Ian Moss
Flame Trees
[Verse 1]
Kids out driving Saturday afternoon just pass me by
And I'm just savouring familiar sights
We shared some history, this town and I
And I can't stop that long-forgotten feeling of her
Time to book a room and stay tonight

[Verse 2]
Number one is to find some friends to say, "You're doing well
After all this time, you boys look just the same"
Number two is the happy hour at the one of two hotels
And settle in to play, "Do you remember so and so, oh?"
And number three is, never say her name

[Chorus]
Oh, the flame trees will blind the weary driver
And there's nothin' else could set fire to this town
There's no change, there's no pace
Everything within its place
Just makes it harder to believe that she won't be around

[Verse 3]
Oh, who needs that sentimental bullshit, anyway?
You know it takes more than just a memory to make me cry
And I'm happy just to sit here
At a table with old friends
And see which one of us can tell the biggest lies
[Verse 4]
And there's a girl, she's fallin' in love
Near where the pianola stands
With a young local factory out-of-worker
Just holding hands
And I'm wonderin' if he'll go or if he'll stay

[Bridge]
Do you remember?
Nothing stopped us on the field in our day

[Chorus]
And oh, the flame trees will blind the weary driver
And there's nothin' else could set fire to this town
There's no change, there's no pace
Everything within its place
Just makes it harder to believe that she won't be around
Oh, the flame trees will blind the weary driver
And there's nothing else could set fire to this town
There's no change, there's no pace
Everything within its place
Just makes it harder to believe that she won't be around