Joelistics - Heart Remains lyrics

[Verse 1] The world gets faster, the tempo skips The mind plays tricks when the sunlight hits me I get a memory flashed like a frisbee Thrown from a thousand long miles away Thoughts go deep and underneath The ground that used to be beneath me There's a restless need to indulge the senses Just to see what the mind remembers Dive in, swim through the maze Hold your breath and let go of the reigns Caught in the rip and the current below Mind got movement, mind got flow From where I stand, the vision expanded Over the red sand over the land Over the city and the bush and beyond Mind gallop over, countless kilometres To a place where the oldest origins Where the silent sleeping sorrow is With a thriving creeping metropolis Where the hearts are as heavy as the wallet is In a colony that paints your dreams With glinted light of the harbour seas The flame trees in amongst the weeds The greenest greens in the rainforest valleys The undergrowth, solar flares Sunsets spread in the sky like prayers The rarest flowers cover the ground Illegal crops support the small towns A house on stilts in a cane field And old wood mill with a chain wheel Insects hum in the afternoon Like a thousand drummers in a tiny room And there's a silver moon that'll rise tonight Shine a light along the countryside Beaches give way to rolling pastures Wheat and barley wait for harvest Fibro houses with peeling paint An old hills hoist and a rusty gate A garden path, a big backyard And a clapped out car in the front And the languid heat makes sleepless nights Lazy speak, mosquito bites Old timers who drive the road trains Rolling cigarettes single handed Outback pubs in the blazing sun Fried up grub in the empty drums Twelve apostles, hungry possums Empty bottles, ancient fossils Friendly blokes, racist jokes And everywhere you look there a ghosts Lightning flash, thunder crack Rain come down and the sky turn black Over fishing trawlers in majestic waters Blistering winds on a ship wreck shore Neptune's wrath with a ledger book You gonna pay for the fish that your fathers took And families fear for the worst in storms But some folk weren't meant to live indoors And the horses run, the eagle soar The car seat's hot and the breeze is warm Drive the car south, follow the signs On highways carved in to lonely coastlines Move forward, sing the praise Drive for days to watch climates change It's highly likely we'll sleep in the back seat With a rolled up pillow and a bed sheet And we drive with a mess on the windscreen And the bugs pasty at the speed And the road runs straight all the way to the west Where the sea gets down with the sunset Road k** flesh, service stations Dry riverbeds, and burnt out cars Saltpan lakes calm and vast Colours explode under skies of gla** Snakes and lizards, red blood ribbons Buried in the dust and the rock and the gra** And the stars in the milky way Transform the night in a darkened frame Distant suns and constellations Shooting stars and the sky is blazing And the gods they must be crazy And the gods they must be crazy And the gods they must be crazy We are all spangled orphans, shifting fortunes Channelling long dead spirits We cling to the coast like ghosts Sunday roasts, English hopes Given way tied to an island with a tyranny of distance With a heart full of gold and persistence And it's hard to say what we'd like to say While Matilda waltzes the night away Through the blood and the sweat And the tears and the laughter The sun and the rain and the thunder And the creeks and the rivers and the reefs And the valleys and the fields and the beach I saw it all clear from my house on a hill In a country for away I thought to myself Til the day that I die That'll be where my heart remains