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Double Trouble
04:22
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Double Trouble
music and lyrics Alanna Egan
We are identical twins
with identical voices
when we sing
We have identical names
besides the middle syllable
they're exactly the same
We live in identical houses
with identical twin boyfriends
who'll make identical twin spouses
Yes she feels all my pain
but she also gets all my bruises and scars
so I spend all my days
falling from trees and jumping in front of cars
We are identical twins
with identical torsos
and identical limbs
We wear identical clothes
we have identical hairstyles
with bows that are identical but sometimes different colours
If you think that I'm taller than her
it's your own mistake
It's just the magic twin powers bestowed upon me
propelling me to levitate
If you think that I'm fatter than her
I admit it's true
My only consolation
is that I'm the one with bigger boobs
We are identical twins
we have identical thoughts
we say identical things
We are identical twins
we have identical thoughts
we say identical things
We're saving all our money
to go to Twinsville U.S.A.
Where everyone's a twin there
and you never over hear folks say
“Hey they must be identical twins!”
“No they're just sisters,
she's two years older I think.”
“No no really they, they gotta be identical twins
Look at their identical noses!
Check out their identical chins!”
“Well let's just go and ask them,
but first let's make a bet
fifty bucks says they are twins
“Quick let's shake on it.”
“Uh oh double trouble - people must say that to you all the time because you're exactly the same - my friend over there she thinks you're just sisters but I'm like nah they've gotta be twins!
And I heard you sing too - are you like those sexy Veronica Sister chicks? Is that who you think you are?”
And what's it like to be a twin?
I wish I had a clone
Have you ever
swapped boyfriends
played tricks on your teachers
or pretended to be the other on the phone?
“Yeah hi it's Alanna...........umm I'm not sure....ask Alicia she's the smarter one I think she got more oxygen in the womb.”
And I s'pose since you're identical twins
you've got the same D.N.A and shit
So would you give her a kidney
if she really needed it?
We are identical twins
we came from one egg
split into identical halves
and thank god that it split the whole way
or else we'd have to over hear folks say
“Oh my god look
they are Siamese twins
cojoined at the head
and the middle I think
Do you think they share the same heart?
And what about the brain?
Do they ever wish to be apart?
Do they drive the other insane?
And if they had surgery to separate them
would one have to die?
And if one's getting some with her lover
does the other just block her ears and close her eyes?
Yes thank god we
are just identical twins
with individual internal organs
and separate skins.
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2. |
Songlines
04:01
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Songlines
lyrics and music Alanna Egan
Beneath the roads and the railway tracks
deep down under the statelines
below the Western maps
the old songlines echo through time
I wish I had permission to listen
to the ancestors walking all over this land
singing the rivers into existence
singing the mountains into life
Each and every rock, tree, bilabong and creature
has a story, song and a dreaming
cause an unsung land's a dead land; singing's believing
they follow the old songlines to sing the land to life
I wish I had permission to listen
to the ancestors walking all over this land
singing the deserts into existence
singing the tall trees into life
“Doesn't look too sacred to me” said the miners from their truck
“Just a heap of rocks and a tree and underneath lie the big bucks”
sparks and rhythms flew
as they drilled their way straight through
the meandering curves of the songlines
“From the land we were born” the ancestors warn
“When we die the land takes us back in”
“From the land we were born” the ancestors warn
“Where will we go when the land's core is torn?”
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3. |
Rosalie
04:22
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4. |
Over Time
03:38
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You can get over a hangover
Get over a cold
Get over your shyness
With persistence so I’m told
But when it comes to getting over
Another living soul
Well I just don’t know
Getting over you is a full time job
I really ought to be paid
With holidays, annual leave
Overtime and sick days
After all this time
How can I still be blue?
