Invisible lyrics - Colin Hay

I wake up to the sound of ringing in my ears
I turned it up too loud for way too many ears
I’m walking streets that I have known for mostly all my life
Moving though the motions in my desperate paradise

I’m invisible, to the naked eye
I’m invincible no more no more
I’m invisible as far as I can see
Invisible yeah invisibility

I open up my eyes and bear witness to the sun
I stretch my bones and check that I can still walk and run
A trip to the grocer’s store and then the pharmacy
She’s on the telephone as I wait patiently

I’m invisible to her naked eye
I’m invincible no more no more
I’m invisible as far as I can see
Invisible you no longer see me

My footsteps leave no trace through the shifting sand
My reflection disappears as I reach out for your hand
It’s not over till the sun falls into the sea
And I am floating in the sky looking down on me

I’m invisible cast me to the wind
I’m invincible no more no more
I’m invisible as far as I can see
Invisible now I can be free

Dear Father lyrics - Colin Hay

Dear father I’ve got your photographs
Thank God for photographs hip hip hooray

Dear father I know you loved to laugh though
In most of your photographs it didn’t seem that way

Dear father I can’t let you go just yet
And I still can’t forget you walking around

Dear father you’re starring in my dreams
And you’re stealing all the scenes where did you go?

In my wandering mind I stumble through time
I sing through the air I look for you there

Dear father I never got to say goodbye
I was singing on the River Clyde and I didn’t know

Dear father I see you dancing still
And I think I always will till the day I die

Dear father I feel your healing hands
As I fall asleep I can plain as the day

Dear father you’re in my reflection now
As I reach out and touch you now where did you go?

Dear father I am still curious why
You still make me furious it was so long ago

Dear father I’ve got your photographs
Thank God for photographs hip hip hooray

Gathering Mercury lyrics - Colin Hay

Free falling floating through this dream
I could hear a strange calling from behind the scenes
I could not open my eyes I was barely alive
Is this all I’ve been and all I am and will be

Until I cross over
One life is all I can see
Until it’s all over
I’m gathering mercury

Free falling over an endless sea
I could feel my heart stalling getting harder to breathe
As the boat casts away should I go or stay
Is this all I’ve been and all I am and will be

Until I cross over
One life is all I can see
Until it’s all over
I’m gathering mercury

Free falling now I want to sing
I can hear my voice calling it will hear everything
I cut myself free I crawled back to see
All that has been and all there is and will be

Until I cross over
One life is all I can see
Until it’s all over
I’m gathering mercury

Until I cross over
One life is all I can see
Until it’s all over
I’m gathering mercury
I’m gathering mercury

Half A Million Angels lyrics - Colin Hay

Walkin’ around like I’m in a trance
Thinkin’ I lost you to circumstance
Feelin’ the weight as the world pulls me down
While my heart and my head spin around

Stayin’ alone on top of the hill
Then one day I lost my will
Thought I was drowning in the sea of loneliness
Couldn’t hear a sound through the roar of the emptiness

So I listen in the distance
The voices that I hear sound like
Half a million angels
Singing very clear

Even if they can give me strenght or help me make it through
Half a million angels will never take the place of you

I think about you nearly all the time
Sometimes your presence is so defined
Whether you’re near or far away
Makes no difference in my heart you’ll stay

So I listen in the distance
The voices that I hear sound like
Half a million angels
Singing very clear

Even if they can give me strenght or help me make it through
Half a million angels will never take the place of you
Half a million angels will never take the place of you

Far From Home lyrics - Colin Hay

I hear the calling of the music
Comes floating on the wind
It’s standing on my doorstep
Outside my window looking in

I pack my shoes into my suitcase
I pack all my cares away
Everywhere I go is someplace
And down my head I lay

We’ve traveled so far and we’re still far from home

No final destination
And no closing of the door
I’m not looking for salvation
Just give me more and more

We’ve traveled so far and we’re still far from home
We’ve traveled so far and we’re still far from home home

Time no longer goes slow
Forever faster c’mon round and round here we go

I’ve been driving such a long time
Down Highway 92
From darkness into sunshine
All roads lead back to you

