SEND ME A LULLABY

Lindy Morrison, drums, vocal 'People know'
Grant McLennan, bass, vocals, lead guitar on
'Careless', 'All about strength', 'It could be anyone'
Robert Forster, rhythm guitar, vocals

James Freud, saxophone

Engineered by Tony Cohen
Produced by The Go-Betweens and Tony Cohen
at Richmond Recorders, Australia
July 1981

'Your turn, my turn' recorded at
Trafalgar Studios, Sydney, Australia
mixed at Richmond Recorders

Cover by Jenny Watson


Your Turn, My Turn

Heard it, heartache
Your turn, my turn
Show it, your face
Your turn, my turn
Same place, some grace
Your turn, my turn
Stand it, stand it
Something involving a lie
Something between you and I
The light fades away
and the day turns to grey
and you say, say

Soft, sure
as a knock on your door
Please say you're there
Wait, wasted
I'm here, I'm here
Lose it, yeah
Something involving a lie
Something between you and I
The light fades away
and the day turns to grey
and you say, say

Heard it, heartache
Your turn, my turn
Show it, your face
Your turn, my turn
Same place, some grace
Your turn, my turn
Stand it, stand it
Something involving a lie
Something between you and I
The light fades away
and the day turns to grey
and you say, you say

Say to you
Sure as a
Knock on the


>One Thing Can Hold Us

Your pride's my pride
Your on your side
and I stand, tongue tied
with my lies
You see things in black
I see things in white
It's just a twist in the light

Like a church mouse
you run in your house
Years round I talk, you talk
One thing's good
and then one thing's bad
It's not your fault don't get mad

One thing can hold us
One thing can break us
It's the same thing
One thing can hold us
One thing can break us
It's the same thing

My pride's your pride
I'm on your side
We stand, tongue tied
with our lies

One thing can hold us
One thing can break us
It's the same thing
One thing can hold us
One thing can break us
It's the same thing

One thing can hold us
One thing can break us
One thing can hold us
One thing can break us
One thing can hold us
One thing can break us


>People Know

A town without trains
He runs to meet you
Rehearsed a first line
It's left him, thank goodness

And I've grown to accept
that people know the next steps

To and through with letters
that's finished
No new faces
except his and he's old

And I've grown to accept
that people know the next steps

Upstream and our stars
under one sky
A cabin once stood
where we now stand

And I've grown to accept
that people know the next steps
A town without trains
has brought you home again

The Girls Have Moved

It took you a week
To say one day
You were

A virtuoso
A virtuoso
The girls have moved

Some brass band
and a marching girl
She likes it that way
She likes it that way
Big from, big from Broadway

A virtuoso
A virtuoso
The girls have moved

Who am I to stop you
and who am I to stop you
I am just the one who loves you
loves you
I am just the one
I am just the one
who loves you

A virtuoso
A virtuoso
The girls have moved
A virtuoso
A virtuoso
The girls have moved


>Midnight To Neon

No sign of heaven here
Just some run-down imitation white cloud

So you been crying hard
Wake up and up
to what you been lying on

I don't ask for the earth
and God knows I don't ever get it

So you been crying hard
Wake up and up
to what you been lying on

Midnight to neon

Why don't you give nothing
to the man who has everything ?
So now I tucked my skirts
with the business and the business
and the business of dirt

So you been crying hard
Wake up and up
to what you been lying on


>Eight Pictures

I suspected for some time
that you had other lovers
But I didn't know that those men in your room
weren't really your brothers
And I was working
in the ice-rink
spring and summer that year
And I remember
some of those dates
and others are still very clear

I shot you with my camera
Caught you doing things with him
I shot you with my camera
Caught you doing things with him
And you can't complain
You can't cry
'cause cameras never lie

I was going to every school there was
Not trying to catch up
You can't quit while you're ahead
You're still young
And you were seeing the actor
Same publicity shot for six years
And I didn't have any courage
Just respect for his age

I shot you with my camera
Caught you making love with him
I shot you with my camera
Caught you doing things with him
And you can't complain
You can't cry
'cause cameras never lie

