Side B (Tracks 7-12) Lyrics

Snare

Finally made it to your place the other day

Was the first time since you went away

Wasn't the hard whack I was expecting

Just more of that blunt aching pain

We made small talk in the kitchen

Talking our way 'round your name

Your car in the carport, your coffee machine, your sister on the fridge

Your drums in the mezzanine

The air loaded and heavy, like something's going to break

That leaning feeling, mate

Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-o-oh

Oh-oh, oh-oh

Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, o-o-o-o-oh

Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh

Thought I'd try and be useful, there was a broken chair

Headed out to the shed, the kids were cracking on your snare

Your driver bits on your workbench

All the boxes and the screws

All the sizes organised, different touch stones of you

Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, o-o-o-o-oh

Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh

I mostly found what I needed, we know it's never what we want

Left the chair in better shape anyway

It didn't take very long

Your snare in the background still sounded the goods

The 'knives and forks draw' still making the grade

The songs and the stages and nights that we'd played

Wiped the wet from my eye and put your tools back in their place

Some things you just can't ever replace

Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, o-o-o-o-oh

Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh

Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, o-o-o-o-oh

Woah-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh

Don't You Forget About Me

Do you remember the Roxy and the Whiskey

And the green room at the House of Blues

Going swimming in the deep cold Tahoe water, Sausalito with Pele Juju?

All those lost nights down in the changerooms

The gig at the Kelmscott fair

Singing Maralinga with your roto toms and your broken baritone?

Do you remember the Pier up at Hedland

Sleeping rough all through the tour

Setting your drums up in the dirt of the Western Desert, like a tether keeping me all good?

You always had my back for me, on you I could always count

Don't you forget about me

Don't you forget about me

All those nights spent drinking on the rooftops

All those nights spent dreaming at the stars

Winnie Red and Blue, Welcome to The Boomtown

The sweet taste of gadang guarams

Those Leeming nights washed out in yellow

All the street lights looking down

Starfish and Sisters, The Breakfast Club verbatim

You were Bender without a doubt

You always had my back for me, on you I could always count

Don't you forget about me

Don't you forget about me

Safe In The Hands of Love

The winter rain is everywhere

It fills the drains and cleans the air

Drive home into the setting sun

In my eyes, rays golden

The harrier it circles 'round, feathertips on air

Scans the ground for movement to catch you unaware

It won't let you know it's there, no second chance

I don't know why we think it would

We all cling to life, with a blind-sided grip, tight

When I make it home to you

Tired and broken, burned and used

Your open arms are where I'll be

Safe in the hands of love

Kestrel holding space and time

Aloft unmoving, that eye the sky

Winter wind it pushes sheer

Whispered voices to her ear

They sing within their ancient song

Carried forth on air

They will spirit in her movement, bringing her aware

She can't tell you why or how, no circumstance

I don't know why we think it would

When I make it home to you

Tired and broken, burned and used

Your open arms are where I'll be

Safe in the hands of love

When I make it home to you

Tired and broken, burned and used

Your open arms are where I'll be

Safe in the hands of love

Wheelspray

In the light of the wheelspray, billows over, work at play

Horizon light it, pulls me straight

My mind's eye like an angry crow, raven pictures that I can't know

Nothing more than, a trick of light

If I'm right

In the hail I walk slow, too proud and I, I should know

In the cold, I won't let it show

Rear mirror shows, full rainbow, the hunger grows, for things out beyond, my

Words, the rule of thirds, the centre blurred, friends, it's a long journey home

Raptor watching from the tallest pine, silhouette, outside of time

And I still toil for nonsense and rhyme

In the spirit of the broken tree, there's an image that I can't see

But I'm not sure it's meant for me

Rear mirror shows, full rainbow, the hunger shows, for things out beyond, my

Words, the rule of thirds, the centre blurred, oh my friends, it's a long journey home

Going Home

Floating, lifting up among the love and

Circle strong around me

Holding, trusting in the safe hands of love

Easing, the vessel that has held me thus far, tired and aching broken, afar, surrendered

looking down from above

Feel, feel me here beside you

Standing, your witness, silent, outside of view

We released you into the southern swell, grey-green blue, submerged, returned

the drum was beating low, dogs scratched and played, before we turned to go

to walk away, we cried for our losing, cried for our losing you

All you can believe

The moon and stars and sea

Bring me home

Set me free

All you can believe

The moon and stars and sea

Bring me home

Set me free

All you can believe

The moon and stars and sea

Bring me home

Set me free

It is what it is, that's what you used to say

All of the sentiment, washes it away

It is what it is, that's all that I can say

Riding in my heart, as I rise to greet the day

Troposphere

Floating up here, in the troposphere

All my anguishes, they fade away

My fingers are so cold, here in the troposphere

But I don't mind, my easy heart, it's singing

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

It's a beautiful day, here in the stratosphere

Everything out of reach, all the troubles and strife

The beauty in you, the beauty in me

Those clouds down there moving, the cerulean sea

Oh my heart swells, I sing to it now I sing to you now

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

Oh, my arms outstretched, I'm floating in air

My love tipping down, to you on the ground

Oh my loves, this much I can tell, step out of yourselves

The way of the world is not as it seems

Breathe the light, the morning light

Tell yourself, a passenger, laugh at everything

Breathe the light, the evening light

Set yourself, a passenger, to leave all this behind

Oh, my arms outstretched, I'm floating in air

My love tipping down, to you on the ground

Oh my loves, this much I can tell, step out of yourselves

The way of the world is not as it seems

Oohh-oohh-oohh, Oohh-oohh-oohh

Floating on air, floating on air

Floating on air, floating, everywhere