February 1989 - The Man From Delmonte EP - BIP 502 (12”) - BOP CASSETTES
Waiting For Anne (Slow song)
Australia Fair (Fast song)
M.I.C.H.A.E.L.
Ascension Day
Waiting For Anne
Now it’s gone 2 am
My friend is late getting home again
Every tick of the clock
sounds like the turn of her key in the lock
How can I sleep while I’m waiting?
Oh how can I sleep while I’m waiting for Anne?
And every taxi slows
but not one will stop outside my window
I don’t miss a sound.
Was that your step or the wind blowing rubbish around?
Why can’t I close my eyes
Sleep until morning and hope for a surprise?
Now I know that I’m right
I’ll hug my knees tight, she’s not coming home tonight
Australia Fair
From the Baronjoey lighthouse
to the Avalon surf
Every Ford Cortina and Morris Marina
has a board rack on its roof
And everyone there is as fresh as the air
As cool as the sea and as shallow as the pool
When they sing Australia Fair
I wish I was born in Lancashire
Well there are fairy penguins on Lion Island,
financiers on Claireville
Each a summer migrant to the healthy environment
a weekend boat and a stroke
Well there’s St Mary’s church where they married my mother,
the Jesuit school that was cruel to my brother
But none of these names mean much more to me
than a hand-me-down memory
M.I.C.H.A.E.L.
Against my better nature
I read her letter made sure
she mentioned my name
she mentioned my name
But her vocabulary
Won't extend to me
She can spell me out
M.I.K.E. or
M.I.C.H.A.E.L
But Michael
Doesn't mean a thing to her Anymore
I don't mean a thing to her
But Sarah means much more to me
Than the cleverest word I know
Address books are dictionaries
Full of names as obselete as words
She won't look me up
She's so ignorant
She knows nothing about me
She's illiterate
She can't even write me a letter
Ascension Day
The bible tells a story of
how Jesus found eternal love
Taken off by angels
as you’ll be taken off by a plane
‘Cos today is your Ascension day
An aeroplane will take you to your love’s heavenly arms again
Like Jesus Christ you will take to the clouds
Leave me nothing but a Turin Shroud
A Relic of your pretty laugh
in a photograph
‘Cos today is your Ascension day
The day you will fly from me
The day you will surely die for me
And today is your Ascension day
An aeroplane will take you to your love’s heavenly arms again
The chartered flight from heaven’s gate 11 will be late
David will be waiting on the other side