Sensory Memory - Jen Cloher

[00:00.000]I start missing you
[00:02.229]Days before you leave
[00:04.290]I guess it’s a kind of sensory memory
[00:08.980]Deep below the conscious
[00:11.080]Mind you
[00:11.879]I can be on my own
[00:14.307]I’m an only child
[00:15.971]I like my company
[00:18.350]Potter ‘round
[00:19.706]Make another pot of
[00:21.783]Tea for two is when
[00:23.797]You come home
[00:25.140]We sit and eat breakfast
[00:27.068]Eggs with soldier toast
[00:29.035]Buttered well
[00:30.353]So you get the edges
[00:32.354]Of the things you never say
[00:37.669]Distance has a funny way
[00:42.982]Of slowly making you someone
[00:46.295]That I don’t know
[00:49.278]
[01:09.786]People ask me why
[01:11.839]I don’t go on the road with you
[01:15.082]I tell them
[01:15.884]“Here’s a day in the life of a touring muso”
[01:20.512]Early morning flight
[01:22.477]Press all day
[01:23.823]City through a window
[01:25.826]Air-conditioned room
[01:27.819]With a view
[01:29.062]Late night
[01:29.749]Early morning
[01:31.215]Light creeps through the blinds
[01:33.126]And the cat
[01:34.489]Hungry for her breakfast
[01:36.432]Routine keeps me sane
[01:38.439]I’m not made
[01:39.810]For the lonesome highway
[01:41.845]I guess I’m never gonna be
[01:47.054]The Joy to your Slim Dusty
[01:52.612]But you know I’m always here
[01:55.500]When you get home.