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So Much Noise
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So Much Noise.
lyrics by Michael Wheatley.
Every day it grows and the chaos it gets louder
Opinions they stack up prouder in the outer.
You can be anyone you want and no-one at the same time.
Build walls around the open sky that you fly in
So much noise
That it’s hard to hear
So much noise
And it sounds like fear
So much noise
Time to update your brain
So much noise
How can you lose when there’s nothing there to gain
Another life in the palm of your hand.
Ever increasing it’s niggling demand.
You can hide it away
But it seeps out of the cracks
It sizzles and it tempts,
Now in bite size snacks.
Do you love me?
I can’t hear with all the noise
And Is it real?
When there is so much choice
I’m shaking dear
Yet present with so much poise
No signal is clear
When there is so much noise.
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All Of The Above
04:46
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All Of the Above.
Lyrics by Michael Wheatley
Remember the naughties
Just before my forties
When every weekend night would become a day
A cosy home right on the strip
You used to catch me when I’d slip.
Spilling drinks you made me
But I just keep on dancing
Chorus:
A reason
A season
A lifetime
All of the above
Dance floor after shot
After dance floor after shot
Take the lot and find some more
Lifting shifting and moving lives
Late night dives
All the girls in the world and you picked me?
Chorus
That one time down
In Chinatown
We got lost and then we found
Each other
Running for a hugging
Again and again
Until we found some where to drinking
We didn’t have to think
It was still the same
Chorus
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Funk You Very Much
04:31
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Funk You Very Much.
Lyrics by Michael Wheatley
All the years in the making
Cause I thought you were worthwhile.
Said my heart's always for the taking,
Even when it's on the bottom of the pile.
Ah tears now the ground is shaking.
It's silent wit, it’s wrapped in style.
Can you see the sweat that is breaking
When I pick up the phone to dial?
Chorus:
Funk you very much
I put a whole lotta love in there
Ah funk you very much
You'll never see how much I care
I think to fight a good fight
But I wonder about the way
I see myself in your light
So what I say, is what I say, is what I say
I think to light the night
But I can’t forget that day
Cramped up on what's right
Till there's only one more thing that’s left to say...
Chorus
Today might just be the day
That I let myself off the hook.
Cause you're just like the Internet, baby
When I really need’s a good old book.
Now here I stand, see me now!
Honey take a real good long look.
‘Cause I don't want any more of your takeaway, baby
I already know how to cook.
Chorus
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From Now On
01:54
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From Now On.
Lyrics by Michael Wheatley
Maybe I give a little too much
Now I won't be doing such
From now on I won't give it all away
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Connection
05:02
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Connection.
Lyrics by Michael Wheatley
It's here, it's clearly back
It's yet another attack
I can't stay, stay on track
Would you hit me please. Whack!
Slack tack mackin like a cheap hack.
I want connection
Deeper, deeper.
Oh it's debilitatiing
Excruciating power so intimidating
Exploration is so captivating
Heart palpitating, we're conversating, textually masturbating
But I want connection
Deeper, deeper.
Who got the full stop
Who got the penny to drop
Bottle pop
What a big flop
Booty no bop
Hip no hop
I want that connection
Deeper, deeper.
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6. |
Fell To Pieces
05:10
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Fell to Pieces.
Lyrics by Michael Wheatley
I thought I had
A clear view from here
All around the stars lined up
And I had no fear
I thought I had
The strength of many
Lifting a heavy heart
And giving plenty
I fell to pieces
When I saw you dance
I thought I had
All I need to get it on
But damn you dj
Now why you go and play that song
I thought I had
Two legs to stand on
Now my feet don't touch the ground
So right, so wrong.
I fell to pieces
When I saw you dance
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Deeper In Love
06:09
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Deeper In Love.
Lyrics by Michael Wheatley
The trouble with love is the inclination to thinking you’re sinking at such a rapid rate of knots
An oversight to say the least when less is more and the words are just stinking
Up the whole situation
Congratulations you’re the winner now
Congratulations just get in line now
And the prize is there just waiting for you
Just keep on waiting for me
Waiting for you in the end
Chorus:
I want to see double
Then Triple the serving
Well deserving
Let Mother earth in
Deep in Love
More Feelings
Free dealings
Open and Creative
No time left
To be wasted
Deeper in love
Now have you got the accordance . required to attend . such a regal state . of liquidated loose affairs
Captured by those emotions
Held in place until the end.
Captured by them emotions
Hide my face until the end
Chorus
It’s sanctified and held in high esteem
Something to live up to until it tears at the seams
And thread trails and drags behind . You’ve found you lost your mind . But you always knew that was coming.
Like a train oncoming with you right there and you’re tied to the tracks
And you’re Praying to a god cause you can’t seem to count on the facts
And you rely on your timeline to redefine that shaky sliver
Of self identity
Chorus
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Put It Down
04:46
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Put It Down.
Lyrics by Michael Wheatley
Oh So many
Extended friends
The trail it never ends
A monstrosity of social
Connectivity
Lacking in all sensitivity
An inward journey out of ourselves
How often do you say
“I didn’t recognise you in real life”
Two existences
Which one will thrive?
Which one will survive?
And then there’s the voices
The ones they let you hear
The ones who pay to be there
Just inside your ear
And when they go
You'll take their place
And listen to them say
“you take up too much space”
But just when it gets too much to bear
And you see yourself splitting hairs
That aren’t even there
You can switch it off
and
Put the fucker down
Switch it of
And put the fucker down.
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Michael Wheatley Sydney, Australia
From underground funk rock in Kings Cross in the nineties to touring nationally with his own fringe shows it has been, for Michael, a very long way to the shop to get his sausage roll. Along that road though he has moved many a soul with his passion, unique sound and prolific songwriting. He's the kind of artist who you're lucky to know about and will always remember once you do. ... more
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