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Other "movements" of this song.

Includes "the King Of Adelaide" (spoken by tex Perkins) and "You Could Always Make the Band Laugh".

electric guitar, drums, bass and piano. Robin Casinader on extra violin and mandolin. Clare Moore on Glockenspiel and backing vocals.

lyrics

I passed an old friend
he was lyin in the gutter with an ear full of rain
I remember him sayin
he was gonna prevail
ohif I could've staye dhome

he was everything an artist should be
poor and dirty and ugly
oh if I coulda stayed home

yeah hed go for days without a change of clothes
live without a shower
smoke a lot of dope
if I could have stayed home

meanwhile the prince of the underworld sits by his penthouse pool
champagne cool in the sauna
his children search for him down below
if I coulda stayed home

to be at the centre
to be at the scene
to be seen to care to be seen
to have a drink in your hand
to know the score
to flick the blood from your lapel and yawn
lord, if I coulda stayed home

what you gonna do?
who you gonna be?
where you gonna go?

there's this friend of mine
his idea of a good time is to set an exotic table in his back yard
slow down and savour a flavour nop on else will ever know
out there on his own
closed
out in the hot sun as he pleases
closed
360 degree
closed
the King Of Adelaide
lord of you and me
of all we were and yet could be

you could always make the band laugh
you just got to wear it
its not the sort of thing you could put up in lights
you got to decide whether thats good or bad
you got to work out who you're living for

the band, they're gonna be changin
just like the people out front
but they're gonna be stayin
and you're gonna be movin on
someone else will get the job of standin in between
someone else will make the rules stand up again

The people at the front tables walked during the first set. They'd go home to tell their kids about this guy down at the club who thought he was funny. You liked to think those kids really wanted to come and see you.
The kids and the band, they kept you going. All the bad gigs, the drunks, the cheese and the ham. You could sellp - rough - but you could sleep. Talk yourself out, talk yourself back in. Knowing you could make sense somehow, maybe not right now but nobody knew just what yu were worth, you just had a little cash flow problem, a lack of liquidity. You were payin the price, sewing the seeds, dealing an alien currency.

All the others who went before you? Were they playin for you?
Someone light years removed?
What is it? A closed circle? A funky queue?

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from Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes Night Of The Wolverine, released January 7, 2019

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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

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