Paul Kelly - From Saint Kilda To Kings Cross

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>from st . kilda to king’s cross is thirteen hours on a bus

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i press my face against the glass and watch the white lines

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rushing past

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and all around me felt like all inside me

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and my body left me and my soul went running

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have you ever seen king’s cross when the rain is falling soft

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i came in on the evening bus from oxford street i cut across

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and if the rain don’t fall too hard

emin amin
everything shines just like a postcard

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everything goes on just the same

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fairweather friends are the hungriest friends

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i keep my mouth well shut , i cross their open hands

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i want to see the sun go down from st . kilda esplanade

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where the beach needs reconstruction , where the palm trees have it hard

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i’d give you all of sydney harbour

emin amin
all that land , all that water ,

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for that one sweet promenade .

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i’d give you all of sydney harbour

emin amin
all that land , all that water ,

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for that one sweet promenade .