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oddsox - suicide country lyrics

(chorus: alicia renee)
like the river runs
so will we
far from home
like the river runs
so will we
far from home

(verse 1: oddsox)
like the river runs he just want to run away
he wished that rivers ran so barren in this place
and it hasn’t rained for many days the clouds they never condensate, evaporate his losing faith he really want to get away
but the cattle’s got to eat and there is not a blade of gr-ss upon this field and he hasn’t got a payment
hasn’t got a rain check, hasn’t got a check cos it hasn’t rained yet and he can’t afford the hay then
his drinking too much hes got to feel something
he can barely function a zombie feeling nothing
pain he feels inside and this anger its erupting
this the place he grew up he was meant to be a success
that’s it lost this , this is not living
walking round his property hes staring at a stark image
blankly a life that his facing a life that he wasted a life that hes taking

(chorus: alicia renee)
like the river runs
so will we
far from home
like the river runs
so will we
far from home

(verse 2: oddsox)
even as i write this i’m drunk and i’m isolated
iv been walking round my property i’m so sedated
staring at this gum tree that we used to climb now its intertwined with a different image in my mind
what you’ll find if you go and check the fact sheets
crying when i read em this is something i don’t want to read
where we are living three times more likely
to die from your own hand living in the country
whats the cause of this really yo it makes me sick
i understand the isolation something that we gotta fix
this waste of life is happening just because the place we live
a place that i love and i have grown up since a kid
people think its the only option
a permanent solution to a temporary problem
where you are living someone talks you off the ledge
but where we are living there are animals and sheds and that’s it

(chorus: alicia renee)
like the river runs
so will we
far from home
like the river runs
so will we
far from home

(verse 3 : poem: robbie coburn)
been here too long, have to get out
the fear that beats into you
living in the country remains with you long after you’ve gone
becoming a second skin dislodged when away from the gr-sses
a part of the body embedded in endless paddocks
from the beginning, the greater years convene
at the point of youth
threads of a silence beckoning you nearer-
the farmland has it’s own language, the voice of dirt you numb with drink
with marks along your flesh that never heal, only press deeper
you learn too late, never escaping the clean wind
inside the fence-lines, the property’s border
fleeing from all you know to be consuming
to get out, take a rifle from the shed and do away
with the isolation for good, is all you can dream of
where the air stands in place of buildings
with no-one new to see
freedom becomes intolerable
that’s why more people die by their own hand
in the country than in the cold city
everyone is somehow absent of themselves
when isolation is your company
the quiet land without immersion
the road out of town that rises beneath cars
leaving the country for the city
your feet never miss the paddocks
though still a tension between the outside
and the openness

(chorus: alicia renee)
like the river runs
so will we
far from home
like the river runs
so will we
far from home

- oddsox lyrics

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