Hoodoo Gurus

BLOW YOUR COOL

Out That Door

Dave Faulkner

Your kiss can leave me cold.
I miss the fire that our hearts used to hold.
Oh-oh, there's no danger anymore,
Oh-oh, you're not a stranger anymore
And I'm out that door (Out that door),
I'm out that door (If you call)
But I'm not sure
When we decided not to care for each other anymore.

By rights we should be friends.
My pride was hurt but is that so hard to mend?
Oh-oh, I've been trying not to 'phone,
Oh-oh, I've gotta know if you're alone
And I'm out that door (Out that door)
If you'll just call (If you call)
And day or night - (Night and day)
Anytime at all - (If you call)
But should I wait? (Should I wait?)
We're always breaking up, and making up
so much better than before.

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What's My Scene

Dave Faulkner

And another thing
I've been wondering lately
Oh, baby,
Tell me where have you been?
Now the stage is set
Where's my Juliet, baby?
Is it maybe
My Midsummer Night's Dream?
What's my scene?

Like a talent scout
I'm always checking out new blood
Oh, I'd do good
If you tell me your game.
Playing Solitaire
Doesn't get me where you would
And, honey, you could
Play by any rules that you care to name.
What's my scene? (I gotta know)

They say, yeah, they say
Making love, you can make it pay.
They say, yeah, they say,
But we know there's a better way
Any day.

And another thing
I've been wondering lately
Am I crazy
To believe in ideals?
I'm a betting man
But it's getting damn lonely.
Oh, honey, it only
I could be sure what I feel.
What's my scene? (I'm dying to know)
I'll never know.
Well, I concede
I've been caught in someone else's scene (but that's not me).
Where, oh where, oh where can my scene be?
Please answer - me
What's my ..?

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Good Times

Dave Faulkner

You told me goodbye and I believed you.
Felt like I would die - I didn't need to
'Cos you came back to me
And everything's like it used to be.
All the good times we had we'll have again.

If your love is mine it will stand up
To the test of time. It will stand up.
It looked like we were through,
But in our heart of hearts we knew
The good times we had we'll have again.

And again.
Now I know you'll always be my friend
Til the end.
That means more to me than anything,
It's everything.

Who needs yesterday - that's far behind us
And memories only may serve to remind us
That what felt good before
Today we'll treasure so much more.
All the good times we had we'll have again.

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I Was The One

Dave Faulkner

Darling, this is goodbye.
Kiss me, I don't know why.
You were always beautiful when you closed your eyes.
Leave now, while we still can.
Let's not wait until it all gets out of hand.
You're looking for a criminal, well, I'm a guilty man.
I was the one.

We were wrong from the start
Maybe we tried just a Iittle too hard.
You don't have to blame yourself,
you always played your part.
I was the one.
I was.

Darling, look at us now - look at us now
History won't put us down - won't put us down
Don't let anybody say you could have worked it out.
I was the one.

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Hell For Leather

Dave Faulkner

Make something happen.
If you don't, I will.
We might lose a lifetime looking for a thrill.
Night is the jungle
A forbidden place -
In the neon forest people vanish
Without trace.

Midnight
Stay tight together

Greased-up and ready,
A well-oiled machine:
You're my motorcycle I'm your gasoline.
Spark my ignition,
You hold the key.
Won't you kick yourself in gear and
Ride away with me?
And I fell
Like hell for leather.
Can't you
Tell it's forever

Trapped in the city,
You learn to save your skin
(There) ain't no human zoo could ever cage us in.
Night is the jungle
But don't you lose your way,
There's hungry creatures out there looking
For some blood to claim.
And I fell
Like hell for leather
You can tell that it's forever.
Won't you ride away with me
Hell for leather.

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Where Nowhere Is

Dave Faulkner

Do you know where nowhere is?
It's where you are.
Do you know what nothing means?
Y-O-U.
Do you know what no-one thinks?
It's all about you.
And do you know what?
Nobody cares!

Well, you can't see the stars
In the daytime,
And you can't see the sun
When it's night,
But you can't even see yourself In the mirror
And I Don't see you at all.
Not at all.

Do you know where (Nowhere!)
Nowhere is?

You had everything
That you ever wanted-
Man, you had it made
Was what you had!
You forgot the only thing
You ever needed
And you can't hide, You can't hide that from me!
No, not from me.

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Middle Of The Land

Dave Faulkner

Here I stand in the middle of the land
Take my hand in the middle of the land

You'll see something that's new in the sunshine
You'll be the winter that's turning to springtime

Here I stand in the middle of the land
Take my hand in the middle of the land

Someday someone will try to confuse you.
They'll say things you want to hear and they'll use you.
I thought we'd live and learn
But some folks seem to yearn
For values unsophisticated.
Those days are dead and gone
I won't wish them back upon
A world that's much more complicated.

Here I stand in the middle of my ...
Take my hand, I'm always glad to lend a hand.

They'll try to blind you with T.V. religion.
Don't buy their hand-me-down second - opinions.
Sometimes the biggest lies
Are most easily disguised,
Dressed up like the Road To Glory,
Then somewhere down the line
You'll rub your eyes and find
You're on a path to your own Purgatory.

