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There's a wild thing in the woolshed
And it's keeping me awake at night
A devil in the closet
And a feeling I'd prefer to hide
He is religion
He won't hear me when I cry for help
He has a vision of me
But I am somebody else
We talk the pillow
There are times when I'm tied up to the fence
Only talking sense
There's a mirror lake before me
But I'm frozen when it's time to jump
It's like maybe I'm afraid of what I'll find
When independence comes
You steal my shadow
You make my blood run dry
We are true only when we talk the pillow
There are times when I'm tied up to the fence
Only talking sense
Did you suffer as a child
That's why you want to make me cry
You are afraid of me
That's why you're so unkind
You won't deny it
When your child is tied up to the fence
And I'm only talking sense
Lonely when we talk the pillow
And your child is messed up in the head
I'm only talking sense
| Stingray | Posted: Oct 15, 2012 - 07:21 10 |
| coloradojohn (A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver) | Posted: Sep 13, 2012 - 18:13 I've always thought that the Mighty Finns and Crowded House gang are among the very best artists to ever grace the Music scene. I've loved every phase they've gone through and shared, and I believe that inside every polished nugget they issue is a heart of the finest rarest raw and earthy Infinite; how they do it is beyond me, but I am very very glad that they do! and gladder still that RP promotes and maintains such a well-stocked reservoir of their impeccably rich talents! |
| ziakut (The Windy City) | Posted: May 10, 2012 - 09:20 7 to a 9. This is just a great tune...from an eclectically cool album. |
| teapot (in orbit) | Posted: Dec 22, 2010 - 11:12 le_colonel wrote: +1 nevermind they made their most creative album, Together Alone, *after* the one Tim had contributed to dmax doesn't know what he's talking about Tim's also on CH's second album. |
| le_colonel | Posted: Dec 22, 2010 - 11:07 MM13 wrote: Woodface was the only CH album Tim worked on. Do you mean that everything they made after that, isn't worth listening to?  +1 nevermind they made their most creative album, Together Alone, *after* the one Tim had contributed to dmax doesn't know what he's talking about |
| teapot (in orbit) | Posted: Dec 22, 2010 - 11:04 Synth80s wrote: Great song on a somewhat uneven album (and I'm a huge Finn/Crowded House fan). If you're going to pick up a Finn Brothers album, I highly recommend you start with "Everyone is Here" from 2004 — it's an excellent album with very personal songs that could only be written by brothers working together. Agree with the first part, but I think Everyone is Here is also uneven. Put 4 or 5 of the songs from each album together (and the B-sides from Everyone) and you've got a great album. ;-) I'm also a huge fan of all things Finn. |
| Synth80s (*Beautiful* Southern California (cough, choke, honk)) | Posted: Dec 22, 2010 - 11:03 Great song on a somewhat uneven album (and I'm a huge Finn/Crowded House fan). If you're going to pick up a Finn Brothers album, I highly recommend you start with "Everyone is Here" from 2004 — it's an excellent album with very personal songs that could only be written by brothers working together. |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Dec 22, 2010 - 11:01 WONDERFUL! |
| teapot (in orbit) | Posted: Dec 22, 2010 - 11:00 LOVE this song. The masters! |
| dboseman | Posted: Nov 20, 2010 - 17:46 Arggg! I still cannot buy this song! WTF is wrong with you guys? Do you want people to steal your music??? I WANT TO BUY IT. |
| George_Tirebiter (Phoenix) | Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 12:44 Lots of FB and CH today - I'll take it! |
| lattalo (Beartooths) | Posted: Jan 07, 2010 - 10:01 I think this song is about Mathew Shepard, the young man in Wyoming who was beaten and tied to a fence, where he died. I have never heard this before. |
