Paroles de Australian Winter

Up through the ashes you rose Leaving her forever purer than before All of her goodness enclosed With an ever-burning red volcanic glow From your honest eyes, I stole And I've forsaken you, and I amount to nothing Still up these rivers we'll row Far away along, fish in flow forever I fly around the earth Fluttering along, humming like a swallow I sing their long eyes to sleep But their applause leaves me blank and hollow The ocean beneath me is loneliness The cities all are one, Repeating and repeating The haunted rustling of leaves Screeching 'cross the porch, Raindrops pluck the windows I pull myself underneath Her warm soft blankets This Australian winter