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Nth Melbourne the wallflower

from Little Victories by The Idle Hoes

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lyrics

north melbourne you're a wallflower
you stand back where others have shone
with your bars of dreaming hearts and
open minds
with the housewives choice and
mark ferries voice singing
copper kettle and calling me home
I've laid there among the junipers often
at the town hall my second home

well i came here to be
from over the sea
across asian bounds in planes
with bob and willie nelson
the only things true inside my veins
but you showed me the ground and
you slowed me down
with your smog covered windows
pavements and walls and
you taught me to drink and
that people who think are
seldom the ones who
are heard

I've fallen in love and
I've fallen to hell and your
streets they know me
plain either strung out
from half cut ideas or
the carlton I've been pumping
through my veins
with no weight from the world
you're a country girl though
you're close to the city your
mind's still your own you
thought - 'we'll wait and see' and
babe you let me be whatever was
in my world

fitzroy's got it all but
she knows it far too well and
the bay sure is beautiful but
pretentious as hell
my love she's calm in silence
with her market and gardens
she true and she's free and
she laughs and says
'shaun for fuck sake don't take things so, seriously'

well the world it is run by
cash and when on fails
another tries to let
money bribe apart your
timid thighs and they
buy you new clothes and
put shit up your nose
babe I feel you changing and
not as you should
so when i go
my darling I know I'll
be leaving you for good.

who can tell where my
fortune has fell when
the years have come and gone
when my afros cut back to mask
my foreheads shine and my
steps I retrace going back
to the place where errol st
bends near the clock tower
tall and I'll walk down the
street in my old beaten
feet for a glass at the townhall.

and there we'll be
my lady and me now
wrinkled around the ends
next to girls with shiny faces
playing with latest fashion men and
her hand's I'll caress and her
heart I will bless but
from mine I will confess
with johnny and jules and
the rest of us fools
that's the way I loved you best

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from Little Victories, released April 1, 2008

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