Recorded in Newcastle, Melbourne and Sydney
Produced by Steve Kopandy, David Carr and Jordan Brown

1. Paris in the Winter 2. Falls to You 3. 1997teen 4. Falling Stars are Breaking up 5. Corona & Lime 6. The Wire 7. Fever 8. It All Broke Down 9. Lost Your mind

Paris In The Winter

Lying in empty parks with wind as cold as ice

Watching the lamppost lines of trees against the sky

Writing a fairytale against the sky of grey

Now I’m back in Paris

I don’t know what to say

Cause it’s hard to know which way to go

Without you

Drifting away, we put the river to shame

Going nowhere up the cold Champs-Elysees

And the city framed your face

And it takes me back to that place

Where I was not alone in Paris

This world is just a maze

I’ll trade up all my summers

For Paris in the winter

Falls To You

Time slows down

Tell me where now

Are you hiding from me? Flying slowly?

Winding up as it bears down

Is our number at the end this round?

Corner me with your sweet dreams

Now I’m shouldering uncontrollable things

Take me out, give me peace now

Cause I’m still a slave to how you make me feel

And the hand with which you hold me

Is the hand which breaks my heart

It falls to you

Look up there in the thin air

Can you see us drifting? Disappearing?

I can’t rest ‘till I make sense

Of my hopes and dreams in middle distance

And I’ll crawl up to your ankles

1997teen

Empty dance floor

Mirrorball

All the girls were pretty but all the boys were shy

Cause we were falling in love at first sight

Everything was scary because it felt so right

Seventeen was right honey seventeen

I remember how you’d say love was the thing to be in

Do you remember when I took your hand and smiled?

Looked into your eyes

We couldn’t dance to dance our lives

It didn’t matter cause the music didn’t lie

We had the time of our lives

And we were dancing in the sky

Seventeen was right

Honey seventeen

And the way you looked at me

1997teen

Tonight the stars are our mirrorball

Seventeen for life

Honey seventeen

Falling Stars are Breaking Up

She wants to go

Looking alone for something

And I don’t know

What she’s gonna find

Now she’s all alone

When engines drone

And take her for the sky

We don’t see eye to eye

Overthrow all of the plans we’re making

Cross fade into another life

And there’s nothing sweet

About this so called ‘bittersweet’ goodbye

We don’t see eye to eye

Falling stars don’t mean that much

When you’re a world away they look so beautiful

Still they’re breaking up like us

And they’re alone without a friend to keep ‘em warm

She believes the ocean’s just a fine line

Feeding me to follow her with the tide

But a path that’s drawn in sand won’t last

And I am left behind

We don’t see eye to eye

But I’m gonna wait a beat for her

When she’s on satellite delay

And I’m gonna be the beach for her

When she comes home to me I pray

Corona and Lime

Radio station promotion croissant

In my hot little hand from the coffee I bought

Last night was awesome and now I’m awake

To a world I was looking for and I cannot wait

I must have slept under the Brandenberg Gate

And why is that man with a gun yelling at me?

And if I spoke German I’d probably be scared

He thinks that I’m drunken and English and homeless

And he leaves me alone cause he knows I don’t care

Yeah he goes cause he knows I don’t care

Now I remember last night

Corona and Lime

Where did that Mexican girl that I fell for

Go when she left me alone on the dance floor?

Probably back to her hotel room floor

28 storeys come hell or high walls

I’d have been happy to sleep on her floor

Remember last night

Corona and Lime

Another Corona and Lime

I was kissed by a Mexican girl for the first time last night

Now I’m waking up underground so I must be dead

Cause the underground stations are not open yet

No the U-bahn hasn’t started up yet

The Wire

Dying to sleep

But my eyes aren’t closing

I’m on the wire

Going round in these circles

I grind to beginning

I’m still on the wire

If the night is a love song

What will I be singing

When one day I wake and you’re gone?

