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Feb 22 2017

Getting There is Only Half Way Back

Released in 2013 and recorded once again at 301 Studios in Byron Bay. It is an eclectic mix of songs written on the road and the result of hours of playing live. GTIOHB features the beautiful Felicity Urquhart (multi Golden Guitar winner) and Mr Jack Thompson blowing harmonica a couple of tracks. Engineered and co-produced by Anthony Lycenko.

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  1. Getting There Is Only Half Way Back

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    Getting There Is Only Half Way Back – Chris Brooker ©2012

    I’ve been gone so long that it starts to feel like I’m never making it home.
    My eyes they sting in the evening sun from the white lines on the road.
    Chains of clover around your neck and another to tie back your hair.
    My dreams are deep and they feel so real that I only wish I was there.

    I wore out my sneakers baby, looking for an excuse.
    To justify the time away that makes it all seem good.
    There was a time when magic seemed
    To come for you to come for me

    The further I travel the further I roam, seems the point that feels like my home
    Is getting further away by the hour by the K. Feeling like there are no returns
    My heart sinks every time we hit that rise on top of the hill
    I remember when I left you said, Getting there’s only half way back
    Everyone wants something for free
    Love comes for you, love comes for me


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  2. Move Forward Go Back

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    Move Forward Go Back – C. Eaton (2013)

    Clap your hands if you’ll sing with me
    Raise your voice then stamp your feet

    To move on we gotta go back
    And be content with what we got
    To move forward we gotta look back
    Be satisfied with what we had

    When it’s gone what’ll we buy then?
    What’s a price on air and earth
    Find a new way to face the past
    And be content with what we got

    It’s only when the well runs dry, Then we’ll know what the waters worth
    It’s only when the well runs dry, We’ll understand what the waters worth


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  3. Hurting No One But They Killed You Dead

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    Hurting No One But They Killed You Dead – Chris Brooker © 2012

    There’s a doorway just like a picture frame
    It’s hung up there nailed to my brain
    A pocket of air for you to breath
    A sombre sound before you leave

    Who saw the change in fashion first?
    Out on the limb of change unearthed.
    You never tried. You never hid
    What you said was what you did
    There’s a sombre sound before you leave

    Sometimes a snake is just a snake.
    Sometimes it’s just misunderstood.
    Like that python down the old back shed.
    Hurting no one but they killed it dead.

    Give it up now give it in
    I’ll give you something to believe in
    Death and taxes, grindstone nose
    It’s just the way your story goes.
    Hurting no one but they killed you dead

    Spin around look to the sky
    Standing still we try we try
    Hurting no one
    Keep to yourself
    Hurting no one

    You got blood on your face
    You didn’t know ‘till it was too late


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  4. Moonwash

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    Moonwash – Chris Brooker © 2012

    Moonwashed grass singing Ramble On
    Thinking this is the best things can be
    Lights on the house shining out from the hill
    Like a beacon and I’m out at sea
    Throw me your wishes, ’ll do you no good now
    Give me your heart instead
    Sometimes things work out
    Sometimes things work in

    Trampled leaves under bare-foot thieves of the night holding hands in the dark
    Waiting to steal that one perfect kiss at that one perfect time
    My head is around it, my hand is still now
    Release the arrow through your heart
    Sometimes things work out
    Sometimes things work in

    Stealing away like the morning tide
    Singing songs that remind me of times gone by
    Here and now it’s just you and I

    My feet were not moving as lightly as they should
    Running through the darkness Banksia wood
    What was I seein’, What was I feelin’


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  5. Big Mans Dreams

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    Big Mans Dreams – C.Eaton© 2012

    We came to bear upon this place, like insurgents might from another race
    The earth was rich and the streams were full and smiles were broad and wide
    So we cut down trees and planted seeds, and we made a plan for plain folks needs
    For the few that woke as each day dawned, there was graft but hands to share

    From far and wide more people came
    To join the guild and make some gain
    With a vision of what a life might be
    Under burning stars of opportunity

    You see we’re following a Big Mans dreams
    What we do, it’s what we do, It always seems to me
    We’re Following a Big Mans dreams

    As lifetimes rolled and we gathered a crowd, more and more arrived and the noise got loud
    The plenty turned to just enough but we got clever in our ways
    What we couldn’t raise was craft instead, scoured brains to preserve the dead
    The weak became strong as we engineered, selected, cloned and sprayed

    From far and further the big men came
    With a stick in case inducement failed
    And they told us how the world might be
    “If only you would listen to me”

    Now the chambers sealed and suffocating greed,
    Means the meek must inherit what the Big Man leaves
    It’s a prison of glass and endless tiles that reach out to the sky
    Joni told it years ago, we listen fast but we act real slow
    So there’s more of more and less of less, but apparently I’m rich

    Away from here the big men went
    They’ll devour another realm until it’s spent
    The mantra chant of how the world might be
    “If only you would listen to me”


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  6. The Watch

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    The Watch – C. Eaton (2013)

