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Mmm-mm, ahh-ahh Hey-ya, mm-mm Ohh, ohh
I came in with the afternoon Warm on the water, easy and slow Pulled up here by the edge of the lake Where the first of the Narrows goes
The sail fell loose, the hull sat light The mast gave a little ringing sound And all that bright April weather Just settled soft around
No hurry left in the day now No need to say a thing Just the reeds, the breeze, the shoreline And the place where the waters thin
Here where the Narrows begin Lake light running silver and thin Pelicans drifting like old white boats Turning slow in the afternoon wind
Nothing much asked of the moment Nothing to prove or defend Just warm air, quiet water Here where the Narrows begin
Tea-tree holding the waterline Gums stood back along the rise A white-faced heron kept its distance A sea eagle circling high
Fish rose once and then were gone A ring moved out and disappeared Half the world was made of light With hardly a sound to hear
Mm-mm, ahh-ahh Ohh now, hey-ya
Here where the Narrows begin Lake light running silver and thin Pelicans drifting like old white boats Turning slow in the afternoon wind
Nothing much asked of the moment Nothing to prove or defend Just warm air, quiet water Here where the Narrows begin
You'd hardly know what burned here once Time has worked the edges clean A few dark trunks back in the distance But mostly gold and green
The country does what country does It keeps its own slow reckonings And six years on this mild old shore Has folded fire back in
I've known big weather, crossing tides The chop, the pull, the sudden squall But days like this are what stay with you More than the hardest days of all
Not for noise, not for glory Not for some grand design Just for a boat, a lake, a shoreline And a patch of borrowed time
Here where the Narrows begin Late sun laid on the paperbark skin Pelicans drifting like they own the hour And maybe in a way they did
Nothing much asked of the moment Nothing to prove in the end Just warm air, quiet water Here where the Narrows begin
Mmm-mm, ahh-ahh Ohh, easy now Hey-ya, mm-mm Where the Narrows begin