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Boab (Time Is A River)

from Wake to a Bright Morning by Jack Carty

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lyrics

I found your name carved course and deep
In the branches of a boab tree
A tattooed, gnarled and twisted thing
Cut all around with memories
And though I knew you’d never stood
Beside that ancient, bloated wood
I thought of you and cursed the hand
Who stole your named and made it theirs

Ooooh
Time is a river, we are rain
Ooooh
The clock is a countdown, don’t delay

Well, time alone can separate
Two people standing in one place
And working with my nimble blade
I proved that I was there
Most of the time I’m never sure
If anything is real at all
We dance under the mirror ball
With thick smoke in our eyes

Ooooh
Time is a river, we are rain
Ooooh
The clock is a countdown, don’t delay

This place was a prison
Long ago
Roots chained to the ground
If time is our gaol cell we’ll never get out

The tinderbox, the atom bomb
The unborn child, the eldest son
All waiting for their chance to come
The day they are released
The boab stayed to meet us all
It’s scars mapping our mortal toil
And never needed any proof
To know that it was real

Ooooh
Time is a river, we are rain
Ooooh
The clock is a countdown, don’t delay

I found your name carved course and deep
In the branches of a boab tree

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from Wake to a Bright Morning, released March 11, 2022

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Jack Carty Brisbane, Australia

Award-winning, independent Australian songwriter.

"The recently married Carty might well have found his happy place" ★★★★ — THE SUNDAY STAR TIMES.

“These songs have almost a purity of spirit and certainly an openness of heart. You should own this" ★★★★ — THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD.

“A sensational sophomore album. It marks him as a man to watch" ★★★★ — THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN. ... more

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