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1. |
The Last Song
03:05
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You light up a smoke
I know what it means
When you pull it like that
You tell me it's better
Than doing heroin or crack
So maybe I'm crazy
But I swear you're amazing
And my only religion
Is to die with a smile
In your arms
Cause I don't want to live here
Anymore
If it isn't with you
You didn't like the joke
You somehow included
My soul in that
You promised me
Hell and purgatory
And back
I know I'm a child
I'm fragile and I'm wild
If I hear another word
About that other boy
I'll shatter in two
Cause I don't want to live here
Anymore
If it isn't with you
No I don't want to lie here
Anymore
If it isn't with you
Said I don't want to be here
Anymore
If it isn't with you
No I don't want to cry here
Anymore
If it isn't with you
Like a full moon
Like a full moon I'm unfair
Hiding my green-eyed stare
Honey I want to be here
But it's out of my hands
My heart just loves you
My heart's just ripping
Right out of my chest
It can't be helped
You said it yourself
The universe made
Two beautiful people
In incompatible trade
And I say it every time
It's the last song I'll devise
But another one's bleeding
Like ink from my eyes
Cause I don't want to feel love
Anymore
If it isn't for you
And I don't want to feel pain
Anymore
If it isn't from you
No I don't want to breathe
No not at all
If it isn't with you
No I don't want to live here
Anymore
If it isn't with you
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2. |
Down In Old St Kilda
03:58
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So we sing Hava Nagila, sing Amazing Grace
Scream Mohammad Allah, pray to Buddha in the rain
For a teenage girl was singing in St Kilda for the pain
And though I was just a baby boy I can't erase her
Long long ago before the world began to warm
I knew the things that we would be
There was hope for all to see
My father and his brother on the street they knew no harm
Sat a busker down with me
And we preached with her for free
We sang Hava Nagila, we sang Amazing Grace
We screamed Mohammad Allah, prayed to Buddha in the rain
For a teenage girl was singing in St Kilda for the pain
And though I was just a baby boy I can't erase her face
In time we gathered up a crowd for her to join
To hear this little boy
Some angel full of joy
Gimmicks always come with money raining down with coin
But we gave it all to her
We had nothing left to learn
So we sang Hava Nagila, I sang Amazing Grace
Screamed Mohammad Allah, prayed to Buddha in the rain
For a teenage girl was singing in St Kilda for the pain
And though I was just a baby boy I couldn't erase her face
Upon the arms and hands her tracks were burned like they were branded
People walking by were scowling violence open-handed
Nobody but we could see the need inside her bloodshot teenage eyes
And oh the best that we could do was hope she wouldn't die
So we sang Hava Nagila, we sang Amazing Grace
Screamed Mohammad Allah, prayed to Buddha in the rain
For that teenage girl was bleeding in St Kilda for the pain
And though I was just a baby boy I can't erase her
Sing Hava Nagila, sing Amazing Grace
Scream to Buddha Allah, pray to Krishna in the rain
For that teenage girl was singing in St Kilda for the pain
And though I was just a baby boy I can't erase her face
Though I was just a little boy I couldn't erase her face
Though I am just a man in the world I'll never erase her from that place
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3. |
12 and 37
04:39
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I was 12 and he was 37
I was 12 and he was 37
11 and 26
How did I get in the mix
I was 12 and he was 37
I was 12 and he was 37
11 and 26
How did I get in the mix
The worst part was
The worst was because
It hurt so much more
He broke me before
It hurt so much more
He broke it off before I could tell him
I loved him
To even the score
He killed me some more
My heart hit the floor
It hurt so much more
He hurt so much more
Than the first time he forced it in
I was 12 and he was 37
I was 12 and he was 37
11 and 26
Is this how you get your kicks
I was 12 and he was 37
I was 12 and he was 37
11 and 26
How are you getting your kicks
The worst part was
The worst was because
It hurt so much more
He broke me before
It hurt so much more
He broke it off before I could tell him
I loved him
To even the score
He killed me some more
My heart hit the floor
It hurt so much more
He hurt so much more
Than the first time he forced it in
I was 12 and he was 37
I was 12 and he was 37
11 and 26
Can only imagine you're sick
Wanted to feel protected
A mother's child rejected
When the other guy tried
To smash the bathroom door
He was denied
