You Will Return - The Mutton Birds

It’s a big, flat land

And it’s right next door

Strong strong coffee

Pimps and whores

The heat comes down

Like a hundred suns

Girls with tans

Cops with guns

Oh Susannah

Don’t you cry for me

Just come on home now

Across the cold green sea

Just come on home now

You look so pale

As the light is fading

I’ll tell you my tale

The darkness gathers

Under the eaves

Listen while I tell you

That even if you leave

You will return

You will return, you will return

I had a soft white rope

Around your back

You took the weight

I took the slack

The rain still falls here

It holds me so

The way I held you

So long ago

I see the hot winds shake you

Like a leafless tree

Why can’t you let them burn

And return to me

You will return

You will return, you will return

You will return, you will return