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When you come back, do you want to make our way out to the Harbour?
I've got a bed in the back of my ute these days...
So when you come back, do you want to make some time
To watch the sun throw itself onto that rocky mountain face
And when you come back, do you want to make some plans?
Maybe organise something simple, something simple but fun?
When you come back, do you want to make a ladder
Up the trunk of the Blackwood so that we can climb it and we can sit up there?
And when you come back, do you want to make some music,
Make another verse to that nice chorus that you like to sing?
Chorus:
I come from the mountains, down through the valleys,
To the river deltas and the bays below.
I search for answers behind every rock face
And all I get's more questions about this place called home.
Oh when you come back, buddy let's make our way out to the Harbour
I've got a bed in the back of my ute these days.
So when you come back, do you want to make the most,
Make the most of the sunrise, make the most of the sunrise?
Chorus
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2. |
Heading off the rails
03:15
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Mum, dad and respectable colleagues,
I’m coming out today;
There’s something that I’ve been coming to terms with,
Something that’s hard to say
I’ve been denying, inadvertently lying,
Though earnestly trying to know how to be -
Like a fish out of water, a card out of order,
And everyone else can see...
I think that I might be a folksinger,
I think I’m a rambling soul,
'Cause when I’m standing beside a highway I feel perfect,
Like clouds on a roll.
And all this talk about resumes and remuneration
Has been taking the wind out of my sails.
I want to wake up and come alive each morning,
So I’m heading off the rails.
Well I have heard all of the recommendations,
And internalised each of the rules:
If you want to give, and help us all to live,
Learn how to at one of the schools.
But they only teach of the rationable things,
They say nothing of love or of shame;
That’s in the stories, it’s in the stories -
Stories are the rain.
So Grandma and uncles and aunties all,
I've got to get this off of my chest,
But you know, all the signs have been there from the start,
And you could have probably guessed
That one day these routines and this regimentation
Would be trying to take wind from my sails.
Well I’m waking up, and I’m coming alive;
I’m heading off the rails.
Yeh I’m coming out, I’m a folksinger,
And I will be loyal to song:
To have and to hold, God-willing til I’m old -
If it feels this right then don’t say that it’s wrong
'Cause all this talk about resumes and remuneration
Has been taking the wind out of my sails.
I want to wake up and come alive each morning;
I’m heading off the rails.
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Let's quit together
02:24
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Well it's been wild; what a wild, wild ride,
And what an incredible chapter of the book.
But it is time, the time has arrived
To get us, to get us, to get ourselves off the hook.
But it feels so rough, coming down off this stuff,
And I've already, I've already given up enough!
Give me just one more, then I will put it down, see,
But how can I when the habit is all around me?
But I'll quit if you do,
I'll quit if you do,
I'll quit if you do,
Let's quit together :)
Well it feels like a given, this worldwide livin', all at once being everywhere,
But it's less than one in five of everybody alive who's ever even been up in the air,
So it's been quite the party for the lucky crowd, but now let's make a party out of opting out!
We'll bring the show back home or we'll get there slow – together we can let it go,
And I'll quit if you do,
I'll quit if you do,
I'll quit if you do,
Let's quit together.
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Love in an easy way
03:19
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When I first saw you closely, your beauty came in clear,
And I felt you were beyond me, and yet entirely near.
But I did not even falter, for I need not be adored,
I decided it was simple – I would give love and I would need nothing more.
And I would hold this one lightly and see if it might just stay,
If I could hold it lightly, and love in an easy way,
Love in an easy way.
So I come and then I leave you, and I get all the way back home,
And I think of all the sweetness, and I can't help pick up the phone,
And I say that I would like to see you a little more than now and again,
And you say “just let the river run easy, and love me like a friend,
And hold this one lightly, and see if it might just stay,
If we can hold it lightly, and love in an easy way,
Love in an easy way.”
Well I recognise those words because I have previously been
The one to have been using them, so I know just what they mean.
And I know my state of heart, and the danger that I'm in,
And I know the warning cry is on my side, and it beckons me to swim.
And it says “hold this one lightly, and draw yourself away,
And when you feel too strongly, keep your strength at bay,
And turn your heart away, when you can't love in an easy way”.
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Freeman
03:41
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Well you got me, and you got me, oh you got me,
With your smile just like a kid,
I get pulled right out to sea by the allure of somebody
Who knows how to keep themselves hid.
You don't seem to need to put yourself out anywhere,
And you can't stand the noise and the crap,
And you've got arms there, ready to hold somebody,
If they would just know how to hold themselves back.
