A Thousand Lives

Yeah

A thousand lives and livin'

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I grew up by the Great Western Highway on the train lines

I used to count the carriages of coal trains

Before I knew of Cannonball and Coltrane, I was playing ball games

I'd go to sleep on Friday night, prayin' that it wouldn't rain

Dad built a B-ball hoop then flew the coop

And us kids fought like troops and mine was the truth

I can't believe I threw my sister through the front door

I learnt my lesson well before the triple 0 core

And on the tape deck, my brother had control

Gettin' schooled by Improper in the cold

24S, flanelette and skateboard, foggy wet weekends

Funny how a four-litre cask make you see friends

Parties at the park and drunk, taggin' State Rail

Smoked through empty cans of coke when all else failed

Wildin' out on muck-up day, turn it into muck-up night

'Cause school didn't seem to care if we were fuck-ups, right?

We were blowin' off steam, still not even eighteen

Floatin' somewhere downstream with a vague dream

If I could change an hour, maybe I'd move a minute

However many lives I've had, I'm only just beginning

I learned a few things along the way

Try to keep 'em front and centre with me every day

All the rest can and will fall away

Hold tight who you love, let the rest fall away

Let the rest fall away

Don't look back, hopin' for the same

'Cause from where I've come, I've changed

How to explain the hundred lives I've lived

And a thousand more I've craved

Change with me

In my happy younger days, I was a blank page in an empty book

I recall that naive innocence of childhood

Never really was wild, more a quiet one

Grew into a shy teen that didn't seem to smile much

Took off for South America at seventeen

Became a sudaco punk in skinny jeans

There I learned what passion, love and friendship really mean

Came back to a cold, cold world that I couldn't really feel