The Drones are an Australian rock group who rose to prominence during the early 2000s. They are influenced by an eclectic bunch of bands and soloists including Neil Young, The Velvet Underground, Bad Brains, Suicide Suicide (band) , Green on Red, The Birthday Party The Birthday Party (band) , Van Morrison, Bob Dylan and Nina Simone. Their sound has been described as The Birthday Party kick the shit out of Neil Young in Hendrix' garage. [read more] - Work For Me
Work for meDo what I tell you to doWork for meDo what I want you to doI am not an appleI am not a plumYou can't know the wealth of my seatYou'll sleep on the pipelineAnd rise with the sunMeet the moon on your feetSee...
- Are You Leaving For The Country
Are you leaving for the country?You say the city brings you downLately I have fallen behindAnd watched the circus leaving townAre you leaving for the country?I know a little country townWhere the dogs sleep out in the...
- Words From The Executioner To Alexander Pearce
Tell me how are you copingNow that it's time to goCan you see the chariotsSwinging lowUp over the huon pine and out to the snowHow much treacheryCan you possibly knowWell your chaplain loves theseDeath row boysMore...
- I Don't Ever Want To Change
I lived in the country where the dead wood achesIn a house made of stone and a thousand mistakesWhere the glory of morning got crushed by the burden of dayI went down to the seaside and it was light and easyBut it was...
- I Looked Down The Line And I Wondered
I looked down the lineAnd I wondered howAll things would come to beI stood staring with myBest intentions worst impulsesOld companions weFeel like burying myselfBehind the curve of the earthBut I'm a little...
- I'm Here Now
You've gone from perfect to divineGone from perfect to divineTime healsAnd time forgetsYour pots pans shoes all your garbageAnd your photographsHad been thrown into the streetAnd I stood back in shockCause now your...
- Dog Eared
My heart would hang me if I gave it an inchIt would sing you a sad oneFor the sake of seeing you cryMy heart might heal youIt's been with me such a long long timeBut these dog eared feelings never biteLay your head...
- Baby2
I said, why d'you people such an ugly place?I said that anyone would think you came from outer spaceShe held her skin to yours, when they brought you outYou've ruined all that she had left, but ain't that obvious...
- Sitting On The Edge Of The Bed Cryin'
I'm sitting on the edge of the bed cryin'I'm sitting on the edge of the bed cryin'I sat staring at my toes, how am I meant to knowThat someone's waiting for me in the darkSomewhere outside is a doggy barkingI'm...
- Locust
Georgie, I can't stop drinkingSeems like every time I try, I can't stop thinkingGeorgie, when I was a boyI would be standing in the shade of a wedding cake hotel doorwayWatching sister with her liquor in a jarTalk to...
- Jezebel
Removed from milkAs curious an entityAs bullshit writ on silkCancer's airborne nowDo you hear the sound?I was hanging out the washing, manAs the rain come falling downNow the grass lies snakesHas crowds of iodine and...
- The Best You Can Believe In
I ain't often oneWho'd be having a crisis in faithThough I would not be the oneThat you'd come asking anywayI ain't no big believerIn the virtues of beliefThough I would not say that outside lookingOut's a virtue...
- Sixteen Straws
While I was out walkingBy the Brisbane's watersI chanced to strayThere I found a prisonerLayed half in the waterHe'd seen me comingAnd he began to say"I was a native of Erin's IrelandAnd before I was broughtTo this...
- Shark Fin Blues
Standing on the deck watching my shadow stretchThe sun pours my shadow upon the deckThe waters licking round my ankles nowThere ain't no sunshine way way downI see the sharks out in the water like slicks of inkWell,...
- The Drifting Housewife
I was more worried about taxesWhen my lovely red-eyed brideBecame a hairsplitting believerThat i should be vilifiedShe'd see the rudder fail me Move to Egypt or to SpainThe hammer fell, my fate's alteredLike sparks...
- I Am The Supercargo
Once i was a supercargo My own V.O.C.The great white God of great white goodsWith shoes upon my feetAnd for that they wrack their minds in pidginThinking i'll returnBut i'm not an AmericanI've never worked aloneYeah,...
- Oh My
People are a waste of foodYou'll never hear the endThey're only ever happyWhen they're burying their friendsAnd they take take takeBut they never take a hintThe ice caps getting skinnyStill they're not...
- Careful As You Go
Stay low, careful as you goIf everybody's harmless then there ain't no way to knowSleep tight, i'm sure you'll be alrightYou might feel a little better come tomorrowBut morning's like a walkInto a blunt narcotic...
- The Minotaur
They come, they goThey never do not goThey come, they seeThey conquer then they leaveWith man-eating beliefsSuperior of deathWith lineage and mythAnd a half-heartedness at birthI have the same old dreamAbout a tunnel...
- Your Acting's Like The End Of The World
I feel like a mime losing his jobBut i'm just not sure, i'm just not sureIt's like i'm facing down the wrath of GodBut i know i aint, i know i'm notI've made all kinds of weird plansThat can't succeed, won't ever...
- Cold And Sober
It's a cold and soberNight time over me, my roof and blanket I'm looking at youAnother cold and soberNight time over me, my roof and blanket Looking at youYou're laid up here on my bedI'm looking out the window at the...
- Luck In Odd Numbers
And each chance i get to get close to youThe shadows come and the late afternoon makesThe warmth withdraw like a dive bell sinksThe air turns to octopus inkI met her at the county fairMy first impressions cleaved in...
- Nail It Down
Nail it down, nail it downCome back home and nail it downYou can't never get nothing up off the groundIf someone don't come along and nail it downHe says he knows, he says he knowsHe's never ever been where his mouth...
- Penumbra
Edwin backs into the voidHe's not in training nowAnd the pilot standing 19 feet From Edwin on the surfaceBleached bone whiteWas once a pilot who flewSorties in a warBut that don't matter any moreEdwin's three feet...
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