"Heavy 33"

(recorded for the 1993 Red Hot compilation album No Alternative)

I can force you to smile, but it don't reach your eyes
Like the moon in the day, silently fades
That which formerly shined is obliterated

I'm striving to coax or wrench you - I can't even reach you
You're starving for something - I've got nothing to feed you
And renegade good intentions turn to scorn
All the clouds keep hoarding
All their airborne oceans won't fall

There's a creature of prey
In the darkness it waits
And it's fixing it eyes
Smouldering eyes, with a purpose of mind
On the line that it traces

I'm striving to coax or wrench you - I can't even reach you
You're starving for something - I've got nothing to feed you
And renegade good intentions turn to scorn
All the clouds keep hoarding
All their airborne oceans won't fall



Album Notes:

Graeme Downes - Guitars, Lead Vocals
Darren Stedman - Drums, Percussion
Mike Stoodley - Bass
Paul Winders - Guitars, Vocals

Written by Graeme Downes
Produced and Mixed by Joe Chiccarelli
Engineered by Nick Hartley
Assistant Engineer: Max Macken

Recorded May 1 - 4, 1993 at Studios 301, Sydney, Australia
Mixed at Master Control, Burbank, CA
Assistant Engineer: Jeff Robinson

© 1993 Sony Music (ASCAP)




The song "Joed Out", recorded on No Alternative by fellow New Zealander Barbara Manning, is also a Graeme Downes composition, originally released on the 1984 EP Ten o'Clock in the Afternoon, making Graeme the most significant individual contributor to the album.