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ABOUT THIS TRACK

This song is more about creating a feeling than any one thing in particular. When I wrote it I had a lot of things changing in my life, not all of them I was one-hundred percent happy about. This song hopefully captures that feeling of being disowned and lost. There's a little bit of Mariachi and prodigal son references I threw in to try and capture that.

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Please don't explain and don't be mysterious,
I have been serious for far too long now,
I won't feel the pain, I won't feel the weariness,
"This silence is eerie" she said when she came.

This is the sound of me leaving this town,
Because you won't come for me,
See it around it's a ghost that I found,
Somewhere I'm wandering free.

Oh what have I done and what has become of me,
Personal tradgedies, these words that I sell,
If Anna exists why did you set her free,
I think you're just like me - truths that you missed.

This is the sound of me leaving this town,
Because you won't come for me,
See it around it's a ghost that I found,
Somewhere I'm wandering free.

Don't push me away but don't get too close to me,
Only things I can see I can believe,
Look here he comes this lonely traveller
This stumbling stragller, this forsaken son.

This is the sound of me leaving this town,
Because you won't come for me,
See it around it's a ghost that I found,
Somewhere I'm wandering free.

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from Means What It Means, released July 4, 2011
Written by The Ellis Collective
Recorded and mixed at Infidel Studios by Duncan Lowe
Mastered at Studio 301 by Steve Smart

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The Ellis Collective create a patchwork of emotion that recounts the sadness, sickness, love and indecision that weaves its way through the fabric of everyday Australian life.

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