Oceans and Deserts 2002 -
Oceans and Deserts is GANGgajang’s fourth studio album.
It was released on the independent Shock label in October 2002.
Track listing
- Nomadsland (James)
- Time (and The Mandelbrot Set) (Callaghan)
- Anodyne Dream (Callaghan)
- Carioca Girl (Callaghan/James)
- These Years (Callaghan/James)
- I Will (Callaghan)
- Waiting In The Wind (James)
- Let It Go (Callaghan/Bidstrup)
- Trust (Callaghan/James/Stapleton/Bailey/Bidstrup)
- Camp Of The Moon (James)
- Pill For The Pain (Callaghan)
Lyrics
NOMADSLAND
(James)
I can feel the earth for the first time since my birth
I can feel it through the holes in my old walking shoes
Don’t know where I’m going, I don’t know where I’ve been
I’m just blowing in the wind in between
Here in Nomadsland
Walking in Nomadsland
Somewhere in the middle lands an echo from the streets
Fleeting noises disappear along the lonely creeks
To the rivers of forgetfulness in the wastelands of time
You can grow a garden on a grain of sand
Here in Nomadsland
Walking in Nomadsland
I’m walking through time in Australia
Two hundred years later
Walking through time in Australia
Two hundred years later
…Sixty thousand years later
TIME (AND THE MANDELBROT SET)
(Callaghan)
Time
It telescopes through a lens of regret
The patterns all re-emerging
as we cruise the mandlebrot set
Space
Surrounds us all it’s what we’re looking through
The distance between two points
Depends on your point of view
Life cycles spinning round
To the past the future’s bound
Yeah, bound and intertwined
Just like I’m lost in time.
Love
Surrounds us all,
It’s what we’re looking for
No matter how much you find
You know you need a little more
Some days you can’t win
Sometimes you just can’t get started
Drifting along on a sea of dreams on a
Course that’s already been charted
You know that
The past is a gift to us all,
helps us all avoid the falls
The walls that we can’t define
in our minds,
lost in time
Cruising the mandelbrot set
Cruising the mandelbrot set
The closer you look
The further you get, when you’re
Cruising the mandelbrot set
The closer you look the further you get yeah
Life cycles spinning round,
look to the past, the future’s found
The past is a gift to us all,
Helps us all avoid the fall
The things that we find, lost in time
Cruising the mandelbrot set
Cruising the mandelbrot set
The closer you look
The further you get, when you’re
Cruising the mandelbrot set
The closer you look the further you get
ANODYNE DREAM
(Callaghan)
All I have to do is dream
Nightshift,
Billy jean
Life in a northern town
You’ve lost that lovin feeling
Like a virgin,
She’s leaving home
Like a rolling stone
I know what boys like,
I send a message
This is not a love song
Love cats
Get it on
Love street
I’ve got you
Skin deep
I’m stranded
Before too long
Anodyne dream –
We can work it out
Anodyne dream –
All you need is love
Anodyne dream –
Across the universe
Anodyne dream –
Don’t stop till you
get enough
50 ways to leave your lover
What you need,
When the war is over
Turn up your radio
I’ll be gone The day you come
Flame trees, Distant sun
Where the wild roses grow
Do you see what I see
I want to break free
I won’t get fooled again
The power and the passion
The age of reason
It’s all in the game
Please don’t let me be misunderstood
If I walk on by one fine day
I say a little prayer for you
I can’t stand the rain chain reaction
A fraction too much friction
Science fiction
Uptown girl downtown jive talking
CARIOCA GIRL
(Callaghan/James)
From up in the mountains you can see the beaches lying in the sun
Copacobana to Leblon
And daily you go there knowing you will see a vision when she comes
Walking straight out of a Jobim song
You can’t help but stop and stare – olive skin and raven hair
With a voice like angels wings she casts her spell oh yeah
She’s a Carioca girl, walks like an angel, talks like an angel
Carioca girl, she’ll take your breath away
She’s a Carioca girl, walks like an angel
Slowly the night falls,
As Corcovado looks down on the scene below
And music spills from the street cafés
Gilberto Gil playing –
The songs they seem to resonate with life and love
In the Brazillian way
And you see her dancing there,
how she seems to float on air
With a rhythm divine she can leave life behind,
In the way that she moves transcends time. You can tell
She’s a Carioca girl, walks like an angel, talks like an angel
Carioca girl, she takes your breath away
Carioca girl, Carioca girl yeah yeah
And you see her dancing there,
How she seems to float on air
