[Sydney NSW] Upcoming Events – Wrong Side of the Road (Sydney)

11 06 2013

Wrong Side of the Road (Sydney)

14 June 2013, 7:30pm

Event Cinemas George Street , NSW

Purchase tickets online at sff.org.au

Wrong Side of the Road (1981, MA15+)

Dir: Ned Lander, Australia, 80mins         Prod: Graeme Isaac, Ned Lander, Writ: Graeme Isaac, Ned Lander

Roads, rock and racism! This iconic ’80s film, hailed as a game changer, has been brought back to life frame by painstaking frame. The soundtrack, in all its reggae-infused glory, has been restored to the filmmaker’s original vision. The film follows two days in the lives of Aboriginal bands Us Mob and No Fixed Address, as they trek from Port Adelaide to Point Pearce, South Australia.

The co-writers and band members – Bart Willoughby, Chris Jones, John Miller, Veronica Rankine, Ronnie Ansell, Peter ‘Pedro’ Butler and Wally McArthur – play themselves. The story is based on their real-life experiences and those of their community. Us Mob favours hard rock, No Fixed Address prefers a Jamaican reggae beat. This uncompromising film and its empowering music is as fresh and relevant today as it was 32 years ago.

‘Possesses a rough-edged power and no-holds-barred narrative that combines to make the movie compelling viewing’ – Rolling Stone

This session is presented by the Sydney Film Festival in partnership with the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA).

For further information on the Sydney Film Festival please visit sff.org.au.


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Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

27 05 2013

Monday 27 May 2013 – Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

Song to Sing … by Archie Roach

ARCHIE ROACH – ‘Song To Sing’ is taken from the new album INTO THE BLOODSTREAM

Into The Bloodstream represents a triumphant return for a man who has suffered profound loss.

On the verge of giving up, he dug deep and found the inner strength to lift up both himself and others through the power of song.

You can order the album online here: http://bit.ly/SZH0ug or download it here: http://bit.ly/WkCpcU

A note from Archie

While making this album I have learned to look at Pain differently. I know that Pain can make you sick, very sick!! My recent bouts of illness I’m sure, are a result of the Pain of being removed from my family at a young age and more recently the loss of someone I loved so dearly.

But Pain can also bring about change in one’s life for the better, we can choose to ignore the Pain until it becomes unbearable or we can do something. I used to think that letting go of the Pain was the only way of getting better but that may not be necessarily so. You see some events in my life I will never truly get over and the Pain will always be there but I can do something about it.

I can write songs, songs about making it to the Top of the Hill no matter how far, songs about not being alone so don’t cry, songs about all of us having a song to sing and songs we can dance to.

Even though we may be suffering with some sort of chronic Pain we can learn to live with and manage it with the right attitude to life and some good medicine. Doing this album has been good medicine for me! I hope listening to it will be the same for you!

http://www.archieroach.com.au/#!/page_Album

Archie Roach Biography

Archie Roach, Australia’s beloved Aboriginal singer and songwriter – the voice of his people and the voice of many other people too – has a new lease of life. Literally. And it has manifested in his new songs, this wondrous new album and the accompanying live show.

In 2010 Archie suffered immeasurably. Most will know by now that the venerable and dignified performer, who captured the hearts and minds of a nation in 1990 with Charcoal Lane and the landmark song Took The Children Away, lost his partner and soul mate Ruby Hunter. It was February 2010; she was only 54.

Archie’s grief was immense. Later that year found himself up in the Kimberley, at a place called Turkey Creek, 800 km or so east of Broome in amongst the Bungle Bungles when he himself suffered a stroke.

He was taken by Flying Doctor to Broome then Perth and went into heavy rehabilitation, which left parts of his body, including one of his hands, inert. In mid 2011 Archie was diagnosed with the early stages of lung cancer. He got half a lung removed and again went into heavy rehabilitation.

It could be said that through his long and distinguished career Archie has sung of suffering, pain and injustice in a manner more effective than most. But that’s not what has happened in the aftermath of his horrible year in 2010. Instead he has turned to joy and hope and the idea of lifting himself and others up through song. As his body recovers so too does his mind.

