1. |
The Hold
03:27
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Oh honey please don’t cry
Don’t look at me with those puppy dog eyes
I’m good at letting go
Never was quite strong enough to hold onto the shit show
I haven’t fallen in love
No I haven’t fallen in love
I haven’t fallen in love
With me quite enough yet
With me quite enough yet
Set up my own demise
Don’t worry baby It doesn’t surprise me
It’s all in the hold
Shoulders back and be proud of that soul
I haven’t fallen in love
No I haven’t fallen in love
I haven’t fallen in love
With me quite enough yet
With me quite enough yet
I swear I’ll find it out
So I don’t keep on doing the same thing
Time to dig down
And get comfortable with vulnerability
I swear I’ll find it out
So I don’t keep on doing the same thing
Oh mirror speak loud I love you, do you love me?
I haven’t fallen in love
No I haven’t fallen in love
I haven’t fallen in love
With me quite enough yet
With me quite enough yet
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2. |
Sorry, Thank You
03:24
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Six feet under with furry teeth
A taste bud of nails in my mouth
Swept upon the shore saltier than before
No closer to grace of god
A hunchback of fists
Stomping in a valley of bliss
A whale’s eye weeps
As it swims right along the beach
I keep chaotic canvases in my bed
When I sleep
So when I awake they stare back at me
And show me just what to see
Oh sweet reverie,
I swallowed the sea
And the sea, it swallowed me
I screamed for it all
All the ones that have, and will
Touch my soul
And I will never know
And that’s okay
But just in case
I wanted to say
Sorry, thank you
I try not to judge another too much
Cos one can never know enough
But I’m a sinner to the critic that
Rates and reviews myself
And I will never know
And that’s okay
But just in case
I wanted to say
Sorry, Thank You
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3. |
Twisted Tales
04:15
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It’s a twisted tale that tells me I can’t write
Oh how I’d love to find that needle
Pop that bubble in my own mind
It’s the faint of my heart that sickens it down into my gut
That blows up that bubble keeping me and myself
Worlds apart
Oh it keeps us worlds apart
It’s the times that I expect more from myself
That time flies in delusion
It’s me and my brain just given up
That excludes me from my own,
My own inclusion
And it’s getting easy to lie
To lie in bed and hold onto to pride
But the benefit of letting it go
Oh the seed you plant is the seed that grows
Scared of the world and the judgements you’ll find?
Well like water of a ducks back . . . It slides
It’s only well into the well that I believe I won’t out up a fight I’ll just let the poison creep
The poison I consume, consumes the poison of doubt
And it knocks it out. Before it knocks me out
And it’s getting easy to lie
To lie in bed and hold onto to pride
But the benefit of letting it go
Oh the seed you plant is the seed that grows
Scared of the world and the judgements you’ll find?
Well like water of a duck’s back . . .
It slides!
Well it’s a twisted tale that tells me I can’t write
Oh how I’d love to find that needle
AND POP THAT BUBBLE IN MY OWN MIND
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4. |
This Wonderful Life
04:36
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We were never gonna pull on the reins
And so the rain poured
Running two rats in cage,
We kicked the wheel and tried to escape
Mattress on the floor, sunlight for days
Kisses lapped up in a drunken haze
Well pull me back there when it felt right
To turn my back on this wonderful life,
This wonderful Life
This wonderful life
Cos when you care, I know it makes you wanna cry
And when you revel in the moment of a good time
There’s intricacies there that are so hard to define
And when the roads been rough,
You can appreciate the small stuff
And when you’re privileged enough
You’ve got the strength to stand up
I get angry then I feel weak,
being only one tiny being
The days are long, but I don’t seem to move
I don’t get done what I need to do
Then the world spins behind my back
I turn around and say what the heck is that?
No I won’t be numb, no I won’t abide
I won’t be told what happening is fine
In this wonderful life,
This wonderful life
This wonderful life
Cos when you care, I know it makes you wanna cry
And when you revel in the moment of a good time
There’s intricacies there that are so hard to define
And when the roads been rough,
You can appreciate the small stuff
And when you’re privileged enough
You’ve got the strength to stand up
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5. |
Pindan
04:37
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Pindan, pindan, what do you do to me?
