After the fun, after the freedom,
The discipline of married men?
What a fanned out feather paints it rosy,
What a rank file of flowers make the posey,
What a limp congregation.
I was sick before the germ got a handle on,
I might've been the very cattle it was riding on,
With the right information,
Moderate education, middle home.
What a fella needs to know,
Is all a fella doesn't need to know,
If you suffer you don't talk about it,
Which was the lie that laid me low.
Under the coat, under the blanket,
In the wicker chest, in the sparrow breast.
What does it tell you when it tells you now you grow up?
What does it tell you when it tells you now you be a man?
Tidy your thinking up, finish your drinking up?
Be the Tom, be the Jack, beat the beaten track,
Die the slow death your forefathers died, in fact
Be ever lonely and angry inside of that
Maze of rage and inchoate affection.
What a fella needs to know,
Is all a fella doesn't need to know,
If you suffer you don't talk about it.
To men
who
know
and
men
who
knewâ¦,
Who for the Silent
grip
of
hands
will
do*
And if you suffer you don't talk about it,
Which was the lie that laid me lowâ¦
After the fall, after the crack up,
Nothing then? Nothing then.
- :
- Havens Dumb
- Watch Me Disappear
- Strange Bird
- Sunset Studies
- Moo, You Bloody Choir
- Waltz
- Miscellaneous
- Live At The Playroom
- Moo, You Bloody Choir (Deluxe Version)
- Thanks for the Memes
- Havens Dumb (Deluxe Version)
- Havens Dumb (Deluxe)
- The Hangover Cure, Volume 2
- Triple J: Hottest Box
- One Crowded Hour
- Triple JJJ Hottest 100: 2001
- Bootikins
- Bootkins
- When I Am Old
- Little Wonder