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Across the lonely Ocean
Between the straits of nearly
Broken on the rocks of demon’s land
I’ve been far beyond
The past and other foreign countries -
In a wasteland

You’re where I dumped
My frights and dregs and crookedness
A place of yearnings from afar
In The desert where I nearly found a goldmine
Life forms amazing and bizarre

Moon shines on the edge of our forgetting
Your world and my world lost in space
Storm brewing in the clouds of my unknowing
Do you recognize my face?

Now I’m awakened
From the darkness to the dazzle -
My west my east my south my guiding star
You’re my newfoundland
You’re my undiscovered planet
You’re my Australia

Europe teeters on the brink of fresh catastrophe
Old world and the new world on their knees
Us and them locked in talks about talks
Let’s take a journey

Let’s make apology
For all our past atrocity
Time to bury hatchets,
Turn the leaf -
Be my dreamTime
My summer
My downunder
My Uluru rock, my barrier reef

Now I’m awakened
From the darkness to the dazzle -
My west my east my south my guiding star
You’re my newfoundland You’re my undiscovered planet,You’re my Australia

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from What Didn't Quite: The Nearly Songs, released October 7, 2016

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Chris & The Ifso London, UK

Digital writer and nearlyologist Chris Ifso makes digital and transmedia fiction including songs, sound, live workshops and performance. The Ifso Band are Chris on ukulele, Alistair McEachern on bass, Abbie Coppard vocals, Iain Stewart on guitar.

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