FIRST IN LINE EP
(Kite Recordings)

FIRST IN LINE (album version)
FIRST IN LINE (live version with Rosie Thomas & Damien Jurado)
THE CITY AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD
STRANGER AT EASE
24 SEVEN (album version)





First in line

Look me up, with my head in my pocket
Look me up, with my head in my pocket
to see her coming home

Well forgotten, say can't you see her
well forgotten, say can't you see her
moving down the line

And it's hard to live and it's hard to die 
and it's hard to give your heart away
and oh, pretty girl it's hard to steal

In april I was sleeping with an anchor
Thursday I was fishing in the harbour
where ladies sleep

And the sun will always shine upon your face
as your parents watched the silver screen
Stolen days, when freedom got it's price
after the walk over frozen water

You held me down on the dirty backseat
pressure of the hand and the fingers
and the pleasure won

I will always, go by your side
but it's hard to get drunk tonight
and It's hard to smoke your mothers cigarettes
afraid of stealing
afraid of lying
afraid of losing my 

mind.





THE CITY AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD

A year is just a brief time
so who could know we could get this far
And we know at times there comes a night
yet the day seems so obvious

Sometimes you have got to rest along the flowers
to know the city and the outside world

I know Emma knows it too
that when we fall we hard
When you're not used to joy
it's so easy to fall in love.

Sometime you have to stop and find your reason
sometimes you just wish to be drunk and ride the 
Ferris wheel with the cutest girl in town

Get on up now, get on up now
through your eyes I see a brand new horizont 
I dont mind being blessed, how about from you
get on up now, get on up now
get on up now

I guess what once been a memory will stay
like the hairstrain on her lip
and to see her let me take it away
seems like an easy way out

Sometimes it might seem like you have come to an end
and all the love and hope has gone away
But it didnt die
But it didnt die
But it didnt die
But it didnt die






Stranger at ease

I heard a rumour about a friend
I can't believe the summer is over
someone built this other side
and it's a long and narrow chase

I hardly know how to tie my shoes
touched by each sound the world possible could bring
strange faces named this a shelter from the storm

Just like the water that streams down my body
my eyes are hurt by the whiteness of the floor
I never really catch that feeling
the dirt on my skin and the taste in my mouth

The seasons fade when we close our eyes
we're pretty now, my precious wonder
I watched your naked back you hide when you can, my love

I see the treetops split the sky
I hear them laugh in sharp bright corners
there's a reason to believe we're there

I'm a stranger at ease and all your birds are gone now
the sky is full of holes where they use to fit so fine
How can you say we got so much in common,
when you love every part of me I always hate





24/7

Breathing eyes, gold mine
she don't deserve my world
feelings of the 4th may
but my feet were cold.

Shine on your pretty eyes
shine to black
somewhere when the night lost faith
I better call your old ma'

Some for the wanting
hard days
fallen angels band was playing tonight
Some for the needing
hard earned days
fallen angels band was playing tonight

On my way down
that we use to know
I should have given some more
on my way down
24 hour days
there's a hole in my bed

Do you realize it rips my heart out
fade to black and fade to home
she sees me with the devil's eyes
but I can't see why

You meant to go away
never meant to be here to stay
never meant to be all
as your mother cried

Some for the wanting
hard days
fallen angels band was playing tonight
Some for the needing
hard earned days
fallen angels band was playing tonight

Do you remember when I moved in you
and your mother was a long way from here
you were my gold mine
but you had to grow


Sleep little angel love
sleep until the summer comes
shine as the sun you are
sleep for me sleep for me


All the life that we kept inside
I should have given some more
on your way down
I will lift you up
you cut your hair and smiled in the mirror rain
smiled in the mirror rain.