@ALBUM: ANNIVERSARY - Split Enz, 1994 (Mushroom Records International) Live. Recorded during Twentieth Anniversary Reunion tour, March 1993. Produced by Eddie Rayner and Nigel Griggs. The anniversary tour Split Enz lineup was: Tim Finn, Neil Finn, Noel Crombie, Eddie Rayner, Paul Hester & Nigel Griggs. Shark Attack (T Finn) - True Colours Poor Boy (T Finn) - Hermit McDermitt (T Finn) - Frenzy Years Go By (N Finn/E Rayner) - See Ya Round Split Ends (T Finn/P Judd) - Beginning of the Enz Message To My Girl (N Finn) - Conflicting Emotions Best Friend (T Finn/N Finn) - unreleased Whats The Matter With You (N Finn) - I See Red (T Finn) - Frenzy Time For A Change (P Judd) - Mental Notes/Second Thoughts Strait Old Line (N Finn) - Conflicting Emotions Charley (T Finn) - Dizrythmia History Never Repeats (N Finn) Anniversary - Split Enz 1994 @SONG: Shark Attack (T Finn) - True Colours -==================================- Loves got teeth and she bites so hard Leaving you for dead like a deadly shark And she doesn't leave a lot to be saved I was swimming in the harbour of your smile Splashing in the ocean like a child I didn't know what dangers lurked there Just beyond the waves Shark attack! Well she chewed me up and she spat me out I didn't want to meet a maneater Shark attack! Please don't mess around with me I'm a shark fatality, in the sea I'm the one with the bleeding heart I thought you were a real lifesaver And life for once would do me a favour But babys just a butcher, and her teeth are razor sharp Shark attack! Well she chewed me up and she spat me out I didn't want to meet a maneater Shark attack! And I'm lost at sea and I'm an amputee And there was slaughter in the water when I fought her Shark attack! Hey!... Hey!.... Hey!..... Hey!! Shark attack! Well she chewed me up and she spat me out I didn't want to meet a maneater Shark attack! Well I'm lost at sea and I'm an amputee And there was slaughter in the water when I fought her Shark attack! Shark Attack! [repeatedly] [Neil:] Thank you @SONG: Poor Boy (T Finn) - True Colours -==============================- My love is alien, I picked her up by chance She speaks to me, with ultra-high frequencies Radio band of gold Gonna listen til I grow old Oo hoo hoo what more can a poor boy do? Oo hoo hoo what more can a poor boy do? Oo hoo hoo hoo The crackle of the radio A message in the evening sky You're looking at an interplanetary Romeo I'll never see her face between us there's too much space Oo hoo hoo what more can a poor boy do? Oo hoo hoo what more can a poor boy do? Oo hoo hoo hoo... yeah?! Keep losing you...Ooh hoo hoo what more can a poor boy do? Ooh hoo hoo... what more can a poor boy do? Ooh hoo hoo... What more, what more... What more, what more What more can a poor boy do? @SONG: Hermit McDermitt (T Finn) - Frenzy -================================- I'm Hermit McDermitt, if there's a better way I'll learn it I'm Hermit McDermitt, my irregular ways confirm it I'm Hermit McDermitt, in my tower of ivory, if you find me, I'll burn it you won't see me for dust, there's no one I trust, a hermit I must be I won't be your criminal, I don't want your laws Your taxi cabs and cheap kebabs and dingy dancing halls I don't want your wedding bells, no top notch salary It's a cabin in the hills or a cottage by the sea for me I'm Hermit McDermitt, if there's a better way I'll learn it I'm Hermit McDermitt, my irregular ways confirm it I'm Hermit McDermitt, in my tower of ivory, if you find me, I'll burn it you won't see me for dust, there's no one I trust, a hermit I must be You treated me like an afterthought, and after all I'd done Subjected me to ridicule, that's your idea of fun O city full of promises and citadels so grand I said goodbye to you and yours, and left for no-man's land no man...no-man's land I'm Hermit McDermitt, if there's a better way I'll learn it I'm Hermit McDermitt, my irregular ways confirm it I'm Hermit McDermitt, in my tower of ivory, if you find me, I'll burn it you won't see me for dust, there's no one I trust, a hermit I must be must be... Living in the wilderness brings out the beast in me I know I'm not the only one whose scent is on the breeze Some of us have broken hearts or a price upon our heads One day soon we'll all return and kill you in your beds kill you in your bed whoa.. I'm Hermit (yeah!) McDermitt (yeah!) if there's a better way I'll learn it I'm Hermit (yeah!) McDermitt (yeah!), my irregular ways confirm it I'm Hermit (yeah!) McDermitt (yeah!), in my tower of ivory if you find me I'll burn it you won't see me for dust, there's no one I trust, a hermit I must be must be... I'm Hermit (yeah!) McDermitt (yeah!)