I'm on an island but I'm watching the sea people swimming - they're waving at me
it's so inviting - it's so enticing
I've heard the stories and I know that it's true
about the sharks and the rip-tides too but those people out there they just don't seem to care
But they're waving and drowning
I'm in a cafe where they sneer at your clothes you eat garbage and you pay through the nose
it's so devinely sweet - you pay not to eat
where they're waving and drowning
fickle feeling - fickle heart
leaves you reeling - tears you apart
I'm telling truth and I'm being despised
smiling mouths preaching empty lies they're just doing their best - happy more or less
but they're waving and drowning
credits
from Waving and Drowning,
released January 27, 2015
Words and music by Tom Morton & Steve Butler
Graeme Butler - Tenor Sax Alan Cameron - Additional Synthesiser
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two of these songs were on a compilation called Return of the Beat Menace--Caught in the Motion and Catch Me I'm Falling. I'm pretty sure these are different versions of those songs, and it is great to hear other songs from this era. Dennis Draeger
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