Letter From An Australian Mining Town chords by Darren Hanlon

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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If it wasn't for
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the blinding sun I might enjoy the view
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I'm trying to pick the ripest words
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to use to describe to
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You all the ordinary things
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within my line of sight
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I just wanted to write
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Verse 2
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Its only been 11 days I won
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der if I'll last
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But the room's just how I like 'em
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unmolested of its past
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I've got books for if I'm bored
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a door to open when it's hot
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To think it's ever not
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Verse 3
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Like afternoons when clouds come
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and hang low over the planes
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A gentle rapture grips the people
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out here when it rains
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They dream and wake to find
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it gone as quickly as it came
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And everything's the same
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Verse 4

And all around the dust spins and plays across

the ground

Interlude 1

Verse 5
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But you and I are changeable
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by millionths of degrees
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Our compasses spin wild and we're
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blown round by the breeze
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We land to find the secrets and
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the people who confess them
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We just wanna learn but
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never to possess them

Verse 6
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So I go down to meet the raucous
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din that fills the bar most night
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I seek out conversation
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and deftly avoid the fights
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One says "If we're all of this earth
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then on  the earth we dwell,
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But can take out what's in the
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earth aswell"

Verse 7
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Another seems to be amused
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that I came here by choice
And it hits you,
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all the miles you travelled just to find a voice
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For all these ends and loose threads
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that need pulling in your brain
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To know that you are strange
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Verse 8

And all around the dust spins and plays across

the ground

Interlude 2

Verse 9
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I try to understand the solar
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system 'till it hurts my head
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I decide to make it relative with
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objects round my bed
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If the earth is on my pillow and
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the sun lies in the sink
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Then we're closer than we think
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Verse 10
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Your father took me up  to show
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the house upon the hill
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We pushed through racks of dusty
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clothes to find your old room still
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As it was when once into with arm
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s   of wood he crept
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To warm you while you slept
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Verse 11
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I can picture you now wak ing to
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another frosty morning
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The winter birds or carol for
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the places they were born in
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Your little heart beats fast and sends
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a flush to your cheeks red
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And you get out of bed
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Verse 12
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Are there ways that you can read my
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thoughts across the Great Divide
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Can you tell I'm thinking of  you as if
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you're here by my side
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Do they reach you as a shiver when you're
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up hiking 'neath the trees
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Or as a pollen in the air that makes you sneeze

Interlude 3
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Verse 13

And on the air the dust plays

and gets in everywhere

Verse 14
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Now nighttime travels
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over me with all the stars aboard
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A freight train leaves for somewhere
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and it blows an eerie chord
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And I'll sign off this letter and I chop
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the ends and fold it
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And send it off tomorrow and hope
that someday soon your hands will hold it