We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

hashish (2005 album)

by dave graney

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $11 AUD  or more

     

1.
Who’s that over in the corner with the tiny drink on his table? Who’s that man with the pretty girls in his eye? Such dark eyes Such a dark room Who’s that over by the door? Walkin’ in or walkin’ out with an ancient tune in his brain? Such dark eyes Such a dark room He’s thinkin’ about somethin' Like a dog with a bone He's ready to pounce He never speaks Such dark eyes Such a dark room He sees things He sees lotsa things But he can’t see me over by the bar He’s been so bad He knows the tough life He got his nose for free outside a pub in ’79 People believe him..people believe him Such dark eyes Such a dark room People can’t see him here He can’t see me He’s known luck He’s seen it come and go You gotta give it a shove every now and again Such dark eyes People believe him But they hear what they want He’s got a touch of the killer inside him about him No one believes he could be so bad He’s the sheriff No one believes he could be so bad Such dark eyes Such a dark room he carries around
2.
my schtick weighs a ton cos I ain't got one that stuffs for jewish comics just after world war two comin' on after the strippers burlesque house style like you do flippin' gags to guys with their strides around their feet and hard ons jumpin in their hands thats why my schtick weighs a ton you have to have somethin' to protect yourself some sort of mask somethin' to hide behind oh my schtick weighs a ton I've been flyin' for so long 25 years I can't come down now I got nowhere to come down to whats down? oh my schtick weighs a ton I've been up for so long hidin' I don't anybody around wherever I am oh my schtick weighs a ton Its people people got their schtick eyes on me
3.
sometimes you can see yourself you know its winter morning and you’re getting your boots on theres so much to do you don’t have the time to stop and see your self you're deep into life way inside you’re heavily connected to the future sometimes you can see yourself mostly you’re just flyin blind you know this when you catch yourself when you see yourself through a window you’ don’t know you’re there you’re carryin on like nothins happening like you’re by yourself its funny you feel you could leave yourself a message sometimes you can see yourself you can’t help it you slip out of time you don’t want to but you do sometimes you can see yourself see yourself thats when it gets tricky you rush back to what you were doin before
4.
everybody's gone (from somewhere) they are more there than here they are hardly here at all only as a shape halfway through the door there's a place half way down the freeway yesterday a place where they left and in that place they sit and wait everybody's gone everybody's gone (from somewhere)
5.
lets live properly like we’re stoned lets take care of the situation totally lets know whats goin’ on that cup and that jug! would they be really just sittin there like that? lets pick up the pieces and clean up this mess put it back together like it was never apart lets do things exactly right one last time lets set the scene liked we’d never touched anything lets make it look right no one will ever know that we are here at all and how ratty we were feelin’ lets dot the eyes and cross the teats like we’re stoned lets pick up the pieces and clean up this mess put it back together like it was never apart lets do things exactly right one last time lets set the scene liked we’d never touched anything lets live like we’re stoned lets do things properly lets get into the moment you know we could fall off
6.
I wanna get lost again I’ve heard its possible Even though I know it’s late I’ve been to a lot of places and met a lot of bums Plank after plank I walked On my thumbs for somethin to do I wanna get lost again Somethimes it seems I’m on a open plain And there is no shore No ragin’ ocean No mountains to climb Other times it seems like I’m in a tiny room and there is no outside That I can even imagine I wanna get lost again I want to go I need someone to pull me out of this dive Or I need to find the juice myself I need to build the scene around me again Somethin I can walk into and slowly move towards a horizon I wanna get lost again I wanna get stoned I wanna get scared I wanna run towards somethin’ I wanna lose my way I don’t wanna know what you mean Don’t know what I mean I used to believe I was on my way, some way I saw signs and omens It was my luck turning the pages Laying the road I wanna get lost again
7.
I am beyond you! mortal! I am beyond reach! jump! run after my trail! I'll double back and follow you let you find me! don't be silly! I will have always been here before no matter how you travel…where you go how hard you try to beat me to the punch I will have always been here before ta ra babe ….. ta ra pal…………oorooo squire see ya……… on the other side one day you'll see… I will have always been here before then you will know me now until then my love, I wait at the end of the road the way is dark and the night is long etc etc you will come to a forest clearing you will see me then now you will see me now then I will have always been here before I will be folding a mirror…infinitely in such a studied way I must have done it a thousand times before
8.
only the stoned can hear me I'm speakin' so soft my ideas got wings I'm dealin' in spells only the stoned can see me I'm movin so slow between the moments I'm talkin' to them besides what I'm sayin' therer's some other words at a higher tone that only the stoned can hear I'm speakin' their jive words that leap out of the speakers and lick the sides of their faces only the stoned
9.
mr bad luck 04:34
he loves his bad luck / how much he's lost now how low he is / it goes to show how high he flew / how good he really is you love your falling stocks / people snub you in the street people you once took money from / to notice them in those same streets he loves his bad luck/ its out of his hands now all hope is gone / he's free at last he loves his bad luck the way his teeth are fallin from his skull he smiles a lot more now / he puts it in your face how the mighty have fallen / how spectacular the drop there he is! drowning in bad fortune / there he is! under his luck you love your situation / its freed you up from so much choice you're trapped in a great drama / a prisoner of love fate has cast you for this role only really you found the cage and locked yourself in ….in a way you love your shame / you love to rub it in people faces it some kind a game a role you were born to play your gold tooth / your missing teeth your bent nose and bad mouth / you ask people for a lift home you get a thrill out of the way they gasp yes its true / it becomes even more true with each telling they talk away from the table / up in the presidential suite how sometimes you see time / how luck is time that you see well this fellow here is blind and he ain't got no dog and he's lost his way and he's got to somehow just get across the street and one time he flew first class and pissed exactly where he sat and why not?
10.
I've got dimensions…I'm only here for the beer and chicks…ha! I've got a story to live out…I've got a tale to blow I've got dimensions Its just a part of me…just a part…just enough to make it real for us...and them I've got dimensions…I've got time on my side its different when you know how the story ends when you've seen the shape of the sound you can play it fast you can play it slow people see that you know what you're doing they think you're lying… its not real …but it is! I've got dimensions….I don't have to be here fuck you…… I've got dimensions….I'm just here for me! I've got dimensions ………………I've got form I don’t see nothin'…..I'm 1/2 way up here…far away from my birth my country earth I've been travelling …like you…up into my life down there when I was young not where you are I know….. but I got to draw a map so we can make out we know which desert island we're above I've got dimensions you gotta understand …I get paid now for for what I did ….no, what I will do well what I might do….. well what I might have done or what I could do… the goin rate goin by what I have done…or even should have done…..cappice? I've got dimensions…yes I am dimensional , baby you know I felt the cold hand of death on my back that’s why I'm running through you ….I got no fear of this world because its passing through us and soon we'll be wasted and left outside the spot we will be out…the world will be gone …….I know I've got dimensions….can you feel it stranger? yeah there were all these pete murrays and girls from sex in the city and their australian idols and their st kildas and their new mini minors and their collingwoods and their melbournes and their tv remotes and their precious swinging votes and their late night shopping and their morning tv and their streets of bars their favourite new bars and their thoughts about running away or dying and their distressed jeans and their big day outs and their big brothers and their ten dollar Monday steaks and their tv channels and their dylans and bobs and their stones and cold plays and kurts and mobys and fatboys I've got dimensions I know stuff I let my talkin do the talkin ………I can't help what you hear I let my talkin do the talkin….I can't help what you see
11.
saturday night bath steam and heat electric light the world is really happening down in the city but I am here at my place with my big toe in the tap and a wet cloth over my eyes I am out of time, baby I am fresh and rested now tomorrow people will be madly reading the newspaper outside their cafes looking for a life where they could lay down one saturday night in a bath of hot water and let the world world go by I am irrelevant I am just not there I am here I am not in the moment of the world I am havin a moment of our own here in this house in this part of the world the trees black and swaying with the wind in the darkness outside there's a dirt road leading to this house I've stood in the field and looked across at the lights in the night and wondered what it would be like to come across this scene a saturday night bath stickin my leg out the side
12.

