by The Go-Betweens on album Quiet Heart - The Best Of

I just want some affection I just want some affection I don't want no hoochie-coochie mama No back door woman No queen street sex thing I want a tiger on bended knees With all the kindness of the japa

by The Go-Betweens on album Quiet Heart - The Best Of

You've got to improve Your walk hardly moves Your holy sailors with their harbour smells Feed from your broken shells So that's how it feels It's a cruel God that steals The things you love, the thin

by The Go-Betweens on album Worlds Apart EP

What would you do if you turned around And saw me beside you Not in a dream but in a song? Would you float like a phantom Or would you sing along? Don't know where I'm going Don't know where it's flow

by The Go-Betweens on album Quiet Heart - The Best of the Go-Betweens

We used to get our kicks reading surfing magazines Some good looking people wearing Lee Cooper jeans They're breaking on the headland, they're breaking on the shore And when you're living in Hawaii th

by The Go-Betweens on album Quiet Heart - The Best of the Go-Betweens

I just want some affection I just want some affection I don't want no hoochie-coochie mama No back door woman No queen street sex thing I want a tiger on bended knees With all the kindness of the japa

by The Go-Betweens on album Quiet Heart - The Best of the Go-Betweens

You've got to improve Your walk hardly moves Your holy sailors with their harbour smells Feed from your broken shells So that's how it feels It's a cruel God that steals The things you love, the thin

by The Go-Betweens on album Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express

You opened my mail Apart at the seams Now you know I live beyond my means Beneath my bed There's gold in the earth Above the price That gold is now worth Never to Bow Down Don't you ever slow down You

by The Go-Betweens on album Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express

Everyone knows everybody else Let's skip introductions Talk on little Joe His mother left for me to mind a 100 a week A lovely guy of 26 loves only the lonely little Joe Oh no here he comes laughing w

by The Go-Betweens on album Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express

I used to say dumb things I guess I still do I'm doing it again But that's what happens When you're in view More used to naked men You said leave the light on Don't be frightened I don't know how long

by The Go-Betweens on album Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express

A trader in furs living in exile Boy, what a kook, look at that passport Stale bread and paper without privilege If you live here learn the language When the rain hit the roof With the sound of a fin

by The Go-Betweens on album Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express

You opened my mail Apart at the seams Now you know I live beyond my means Beneath my bed There's gold in the earth Above the price That gold is now worth Never to Bow Down Don't you ever slow down You

by The Go-Betweens on album Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express

I used to say dumb things I guess I still do I'm doing it again But that's what happens When you're in view More used to naked men You said leave the light on Don't be frightened I don't know how long

by The Go-Betweens on album Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express

I've been having bad dreams A mother couldn't find her milk Five days from Melbourne I didn't feel too good myself Wool in the hold A blaze in the sky The water so black You could make a shroud I didn

by The Go-Betweens on album Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express

A trader in furs living in exile Boy, what a kook, look at that passport Stale bread and paper without privilege If you live here learn the language When the rain hit the roof With the sound of a fin

by The Go-Betweens on album Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express

She walks me home There's a Mercedes parked in our street So we stop and we discuss Who on earth the owner could be that's just like me I'd evade waking up If the alarm wouldn't ring I'd walk into qu

by The Go-Betweens on album Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express

If the Devil had seen your dress He would've changed his name Put down his fork and moved up above Why burn in hell when you burn for love? I know what I mean but just don't say 'Cause all the old wor

by The Go-Betweens on album Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express

A widow's life is no life at all Look said the ghost, there in the hall Her big brown eyes And northern beer Pulled her through her living years Won't you wear the Won't you wear the Won't you wear th

by The Go-Betweens on album Tallulah

They had problems with their father's law. They sleep in the back of a feminist bookstore. The Clarke Sisters The eldest sister keeps a midnight vigil. The youngest sister she's not spiritual. The Cla

by The Go-Betweens on album Tallulah

I think I'm getting it right this time; I can tell by the way she grins. She put the postcards up on the head of our bed, I can see Algiers. She said "don't the streets on Sunday look great, The way t

by The Go-Betweens on album Tallulah

They had problems with their father's law. They sleep in the back of a feminist bookstore. The Clarke Sisters The eldest sister keeps a midnight vigil. The youngest sister she's not spiritual. The Cla