Australia from COUNTRY by Skylar Gudasz
Tracklist
| 8. | Australia | 6:42 |
Lyrics
AUSTRALIA
What are all the ways people can
Know each other?
What are all the ways
People can know each other
Know each other?
Did I know you that way
Almost good man?
Twice my age
You taught me to sail
You took me to your villa
You took me ‘round the country
Pouring out your wine
Impressing my friends
Til the talk turned to politics
Your million dollar mansion by the sea
And everyone at the mercy of your hospitality
Australia is burning
Australia is burning
Your borrowed country
After the concert
You commended the performance
And then you said that
I was not good enough yet
Never could you spare a compliment
Without saying something insulting
Remember the day
You took me to the airport
Against the car
You took my picture
You told me about the novel
You were writing
The one where the man is
Cheating on his wife
Back home in America
I receive letters
I speak on the telephone
I feel intensity
What is it that you wanted from me?
I didn’t ask for a teacher
What is it that you wanted from me?
We don’t always get to choose our teachers
Australia is burning
Australia is burning
Your borrowed country
I know that it’s confusing
These strange screens
We watch each other on
I know that it’s confusing
These strange screens
We talk to each other on
I still think of you sometimes
Standing by the sea
Shoulders in the sun
(Water’s rising, the horizon)
I think of you sometimes
Staring at the sea, every man a Ulysses
(Water’s rising, the horizon)
I think of you sometimes
Standing by the sea
Burning white hot
What made you so angry
That you were so lucky?
What made you so angry
Did you have to be the hero?
You the object of my eye
And I the ungrateful guest
Power is something you want
Or have or you don’t want
Power is something you want
Or have or you don’t want
Power is something you want
Or have or you don’t want
“Who prays for the bosses?”
You said to me
