Lyrics
All Songs Copyright R.Dillon and APRA registered
Boab Tree(Second prize,WA Poets Festival, 2010, Lyric Writing)
You’re used to great sweeping spaces
And dusty red places
Now you stand here all alone
3000 miles from your home
Taken from your land without your consent
The price you pay, You are ancient
You’ve every sense, You’re not where you belong
But stand proud, your core is strong
Where the lights stay on all the night long
Where the lights stay on all the night long
Those in the know insist you’ll grow
To love life in your new home
Live like they do down here
But it’s so cold down here
It’s so cold down here
It’s so cold down here
Where the lights stay on all the night long
The lights stay on all the night long
Can't see past the city's glow
Can't see the stars of home
No, no, because
The lights stay on all the night long
all the night long
Hell for Leather
We grew up together in the same small town
Standing watching summer storms coming down
You with hair of gold and a will so strong
I hardly said boo but my heart was full of song
You chased the ducks I ran from the drake
We skipped rocks on the dam and swam in the lake
Pretended to drive ‘cross the state in an abandoned old van
And we ran, and we ran
Chorus
Hell for leather, hell for leather,
Hell for leather, down Bellbird hill
Your Dad got a transfer to the city in WA
I watched you get smaller and smaller and smaller as you drove away
I just kept my head down like I thought I should
Studied hard, tried to be good
But I missed runnin’, I missed runnin’
Chorus
Heard you’d had a hard time but I don’t know the rest
Tried growin’ up too fast, but I guess you just did your best
Every now and then I look down at the scars on my knees
From when we ran, from when we ran
Chorus
Down Bellbird hill
Laurie and Margaret
Laurie and Margaret worked hard all their lives
Now they just want to be free
They’ve got the tinny all ready to go
Cruising up the Hawkesbury
Chorus
They just want to spend their days fishing
Watch the sunset create a red sky
Time together just waiting
Watching the water flow by
Three years gone by trying to sell the old store
The real estate agent don’t call anymore
So at 7am Laurie comes out again
And opens up for the day
At seventy three you just want to be
Spending your time side by side
Lazily cruising up river
And drifting away on the tide
Chorus
Pelican sits on the sandbar
Catching the afternoon sun
Cormorant hangs out his wings to dry
And they watch the water, they watch the water
They watch the water flow by
They watch the water, they watch the water
They watch the water flow by
Chorus
They just want to spend their days fishing
Watch the sunset create a red sky
But the leaves are turning and starting to fall
Watching the water flow by
They just want to spend their days fishing
Watch the sunset create a red sky
Time together just waiting
Watching the water flow by
Laurie and Margaret worked hard all their lives
Now they just want to be free
