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They’d
sat beneath the sweltering sun
For
an hour, or maybe two,
Lost
somewhere on the Birdsville Track
They
didn’t know ..
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Wherever
I go, whatever I do
He
follows me up the street,
I
cross the road and he crosses it too,
We
never actually meet,
He
know..
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The
beach swept away in the distance,
The
tide as far out as could be,
A
couple were laughing and playing there,
She’d
cuffed h..
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The
god from the past came stalking,
Came
clambering over the hill,
He’d
woken first thing in the morning
With
a hangover, fit ..
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I
seemed to be reading the same old book,
Over
and over again,
With
always a feeling of certainty
That
nothing would change, it&rsquo..
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It
was five past three in the morning,
I
had tried, but I couldn’t sleep,
The
hound across the hall had howled
Then
I heard its..
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I
thought the cottage was rather cheap,
I
said so at the time,
It
was standing empty far too long
For
a setting, so sublime,
The
..
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When
Michael married my girlfriend
I
was standing, up at the back,
I
didn’t want to be seen in there,
They’d
think I was ..
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His
eyes were beginning to mist, I saw
When
he told his final tale,
With
the grandchildren all gathered round
And
he with his pint of..
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They
hid in a concrete bunker there
While
the bombs flew overhead,
Each
bomb had seemed to be closer, and
At
times, they thought th..
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