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Songs from the South, Volume 2: Paul Kelly 98–08
Be Careful What You Pray For

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Be Careful What You Pray For

Release date: 2001

From Songs from the South, Volume 2: Paul Kelly 98–08

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About This Track

"Be Careful What You Pray For" is a track by Paul Kelly, from the album Songs from the South, Volume 2: Paul Kelly 98–08, released 2001. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Paul Kelly

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Lyrics

Be Careful What You Pray For

Be careful what you pray for

You just might get it

Be careful what you pray for

You might regret it

You get your hands on that glittering prize

Now everybody's coming at you from every side

Be careful what you pray for

You just might get it

Be careful what you want now

You might be sorry

Be careful what you want now

You might be so sorry

You finally make it to your place in the sun

You stop and look around you

You're friends with no-one

Be careful what you want now

You might be sorry

Go ahead (Go ahead)

Like a moth to a flame

Go ahead now

Be careful what you dream on

Dreams come true

Be careful what you dream on

They can turn on you

Revenge is a dish

They say best tasted cold

But revenge digs two graves

Makes a young person old

Be careful what you dream on

Dreams come true

Go ahead (Go ahead)

Like a moth to a flame

Go ahead now

Be careful what you pray for

Be careful what you pray for

Be careful what you pray for (What you pray for)

Be careful what you pray for (What you pray for)

Be careful what you dream on (What you dream on)

Be careful what you pray for

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Track details

From Songs from the South, Volume 2: Paul Kelly 98–08

2001

Album

Songs from the South, Volume 2: Paul Kelly 98–08

Release year

2001

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Thoughts in the Middle of the Night

—Be Careful What You Pray For

I Keep On Coming Back For More

My Body Felt No Pain

Sailing To Byzantium

Happy Birthday, Ada Mae

The Body Keeps The Score

Rita Wrote a Letter

Houndstooth Dress

Northern Rivers

Double Business Bound

Back to the Future

All Those Smiling Faces

Hello Melancholy, Hello Joy

Love Has Made a Fool of Me

Harpoon to the Heart

Let's Work It Out in Bed

Eight Hours Sleep

Going to the River With Dad

The Friendly Beasts

Christmas Must Be Tonight

In the Hot Sun of a Christmas Day

The Virgin Mary Had One Son

Swing Around the Sun

Little Drummer Boy

Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

How to Make Gravy (2021 Version)

What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

Tapu te Pō (O Holy Night)

Shalom Aleichem

Christmas Train

Every Step of the Way

I Don't Know Anything Anymore

You Broke a Beautiful Thing

Music At Odds With The Lyrics (Interview)

Cinematic Songwriting (Interview)

Hummin’ To Myself

Sleep, Australia, Sleep

When We're Both Old & Mad

Every Day My Mother's Voice

Bound to Follow (Aisling Song)

And Death Shall Have No Dominion

Seagulls of Seattle

A Bastard Like Me (For Charlie Perkins)

With the One I Love

Dumb Things (Triple J Like a Version)

My Man’s Got a Cold

Leah: The Sequel

Rock Out on the Sea

Finally Something Good

Letter in the Rain

I Smell Trouble

Firewood and Candles

Bird on the Wire

Don't Fence Me In

The Parting Glass

Pallet on Your Floor

To Live Is to Fly

Meet Me in the Middle of the Air

Nukkanya (2016)

Pretty Bird Tree

Now That Our Babies Have Grown

Sonnets 44 and 45

O Mistress Mine (Clown's Song from Twelfth Night)

My True Love Hath My Heart

Heuston Station

When I Come Home to You

Your Litter Sister (Is A Big Girl Now)

Forty Miles To Saturday Night

Climb Into the Music

I Don't Know What I'd Do

Keep On Coming Back for More

Down on the Jetty

Smells Like Rain

Where Were You When I Needed You

Hasn't It Rained

Don't Let a Good Thing Go

Righteous Woman

The Merri Soul Singles Vol 4

The Merri Soul Singles Vol 3

The Merri Soul Singles Vol 2

The Merri Soul Singles Vol 1

Little Aches and Pains

I’m on Your Side

When a Woman Loves a Man

None of Your Business Now

Sometimes My Baby

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The Lion and the Lamb

Feelings of Grief

Keep On Driving

Please Leave Your Light On

Right Outta My Head

Stolen Apples Taste the Sweetest

The Foggy Fields of France

The Ballad of Queenie and Rover

You’re 39, You’re Beautiful and You’re Mine

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These Are the Days

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Little Bit O' Sugar

The Oldest Story in the Book

Sure Got Me (Where You Want Me)

My Way Is to You

Let's Fall Again

Won't You Come Around

Your Lovin’ Is on My Mind

Beautiful Feeling

Just About to Break

This Land is Mine

Love Is the Law

Somewhere in the City

Would You Be My Friend?

Change Your Mind

If I Could Start Today Again

I Close My Eyes and Think of You

Smoke Under the Bridge

Every Fucking City

Night After Night

I Don't Remember a Thing

I Can't Believe We Were Married

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Sydney from a 747

Teach Me Tonight

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Until Death Do Them Part (1999)

You Can’t Take It with You

Nothing on My Mind

I'll Be Your Lover

Beat of Your Heart

I’d Rather Go Blind (Than See You with Another Guy)

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She Answers the Sun (Lazy Bones)

Glory Be to God

Words and Music

It Started with a Kiss

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Beat of Your Heart (Edit)

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I’ll Forgive But I Won’t Forget

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Deeper Water / Behind the Bowler's Arm

You're Still Picking the Same Sore

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Paul Kelly — Hello Melancholy, Hello Joy

Paul Kelly — Love Has Made a Fool of Me

Paul Kelly — Harpoon to the Heart

Paul Kelly — Let's Work It Out in Bed

Paul Kelly — Eight Hours Sleep

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Paul Kelly — The Friendly Beasts

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Paul Kelly — The Lion and the Lamb

Paul Kelly — God Told Me To

Paul Kelly — Feelings of Grief

Paul Kelly — Keep On Driving

Paul Kelly — Please Leave Your Light On

Paul Kelly — Right Outta My Head

Paul Kelly — Sweetest Thing

Paul Kelly — Stolen Apples Taste the Sweetest

Paul Kelly — The Foggy Fields of France

Paul Kelly — The Ballad of Queenie and Rover

Paul Kelly — You’re 39, You’re Beautiful and You’re Mine

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Paul Kelly — Nothing But a Dream

Paul Kelly — Young Lovers

Paul Kelly — Forty Eight Angels

Paul Kelly — Gunnamatta

Paul Kelly — To Be Good Takes a Long Time (To Be Bad No Time at All)

Paul Kelly — These Are the Days

Paul Kelly — Can't Help You Now

Paul Kelly — Little Bit O' Sugar

Paul Kelly — The Oldest Story in the Book

Paul Kelly — Curly Red

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Beautiful Feeling
Climb Into the Music
Did It Again (triple j Like a Version)
Don't Let a Good Thing Go
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Every Step of the Way
Freedom Called
Give in to My Love
God’s Hotel

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Credits

Writer: Paul Kelly
Producer: Gerry Hale, Paul Kelly
Credited: Vika & Linda