1.
The Promise
On the range that night, a promise.
Hide my life, Hide my sorrow.
Leave my things to the bush,
My young bows & arrows.
From the rip of the city
To the dust of the chamber.
Hunters on the wave that night,
Report the shadow,
Of forest fire
And his promise.
From the rip of the city,
To the dust of the chamber.
2..
Bear never left her home.
Bear never left her home, could not say,
that she kissed a boy who did not know her name.
Every season losing touch with the cool and august nights.
Small towns lit by distant stars,
The outback of the lonely heart.
Feeling so restless boy, empty inside
Over and over again.
My life was a sorrow boy, that did not lift.
(Just cross the street if I come
And let the phone ring if I call.)
Small towns lit by distant stars,
The outback of the lonely heart.
Our time, the glory of our lives -
I took it from you.
3.
Joseph's Head
They were asleep as my life crossed into the night
Oh my little girls; sarah, michelle and little anne.
Bound to their sleep, cradled by the gentle night,
and the letter that I leave reads
The land seemed to eat me up,
and my hands were not my hands.
I couldn't love them anymore,
now my lambs are in fold.
Mean old devil followed me
turned my lands against me.
Hang me upside down St Peter for it's unjust
to die peacefully.
Hand me up that axe, I’ll cut off the hand the smites thee
But i hold this to you - I couldn’t love them anymore,
and my hands were not my hands.
I couldn’t love them any more.
(Devil, devil called - he said my name like it was Yours)
4.
Dead Leaves
I made a man of wood and loose change
Did what I could with bracken and sand.
Scattered upon the hills of our old town.
Pray there’s a land love wouldn’t exchange
A hand for a gun, A book for a chain.
Rain floods this land and the seas all turn to sand.
A River, A River, I dreamt a river,
Dammed by dead leaves that float on the surface.
Pray there’s a river, Pray there’s a land
Beyond where we’re known, beyond where we stand.
Brother, brother where are you brother?
Lost like the leaves that float on the river.
5.
The Moonlight & The Scrub
Hear now, the last things that I heard -
The barking of his dog. The silence of the scrub.
And the villagers looked on, in exquisite shining dawn,
My time on earth was unknown. All my hopes and dreams withdrawn.
See now,the last things that I saw -
The markings on his arms, his eyes as black as eels.
Say now - it was not just or wrong, as I drift from shore.
I dwell in a landmass no one knows. (In truth it comes and goes)
My boundaries are marked and I know it-
Lost girl, Dead daughter, Unknown.
Will I dwell again?
My boundaries are dust and I know it.