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Everything's Turning To White
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Everything's Turning To White was released on July 18, 2006 by EMI Music Australia as a part of the album Jindabyne
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Release DateJuly 18, 2006
LabelEMI Music Australia
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly
Composer, Lyrics

Lyrics

Late on a Friday, my husband went up
To the mountains with three friends
They took provisions and bottles of bourbon
To last them all through the weekend
One hundred miles they drove
Just to fish in a stream
And there's so much water
So close to home
When they arrived it was cold and dark
They set up their camp quickly
Warmed up with whisky they walked to the river
Where the water flowed past darkly
In the moonlight they saw the body
Of a girl floating face down
There's so much water
So close to home
When he holds me now I'm pretending
I feel like I'm frozen inside
Behind my eyes my daily disguise
Everything's turning to white
It was too hard to tell how long she'd been dead
The river was that close to freezing
But one thing for sure, the girl hadn't died very well
To judge from the bruising
They stood there above her all thinking
The same thoughts at the same time
There's so much water
So close to home
So this is what they did
They carried her downstream from their fishing
Between two smooth rocks they gently wedged her
After all, it was late, they'd come a long way
The girl would keep, she was going nowhere
They stayed up there fishing for two days
They reported it on Sunday when they came back down
There's so much water
So close to home
When he holds me now I'm pretending
Nothing is working inside
Behind my eyes my daily disguise
Everything's turning to white
Now the newspapers said that the girl had been strangled to death
And also molested
On the day of the funeral
The radio reported that a young man had been arrested
I went to the service a stranger
I drove past the lake out of town
There's so much water
So close to home
When he holds me now I'm pretending
I feel like I'm frozen inside
Behind my eyes my daily disguise
Everything's turning to white
Written by: Paul Kelly
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