But the night’s not falling

It just sinks like a stone

Love be my song

Let your love be my song - I’ll sing it

The moon’s like a pill

It just twists and distracts you

I’m still on the wire

The sky’s like a pillow I can’t get my head into

And I’m wondering why

I can hold myself captive

In the walls of my mind

When you’re not at the window

Looking into my eyes

Girl you touch me like lightening

You start me like fire

I need you tonight

I need you tonight

Love be my song

Let your love be my song - I’ll sing it

Love be my song

Cause I’m losing my mind

And you’re in it

Fever

Baby

You’ve seen quite a bit

For lately

Nothing seems to fit

Yeah baby

You’re so quiet when you’re making

All the dumb things sing yeah

Fever ooh yeah

The fever runs in my head

It burns baby burns

Its love baby love

Save me

Cool my frightened brow

I’m crazy

For you and all your words

Yeah baby

You’re all twists and burns for changing

Buildings blue and skies to red

Fever ooh yeah

Is this love ooh yeah

Is this love

My love

All Broke Down

So confused that the words I use

They won’t stick together

A bit like lovers

And my angel’s at the other end

But I can’t get through to her

I fade away

From the end of the meaningless

Conversation that we had today

Now I’ve got nothing more to lose

If there was I’d find a way

And it all broke down

It all broke down today

And all the sunlight in the world couldn’t break through me

And all that you and I have left

Is me to blame

I have become

What my dreams would not condone

So they turn their back on me

Now I’m lying here alone

Holding on to nothing but the way I breathe

So confused that the things I didn’t say

Might have helped us out today

Now I’ve got nothing more to lose

Look around love, be on your way

Lost Your Mind

The curtains are calling

The posters are down

The end of the evening

Is coming around

She’s out on the concourse

I’m out of my mind

She cuts to the dreaming

The crowd goes quiet

She said

Don’t forget this moment

We’re holding together

It’s suddenly real

She dances in time

I try keep her still

She’s lost in the moment

And perfectly quiet

I’m thinking of reasons

She’s thinking of rhymes

She said don’t forget this moment

She said don’t forget what we had

And I know I won’t forget it

I won’t leave the truth behind

Cause I know it must be better

To have loved than lost your mind

Is everything over

When night fades to day?

We’re falling to sunrise

It gets in the way

Another true story

Fades into a dream

So love is the beauty

Of things unseen

And I don’t wanna forget you

I still wanna miss you

I still wanna cry

Cause I know it must better

To have loved than lost your mind

Scripted - EP

© Steve Kopandy 2004
Released December 2004

Produced by David Carr

1. Carry On 2. Tidal Wave 3. An Hour and a Heart 4. My Sisters Wedding Song

Silver Things - EP

© Steve Kopandy 2002
Released October 2002

Recorded in Newcastle

Produced by Dean Glass and Steve Kopandy

1. Take this Town 2. Some Candles 3. Silver Things 4. She’s so Stark 5. Driving 6. Tuesday

Take this Town

There’s a blessing in the city tonight
So get on down into it
And the starlit sky is open wide
Like a big warm blanket

It must be perfect
And life is worth it
Every minute

Take this town
Nothing’s free except you and me
We’ve got friends around
With starring roles in our life stories

Come away with me and we’ll learn about
The beautiful things in life
I’ve been trying hard to work it out
I just wanna be by your side

Make the most of your life
Get back to the times of hope and love
And faith like a child


 

Some Candles

Falling flat on one of my many faces
My broken heart still beating cause it hurts
I can’t feel your arms so mine are useless
You’d have thought that I’d have somehow learnt

Oh I just can’t believe you got hold of me
now I can’t let go
How’d you get my heart like the way it is
So finish what you start

Don’t just leave me here
Some candles weren’t meant to burn at both ends

Leaving you was hard enough to get right
But all of my mistakes will find a way
All the while I’m crying like a critic
That’s caught up in this episode with me

Memories filed away are younger than the first day
That I believed you’d be always here for me



 

Silver Things

Platform stands tell me where I am
Ten years late but I still made the 6am
turns and bends, carriage cornered friends
rest their heads on the shoulders of a happy end

Powered skies sending love strong flares
Catch my eyes from the bottom of my bucket chair
Things have changed I’m not young like then
Getting away is now my only window in
and all I’ve hoped and dreamed of is fading away

love’s a flare, a bright red flare
looking for me but I’m not there

God above help me understand
That broken means can still result in perfect ends
And when my kids, the 21st century legends
Teach me this
Maybe I can be like them?


 

She’s so Stark

She beams her stories through darker nights
She dreams on standby to satellites
She greets my heart with occasioned smiles
She takes the moment

She’s so me
My wonder
She’s so stark

She’s in her own world and far behind
She makes the trains look like they run on time
She makes the world stand still until it’s right
She hoards the moonlight

That makes the both of us
That makes us what we are

She brings it down on its feet again
She stands her ground with her open hand
And she won’t allow me to understand


 

Driving

Take me back in time and strand me there
I’m never far away from it
Cause I remember you
You were dancing with my heartbeat
On dusky nights and streetlit streets
You seemed to know the tune

I’m driving through these memories
My heart’s at the wheel
My head’s in the back seat screaming
Colliding with these memories
Telling me that these things that I make
Are stranger than mistakes

Take me back to where I was
The day before our love got lost
Before it all fell over
I was lonely in your town
The one way laneways stood their ground
I couldn’t come much closer

Colliding with these memories
Wondering if these things that I make
Are stranger than mistakes

Am I allowed to miss you?

Is there glare amongst the coldest heart?
A candle lights a fire starts
I can’t put it out


 

Tuesday

Tuesday loves me like you say
You breathe life into my every day
So take a hold and make believe
We can take this world by storms and seas

Who would I be without you?
Don’t know
Who would I know if I don’t know you?
Don’t want to know

Clouds and I belong outside
As we breathe the air and open wide
Tuesday’s gone by Wednesday night
And the atmosphere is clearly white

And it will be alright

If I’ve gone by wayside