Steve Kilbey

Steve Kilbey in 2011

Steve Kilbey (Born 13 September 1954) is the lead singer of Australian independent band The Church. He is also a songwriter, bassist, guitarist, keyboardist, producer, poet and painter.

Lyrics

• Just like you I am a wanderer
  Wandering, wondering Outrunning all my previous lives
  So cleave to me just like a tiny storm
  A raining and a thundering
  Coming out of clear blue skies - "All I Know"

• There were many guests at the table
  Misfortune, jealousy, and sloth
  Acting fine, drink the wine
  Spill it on the tablecloth - "Feast"

• And she beckons to you with her fingers and lies
  She says: can't you slice the price of your paradise. ~ A Month of Sundays

• Like a womb, the night was all around ~ Disappear

• Ugliness you have to know, beauty you can't teach ~ Disappear

• You stare down at some crowd from your trapeze
  And when you fell they fell down on their knees
  And when you broke they scrambled for a piece
  And when you spoke I felt their anger freeze. ~ Metropolis

• I paid eighty dollars for this wedding ring, I couldn't take it off if I tried... ~ Hotel Womb

• She put her foot down on the oscillation pedal, she was a transdimensional speeder... ~ Terra Nova Cain

• The pines smell sweet in the frozen air,
  and their silhoutte's just fading there,
  the wolves crouch close, against the snow
  but where we're running I don't know,
  In villages and soft sad towns
  the candles sway as night comes down,
  cold bones creak and strange beasts cry,
  watching shadows in the sky...
  All I have, all I need, all I got.....is providence. ~ Providence

• On this very spot a great city once stood,
  It oozed with evil but it felt so good... ~ City

• It's never as good as I hoped or as bad as I feared ~ Into My Hands

• In the space between our houses
  some bones have been discovered
  but our procession lurches on
  as if we have recovered... ~ Destination

• Great cities, or the endless beautiful plains stretched out before
  his jaded gaze and disappeared into the nothingness of his feeling. ~ Fall in Love

• Follow her down to worship some god
  Who never speaks to me, I wonder if that's odd
  Then he says you're never listening. ~ Lost

• The universe is female
  Eluding the science of men
  You sway and you swagger with your neat little dagger
  You're gonna blow it again ....
  I'll prove her existence in everything
  The soul of her rivers and stones
  Her acquiescence in everything
  Her essence, her presence, her bones. ~ Essence

• The world keeps spinning, people keep sinning
  all the rest is just bullshit. ~ Authority

• You can't be a lover if you want to keep on using
  What are you using that's stronger than the love
  Sometimes I'm knocked out by the damage that you're doing
  Knocked out, locked out, push comes to shove
  Listen to the wind tearing at the windows
  Watching how the white moon melts into the cloud
  Important little tyrants, impotent little pharaohs
  Men/man of sorrows lost into the crowd ~ Richochet

• Sometimes I wander under prehistoric skys
  Here she comes with a penetrating stare
  cold desert stars feel and sparkle like frost, they are so lost
  his seed of adulation is your butter and your bread,
  it's an exquisite corpse and its lips are red
  If you're alone and you're feeling blue,
  everyone in Persia probably feels like you do. ~ Lost

• Why are those buildings swaying like trees? ~ Hotel Womb

• Close to you, hear all you say
  Even though you're continents away ~ It Doesn't Change

• I've got a nickname for you, I call you weakness
  I get a little strength out too, or is it meekness ~ Paradox

• Everything is going wrong
  All my songs are coming true ~ Mistress

• Inside the car sat a sulky blonde
  And on her lap the road went on and on
  As she dresses I look to the ground
  Perhaps I know where the place can be found, and on ~ The Night is Very Soft

• Beyond that void is a place
  Where figments from bad dreams are banished
  Childhood nightmares all come seeking
  And adult logic nearly vanished ~ Chaos

• Our instruments have no way of measuring this feeling
  Had ever got below the floor
  Or penetrate the ceiling ~ Destination

• So now we're cruisin' down this shuddering highway with the dead sun shining on my back. ~ Myrrh

• Loving, we've been loving, but sometimes hate is better
  You can't keep out the killers with love, man
  Hating, we've been hating, but only love can heal up the hate ~ Nightfriends