These tracks were recorded live at the Arc Cafe, Dunedin, 28 October 2000
The Crown - live version (737k)
Wishful Thinking (632k)
Foreign Love Song (902k) [lyrics]
Oceans and Stars (724k) [lyrics]
I used to live my life like I was living inside a foreign love song
Places with exotic names, street cafés, big jet planes
I'd picture myself in Amsterdam or Rome
Or Paris or someplace 10,000 miles from home
And the suits I wear are Italian razor-sharp
The sun towering over me in the most unlikely kind of light
Now there's nobody home but me and it's late afternoon and raining
I'm watching foreign movies in black and white
I'm reading subtitles and they don't seem right
I'm holding on to this foreign love song
Foreign love drives me insane
I know you speak good English so why don't you tell me your name?
Because I used to know someone that looks like you
She'd write me postcards when there's nothing else better to do
And now this siren song, I've never heard it so loud before
Takes over the helm, drags me ashore
Now there's nobody home but me and it's late afternoon and raining
I'm watching foreign movies - they're all suspense
I'm reading subtitles and they don't make any sense
I'm holding on to this foreign love song
I was waiting inside your big yellow room
Windows and doors open wide
The face of desire is a double-edged blade
You said "Please don't leave here too soon"
I was there, I saw it all before me
"Nothing lasts forever" I heard you say
There's nothing to sell, nothing to pay
Nothing so precious as seeing you here today
Through the open door I saw the sun hit the sea
The wind, the sheltering palms
The long shadow you cast over foxholes and men
Fell through the screen of camouflage
You came inside and took off your silent greatcoat
Outside the night was folding in
There's a crescent moon and it's razor sharp
And a story that won't wait to be told from a soldier's heart
I dreamt I was standing on the white sandy shore
Of a beach in Guadalcanal
It was 1943 and the landing craft rolled at anchor
To the sound and shouts of a GI's yell
I was there, I saw it unfold before me
"Nothing lasts forever" I heard you say
There's nothing to sell, nothing to pay
Nothing but oceans and stars between us today