The brand new album Into The Bloodstream – and the life affirming live shows of the same name –is about, he says “finding strength” and then expressing it.

“Overcoming difficulties,” he says, “and singing more uplifting songs that are not so much about suffering and pain but rising above that. Going through what I have has made me realise that a big part of people getting sick has to do with holding onto pain and not letting it go. That was the inspiration behind it all. Letting go of the pain and the bad stuff and holding onto something good and strong.”

The live shows – infused with good doses of uplifting gospel and soul stirrings – are also in many ways the story of Roach’s life, spanning his childhood, his stolen years and his long love for Ruby.

There will be a star-studded thirteen-piece musical ensemble under the direction of Craig Pilkington (Audrey Studios), who has produced and arranged the album, plus a ten-voice gospel choir headed by Lou Bennett from Tiddas and the Black Arm Band. Lighting and visuals will be curated by the accomplished Tim Cole.

Liberation Music’s Managing Director Warren Costello says: “We set out to help Archie create a landmark album in what has already been an amazing career. Michael Gudinski and I have drawn incredible strength and inspiration from Archie Roach and from Ruby Hunter over many, many years. It is once again our pleasure and privilege to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Archie to launch this new album which we truly believe is amongst his best work.”

Archie says the album – and these majestic shows – are his good medicine, Straight Into The Bloodstream.

Into The Bloodstream was released through Liberation Music on Friday October 19th, 2012.

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A Must See Performance – Jack Charles V’s The Crown

14 05 2013

“Uncle Jack Charles is, without a doubt, one of my all time favourite human beings, just hearing his voice on the end of the phone can pull me from the depths of despair.” ~ Nicola Butler

 

JACK CHARLES V THE CROWN from ILBIJERRI Theatre Company on Vimeo.

 

 

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“Steeped in decades of our history (social, political, theatrical), surprisingly upbeat… a warm-hearted, very entertaining evening.”   Sydney Morning Herald

“There is something special about Uncle Jack. Something about his voice, his stature, his laugh, his story – something powerful but humbling. It was that something that richoted people to their feet to give the man a standing ovation. It is most certainly, something that you won’t want to miss.” Australian Stage

“A well-crafted piece of theatrical cabaret. This show literally embodies a significant slice of theatrical and social history. An open-hearted crowd-pleaser.” Alison Croggon, Theatre Notes

Uncle Jack Charles is an Australian legend: veteran actor, musician, Koori elder and activist, but for a good portion of his nearly 70 years he has also been an addict, a thief and a regular in Victoria’s prisons.

From Stolen Generation to Koori theatre in the 70s, from film sets to Her Majesty’s prisons, Jack Charles v the Crown runs the gamut of a life lived to its utmost. Charles’s unswerving optimism transforms this tale of addiction, crime and doing time into a kind of vagabond’s progress – a map of the traps of dispossession and a guide to reaching the age of grey-haired wisdom.

This fleet-footed, light-fingered one-man show is a theatrical delight and a celebration of Black Australia’s dogged refusal to give up on getting on.


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Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

11 05 2013

Saturday 11 May 2013 – Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

Songbird … by Fleetwood Mac

Written by Christine McVie

For you, there’ll be no more crying,
For you, the sun will be shining,
And I feel that when I’m with you,
It’s alright, I know it’s right

To you, I’ll give the world
To you, I’ll never be cold
‘Cause I feel that when I’m with you,
It’s alright, I know it’s right.

And the songbirds are singing,
Like they know the score,
And I love you, I love you, I love you,
Like never before.

And I wish you all the love in the world,
But most of all, I wish it from myself.

And the songbirds keep singing,
Like they know the score,
And I love you, I love you, I love you,
Like never before, like never before.

 


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? Question of the Day ?

11 05 2013

How do you all think we can stamp out Lateral Violence and replace it with Lateral Love in our Families and Communities?

Comments appreciated!

Spirit of Uluru
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Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

5 05 2013

Sunday 5 May 2013 – Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

Love is Easy … by McFly

Do do do do do do
Do do do do do do
Do do do do do do

Today, I’m laughing the clouds away
I hear what the flowers say
They drink every drop of rain
And I see places that I have been
In ways that I’ve never seen
This side of the grass is green

Oh I can’t believe that it’s so simple
It feels so natural to me

If this is love, then love is easy
It’s the easiest thing to do.
If this is love, then love completes me
Cause the proof is I’ve been missing you
A simple equation,
With no complications, to leave you confused.
If this is love, love, love,
Oh, it’s the easiest thing to do.

