Adelaide

I was a cynic long before we met

I think that's how it tends to be

You go around the block, that's where you get

That's how it was with you and me

But there isn't a single day that passes by

When I don't ask if I could've made the grade

When I don't see your name and wonder why

I didn't go to Adelaide

Perhaps when I was a younger man,

Back when I believed in fate

I would not have turned and ran,

I would have known I'd found my mate

I would've known this was something of a different kind

I would've known I had it made

I would've known when to change my mind

And I would've gone to Adelaide

Woodford in the summer is a hot place

In the coming weeks it got hotter still

Each day I look up and I see your face

Staring at me just above my windowsill

I said I – I was already taken

But maybe I was just afraid

To leave a woman's heart forsaken

If I went to Adelaide

When it's daytime where I sit

For you it's usually night

But every other day I still get hit

By what should be a familiar sight

Each time I see your name appear on my screen

I feel like I've been flayed

If we chat I just try not to mention

How much I long for Adelaide

They say time heals everyone

This is something I have come to disbelieve

Because each time a new day is done

I think of all the things I never will achieve

Such as being the father of your child

Hiking with him in a forest glade

Such as having my heart beguiled

By the hottest Red in Adelaide

Sometimes I wish I were a Buddhist

Not just a worshipper of dirt

Then I could make up for all I missed

And live a life in someone else's shirt

I'd live in the southern hemisphere

I would be the guy who stayed

Each and every day I'd hold you near

In our little home in Adelaide