Satellite City

Katie said she'd always dreamed of learning to play guitar
Three sheets to the breeze and dancing in a festival bar
A style torn from the movie screen, eyes like the northern lights
And the kind of smile that made you wanna wake up by her side
She took me home to meet the demons of an empty-hearted girl
Who'd lost at love back in South Australia
And now just wanted to see the world
She spoke with longing, lust and envy 'bout this rambling life I led
And let my own words, not defending, like a rambling fool I said

Take my hand and just start running
What we chase here, I don't know
Understand all that we're becoming
Is the sum of every heart we can't let go

So starry-eyed and awe-inspired we set out driving north
A shotgun rider with the dark behind
Her and a dream to steer our course
Through the Pacific cliffs of Sydney
Through the sunburnt western plains
My fears pouring out within me like the northern Queensland rains
Beneath these southern skies we traded
Lies as if we'd found love's mark
Oh, but X don't claim the spot if you
Ever tried to map somebody's heart
I think she pointed out the difference
In asking why I always hug the road
And I think I just did whatever I do
As soon as distance starts to show

Take my hand and just start running
What we chase here, I don't know
Understand all that we're becoming
Is the sum of every heart we can't let go

There's something quite symbolic about the Great Dividing Range
It does its best to hide the desert from the shoreline
'Cause the parts of me she didn't wanna
See are the same that I can't change
And now there's one less heart that I can't call mine

Katie used to dream of highways back when life was just pretend
But I bet she never thought she'd wind up losing me to them
I heard she moved back to where her
Folks live up in northern New South Wales
And me, I'm still out here acting like
There's some hellhound on my tail

Take my hand and just start running
What we chase here, darling, I don't know
Understand all that we're becoming
Is the sum of every heart we can't let go