We’ve traveled so far and we’re still far from home
We’ve traveled so far we’re still far from home
We’ve traveled so far and we’re still far from home home
We’ve traveled so far and we’re still far from home

Where The Sky Is Blue lyrics - Colin Hay

How do how do you do
I loved you since I first saw you
Tell me will you be mine
Through the winter and into summertime
I can see the sun is poking through
Shining on the likes of me and you
I am going why don’t you come too
Let’s go where the sky is blue

Glasgow dear old Glasgow town
We love you but we’ll be seeing you ’round
We’re walking down that beaten track
Can’t say for sure we’re comin’ back
The north wind is chillin’ to the bone
This house no longer is our home
Let’s sail away just me and you
Let’s go where the sky is blue

My how how the time has flown
An’ I’ll never leave you all alone
Forever and a day I say I do
Let’s go where the sky is blue

How do how do you do
Yeah all those all the things you do
I want to have this dance with you
The first one and the last one too
Come with me darlin’ if you will
We can’t win if we’re standing still
Let’s change yeah change our point of view
Let’s go where the sky is blue
Let’s go where the sky is blue
Let’s go where the sky is blue

A Simple Song lyrics - Colin Hay

I do like a simple song
Where everyone can sing along
It doesn’t matter where you’re from
Most people like a simple song

It sure is sweet to fall in love
Feels like a gift from up above
Can’t seem to ever get enough
Yeah it sure is cool to fall in love

But things don’t often stay the same
She says she wants to give you back your name
It’s never simple who’s to blame
And it always gets so complicated

One day you wake up on your own
If I had kis they’d all be grown
Of all the people I have known
True friends there’s not too many

But I don’t want to bring you down
And I still get to play from town to town
There still is magic all around
And when I hit the ground I’m running

I don’t want to die alone
Where I cannot reach the phone
In my multi-story home
No I don’t want to die alone

It’s not preyin’ on my mind
But I do think about it from time to time
And it’s not likely to happen soon
But you may not even see it coming

So help me sing this simple song
Where everyone can sing along
It doesn’t natter where you’re from
One day we’re here and then we’re gone

"American Sunshine" (2009)

Oh California lyrics - Colin Hay

I thought I'd never reach the water
I had to cross the desert and the great divide
Drinking only golden promises
And white lines in my eyes

And all the sons and daughters
Followed all the signs to paradise
Believing only dreams and promises
With starlight in their eyes

Oh California
Yeah, it's the one big love that you cannot end
Oh California
Well, it's not like before but we can still pretend

I was swimming in freezing water
I could hear the music from the other side
I looked up and I saw my father
Tears were in his eyes

Oh California
Yeah, it's the one big love that you cannot end
Oh California
Well, it's not like before but we can still pretend

We all still live for Friday night
Old habits die hard when you get them right
There's a broken dream in every grain of sand
But it's as close as I can get to the promised land

Oh California
Yeah, I can see you now from the top of that hill
Oh California
Though many have gone I got the memories still

Oh California
Well, I can hear the sound of the mission bell
Oh California
We're one stone's throw from heaven

I thought I'd never reach the water
I had to cross the desert and the great divide
Drinking only golden promises
And white lines in my eyes

Oh California
Yeah, it's the one big love that you cannot end
Oh California

Oh California
Well, I can't leave you now
Oh California

Prison Time lyrics - Colin Hay

Nothing left and nothing came
Woke up this morning calling out your name
The more things change the more they stay the same
Like dodging rocks in the pouring rain

I wanna know, are you doing well?
’cause baby from this distance it’s hard to tell
I wanna know, did you let it go?
’cause I can’t stop my mind from doin’ prison time

Someone left someone blamed
Stuck in the middle of a hurricane
The more I lost seemed like the more I gained
But still I have to ask you to explain

I wanna know, did you take a chance?
Or did you stay a victim of circumstance
I wanna know, did you find the door?
’cause I can’t stop my mind from doin’ prison time

Nothing’s black and nothing’s white
I hear echoes of your footsteps in the dead of night
No one is wrong and no one’s right
I’m in the ring but I don’t want to fight

I wanna know, are you doing well?
’cause baby from this distance it’s hard to tell
I wanna know, did you let it go?
’cause I can’t stop my mind from doin’ prison time

I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know
I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know...