From opening the foreigner sin
I was 12 and he was 37
I was 12 and he was 37
11 and 26
How are you getting your kicks
The worst part was
The worst was because
It hurt so much more
He broke me before
It hurt so much more
He broke it off before I could tell him
I loved him
I was 12 and he was 37
I was 12 and he was 37
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I don't if she was born from a Dylan song
All I recall is I loved her when she came along
Blinding and cloudless like flowers in the springtime
A future made-up madness, like memory but more sublime
Sure I could be anywhere but here
I just want to go down
She gave me my children in the spheres
Took me to love town
Sara, you were all imagination
But I loved you like salvation
'Cause you took away my pain better than a real girl
Sara, you were all imagination
With a love like adoration
'Cause you took away my pain better than a real girl
Like a dinosaur she showed me how she made it all
Her goddess inborn I'd never need to leave at all
So full of gladness like heaven in the sunshine
Still she was madness like memory but more sublime
Sara, you were all imagination
But I loved you like salvation
'Cause you took away my pain better than a real girl
Sara, you were all imagination
With a love like adoration
'Cause you took away my pain better than a real girl
Sure I could be anywhere but here
I just want to go down
She gave me my children in the spheres
Took me to love town
Sara, you were all imagination
But I loved you like salvation
'Cause you took away my pain better than a real girl
Sara, you were all imagination
With a love like adoration
'Cause you took away my pain better than a real girl
Sara, you were my imagination
And I loved you like salvation
'Cause you took away my pain better than a real girl
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5. |
Girls in Violence
06:23
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In a beatific scene, a Mother washes her baby boy-child
He's big blue eyes, he's platinum like endless blue skies
Her hand is a vice, his airways are drowning in silence
She loses her nerve, he screams until Daddy breaks the door down
So his colours will always be blue and violet
Oh he smothers a beast in the back of his eyelids
She's a gossamer girl, he's in love from the moment he sees her
So bossy and proud, she builds him a home out of water
She tells him to trust, she closes his eyes with her free hand
Shoving him down, there's fire in his face and he's shrieking
So his lovers will always be girls in violence
Oh his lovers will always be girls in violence
Almost a man, a glitter-girl pays him attention
Lying alone, she begs him to be her detention
Faeries and chains, and bleeding do not go together
Maybe one day, but now just aborted emotion
So these covers will always be dyed in scarlet
And these angels were loudest in the mouth of a harlot
All his lovers will always be girls in violence
Oh his lovers will always be girls in violence
Men do not report
Men do not report
Men do not report
Men do not report
And the best retort is when they laugh you out of the station
When the pain distorts like tears into elation
Tried some taboo, and now they can strapon like lovers
She calls him a bitch, like maybe one day he'll become her
Dresses in drag, for a moment he's graceful and grateful
She beats him on back, with poison and bottles of bourbon
So his lovers will always be girls in violence
So his lovers will always be girls in violence
So his lovers will always be girls in violence
So his lovers will always be girls in violence
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6. |
I Hated Myself
03:43
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Well we both know the tale of eighteen love
Met at a party and fell like stardust
It was beautiful like midnight in moonlight
Fate brought us together but we ruined it forever
Showed myself out into the sunshine
I drained my health just below the flatline
I hated myself for leaving you
I hated myself for cheating on you
I hated myself for choosing you
And I hated myself for saying I couldn't forgive you
People like to tell you how it's gonna go
A crack or a fracture and they swarm
Like blood on snow
Ethically and morally you were always too powerful
So faith brought us together but we ruined it forever
Showed myself out into the sunshine
I traded my health just to have the bloodline
I hated myself for leaving you
I hated myself for cheating on you
I hated myself for choosing you
And I hated myself for saying I couldn't forgive you
Showed myself out into the sunshine
I drained my health just below the flatline
I hated myself for loving you
I hated you more when you cheated on me it's true
You were first in line to stab me in the spine
