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Spark Of The Heart Lyrics - Singles - Redgum

It's a harsh dry land, it breaks your back and scars and gnarls your hands 

Now carcasses rot in the sun and dust silts up the dams 

Sacked two men when the postie poked those blueys through the flyscreen doors 

The welfare state dried up ten years before 

 

It's Hobsons' choice, they run this plain and the flocks melt into bone 

You can drove the stock routes for a year and cripple life at home 

I still look forward to every day but every day's the same 

Awake in a sweat, a dream of the smell of rain 

 

But a river runs silent, runs deep, I work this land, it grips me by my feet 

Staying 'til my blood runs cold, spark of the heart, iron in the soul 

 

My great grandfather pushed his luck beyond the goyder line 

Now all that's left are mute ploughshares and a gravestone caulked with lime 

In tribute, I still use his Swiss barometer in vain 

Fate be damned, the weather hasn't changed 

 

Fifty miles by riverland, there's pasture fenced and sprayed 

Profit margins chinagraphed on boardrooms in L.A. 

Absenting landlords meet to match their smiles and fake suntans 

In three years they'll have leached the soil to sand 

 

But a river runs silent, runs deep, I work this land, it grips me by my feet 

Staying 'til my blood runs cold, spark of the heart, iron in the soul 

 

Josie searches saltbush, where rain once ran its course 

It's a shock to see a child of twelve grow old upon a horse 

The glory box lies locked with memories silent as the phone 

But even in the shadows, it's our home 

 

Government relief just might keep breeding stock alive 

The agents jumped the cost of feed and the export market's dived 

And if it breaks, I'm still in debt until I'm ninety eight 

Will the last one out please shut the blody