The Soundtrack of Our Lives

Clinton Hoy

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Clockwatcher 

I’ve been wasting my life 

Caring what other people like 

Spending my time 

On things I didn’t need to buy 

Listen to me, it’s not so hard 

Most of what you fear is in your mind 

Look at me you’ve come so far 

Most of what you want you don’t need to find 

So can I get a life with just one more minute 

Another day with only you in it 

I’ll stop been wasting my life 

Caring what other people like 

I’ll stop spending my time 

On things we didn’t need to buy 

These days we don’t go anywhere 

Yet I still pause 

Might just be that this is out of our hands 

One thing I know is true 

I’ll never have near enough days with you 

The time has come to stop… 

Sunrise Sunset

Sunrise 

Never thought we’d meet so much in my lifetime 

OK, I’m invested 

Please don’t burn my eyes 

Daylight 

Never thought I’d just want to be outside 

Filling my lungs up with this air it’s giving me such life 

So when you get to see this world 

Lose yourself in all the small things they’re important 

Wherever you end up along the way be kind 

A split second to learn and love, it’ll change your life 

Twilight 

Stars on the horizon seem so bright 

Easy to forget that’s another planet out there 

Moonlight 

Walk out in the street I’ll hold you up high 

And remember…  you’re always gonna be my guide 

So when you get to see this world 

Lose yourself in all the small things they’re important 

Wherever you end up along the way be kind 

A split second to learn and love, it’ll change your life 

But just for now take a breath and close your eyes 

Someone Else’s Songs 

They aren’t my thoughts 

It’s not my life 

But I’m brave… 

These aren’t my words 

They aren’t my chords 

But I’m smart… 

I can’t be wrong 

There’s no line 

I don’t belong 

It’s all a lie 

But these are your favourites 

There’s a rush before the lightning 

There’s a breeze and then the rain it falls 

There’s a hush before the wave breaks 

And you’re the catalyst for it all 

You and me and them and us 

The future, right now and the past 

The things I can’t say with someone else’s songs 

Didn’t sew my name 

Not a shining light 

But I’m safe… 

Did you say 

It would be nice 

If I stopped hiding in… 

Hold the applause 

Give me time 

With a chance 

Maybe I’ll write 

Your new favourite 

There’s a rush before the lightning 

There’s a breeze and then the rain it falls 

There’s a hush before the wave breaks 

And you’re the catalyst for it all 

You and me and them and us 

The future, right now and the past 

The things I can’t say with someone else’s songs 

Fallible 

I don’t like the cold 

It makes me feel my tired bones 

I get all down and hard to be around 

I just want to sit with you 

And pick some songs we can listen to 

I just want you 

To know that I know 

I mean I’ve realised 

That maybe I am fallible 

I don’t like the complications of modern life 

I don’t like how we expect ourselves to always get it right 

Cause I’m weak sometimes and take the easy way 

Though in reality I don’t care about anything but what you think and say 

I just want you 

To know that I know 

I mean I’ve realised 

That maybe I am fallible 

This Tape 

I saw you dancing that Friday night 

Albeit through tired eyes 

But there was a kaleidoscopic hopscotch game going on under your feet 

I was gonna say something  

But my mouth let me down 

My brain was running all kinds of permutations about why it was couldn’t meet 

So I pulled out those dusty boxes 

Relics of a place forgotten 

Ancient memories of a simpler time 

The only way to say what I want tonight 

Is with this tape of songs I hope you’ll like 

As I stay and while away the night 

I hope that this tape will be the soundtrack of our lives 

I lost command of my words 

Deserted by my native tongue 

I was joking in gibberish and trading in non sequiturs  

All of the evidence pointed to abandoning the plan 

The little voice in my head was determined to play saboteur 

Magnets and melodies for the memories we’re making 

I swear I’m gonna get the message to you whatever it takes 

The only way to say what I want tonight 

Is with this tape of songs I hope you’ll like 

As I stay and while away the night 

I hope that this tape will be the soundtrack of our lives 

House Is Full 

Found a photo of you on a Sunday 

I was thinking maybe we slept in 

It was such a long time ago 

Forgive me if I’m misremembering 

I swear I just took a breath and blinked 

Now the house is full 

And the music’s changed 

If you can think of a better way to spend our days then say 

My diary is these broken pieces of plastic 

I run my hand through my hair as they slide across the floor 

A bunch of these dusty old cassettes 

Now I wonder what on earth I did that for 

I swear I just took a breath and blinked 

Now the house is full 

And the music’s changed 

If you can think of a better way to spend our days then say 

Used to think my life was good 

Sometimes it was 

Sitting ‘round wasting time 

Just because 

I can go ‘round flicking channels with the best of them 

But I don’t live a life just like the rest of them 

Now the house is full 

And the music’s changed 

I can’t think of a better way to spend our days 

Now the house is full 

And the music’s changed 

And my watch must be broken these years have turned into days 

Now the house is full 

And you understand 

This is all I’ll ever need to be a happy man 

Death Bed 

When I am a man laying on my deathbed 

Going through the words I hear in my head 

Will I wish I spent more time at my desk? 