| peter_james_bond (The Burg) | Posted: Jan 07, 2010 - 09:55 Yet another good song from these guys.  |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Nov 05, 2009 - 15:54 jml wrote: Hi, just testing the Iphone App. :) Too bad that App can't turn this tune off. |
| jml (Juarez, Mexico) | Posted: Aug 03, 2009 - 01:50 Hi, just testing the Iphone App. :) |
| dboseman | Posted: May 31, 2009 - 12:47 MacHazzer wrote: Erm... don't know how old this song is. But please, take a minute to listen to this. In fact, take one minute and 15 seconds. Don't you hear a slight resemblance in the guitar tune? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0j4s72t-_M Don't know, but thanks for turning me on to this song! |
| dboseman | Posted: May 31, 2009 - 12:44 Another one of those songs that I love and am unable to legally download. Come on guys, I WANT TO BUY IT. |
| MacHazzer (The Netherlands) | Posted: Mar 29, 2009 - 07:39 Erm... don't know how old this song is. But please, take a minute to listen to this. In fact, take one minute and 15 seconds. Don't you hear a slight resemblance in the guitar tune? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0j4s72t-_M |
| teapot (in orbit) | Posted: Dec 24, 2008 - 14:26 Ahhhh. Perfect. |
| Bosonator (Nova Scotia) | Posted: Oct 22, 2008 - 11:20 Check out the trippy video for this song on YouTube. Tim's tongue and Neil's eyes escape and run around the place a bit  |
| George_Tirebiter (Phoenix) | Posted: Oct 22, 2008 - 11:10  Man, all the CH albums are terrific - some of the most creative stuff going these days. I always thought that Tim was the weak link in the band, and the Finn Brother collaborations were not up to CH standards. Nevertheless, this is a good song. Hope Neil keeps writing and wrting and writing.... |
| Bridieboo (Halifax, NS) | Posted: Oct 22, 2008 - 11:08  love love love |
| philinnz (Wellington, New Zealand) | Posted: Sep 20, 2008 - 19:27 Go Cuzzie Bro!!!  |
| jagdriver (Auburn, CA) | Posted: Aug 20, 2008 - 06:26 dboseman wrote: Arggg! I love this song and like many others on RP I cannot legally purchase it on Itunes or Amazon. I refuse to steal music, but the record companies make it awfully difficult to be honest. Read some Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin.  Seriously, when musicians have to rally a benefit concert for an artist as great as Curtis Mayfield (RIP) in order to pay his medical bills, something's seriously wrong in the music industry, never mind how RP and other Internet stations almost got shuttered a while back. My daughter dated the son of a Time Warner/AOL bigshot several years back; the family had FIVE vacation homes scattered around the globe. So do you really think the artists get their due? Try Googling +"<artist>" +"<title>" +free +download and see what you come up with, substituting the <variable> data accordingly.. |
| MM13 (High in the lo country) | Posted: Jun 18, 2008 - 01:38 dmax wrote: In my dreams, I find a very sick person to go cough on Tim Finn every few days and give him permanent laryngitis so that he can't go poison his brother's work ever again.
Like Yoko, he caused the creative end to Crowded House. (Don't bother correcting me with facts. I'm convinced.) Woodface was the only CH album Tim worked on. Do you mean that everything they made after that, isn't worth listening to? |
| NoEnzLefttoSplit | Posted: May 17, 2008 - 15:25 dmax wrote: In my dreams, I find a very sick person to go cough on Tim Finn every few days and give him permanent laryngitis so that he can't go poison his brother's work ever again.
Like Yoko, he caused the creative end to Crowded House. (Don't bother correcting me with facts. I'm convinced.)  how so? |
| dboseman | Posted: May 17, 2008 - 15:24 Arggg! I love this song and like many others on RP I cannot legally purchase it on Itunes or Amazon. I refuse to steal music, but the record companies make it awfully difficult to be honest. |
| nigelr (Coffs Harbour, Australia) | Posted: Sep 09, 2007 - 00:56 teapot wrote: Neil and Tim Finn are geniuses! This song is amazing live.
