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Very Fine Day
04:15
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It’s a hot Wednesday morning
My world is turning grey
The radio spits out its warning
It’s a very fine day
It’s a very fine day
This heat dries my skin
These tears dim my gaze
My head begins its pounding
It’s a very fine day
It’s a very fine day
I don’t know why I do what I do
Kids are in the back room sleeping through
I don’t know why but what can I say
It’s a very fine day
It’s a very fine day
I don’t know why I do what I do
Kids are in the back room sleeping through
I don’t know why but what can I say
It’s a very fine day
It’s a very fine day
This life wears me down
But one sweet time is coming my way
One little strike will tear this land
It’s a very fine day
It’s a very fine day
I don’t know why I do what I do
Kids are in the back room sleeping through
I don’t know why but what can I say
It’s a very fine day
It’s a very fine day
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2. |
Somehow
03:37
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Salt in my eyes
Blinds my sight
To the waves churning beneath me
You want me to jump
But I don’t know
Somehow my courage fails me
Diving into
What is unknown
Can shake the bravest among us
The water is deep
Its’ too far to row
Somehow you fail to persuade me
I know that you’ll be leaving soon
But that’s ok with me
I guess we both understand it now
The two of us
Were meant
To run free
The sky is closing
A storm is approaching
I think it will change our world
We cannot stay
The sea is encroaching
Somehow its’ washed us away
I know that you’ll be leaving soon
But that’s ok with me
I guess we both understand it now
The two of us
Were meant
To run free
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3. |
Miner's Daughter
03:22
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I am the miner’s daughter
I was born with dust in my hair
Like a duck to water
I learned to take what’s there
But If I can’t win your hearts
Then I will take your minds
I’m a miner’s daughter
I will have what’s mine, Oh yeah
Some say I’m undernourished
Some say I’m over fed
I say I’ll make this desert flourish
I’ll change what words are read
But If I can’t win your hearts
Then I will take your minds
I’m a miner’s daughter honey
I will have what’s mine, Oh yeah
And I don’t care what’s on your lungs
And I don’t care if you think I’m wrong
And I don’t believe in CO2
Nothing to see, can’t be true
And I don’t care about evidence
(So) don’t look to me for recompense
Cos if I can’t win your hearts
Then I will take your minds
I’m the miner’s daughter, baby
I will have what’s mine, Oh Yeah
I am the miner’s daughter
I was born with blood on my hands
Crossing any border
I will break this land
And If I can’t win your hearts
Then I will take your minds
I’m a miner’s daughter
I will have what’s mine, Oh yeah
Oh yeah, Oh yeah
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4. |
Humanity
02:49
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How many work this earth
And still go hungry?
While others build their wealth
On the blood of their fellow man?
How many lives are lost
In the search for freedom?
Or find themselves detained
From the fire to the frying pan?
Humanity
Please raise your voice against this insanity
What does it take for one
To flee their homeland
In hopes of a better life
Though a life’s not guaranteed?
What must it do to those
Who risk their families
Who feel their only choice is
‘tween the devil and the deep blue sea?
Humanity
Please raise your voice against this insanity
Humanity
Don’t turn your backs on them it’s brutality
Who’re those who lie to us
To hold their power
With racist rhetoric
Like the White Australia Policy
Who do they think we are
If not boat people
Our Australian identity’s built
On our immigrant history
Humanity
Please raise your voice against this insanity
Humanity
Don’t turn your backs on them it’s brutality
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5. |
Brooks Soak
03:35
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I just got back from Brooks Soak
Shirt stained with blood
One hundred people murdered as they ran
I scrubbed with Soap
But nothing can clean Brooks Soak
I'd ridden with the coppers to Brooks Soak
To arrest ‘Bullfrog’
The man they said had beat a trapper cold
But he’d slipped the rope
So we stayed on at Brooks Soak
There’s the law of the court and the law of the gun
And there are laws that mostly everybody holds
But when hatred and fear lurk in the hearts of men
Nobody wins
I fought in the trenches at Pozieres
Friends died in my arms
Their silent faces fill my dreams at night
But I never lost hope
Till what I saw
What I saw
What I saw
What I saw
at Brooks Soak
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6. |
Walk Away
03:38
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Hello Frank, I see you got a gun
Want me to turn around, want to see me run back where I’ve come from
And you’re scared, I see it in your eyes
You're looking for solutions,
Through this midnight sky
Walk away, let it go, walk away, there ain't no show around here
Hey Frank, I know you’ve got your troubles, man
Your land is dying, its not the dream that your father wanted to pass on
And she’s gone, never coming back
She couldn’t see no way out
Down this one way track
She walked away, let it go, she walked away, (cos) there ain't no show around here
You don’t know what’s going on
You don’t know what went wrong
But you know how it feels
To spend all your life in this spinning wheel, alone
Walk away, let it go, Walk away, cos there ain't no show around here
C’mon Frank, it's time to drop the gun
The moon is a rising, too much blood been spilt on this crazy barren ground
And you’re tired, shattered to the core
Looking at the future
Down this twelve gauge bore
Walk away, let it go, walk away, there ain't no show around here
Walk away, let it go, walk away, walk away, walk away
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7. |
Too Bright
02:10
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Too bright to burn for too long
Hot sun the first day in high school
See you smile from the back of the class
Lightening sharp eyes blazing so strong
Too bright to burn for too long
Pages turn and you disappear
Until I find you writing for the newspaper
Shining light on those who’ve been wronged
Too bright to burn for too long
Isn’t it so very curious?