... [repeat] Relax, do it. relax, just do it. relax, just do it. relax, just do it... I'm Hermit (yeah!) McDermitt (yeah!) @SONG: Years Go By (N Finn/E Rayner) - See Ya Round -==========================================- She gets up in the afternoon The sun will set behind her When the twilight comes The magic one, will gaze on you Seconds last for hours all evening This purple room is breathing To the milky way I turn my gaze It's a mystery Years go by, wonder what you did Yet in a minute you can change your life All depends on your state of mind One thing to be sure of is we live and die Fear and doubt no longer harbour lies Love not grow old where we reside `tis enough for now to set you down And gaze on you Years go by, wonder what you did Yet in a minute you can change your life All depends on your state of mind One thing to be sure of is we live and die -- Years go by, wonder what you did Yet in a minute you can change your life All depends on your state of mind One thing to be sure of is we live and die go by... years go by... years go by..... years go by - in a flash of an eye! years go by.... years go by... [Tim:] We'd like to play you a song now that was the first single.. @SONG: Split Ends (T Finn/P Judd) - Beginning of the Enz -===============================================- Writing letters to my frenz Telling them all about split ends Watching flowers hit the floor Why can't he see there's so much more Four of one, twenty of another It's all the same to me brother Never know these days mother I might still be your lover... yeah Nothing else is so obscene as coffee beans and smoke machines Take your daughter for a ride Let her know you're on her side Guess there's no words can beat The Sunday treat where rigamortis meat Wish you'd never found your feet Sniffing toe jams really neat... it is Writing letters to my frenz Telling them all about split ends @SONG: Message To My Girl (N Finn) - Conflicting Emotions -================================================- I don't want to say I love you That would give away too much Hip to be detached and precious The only thing you feel is vicious I don't wanna say I want you Even though I want you so much It's wrapped up in conversation Whispered in a hush Though I'm frightened by the word Think it's time that it was heard No more empty self-possession Vision swept under the mat It's no new years resolution It's more than that Now I wake up happy Warm in a lovers embrace No one else can touch us While we're in this place So I sing it to the world Simple message to my girl No more empty self-possession Vision swept under the mat It's no new years resolution It's more than that -- Though I'm frightened by the word Think it's time I made it heard So I sing it to the world Simple message to my girl No more empty self-possession Vision swept under the mat It's no new years resolution It's more than that No there's nothing quite as real As a touch of your sweet hand I can't spend the rest of my life Buried in the sand. oh every night, I hear you call my name I want to sleep in my dark zen room [???] oh I have a mind to express my pain [???] But I won't get back in your tomb no I care, why I care, why you go now [???] and every night sings the same song, same song i feel it coming in my sleep [???] ...i don't want to say... ...i don't want to say!!... i can't spend the rest of my life buried in the sand... [Tim:] We can hear you, we want to get down Get down with you. ow ow! Yeah-hah, yeah-hah, yeah yeah. yeah-hah, yeah-hah, yeah yeah I'm going down to the woolshed baby, got my gumboots I'm going down to the tractor baby, send it out and... [???] Saturday night Eddie Rayner, Eddie Rayner I'm calling for, Eddie Rayner, Eddie Rayner got the tractor out of the cowshed [???] @SONG: Best Friend (T Finn/N Finn) - unreleased -======================================- You're my best friend, you help me [1:07] Face the facts with your flights of fancy You're the one I want to hobnob with You're a man after my own heart. Two is company, three's a crowd At my temper, with family circle have to pay the penalty Just another allied casualty You're my best friend, you're my only