DISC 2

HOME TOWN

Verse 1

You got livestock on your mainstreet

An tired dogs that lie

In the evenin’s all the men talk outside

You’re unhurried lifestyle

 Dispenses with time

Home town your mornin’s  just fine

Verse 2

Your unruly haired children

Got shangai’s an smiles

An the cool shade of your wide streets divine

You sit cross legged an’ listless wid your hat on your eyes

 Home town your whole days just fine

Verse 3

Your twice a week mail train brings you fresh food an booze

‘till it’s due in a man might as well snooze

I can see 20 odd mile straight along it’s steel line

Home town your mornin’s are just fine

Verse 4

You’re a comfort to be in

Like a well worn old shoe

An I feel no guilt when there’s nothin’ to do

I’ll walk on your quiet streets till the day that I die

Home town your lifestyle’s just fine

Yer home town your lifestyles sublime

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DAJARRA NIGHT WIND

Verse 1

Translucent  twilight transcends the blazing death throes of the
 Sunset

The death of the day holds sway …..as the indigoed evening
 descends….descends down.

All is quiet…..all is calm….embalmed in the breathlessness
 of ……being

Verse 2

The last eagles rise from the bloated carcasses of the dead road- 

kills and retreat to the sanctuary and serenity of the ghost barked 

gums, starkly profiled against the orange-ochred 

vividness…clinging to the cragged, ancient mountains that jut

from the horizonless plains….like gidgee through the matted

 spinifex

Verse 3

All is calm….all is quiet….nestling in the womb and infinity of 

this satin black wilderness

Verse 4

The timeless topography of this ancient landscape, dynamically 

dominates the inquiring intellect.

Verse 5

Time….is transformed from a 

construct….to…..a…transition …between…night-day…day-

dusk…dusk-dawn…that spawns a sense of being…..a seeing…a

 feeling…like a bottomless ceiling of solitude….no alpha….no 

omega….omnipresent..always…constantly….evolving…statically

 stoic…yet…dynamically stable

Verse 6

All is quiet….all is………

The shroud of the twilight embraces the

 earth like a cloak of kinetic consciousness….enveloping….en

 closing…..surrounding….the solitude of silences that embrace the

 humans spirit….through the multitudes in ecstasy….beyond the

 deserts of human desolation to the eternity of the cosmos that is 

caressed by the solar winds

Verse 7

All is calm….all….

The night descends….down ….now the night negates the 

brilliance of the illuminated sunlight…..the twilight reigns in the

 purpled-black infinity

Verse 8

Nothing here….that is known…can be comprehended

Nothing here that is comprehended can be known

Verse 9

The seeds of futility are sown in the aridity of ….human 

objectivity

The night-hawk calls on the knowing night 

wind….Dajarra….Dajarra….Dajarra…..and now the end is the 

beginning…..the beginning has begun.

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HAUNTED MAN

Verse 1

Deep in the heart of the CBD

In the grip of the gutters grime

Minstrel there in the neon glare

Sang songs of an age gone by

Verse  2

His fiddle’s tune it so sadly sang

To the beat of the evenin’ rain

I dropped my coins into his case

And inquired what was his name

Verse 3

He nodded thanks, an his sightless eyes

Stared straight ahead past mine

He said ‘there’s no need to buy my name friend

For I know your heart is kind’

Chorus
‘I feel a haunted man stands near

And this prayer for him I’ll pray

 Peace decree on this wanderin’ soul

He’s just a child that’s lost his way

A child that lost his way’

Verse 5

I says ‘blind man you waste your breath

To pray at a rainin’ sky

There’s nothing up there ‘cept cold despair

An the wind in the electric wires’

Verse 6

He says ‘though I’m blinded to this world

I may see with the clearer eyes

My ears perceive what your eye can’t see

What you see us a veneered disguise’

Chorus

‘I feel a haunted man stands near

And this prayer for him I’ll pray

 Peace decree on this wanderin’ soul

He’s just a child that’s lost his way

A child that lost his way’

