Australia Lyrics

I met the girl at a coffee shop

Beyond the reservoir

I was taken back by her boss's rage

How the words never got to her

I pushed myself to be a regular

Stopping in four times a week

On a flustered morning her coffee spilled

I got the nerve to speak

She whipped around saying

"Hey there boy, it's here I'd like to leave"

I'm pointing out to the windowsill

Gotta see the sights and scenes out there

Babe, it's Australia

So I cut my ties and I packed my things

Headed for a life of change

She took me outside my built-up walls

And showed me how to live outside my lane

I kissed with her just off Albert Park

Underneath the sporting lights

It happened once so I asked her twice

I was a passenger in her life

On my car ride home along the hillside

Stars they shine so bright

Pouring down into her hands

Marking the endless night loved her there

Babe, it's Australia

Trouble poured in when my money ran out

They all came after me

They pulled some strings to get her a spot

Up at some university

So I bummed around the Upper East Coast

As my work it was cut down

Then I found a job picking fruit outside a little mining town

And the days were warm the nights so cold

The weeks went twice as long

But I never forgot about the new dimension

Every love song I sung about her

Babe, it's Australia

I got invited to a play in the Melbourne Theatre Hall

She was a leading lady in a touring play about the late Richard III

So I hopped a train crossing three state lines

To make the unlikely pair

I left back home in the blistering sun

The boy with the long hair, yeah

At the foyer doors, immediately

I could see her there

She looked at me from the west wing

The light shined off her blonde hair

Found her there

Babe, it's Australia