I don’t think so 

Stuck in a loop on an infinite treadmill 

Running all day just so I can stand still 

Heart’s not in it and my head is elsewhere 

Dreamin’ ‘bout running away 

Future self I need an education 

What on earth’s my destination 

And how will I get there playing by someone else’s rules 

Down a rabbit hole in a mindless gaze 

Glued to a screen that’s stealing my days 

Gave up all my power to this lie of perfection 

How could I ever compare 

Future self I’ll take the days I wasted 

By the time we meet I swear I’ll have replaced it 

With gratitude for all the things I have 

Somewhere in the multiverse 

A smarter version of me figured this out first 

And it’s not as though my life is getting worse 

I just know there’s something more than this 

I just want more I’m so tired 

I want to throw out all the meaningless things I have acquired 

Trust and time so finite 

I gotta get the balance right 

I swear I’m gonna get it right 

Tom Waits 

We were listening to Tom Waits  

As the buildings fell 

I had a few exaggerated stories 

I’d been saving up to tell 

Surrounded by a broken city 

Drinking whiskey in the back of a bus 

Could have been the whole wide world 

But it felt like only us 

As travellers we wander 

We ponder love and learn 

And what I wonder 

Is will the world be the same when I return 

We were walking along unfamiliar streets 

When I heard the sound 

Somebody was singing their lungs out 

Underneath the bridge it echoed all around 

We had too many pints in a bar on the high line 

I rub my eyes and try to adjust 

It could have been the whole wide world 

But it felt like only us 

As travellers we wander 

We ponder love and learn 

And what I wonder 

Is will the world be the same when I return 

Went looking around the world 

For that elusive sound 

What we really found 

Was ourselves 

Pack Your Bags 

Pack your bags we leave for the coast tonight 

I know we need time to get ourselves right 

I know that we can do 

Anything we want to 

And if you needed proof 

Just look what we’ve done so far 

Sometimes we drive on opposite sides 

Going different ways 

At the same time 

Sometimes we  

drift 

To the wrong side  

Of the line… 

Directions and destinations change 

The way we get there I don’t mind 

It doesn’t matter what we’re looking for it’s all about what we find 

I don’t mind the odd back road 

A shortcut without knowing 

Maybe if we just drive 

We’ll find out where we are going 

Counting on the Moon 

When I look up at the sky I feel powerless 

I hope we can find a way out of this mess 

I am right here in it 

I know I am complicit, I’m sorry 

Small things are all things to me 

Small things are everything I need 

This comet comes tonight, it’s due now any time 

But it’s clouding over - a metaphor for life? 

Even though this memory will vanish in your dreams 

I’m counting on the moon to come out shining soon 

The way that you are seeing this it reignites my mind 

I’ll always hold on to this night 

You’re reaching out to try and catch the rain 

Lightning flashes, thunder blows us both away 

Petrichor permeates the air and I know it isn’t fair 

I have so much 

And for all the laps of the sun that I still remain 

I’ll do everything I can do keep everyone safe 

One second it’s a year, I’m living time lapse here 

This is most impossible 

But I’ll try to sear this night into my brain 

These days are speeding by, no one can defeat time 

But I’ll hold you tightly while you reach into the rain 

The Soundtrack of Our Lives 

I’ve had a lot of houses 

But not so many homes 

I had to go and find myself 

In dark corners alone 

But some moonlight through a window 

Sunlight on my face 

When I’m 

With you 

I know I’ve found my place 

I’ve had a lot of thoughts 

But no so many songs 

I had to go and figure out 

What I was doing wrong 

But some melodies on the breeze 

As you recite the words 

When we’re singing songs together 

It stops the world 

If all our words and songs and conversation and dreams made the soundtrack of our life 

I’ll be able to rest easy knowing I did at least one thing right 

I’ve told a lot of stories 

Some of them even true  

Had some things to say  

About the times 

I thought we mightn’t make it through 

But how this ended up 

I wouldn’t have seen with a crystal ball 

How someone could ever truly 

Have it all 

If all our words and songs and conversation and dreams made the soundtrack of our life 

I’ll be able to rest easy knowing I did at least one thing right

 

All music and lyrics by Clinton Hoy

Except “Someone Else's Songs”, music by Ben Dawson & Clinton Hoy

Produced by Kris Schubert

Recorded and mixed by Kris Schubert

Artwork by Lian Wong