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TOURNIQUET (Bridie)

Only once in a lifetime, once in a while
Never in my generation

It just kept coming, for days it fell
Revenge with intent, this August rainfall
The crops we grew, feral cats let roam
European flowers they been overgrown

The weed and thistle, litany of pests
A burial ground near a nuclear bomb test

An abandoned tractor like an inland whale
With a swollen belly and a broken sail

What previously was lifeless cracked and dry
Is now in flood gushing, rushing on by, it’s a-rushing on by

We’ve held hold out for so long through these fallow years
We have ridden the flood from the farmers’ tears

Did we look to a god that we’d previously ignored?
Ten generations all tired and torn, tired and torn

The rain kept falling for sixteen days
On day seventeen it began to hail

And what’s more the pity, what we most need
Is to close the wound, stop the bleeding use a tourniquet

Did we pray too hard?
Did we wait too long?
Did we sing too loud?
Our hopeless rain song
Did we pray too hard?
Did we wait too long?
Did we sing too loud?
Our hopeless rain song

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from Succumb (Deluxe Edition), released October 10, 2008
(Bridie)

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David Bridie Melbourne, Australia

David Bridie is a multi award winning songwriter and composer.
Founding member of Not Drowning Waving and My Friend the Chocolate Cake.

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