Say love, say love, I’m always listening
Heal me of the woes that cities incite
Oh remind me that I’m free
Too many creeping thoughts at night
Too much angst in my belly
Well I don’t, I don’t ask you for favours
So why you gotta put it all on me?
There’s a lot of time for loving and living
So why are you in such a hurry?
Ocean of aqua blue
Won’t you wash it all away?
I’ve come to clear myself in you
And for this, there’s nothing that I pay
But I pay, I seem to pay for your thanks
You think ignorance is bliss?
I’m full, I’m full of plastic food
That will just end up, up upon your lips
Tall tree of white and green
Your patience is astounding
You change, and yet you stay the same
As the seasons keep revolving
Well I’ve grown and you’ve grown too
I’m just further from the ground
Stay close, stay close to what is true
Don’t listen to these artificial sounds
Red dirt, red dirt, what do you do to me?
Say love, say love I’m always listening
Just keep on listening
Just keep on listening
Pindan, pindan, what do you do to me?
Say love, say love, I am always listening
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6. |
Fish Tank
02:50
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A beautiful fish tank
A beautiful fish
My love is cut off the beat
Beeping, fucking bells
Symphony write yourself
My creative side is dead
I force myself to want you
And yet you live inside my head
Jumpers shared to keep me warm
And you are grave’s fresh lawn
As scared as I am to ask
Be my lover and make it last
A beautiful fish tank
A beautiful fish
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7. |
Sunk
03:47
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Today has the scent of what burned
Porously sweaty, tossed and turned
Indulging in you feels more than a drug
It’s fast release but slow in a hug
How can I place you in my back pocket?
Cos your presence is imminent now that I lost it
A circle of limbs latched in fingertips
A doorway of trust where. two people meet
Swirled off into rest, two desperate minds
Separate but so secretly intertwined
A beautiful cheek, soft and deep
Well a challenge of light and dark crawling beasts
Even when we lost you that day
I knew you weren’t so far away
Trying to walk on water again
I just prayed I didn’t find you
Sunk, Sunk
Oh if I could keep you safe my dear
I’d slaughter the beasts that lurk in your deepest fears
But all the pepper red wine,naked flesh, stacks of books
All the nicotine kisses can’t give you back what they took
I just pray I don’t find you sunk
I pray I don’t find you sunk,
Sunk
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8. |
Dive Baby, Dive
05:20
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In a proud palace behind tall gates
She eats caviar for breakfast but doesn’t much like the taste
A silk dressing gown wades like water from her skin
The heated floorboards warm her soul from within
With a muddy mind a girl rolls out of bed
Groggy eyed head pounding her hair is all wet
She must have walked home in the rain though she doesn’t remember
The night was too messy oblivion is her saviour
The pattern is fuelling us underground
The weave it is knitting Grace Kelly’s gown
By a pool she soaks up the amber sun
Her skin it won’t burn cos she’s, she’s the famous one
Another day, another dollar
What a way to think about a day
But as long as we do just to make a couple of bucks
These mother fuckers will benefit from drying us up
The pattern is fuelling us underground
The weave it is knitting Grace Kelly’s gown
By a pool she soaks up the amber sun
Her skin it won’t burn cos she’s, she’s the famous one
Dive baby dive it’s so hard to fall
Climb baby climb what is it all for? X 4
The pattern is fuelling us underground
The weave it is knitting Grace Kelly’s gown
By a pool she soaks up the amber sun
Her skin it won’t burn cos she’s, she’s the famous one
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Jamie Mac Fremantle, Australia
2019, I co-produced my first EP Island in The City. 2020 saw a new single release called "Smell the Dirt", that reflected the transition back home to Freo after living in Sydney for 3 yrs. 2021 I was lead singer of MK Ultrasound, toured up the coast playing bass with gypsy-circus band Jazaza and came back to launch The Jamie Mac Band! I'm kicking off a crowd fund for my debut album March 2022! ... more
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