Water | Kerryn Fields Water

Atlantis

Loving you is a dance to a tune

In the kitchen with the nook of your back

Breathing up against my hand

If you want Atlantis

I’d dive in the ocean

You can bet I’d find it there

I know where I’m going, yeah

Let the light above be

Aurora Borealis, baby

Pocahontas

I die for the way that you love that song

I wanna kiss my woman,

first thing in the morning

Just like you

Don’t overthink yourself baby

I’m not asking for any more than you

If you want Atlantis

I’d dive in the ocean

You can bet I’d find it there

I know where I’m going, yeah

Let the light above be

Aurora Borealis, baby

Pocahontas

I die for the way that you love that song

You are incredible woman

Baby, Neil Young would be begging

To write you, if he could

If you want Atlantis

I’d dive in the ocean

You can bet I’d find it there

I know where I’m going, yeah

Let the light above be

Aurora Borealis, baby

Pocahontas

I die for the way that you love that song

Loving you is a dance to the moon

In the backyard in the nape of your neck

Breathing, up against your skin

Escape

Stack the wood, light the fire

Pitch our tent under moonlight

Dust beneath our clothes

Dirt between our toes

To anywhere but here

Aboard the morning train

That’s driving me insane

Could be anytime from now

C’mon and break me out

I need to Escape

We’ll head on out

on your motorbike

We’re gonna ride right

though the night

And watch the sunrise

Stretch between our eyes

To anywhere but here

Aboard the morning train

That’s driving me insane

Could be anytime from now

C’mon and break me out

I need to Escape

We’ll both change our names

Make up our own way

When we fly away - oh

They’ll be no looking back

I don’t need another day

Let’s just fly away

To anywhere but here

Aboard the morning train

That’s driving me insane

Could be anytime from now

C’mon and break me out

I need, I need, I need – oh

To anywhere but here

Aboard the morning train

That’s driving me insane

Queenie

I’ve got no money in the bank

This guitar slung on my back

And this hat I have worn a while

I came here alone

And that’s how I’ll go

I won’t be long back out your door

But I can light a fire and roll out a swag

Climb a mountain top and drink water there

I’m a Queen of the road

I need Earth, I need Air

To where I’ve been

The places I’ve survived

Strumming my way through town

And what I don’t sing

It’s too deep in me

And mostly that weighs me down

I can light a fire and roll out a swag

Climb a mountain top and drink water there

I’m a Queen of the road

I need Earth, I need Air

Oooo…..

