Louie Lyrics

It's midnight in this old town

We sit at plastic chairs and tables on the highway

After all the bars close down

And only travelers are looking for next place

Talking to a stranger singing stories how he nearly died

While he was running from some shadows, crashing up on the mountainside

Now we're walking in the dust

Of tuks flying fast but we're moving so slowly

I say I'm tired from the sun

Truth is it's a lot of work to stay this lonely

All I want tonight is somebody to know me

Louie, maybe its worth pretending tonight

Like we're not foreign here, we've got all the time

Louie, I'm grabbing hope from a genuine smile

And chestnut eyes that talk for miles and miles and miles

Now the sun is coming up

But we've still got these stories and these bottles

I wanna hear the monks chant up the hill

We can listen from the roof of your hostel

And now I'm singing stories how I crashed into a mountainside

Now we're making plans on the back of your motorbike

Tonight I feel like maybe you could know me

I don't ever really wanna feel that lonely

Louie, maybe its worth pretending tonight

Like we're not foreign here, we've got all the time

Louie, I'm grabbing hope from a genuine smile

And chestnut eyes that talk for miles and miles and miles

Take me back,

Take me back with you

Take me home,

Take me anywhere, just not back to America

I wanna wake up under Tasmanian trees

On your family farm

With your tomatoes and sheep

So take me

Take me back, take me far far away

Take me where it's pure

And the air is clean

Out of these cities & away

Take me into a fairy tale

Crash into a mountainside

Take me where anywhere,

I wanna feel so alive

Louie, maybe its worth pretending tonight

Like we're not foreign here, we've got all the time

Louie, I'm grabbing hope from a genuine smile

And chestnut eyes that talk for miles and miles and miles