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Trouble Isn't Something You Can Hold

by Georgia Spain

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rexhardware Such incredible songs. Parasite put chills up my spine at Goldsoundz last year in Guildford. Love the album. Please come play in sunny Ballarat!
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1.
Trouble 05:52
What is it you're all talking about? what is it that you're thinking? What is it that's on your mind? can't you see the trouble we're in? Can't you see that it's melting? Can't you feel the heat? Can't you see that people are dying? Meanwhile you don't get up from your seat Trouble isn't something you can hold in your hands and happiness isn't something that you can buy, do you know what trouble feels like? have you ever wanted something money can't buy? And you're lucky if you can say that you have a choice You're lucky if you can say that you feel safe walking home at night You're lucky if people do not notice the colour of your skin You're lucky if you can say you've never seen the sorrow that I've seen And like a child with a new toy, it will soon be old, like a child throwing a tantrum you will kick you legs and stamp your feet until your dinner is cold Trouble isn't something you can hold in your hands and happiness isn't something that you can buy, do you know what trouble feels like? have you ever wanted something money can't buy?
2.
I never thought that I would be this kind of person it's not unusual for me to cry, it's the context that's unusual and I find it alarming, but I don't mean to alarm you but there's doesn't seem to be much point in anything without you I can't explain how much I miss the way you look at me I can't explain, no nothing's quite the same as the way you look at me And if I didn't spend the time waiting for the sun to rise counting down the days and nights, maybe I would see through the dark Now I think I understand the feeling, when people say that love it hurts and I think I know this useless feeling of trying to will the universe I can't explain how much I miss the way you look at me I can't explain, no nothing's quite the same as the way you look at me Try to put it into perspective think of all the suffering think of all the childless mothers, think of all the women killed by lovers think of all the black boys shot by white mans guns there's something wrong think of all those seeking refuge seeking love and finding none I think about it all the time I think about it all the time I think about it all the time, i think about it late at night and I think about you all the time yes I think about you all the time I think about you all the time, I think about you late at night I can't explain how much I miss the way you look at me I can't explain, no nothing's quite the same as the way you look at me
3.
Parasite 06:55
My words are kept in a basket that is hanging from the ceiling, too high for me to reach them and I'm left with just these feelings and I can't even show you one On this day a year ago, I put on a ring, I said I will be the wedding singer and I will learn to sing So we went down to the river and there I gave myself Things of importance often happen near to water And I don't know what I can offer now I am the only daughter And everywhere I go I wonder why she isn't there Everywhere I go I try to find her in the air On this date, 228 years ago Englishman spilled on to land with pistols in their hands And their cruelty showed no mercy and i f you listen you can still hear the sound of genocide and massacre no money can buy the pride you think you are afforded and the body of a man was found this morning in the river when I heard I felt a shiver down my spine and there's nothing I can do, but how strange how nothing ever really changes over time And saying sorry doesn't bring people back from the dead and soon apologies become the ground on which you tread, but I'm still sorry for your loss and I'm still sorry for mine Things of importance often happen near to water And I don't know what I can offer now I am the only daughter And everywhere I go I wonder why she isn't there Everywhere I go I try to find her in the air My daddy said to throw away your maps for you wont need them out at sea, but I'm so lost already, you'll need them if you ever want to find me Sit down try to write a song but the words are in the basket Tell myself it wont be long till I belong somewhere other than my casket and I tell myself almost every night I need a new feeling to describe but this feeling's stuck in me, like a hungry parasite and there ain't no cure for this kind of parasite this feeling's stuck in me, like a hungry parasite
4.
Blue Skies 06:08
Correct me if I'm wrong Tell me when I don't belong in your arms anymore Tell me you will miss me when I'm gone Tell me you will kiss me in the morning Tell me when I am acting foolishly Honesty is the greatest gift they say Hold me like a broken bird Hold me like my song is the sweetest thing you've ever heard is it so hard to believe that the good things can ever last? Blue skies today Blue skies today but the weather's always changing and with tomorrow may come the rain and people always changing and tomorrow we may not feel the same Tick me off your list when you are done with me What more could you do before I can start to believe that love is for me? That real love can be And I can hear the numbness through the telephone I can feel the numbness that comes with the great unknown and as I sit beneath this great blue skie I can feel a thunderstorm brewing in your eyes is it so hard to believe that the good things can ever last? Blue skies today Blue skies today but the weather's always changing and with tomorrow may come the rain and people always changing and tomorrow we may not feel the same
5.
Blackcurrent stains my hands, guilt is a feeling I have come to understand and though it didn't always look like this this life around me doesn't look so bad Because there is nothing more beautiful than this nothing more beautiful than this feeling I get sometimes And when you leave I feel split down the middle, exposed to elements that I cannot see and oh what a marvel it is to find another to share this with And oh my lips how they are stained with all the things that I have said and done and I know it's hard for you to see that someone has changed and it's hard for you to hear but I've been moving on Because there is nothing more beautiful than this nothing more beautiful than this feeling I get sometimes
6.
Greater Love 04:06
She talks about you like the weather telling me that trees sing before they fall she talks about you like a cool flat stone, she found on the ocean floor And is there any kind of greater loss than a mother who has lost a child? Is there any more that I can do than keep the memories alive? Why do I regress to a child caght in a net? caught by my own foolish defense I fight with her too much she says as long as there's love and if only I wasn't so sensitive then maybe I wouldn't take it to heart But is there any kind of greater love than the love a mother gives a child? Is there any more that I can do, than keep this love alive?
7.
As I drove across the Westgate Bridge late last night I scared myself by how much I longed for you to hold me tight I sang a harmony to the opening song and watched these well built walls that have been up for so long to watch them crumble and to feel them fall, like a change in the weather and suddenly I hear the universe it calls As I drove across the Westgate Bridge late last night I thought about all the separate cars and how we drive towards the light You've felt pain but you're not angry, you said you'd rather not pin the blame and I so admire the kindness, I have so much to gain and if you don't mind, together we can wait for the rain And I'm not well versed in the book of love I wont say it out loud, but you're the only one I'm thinking of As I drove across the Westgate Bridge late last night I thought is this what I have been avoiding for all of this time And I could get used to this kind of living I could get used to two voices singing Oh I could get used to this kind of living I could get used to two bodies breathing I could get used to this kind of living I could get used to this kind of living
8.
In my grandmothers house in my parents old bed Think back to my childhood, things I cannot forget But out here I'm a sponge, and I soak it all up soak up that old feeling, till I'm soaked to the core Where the sea and the sky have no distinct line and the cliffs stand tall in the afternoon light Though the patchwork hills and the rust coloured leaves the sky reaches down and she kisses the trees And roads run through this country like the veins in your arms and the blood is the workers who keep ploughing these farms and the mud pie dinners, for the far and forlorn while the rich write the future for a baby yet born And I remember the time we hit a bird on the road watching through the windows for the others in tow it was snowing on the hill and my skin it turned blue and back at the house we wipe the mud from our shoes as if it meant nothing at all Now look at my face and see my mothers smile and turn to the sea when you hear the earth she cries Out there there's somebody with a fragile heart, somebody who's worked hard for little reward Somebody who holds to a broken rope in a system that can't be beaten or broke and to some it means nothing at all.

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released May 3, 2019

Musicians who played on the record:
Oscar Lush, Matthew Colin, Sienna Thornton, Craig Mattingley Georgia Spain

All songs written by Georgia Spain.

Recorded over five days in June 2017 by Alex Bennett at Sound Recordings.

Huge thank you to everyone involved in the making of this album, you know who you are and I love you.

Mastered by Joseph Carra at Crystal Mastering.

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