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On the Night You Were Born

from All The Lines Are Down by tobias hengeveld

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Well on the night you were born
Your mother barefoot and padding across the floor
To a radio’s static hum
And the smell of dinner enveloping the warm hair

She was young
Much younger than you are now
And you were ready so I suppose she just had to be
Just had to be
In the local hospital
Where the pickled matrons start chanting her through the drill

And on the night you were born
Your dad had car trouble on a roa-side coming into town
Took some time to get the word
And he makes the bedside with a lightning nerve in his eye

He was young
Much younger than you are now
His stomach knotting for the pain that’s screwing up her pretty face
her pretty face
And he just can’t bare to watch
So he takes to pacing fast laps around the block

It’s a warm still night in town
The scent of the pepper trees
The distant bark of dogs
The street lamps are alive in clouds of bugs
And a window in the building shone brighter than the rest
Tonight

On the night you were born

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from All The Lines Are Down, released May 1, 2009

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tobias hengeveld Melbourne, Australia

Tobias Hengeveld writes melodically vivid songs, riddled with unexpected angular pop-hooks. His distinctively sylvan voice tells personal experiences with wry lyrical candor.

The Daylight Express was nominated for an Age Music Victoria Award in 2014.

Due in April 2019, NAUGHTS & ONES is a triumphant mirror-maze of jubilant pop tunes set in a hinterland of darker rock ballads.
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