one night you tried you really believed
Your best friend was trying to kill you, that’s when I said
Blue is the colour of that little flame
That makes you slowly insane
Blue is the colour of that crippling shame
You feel when the high fades
Blue is the colour of your artillery veins
I know you have a favourite don’t you
Blue is the colour that overcomes you
As you watch your life disappear in the rear view
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5. |
Old St Charles
05:18
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One day I got an email from my manager in London
It said who the bloody hell is David Turner
And a smile came across my face
As I was taken back to the good old days
And I asked her how she even knew that name
She said that you had found her somehow
And asked her to give me your details
And a message to pass on to me
When is Georgie gonna write that song for me
The one she promised me, when we were seventeen
When is Georgie gonna write that song for me
The one she promised me, when we were seventeen
But the story starts when we were both just five years old
Running around with runny noses playing sticks and stones
The Italian kids would call us skips
And we sat across the table in year one
I think the teacher’s name was Miss Abrahams
But maybe I got it wrong
I didn’t know you had a crush on me
Til I was seventeen
I didn’t know you had a crush on me
And the walls of old St Charles
One day they will crumble and fall
But you will stay in my memory the same
Your smile will never go away
And then I saw you standing at West Ryde station
It felt like a lifetime later
I’d become a punk by then
And you were hanging around with your hip hop gangs
Listening to Tupac and Biggie
It was before Puff Daddy became P Diddy
And your favourite song was the one he ripped off The Police
But I preferred to listen to Nirvana
I had three pairs of Doctor Martens
All my clothes were ripped
I had those silly red extensions in my hair
But you didn’t care, you saw straight through it all
You knew exactly who I was
And in our teenage worlds
Ruled by subcultures
It didn’t make no sense
For us to be friends
But we started hanging around
Every day anyway
Hanging round the station
Bumming cigarettes from strangers
And I had that stoner boyfriend
I think his name was Paul
But you pulled me close to you that night
And we kissed behind the wall
He didn’t see us from the balcony
We were lucky, and so fucking cheeky
But we were only seventeen
Now suddenly it’s 2015
So I could easily just
Type your name into facebook
And I guess I’d find you instantly
And I could send you a little message saying
Hey stranger, how’ve you been
But that all seems so impersonal
And I thought that you deserved a little more
So instead I’m sitting down
To finally write this song
I know it’s kinda long
And I haven’t even covered half of it
But I hope it makes you smile
The way I do when I think of you
And most of all I hope you miss me too
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7. |
Smoke all the Profits
03:40
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I wonder can you heal the world with poetry
All those bleeding hearts
They make a sound when they hit the floor
I’ll help you fight out common enemy
If you can tell me definitively
What it is you’re fighting for
You hate the face of industry
Say it’s sucking souls from the youth and
Fuelling so much fear and insecurity
But if it’s all the same to you then
I will keep on walking down the main street
Those flashing lights don’t really bother me
No I’ll keep on walking down the main street
Those advertisements they are lost on me
Yeah I’ll keep on my way
I promise I will smoke all the profits
I’ll come out worse than when I started
I’ll keep on my way, keep on my way,
I’ll smoke all the profits and I’ll throw the rest away
And if the pills they gave you don’t keep your head straight
You can blame your fucked up life on the doctor
It would be nice to be like you
Absolved of responsibility for the life you lead
I would like to burn all the politicians
But in truth I have lost faith in anarchy
Because of people just like you
And your made up diseases
So I’ll keep on my way
Now we’re living in this world
So much like science fiction
Love your profile, change your picture
I’ll keep on my way, keep on my way
I’ll smoke all the profits and I’ll throw the rest away
So if you’re hearing what I say
Then pick up all your self-respect and be on your way
Listen to your own, just your own
Forget about what they say
So I’ll keep on my way
You can find your way to martyrdom
With a big old gun
And a front page headline
Saying look what they have done
I’ll keep on my way, keep on my way
I’ll smoke all the profits and I’ll throw the rest away
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8. |
Not the Blues
04:22
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I was born early in the morning
One cold winter’s day
My daddy he was still sleeping
My mama she carried on anyway
I didn’t know then what I was getting into
About the big wide world out there
I didn’t know I would have to be clever
Should have been told that I should be scared
Just like you I still don’t know much of anything
