The Time Being | Steve Kilbey

and we've all known hurt

the week started terribly when i found out our kate had passed away

no more big smiles

too soon too soon

i hate that thing when you cry and your throat starts to ache

kate i know you can read this

craig told me you had starfish with you when you went

that kinda makes me so happy and so sad

i dont know whats going on here

i hope things are calm and peaceful somewhere else

my life hurtles into turbulence it surrounds me

running from shadows

last night we played the enmore theatre in syd

we were good they say

feel free to write a review here

i’m sorry the meet n greet was unsatisfactory

i’m a bit exhausted and i just put my heart n soul into it

i shouldnt be meeting anyone

i need to walk in the warm darkness outside

i want to know if the children are asleep yet

the rocknroll has poured outta me just as it poured in

i’m just any-old bloke whose a bit dopey

no point in meeting me

ive done my thing and  ive had enough

but i’m sorry if it didnt work out for some reason

i’m sorry if someone was rude

i had spent all afternoon there trying to get it right

we have just driven back from newcastle

i have some more personal argy bargy in my life

i have some things to contend with

the creative side of me is outraged by the drain on resources

i am out of balance

last night i call on an energy to animate me

and it does not fail to arrive

i feel like i could levitate into the air

it has finally happened anyway whatever it is

too late but better than never

we just laid 30 odd top notch songs on the audience

i allow the music to flow thru me i dont grasp at it anymore

i have no message for the audience

i dont know what i’m doing

i’m reflecting something out there

some idea that is so vague and powerful

we did a good show

whatever we ever hoped to achieve surely we did last night

sure some ninny is gonna give us a bad review its inevitable

they dont like my interpretive dance whatever that is

i just do what that thing tells me to do

sometimes it tells me to dance because some music is for dancing

the characters in the songs animate one after another

its all so deliciously easy i mean i’m not even trying

i mustnt try …trying is the worse

i gotta be in it jump in boots n all i suppose

or risk hurting myself even more

last night i moved closer to invoking the thing

when it comes it takes care of everything

can you believe i’m saying the thing is playing and singing me

anyway being a good frontman dont solve no personal problems

the world is still out there

i am in conflict as i always have been

there cannot be the energy without the conflict i see that now

its weird to be a geezer that some think is the bees knees

whilst others think is the worst guy in  the world

i am actually neither but you already knew that

its a pity its so confusing

isnt it ?

minister for greedy-ness

good on ya politicians of arstralia

nice work on yer pay rise

the minimum was $40, 000 a year raise

but some lucky lazy shiny bums got a pay rise of $200,000 a year

yep they were sure worth the extra four grand a fucking week…easy…!!

of course they all a-greed they should get a raise

of course they should

those incredible clever wonderful people

where would we be without em?

juliar gillhead  now gets more than obama…but shes worth it..

so charismatic so full of leadership and wisdom…

ha ha

THE PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA SHOULD RISE UP AS ONE

AND DENY THESE FUCKING JOKES THE EXTRA MONEY!!!
THEY SHOULD HAVE THEIR WAGES LOWERED NOT RAISED!!
THEY ARE A BURDEN ON US TAXPAYERS

THEY ARE OVERPAID UNDERTALENTED SELFIMPORTANT GEESEBALLS

THEY ARE DISPENSABLE DISPOSABLE FORGETTABLE FOOLS
I RESENT THIS OUTRAGE
WRITE TO THE BASTARDS AND TELL EM YOURE FURIOUS OVER THIS LATEST SPLURGE!!

THIS IS A TRAVESTY I HATE THE WAY THEY CAN DO THIS
BOTH SIDES NO DIFFERENCE

PIGS WITH THEIR UGLY SNOUTS IN THE PUBLIC TROUGH

THIS IS PATHETIC!

pity bout the pitta

she without whom the cosmos could not breathe

came with flaming wheels roll through heaven on highest  love

and all about well i believe at least the spirits exulted in their exalting

the nightsky a’burst with orange sudden flare an ever red on crimson fire

her chariot yoked to seven great stallions all snorting in their fury

effulgence effervescing in her glorious wake she descends

her triumph so obvious at first it appears too vague to apprehend

a solar titan a colossal victory a darkening of the sky

in memoriam afternoons of dull and distant warmness

in ipso facto the way back to any eden

in the realm of conjecture where an inkling sits on the throne

in the fine print are the roughest words

in the rude jab of dawn as she shoots up the rain

let misery approach elsewhere you churls

let no calamity overtake us here again

life eventually numbs yes you may welcome it

life is insidious yet tenuous

i wonder

then

i sleep

Steve Kilbey will be a chatting to Simon Winkler on ‘Incoming’ 4-7PM EST, this Wednesday 14th December 2011 ahead of their Melbourne Forum ‘Future Past Perfect’ show on the 30th. RRR 102.1FM (Melb)

LIVE STREAM: http://bit.ly/SMpaV

Steve Kilbey’s also taking over RRR the same day doing the “Formative 5” segment on The Golden Age of Piracy! It’s a 1HR Special, where he talks about 5 songs that inspired his writing. Tune in from 10:45PM EST for this special!

LIVE STREAM: http://bit.ly/SMpaV

woolly gong manne

out the back of the gig in woolly gong

first night of the fast prefects future detour

gonna do untinted 23 n a half

pressed = borer

self-fish

wowee fiendsss

are ya coming tonight?

i sure hope so

we start at six sharp, my ne’er-do-wells and droogies

already done the acoustic shows in kincumber n milton x 2

having a ball my geese

rocknroll !!

Watch the video here – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifjUBbkNKms

Read the article here – http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/music/steve-kilbey-reflects-on-aussie-greats-20111208-1ol11.html

Steve Kilbey and Peter Koppes talk frankly about the recording of the Priest=Aura album. This cd is soon to be reissued again with indepth sleeve notes by Marty Willson-Piper but is now  available on tour.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/his-remastered-voice-20111209-1omi2.html

Take a look at photos of the church taken by Kirby Walton at Homebake last weekend .http://musicfeeds.com.au/photos/homebake-2011-the-domain-sydney-03122011/