Cut & Run

Upriver on a Murray bend

Out of my depth but I can pretend

Flush of love and a flicker of fear

Say the words you’ve been waiting to hear

See your sway and your smile gently dance

What a fool thinking I had a chance

Warmest touch and a deepest breath

Just the two of us at still waters rest

And then without thinking I ask will you take my hand

My dear could you blame me, just punch drunk on a long weekend

Cut & run, cut & run

Oh my darling we’ve only just begun

To pack up tomorrow and choke back the sorrow

Head down some unfamiliar road, where I don’t know

Don’t want to hear, it said and done

Just cut & run

Smell of wattle drifts past on the breeze

Wagtails swing low in the trees

In a cold sweat from a broken down farce

Since I met you the night before last

The banks widen the water surrounds

I can’t run til I’m on solid ground

Drifting further as I play the part

Of a man who will carry your heart

Wide open we plan the river to guide us ahead

To the house and verandah, goose with her gander she said

Cut & run, cut & run

Oh my darling we’ve only just begun

To pack up tomorrow and choke back the sorrow

Head down some unfamiliar road, where I don’t know

Don’t want to hear, it said and done

Just cut & run

I’m on my way up the Murrumbidgee

Loose with the truth, if you ask about me

Light on my feet, just a flight of fancy

Loose with the truth if you ask about me

Got a bad case of cleanskin regret

Riverboat blues can’t forget

Cut & run, just cut & run