about

Originally released in 2005 as part of a double cd with Clare Moore's "Liquor". "HASHISH and LIQUOR".

-I loved making this album.Started with what became "my schtick weighs a ton" being cooked up by Greg Den Hartog. Then a friend called saying he had some studio time as part of a course and needed a band to make the sounds for his skills to be tested on. I thought it would be cool approach it like a "Jazz workshop" type thing. A one off event. So I called Mark Fitzgibbon and the next day Clare and I went into the studio with him. I played the bass. That was for "I will have always been here before", "I've got dimensions", "Mr Bad Luck" and "there he goes with his eye out". All pretty much improvised and played out on the spot. Then I did the vocals. No editing later on. I took the raw tracks home and mixed them, adding a few guitar licks here and there.
The other tracks were all done at our studion, the Ponderosa. I also remixed "sometimes you can see yourself" for the itunes version of "you've been in my mind"

credits

released August 14, 2014

dave graney - acoustic and electric guitars, bass, keys, percussion and vocals
clare moore- drums, percussion, keys and vocals
mark fitzgibbon - piano
stuart perera- electric guitar on "I've got dimensions"

"my schtick weighs a ton" recorded by Greg Den Hartog who also wrote the music.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

dave graney Melbourne, Australia

From Melbourne, Australia.
Dave Graney and Clare Moore were once in the Moodists, singer and drummer respectively.Then there was the Coral Snakes and and now Dave Graney and the mistLY.
Stu Thomas on bass since 2004 and Stuart Perera on guitar since 1998
... more

contact / help

Contact dave graney

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

dave graney recommends:

If you like hashish (2005 album), you may also like: