Get all 10 Max Savage releases available on Bandcamp and save 50%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Winter Songs, Never Gonna See Her Again, True Believers, True Believers, The City And Everyone Inside, Little Flame, I'm Not Standing By, Makes Me Less a Man, and 2 more.
1. |
Caroline
03:14
|
|||
She won’t be here for long
As if she never left at all
She spreads out on the floor
And Caroline’s been here before
I found here there on the doorstep
A cigarette in her hand
Well she’s more afraid of asking
Than hunger shame or cold
And she’s masking all the bruises and the lines
She left four months ago
She didn’t write she didn’t call
I think about her now and then
But Caroline fell down again
She said she wrote me a postcard
Said it was lost in the mail
Last night I found her weeping
To a country music station
She said I’m not used to feeling anymore
To the lord of all things broken down
Won’t you leave this one alone
Its a burden borne on slender shoulders
And I can’t walk alone
She’s got bad taste in men
The ones she always tries defending
I see them all before they leave
But Caroline’s been sleeping in
This morning I lost my temper
She says she can’t face the day
Sometimes she’s so elated
But she always takes the blame
She’s down and out and desperately ashamed
She hates to say goodbye
She hates to let me see her cry
I close my eyes and count to ten
And Caroline’s not here again
I found a note pinned on the wall
And Caroline’s here anymore
|
||||
2. |
R.M. Williams Boots
02:40
|
|||
Strung up high and painted red
Your lips are dry and open
Whiskey, wine and cigarettes
You’re tender, warm and here
With your jet black jeans
And your crooked smile
Your dishwater hair
And your laughing eyes
And your battered pair of RM Williams Boots
When I called you up I wasn’t looking for much
I don’t like to change my routine
But I was feeling lonely and I knew you’d be up
Restless angry and mean - just like me
With your single room
And the girls next door
And that guitar I tune
though I can’t see the use
And your battered pair of RM Williams Boots
You hit this city dreaming babe I know how it feels
When you’re fighting to be overlooked
But I've lost my faith babe and you've got it still
And I'm wondering just what it took
With your six Day Week
And your part time smile
And your home cooked truths
Babe it does you no good
|
||||
3. |
||||
We broke each other’s hearts
You know we broke each other’s hearts
Oh yes we broke each other’s hearts
Like it was destined from the start
Too bold and too familiar
Too young and too afraid
And now its done
We broke each other’s hearts
And we left it all unsaid
We were looking for a past
And now it haunts us every day
And babe if you remember
I’ll remember too
I’ll remember
I was standing in the doorway
Staring at the kitchen floor
You were playing with your hands and sobbing softly
I'd hold you - but I'm not sure
And it's a shame you didn't mean it
When I meant every word and more
When its a game babe it seems tame to try redemption
We made the rules we made the law
We broke each other’s hearts
You know we broke each other’s hearts
Yes we broke each other’s hearts
oh just to see it could be done
And if you dared me babe I’d kiss you
If you let me get that close
Oh would you dare me
So raise your glass up to the ceiling
Let it smash down on the floor
Keep your head above the water
Its still so close, its still so raw
And we broke each other’s hearts
Oh when we broke each other’s hearts
And we were trying to grow up faster
But we cut each other down
And its the trying that defeats me
When the memory’s just a sound
I hear it now
And we broke each other’s hearts
Like it was easy being free
And I left you to your anger
And you left me to my greed
This love was meant to last forever
So the ache will never fade
Will never fade
|
||||
4. |
Little Flame
01:44
|
|||
Little flame, little flame
So bewildered and tame
In the still in the calm
When rain’s coming down
And the curtains are drawn
And the afternoon’s gone
And I’m holding you close
But you don’t seem to notice
Little flame, little flame
Well you’re tender and vain
And you’re beautiful still
And you’re stronger than steel
And your love was ordained
From the start to the shame
I could help but I stayed
Now it can’t be unmade
Little flame, little flame
Hear me calling your name
You could buy what we owned
But its worthless alone
You can try but you won’t
You could lie but you can’t
I could hide, I could hide
But you’re always in sight
|
||||
5. |
Smelter
02:56
|
|||
She won’t believe a word
If I told her I was down
Its as if she never heard
As if I never slammed the doors
Sometimes I’m shakey in the morning
Sometimes I rest a little late
Sometimes I feel surrounded
But I’m lonelier than all that empty praise
And the trains go past my head
One at six and one at ten
I smell the coal I smell the lead
I never did get used to it
My daddy worked his hands to dust
And even now I see him aching
I see the vinyl and the flowers
We lost our uncles and our pride
I never wrote so well
I never could obey the rules
And I can count the ones I lost
On all my fingers and my toes
We spent our summers drifting
Between the shipyards and the bay
We spent our money like we were desperate
We and then we worked a little more
She won’t believe a word
If I told her I was dying
And this town and I were cursed
Long before they shut the factory down
|
||||
6. |
Voices
02:44
|
|||
Last week I sold my wristwatch
Last night I pawned my rings
And I sold my soul to cigarettes when I was seventeen
And I spent my last ten dollars on a cardboard box of wine
Can’t nobody spare a dollar, shake my hand or give the time
When you’re broke you can’t seem to feel
And they tell me that these voices ain’t real
A got a set of keys in my pocket
For someone elses car
I got a cut along my forehead
gonna be an ugly scar
Well my head and heart are pounding and I’m feeling out of breath
I’m in an unfamiliar suburb at an unfamiliar address
When you’re walking in a stranger’s cuban heels
Try to tell you that these voices ain’t real
I got voices in the morning
I got voices late at night
I got Don Dunstan in my left ear ear
And B. A. Santamaria in the right
I ain’t got the voice of reason but I got the voice of god
My mind is a radio station with an audience of one
I’d try to stop them but I’d have to cut a deal
And they tell me that these voices ain’t real
Well I’d get myself together
And I’d get right off these ropes
But the voice of Albert Field
Keeps on calling for a vote
And the voice of Billy Snedden says I didn’t win but I didn’t lose
Lionel Murphy says I got nothing if not the right to choose
I got Harold Holt wheezing, explaining just how drowning feels
And they tell me that these voices aren’t real
Dombrovskis save the Franklin
Well Jack Mundey save my street
And Billy Graham’s travelling road show
Gonna wash my weary feet
Well god will save Govenor General and God’s gonna save the queen
And the voice of sir Garfield Barwick says that nothings gonna save me
Well I got no right of appeal
And they tell me that these voices ain’t real
|
||||
7. |
When I Needed You
04:19
|
|||
I was guilty as a schoolboy
With his pockets turned out and his head bowed down
And my eyes were filled with dirty little secrets
All the pieces, all the niggling doubts
And my heart was beating faster
And the blood was rushing past just to know your name
Won't you hold me close now baby
Won't you comfort all the fear and all the pride
Because I needed you, Babe
My innocence is fading
With the years and all the promises we made
And I can just recall the good times
Or maybe I just dreamed them all away
I'm as gentle as a victim and I was comforted by names
And I was satisfied with silence when you played your little games
Would you hold me close now baby
Would you hold me close
And would you need me now
Because I needed you
I've got four walls and a window
But the shouting and the noise won't let me dream
And I'm ashamed of all the drinking
And I'm ashamed of all the tears that I can't cry
You should have been a fortune
Babe you were diamonds, you were pearls and like a fool I didn't care for them
And I let you down,
When I let you down
And I needed you
|
||||
8. |
You'll Find Me
03:34
|
|||
Well you'll find me
In the places that you know from your dreams
Come and find me
When you remember all the things we did – last night
Oh you'll find me
I'll be lost til you take my hand
Come and find me
And we'll take it to the end of time
Well you'll find me
Drinking whisky on the rocks in Siam
And you'll find me
And I'll be lost amongst a crowd of the young
If you find me
I'll be as lost as when you found me before
When you find me
Come and find me when you're ready to love
Come and find me
Won’t you find me, I’ll be lost til you do
When you find me
Won’t be love it won’t be tears we’ll be new
Come and find me
Because I’m waiting with the patience of sin
Won’t you find me
Because I’m yearning for the feel of your skin
|
Max Savage Adelaide, Australia
Beloved by fans and relatively unknown beyond their hometown of Adelaide, South Australia, Max Savage and the False Idols have developed a reputation for explosive live performances and thoughtfully assembled recordings over more than a decade of music. ... more
Streaming and Download help
Max Savage recommends:
If you like Little Flame, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp