Live / Unreleased

Gracie

Coffee pots and bottles cups and all of this disorder
She soaks her plates in the dishwater till its cold
Her reflection in the windows of the stars around the corner
Walk beside her while she's striding down the road

But its you she thinks of in the hours while she's awake
She takes her lipstick from her kleenex to make a smile
You thinks of when she thinks of her mistakes
Regrets an open road that stretches out for miles

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You she thinks of in the hours while shes awake
She takes her lipstick from her kleenex to make a smile
You thinks of when she thinks of her mistakes
Regrets an open road that stretches out for miles

She Left On A Monday

and your hair ......?

But you don't expect to get by
Its an ordinary sky
Todays like any other day
When all of the airplanes
Riding in the clouds
And nothings wrong
But its already Sunday
And you know just how Sunday
Is the day that she will come around
Go to her foolish man
Whats the use of having pride if you don't have her
She'll endure all she can
When you can make this easier on her

Its all like sinking
You're rising to stay afloat
Like a windborne paper boat
Or uncharted sea
Its no question why
You're driving to kill some time
Racing the power lines
Back into town

Go to her foolish man
Whats the use of having pride if you don't have her
She'll endure all she can
But you can make it easieron her
Go to her foolish man
Whats the use of having pride if you don't have her
She'll endure all she can
When you can make this easier on her.

Night Will Close Us Down

From the New Zealand movie "Channelling Baby", this track was ultimately released on the album "Beautiful Collision" in 2002.

If gravity let us go
We would all go flying
And I'll meet you somewhere in the milky night
Away past the satellites

The breeze is dressed so lightly
And it breathes onto this fire escape
Where all our secrets melt like ice
Leaving only water

Night will close us down
And change the view
And I'll promise you what I can
I forget myself when I'm with you
Please remind me who I am

Dancing like a landslide
Swinging round the living room
We fall like sudden rain from sullen skies
Singing to the radio's tune

Say my name aloud
And make it new
And I'll promise you what I can
I forget myself when I'm with you
Please remind me who I am

Day so soon, hear all the traffic move
The sirens all fill this room till we both have to shout
From the road, watching the stars explode
You and I breathe so slow
How strange the sound 

You

(This track was released on the original Drive EP by Bic Runga / Lovesoup, and later featured on the Drive, Collectors Edition).

It's now become the saddest story
I was never worth the worry
Not that you would notice anyway
But when I'm walking in my sleep
The floor is cold beneath my feet
And as I step
You're with me everyday
You oh you
You've gone and started something
That you won't see through
You oh you
You've got this thing about
What should be coming true
Was a friend
Things were different then
Either way I have to lose
Now it seems
There's a distance between
What you say and what you do
You're steps will always lead me here
I've found myself in God knows where
It's something I will always seem to do
You know you'll ask me how I've been
But what exactly do you mean
What would you like for me to say to you
You oh you
Gone and started something
That you won't see through
You oh you
You've got this thing about
What should be coming true
You were a friend
Things were different then
Either way I have to lose
Now it seems
There's a distance between
What you say and what you do
Was a friend
Things were different then
Either way I have to lose
Now it seems
There is a distance between
What you say and what you do
You oh you
You've gone and started something
That you won't see through
You oh you
Got this thing about
What should be coming true
You oh you
You oh you
You oh you
Gone and started something
That you won't see through
You oh you