Biography:
Josh Pyke (born 18 December 1977 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian singer-songwriting musician. His albums include Memories & Dust (2007), Chimney's Afire (2008), Only Sparrows (2011).
It didn't take long before Josh's unique voice and song writing style, influenced by the likes of Elliott Smith, Evan Dando, and Sparklehorse, began to find favour amongst music tastemakers, critics and Triple J listeners. The first taste, the assured 'Kids Don't Sell Their Hopes So Fast'
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Other songs:
- Love Lies
- Memories And Dust
- Silver
- The Lighthouse Song
- Beg Your Pardon
- Book Of Revelations
- Buttons
- Candle In Your Window
- Chimneys Afire
- Covers Are Thrown
- Diet Of Worms
- Doing What Youre Told
- Endless Summer
- Fed And Watered
- Fill You In
- Forever Song
- Goldmines
- Good Head Start
- Hollering Hearts
- House At Pooh Corner
- Leeward Side
- Lighthouse Song
- Lines On Palms
- Make You Happy
- Middle Of The Hill
- Momentary Glow
- New Years Song
- Private Education
- Punch In The Heart
- Sew My Name
- Staring Down The Sun
- Still Some Big Deal
- The Beginning And The End Of Everything
- The Best Man At Your First Loves Wedding
- The Doldrums
- The Summer
- Theres A Line
- Vibration In Air
- Vibrations In Air
- When Your Colours Go
- Where Two Oceans Meet
- Wuthering Heights
- You Dont Scare Me
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[Verse 1]
C
Making plans is like making the bed,
G Am
You know they're gonna get messed up yet.
C
And all your dreams and all your hopes,
G Am
They'll get spent like money, blown away like smoke.
C G Am
But if I truly felt like this was so I'd have quit years ago.
F G C
So if I've got bad luck at least it's my luck and I can take it with me when I go.
[Verse 2]
C
Well life is maths and life is debt
G Am
And I'm still living in deficit.
C
And I want to graph out of the red
G Am
And get my head into the clouds again.
C G Am
But life lived without money is better than a life lived with regret.
F G
So if that's my good luck I guess it's my luck.
[Chorus]
F C
'Cause All those mysteries of youth
G C
They get solved by the years now you're living proof
F C
Of good seeds grown to fallow fields
G C
And now you're starving down here with your ribs revealed.
F C
And all your old loves became wives
G C
Of an unimpassioned population hugging the white line.
F C
You could have gone east and you could have gone west
G F
But you stuck to the middle so they made you the best man.
C
They made you the best man.
[Verse 3]
C G
So if you lose it once you can find it twice
Am
Just hold on tight this time.
C
But if you burn like me inside
G Am
I know you'll never be satisfied.
C
Just don't spead yourself too thin kid
G Am
Or there'll be little left of anything.
F G
And that would be bad luck, yeah that would be bad luck
[Chorus]
F C
'Cause All those mysteries of youth
G C
They get solved by the years now you're living proof
F C
Of good seeds grown to fallow fields
G C
And now you're starving down here with your ribs revealed.
F C
And all your old loves became wives
G C
Of an unimpassioned population hugging the white line
F C
You could have gone east and you could have gone west
G F
But you stuck to the middle so they made you the best man.
C
Yeah, they made you the best man.
[Instrumental]
F C G C x2
F C G F
C
[Chorus]
F C
Oh and a life without fire is a firing squad,
G C
I'm not going to heaven because I've never known God.
F C
But I do believe there's something more
G C
And I do have a clue what I've been looking for.
F C
Yeah one day I want to find the breach
G C
Between the things that I want and the things that I need
F C
And when I get there will I know?
G F
Well I'm thinking that I don't think so.
C
I just don't want to be the best man.
[Verse 4]
C
Just when you think you've got nothing left
G Am
To write about well here she comes.
C G
And just when you think you might've snared a good one
Am
You're back on the run.
C
But I'll keep breaking choices down
G Am
Untill I'm only left with one.
C
Making plans is like making the bed,
G Am
You know they're gonna get messed up yet.
C
And all your dreams and all your hopes,
G Am
They'll get spent like money, blown away like smoke.
C G Am
But if I truly felt like this was so I'd have quit years ago.
F G C
So if I've got bad luck at least it's my luck and I can take it with me when I go.
[Verse 2]
C
Well life is maths and life is debt
G Am
And I'm still living in deficit.
C
And I want to graph out of the red
G Am
And get my head into the clouds again.
C G Am
But life lived without money is better than a life lived with regret.
F G
So if that's my good luck I guess it's my luck.
[Chorus]
F C
'Cause All those mysteries of youth
G C
They get solved by the years now you're living proof
F C
Of good seeds grown to fallow fields
G C
And now you're starving down here with your ribs revealed.
F C
And all your old loves became wives
G C
Of an unimpassioned population hugging the white line.
F C
You could have gone east and you could have gone west
G F
But you stuck to the middle so they made you the best man.
C
They made you the best man.
[Verse 3]
C G
So if you lose it once you can find it twice
Am
Just hold on tight this time.
C
But if you burn like me inside
G Am
I know you'll never be satisfied.
C
Just don't spead yourself too thin kid
G Am
Or there'll be little left of anything.
F G
And that would be bad luck, yeah that would be bad luck
[Chorus]
F C
'Cause All those mysteries of youth
G C
They get solved by the years now you're living proof
F C
Of good seeds grown to fallow fields
G C
And now you're starving down here with your ribs revealed.
F C
And all your old loves became wives
G C
Of an unimpassioned population hugging the white line
F C
You could have gone east and you could have gone west
G F
But you stuck to the middle so they made you the best man.
C
Yeah, they made you the best man.
[Instrumental]
F C G C x2
F C G F
C
[Chorus]
F C
Oh and a life without fire is a firing squad,
G C
I'm not going to heaven because I've never known God.
F C
But I do believe there's something more
G C
And I do have a clue what I've been looking for.
F C
Yeah one day I want to find the breach
G C
Between the things that I want and the things that I need
F C
And when I get there will I know?
G F
Well I'm thinking that I don't think so.
C
I just don't want to be the best man.
[Verse 4]
C
Just when you think you've got nothing left
G Am
To write about well here she comes.
C G
And just when you think you might've snared a good one
Am
You're back on the run.
C
But I'll keep breaking choices down
G Am
Untill I'm only left with one.
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