The Great Divide - John Williamson

There's a monster growing in our heads Raised up on the wicked things we've said A great divide between us now Something we should know There's something to remember And something to forget As long as we remember There's something to regret Something we should know There's a mountain higher than we knew It's high but such a bitter view A great divide between us now Something we should know There's something to remember And something to forget As long as we remember There's something to regret A great divide between us now On different sides of a great divide There's something to remember And something to forget As long as we remember There's something to regret Something we should know

In the canyons of the great divide Familiar places that we can run and hide Are filled with strangers Walking in our houses alone In the great divide Nothing to decide No one else to care for or love In the great divide You won't fit in too well On the horses of the carousel She rides alone with you and me She rides like she knows Wherever she goes, we'll be there On the carousel Life is going well Anyone can tell we're in love On the carousel You're gonna like the way you feel You and I, we got caught down there In the twisted canyons of the great divide We walked the floor Now we don't go there anymore In the great divide Nothin' to decide No one else to care for or love In the great divide I don't fit in too well In the great divide Nothin' to decide No one else to care for or love In the great divide You won't fit in too well

We're striking matches on the TV Setting fires on our phones Bearing crosses we believe in dying on Tempers flare, the flame flies higher As we soar closer towards the sun But I like to think too much damage ain't been done We're all so far, so far apart now It's as deep as it is wide We're about to fall apart now If we can't reach the other side We gotta find a way across the great divide Sometimes it seems that our convictions Sidе of the fence that wе stand on Makes us all too damn different to get along But I've seen strangers love each other Like a mother does her son What we see ain't only all that's going on We're all so far, so far apart now It's as deep as it is wide We're about to fall apart now If we can't reach the other side We gotta find a way across the great divide We're all so far, so far apart now It's as deep as it is wide We're about to fall apart now If we can't reach the other side We gotta find a way across the great divide The great divide

Ooh-ooh La-da-da-da I never knew I lost you 'till I found you (found you) And I never guessed how close you were to me (me) And now, I wanna throw my arms around you Tell a thousand tales that will astound you Everything about you tells me this was meant to be Don't you see I'm on your side, let's take this ride And together we're facing the world Doing things nobody's done before And The Great Divide, doesn't seem so wide, anymore Na-ah-ah I can't recall what life was like without you (without you) Now, it feels as though we've never been apart (apart) Tell me every tiny thing about you Anything you'll say I'll never doubt you We're meant to be together I can feel it in my heart It's just the start I'm on your side, let's take this ride And together we're facing the world Doing things nobody's done before (never done before) And The Great Divide, doesn't seem so wide And if you'll be there beside me when I falter (you'll be there beside me when I falter) Then, whatever comes I know we'll take it all in stride (we'll take it all in stride) I'm on your side The Great Divide, it doesn't seem so wide I'm on your side (on your side), let's take this ride (take this ride) And together we're facing the world Doing things nobody's done before (never done before) And The Great Divide (and The Great Divide), doesn't seem so wide, anymore

Well old Bob hasn't got much but he values his boots He values the time he spends growin' flowers He still loves his babies that grew to be men He recalls all the days 'n' nights and the hours When he and his woman worked on the land In the heat and the dry, in the cold and the wet He still picks her a rose and his old heart still races She's still the most beautiful girl that he's met And you ask is he happy... and you ask is he happy...? He's got wrinkles from smiling, he feels lucky and free And he knows what it means to live here in the sunshine He's got wrinkles... He walks with Amelia down to the store With a little cane basket for the bread and the daily Sun Still hand in hand like babes in the meadows And young faces turn Love is so beautiful, it can be so deep And a man is a king when he has his own princess Bob wears no crown, no long flowing robe But there in his mind he still rides on his black stallion Then a cold winter came, and Bob was alone His beautiful princess had flown with the angels He faded so quickly, the man became old And the wandering dew soon covered the roses First just a cane, then a strong stick for walking Then just a chair with a grey old man dying All that he lived for was always beside him So Bob left in peace, to join his lady And you ask is he happy... and you ask is he happy...? He had wrinkles from smiling He felt lucky and free And he knew what it meant to live here in the sunshine He had wrinkles...