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Mona Lisa
06:52
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I'm in love with a Mona Lisa
Through plate glass they let me see her
A winning smile and millions feed her
I'm in love with Mona Lisa
Take your plastic money, your colour TV
Sell it with your house you wanna get to see
Leonardo
da Vinci
Sold my house, sold my car, I even sold my Martin guitar
Sold my house, sold my car
Even sold my stratocaster
I was gonna get to see Leonardo da Vinci
Thats good enough
I'm in love with the Mona Lisa
I'm in love with the Mona Lisa
Flying high in a 747
I'm cruising high feeling like I'm in a seventh heaven
The air hostess she pours a drink for me
We're feeling friendly
The whole worlds friendly
I'm in love with the Mona Lisa
Got to Paris took a taxi to the Louvre
Feeling in the groove
There's all kinds of nationalities all waiting to see the Leo nardo
Da Vinci
They're not singing my song. They're singing Paul Simon
I need a shot at redemption
Photo opportunity
I'm in love with the Mona Lisa
Through plate glass they let me see her
I'm in love with the Mona Lisa
When I got to see that picture
When I got to cut the social financial strictures to get to see the Leonard da Vinci
I saw that she was just like a Panasonic TV commercial with a magic fineline
But I suppose it beats staying at home
I'm in love with the Mona Lisa
Through plate glass they let me see her
I'm in love with the Mona Lisa
I'm in love with the Mona Lisa
Sold my house
Sold my car
I even sold my Martin guitar
Sold my house
I sold my car
I even sold my Stratocaster
I was gonna get to see Leonardo da Vinci
I'm in love with the Mona
Lisa
I'm in love with Leonardo da Vinci
I'm in love with the air hostess whose nice to me
I'm in love
With the Mona Lisa
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2. |
Info Station
02:24
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Seems we drift right out of line
Got no reason
Got no rhyme
Living life on borrowed time
Strictly never never
Social life is my TV
It's ok interest free
Only thing that gets to me
Is all the advertising
Meanwhile try to work at home
With a keyboard and this honky little phone
Where is it written – creation groans
Computer bureau bound to know
Bound to know
Running out of time
Battle for the human mind
Get no joy back
When we pay
The information station
Do you think your feelings know?
The way to play this manic show
Could be feelings sometimes lie
A place to ask the question
To find a way
To find the heart
Before we blow the human mind apart
There's no point in being clever
In the land of never never
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3. |
The Friend I Had
03:16
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A friend I had was good to me
A friend I had was just like me
A friend I had
Walked tall, walked strong, could do no wrong
Till the life he saw made no sense
No sense
Didn't like what he could see
And all that responsibility
He turned to drugs for his peace
For release - a junkie he became
No face
No name
A friend I had.
A friend I had he died today
A friend I had
Slipped away.
A friend I had was good to me
A friend I had
Just like me
Just like me
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4. |
Nothing in Return
03:45
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Well I hope for the impossible
Yes I hope it comes true
For all of you
With a love
For the unlovable
I know some day
They gonna love you
I know it's true
Do you trust your own state of mind?
Look at yourself
Can you spare the time
What you find
Willingly share
Would your ...
Fill that aching need
For nothing in return
For nothing in return
For nothing in return
Absolutely
Resolutely
Nothing in return
I wanna live in a world of love
We've had enough of all the push and shove
I wanna know
Know about love
It comes from above
The thing called love
For nothing in return
For nothing in return
For nothing in return
Absolutely
Resolutely
Nothing in return
Would the...
