Biography:
The Middle East were a musical collective from Townsville, Australia, which formed in 2005. Fusing various influences from post-rock to folk to ambient, various members have at different times played in other North Queensland based groups such as Joseph Liddy and the Skeleton Horse, The Forest, and We Are Buildings.
After completing several East Coast tours, they released a split EP in 2006 with local Cairns band Sleeping in Trains. Their debut album The Recordings of the Middle East was released on 24th April 2008
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Four years of hard work!
This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
these are chords for piano.. :)
B C#m B/D# G#m/D#
older brother, restless soul, lie down
B C#m B/D# G#m
lie for a while with your ear against the earth
B C#m
and you'll hear your sister sleep talking
B/D# C#m G#m
say "your hair is long but not long enough to reach
B
home to me
G#m
but your beard
B
someday might be"
B/D# C#m B
and she'll wake up in a cold sweat on the floor
B/D# C#m B
next to a family portrait drawn when you were four
B/D# C#m B B
and beside a jar of two cent coins that are no good any more
B
she'll lay it aside
B/D# B C#m G#m
B C#m B/D# G#m/D#
older father, weary soul, you'll drive
B C#m B/D# G#m/D#
back to the home you made on the mountainside
B C#m
with that ugly, terrible thing
B/D# C#m
those papers for divorce
G#m
and a lonely ring
B
a lonely ring
G#m
sit on your porch
B
and pluck your strings
B
and you'll find somebody you can blame
and you'll follow the creek that runs out into the sea
and you'll find the peace of the Lord.
B C#m B/D# G#m/B
grandfather, weary soul, you'll fly
B C#m B/D# G#m/B
over your life once more before you die
B C#m
since our grandma passed away
B/D# C#m G#m
you've waited for forever and a day
B
just to die
G#m
and someday soon
B
you will die
B/D# C#m B
it was the only woman you ever loved
B/D# C#m B
that got burnt by the sun too often when she was young
B/D# C#m B
and the cancer spread and it ran into her body and her blood
B/D# C#m B
and there's nothing you can do about it now
B C#m B/D# G#m/D#
older brother, restless soul, lie down
B C#m B/D# G#m
lie for a while with your ear against the earth
B C#m
and you'll hear your sister sleep talking
B/D# C#m G#m
say "your hair is long but not long enough to reach
B
home to me
G#m
but your beard
B
someday might be"
B/D# C#m B
and she'll wake up in a cold sweat on the floor
B/D# C#m B
next to a family portrait drawn when you were four
B/D# C#m B B
and beside a jar of two cent coins that are no good any more
B
she'll lay it aside
B/D# B C#m G#m
B C#m B/D# G#m/D#
older father, weary soul, you'll drive
B C#m B/D# G#m/D#
back to the home you made on the mountainside
B C#m
with that ugly, terrible thing
B/D# C#m
those papers for divorce
G#m
and a lonely ring
B
a lonely ring
G#m
sit on your porch
B
and pluck your strings
B
and you'll find somebody you can blame
and you'll follow the creek that runs out into the sea
and you'll find the peace of the Lord.
B C#m B/D# G#m/B
grandfather, weary soul, you'll fly
B C#m B/D# G#m/B
over your life once more before you die
B C#m
since our grandma passed away
B/D# C#m G#m
you've waited for forever and a day
B
just to die
G#m
and someday soon
B
you will die
B/D# C#m B
it was the only woman you ever loved
B/D# C#m B
that got burnt by the sun too often when she was young
B/D# C#m B
and the cancer spread and it ran into her body and her blood
B/D# C#m B
and there's nothing you can do about it now