Verse 7

Well the years ahead they’ve come an gone

The seasons , ten times turned

The beggar blind I’ve since not seen

But his prayer in my soul is burned 

Chorus

‘I feel a haunted man stands near

And this prayer for him I’ll pray

 Peace decree on this wanderin’ soul

He’s just a child that’s lost his way

A child that lost his way’

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Earth Mother’s Woman Child

Verse 1

I’ve walked on this earth through the wet an’ the dry

I’ve endured in the deserts and the snows

With my breasts I have suckled the essence of life

I’m the Woman Child who’s 2,000,000 years old

Chorus

I’m the Earth Mothers Woman Child

Child of the Earth

Verse 2

I’ve fed an I’ve wed I’ve borne an’ my heart’s bled for my son’s 

an’ daughters who have fought every war

I’ve been admired and defiled as a temptress an’ a saint

I’ve endured under every male law

Chorus

I’m the Earth Mothers Woman Child

Child of the Earth

Verse 3

I’ve hoed and I’ve sowed, I’ve planted an reaped

I’ve stored  an’ I’ve cooked, I’ve consoled

Through seasons of sadness: Pleasure and pain

I’ve nursed both the young an’ the old

Chorus

I’m the Earth Mothers Woman Child

Child of the Earth

Verse 4

I nuture existence from the womb to the tomb

Sustained by fruits from the earth

I’m the alpha and omega, beginning an the end

I’m the one that ensures constant rebirth

Verse 5

I’m a prophet, poet, a healer and a judge

Without there ain’t nothin’ exists

I’m the future, past, present, the sadness in death

I’m the love that’s in every child’s kiss

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PEOPLE’S CAPTAIN SAID

Verse 1

Through the orbits spinning plane

There came each message borne with flame

“you can’t ever return this way”

The peoples’ captain said

Verse 2

And now each journeys just begun

Doubts for all an death for some

“it’s the rigours to escape the waste”

The peoples’ captain said

Verse 3

To reach a haven further out

To seek the peace and quell the doubts

“to cross this space, but yet again”

The peoples’ captain said

Verse 4

But what he knew, they failed to know

Each trusted chart just didn’t show

“The phoenix here may never rise”

the peoples’ captain said

Verse 5

Beyond the pulse of quasar stars

Nothing seemed to hide the bars

“In silent space, the soul is sad”

The peoples’ captain said.

Verse 6

The hopeless look in limpid eyes

They faced ahead and clutched each child

“The swirling mist of time refines”

The peoples’ captain said

Verse 7

Where to turn, without faith and hope?

Life’s charade … a sickenin’ joke

“You’d be leaderless without a fate”

The peoples’ captain said

Verse 8

In the hierarchy of each animal

The dominant will dictates

“The path ahead, will be curved but straight”

The peoples’ captain said

Verse 9

Galactic space is just outside

They touched the glass and sensed the pride

But the waiting worlds they’ll never find….

‘cause the peoples’ captain’s dead……

Each peoples’ Fuehrer is dead

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TRACKER’S SONG

VERSE 1

MY WOMAN DEAR, THIS OCHRE PAINT

LIKE THE COLOUR OF OUR SKIN

IT AIN’T GOT NO PLACE IN THE WHITE MAN’S WORLD

WE’RE BLACK, PAGAN AND HEATHEN………WE SIN

VERSE 2

OH MY WOMAN LOVE….A WHITE ONE’S SKIN

IS HIDDEN BENEATH THEIR CLOTHES……

THEIR UNIFORMS, STATUS, POWER AN’ MIGHT

IT JUST HIDES WHAT THEY DON’T KNOW

VERSE 3

EACH ELDER TAUGHT US HOW TO TRACK

HOW TO LEARN FROM THE MOTHER EARTH

TO LISTEN TO THE WIND SONGS

THIS LAND, IS A SACRED CHURCH

VERSE 4

WHITEFELLA KNOWS WE CAN READ THIS EARTH

WE CAN TRACK WHAT THEY CAN’T SEE

THIS BLINDNESS IS AN IGNORANCE

A DEEP SADNESS FOR YOU AND ME

VERSE 5

WOMAN DEAR, A PRECIOUS CHILD IS LOST

FOLLOWIN’ THE JOURNEY OF THE MOON

FROM THAT HOMESTEAD TO THEM HILLS BEYOND

BUT THEY KNOW I’LL FIND HER SOON.

