Written in motel rooms while the band toured in W.A & the Northern Territory truly seeing the vastness of this place for the first time and sensing how foreign your own country can feel, recognising you can have this same sense of distance and isolation from other people, anywhere, even when surrounded by them.
Instrumentation was kept sparse to evoke the sense of the landscape it was written in, with Nick playing resonator guitar, drums and bass & Jac on guitar, percussion and vocals.
lyrics
'All I can see'
"I was dying for a little while my darling, if you could walk a mile in these broken shoes,
It was win, or lose, it was win or lose now I'm in between with you,
Maybe it's all I can see, maybe it's all I can see, Maybe it's all I can see
I was waiting for the play to start, taking every cue I missed straight to my heart,
Oh my baby, why can't you see there's only one thing to be, that's free
Maybe it's all I can see, maybe it's all I can see, Maybe it's all I can see
I wanna float past, all the fools who make up all the rules, they're not for you and me
We'll watch the world, watch as those others learn all the lessons and the lies, things we'll never be
Maybe it's all I can see, maybe it's all I can see, Maybe it's all I can see"
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