    Grandad used to sit me on his knee
    In the part of the house they called the scullery
    As the coals struggled to generate much heat
    I’m aware of generations past that have shuffled down this street
    He was old and he was wise and always willing to advise
    On how best to shoe a horse or the way to crank a car
    And when I reached my 7th year, He handed down to me
    A timepiece that I knew to be a part of family
    I was old enough to read it, I was old enough to know
    That this patriarchal dear old man was the leader in the show

    The only time I saw my father show emotion as he cried,
    Was when he didn’t make the ward to hold his father as he died
    Some things stay with you all your life as that moment does with me
    And for dad the realisation he was now atop the tree
    The pivot of the generations that now will follow on
    And that included me, my brother, and in time, my own two sons
    The haven where you head for help, the guiding hand you crave
    I need to glean all his knowledge ‘fore he takes it to the grave
    Perhaps our modern world forgets that wisdom comes with age
    That night was time for my old man to take the centre stage

    Charlie used to sit upon a knee
    Ned was on the other, both a part of me
    You do best, we’re never always right
    They’ve swopped toy cars for real ones, you try and guide them home at night
    As I check the piece upon my wrist, I see time is passing by
    History has wheeled around and it’s now my turn to cry
    This time it’s me that missed the boat and chose the wrong damn whim
    If I could I’d choose another even if I had to swim
    Now I’m old enough to see it and I’m old enough to know
    That for now I’ve got the baton, I’m the leader in the show


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  7. Sosikayu

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    Sosikayu – C Eaton© 2012
    Don’t you come near
    Arm’s length is way too close
    These rusting barbs of steel to me are shelter
    But I’m not sure if I like the way it feels

    I’m Sosikayu getting in my way
    How d’ya ever get to sleep at night
    Don’t know if it’s pity or anger but I know
    I’m sikayu, sikayu, hey
    Sosikayu getting in my way
    All you’ve ever done is hold me back
    It’s time to get it on without you
    Sosikayu gettin’ in my way

    We grieve for what might have been
    Had the powder not, the powder not exploded, not exploded, in its head
    Beauty and charm with eloquence of mind,
    Adrift in muddied souls of the un-dead

    If I told you that I loved you I’d be lying
    If I told you that I want you I’d be cruel
    And if I whispered in your ear I’d be a sinner
    I nod when you talk but I don’t hear


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  8. Fall Hard

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    Fall Hard – Chris Brooker © 2005

    Well everything falls around you like the water on a dirty dog
    There’s a mess all around you, cigarette-butts in your hair.

    Looking up at the roof of life from the dirty mat of her sad new life
    Baby what happened? Baby what happened to you?

    Everybody knew you were always gonna fall hard

    It’s gonna take time to get her big love up
    It’s gonna take time to let her trust again
    It’s gonna take patience. It’s gonna take strength
    A whole lotta love, whole lotta love

    Was your love too big? Was your love too round?
    Did the gravity of love let you down?
    Baby what happened? Baby what happened to you?


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  9. Easy Come, Easy Go

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    Easy Come, Easy Go – Chris Brooker © 2013

    When will you come to me? I’ve waited here too long
    No lies or surprise attacks or you might just find me gone
    Is there some master plan or somewhere soft to land?
    Take or leave anytime I hope you understand

    It’s easy come and go
    Go. Easy come and easy go
    You know, no.

    Don’t buy me anything or take me out at night
    Keep my appearance up don’t shine me in your light
    Tied down? No free to go anytime you want
    Detach the unattached and no one here gets hurt

    Never met somebody that could turn it on like that
    Nobody like you babe I gotta give you that
    You tried to hold on, held me underwater kept me under for way too long, long
    Could hardly breathe, could hardly sleep, could hardly think, could hardly leave
    Now na, na, na, na, na, na, na


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  10. The Suitcase

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    The Suitcase – Chris Brooker © 2012

    Too beautiful to believe
    Carven names into the tree

    Twenty times or maybe more
    Reasons for love underscored
    A pretty face but nothing more to me
    I drank some beer and wine, I said
    “She doesn’t seem no different
    To anybody else ‘round here”

    Fine by me if there’s no-show
    All dressed up, nowhere to go

    I cannot think so clearly now
    I’m feeling sleepy in my dreams
    There’s a sound of someone calling out to me
    A million tiny thoughts escape
    Through dreams but caught by nets mistake
    Will this loneliness be my end?

    What’s the worst that could happen?
    We do it all again?

    Still trying to work it out
    Are you the smartest person I
    Have ever met or have I read too much (into it)
    I know you must to make me think
    This deeply now I like the way you
    Talk in colours and make me feel


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  11. Tell Me What I Want

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    Tell Me What I Want – C Eaton ©2012

    Hey mate, look at my clothes
    Tell me what I’m like, Tell me what I’m like
    You made up your mind, the eyes betray the words
    You’d never say it to my face, ‘cos you hide behind yours
    My brothers left behind, we lost my girl along the way
    I’m running for my life and I can’t get by

    Far away in a foreign country, you’d better hope that they like you
    Make yourself at home in a foreign country, is it how you saw it in your dreams
    Is it how you see it now

    Hey mate, peel my skin
    Tell me how I feel, Tell me what I want
    You made up your mind, history tells me so,
    This is how it is ‘cos it’s always been that way
    It doesn’t really matter that I was here first
    The queue is getting longer and I’m last in line


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