(Crowe / Cochran). . Well I'm doing it again. I'm searing inside your picture. I'm supposed to be your friend. So I adjust what you want me to think. And I wonder what I'd do - if you blinked.
V1: Down in Toronto where the Darling River flows. My fathers father sheered before yous were born. You come to take be careful what you might get. Cause all the stock breakers they will end in a mess.
(Crowe). . Now too many times I been in this place. My suit jacket's on. I gotta smile all over my face. Waiting at the table. Not placing no bets. Man says you're overqualified.
V1: Out in the west of the Transberry Pines,. Self serving in the British Empire. An aussie boy and his so far from home,. Breaker Morant, man of stone.
V1: Well I'm sitting on the sack with a cat on my lap. When I heard the screen door slam. Next thing you know, she's driving down the road. Taking the Combi Van.
(Crowe). . Wendy's got a little boy. Someone to keep in mind for the future. She's got no husband who cares. She can find a man. Anytime she wants one.
Well I hear tell it's lying on the ground. Wherever you look it's easy to be found. Aint nothing like gold fever in the air. So I pack my bags and now I get my share.
(Cochran,Crowe). . Unfaithful man, tearing up the garden.. Unfaithful man, I asked of you such simple things.. Telling yourself what you feel inside,.
(Cochran/Crowe). . I know I've got to get out. Gotta run away. Can't afford the maintenance baby. Things have got to change. Things have got to change.
(Crowe). . I'm the same person. That saved you with my lips. The very same man. That blessed your fingertips. The only one around here. Who likes to remember you as you were.
(Crowe/Cochran/Adam/Brown/Rosieur). . Don't stand up. They'll try and push you down. Don't let them hold you in their hands. Don't step out. Words can run you down.
Hey Davey, you know I live it every day. When friendship walked out the door. Nothin' going on, Davey, but I'll talk to you, you, yeah, yeah. Talking to you is like talking to walls.
(Cochran/Crowe). . It was Barry's dad that committed the deed. That mapped out the life young Barry would lead. Eagle on his chest, he'd roar at the wilderness.
(Cochran/Crowe). . I wandered wonders wasteland alone. Looked hard and I couldn't find. The one thing most on my mind. Same thing time after time. It's you yeah you I was wondering 'bout you.
(Crowe). . How you want to see this situation. Straight down the barrel or from some other location. Running up hills never been my vocation. It's my punishment.
(Cochran/Crowe). . Somebodies trying to kill me. It could be myself. I have it on the highest authority. I'm just no good. For my own health. . Indifference under my skin.
(Cochran/Crowe). . Red hair deep blue eyes. My baby gets me so good. She got the franchise. . Take me away. She takes me up. Feed my needs. Keeps me sharp.
Unchanging. . I know sometimes its hard to see your plans for me. When the sun refuse to shine. And though sometimes the rain would fall. It seems no hope at all.
(Crowe). . You know she's gone and left me. Packed her bags and hit the trail. I'd like to get angry, but I see her point of view. If I was her, I would have left long before now.
Verse 1:. I feel the tears that you cry. I see the pain in your eyes, its calling to the heart of me. I heard the words that you spoke in your mind. Saying today there's no hope but i just want to let you know.