Daniel, everybody sees your freedom,
You do seem to've untethered yourself.
Oh, Freeman, would you give us some attention?
Give us something of yourself.
Well you've sure got plenty of them hoping
When you let yourself down within reach,
Down from the lighthouse to take a little piece
Of our good company.
But Daniel, tell us, how'd you get your freedom?
How did you untether yourself?
Oh, Freeman, would you give us some affection?
Would you give us something of yourself?
Oh, Daniel, everybody sees your freedom,
You throw everyone when you untether yourself,
Because everyone wants everyone's attention -
Everyone wants something of everyone else.
Oh, Freeman, would you give us of yourself?
Give us something of yourself.
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My beautiful dog
03:12
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Oh my beautiful dog, oh my beautiful dog,
I've got a problem on my hands,
You see I really, really love you, but I just can't tell
If you really, really understand -
How much it means to me, the way you trust me,
The way you try to be as good as you can,
I really, really love you, and I just want to know
That you really, really understand.
Oh my beautiful dog, the way you come to me,
Just to put your little head in my hands -
I'm overwhelmed with love, I'm overwhelmed with love,
And I've just got to make you understand.
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The ongoing circle
03:55
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I know what you mean,
When you say that you're scared
About the length of the days and the stillness of nights
That lie up ahead,
Because we've seen what it's like,
And it seems no one's prepared
For the disloyal shelter of youth
To no longer be there.
But we will not abandon you,
We will not abandon you,
You have this song as my word.
I came into this world, crying and weak,
And my mother was just there.
And it was there that I entered the ongoing circle,
Of the needing and the giving of care.
And it will not abandon you,
Just as you have not abandoned it,
Whenever you were needed,
Whenever you are needed.
But I know what you mean,
And we will be there,
In the ongoing circle of the needing and the giving and the needing and the giving and the needing of care.
And we will not abandon you,
We will not abandon you,
You have this song as my word.
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8. |
Monica
03:08
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They want to give you something for it,
To fight it once again,
Send soldiers into your blood stream,
Soldiers to defend you.
And the captain in the hospital bed
Would pliantly agree,
For the captain is indifferent now,
Gracious but fatigued.
Oh Monica, you’ve always lived so beautifully,
And they want you to last forever.
But maybe this pneumonia,
Could it be that it’s on your side?
Offering to let you down now,
And take the burden to decide?
Decide when the river should meet the ocean,
With which breath.
Could it be that these small intruders
Might finally give you rest?
Oh Monica, you’ve always lived so beautifully,
And they want you to last forever.
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I've just been giving my love, in whatever way,
And I've been learning so many of the ropes,
And then I turn around, and it's just there one day,
And even though I know that love's a hoax,
It's just something that I feel, and it's there today;
It's easy in the cells of my body,
It's just something that I feel, and it's there today;
It's easy in the cells of my body.
And I know you must not believe in the way that things feel,
But the substance of our friendship is easy and real.
And so I can tell it to you fearlessly, because it's just true,
And I'm just a strange little creature, with nothing to prove,
I'm just a tiny little creature, beneath a huge sun,
And I don't need anything, anything done.
Yes I can tell it you fearlessly, because it's just true,
I can tell it to you fearlessly, because I have nothing to prove,
I can tell it to you fearlessly, beneath a huge sun,
I can tell it to you fearlessly, because I need nothing done,
I need nothing done.
I've just been giving my love in whatever way,
And I've been learning so many of the ropes,
And then I turn around, and it's just there one day,
And even though I know that love's a hoax,
It's just something that I feel, and it's there today;
It's easy in the cells of my body,
It's just something that I feel, and it's there today;
It's easy in the cells of my body.
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Power game
02:52
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I was five and you were nine,
You could be pretty funny from time to time,
Like you told me that we could see India,
From our rooftop in Ipswich suburbia.
You were pretty smart and believable,
or else I was pretty dumb and deceivable,
Either way I remember a pretty funny boy,
Either way I remember a pretty funny boy.
But as you got older you were quick to learn
That if you're straighter and stronger, that's how you earn
Favour with your peers -
Safety from your peers.
'Cause that's what you learn in the power game,
And you were learning to play the power game,
You were stepping into the power game,
Stepping into the power game.
When we'd play you'd test your strength,
You'd hold me under the water for a full breath's length.
I'd come up and I'd say 'don't!' -
You would laugh, and say 'don't say don't!'
You went straight from the private school
To the army barracks, where you learnt the rules:
To be a man you've gotta win.
