Testo Land of the Second Chance - Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God
Testo della canzone Land of the Second Chance (Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God), tratta dall'album My Hand My Heart
He didn't say her name
He described her with a tear
In 1952 he left that girl
And he made his way down here
The ocean raced around him
Cleansed his soul and sharpened his aim
He was coming down to Queensland
To cut the sugar cane
Burning fields
I bow my head and bend my back and I will kneel
I give the angels thanks
For bringing me here
And guiding my hand in this land
The land of the second chance
In '53 he bought a car
With the proceeds of the season
He travelled three states, coast and bush
Wandering without a reason
He was driving away her memory
And driving himself insane
And he drove back up to Queensland
To cut the sugar cane
Burning fields
I bow my head and bend my back and I will kneel
I give the angels thanks
For bringing me here
And guiding my hand in this land
The land of the second chance
Choppo is not tropical
It's Italian for crazy in the heat
He got arranged to a Spanish girl
But she didn't like his cane cutter's teeth
A season he tripled his workload
To prove he was worthy of her hand
When he got back up to Rockhampton
She'd taken off with a handsome man
Five or six years on a gambler's drunk
He woke up in Sydney one morning
A thousand miles south of his last night out
So he took it as the angel's warning
That car got him a job
Fitting aluminium window frames
Floating above the big city
Far away from the sugar cane
Burning fields
I bow my head and bend my back and I will kneel
I give the angels thanks
For bringing me here
And guiding my hand in this land
The land of the second chance
Forty-five years of married life
Children and children's children
He can still point to where he fitted the glass
And he smiles if you recognise the buildings
Most of his mates have seen the pearly gates
But there's a few that have survived
They sit here and drink espresso like it's Florence
Firenze prima delle guerre, back in 1935
On a front table at Bill and Tony's
He told his story on Stanley Street
Little hard to understand
That day Mario got brand new teeth
Fifty-three years he's been here
And he says he's never looked back
A fortunate find for a lucky guy
The land of the second chance
Burning fields
I bow my head and bend my back and I will kneel
I give the angels thanks
For bringing me here
And guiding my hand in this land
The land of the second chance
The land of the second chance
The land of the second chance
Credits
Writer(s): Russell Ira Crowe
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