She’s a Carioca girl, walks like an angel, talks like an angel
Carioca girl, oh yeah, she takes your breath away…
Carioca girl Carioca Girl Carioca girl Carioca Girl
You see the way she moves you see those smiling eyes
You see the sound of Rio, you see it in her eyes
You hear the sound of Rio, in her eyes
THESE YEARS
(Callaghan/James)
They say that pressure makes diamonds –
you can have my mine
You can push a cart load of rubble –
all the way to the end of the line
But there’s no way you can trade
all your precious stones
You can’t swap them for a life time of love –
or the wonders you could have known
It’s easy to be confused with all that’s going on
These years are all we have
You can’t live in the future, you know,
you can’t live in the past
No matter what you say, no matter what you do
You can’t change the ways of the world,
The only thing to change is you
Why worry about all the things you think you need
Profits of the rich, the problems of the poor –
All spring from the seeds of greed
And come your winter time,
your cold and shorter days
You’ll be warmed by the fires of love –
it’s the users who’ll have to pay
Sure the world is changing fast
but don’t be swept along
These years are all we have
You can’t live in the future, you know,
you can’t live in the past
No matter what you say, no matter what you do
You can’t change the ways of the world
in a single day
Hang on to all the things that last,
Although they may be hard to see and hold
They’re worth more than you’ll ever find
in your endless quest for gold
These years are all we have
You can’t live in the future, you know,
you can’t live in the past
No matter what you say,
no matter what you do
You can’t change
the ways of the world,
The only thing to change is you
I WILL
(Callaghan)
When she calls this lonesome neighbour,
Love is nervously creeping around
Whispering ‘there’s a life defined
By your love sometimes, by your love sometimes’
Listen though the heart is aching
Listen though the worlds collide
Listen when the truth is haunting you again
These nights and all these days
You washed away my loneliness
And I’ll repay you
Are the one who can
Keep me strong
And it will always be that way,
you know that
I will walk beside you now
I will call you friend
Even in the darkest winter
Or under the blinding sun
Even when the faith of ages
Deserts you
These years here drive on by
Cars full of youthfulness
Along life’s highway
Leads us on –
Who knows where we’re going
But I’m sure we’ll get there anyway
I will walk beside you now
I will call you friend
I will walk beside you now
I will be there till the end
When things go wrong
When you don’t feel strong
When you need someone
Who can help you through
I will walk these miles with you
I will call you friend
I will I will walk beside you
I will I will walk beside you
WAITING IN THE WIND
(James)
Been walking my old streets again
It’s been such a long time since then
All around the memories are loud
For just two feet there seems such a crowd
An open window I walk by
Lovers cry and I wonder why
Take their sound into the flow
Down the endless road I go
No matter the time
Whatever the place
Maybe this time
Maybe this time
Waiting in the wind
Waiting in the wind
Waiting in the wind
The road is always
Waiting just outside in the wind
I’ve been trying so damn hard to fit
But nothing I do seems to want to stick
Just when I find a place to stay
The wind will come and blow me away
Whatever the time
Whatever the place
Maybe this time
Maybe this time
Waiting in the wind
Waiting in the wind
Waiting in the wind
The road is always waiting
Just outside in the wind
Whoa, just outside
The road is always waiting just outside
I’ve been trying so hard to fit
But nothing I do seems to wanna stick
Just when I find some place to stay
The wind will come and blow me away
No matter the time
And whatever the place
Maybe this time
Maybe this time
Waiting in the wind
Waiting in the wind
Waiting in the wind
The road is always waiting just outside in the wind
Whoa, just outside
The road is always waiting just outside in the wind
Whoa, just outside
The road is always waiting just outside in the wind
LET IT GO
(Bidstrup/Callaghan)
What would happen if your heart stopped working?
What would happen if you couldn’t see the sun?
Would you even be concerned about the
strange ways of love?
Would it matter if the world stopped turning?
Could it happen – that the seas will rise?
Could it be that we all end up living
in a frozen world?
So when you can’t explain, when you can’t endure, tell me,
Does it really matter anymore?