Do do do do do do
Do do do do do do
Do do do do do do

Whatever I do
To watching the grey skies bloom
Making the streets look new
And the birds sing
Tweedily tweet dee dee dee
Tweedily dee dee dee
And we know exactly what they mean.

Oh I can’t believe that it’s so simple
It feels so natural to me

If this is love, then love is easy
It’s the easiest thing to do.
If this is love, then love completes me
Cause the proof is I’ve been missing you.
A simple equation,
With no complications, to leave you confused.
If this is love, love, love,
Oh, it’s the easiest thing to do

Do do do do do do
Do do do do do do
Do do do do do do

If this is love, then love is easy
It’s the easiest thing to do
If this is love, then love completes me.
Cause the proof is I’ve been missing you
A simple equation,
With no complications, to leave you confused.
If this is love, love, love,
Oh, it’s the easiest thing to do

Do do do do do do
Do do do do do do
Do do do do do do
Oh this is love, love, love, love
Do do do do do do
Do do do do do do
Do do do do do do


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? Question of the Day ?

1 05 2013

How many of us have experienced people we know or love behaving badly towards us recently?

Frequent manifestations of lateral violence include:

• nonverbal innuendo (raising eyebrows, face-making),

• bullying,

• verbal affront (overt/covert, snide remarks, lack of openness, abrupt responses, gossiping),

• shaming,

• undermining activities (turning away, not being available, social exclusion),

• withholding information,

• sabotage (deliberately setting up a negative situation),

• infighting (bickering, family feuds),

• scapegoating,

• backstabbing (complaining to peers and not confronting the individual),

• failure to respect privacy,

• broken confidences,

• organisational conflict,

• physical violence.

The Lateral Violence we are talking about is far from being the ‘fuzzy buzz word’ that many people choose to used to dismiss this destructive behaviour.

We must acknowledge our actions and behaviours to be able to work towards healing our souls to create positive opportunities for our future generations.

Spirit of Uluru

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Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

28 04 2013

Sunday 28 April 2013 – Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

Stolen … by Andrew (AJ) Davis

A heart wrenching song written and performed by Andrew (AJ) Davis about the Australian Aboriginal “Stolen Generations” in the spirit of reconciliation.

Andrew (AJ) Davis is a Ngarrindjeri, Barngala & Kokatha man who is a member of the Stolen Generations.

This song represents the difficult struggles faced by many members of the Aboriginal and Islander (including the Torres Strait) Stolen Generations as they continue to navigate the trauma and perpetual grief imposed upon them by assimilation policies of the colonisers and a life time of lateral violence and racism.


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Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

19 04 2013

Friday 19 April 2013 – Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

From Above … by Rae Morris

Don’t get too close to me
I’m not likely to be someone you want
To be around when they’re in love

Don’t get too comfortable
I’m not even the slightest bit of one
I need to open up my heart

Lost track of time and saw it in my mind
I love you from above
…
I love you from above
Lost track of time and saw in my mind that no one
Lost track of time and I love you from above

Don’t get too close to me
It’s got highly unlikely that I want
To be the one for very long

I’ve got too comfortable and stopped
Trying to find what I want
I need to open up my heart

Lost track of time and saw it in my mind
I love you from above
…
I love you from above
Lost track of time and saw in my mind that no one
Lost track of time and I love you from above

From the morning till the…
All of my games, they were damned to play
When I’m waiting, when the moment’s gone
I love you from above

When I look back …
When I’m waiting, but the moment’s gone
When I’m waiting

Lost track of time and saw it in my mind
I love you from above
…
I love you from above
Lost track of time and saw in my mind that no one
Lost track of time and I love you from above


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Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

12 04 2013

Friday 12 April 2013 – Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

People Help The People … by Birdy

God knows what is hiding in that weak and drunken heart
I guess you kissed the girls and made them cry
those Hardfaced Queens of misadventure
God knows what is hiding in those weak and sunken eyes
a Fiery throng of muted angels
Giving love and getting nothing back

