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Blue Highway
03:25
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A man came riding
Across the mountain range
Down the long blue highway
Through the bad lands
Birds were falling
Out of the sky
They crashed all around him
For miles and miles
He came on Sunday
The church bell rang
The preacher men there
All started praying
In that town called Bastard
The deed was done
He cut everybody
Down one by one
On a lost & lonesome blue highway
You can hear a' calling
High overhead
The sound of crying
On the ghostly wind
Now that town called Bastard
Is lost in time
There ain’t nothing left there
They’ve torn down the signs
On a lost & lonesome blue highway
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Monday's just out the window calling on me to get out of bed
Trams are rattling by all ringing their bells inside of my head
People all rushing to be somewhere on the streets
As fast as they can
Pouring into the buildings
Just keep on breathing somebody said - yeah yeah
Stranger’s eyes hiding deep behind
Their mirrored sunglasses stare
It feels like a 100 degrees yet nobody blinks, nobody cares
Cars all rolling by in lines gonna’ race all up to the red
Hot sun's hanging down all of the buildings shadows bend
The more I find I'm somewhere miles away
Lazin’ on a desert isle
In the middle of the ocean
Drifting on a wave all alone
‘Til here comes another Monday
Riding into the city one of the numbers earning my way
Trying hard not to be such a slave to the wheel every day
Time gets swallowed and I’m struggling to find
Where I fit in this scene
I'm lost and a sorta’ fish out of water
Kill me somebody please
Another Monday
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Last Train
03:06
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On the last train, early morning, her number on my phone rings
She’s gonna meet near near the station in that cheap hotel at the end of the line
A-reservation, heart a' racing, I’m a moth and she’s the light
From the city I’m riding on the last train, the last train home tonight
She’s waiting all alone there, she’s keeping busy she’s gonna call up
For room service says she’s gonna buy me a T-bone steak and a bottle of wine
I know she’s married, she’s got a baby, she’s always working up some alibi
To stay out late and call me up on the last train, the last train of the night
And when the wheels are rollin', her desire's swirling ‘round my head
I’ve tried but I can’t ignore it
When she calls me I come around again and again
On the last train getting closer I can’t stop, yawning
It’s been a long day, I’m so tired yeah I’m four kinds of beaten up
I get a message and a photo, she’s wearing her kimono
She’s been waiting such a long time
On the last train, the last train of the night
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Ain't got nothin' on you
05:15
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I remember when some time ago
When first I saw you dancing in the winter carnival
You came on down the road with that parade
Dressed like a lion tamer in your alligator skinned roller blades
At the party afterwards we said hello
You said I looked like someone that you
Would maybe like to know
Then fireworks lit up across the night
And everything changed from therein
In a blinking of an eye
By the light of the moon low in the sky
And all the colours raining down that night
They looked so pretty but they ain’t got nothin’ on you
And every flower in the spring that’s trembled in the wind
From every last garden of earthly things
They’re all so pretty but they ain’t got nothin’ on you
That night I walked you home you’d lost your shoes
Somewhere behind the bus stop at the Valley swimming pools
Mascara had all run along your face
And we sang Alice Cooper songs and we swam around for ages
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BERMUDA SHADES Melbourne, Australia
Bermuda Shades is the solo work of Melbourne-based songmaker/performer Murray Johnstone.
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