Just like you I don’t know which way to go
Just like you some days I don’t wanna go outside
I’d rather be alone, I’d rather be alone
Just like you I get bored with the government
Just like you I don’t know which news to believe
Just like you I’d rather get myself trapped in a bubble
And never leave, and never leave
Just like you I don’t know which way this world is going
Or if I wanna be dragged along the way
Just like you I don’t know how I would be coping
With the end of days, with the end of days
Just like you I’ve been knocked over
Done dumb things I knew I shouldn’t go there
Been kicked to the kerb, felt like I’d never be heard
I’ve been all the way down then came bout half way back up
Feels like I’m stuck now, feels like I’ll never get out
But just to be clear, just to be clear
I am not singing the blues
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9. |
Little by Little
04:29
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Never has a lover of mine
Stayed with me for a long long time
I fall in love so quickly and then
Feels like I just fall out again
I’m supposed to be in love
But somehow it’s you I’m thinking of
This time I thought I might have even found the one
But somehow it’s you I’m thinking of
Yesterday I saw him cry
If it was really love then I would’ve felt some pain for him but
All I felt was pity for the guy
Seems like my heart must have wandered away again
Little by little I’m moving further away from the middle
Maybe everybody can see, everybody but me
Little by little I’m moving further away from the middle
Feeling like I’m lost, like I’m lost at sea
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10. |
Skalitzer
04:20
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I left my stolen paradise and I went across the world
Just because I needed to breathe
I ended up in London
There I found what I was looking for
I never ever wanted to leave
But here I am in the middle of the continent
Without a friend
Just my pen and paper and these six strings
I lost all of my photographs so all I have are these
Inaccurate memories
And now I’m walking down Skalitzer in the rain and
Everybody everybody asks me the same thing
Do you wanna get high
I said I’m sorry I shouldn’t talk with strangers
I’d best be on my way I do not have the time to waste
Mama told me not to talk with strangers
They don’t mean you any good
I said Mama I believe in angels
And I wish that you would too
Cause they believe in me, the believe in me they do
And now I’m walking down Skalitzer in the rain
Everybody asks me the same thing
Do you wanna get high
And now I’m walking down Skalitzer in the rain and
Everybody everybody asks me the same thing
Do you wanna get high
I said I’m sorry I shouldn’t talk with strangers
I’d best be on my way I do not have the time to waste
It’s not the place, it’s not the people, just something inside of me
You could say instinctively I just know that I should go
Leave this winter alone to settle by the Spree
Leave this winter alone and make my way across the sea
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11. |
Sunday in July
05:05
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Can you differentiate
Between love and infatuation
Do you remember the last time
When you felt like you were falling into oblivion
When nothing in the outside world
Mattered a dime to you
There’s nothing quite so sweet
As falling in love, falling in love
See I was never quite convinced
That I would ever find the one for me
I still don’t know what life will bring and I’m still a realist
And maybe we won’t see the end of 2015
But if I’m lucky, you’ll still be keeping me warm
When I’m eighty three
There’s nothing quite so sweet
As falling in love, falling in love
It was late at night, it was summer time
When I first met you
And we listened to the music that played
And we shared a drink or two
And ever since that Sunday in July
You’ve been by my side
There’s nothing quite so sweet
As falling in love, falling in love
If we stay home and watch a movie
If we go out and get drunk
Either way I’m always having fun
When I’m with you
I love that you’re the voice of reason
I love it when you play piano and sing
I love it when you make eggs and bacon
In the mornings
And you always have a smile for me
Even when I’m feeling blue
There’s nothing quite so sweet
As falling in love, falling in love
I love it when we talk about music
I love it when we talk about film
I love it how you can’t get through a conversation
Without referencing Bob Dylan
I love it when you tell me you miss me
When it’s barely been a day
And I love the way you always have a smile for me
Even when I’m feeling blue
There’s nothing quite so sweet
As falling in love, falling in love
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Georgie Fisher Sydney, Australia
GEORGIE FISHER’s unique style is characterised by rhythmic guitar playing and a voice that sounds like whiskey and tobacco
dipped in honey. Steeped in blues and soul music, Georgie’s grooves and rhythms will get your feet moving and timbre of her extraordinary voice will give you goosebumps.
Based in Berlin and Sydney, Georgie performs regularly across the globe.
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