Take Me Away Songtext
von Johnson’s Bridge

Australian state with a foreign fashion
Forgotten days of the lucky nation
Like a child that′s been left in the cold

Fallen tears and faded photographs
Mark the start of the settler's chance
And brick-walled views mark the contract sold

Take me away
To another time, to another place
Take me away
I′m losing my mind, I'm losing my face
Shoulda said goodbye
Long ago

Blazing smokestacks, the nightshift's sunrise
Before the day has materialised
Got my hard hat, my boots, I′ve got my pride


The foreman serves a foreign notice
The corporate has no need for us
Slowly, I shovel my feelings aside

Take me away
To another time, to another place
Take me away
I′m losing my mind, I'm losing my face
Shoulda said goodbye
Long ago

So I s′pose I best be leavin' now
These things, they happen. Anyhow
I′ve lost all there is to lose
Except perhaps my life

Take me away
To another time, to another place
Take me away
I'm losing my mind, I′m losing my face
Shoulda said goodbye
Long ago
(Goodbye)