Lingo - 1994
Lingo is the third studio album by GANGgajang. It was released in 1994 by RooART and distributed by Warner Music Australia.
Track listing
- Hundreds Of Languages (Callaghan/James)
- Ordinary World (Bidstrup/Callaghan/James)
- Talk To Me (Callaghan)
- The Way You Feel (Callaghan/Bidstrup)
- Place And Time (Callaghan/Bidstrup)
- 24 Hours A Night (Callaghan/James)
- Hellride (Callaghan/James/Bidstrup/Bailey)
- Can’t Stand Still (James)
- Just Can’t Help (Callaghan/Bidstrup)
- Houses With Swimming Pools (Callaghan/James)
- Give Peace Another Chance (Stapleton/James/Callaghan)
- Funny Old Street (James/James/Bidstrup)
- Future Days (Callaghan)
Lyrics
HUNDREDS OF LANGUAGES
(Callaghan/James)
The spirit rose, above a hundred languages
And the moon was there for all to see
And the beat goes on across a hundred languages
And the sun is the same, yeah, one and the same for you and me
They had many words with the same meaning
And one voice with which they sang
In Hundreds of Languages speak to me
In Hundreds of Languages speak to me
But it’s all been said about a hundred times before
But it’s only words, it’s only words
They had stories, that spanned the generations
Handed from one to one on down the line
I hear a voice and it seems to speak to everyone
I hear a voice and it’s callin’ me
In Hundreds of Languages speak to me
In Hundreds of Languages speak to me
Speak to me
ORDINARY WORLD
(Bidstrup/Callaghan/James)
Is it nature or nurture that makes me walk this way?
Is it you or is it me that’s saying the things I say?
You say you’re looking at me but all I see is you
And I can only wonder at all the things you do
Get it right sometime, get it right sometime
Someday in an ordinary world
We’ve seen Mother Nature; we’ve seen her lost and found
Still hanging on her apron strings she spins us all around
So high, so low sometimes so twisted we can’t see
I think I’m looking at you but all I see is me
Get it right sometime, get it right sometime
Someday in an ordinary world
Is it rhyme or reason that makes me thinks this way?
We think we’re really living, we’re just living for today
We don’t seem to know too much our heads are underground
And the future keeps on looming regardless of what we’ve found
We have found solid gold can be extracted from the earth
With gaudy specks of dead stars we count our worth
Someday in an ordinary world
We just live in an ordinary world
We can do all the ordinary things
We will live in an ordinary world
Ordinary world
TALK TO ME
(Callaghan)
Lately baby you ain’t been talking to me, was it something I’ve done
I ain’t been sleeping and I ain’t been dreaming, feel like I’m on the run
Every night I wait for you, It’s not hard to understand why
Cause when you’re near I feel no fear and you whisper what I want to hear
Talk to me baby, every night. Talk to me baby and I’ll feel alright
Oh yeah angel I feel so free when you come and talk to me
I feel so down when you ain’t been around, feel like I’m lost for words
Stumbling around all the places that you’ve been, chasing echoes that I’ve heard
Every night and every day there’s only this confusion
But when you’re near I feel no fear and you tell me what I want to hear
Talk to me baby, every night. Talk to me baby and I’ll feel alright
Oh yeah angel I feel so free when you come and talk to me
Here I am again baby waiting for you to show and tell me secrets you know
A little inspiration will improve my situation baby, I won’t feel so low
Every night I know it’s true, I feel so much better when I’m getting through
Talk to me baby, every night. Talk to me baby and I’ll feel alright
Oh yeah angel I feel so free when you come and talk to me
Talk to me baby
THE WAY YOU FEEL
(Callaghan/Bidstrup)
I believe in give and take, I believe in right and wrong
I believe that there will come a day, when its all in the way you feel.
Hear the masses call your name, just like they’ve always done.
When pressed for answers they invoke their Only One
But it’s all in the way you feel
Yeah it’s all in the way that you really feel
And that’s how your fate is sealed
Well I don’t know just what it is about you
That makes me want to lose my self-control
One of these days I’ll find out all about you
Until that day the only way – is the way you feel.
Superstition and the voodoo world,
Seem to have left their mark on you.
But wearing all your fancy robes
Won’t hide the fact that you don’t know it’s all in the way you feel
Yeah it’s all in the way that you really feel
And that’s how your fate is sealed
Well I don’t know just what it is about you
That makes me want to lose my self-control
One of these days I’ll find out all about you
Until that day the only way – is the way you feel.
I believe in history as the way to see the world
And seeing the atlas turn, one lesson we all should have learned
Is it’s all in the way you feel
Cause who you do is what you get
And you won’t get it if you ain’t got it yet
Well I don’t know just what it is about you
That makes me want to lose my self-control
One of these days I’ll find out all about you
Until that day the only way – is the way you feel.