Stars will fall and turn to dust
People with gifts that give us the most
Too fragile to cope, fragile to cope
Too fragile to cope
Summer night in the heart of Sydney
Sirens wail so shrill and so cold
There you lie a needle in your arm
Too bright to burn for too long
There you lie a needle in your arm
Too bright to burn for too long
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I don’t want the night to come
I don’t want this light to fade
I can see your face still and pale
I don’t want the night to come
No
Darkness beats a lonely drum
Cos I can still see flowers on your grave
And I can feel the wind blowing tears
I don’t want the night to come
No
I picked this rose for you today
It’s wilted so badly in this Indian sun
Strange how far in life I have run
but I don’t want the night to come
No, No
I picked this rose for you today
It’s wilted so badly in this Indian sun
Strange how far in life I have run
but I don’t want the night
I don’t want the night
Still don’t want the night to come
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9. |
White Widow
03:03
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Hello my darling
Nice to see you looking so fine
In your lamb’s wool suit
And that blood red tie
It holds so many, memories for me
And it’s so nice to see
That you wear it so well
It’s good to look good
On the road to hell
Give me those flowers
And hold my hand
I’ll play the loving bride
To your loving man
I’ve been let down so often before
Can’t take it no more
So it's time you must know
That it’s all come to pass
I’m the White Widow
Did it seem too perfect?
To have and to hold
Did you never wonder why they call me
The White Widow?
Did it seem too perfect?
To have and to hold
Did you never wonder why they call me
The White Widow?
Hello my darling
Nice to see you looking so fine
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10. |
It Never Fades
03:29
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It sometimes hides
But it always stays
And it ripped my heart
When it should have thrown it away
It never fades away
It never fades away
You used to say
That we must move on
And I know that you
Have somehow grown so strong
You'll never fade away
You'll never fade away
Sometimes the memory that keeps the most silent
is the one that lingers the longest
It sometimes hides
But it always stays
And it ripped my heart
When it should have thrown it away
It never fades away
It never fades away
I’m scared I’ll fade away
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11. |
Wonderland
02:55
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I’m living in Wonderland
I’m living in Wonderland
Alice ain’t got nothing on this
Rupert pulled his rabbit out of a hat
Look at it there’s strings attached
Doesn’t matter which one of them you pull
We get the Joker, and the Fool
I’m living in Wonderland
I’m living in Wonderland
Alice ain’t got nothing on this
We don’t always know what we don’t know
So it don’t matter, which way we go
The water might be lapping around our feet
But it’s ok we’re sound asleep
I’m living in Wonderland
I’m living in Wonderland
Alice ain’t got nothing on this
Queen takes a Bishop
In our house of cards
She’ll keep on running
But can never get past
I’m living in Wonderland
I’m living in Wonderland
Alice ain’t got nothing on this
We say what we mean but don’t mean what we say
Pain must be good or we’re all insane
(But) I know I’m part of this glorious farce
Cos I’m watching you, through the looking glass
I’m living in Wonderland
I’m living in Wonderland
Alice ain’t got nothing on this
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12. |
With You
04:31
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I don’t mind being alone
Most of the time
Keep your voice in my head
Feeds me any old line
Watch the sunrise high above the roof
I don’t mind being alone
As long as I’m with you
With you
I don’t mind where I go
Keep my eyes fixed ahead
Take the mystery road
I wise friend once said
Climb a mountain just to see the view
I don’t mind where I go
As long as I’m with you
With you
I just have to see your smile
No one knows how much time
They have left to spend
I’m like any other man
Take whatever I can get
Don’t wanna have no short time
But even if I do
I won’t mind how little time
As long as its with you
With you
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Stella's Way Canberra, Australia
We are an eco-punky-folk trio blending vocal harmonies, guitar, and percussion with commentary on modern life. Formed by ecological geneticists we bring a biologist’s perspective to Australian folk.
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