All Alone Together Lyrics

In the shadow of the sun and the Southern Cross

We roam like the wandering albatross

Reach out through the mists of time

To find our reason and our rhyme

So form a bond with the back 'o beyond

Make a real connection

And if you stray down the Outback Way

Then you're headed in the right direction

Get a caravan, tent or a camper van

If you wanna be a part of the travelling clan

Nomads, pilgrims, refugees

Running from the 21st Century

Escape the rush, head out, go bush

Where you're left to your own devices

No worries, don't cringe if the lunatic fringe

Whinge about a mid-life crisis

Way out here we're all alone together

We're all on the outside looking in

Nothing lasts forever but forever

We're all alone together through thick and thin

So run for your life from your trouble and strife

Or your lonely desperation

Follow that track to the great outback

And splendid isolation

Then take a leap of faith and dare to dream

Where the thunder roars and the wild winds scream

Where paradise found is an outback bar

And to sleep beneath the light of a million stars

Wedge tailed eagles, hawks and kites

Flash flood rains and the Min Min lights

Dried up creeks and river beds

Cast off re-mould tyre treads

Red dust plains and long road trains

Cattlemen and drovers

Corrugated roads and bull dust holes

Roadhouse gypsy rovers

Kookaburras, roos, galas, cockatoos

Camels, crocs and dingos

Market stalls and village halls

Made for fetes and bingo

Celebrate the odd on the dry River Todd

In Alice and the Birdsville races

The tourist zoo at Uluru

And a thousand other places

Tales unfold of days of old

Trials and tribulations

Fortunes won and lives undone

Wealth and ruination

Drive through downs and old ghost towns

Famed through boom and bust

Where old ghosts meet on the empty streets

And all hope turned to dust

Songs by the fire with an outback choir

Bush ballads and a dodgy poet

Nod to the throng round the billabong

And join in the singing if you know it

Kindred spirits in the campfire glow

Wishing this would last forever

Safe in the knowledge that way out here

We're all alone together

So as you journey through this land

Leave nothing but your footprints in the sand

Show respect for all you see

Take nothing away but your memories

Where ancient voices speak in dreams

That echo down the ages

May your book of life be free from strife

Safe travels as you turn the pages