It's been a while.

So Gigglepop is over. I guess it was a good time for me to end it, just getting a bit too stale, need something fresh.
It's true what they say; the earthquake has changed our lives forever. I know i'm different because of it. I can't just sit around singing these dumbsongs. I'm not afraid to be serious now, which in Gigglepop I was at first but now I think i'm brave enough to actually put effort into my lyrics and my songs.
Not too much mind you, i'm still punk rock bababay haha.
But yeah if you were sad about us leaving, don't worry shit'll get good again.
In the wonderful meantime i'll be writing songs and playing drums for Failed Vices and bass for Sleeping With Students (or whatever it becomes) because I love playing live still and the fact tat both are more background roles I can relax and just let my music flow naturally again.
I also hope to do a lot of reading.

BIG

Brisbane is big. Australia is bigger. Christchurch can't compare.

I'm walking around town-a-bouts, which (unlike Christchurch) gives you no clue where I am, and looking up at floor upon floor upon floor of highrisers and feeling a little well... rustic. You really have no idea how small Christchurch is, you really have no idea how small New Zealand is till you come to a place where your nation's total population is living. IT'S BIG!.

But what excites me more is this; there's bigger. I can't wait. I'm excited. Nervous, but excited. The rest of the world is BIG, like Denny's Double Millenium Burger BIG. BIG. BIG. SO BIG.

I can't wait to travel. I wanna just jump headlong into BIG places, LONDON, NEW YORK, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW, FLORENCE, ROMA, VENEZIE

I'll dive in and them'll swallow me up! Then I'll either wash up washed out or maybe catch a ride on the H.M.S. Success. Andrew the famous Actor? Andrew the touring Musician? Or Andrew the Bum, burnt out and beleaguered.

 I dunno.  It's fun to dream innit?

W.D.Y.S.L.N?

OH! NO!
   you're screaming again
       OH! NO!
          I'm shouting again
Oh NO!
 You're walking away, walking away
Oh No!
   kay.

Gotta get up, gotta get down,
Gotta be cool, gotta sleep round
I don''t even care what you have to say

Gotta be mean, gotta act nice
Gotta be lovely gotta face twice
You wouldn't listen anyway!

OH! NO!
   you're screaming again
       OH! NO!
          I'm shouting again
Oh NO!
 You're walking away, walking away
Oh No!
   kay.
       

"La Nuit Est Pour Les Amoreux"

Oh this nighttimes so romantic,
Girl you make my heart beat frantic,
Every single time you look at me that way.

And oh I'm praying don't be misleading,
I know it's hard when i'm misreading,
Into every single thing you say.

Oh girl, take me walking at night
You look so gorgeous in the moodlight
I wish I may, I wish I might
Be yours today and especially tonight.

Well it's after dark and we're in the park
and you walk a little slower and I talk a little faster
and I suddenly think to ask are you okay?

But then you don't reply, you just look at the sky
and when you start to cry, you ask me why
why is it all so far away?

Oh girl, take me walking at night
You look so gorgeous in the moodlight
I wish I may, I wish I might
Be yours today and especially tonight.

These Teenage Things...

Oh baby I know you don't mean to be such a whore
I know you just happened to be so-oh bored

Maybe I should stop trying to be
so obscure
Maybe I should sing about
that of which i'm sure

Such a teenage thing to have bugger all to do,
We'll go get smashed and then just crash
In the search for something new
Such a teenage thing to get piss on ya shoes
We'll live it up right now
cause we got nothing to lose?

Maybe I should grow up?
Maybe I should grow up?

I know you're dying to just feel something.
So you mess it up by just feeling up someone.

Maybe I should stop trying to be
so obscure
Maybe I should sing about
that of which i'm sure

Such a teenage thing to have bugger all to do,
We'll go get smashed and then just crash
In the search for something new
Such a teenage thing to get piss on ya shoes
We'll live it up right now
cause we got nothing to lose?

Maybe I should grow up?
Maybe I should grow up?

Here's To You, Jimmy Stark

Do, do, do, do you wanna play?
Come on outside, It's a lovely day
We could braid, flowers in your hair
We could chase away, all of our cares

But you stop, you turn, you look and laugh at me
Come on, Andrew, does it look like i'm three
Do you honestly think that this is gonna last?
You better learn to grow up really fast

Number thirteen's always late, I guess my life will just have to wait
I sit and I listen to this sad, old guy, Telling me his stories from days gone by
Nobody listens and nobody cares, Nobody even know's he's there
His wife can't remember him, his son thinks he's dead, He doesn't even know why he gets out of bed.

Times, they change and people never stay the same
God, I wish, I wish you had stayed
Flowers like memories, they lose their colour fade
Now you're gone and my tempers getting frayed

Do, do, do, you wanna stay?
Please, come on, just for one more day?
We could braid flowers in your hair
We could chase away all of our cares!

Number thirteen's always late, I guess my life will just have to wait
I sit and I listen to this sad, old guy, Telling me his stories from days gone by
Nobody listens and nobody cares, Nobody even know's he's there
His wife can't remember him, his son thinks he's dead, He doesn't even know why he gets out of bed.

Number thirteen, passed me by
It didn't stop I don't know why
This old man, he shakes his head
He goes home gets into bed
Number thirteen, passed us by
It didn't stop I don't know why
This old man, he shakes his head
He goes home gets into bed

I hope I don't end up like him

Minties

Minties!

Oh-Oh! Oh-Oh! We're in trouble!
Better run away, I run away, better amscram on the double,
Don't wanna live my, live my, live my life life life in a bubble
Might as well, might as well  I might as well get in trouble

(Oh I wanna)

Go out and dance in the rain
I don't care if you think i'm inane
I wanna go out and give it all I got
Here I come, ready or not

Oh-Oh! Oh-Oh! Let's get a-wasted
Oh-Oh! Oh-Oh! Let's get sheeutfaced
Oh-Oh! Oh-Oh! Let's go-oh crazy
Oh-Oh! Oh-Oh! Let's get in trouble

(Oh I wanna)

Go out and dance in the rain
I don't care if you think i'm inane
I wanna go out and give it all I got
What's the point in living? Whats the point in not?