Fill someone else's aching need
For nothing in return
For nothing in return
For nothing in return
But the love of God
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5. |
Not Easy To
05:25
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Well I can never understand that girl
No matter how hard I try
I can never understand that girl
I guess I will by and by
It's not easy to
No matter how hard I try
I can never understand the world
No matter how hard I try
I can never understand the world
I guess I will by and by
Its not easy to
No matter how hard I try
I can never understand myself
No matter how hard I try
I can never understand myself I guess
I will by and by
Its not easy to
No matter how hard I
No matter how hard I
No matter how hard I try
How can you ever understand the light
If I'm walking in the dark
How can I ever understand the light
When I'm walking in the dark
I want to walk In the light
Keep my trouble out of sight
I want to walk In the light
Walk in the light
Want to get it right
So I come to understand that girl
So I come to understand the world
So I come to understand myself
And so I understand there has to be a better plan
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6. |
Gravity
03:26
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I had a dream last night
There was no gravity
I had a dream last night
Nothing holding me
Gravity
Holding me down
Gravity
Holding me down
Went to see my analyst
Try to figure the facts
She said you get no free advice Luke
Life's like that you see
Gravity
Do you know your mind
I don't know mine
Feel like you're part of some cause
Start of your wise
With no gravity
You see
Gravity
I had a dream last night
There was no gravity
I had a dream last night
Nothing holding me down
Nothing holding you back
Nothing holding us
And that's a fact
No gravity
Holding us
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7. |
Civilised Animals
02:11
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Upmarket hotel
Standing in the hall
For civilised animals
Going up the wall
Business conferences
To sell nothing at all
But the carpet is thick and soft
Vacation crawl
I'd like to stand around in here
Turn up the lights
I'd like to make it clear
We don't have the right
To take this land
God given land
To take this land
With an iron hand
Vacation hotel
Plastic home
For civilised animals
They hunt on the phone
Me I've been so broke
So long I no longer care
All I know is this
It's so cold in there
They take this land
God given land
They take this land
With an iron hand
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8. |
Moneywise
06:36
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Money wise you're looking by
Socially - it really hurts
The vision bound to come
Waging war over pay-dirt
Had enough expansion
Concrete flow to past
Things got over complex
Reality half-mast
I love to live
I'd love to live
Yes I would
Not just exist
In this grey land
Had enough expansion
Concrete flow to past
O so dowdy
Living in the past
Process all this speed
Have to buy things we don't need
And they hype it up
In the sweatshops
Had enough expansion
It don't suit me
I'd rather go without
And set - the slaves free
In the foreign country
We don't need no warehouse
We don't need more plastic
We don't need better toys
That only break
Make no mistake
And people
Matter more
Than trinkets
Had enough expansion
Concrete flow to past
Things got over complex
Reality
At half-mast
We don't need a TV
To tell us what's right
We don't need to read the news
Day and night
I look to live
I look to live
I look to live
Not just exist
Like a pawn in a strange game
That I don't understand
Had enough expansion
Concrete flow to past
Things got over complex
That things so cheap
But the price is so high
People have to work to exhaustion
People have to die
So that we
Can get it cheap
Moneywise is looking bad
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9. |
Summer Blue
05:56
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Summer blue
Clouds of grey
All blown away
Stormy night
The fateful flight
The very next day
Storm blown away
Languid Grey
Back into
Summer blue
Summer blue
Remember the lane
Remember the flame
Remember the flame
That fell from the sky
A legend died
The sun was gone
Buddy Holly had ...
We've got summer blue
To remember you
O what a name
Not just you
Ritchie Valens too and the crew
The nameless crew
Valens and you
And with ....
Summer blue
Summer blue
God bless Buddy
God bless Valens
God bless you
Whoever you are
Listening too
Summer blue...
Summer blue...
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10. |
Far Away
02:52
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11. |
Mona Lisa Slight Return
07:00
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12. |
Not Easy Too
02:51
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luke hurley Auckland, New Zealand
Luke is a guitarist and singer / songwriter. Born in Kenya, grew up in Zanzibar till age 12 then moved with family to NZ. He achieved a degree of early success on student radio with the song "Mona Lisa" in the early 1980s at University of Otago in Dunedin. All recordings are original songs by Luke. 2 songs were featured on the film 'Insatiable Moon'.12 string guitars made by Steve Barkman. ... more
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