People help the people
And if your homesick, give me your hand and i’ll hold it
People help the people
And nothing will drag you down
Oh and if I had a brain, Oh and if I had a brain
i’d be cold as a stone and rich as the fool
That turned, all those good hearts away
God knows what is hiding, in that world of little consequence
Behind the tears, inside the lies
A thousand slowly dying sunsets
God knows what is hiding in those weak and drunken hearts
I guess the loneliness came knocking
No one needs to be alone, oh save me

People help the people
And if your homesick, give me your hand and i’ll hold it
People help the people
Nothing will drag you down
Oh and if I had a brain, Oh and if I had a brain
I’d be cold as a stone and rich as the fool
That turned, all those good hearts away

People help the people
And if your homesick, give me your hand and I’ll hold it
People help the people
Nothing will drag you down
Oh and if I had a brain, Oh and if I had a brain
I’d be cold as a stone and rich as the fool
That turned, all those good hearts away


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[SA] ADELAIDE EVENTS – Tuesday April 9th 2013

6 04 2013

ABORIGINAL & ISLANDER FILMMAKERS NETWORKING SESSION

Tuesday April 9th 2013 2:00pm – 5:00pm
South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC)
Adelaide Studios – Green Room
226 Fullarton Road, Glenside
South Australia, 5065

Attention Community Members, Story Tellers, Film Makers and Writers!

The South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) will be hosting an information gathering and networking session for Aboriginal and Islander (including the Torres Straits) interested and emerging filmmakers.

Come along and hear about the opportunities on offer presented by representatives from the following organisations:

- Screen Australia

– Media Resource Centre (MRC)

– NITV

An excellent opportunity to hear how funding bodies operate and how YOU can work towards profitable opportunities to enable the sharing of our voices and visions get out to a wider audience. Our Stories Our Way!

Don’t miss out, RSVP Now!

Email alexiswest@live.com  Or  Sharon.Cleary@safilm.com.au  to secure you place.

 

GETTING TO KNOW THE TALENT IN OUR OWN BACK YARD

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Alexis West Aboriginal, Kanak, Caucasian woman, creator, performer, voice over talent, choreographer, director, artist, writer and collaborator.

Working with No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability creating and performing innovative pieces such as KNOWING HOME with Disabled Indigenous Performers. Creating the documentary behind the scenes of KNOWING HOME.

BLACK WHEELS, shortlisted for 2012 Edward Albee Inscription Scholarship.

First prize for poetry competition ‘Open Your Mind’ published in ‘Mind Frames’ 2011.

Short film JUMP AND BOUNCE debuted imagineNative film festival Toronto 2011.

Writing documentary THE KINGS SEAL and feature film BLACK HACK guidance by Stephen Cleary and Christopher Vogler. Late, great performers, writers, activists mentored Alexis. Commissioned with artist Marijana Tadic for major public artwork sculpture.

ALEXIS WEST - 0413 544 160
Creative Consultant, Collaborator, Writer, Director, Performer
YOU’RE DREAMING
ABN: 84 579 702 920

Current You’re Dreaming Projects – Knowing Home and Black Wheels

KNOWING HOME Removed, displaced and disoriented, 12 disabled Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performers reconnect to country and kin via a multi-media performance journey mapped with unexpected humour, tenacity and grace.

BLACK WHEELS is in early development. Draft One deals with a group of characters dealing with difficult situations, power struggles and shifts of status. Protagonist Billy has to cope with his new life in a wheel chair after a promising career as a football player ended tragically. Once a carer for his brother now Billy must be cared by him. Billy also must deal with a hidden secret whilst attempting reconcile his family. Alexis West (c)

 

USEFUL LINKS for Story Tellers, Film Makers and Writers

SA Film Corporation http://www.filmsa.org.au

Media Resource Centre http://www.mrc.org.au

Screen Australia http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au

NITV www.nitv.org.au


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? Question of the Day ?

5 04 2013

Rejecting Confirmation of Aboriginality for our young people – How many suicides have occurred due to this type of lateral violence? How many more must we endure before this shameful practice ceases?