Won't break or bend, you're no phony. Melodrama, make me snap Now my sidekick, is the world and his way Come and help me, right some wrongs We're in limbo, bollocks a kimbo [chorus:] You're my best friend, you're my only Won't break or bend, you're no phony. I don't see you, we're still friendly Separate not for love or money... That's how it is for me and my friend [spoken] We hold each other aloft [spoken] We go crofting together [spoken] We take the smooth with the rough [spoken] [repeat chorus] [Tim:] Thank you, we'd like to do a song now from the 'True Colours' album. this was an album that hardly anyone knew about at the time, it was, it's a long time ago now, it was a bit of a cult sort of thing, uh. ...it was called True Colours, and um, we actually had a song called 'True Colours - I, I reckon Eddie we should just do a verse of that. now just for old time's sake @SONG: True Colours (P Judd) - Oddz and Enz -==================================- Let's rock, like we've never done before Let's roll, let's see you out on the floor Let's rock, let's see you move around Let's roll, come on let's roll on out of town [Tim:] Eddie Rayner, on the piano up here @SONG: Whats The Matter With You (N Finn) - True Colours -===============================================- [chorus:] What's the matter with you? Look down on everything we do I really wonder if you see today like I do What's the matter with you? What's the matter with you? You don't look cool in shades of blue I really wonder if you see today like I do What's the matter with you? When I got up today I felt so much brighter My head was swimming with delight and I told her But she said "What's so good about today?" And she walked away She's down in the dumps without a reason why [chorus] The worried look that's on your face makes you older You realise that things have never been better Yes sir, the weathers clear There's Eskimos, in summer clothes I don't suppose you'd like to laugh with me What's the matter with you? You look down on everything we do I really wonder if you see today like I do What's the matter with you? yeah - one more, yeah here we go I really wonder if you.... I really wonder if you.... I really wonder if you see today like I do What's the matter with you? @SONG: I See Red (T Finn) - Frenzy -=========================- [chorus:] When my baby's walking down the street I see red, I see red, I see red. How could someone wicked walk around free I see red, I see red, I see red. I see red, I see red (red!), I see red. I respect your wishes You gave me such precious hours What to do without you. Squeezed me out of your life Down the drain like molten toothpaste I feel used and spat out. Poor old me [chorus] I'm fed up with crying My despair is dying, Turning into rage, day by day Green before you met me In the pink when you let me love you I was blue when you let me down Black and Blue [chorus] Go! I see red, I see red, I see red... @SONG: Time For A Change (P Judd) - Mental Notes/Second Thoughts -=======================================================- You act as though You were a blind man who's crying Crying `bout, all the virgins that are dying In your habitual dreams You know, seems you need more sleep But like a parrot in a flaming tree I know, it's pretty hard to see And I'm beginning to wonder if it's time for a change But still you try like a fat boy Dancing Gershwin's blues But you'd rather sit at home and watch the news And I'm beginning to wonder if it's time for a change I'm beginning to wonder if it's time for a change @SONG: Strait Old Line (N Finn) - Conflicting Emotions -=============================================- Don't look to the left, don't look to the right just follow that strait old line... This could be heaven, or this could be hell Life could be falling down a bottomless well I stumble to the left, I stumble to the right I fumble for the switch, of a disconnected light Stay with it, don't let temptation be your load Stay with it, but there are bandits on the road [chorus:] Don't look to the left, don't look to the right Just follow that strait old line Don't look to the left, don't look to the right Just follow that strait old line The road of ambition, it's a casualty trail Press gangs wait to ambush The weak and weary (stay with it) I had to explore the light and dark to see the sharp and flat There's a hundred or more good reasons not to ever turn your back [chorus] [Neil:] Take it Eddie! [chorus] don't move! ['The women that loves you' spoon solo from Noel - the most beautiful piece of music in the world!] [Noel:] Don't look to the left, don't look to the right just follow that strait old line.... wait for it! [Tim:] That Crombie Man - this is for the children's children not something that we did necessarily well just, this evening but, well I, I was moved, I'm always moved by the sound of those spoons, they're sort of, smooth, sort of [Noel:] Best silverware for the night Tim, you would have note, noted the quality ring. I'm sure the audience did. (pick up on that???) Stainless steel, it's ok but... sort of where it's at [Tim:] He's talking! Ladies & Gentleman, I I don't know if you appreciate what we just experienced, but oh my [Noel:] I think it's your turn for a little [Tim:] I don't know if you realise what just happened [Noel:] Well Tim, I think it's your turn for a little story now [Tim:] Well that Crombie man, he's just.. [?:] well anything could happen [Noel:] You're getting, you're jumping in on top of me, no look it's just not good enough [Tim:] Excuse me, uh Noel.... [Noel:] They wouldn't like to hear it [something about 'a break'] [Tim:] Sometimes you just have to wail and shout [snippet of 'Wail' (E Rayner)] [Tim:] Here we go! Thank you Neil, I do need calming down, I got a bit excited then [Neil:] I think we left the stratosphere then [Tim:] We did. Thank you [Neil:] We were voyaging, Tim [Tim:] You were... [Neil:] You were voyaging [Tim:] I was [Neil:] you were off somewhere [Tim:] Tah - I confess I was, I was off somewhere else, but, I'm back thank you Neil for drawing me back [Neil:] Thank you Eddie.. [Tim:] Thank you Eddie.. [Neil:] Thank you Noel.. [Tim:] Noel, thank you Noel.. [Neil:] Nigel [Tim:] Thank you Nigel [Neil:] Nigel Griggs, lady and gentlemen! [Tim:] Nigel Griggs, over here who havn't we mentioned? Paul Hester, from Wollongong [Neil:] Paul Hester!.... that's pretty zany Paul [Tim:] Thank you Paul, I love you ladies and gentlemen, I'd love to do another one, here's a song from the 'dizrythmia' album, 1977, Neil first joined the band, Nigel first joined the band. and I'm happy to say they're both with us tonight. And for all the guys, who didn't, get up on the stage tonight and were part of Split Enz - thank you, thank you, we mean it... @SONG: Charley (T Finn) - Dizrythmia -===========================- Wake up Charlie, rise and shine Pour the tea, I'll draw the blind Sunlight halo, you look wonderful Darling Charlie, pale and deathly still For heaven's sake, wake up Charlie Was a full moon last night I was full of bravado. Dead drunk, dead sure, one of us had to go Raised my head in anger, hurt you again Dust to dust, and fire to ashes you can Thank me for nothing now Charlie I was eaten up with jealousy Bones to pick and rumours to feed How my heart bleeds, love's a big mistake Mercy Charlie oh for pity's sake Forgive me, speak to me, Charlie Wake up Charlie rise and shine Pour the tea, I'll draw the blind Sunlight halo you look wonderful Darling Charlie, pale and deathly still For heaven's sake, wake up Charlie @SONG: History Never Repeats (N Finn) - Waiata -=====================================- [chorus:] History never repeats I tell myself before I go to sleep Don't say the words you might regret I've lost before you know I can't forget There was a girl I used to know She dealt my love a savage blow I was so young, too blind to see But anyway that's History I say [chorus] You say I always played the fool Well I can't go on, if that's the rule Better to jump than hesitate I need a change and I can't wait [chorus2:] History never repeats I tell myself before I go to sleep And there's a light shining in the dark Leading me on towards a change of heart (ah-ar) History never repeats, history never repeats Deep in the night it's all so clear I lie awake with great ideas Lurking about in no-man's land I think at last I understand [chorus2] Never repeats!... Hey.... Hey.... Never repeats! And I say, that's all Remember til the next time [all?:] thank you! won't you stay, stay a while with my own one one more day, one more day with my own ones this old world, is so cold, don't care nothing for your soul you share with your own ones... Haul away, haul away, heave away, haul away, haul away, heave away -- this file compiled by Douglas Davey (its_dld@waikato.ac.nz), April 4 1995.