VERSE 6

A MAN’S EYES AT NIGHT ARE HYPNOTISED

IN THE EMBERS OF THE CAMFIRES WOMB

THAT LITTLE CHILD’LL WALK A WESTWARD PATH

DRAWN BY THE MAGNET OF THE MOON

DRAWN BY THE MAGNET OF THE MOON

OUTRO

WHEN THE WINDWALKER CAME….

 RODE IN ON THE RAW WINDS OF CHANGE

WHEN THE WINDWALKER CAME…

 RODE IN ON THE RAW WINDS OF CHANGE


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DROPPIN' THE WEIGHTS

VERSE 1

OL' WISE WOMAN SAID, 'I WANT YOU TO KNOW

THE LIGHTER YOU TRAVEL, THE QUICKER YOU GO

WHEN THE WAGON'S OVERLOADED AN THE ROPES DON'T HOLD

YOU GOTTA DROP THAT WEIGHT AN' LIGHTEN THE LOAD'.

VERSE 2

SKY GODDESS CAME....AN ENCHANTED ME

SAID, 'YOUR MIND IS WEIGHED DOWN WITH ANXIETY

I'LL EMBRACE YOUR SPIRIT.......INSTALL FIRE IN YOUR SOUL

SO YOU'LL DROP THIS WEIGHT.....AN' LIGHTEN YOUR LOAD'

VERSE 3

LEAVIN' BEHIND ALL THE HARD EARTH I'VE HOED

FOLLOWIN' THE WIND WHEREVER SHE BLOWS

BURDENS UNSHACKLED.....LEARNT TO LET GO

DROPPIN' THE WEIGHTS.....YA LIGHTEN THE LOAD

VERSE 4

CROSSIN' RAINFOREST MOUNTAINS DOWN TO THE SEA

SAW DOLPHINS AND WHALES THERE.....THEY WATCHIN' ME

DARK CAVES ABLAZE WITH THE FIREFLIES GLOW

DROPPIN' THE WEIGHTS YEH....IT LIGHTENS THE LOAD            

VERSE 5
KNOCKED ON THE HUT DOOR OF A LONE SHEPHERD'S PLACE

WELCOMED WITH THE WARMTH OF A LOST LOVER'S EMBRACE

FREEDOM OF NOT KNOWIN' WHICH WAY THE ROAD GOES

DROPPIN' THE WEIGHT YA LIGHTEN' THE LOAD

VERSE 6

FOUND CARAVAN TRAVELLERS......COLD DESERT NIGHT

SHARED FOOD AN SHELTER UNDER DESERT MOON LIGHT

CAMELS AND BLACK TENTS.....ANCIENT RUINS BELOW

DROPPIN  THE WEIGHT IT LIGHTENS THE LOAD

VERSE 7

NEVER SAW JUSTICE IN THE TEMPLES OF MAMMON

THERE AIN'T NO LOVE IN A STEEL BALL FIRED FROM A CANNON

WHEN THE OASIS IS DRY.....AN THE WATER DON'T FLOW

TIME TO MOVE CAMP......AN LIGHTEN THE LOAD

VERSE 8

HIGH ANDEAN WIND......A LONE CONDOR FLIES

HERE'S THE PAN FLUTES OF PASSION....AN GUITARS OF DESIRE

THE BEGGAR AN THE PAUPER KNOW HOW IT GOES

BY DROPPIN' THE WEIGHT THEY LIGHTEN' THE LOAD

VERSE 9

PREACHER MAN SAID HE'D PREACHED WITH PAUL SILAS

INQUIRED HAD HE EVER FELT THE SOLITUDE OF SILENCE?

HE LOOKED AT ME......AS AN ALIEN FOE

WHEN I SAID, 'IF YOU DROP THAT WEIGHT FRIEND......

YOU MAY LIGHTEN OUR LOAD

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