Spirit of Uluru

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Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

5 04 2013

Friday 5 April 2013 – Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

Waiting on the World to Change … by John Mayer

Me and all my friends
We’re all misunderstood
They say we stand for nothing and
There’s no way we ever could

Now we see everything that’s going wrong
With the world and those who lead it
We just feel like we don’t have the means
To rise above and beat it

So we keep waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change

It’s hard to beat the system
When we’re standing at a distance
So we keep waiting
Waiting on the world to change

Now if we had the power
To bring our neighbors home from war
They would have never missed a Christmas
No more ribbons on their door
And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want

That’s why we’re waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change

It’s not that we don’t care,
We just know that the fight ain’t fair
So we keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change

And we’re still waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting waiting on the world to change
One day our generation
Is gonna rule the population
So we keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change

oh no, We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change


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Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week (Trigger Warning)

29 03 2013
Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week
Friday 29 March 2013 ~ Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday
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Great comment posted on You Tube 4 weeks ago, says it all:
“I had heard from a history teacher that each time she sang this she had to cry backstage because she was so moved. But she said she would never stop singing it for the sake of those who had been lynched in the way she is describing. This really is a moving song that touches upon some of the darkest times in American history that textbooks often gloss over. It shows that we NEED music and art to move us and teach us in a way that schools and textbooks cannot.” by Taperz
Songwriters: Damon Frost & Aaron Phiri
Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.

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Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

23 03 2013

Saturday 23 March 2013 – Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

What The World Needs Now Is Love…by Burt Bacharach

 

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No not just for some but for everyone.
Lord, we don’t need another mountain,
There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb
There are oceans and rivers enough to cross,
Enough to last till the end of time.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No, not just for some but for everyone.
Lord, we don’t need another meadow
There are cornfields and wheat fields enough to grow
There are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine
Oh listen, lord, if you want to know.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No, not just for some but for everyone.
No, not just for some, oh, but just for everyone.


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Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

15 03 2013

Friday 15th March 2013 - Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

A Natural Woman … by Carole King

Looking out on the morning rain
I used to feel uninspired
And when I knew I had to face another day
Lord, it made me feel so tired
Before the day I met you, life was so unkind
But your love was the key to peace my mind

Cause you make me feel, you make me feel, you make me feel like
A natural woman

When my soul was in the lost-and-found
You came along to claim it
I didn’t know just what was wrong with me
Till your kiss helped me name it
Now I’m no longer doubtful of what I’m living for
Cause if I make you happy I don’t need no more

Oh, baby, what you’ve done to me
You make me feel so good inside
And I just want to be close to you
You make me fell so alive


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? Question of the Day ?

12 03 2013

What is Self Determination? and what does it really mean for an individual or organisation when they claim to support ‘self determination’?

Spirit of Uluru

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Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

8 03 2013

Friday 8th March 2013 - Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

Battle Scars … by Guy Sebastian ft. Lupe Fiasco

“Battle Scars”
(feat. Lupe Fiasco)

[Intro: Lupe Fiasco]
Hope the wound heals but it never does
That’s cause you’re at war with love
You’re at war with love, yeah

[Hook: Guy Sebastian]
These battle scars don’t look like they’re fading
Don’t look like they’re ever going away
They ain’t never gonna change
These battle…

[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]
Never let a wound ruin me
But I feel like ruin’s wooing me
Arrow holes, they never close from Cupid on a shooting spree
Feeling stupid cause I know it ain’t no you and me
But when you’re trying to beat the odds up
Been trying to keep your nods up
And you know that you should know
And let her go
But the fear of the unknown
Holding another lover strong
Sends you back into the zone
With no Tom Hanks to bring you home
A lover not a fighter
On the front line with a poem
Trying to write yourself a rifle
Maybe sharpen up a stone
To fight the tanks and drones of you being alone

[Pre-hook: Guy Sebastian]
I wish I never looked, I wish I never touched
I wish that I could stop loving you so much
Cause I’m the only one that’s trying to keep us together
When all of the signs say that I should forget her
I wish you weren’t the best, the best I ever had
I wish that the good outweighed the bad
Cause it’ll never be over, until you tell me it’s over

