On the fourth floor of the building In a shallow window box She's digging in the soil with a silver spoon Her hands inside rubber gloves Planting seeds
Wonder if you can pick up my accent on the phone, When I call across the country, when I call across the world I see it in my kitchen, I can picture you
dont like gold and I dont like pearls Im just your regular West Australian fishermans daughter Im a middle class folk singing guitar playing girl more Waifs
You read the paper, watch the news and think Your well informed I've got some new for you my friend That headline that you read, the story that broke
We were both 18 the year that we met I was slighty older but not by much One look at you and I knew that was it And your voice sounded like an angel above
well my papa was a fisher man and he fished the deep blue sea he home made some fine black berry nip and he'd always pass a nip onto me well he smelled
When the night-time comes you can hear My heart calling Calling out to you my one true love Thinking about you all of the while Thinking about you its
This is more than a haircut I'm wearing on my head I thought I'd dye it red but got it cut instead And maybe I could send you my long blond locks Cause
Sink or swim, sink or swim What's it going to be when you dive on in Dive on in, dive on in What's it going to be when you dive on in Everybody knows
When I die won't you bury me In the town where I was born Most of my life I've been rambiling free When I die I want to come back home Ever since I
A telegram arrived today, it is time to catch the Monteray, cos' the man i wed' he waits for me, and the daughter that he's yet to see, the U.S navy beamed
I thought I'd move to Sydney to get a little piece Of the city life they talk about in the 90's. Where everyone I meet don't want to know my name They
You broke down my door and let yourself in Helped yourself to my soul and skin You ate all you needed and then had the nerve To thank me for dinner and
Danger ?danger ahead We missed the signs, we lost all we had of you I know you had time on your own But you couldn't ever say thast you didn't have A
What's your excuse for living like You're somebody different You're nobody different You're just somebody Tell me what's the reason behind All your
Under the willow tree, that's where I wait for you to come back to me, but you're so far away. I just sit by here in the morning sun, and I wait under
Oh Gillian, you're up with the sun You've done a hundred things before half past nine By the time most folk are up and gone You'll be starting on one
Seems like only yesterday I thought i had my Life together Aint it funny how things change For it is to day I feel uncertain about my whole world All