Agree, tho' I haven't had the fortune of seeing this live. An awesome body of work these guys have put together over the years. |
| teapot | Posted: Aug 08, 2007 - 14:45 Neil and Tim Finn are geniuses! This song is amazing live. |
| pannaramma (Away) | Posted: Mar 20, 2007 - 05:08 I was listenting to this on my ipod in the car this morning (5:30am) and wondered to myself - Do B&R have this one on their playlist? |
| (former member) (Shadow Valley Condos) | Posted: Mar 04, 2007 - 12:22 In my dreams, I find a very sick person to go cough on Tim Finn every few days and give him permanent laryngitis so that he can't go poison his brother's work ever again. Like Yoko, he caused the creative end to Crowded House. (Don't bother correcting me with facts. I'm convinced.) |
| RichardPrins | Posted: Jul 26, 2006 - 23:06  |
| earthbased (Milwaukee, WI USA) | Posted: Jul 12, 2006 - 07:08 Just ripped this CD to my music server. Excellent CD! |
| canadianbug | Posted: Mar 17, 2006 - 08:52 radiomao wrote: Meeee tooooo!  cool bananas!! hahahaha |
| radiomao (Phoenix, AZ) | Posted: Mar 17, 2006 - 08:50 canadianbug wrote: ooh! nice. everytime i hear neil finn or the finn brothers i think it's a new song by crowded house i never heard before! in some ways it is! gotta get myself some of this stuff...
Meeee tooooo! |
| Darkmatter (Sweden) | Posted: Mar 17, 2006 - 08:49 There's a mirror lake before me But I'm frozen when it's time to jump It's like maybe I'm afraid of what I'll find When independence comes I love this part of the lyrics in particular. I can relate. Beautiful melody, voices and orchestration.  |
| canadianbug | Posted: Mar 17, 2006 - 08:49 ooh! nice. everytime i hear neil finn or the finn brothers i think it's a new song by crowded house i never heard before! in some ways it is! gotta get myself some of this stuff... |
| KJohn5 (Columbus, OH) | Posted: Feb 15, 2006 - 22:54 What a special treat. 'Fall at Your Feet' not too long ago and now this. My day is now complete. |
| babygirl614 (Green Bay, WI) | Posted: Jan 17, 2006 - 14:28 jah_blessed wrote: Never heard this before! Like it. The Finn's come up with such good melodies.
These brothers constantly amaze me, Neil especially. His voice is distinctive and always grabs me right away. |
| jah_blessed (Netherlands) | Posted: Jan 17, 2006 - 14:24 Never heard this before! Like it. The Finn's come up with such good melodies. |
| maLeFunKtion (Scotland) | Posted: Nov 05, 2005 - 17:23 Really loving that subtle piano work in the background of this...  |
| Gregorama (Austin, TX) | Posted: Oct 07, 2005 - 10:37 Pyro wrote: Thanks to RP (and Crowded House) I have become an avid Finn Brothers fan! Is this really (really!?) a new CD coming out in Aug? Have there been any CDs released by them since the 1996 CD? I'm a FB fledgling, so be gentle!
Neil Finn released "Try Whistling This" a few years back. One of the best albums I've ever heard. Each song different and extremely well crafted. |
| Roverfish (Tucson, AZ - Thanks for visiting...now go home!) | Posted: Sep 07, 2005 - 22:11 Too damn short. Play it again, Bill, play it again! ;-) Excellent tune. |
| annemholte | Posted: Aug 09, 2005 - 05:05 I could tell that was ex-Crowded House...Google works every time :) Good to hear his awesome voice isn't being wasted! |
| Helchat (a record store near you) | Posted: Jul 25, 2005 - 10:05 first thing on a monday (west coast here) thank you!! |
| Ennis | Posted: Jul 10, 2005 - 15:39 Yum - I always smile when I hear this song. I love the rythm / base, and the funky harmonies. I can see why it's not everybody's cup of tea, but I was happy to see that it had a rating of 8 overall ... |
| soulspin (Melbourne, FL) | Posted: Jul 10, 2005 - 15:38 shell wrote: I went to a Finn Bros concert in Sydney last night!!!! It was brilliant.
I'm so incredibly jealous |
| Yozi | Posted: May 27, 2005 - 13:11 great song!! |
| spek10 | Posted: Apr 13, 2005 - 14:59 not so good |
| flandersdog (the sunny Pac NW) | Posted: Apr 13, 2005 - 14:58 The Finn brothers rock my socks! this whole album is fantastic |