Alice
©2019 Stephen R Coffee
If you visit the Australian Outback, whatever manner of adventure you are seeking, be careful what you ask for--and don't forget the way back!
Finalist, Opoen Category: Mid-Atlantic Song Contest 2019
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(Verse)
Wallabies watch out for tourists
Dream their dreams and stare right through us
From the cliffs above the talus.
Down below we scrape our shins
Catch our breath, confess our sins
Every road leads back to Alice.
Listen to the morning mix
A thousand artificial clicks
As our phones take in the sunrise.
Oh to be back in your swag
Laid out on some rocky crag
Rendered senseless by the night skies.
(Chorus)
You can’t say the name for
What it is you came for
Still you’re not the same for
Going down this road
What’s a little Outback?
Then you feel your soul crack
Too late now to backtrack
Better lose your load
Every road leads back to Alice
(Verse)
Though you’re laid up by the blisters
As they walk the seven sisters
Aboriginals go shoeless
Sixty thousand years surviving
And your dream’s just now arriving
Every road leads back to Alice
Questions you’re afraid to ask
Is your heart up to the task?
Uluru will have the answer.
Hard to say who needs it most
High school students from the coast
Or the old man with the cancer.
(Chorus)
(Verse)
What new land did you discover
Find your way or lose your lover
In the terra australis?
If you fly or if you falter
Your trajectory’s been altered
Every road leads back to Alice.
(Alt chorus)
Whose idea to walkabout?
Who will hear your primal shout?
You could take the bush route
Never find that road
What’s a little setback?
No time for a panic attack
Soon it will be pitch black
Better find that road
(Chorus)
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