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from Melbourne Spring by Kinch Kinski

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In Melbourne’s cold streets
I was stumbling-drunk-lost and begging for sleep
I almost wished it was spring

I stared at the streetlights
I fell down in the gutter
And I cursed red wine and every other thing

Right then I met the wind who sang

Who danced so slowly
On the edge of my memories
Who spoke these words to me
She said:

Life is a chore for those who implore
The gods to bless them with sleep
I nodded my head and I smiled
It had been a while
Since someone was honest with me

In scorching starlight
I found the foresight
To dream you came to me

Between the curtains
I felt so certain
That the world was like a speck in the sea

At my window was a girl who told me this was true

That every world bubbles at it’s edges
That all love is stolen
That time’s a friend and a thief
She said:

Life is unfair you cannot prepare
For the gods get drunk and play dice
I nodded my head and I smiled
It had been a while
Since someone was honest with me

If you want to stay safe, stop the world and get out
The stars are exploding and you say there’s no need to shout
Well I woke up last night stuck inside my own dream
And my eyes were the colour of Jesus’ cold bones
And I knew all too well that we all die alone
And that heaven’s a number you dial on the phone
That the soul is a scab that death scrapes from our skulls
That peace is a moment, a nothing, a lull
And I thought: how simple, and I thought: how pure
Then I smiled and accepted the pains of this pitiless cure

Life is a chore for those who implore
The gods to bless them with sleep
I nodded my head and I smiled
It had been a while
Since someone was honest with me

Life is unfair you cannot prepare
For the gods get drunk and play dice
I nodded my head and I smiled
It had been a while
Since someone was honest with me

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from Melbourne Spring, released September 9, 2008

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Kinch Kinski Thornbury, Australia

Kinch Kinski played in a grunge band, then a gypsy band, then a psychedelic jam band and a covers band with a drill in it called P.E.N.I.S, then a folk-pop quartet, then, in confusion, he went solo for a few years.

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