Getting over you
Getting over you is a serious disease
Some sort of illness of the mind
Like a little old lady afflicted with dementia
I’m stuck in another place and time
I’m not well and everyone can tell
That I’m getting over you
Getting over you is an arduous task
A little like doing your tax
But when it came to the end
There were no dividends
Anyone could do the maths
Yes it’s true
My investing days are through
‘Til I’ve gotten over you
Getting over you is an arduous task
A little like doing your tax
But there was no sweet return
I was left here to yearn
Anyone could do the maths
Yes it’s true
My investing days are through
‘Til I’ve gotten over you
Getting over you
It’s not so easy to do
I can’t move forward or back
Stuck at the airport in the middle of the night
When there’s no where open for snacks
Yes it’s true
There’s no getting over you
Getting so over
Getting over
Getting so over
Getting over
Getting so over
Getting over you
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6. |
Sister Blister
04:54
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Sister Blister
Alicia
Oh my mother she only had three brothers
Only had three brothers that’s all
She said ‘I wish I had a sister
Oh how I’ve missed her
I wish I had a sister like you’
I said ‘Be careful what you wish for
Don’t wish you had a sister
Don’t wish you had a sister like me
A sister will twist ya
Trick ya and bitch ya
She’ll become your ugly blister once a week
And the thing about sisters is
They look better from afar
You’re so much better off the way you are’
My grandmother said ‘I wish I was much younger
I wish I was much younger like you
I wish I was much younger
When the world was a wonder
The young men I would pursue’
‘No grandmother don’t you make that blunder
Don’t wish you were much younger like me
Youth is so uncertain
Now you’re done with all your flirtin’
You don’t worry who your husband’s to be
Your memories are in sepia
Your rose tinted glasses shine
You’re so much better off at eighty nine’
Barmaid Linda said ‘I wish I was a singer
I wish I was a singer like you
I wish I was a singer
And a little bit slimmer
The bright lights I would pursue’
‘No no Linda don’t wish you were a singer
Don’t wish you were a singer like me
When you sing for your dinner
The only thing that’s thinner
Is the wallet in your pocket don’t you see
And the thing about the road is
You’re mostly stuck in the stinky car
You’re so much better off behind the bar’
‘Oh big brother I wish I had a good job
I wish I had a good job like you
I wish I had a good job
Make myself a few bob
A car and a well pressed suit’
‘No Alicia don’t wish you had a good job
Don’t wish you had a good job like me
A good job will trap ya
Sap ya and zap ya
Oh you will never be free
And the thing about a good job is
You’re working for the man
You’re so much better off in your band’
Oh my mother said ‘I wish I had a sister
I wish I had a sister like you’
My grandmother said ‘I wish I was much younger
I wish I was much younger like you’
Barmaid Linda said ‘I wish I was a singer
I wish I was a singer like you’
‘Oh big brother I wish I had a good job
I wish I had a good job like you’
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7. |
Blue Birthday
04:30
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BLUE BIRTHDAY
When it’s your Birthday
It’s three times as bad
As when you’re sad
On any other day of the year
When it’s your Birthday
It really is the worst day
‘Cause you know you should be happy
While they all sing and cheer
When it’s your Birthday
You think of all the other Birthdays
In your life
That have come before
Candles, wishes
Pink ballet slippers
It’s the glad days that will haunt you
Most of all
Maybe you’re all alone in a bar overseas
Missing your friends and family
So you order a martini
The barman gives you a smile
You might tell him it’s your Birthday
But you don’t speak Japanese
Birthdays make you think of all your plans that came undone
You didn’t think you’d end up like this
When you were twenty-one
Another year older
How much further can you fall
The only thing worse than a Birthday
Is not having one at all
Maybe he’s forgotten
He was never good with dates
But oh it doesn’t matter anyway
Maybe there’s a party
That it’s too late not to throw
Maybe it’s a secret
There’s not a single soul who knows
That today it’s your Birthday
Today it’s the worst day
But tomorrow it will all be over
And you won’t have to worry
About silly birthdays anymore
‘Til it rolls around again next year
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday blue
Happy Birthday, happy Birthday
Happy Birthday blue
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8. |
Under the Tree
01:30
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9. |
Fly Like a Bird
04:20
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The Waltz of the Last Lover - Alanna
Are you impervious to her smile?
are you colour blind to her eyes?
do your knees grow stronger when she walks in the room?
does her voice leave you cold?
does it go in one ear and out the other?
this is all I need to know about your last lover
do her jokes fall flat?
does she lack subtlety and tact?
does she remind you of where you’ve been
and that you never wanna go back?
are you peaking at your watch?
is she turning into her mother?
this is all I need to know about your last lover
funny she’s so much like me
so don’t take me to places where you’ve been with her
don’t hint that there’s a certain perfume you’d prefer
don’t lead me down your memory lane
as fascinating as it might be I’m not going again
mention her name
even on last time you fucker
and you can guarantee from me
that pretty soon you’ll be
my last lover.
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Alanna and Alicia Melbourne, Australia
Twin sisters Alanna & Alicia charm audiences from Port Fairy to the National with their original folky/jazz/roots songs,
sweet harmonies and onstage warmth, wit and fun.
'deliciously idiosyncratic and saucy songs...wry, frank observations of life and love…quality quirky lyrics delivered with verve and the kind of close harmonies you'd expect from sisters.'
Tony Hillier, Rhythms magazine.
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