You were wearing those leather boots
I'd hid them on the floor
Running to someone to grab their arm
and telling them what you were here for
And so I drove the big car
and parked it way up front
And when is a door not a door ?
When it's ajar

I shot you with my camera
Caught you making love with him
And I shot you with my camera
Caught you doing things with him
And you can't complain
You can't cry
'cause cameras never lie

Eight pictures
Got eight pictures
Eight pictures
Eight pictures


>Careless

We're both careful
We're both kind
I know you
you're so easy to find

Clumsy me, clumsy you
Fell in love
and we don't know what to do

We make mistakes
Things crack and break
A friendship's born
and then it's too late

Clumsy me and you
Broke something
and we didn't know what to do

It used to be fun
Something to share
Now we're both jealous
'cause now we both care

Between the world and us
I sang, 'caught you'
Two is a crowd, one of us should know
Safety in numbers means number one can't go

Clumsy me and you
Broke something
and we didn't know what to do


>All About Strength

I'm not strong
I'm not brave
I'm not strong
I'm not brave
I'm not strong enough
I'm not brave enough
to say walk away

I'm not weak
I can't speak
This is no muscle show
Just some rustling clothes
When you walk away

I'm not proud
I'm too proud
I won't take a stand
I won't put on weight

I'm not strong enough
I'm not brave enough
I'm not strong enough
I'm not brave enough
to say walk my way

Not strong


>Ride

You stupid man
Can't collect your stupid thoughts
With a pay cheque
Fist to fist your hands shake
Careful to choose the laws you break

You can't say that
It's not allowed
That can't be
I just say
Ride, ride
You ride by me

You stupid man
The blood beast
has to think to even place his feet
The easy life is easily found
Fat life is dug in the ground

You can't say that
It's not allowed
That can't be done
It's not allowed
I just say
Ride, ride
I really am tired
to ride, ride
You ride by me

Earn a crust
Sleepy head
Dragged down on a reef
Your inner self shall leave you
for someone else
Shall leave you

That can't be done
It's not allowed
I just say
It's just not right, right
You pray for me

to ride, ride
You pray for me
to ride
Ride, ride, ride, ride
ride, ride, ride, ride


>Hold Your Horses

Under blue skies
Under your eyes
Under clouds so dark they make you cry

I see red boats
I see grey cars
I hear sounds so white
they could be stars

Under blue skies
Under your eyes
Under a sun so hot it makes you cry

I see red boats
I see grey cars
I hear sounds so white
they could be stars

It's not blue
It's not sky
It's just me
Wanting rain

Way, way, way, way
Way, way, way, way


>Arrow In A Bow

Fire
Fire
Fire and rock and roll
Fire and rock and roll

Like Rome
Like Rome
1952
Pre-anything
Pre-almost anything

Fired like an arrow in a bow
You aim low
You aim low
Fired like an arrow in a bow
You aim low
You aim low
You aim

Just one
arrow in my
Just one
you shot it yourself

And no-one sees a thing
Fire and rock and roll
And no-one sees a thing
Fire and rock and roll
Like Rome


>It Could Be Anyone

One light
One light's all you need
to keep the dark out
One look
One look's all it takes
to put the fire out
Too close and he knew it
His knowledge cost him everything he had
Too tired to feel it
You shake him
and the only thing that breaks
You shake him
and the only thing that breaks
are bones and bones and bones
and bones and bones that break

Almost
Almost something
you read and dream about
Bad luck
It's just bad luck
the good luck's all run out
The noises came and the noises went
with promises that were heaven sent
Lies are told when lives are spent
You shake him
and the only thing that breaks
Shake him
and the only thing that breaks
are bones and bones and bones
and bones and bones that break

You'll never, never, never, never break him
You'll never, never, never, never take him
You'll never, never, never, never waste him
You'll never, never waste him
You'll never, never take him
You'll never, never waste him
You'll never waste him
One hand, one life
One hand, one life

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Lyrics and credits typed in (without permission) by Richard Arthur