On the Waterfront (feat. Jade MacRae)

ON THE WATERFRONT

I was drinking on a city bus at Wynyard, with my hands trembling.

and a junky was screaming it was the end of the world, I'm just remembering. 

You and I would walk up Broadway, talking 'bout all the things that we would do.

But I heard that you got married to a fella and have a water front view. 

On The Waterfront, from the Quay into the Bondi sky.

On The Waterfront, we'll set the sails and let the evening get us high.

But i'm on the hunt my love, to get through my work and look you in the eye. 

They took away our fun and left us in this prison paradise.

A prison paradise , On The Waterfront (REPEAT)

Today I walked around the same place, drunk from the past in the sun. 

And all the cafe grit says this is it! Well I hope they haven't won. 

Well we used to make that music and start revolution in the street. 

Take our friends into the strip joints and complain about the Darlinghurst heat. 

On The Waterfront, Ancestors they saw the ships and cried upon the shore

Boys they came in chains and drank their shame, and the english brought the storm. 

They went on the hunt my love and stoped the dreaming with their fire and snow and ice. 

They weren't the first ones here, won't be the last, this is not our prison paradise. 

Its theirs!

A Prison Paradise, On The Waterfront (REPEAT)

Went to the place where we grew up, where we drank in the park and we never got caught

I bought two pills and you told me you loved me, while the private school kids fought. 

I joined a band in a King Street Bar, when there was still an underground, 

but now nobody comes to the shows, and we, all are Melbourne bound.

When the Eora saw them come, they were put in chains or put on the run 

just so that you could have your fun, it's not the same for everyone. 

Is this comfortable? Is this nice? Your prison paradise. 

A Prison Paradise, On The Waterfront (REPEAT)