Nepean Highway

from Songs From The Middle by Eddie Perfect, the Brodsky Quartet, the Australian National Academy Of Music and Iain Grandage

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Evan Nepean
The things you have seen
The places you've been
And the things you've achieved
A loyal civil servant
Go on, you deserve it
They named you a river
And also the highway that I took to leave

And what is the point, Nepean?
What is the point?
Always ranting and hating and cursing
And mercilessly bagging the joint?
What is the point, Nepean
Laying fresh tracks?
When the highway you used to make your escape
Is the same one that leads you on back
Oh

I came back looking for answers
To dig up some memories
To feel what I felt
And of course write some songs
There was no hidden mystery
Mrs. Booth hugged and kissed me
I read Leo's history
Thought 'Ah, these are folks who belong'

And what if you don't, Nepean
Don't feel the same?
Don't need the butcher the baker
The candlestick maker all knowing your name?
Why's it so hard, Nepean?
Is something wrong?
Why can't I pick up the phone and just tell Susan's parents
I'm sorry she's gone?
Oh

Thank you Evan Nepean
The loyal civil servant
The name of my freedom
And now long deceased
You helped me to realise
That I left in anger
And this time
I'm leaving in peace

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from Songs From The Middle, released May 26, 2015

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