Still I hated myself when I took her hand in mine
I hated myself
God how I hated myself
I hated myself for leaving you
I hated myself for cheating on you too
I hated myself cause I said I couldn't forgive you
I hated myself cause I'll always be in love with you
Oh how I hated myself
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7. |
Standing Up
03:46
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Granny always always told me
No one's ever worth it
Took me twenty years of pain
Six suicide attempts
Three train wrecks for relationships
And losing all my friends
Just to hear the mirror say
Listen to what she said
Mother I'm okay now and it's no thanks to you
Lover I'm okay now and it's no thanks to you
It's just a promise
It's just a promise
I still believe in love
I still believe in love
People like to love you
When someone says it's cool
Keep your faith kill bitterness
But never be that fool
That shit they never cared about
When everybody talked
And when you needed mouth to mouth
Well everybody walked
Daddy I'm okay now and it's no thanks to you
Honey I'm okay now and it's no thanks to you
It's just a promise
It's just a promise
I still believe in love
I still believe in love
Broken and dumb
Still there's a home I can call my own
Helpless and numb
Still I can feel
My brain can get up and run
I'm not okay now and I give thanks to you
I'm fucking strange now and I give thanks to you
But I keep my promises
I'll never give it up
I keep my promises
I will believe in love
I will believe in love
I still believe in love
I still believe in love
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8. |
Suddenly Something
05:04
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I wake up and it's night time
Fireflies bug my imagination
Look around and read another pointless piece
For self-help to motivate my aggravation
My life was like some kind of Indian curse
Where I was hoping for some kind of self-worth
But I got better
Said I got better
Cause I'm something to someone
I'm something to someone
I could have been anything
But I'm suddenly something
I'm suddenly something
Something to someone
She's the breakfast of champions
She's a win-win
She's another place I want to go
She's peaceful and she's beautiful
And she ain't for me
But I got better
But I'm something to someone
I'm something to someone
I could have been anything
I'm something to someone
Yeah that's really something
Yeah that's really something
It could have been nothing
Now it's suddenly something
Said I'm suddenly something
Something to someone
I've been in love with my inner disdain
Like a rotten thorny poisonous familiar refrain
I could fall from the sky
Cause I want to be a martyr
But I hear someone
Baby I hear someone
Say you're suddenly something
You're suddenly something
Something to someone
You're something to someone
You could have been nothing
Now you're suddenly something
That's really something
Yeah that's really something
Yeah that's really something
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You held my hand in the darkness
Made me feel like Jesus and Mary
Would be here to guide us home
Maybe we'd be something better
Maybe we'd grow our skin
Baby would be the name that you gave me
In the twilight of our sin
When their lips are on your lips
They might taste alright
You know how diamond rare that is
When the pheromones feel fine
But it's never gonna be the same
It's never gonna culminate
In that one night
So everything is lost forever
Most of all a memory treasure
And every day is a run of the same
Another little stutter
And a goodbye
You and I know this maze now
Like a billion souls before
Daylight dreams with butterfly streamers
Delusions we paint on our doors
When you've kissed the light of your life
When you've loved like tomorrow you'll die
Nothing and no-one can move you like mourning
For a photograph burned in a fire
When their lips are on your lips
They might taste alright
You know how diamond rare that is
When the pheromones feel fine
But it's never gonna compensate
It's never be the same
It's never gonna be that one night
So everything is lost forever
Most of all a memory treasure
And every day is a run of the same
Another little stutter
And a goodbye
When their lips are on your lips
They might taste alright
You know how diamond rare that is
When the pheromones feel fine
But it's never gonna be the same
It's never gonna culminate
In that one night
So everything is lost forever
Most of all a memory treasure
And every day is a run of the same
Another little stutter
And a goodbye
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10. |
Knives
03:50
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When the curtain breaks and everyone cheers
