Mt Wellington Reverie Lyrics - Singles - Augie March

You can't walk through the Isle of the dead 

You can't lie still in the guest house bed 

There's a pair of black eyes staring down at you 

From the mountain top, through y'r window 

The bunks are empty, your mates are gone 

Breakfast lasts an hour long 

O warm bread, drawn tea 

The bastards'll never get to me 

But somebody knows, somebody knows 

Somebody always knows 

Where a body goes 

I were one of two, we were joined at the shoe 

When we thought to make our break 

So we shimmied our locks and we knocked up a box 

And we rode the thing down the waterway 

Now the Derwent twists and the Derwent slides 

It's a moving thing with many eyes 

O who'd have thought, at all or often 

That vehicle would become our coffin? 

So many souls, so many souls 

So many souls in the water 

I left me a little daughter and I left me a girl 

And I left them alone in that tired old world 

O where are they now? 

I am one of a gang set to work on the land 

A clearin' and fellin' and killin' 

The best of us here has a conscience clear 

And he goes about it keen and willin' 

We're shooting them from the rocks 

And we're shooting them in the water 

And when they're runnin' we're shootin' them in the backs 

And we do it without a thought or care? 

So many lies, so many lies, so many lies been told 

We'll none of us here grow old 

Not gracefully, not peacefully in this blind old land 

In this dreaming land, some demon's land