Just let it go.
Would it matter
if you couldn’t feel the heat of a fire?
That you didn’t have the sense to inquire,
That everything turned out to be wrong?
Just imagine if you heard no noise
Would it matter if you had no toys?
Does it matter that the road less traveled
can be too long?
Things are always changing, though it don’t seem right
But even in the darkness you can see a light
Let it go.
Life is just a drop of time,
in an endless sea
Let go of the wreckage,
And you can float free
Let it go.
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
TRUST
(Callaghan/James/Stapleton/Bidstrup/Bailey)
Some say love it is an ocean, comes and goes with the flow
I know love is just emotion, it’s all about letting go
You got to take it on trust, all these things I tell you now
You know that I wouldn’t lie, you can see it in my eyes
You’ve got to take it on trust – we don’t need no witness
You’ve got to take it on trust – we don’t need no lawyer
You can take it on trust – we don’t need no handshake
Nothing between us – take it on
Take it on trust
Some say love is a reaction,
a balanced mix that’s ill defined
It can take you to another place;
it can bring you such peace of mind
On your lost and lonely nights,
when you wander all alone
Trust the light love brings inside you
‘Cos it can lead you home
You’ve got to take it on trust – we don’t need no witness
You’ve got to take it on trust – we don’t need no lawyer
You can take it on trust – we don’t need no handshake between us
Take it on trust
Some say hope springs eternal but I know hope is what love brings
To bridge the words that lie between us, as trees bend to the wind
In a world of fakes and forgers, where we all can be betrayed
It’s through trust and trust alone that our love can grow
And we all can be saved
You’ve got to take it on trust – we don’t need no witness
You’ve got to take it on trust – we don’t need no lawyer
You’ve got to take it on trust – we don’t need no handshake between us
Take it on trust
CAMP OF THE MOON
(James)
Through endless spinifex and ochre sands and bearded dragons
The nearing crack of breaking waves cools the desert heat
Trudging through a sea of dunes, full moon out on the beat
The beaten track gives right away to the whitewater freeway
High up in the barrel of a dream break and the desert is long gone now
On freight train waves carve down the line beat the lateral stretch
On a five nine thruster, bust an alley-oop
The full moon swell is ten foot tall riding down a turquoise mountain
We are shootin the breeze
At the camp of the moon
We will shoot the breeze again
At the camp of the moon
We will shoot the breeze again
At the camp of the moon
Goofy footers and natural footers
Carve a roundhouse cutback
Hottee girls and hottee boys
Boost over the lips
On a nine foot of break is crashing down
Pigdog out the back
Then fall back into grace again
Down the turquoise mountains
We are shootin the breeze
At the camp of the moon
We will shoot the breeze again
At the camp of the moon
We are shootin the breeze
At the camp of the moon
We will shoot the breeze again
At the camp of the moon
Just shootin the breeze
If you’re gunna build bridges you got to go where the water is
Rivers of wind network the oceans
One of these rivers brought me to you
Yeah rivers of time network my dreams
One of these dreams brought me to the camp of the moon, the moon
We are shootin the breeze at the camp of the moon
We will shoot the breeze again at the camp of the moon
We will shoot the breeze again at the camp of the moon
On a five nine thruster bust an alley-oop alley-oop alley-oop alley-oop
Just shootin the breeze.
PILL FOR THE PAIN
(Callaghan)
A wholesome love is what she finds
Everywhere it plays on her mind
She sees it at the movies up on the screen
Doesn’t understand that it’s not what it seems
Vicariously living from day to day
She’s in the ether and there’s no escape
She goes out walking every night
Bathed in the glow of the neon lights
She knows deep down that it’s not enough
But she wants what she sees all the same
Nothing she does seems to shake that mood
So she just takes a pill for the pain
She just takes a pill for the pain
A safe little fix is what she gets
Every night from her TV set
Her single bedroom
is filled with magazines
You know the kind that always
feature the queen
She knows everything about their lives
Who’s doing who and who is who’s wife
And one day soon
all her dreams will come true
Until then she’ll just have to make do
She knows deep down that it’s not enough
But she wants what she sees all the same
Nothing she does seems to shake that mood
So she just takes a pill for the pain
She just takes a pill for the pain
Just a little bald pill for the pain yeah
A little bald pill for the pain
