Backwaters

Sun so high

Water hole's dry

I wanna give up

But I don't know why

Sun so hot that meat cooks

In the shade

Saw a lemming

It was choking on death

It's mother'd kicked

And broken its neck

I've never seen blood or milk

Mix so divine

I've never seen such beauty

So maligned

Brother said

"Brother never done me good"

Nodding a face

Full of campfire soot

Been burning

Up our coals

Sting like a bitch

I catch a lift

On the last bus home

To the end of the line

For what coppers I own

I get thrown off, hit on, beat up,

Before I drown

In the murky backwaters

I'll lay my body down

Fifty stars above my head, and

Thirteen scars run through my chest

Blue and red blood

Become my veins

Blackened eyes

And a purple nose

I've got missing teeth

Got a lot of those

Oh, Marigold

You've never done me no harm

Marigold, in debt to you

Don't ever wanna say

The things I've thought of you

Marigold, I wrote you

A love song