There's Water Over You lyrics - Colin Hay

I can feel your love come shining
Over and across the sea
There never was a light more blinding
Ever watching over me

I walk into the swirling wind
It carries me away
Back to where my life begins
Can you hear me say?

I can see you where you're hiding
And there's water over you
I know that you are pretending
And there's water over you

I walk beside you on the wall
Oh, so far away
You will catch me if I fall
Can you hear me say?

Love and all security
These are things you give to me

I can touch you when I'm dreaming
Long into the lonely night
You hold me when I wake up screaming
Everything will be alright

And if I had to choose between
Meeting God or you
I would wake my king and queen
There's water over you

Love for all eternity
This and more you give to me

I Came Into Your Store lyrics - Colin Hay

I came into your store
But I'm not buying anymore
So much for my will until the day I die
I will love you still

I walked in through your door
I swore I wouldn't anymore
So much for my word until the seas run dry
I will love you still

I want to love you like there's no tomorrow
If not I can pretend and play the highlights
Or I can lock the door and turn the closed sign
Or maybe I should let a little time pass

I look down at the floor
But I'm not crying anymore
So much for my tears until the day I die
I will love you still

I don't know what to say
But I like it more that way
A penny for your thoughts that and more I'd pay
Just to hear you say

I want to love you like there's no tomorrow
If not I can pretend and play the highlights
Or I can lock the door and turn the closed sign
Or maybe I should let a little time pass

I came into your store
But you don't work there anymore

No Time lyrics - Colin Hay

No time to live, no time to die
No time to sit and wonder why
No time for you, no time for I
No time to watch the world go by

And I got no time for sorrow
And I got no time to cry
And I got no time for tomorrow
I got no time

No time for her, no time for him
No time to let the sunshine in
No time to love, no time to hate
No time to sleep or stay up late

No time to rise, no time to fall
No time to see or do it all
No time to give, no time to take
Time is just one big mistake

And I got no time to borrow
And I can't procrastinate
And I got no time to follow
I got no time

To read between the lines
To see what I could find or shed a tear

No time to laugh, no time to sing
No time for much of anything
No time to fear, no time to fight
No time to ever see the light

And I got no time for sorrow
And I got no time to cry
And I got no time for tomorrow
I got no time

To read between the lines
To see what I could find or shed a tear

Broken Love lyrics - Colin Hay

Broken love don’t pay my bills uh huh huh
Broken love gives me the chills uh huh huh
Broken love don’t follow signs uh huh huh
Broken love rolls with these times uh huh huh

It ain’t no good to cut and run
Or suicide from a smokin’ gun
I loved her she loved me
Broken love is killing me

Broken love’s got broken wings uh huh huh
Broken love cries when it sings uh huh huh

Money comes as money will
I’d be a dead man if looks could kill
If you’re in poverty or a millionaire
Broken love is everywhere

Broken love will do me in uh huh huh
Broken love should be a sin uh huh huh
Broken love will break my bones uh huh huh
It don’t need no old sticks and stones uh huh huh

I was blind I could not see
Fruit was falling from the apple tree
I loved her now she is free
Broken love is gonna bury me

Broken love...
Broken love don’t pay my bills

I Can't Get Up Out Of This Bed lyrics - Colin Hay

Bees are buzzing in my ear
Birds are singing pure and clear
Oh but I can’t stop thinking about you

Creek is running, running high
Trees are burning touch the sky
Much as I try I can’t stop thinking about you

An’ I can’t get up out of this bed
I can’t get up out of this bed
No I can’t get up out of this bed
For nothing

I’ve been weeping in my beer
An’ I was dreaming you were here
My tears are dry
But I can’t stop thinking about you

An’ I can’t get up out of this bed
I can’t get up out of this bed
No I can’t get up out of this bed
For nothing

I can’t feel my heart anymore
It’s as empty as a lie
I can’t answer the knockin’ at my door
Why can’t I?

Time is coming, it’s gettin’ near
No more sleeping to kill the fear
Oh but I can’t stop thinking about you

An’ I can’t get up out of this bed
I can’t get up out of this bed
No I can’t get up out of this bed
For nothing
For nothing