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Export-Led Recovery

I was basking in the glow
of an export-led recovery
I was sitting by the window
When my whole life flashed in front of me
So I let the sheep explode til there was you, when you were hugging me

I’d been hearing all this fuss
About a ‘Knowledge-based Society’
But when I thought of folks like us
I couldn’t picture it for the life of me
But we had knowledge once and now the word has just reminded me

How we once strolled arm in arm
Looking straight up at the galaxy
It reminded me of bars
where the sunlight’s just a fallacy
But Grey Lynn has its charms and, for a night, it really flattered me

With its wide roads and its palms
And a hint of dereliction
where a frangipani’ed calm
slowly spreads in all directions
You led me by the arm to parts I cannot mention

So we lay down in the weeds
making walls of thighs and knees
Oh my quarter acre dream … had a Pavlova complexion

I was basking in the glow
of an export-led recovery
I was sitting by the window
when an awful thought occurred to me
Remember when the stars conjured more than just astronomy?

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from Songs From The Bottom of a Hilltop - Downhill Side, track released November 13, 2010

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