You'll know something as old as the moonlight,
You'll throw superstition and fear away tonight.
They'll paint us black and white,
They'll paint us wrong and right,
They'll paint us all into a corner.
They'll try to cool us down
But they could never fool us now.
We're steamed-up hotter than a Swedish Sauna!

Here I stand in the middle of the land
Take my, take my hand - your horizons will expand.
Land - in the middle, middle of the land
(Land on me.)

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Come On

Dave Faulkner

Oh, come on,
I've been hanging out,
Had some nagging doubts,
But that was until now.
Oh, come on,
You are all I want.
All I want.
How could I hold out for long?

Oh, come on,
Who cares what people say?
'Cause we can sleep all day,
Tonight won't keep away.
Let's just play.
Oh, come on,
How can we be wrong ?
We're not wrong
When we both feel so strong.
We're so strong, we're so strong
Come on.

Come on,
The last train's almost gone.
Really gone!
Let's enjoy the ride we're on.
So come on,
We can take our time -
We can take walk the line, after all.

So come on,
'Cause it's you I love.
When push comes to shove
You're more than enough.
You're more than enough.
Come on.

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Heart Of Darkness

Dave Faulkner

Blood flows just like water,
Changing into wine.
Everything looks better in the black sunshine,
In the black sunshine.

Echoes drag my memories
Back where they began
But I just can't be sorry - my tears turn into sand.
All those tears torn into sand.

I don't care now
For what might have been,
The heart of darkness doses in on me.

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My Caravan

Dave Faulkner

My caravan
Is far from home.
I seek a path to parts unknown.
My caravan
Hides from the sun.
By moonlit night my journey's done.

Your smallest wish is my command,
My caravan.

Ships in the night.
Ships of the sand.
The camels in my caravan.
May Allah smile
Upon your land
And safely guide my caravan.

His smallest wish is our command.
My caravan.
I build my dreams on shifting sand
My caravan

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On My Street

Dave Faulkner

Won't you visit my town?
Ain't too far, you just go eight miles underground
And take The Diamond Mine straight to my street.
Everybody you know
Is dying to meet you ('cos they all told me so!)
And Tojo booked you HoJo's bridal suite.

Light a candle with a star,
Turn around, and there you are.
On my street you can drive no car.

Anybody could see
The Flying Doctor's been barking up the wrong tree -
Cecil B. De Mille lives on my street.
C.Y. O'Connor's feeling depressed
And Gypsy Rose Lee is always under-dressed,
While Liberace is playing with his feet

Fly Sinatra to the moon
You'll be back by afternoon
On my street you can call the tune

You're on my street.

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Party Machine

Dave Faulkner

(Intro)
(Well it's Friday night and I just got paid
Nothing on tomorrow - Man, I got it made!)

We got an engine but we got no wheels
Don't need no petrol for our Gurumobile
ŒCos we ain't going nowhere near the ground.
We're on a rocket ship to inner space
Out into orbit moving in one place
And going faster than the speed of sound.

Move your feet to the rhythm of love,
Groove that beat-once is never enough.
Dig my words, it's a happening scene!
Hitch a ride on the Partymachine.

You know we're gonna have a Real Cool Time

Your wig will flip so high you'll lose your mind!
Let's fIy a Supersonic to the sun.
There's people swinging on the chandelier.
The pilot's singing to the bombardier,
Oo-wee! Capracornia, here we come! (Here we go!)

Blow Your Cool while the night is still young.
Make your move - now you're having some fun.
Catch my wave, won't you tune in on me?
Hitch a ride on the Partymachine.

I say, Where have you been? Where have you been?
- On the Partymachine, On the Partymachine
I say, What did you see? What did you see?
- I saw Everything, Everything (and more!)
I wanna go Somewhere-
But Anywhere will do.

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Album Credits

Blow Your Cool - Released 1987

Dave Faulkner - Lead Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Brad Shepherd - Guitar, Harmonica
Clyde Bramley - Bass
Mark Kingsmill - Batterie

Backing Vocals - Hoodoo Gurus Guest Vocals on 'Good Times' - Susanna Hoffs*, Debbi Peterson*, Vicki Peterson*, Michael Steele*
Guest Vocals on 'Middle Of The Land' - Steve Wynn#, Mark Walton#, Paul Thirkell
Guest Vocals on 'Where Nowhere Is' and 'Party Machine' - Geoff Rhoe. Glazed-eye look when he sees Susanna Hoffs-Kevin Guyer
Guest Vocals on 'Party Machine' - Allan Wright, Mark Opitz, Stevo Glendinning, Mike Kloster
Guest Guitar on 'Out That Door' - Mal Eastick Guest Saxaphone on 'I Was The One' and 'My Caravan' - James Valentine
* Bangles (courtesy Columbia Records)
# Dream Syndicate (courtesy Big Time Records)

Produced by The Hoodoo Gurus and Mark Opitz. Engineered by Allan Wright. Recorded at Rhinoceros Recordings and Albert Studios (Sydney), and the Sound Factory (Los Angeles). Mixed at Rhino, January 1987. Engineering assistance - Kathy Nauton (Alberts), Heidi Cannavo, Paula Jones (Rhino), Chad Blake (Sound Factory).

All compositions published by EMI Music Publishing.