[00:00.000] 作词 : Richard Dawson[00:01.000] 作曲 : Richard Dawson/Pekka Jääskeläinen/Julius Jääskeläinen/Jussi Lehtisalo/Mika Rättö/Tomi Leppänen/Janne Westerlund[00:18.464]I've given the better part of my days[00:25.185]To the consideration of small things[00:34.845]Gingerly went unpicking the seams[00:41.823]Of a long dried-up stream (Ya-ho, ya-ho, ya-ho)[00:51.204]Dwelling at length inside the mad waltz[00:58.285]Of spores on a gust of the mind's hair[01:07.676]And when I dream I really go[01:14.712]To that ocean of stone (Ya-ho, ya-ho, ya-ho)[01:41.742]In the shadowed shallows our spirit wells[01:49.265]Move closer, move closer[01:58.215]On the radio I hear the blue hills[02:05.715]Move closer, here and there[02:20.287]When I was young, thе better part of my days[02:27.356]Werе spent to the nursing of my mum[02:36.835]I found my pleasure whenever I could[02:43.830]In tennis and piano (Ya-ho, ya-ho, ya-ho)[02:53.248]And though we were half-broke[02:56.195]I managed to go[02:59.169]To study at the University of Melbourne[03:08.130]Melbourne[03:27.576]In the shadowed shallows our spirit wells[03:35.115]Move closer, move closer[03:43.755]On the radio I hear the blue hills[03:51.289]Move closer, here and there[04:06.174]A week at sea, the better part of my days[04:12.894]Holed up in the cabin lost in boundless study[04:22.347]I'm on my way to the UK[04:28.847]With Ethel McLennan (Ya-ho, ya-ho, ya-ho)[04:38.589]Unfortunately the fungal cultures we brought with us[04:46.994]Have started to degrade[04:55.585]There are no birds[04:59.403]No bushes or trees[05:03.747]No beasts nor people[05:07.774]Only this single stem