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Wild and Unknown
03:20
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You are the one on your horse
Its like I’ve landed on the moon
I am the one driving by
Staring through glass at you
Something stirs you have my total attention
I’ve been so far gone I barely recognized it
I spread the cards and I wondered
How I can get back to you
Through the thread and the red and the mountains
In the stones of deepest blue
Beasts at the waterhole give me their total attention
And im scared, feeling strange, theres my fascination
It’s the wild and unknown
Bring it all the way back home
It’s the wild and unknown
Bring it all the way, bring it all the way back home
So quiet driving through town
Brightly lit chain store food
Im wondering if theres a line between
Shiprock and Uluru
Something stirs you have my total attention
Been years in the desert, praying for rain and redemption
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Under The Sun
03:39
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Hard of heart I’ve been a fool
I’ve been acting so uncool
You’d think by now I’d know just how
To sort it out but here I go again
I lost my nerve I lost my way
Theres just one little word
And its so hard to say
S O R R Y that I made you cry
Under the sun you know theres nothing new
Under the sun
Every mistake, regret its all been done before
Under the sun
One day I’ll buy a ticket
Travel around the world
Puerto Vallarta, Torremolinos
Ho Chi Min, Rajasthan, New Orleans
And when its time to settle down
I’ll find the deepest valley in the smallest town
Build us a house, nothing too grand
Couple of kids and an acre of land
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Iluka
03:37
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She cradled me I was skin and bone
The sound of the water was keeping me calm
Three birds overhead flying deep into the blue
This is where I heal myself this is where I go to
I am here now I am laying low
I am unreachable I wont answer my phone
Ive been sad and scared of dying I have been so alone
This cannot go on forever enough damage has been done
If you go to Iluka
All that you carry you can send it out to sea
If you fall in Iluka
She will pick you up, dust you off, set you on your feet
Keep walking
Call in the army we’ll march down to the shore
Lay down our burdens and our guns and wrecking balls
Ive been sad and scared of dying I have been so alone
Now this army walks beside me no more damage can be done
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Cities
03:12
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I wont let you slip through the cracks
I will lay my body down
If you’ve lost your way If you’ve lost your nerve
I’ll pick you up put you on solid ground, solid ground
When you feel down sorrow does not own you
Trouble comes like a hound at your heels
That lucky star hanging above you
Its covered in black, covered in blue
Wars will rage and cities will burn
Call from the moon tells the tide when to turn
Come out of your hiding place
You are loved and you are safe and sound
Somewhere somehow you got frightened
Moving shadows were all you could see
In all that darkness you needed a light on
Just a little spark to set you free
I wont let you slip through the cracks
I will lay my body down
If you’ve lost your way if you’ve lost your nerve
I’ll pick you up put you on solid ground
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Send Me A River
03:21
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Oh heartbreak Oh darkness
I would take them from you
In a heartbeat to set you free
Before you fall into blue
Are you blue as the sky
Waiting for flight
Are you blue like a bruise
A rush of blood nothing to lose
Oh send me a river
I can follow you down
Like a dream I’ll step lightly
I wont make a sound
And when winter sets in
And its cold and its clean
And you’re lonely again
Like a snake shed that skin
Oh trouble oh danger
Don’t follow her around
She don’t need it she’s too busy
Keeping her two feet on the ground
And there’s songs to be sung
Work to be done
Reasons to mend
And then another begin again
Oh heartbreak oh darkness oh send me a river
Oh trouble oh danger oh send me a river
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Red Dirt
02:37
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Red dirt covering me everywhere I go
Underneath my nails in between my toes
Tracking through my house
staining my clothes
Lucky for me it makes everything grow
Red dirt
Little bit of rain
Sun ray
On red dirt
Been searching for a while
hunting high and low
Need to find a place to lay my weary bones
Everything above everything below
All comes together on the long ride home
Back roads
Still night
Moon shines
On back roads
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Lowlands
03:45
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Here in the lowlands
In the whispering cane
Buried my secrets
Buried my shame
The hole was a deep one
To China I dug in vain
I’ve done my time here
You know I paid the price
This sickness within me
I’m gonna make it right
I have called up the doctors
Consulted the Gods
There are no easy answers
No easy cure
I will see out my days here
There is no higher ground
Been lost and I’ll be found here below
The low the low the lowlands
My boots are by the door now
I am ready to go
Singing hard times no more
Got the devil in his hole
And when the water rises
Everything is dark
Wont you show me some mercy
Send me a spark
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Girl
04:14
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Small towns are boys towns the girls just hang around
Waiting watching wanting to be found
Discovered unearthed treasure in the deep
Rich vein of gold buried beyond reach
What’s a girl s’posed to do around here
What’s a girl gonna do
Muscle cars false starts nothing to say
Alcohol fuelled fumblings in darkened doorways
Empty streets she could be the only person alive
She’s going to get herself a car floor it kiss this place goodbye
What’s a girl supposed to do around here
Walking around this town nothing has changed
Sound of the siren it’s Saturdays game
Empty streets I could be the only person alive
I’m gonna get into my car and floor it kiss this town goodbye
Whats a girl supposed to do around here
Whats a girl supposed to do around here
Whats a girl supposed to do around here
Whats a girl gonna do around here
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All Your Love Is Gone
03:51
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Here’s my heart you can take it
Crack it into pieces because you’re sad
I don’t mind I can take it from you
There’s a hundred ways to make yourself feel bad
If you want to love another
If there’s a hunger you need to feed
I might lie and say it wont hurt a bit
Just cut in quickly and let it bleed
If all your love is gone , all your love is gone
I fell harder than the hardest rain
Thought he’s a keeper and he’s kind
Man he’s so clean what’s he gonna do
When walls and scars are what he finds
If all your love is gone, all your love is gone
I see you
To thine own self be true
Or cry your desolation into a blue sky
I’ve been building tears I wont cry
Salty as Lake Eyre
When they fall they’re going to flood this town
You’ll need a boat to get me out of here
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Belly of A Whale
03:34
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I’m Jonah in the belly of a whale
Get me outta here before I fade
Into the furniture
And the curtains
Maybe if I just sit tight and wait
Surrender now resign myself to fate
Oh but its dark and cold
And quiet as a tomb
Everything here is bigger than me
I’ve been swallowed whole easier than 123
Threw myself right in like it was meant to be
I’m in the belly of a whale Belly of a whale
Run away and join the circus yeah that’s me
Tame the lions swing up high from the trapeze
Land with a perfect ten
Take my bow
When we pack it up load it on move it out
I’ll stare out from the window check this country out
From the bottom
Way up to the top
I’m in the belly of a whale belly of a whale
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Jack The Dancer
06:38
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You were on the phone and I was crying
Thought I was immortal now they tell me I’m dying
You took my hand said together we’ll fight this
Ready or not ready or not here we go
Shaved my head I was walking into war
Up for the fight and I know what I’m fighting for
Let me be a mother to my children, a lover to my man
Ready or not ready or not here I am.
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Sara Tindley NSW, Australia
Greetings from Lake St Clair is the fifth studio album from much loved and lauded singer/songwriter Sara Tindley. Exploring the joys, losses, simplicity and fullness of a life committed to family and community, Greetings from Lake St Clair brims with an extraordinary tenderness and pathos. ... more
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