The Way You Feel etc
24 HOURS A NIGHT
(Callaghan/James)
It’s a temporary world in which we live
The cycle continues we take and we give
As the tone of our connections resonate on
I remember your voice whispering ‘it’s alright’
It eased away my pain and all my fright
Through another lifetime, I’ll carry you on
You’ll be walking, you’ll always be walking by my side
And the strength of you will stay with me
24 hours a night
It’s hard to find the words with which to span
This bridging of a lifeline, from boy to man
But somewhere on his journey, I know
I’ll see you again
You’ll be walking, you’ll always be walking by his side
And the words I heard will stay with him
24 hours a night
Yes we’ll be walking,
We’ll always be walking by his side
And the love we shared will stay with him
24 hours a night
CAN’T STAND STILL
(James)
I’ve sown all the fields and I’ve made the bread
And I’ve turned out the lights put down my head
Backstreets of love the darkness preys
I’m getting closer to tomorrow every day
But I can’t stand still there’s work to be done
I’ll make it up to you before the down of the sun
Can’t stand still there’s work to be done
I’ll make it back to you before the down of the sun
This morning maze
Four in the morning and I’m still on the run
Backstreets of love the darkness prays
I’m getting closer to tomorrow every day
By the time I get to the other side
It’ll be time to come back with the tide
By the time I get to the other side
It’ll be time to come back with you by my side
But I can’t stand still there’s work to be done
I’ll make it up to you before the down of the sun
Can’t stand still there’s work to be done
I’ll make it back to you before the down of the sun
Hold on…
JUST CAN’T HELP
(Callaghan/Bidstrup)
Sometimes you know I hear you crying in the night
Your sobbing sounds so lonely, don’t worry It’ll be alright
I know you’re dreaming, I know you’re lost in a world that’s fake
A crazy world from which there’s no escape
I just can’t help if you don’t want to talk about it
I can’t help if you don’t tell me what’s wrong
I just can’t help if you don’t want to talk about it
You’ve got to let me know what’s wrong
Sometimes the night is lonely and the wind is blowing cold
In the streets you hear the echoes of lost and lonely souls
You know you’re dreaming, you know you’re lost in a world that’s false
A Dali land of weeping clocks
I just can’t help if you don’t want to talk about it
I can’t help if you don’t tell me what’s wrong
I just can’t help if you don’t want to talk about it
You’ve got to let me know what’s wrong
Sometimes you know you’ve got to tell me when things are not going right
Always you know I’ll be there and we’ll see away the night
You’re only dreaming, you’re only walking in a Dali Land
Of dripping skies and shifting sands
I just can’t help if you don’t want to talk about it
I can’t help if you don’t tell me what’s wrong
I just can’t help if you don’t want to talk about it
You’ve got to let me know what’s wrong
HOUSES WITH SWIMMING POOLS
(Callaghan/James)
Well you’ve been floating like a temptress, yeah, around my house
And I heard the words you said as you called my name
Whispers of wisdom you just can’t deny, the pain of progress you just can’t hide
If you could only see the world as I see it now
I don’t believe all the things I’ve heard but I’m hurtling through the air on a 50 tonne bird
And I can’t look up I can only look down and I can see
Houses with swimming pools, houses with swimming pools
Houses with swimming pools, you know they got it all and a swimming pool
Well you’re always wanting something, I guess that’s something to do
And you seem to have everything but babe that’s not enough for you
one day you’re gonna wake up and it’ll be gone
One day you’re gonna find out that they were to strong
If you’d only known then what you don’t know now
Cause I can see everything from here – your place, my place, the whole schmeer
I can’t look up but I can see all around and I can see
Houses with swimming pools, houses with swimming pools
Houses with swimming pools, you know they got it all and a swimming pool
Oh yeah, now all I want to be is cool and when I win the big one you can swim in my pool
Believe me that’s as good as it gets, we all get rich then we all get wet
Yes I can see all those shining jewels
Houses with swimming pools, houses with swimming pools
Houses with swimming pools, you know they got it all and a swimming pool
GIVE PEACE ANOTHER CHANCE
(Stapleton/James/Callaghan)
All around us then the bells were ringing
The voice of freedom rang across the land
The walls that divided us were crumbling
We seemed to have the whole world in our hand
The call went out to everyone,
Every person old and young
Oh you got to Give Peace Another Chance
Give Peace just one more chance
At least, give Peace another chance
All around us now the tables are turning
We can reach what seems so near at hand
We can break these chains we drag behind us
We can find the future in our hands
The call went out to everyone,
Every person under the sun
Give Peace Another Chance
Give Peace just one more chance
Give Peace, Another Chance
At least, give Peace another chance
The call goes out to everyone, every person old and young,
There’s got to be a better way, can’t you hear them when they say,
Give Peace Another Chance
Give Peace just one more chance
Give Peace, Another Chance
At least, give Peace another chance
FUTURE DAYS
(Callaghan)
I can still recall, scenes at the start of it all
And how the colours changed, I know, I painted every wall
All the things we didn’t do
All the big plans made for me and you
They may still be dreams but there nothing without you
So save your innocence and joy,
Your moods and all your ploys
And all that you might be
Spend today with who you must but save
All your future days for me
In the night I hear you cry, sobbing as you decide
‘Am I happy now’ – these things you just can’t hide
So save your innocence and joy,
Your moods and all your ploys
And all that you might be
Spend today with who you must but save
All your future days for me
Future days, future days