[Hook: Guy Sebastian]
These battle scars, don’t look like they’re fading
Don’t look like they’re ever going away
They ain’t never gonna change
These battle scars, don’t look like they’re fading
Don’t look like they’re ever going away
They ain’t never gonna change
These battle…

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]
(Then just leave)
You shouldn’t have but you said it
(And I hope you never come back)
It shouldn’t have happened but you let it
Now you’re down on the ground screaming medic
The only thing that comes is the post-traumatic stresses
Shields, body armors and vests don’t properly work
That’s why you’re in a locker full of hurt
The enemy within and all the fires from your friends
The best medicine is to probably just let it win

[Pre-hook: Guy Sebastian]
I wish I couldn’t feel, I wish I couldn’t love
I wish that I could stop cause it hurts so much
And I’m the only one that’s trying to keep us together
When all of the signs say that I should forget her
I wish you weren’t the best, the best I ever had
I wish that the good outweighed the bad
Cause it’ll never be over, until you tell me it’s over

[Hook: Guy Sebastian]
These battle scars, don’t look like they’re fading
Don’t look like they’re ever going away
They ain’t never gonna change
These battle scars, don’t look like they’re fading
Don’t look like they’re ever going away
They ain’t never gonna change
These battle…

[Bridge: Guy Sebastian & Lupe Fiasco]
Cause you’ve set me on fire
I’ve never felt so alive, yeah

Hoping wounds heal, but it never does
That’s because you’re at war with love

And I’m at the point of breaking
And it’s impossible to shake it

See, you hoped the wound heals, but it never does
That’s cause you’re at war with love
Hope it heals, but it never does
That’s cause you’re at war with love!

[Hook: Guy Sebastian]
These battle scars, don’t look like they’re fading
Don’t look like they’re ever going away
They ain’t never gonna change
These battle scars, don’t look like they’re fading
Don’t look like they’re ever going away
They ain’t never gonna change
These battle scars, don’t look like they’re fading
Don’t look like they’re ever going away
They ain’t never gonna change
These battle…


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Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

1 03 2013

Friday 1st March 2013 - Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

You Are So Beautiful … by Joe Cocker

You are so beautiful
To me
You are so beautiful
To me
Can’t you see

You’re everything I hope for
You’re everything I need
You are so beautiful to me
You are so beautiful to me

You are so beautiful
To me
Can’t you see
You’re everything I hope for
You’re every, everything I need
You are so beautiful to me


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Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

22 02 2013

Friday 22nd February 2013 - Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week

When I See You Smile … by Bad English

Sometimes I wonder
How I’d ever make it through,
Through this world without having you
I just wouldn’t have a clue

‘Cause sometimes it seems
Like this world’s closing in on me,
And there’s no way of breaking free
And then I see you reach for me

Sometimes I wanna give up
I wanna give in, I wanna quit the fight
And then I see you, baby
And everything’s alright, everything’s alright

When I see you smile
I can face the world,
oh oh, you know I can do anything
When I see you smile
I see a ray of light,
oh oh, I see it shining right through the rain
When I see you smile
Oh yeah, baby when I see you smile at me

Baby there’s nothing
in this world that could ever do
What a touch of your hand can do
It’s like nothing that I ever knew

And when the rain is falling
I don’t feel it, ’cause you’re here with me now
And one look at you baby
Is all I’ll ever need, you’re all I’ll ever need
Sometimes I wonder
How I’d ever make it through,
Through this world without having you
I just wouldn’t have a clue

‘Cause sometimes it seems
Like this world’s closing in on me,
And there’s no way of breaking free
And then I see you reach for me

Sometimes I wanna give up
I wanna give in, I wanna quit the fight
And then I see you, baby
And everything’s alright, everything’s alright

When I see you smile
I can face the world,
oh oh, you know I can do anything
When I see you smile
I see a ray of light,
oh oh, I see it shining right through the rain
When I see you smile
Oh yeah, baby when I see you smile at me

Baby there’s nothing
in this world that could ever do
What a touch of your hand can do
It’s like nothing that I ever knew

And when the rain is falling
I don’t feel it, ’cause you’re here with me now
And one look at you baby
Is all I’ll ever need, you’re all I’ll ever need


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