Well that's hard to get out of you, once that's got in
These days you say that you're gonna make
Lots of good money, 'cause that's what it takes
To get a little respect in this world,
To get a little respect in this world.
Because that's how it goes in the power game,
Everybody knows the power game,
And you can keep on playing the power game..
But everybody falls out of the power game someday
Yes everybody falls out of the power game someday
Everybody falls out of the power game someday.
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You should know that I do miss you, just as much as you're missing me
Even though it was me who's idea it was to set the both of us free,
But you know that you don't want my loving if I'm not going to stay,
And I know there's something that's out there, and it's pulling me away.
Because I've still never loved somebody in the way that I believe that I can,
And I would always be dreaming of a revolutionary of a man.
An old woman did say to me to be careful of the change,
From wide-eyed and effulgent to less brilliant and less strange.
She said there's a shining world that's just out of reach, and you follow it if you feel,
Or you could stay with them in the old world, but you'd only ever be half real.
And she said 'I think that you've still never loved somebody in the way that I believe you can,
And you would always be dreaming of a revolutionary of a man.'
And I've still never loved somebody in the way that I believe that I can,
And I would always be dreaming of a revolutionary,
I would always be dreaming of a revolutionary of a man.
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May you have your bliss
03:02
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May you have your bliss, may you have your bliss,
And may it make up for whatever's made you scared like this,
I will understand, when I can't come that close,
And I will follow your lead, while you bare your ghosts,
And I won't come that close, I won't come that close.
But I want to love it away, I want to burn it like the sun,
I want to evaporate from your head, what any human's done.
But I will take you with whatever sadness that you keep in your eyes,
But I love it most whenever I know that you've realised
The safety that you've found, the safety that you've found.
And may it be your bliss, may it be your bliss,
And may it make up for whatever's made you scared like this,
And may you have your bliss, may you have your bliss.
May you have your bliss, may you have your bliss,
And may it make up for whatever's made you scared like this.
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I started out in Scotts Peak without any care,
I was feeling quite hopeful, because the weather was fair,
There was some mud on the track, so I trod here instead of there,
But very soon I realised that there was mud everywhere.
And when I finally made it to old Junction Creek,
I had mud in every pore, from my waist to my feet!
I still had some spirit, but it was getting quite weak,
So I lay myself down and I sang me to sleep.
I sang “Don't let the mud get you down.
Oh no, don't let the mud get you down!
I know that right now it's hard to believe,
But there are days in your future that will be mud free.”
So I continued on then to Camp Watershed,
And I was asking myself why I had gotten out of bed;
There were torrents of mud, some over my head!
So I just kept repeating what that other walker said.
He said, “Don't let the mud get you down.
Oh no, don't let the mud get you down!
You have to remember what's easily forgot,
That today might be muddy, but tomorrow might not.”
Well it turned out that the next day was muddy as well.
There were even folks surfing quite a decent mud swell!
A tripped on some cutting grass, and on my bottom I fell,
But my clothes were so muddy, that you couldn't even tell.
But I won't let the mud get me down.
Oh no, don't let the mud get you down!
I know that right now it's hard to believe,
But there are days in your future that will be mud free.
And by the time that I made it to Melaleuca Lagoon,
Something had shifted inside of me, I'd quite changed my tune,
We were swimming in the water, and I said “You know, we really oughtta
Go and see if we can find something muddier to do!”
And we won't let the mud get us down.
Oh no, don't let the mud get you down!
You have to remember what's easily forgot,
That today might be muddy, but tomorrow might not.
So don't let the mud get you down.
Oh no, don't let the mud get you down!
I know that right now it's hard to believe,
But there are days in your future that will be mud free.
I know that right now it's hard to believe,
But there are days in your future that will be mud free.
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How good it is to find yourself so happy,
And how strange it is to find yourself so free,
And then just be turning right around, and putting so much ground
Between yourself and this place you'd rather be.
How easy it is to see that you love these people,
And how sweet, to realise that they love you,
And how wrong does it then seem, to just step out of a dream
Into a world that sometimes tries to break your heart.
But there are so many places that are home to me,
So many souls tangled up with mine,
And so whatever freedom in myself, that I find here with you,
May it stay with me and not be left behind.
How right it is to find somewhere to fill yourself,
And how strong is the compulsion, there to stay.
But you leave like a bird who leaves the comfort of the land,
For the ocean when the Summer goes away.
And there are so many places that are home to me,
So many souls tangled up with mine,
And so whatever freedom in myself, that I find here with you
May it stay with me and not be left behind.
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