Bow River

Listen now to the wind babe
Listen now to the rain
Feel that water lickin’ at my feet again
I don’t wanna see this town no more
Wastin’ my days on a factory floor
First thing you know I’ll be back in Bow River again

Anytime you want babe, you can come around
But only six days separates me and the great top end
I been working hard, tweleve hours a day
And the money I saved won’t buy my youth again
Goin’ for the heat babe, and a tropical rain
In a place where no man’s puttin’ on the dog for me
Waitin’ on the weekend, set o’ brand new tyres
And back in Bow River’s just where I want to be

Listen now to the wind babe
Listen now to the rain
Feel that water lickin’ at my feet again
I don’t wanna see this town no more
Too many years made up my mind to go or stay
Right to my dying day
I don’t wanna see another engine line
Too many years and I owe my mind
First set o’ wheels headin’ back Bow River again
First thing you know I’ll be back in Bow River again

Got the motor runnin’, got the rest of my days
Sold everything I owned for a song
So anytime you want babe, you can come around
But don’t leave it too late you just might find me gone

Listen now to the wind babe . . .

I don’t need the score
I’m goin’ through the door
Gonna tell the man I don’t want no more
Pick up a fast car and burn my name in the road
One week two week maybe even more
Piss all my money up against the damn wall
First thing you know I’ll be back in Bow River again

Forever Now

Taking her seat at the bar
She don’t talk to anyone
Plane leaving soon for afar
Where she don’t know anyone
She thinks of her precious time
There’s no-one she leaves behind
Who could change her mind

Is this the way it’s gonna be forever
Is this the way it’s gonna be forever
Is this the way it’s gonna be
Forever now

Take a whole life’s lonliness
Wrap it up in some tenderness
Send it off to some emptiness
With all my love
Cos it’s only you and me
There’ll be nothing we need to see
Only one thing can set you free
Is all my love

Making his way down the stairs
He can’t help but looking back
Thinks of the things that they shared
There’ll be no more turning back
He thinks of the day they met
The words that she said of love
He just can’t forget

Just the way they wanna be forever
Just the way they wanna be forever
Tell me it will always be
Forever now

Take a whole life’s lonliness
Wrap it up in some tenderness
Send it off to some emptiness
With all my love
It’s only you and me
There’ll be nothing we need to see
Only one thing can set you free
Is all my love
It’s only you and me
There’ll be nothing we need to see
Only one thing can set you free
Is all our love, oh yeah

Houndog

Hump that coffin up round one more bend
Hump that coffin up round one more bend
If your head needs a bandage
Try a roadhouse open sandwich
Dodge the waitress and hit the road again

I got dog’s disease and asphalt on my shoes
I got dog’s disease and asphalt on my shoes

I got the houndog sittin’ on the side of the road
Houndog sittin’ on the side of the road
Houndog sittin’ on the side of the highway blues
Yeah the highway blues

I coulda flown East-West
But the ticket was outa my range
I coulda gone rail
But they said I looked a little strange
The Budget girl’s just got the sack
The interstate bus just breaks my back
I’m sick of getting home
Counting my remaining change

I got the houndog . . .

Ride the line to Hornsby station
Find my circus animals again

Undenied

Don’t need no communication
Through the ghost-towns, and fade away

I’m outside

The railway don’t come out here no more

And it’s cold
Through Nambucca, up the coast
Grass is greener
Girls are sweeter
I did it all the last ten summers

Leave the waves and change the culture
Choose a far off name that suites ya
Bali, Bangkok, overland
Asian highway, Amsterdam
Always some town unexplored
And in the end
It’s the motion is it’s own reward
It’s just the motion

I’ve had petrol-heads and country hicks
Bible-freaks and lunatics
Fifty miles to go and I’ll be home
I’ll be home

I got the houndog sittin’ on the side of the road
Houndog sittin’ on the side of the road
Houndog sittin’ on the side of the highway blues

Letter To Alan

When it’s time for your reflection
As you wait till help arrives
See our good friend’s face on the dashboard
And to know you cannot leave that cab alive
Do you know I reach for you, from later times

Once I knew
Once I knew
Now I’m walking
Now I’m walking in the dark
Like bells our dogs are yelling
All across Centennial Park
And the Sunday morning light just sends me blind
And I’m only feeling useless
Cause there’s nothing I can blame
Every person, thing and circumstances
That moves this perfect day
You’ve left behind

And I’m thinking
Christmas 1982
Round this time a year ago
Gaskill sold his boat
And headed for the Cross to sink a few
Never trust a Wayside Chapel crowd
On Christmas Eve
They must be entertained
And if a stranger does the dying
That’s O.K.!

And I’m sitting in a hotel room
Along Rue St. Louis
Dialing old phone-numbers down the line
And I measure my position
To the obstacles we crossed
The territory covered
And the parties that we lost
Those were the days

And if I don’t hang around
Our old gambling grounds
It does not mean that I’ve forgotten
We believed, and I still do

No Good For You

Your last Margarita
And she’s standing behind
She wants to be seated
You’re reading her mind

Ain’t it a shame
She’s no good for someone like you
She’ll bring you down
She’s no good for you

Her husband’s out workin’ late
Makin’ another man rich
She’s down at the bar
You can hear the same old singles pitch

Ain’t it a shame
She’s no good for someone like you
She’ll bring you down
She’s no good for you

Well you don’t know why she came here tonight
She just can’t seem to stay away
And you know that it just ain’t right
She drowns her heart and makes her play yeah

Ain’t it a shame
She’s no good for someone like you
She’ll bring you down
She’s no good for you

The ceiling is spining
You need a moment alone
She’s leaning over the table
And won’t stop talking, on and on

Ain’t it a shame
She’s no good for someone like you
She’ll bring you down
She’s no good for you
She’s no good for you

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