Don't blink or you might suddenly become alone
No one wants to see your disease
Nor strip you down to blood and skin and bone
I always tried to say you wanted someone else
And I was always on the other side
When you lied to yourself tried to be that one
I knew what it meant to finally become alive
So here I am alone again
Waiting for the night to end
And it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives
What it feels to be alive
It's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives
What it feels to be alive
It's alright, it's alright
I wanted to be doused in love
My feet were never made to fit right
You can always go back to just being yourself
But love is never in the company of the blind
Hate is just a strong word for loving on someone
That's what you've got to convince your mind
Baby wake up the blood is all your own
You realise your love is becoming a bit unkind
So here I am alone again
Waiting for the night to end
And it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives
What it feels to be alive
It's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives
What it feels to be alive
It's alright, it's alright
So here I am alone again
Waiting for the night to end
And it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives
What it feels to be alive
It's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives
What it feels to be alive
It's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives
What it feels to be alive
It's knives, it's alright, it's gonna be alright, it's gonna be alright, it's gonna be alright
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11. |
Friendzone
03:42
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I hear they're ringing like ghosts
Standing outside like by old lamp post
I left you off with some other man
He can give you all the things that I can't
Stumbling forth under confetti and rice
You stop and you grip my hands like ice
The three of us now embrace
Congratulations show on my face
I couldn't open up inside
There's too much that I've got to hide
Unless I want it to end
Unless I want to be
Unless I want to be
Ending up with you as a friend
I'm smiling too much and you know me too well
You've seen it before 'cause I'm living in hell
You demand that I don't say I'm fine
I love you so I'll tell you why
Quietly claim that I'm lonely again
Make my excuse that it's all for the best
But I see the look in your eye
We all know the reason I lie
I couldn't open up inside
There's too much that I got to hide
Unless I want it to end
Unless I want to be
Unless I want to be
Unless I want to be friends
It's always the same there's more fish in the sea
The right one is there just a'waiting for me
You and I know this, you and I lived this
There's something about me that screams I just can't do this
I couldn't open up inside
There's too much that I got to hide
Unless I want it to end
Unless I want to be
Unless I want to be
Unless I want to
Never open up inside
There's too much that I got to hide
I don't want it to end
But here I gotta be
Here I got to be
Here I got to be
Here I gotta
Here I gotta be friends
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12. |
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Like a city all a'glow
How it feels, to humbly know
The lover of your soul
Some you gain and some you lose
A million trinkets, more for fools
Time will tell, and break the spell
When the lights go down and they see your golden crown is in tatters
When there's fire in the trees and the kingdom of your dreams has been shattered
It doesn't matter, if you love her
It doesn't matter, if you love her
People turn away from you
Yellow-bellied, hands are blue
Loneliness might serve you best
Swim the ocean of the sky
Growing aching wings, to fly
Along the ground, where love is found
When the lights go down and they see your golden crown is in tatters
When there's fire in the trees and the kingdom of your dreams has been shattered
It didn't matter, 'cause you love her
It doesn't matter, if you love her
One day when we're all done
Got to ask yourself the question
What did I truly desire
It's higher
When the lights go down and they see your golden crown is in tatters
When there's fire in the trees and they bring it on the breeze that you're shattered
Does it matter, if you lover
Does it matter
When the lights go down and they see your golden crown is in tatters
When there's fire on the breeze and the kingdom of your dreams has been shattered
It doesn't matter, if you love her
It doesn't matter, if you love her
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Jimmy Sky Australia
Musician, actor, writer, singer, photographer, dreamer, weirdo, fool.
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