I can light a fire and roll out a swag

Climb a mountain top and drink water there

I’m a Queen of the road

I need Earth, I need Air

I’ve got no plan ahead

And I change direction

I guess I stare too long at the stars

Mmmm mmmm mmmm

Until You

My heart has been hiding in a box

It’s been waiting for love to pick the lock

I’ve been sitting here, singing in the dark

Thinking no one could open me up

Until you

How exceptionally, beautifully,

Wonderfully God made you

When nobody was giving me the answer

Coz nobody was telling me the truth

I’ve been searching for the heart of the matter

Had no one I could lean on to

Until you

How exceptionally, beautifully,

Wonderfully God made you

I got used to believing,

That love is no use

I got used to telling myself

that I’m just a fool

Until you

Now my heart is as wide as the ocean

When I think about coming home to you

I’ll be dancing like a pretty ballerina

With my treasure chest open to you

All for you

How exceptionally, beautifully

Wonderfully God oh

Exceptionally, beautifully, wonderfully

God made you

Out On The Porch

Guitar slicker, Banjo picker

Drinking Johnny Cash’s liquor

Out on the porch

That’s how I want to die

Listening to Joan Baez

Smoking Willie Nelson’s hash

Out on the porch

That’s how I want to die

I don’t wanna be

Doped up, cooped up, cut up or stitched up

By a Doctor to keep living

If I’ve got to go then you let me go

I’ll be headed straight for heaven

Don’t leave me

Doped up, cooped up, cut up or stitched up

That’s not really living

Take me out on the porch

That’s how I want to die

No will no money no God dammed worries

Bless my soul and burn my body

Out on the porch

That’s how I want to die

Dig a hole and plant a tree

Tell all my friends to have a wild party

Out on the porch, that’s how I want to die

I don’t wanna be

Doped up, cooped up, cut up or stitched up

By a Doctor to keep living

If I’ve got to go then you let me go

I’ll be headed straight for heaven

Don’t leave me

Doped up, cooped up, cut up or stitched up

That’s not really living

Take me out on the porch

That’s how I want to die

I don’t wanna be

Doped up, cooped up, cut up or stitched up

By a Doctor to keep living

If I’ve got to go then you let me go

I’ll be headed straight for heaven

Don’t leave me

Doped up, cooped up, cut up or stitched up

That’s not really living

Take me out on the porch

That’s how I want to die

Watch the sunset, see the stars

Tell the world to kiss my…

Out on the porch

That’s how I want to…. die

Mamma

You got your chance to hit the big time

But instead you hit the crack pipe

Mamma’s gonna see you right, baby

Mamma’s gonna see you right

Now you’ve done wrong to many a man

And they’re gonna catch you if they can

But Mamma’s gonna see you right, baby

Mamma’s gonna see you right

Only your Mamma’s love can save ya baby

When you’ve messed up your whole damn life

Only your Mamma’s love can save ya baby 

So Mamma’s gonna see you right baby

Mamma’s gonna see you right

Times are tough and you feel like a God damned fool

Coz it’s all your fault and you’re bound to hang 

But one step up from the bottom of the whiskey glass

Is love, and who else in the world to ask

So you come home a broken man

Skin and bone and empty hands

But Mamma’s gonna see you right baby

Mamma’s gonna see you right

St Kilda Pier

The sun is rising far across St Kilda pier

And I’m badly hungover coz my marriage is over

And I can’t believe it’s you that brought me here

But if I were to imagine, a place that I could fit in with you

It might be right here in St Kilda with that sun shining on ya

And we could rent a window with a view

I’ll call you my new darling, but I’m not ready to settle down

Because I have run away where I’m not welcome back to stay

I had to pack my bags and get rid out of town

But if I were to imagine, a place that I could fit in with you

It might be right here in St Kilda with that sun shining on ya

And we could rent a window with a view

We could come we could go, and not hang our heads so low

Nobody would even know that we’re here

Coz we’d be looking out the window, far across the water

As the sun shines above St Kilda pier

Where I’ve Been

I’m lost and I’m lonely in a country I don’t know

I’ve been winding and binding down the Great Ocean Road

But I don’t recognise anything I see

It was out in the open ranges where we’d travelled for miles and ages

Searching for the lovely places that might open up and embrace us

Where I thought, we’d find what we’ve been looking for

So now I’m a feather torn from it’s wing

I’ll let the weather decide everything

At least I know where I’ve been

When we’d journeyed far enough, we stopped to catch our breath

Where we found the house and garden that would lead to the death

Of our dreams, that had kept us travelling along

But it rained and it rained oh it rained and it rained

The storm was the end although our hearts refused to bend

But all our hope, it got lost, scattered like debris

So now I’m a feather torn from it’s wing

I’ll let the weather decide everything

At least I know where I’ve been

There’ll be no more pulling over now to scan the vast horizon saying

Where to my lover now it’s only me deciding, where I’ll land

And I know, it’s you that understands

For you, were my home

Black Fire

This old man

Hit the road hard

When the black fire rolled through his town

There was not enough water to drown

Not enough water to drown

Black fire

The old story goes

Only a stranger knows

Coz you can’t hide from who you are

With that God almighty scar

God almighty scar

Black fire

Black Fire roars like a thunder on the wind

It’s alive in every direction

This old man

Hit the road hard

When the black fire rolled through his town

There was not enough water to drown

Not enough water to drown

Fifteen

We were out in the shed

When he said divorce

Was around the corner

Said he didn’t have a choice

I was fifteen

He knew it was rough

But I knew my Father
Would do it for love

This old shed

Tells a story

Of two sweethearts

Who were the best of friends

Up on the wall

Is a picture of us

My Dad still drives

The old pick up truck

Where the radio music

Plays the old fashioned songs

He's fixing the motor

And singing along

She was fifteen

He was two years above

When they met each other

When they fell in love

Mum looked in the mirror

And she made up her mind

Pulled back the covers

And left on the light

When you’re fifteen

You just don’t know enough

It was a woman

That she longed to love

This old shed

Tells a story

Of two sweethearts

Who were the best of friends

Up on the wall

Is a picture of us

My Dad still drives

The old pick up truck