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Only Talking Sense
Neil Finn/Tim Finn

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
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 steel 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
But I’m 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
Well I’m only talking sense
Lonely when we talk the pillow
When your child is messed up in the head
I’m only talking sense

Song appears on:

Finn Brothers - Finn (album, 1995)

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The lurking awareness of something being wrong but the fear of doing something about it.
— Tim Finn

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