Long Nights Are Gone (2004)
Catalogue Number: CAR006

1. Sweet Mondays
2. Ain't No Crime
3. Nothing Is Still Nothing
4. Hold On
5. Broken Song
6. Regret
7. Fragile
8. Seen My Baby Cry
9. Breakdown (all I got)
10. Long Nights Are Gone

LINER NOTES
Carus Thompson: Vocals & Guitars
Noel Manyam: Vocals, Rap & Bass
Jason McGann: Vocals, Drums, Percussion & Mandolin
Mo Wilson: Vocals, Piano, Keys, Scratching on track 2
Additional Vocals: Dave Johnson (3&5), Dave Mann (3)

All tracks recorded live on 12th January 2004 in my parents bedroom North Fremantle, Western Australia by Clint Wilson
Overdubs done between North Freo & Woodstock Studios by Clint Wilson & Robin Mai respectively.
Bass on track 10 recorded & produced by James Hewgill
Mixed and mastered by Robin Mai at Woodstock Studios, Melbourne
Produced by Carus & The True Believers

We hope you dig these tunes. I've had a great time playing acoustically and i'm really proud of the 'Norfolk' live album but with this one I thought i'd showcase the great band that i'm blessed to be playing with these days. So check 'em out - 'The True Believers', time they had a name of their own I reckon.
We set up for one day at my parents house in summertime Freo to try and record a single, at best an EP. We were in the middle of a West Oz tour and things were flowing. We just kept jamming and jamming, letting loose with all the grooves and ideas that we'd been belting out at the live shows.
If I had no vocals worked out I just made 'em up on the spot. 'Ain't No Crime', 'Seen My Baby Cry', 'Long Nights Are Gone' & 'Breadown' were all 'written' like this. In fact we'd never even played 'Long Nights Are Gone' untill that day and it was the first song we laid down.
Every song's done live - vocals and band together - we just wanted to chase the vibe, not get bogged down with trying to make things perfect. The True Believers are three very special people, who are not only brilliant players but wonderful human beings and this album is a result of us spontaneously making music together.
We hope you dig these tunes. - Carus

Mondays a different day for us
More like a weekend, no need to rush
And I finished the gig early last night
Everyone’s at work no one to hear me hold you tight
Oh Sweet Mondays

Now when I get high, I just get higher
Now when I get drunk it’s because I want to
You’re living down on ol’ Jenkin St, near where the sun, sea, sky they meet
And outside its just hit 32 degrees
Oh Sweet Mondays

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Aint No Crime
(lyrics © Carus Thompson & Noel Manyam)

This song was just made up on the spot, if you can make sense of it good luck!

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Nothing Is Still Nothing
(lyrics © Carus Thompson)

I can watch green rolling plains yeah, pass by window all day
And I can drive this hire car hard babe, but it won’t bring me closer yeah
I can the easyjet anywhere, three countries in one day
But it won’t bring me closer to you and I can’t outrun this pain
Nothing is still nothing

I can be in your bed babe, but I can still be far away
When A lovers desperate for you, you gotta keep them at bay
I’ve been so far yeah, and I’ve been so close
And if I poured my heart out on this stage, this crowd might not listen anymore
Nothing is still nothing

All I can do, is try
And if nothing goes right
You’ll be fine
Nothing is still nothing

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Broken Song

Words and music by Neil Murray, check the album “These Hands” available from musicplug.net

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Hold On
(lyrics © Carus Thompson)

Sometimes it feels like the worlds coming at you from all sides
Nowhere to run and nowhere to hide
And you’re friends wont answer the phone
You’re friends won’t understand, cause they’ve got plans and means
Feels like you’re moving fast but sinking slow
Hold on, hold on, It’ll be alright

Feels like every race you’re going to go in you’re gonna loose
And you can chose, left or right, right or wrong
Can’t even write the next song
Got every fine in the world, parking fine, speeding fine
Feels like you’re moving fast but sinking slow
Hold on, hold on, It’ll be alright

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Regret
(lyrics © Carus Thompson)

Yeah regret is something I know
Yeah regret it keeps you cold
I carry it with me, when I go around
Yeah regret it keeps me down

Maybe one day I’ll only do the things I want
Maybe one day I’ll know what I want

Yeah regret is something I’ve learned
Yeah regret baby it make you burn
Carry it this way, carry it that way
Yeah regret is something I’ve earned

Maybe one day I’ll only do the things I want
Maybe one day I wont get so drunk

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Fragile
(lyrics © Carus Thompson)

If you smile at me babe I’ll love you for a day
If you kiss me soft and slow I’ll give it all away
And if you sleep with me babe I’ll make you my whole world
Cause I’m lonely yeah, And things make more than they mean

Walking down the street I smile at anyone passing my way
Wont take much for me to say that you’re the girl of my dreams
Cause I’m lonely yeah I don’t know what things mean
Gotta check myself
I might be a waste of time for you babe, write a songs for you
But it might not be the truth

Gotta keep a watch on myself or I might give it all away
Misinterpret what I feel, misinterpret what you say
Might seem like I’m a fool but please know that not
I’m just in a weird space, and I just can’t get out

Coz I’m fragile, the wind might blow me away
Coz I’m fragile, please smile at me today
Coz I’m fragile, don’t know what love is yeah
Gotta check myself

So tell me know do you know what love is, true love, well I think I know
There one who I would walk through fire for, I would burn myself to the bone
Hey baby where does it go from here, or don’t you really know
Coz I need your loving yeah, this feeling I got wont ever go

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Seen My Baby Cry
(lyrics © Carus Thompson)

Just say: Don’t see my baby cry a lot and make it up! Think funky!

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Breakdown (ALL I GOT)
(lyrics © Carus Thompson)

Made up on the spot: As above, just get groovy with it!
See the ‘the Breakdown ep’ for the revised version of this song with lyrics.

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Long Nights Are Gone
(lyrics © Carus Thompson)

Rise up babe
Into the summer sun
Cold winters gone baby
Long Nights Are gone

It’s a new year babe
Gimme a second chance
Wont do those stupid things I did last year babe
Long night are gone

I wont disappoint you babe
I wont miss the point babe
Long nights are gone

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