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I dreamed that I woke up
And you were standing there before me
A ghost-gum in the moon
A white-limbed tree

Up the broken mountain
Red footprints, rocks and rubble
Are you lost or
Leading me into trouble?

The quarries of Nimmitabel
I hunted and I lied
Will our waters start
Or divide?

Me and the philosophy sophomore
The river sucking at our feet
Tonight I rock pianner
On Bombala St

General stores & B&Bs
Spread like a prayerful cancer
She's telephoning Nietzsche but
He won't answer

The Kelly gang a 5 piece band
Ned and Dan, Joe and Steve
Myself, abruptly here
Until I leave

Like a fat goanna
With a river abode
We skip rocks on the water
A la mode

Yet still we cook
In the sun
What is the time
Is it 19 or 21?

A soul lepidopterist
Is what I need
To pin down all
Of my dreams

My big metal head
On fire in the sun
Rifle in my hand
Heavy with fun

Is this real or Nolan?
My spinal cord snaps as I'm hung
All of the time we spent
Is still to come

And what have I established?
Time travel is just a disease
Of a flighty soul
Lost in the trees

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from Frozen bus, tambourine moon, released April 5, 2015

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Ainsley Reed & The Rat Runners Canberra, Australia

Ainsley Reed and The Rat Runners have been putting the 'intergenerational' into pseudonymous genteel artistic poverty for a couple of years now. They earnestly hope you enjoy their over-written and under-rehearsed hyphen-pop nuggets.

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