Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia)

I think I (Bm)hear the sounds of then (E)and people (D)talking,

(Bm)scenes recalled (E)by minute (D)movement, and (Bm)songs they fall (E)from the (D)backing tape;

that (Bm)certain texture, (E)that certain (Bm)smell.

To lie in sweat (E)on (D)familiar sheets (Bm)in brick veneer on (E)financed beds,

(Bm)in a room,

(E)of silent (D)hardiflex;

that (Bm)certain textture, (E)that certain smell.

It brings home the (Bm)heavy days,

brings home the nighttime (E)swell.

(Bm)Out on the patio, (E)we'd sit (Bm)and the humidity (E)we'd breathe.

(Bm)We'd watch the lightning (E)crack over (D)canefields (Bm)and laugh and think,

(E)this is Australia.