Transcribed by...Kai Lukoschek  
 
(The notation C(g" f" e" d" c") means you play C major plus the line 
g" f" e" d" c", where g" means the note g on the upper E string etc.) 
 
A5 D5 A5 F#5 D5 E5 A5 

A5 D5 A5 F#5 A5 D5 A5 D5 
 
 A5          D5       A5        F#5 
Won't you come on down the line 
   D5        E5       A5 
Away from barren ground 
      A5     D5       A5    F#5 
The harlot and the autocrat 
           D5           E5       A5 
Are they driving you further down 
E5              F#5       B5        F#5 
The season's rhymes, they anchor me 
   D5                B5 
Against the raging tide 
 

 A5        D5       A5          F#5 
Take you to the last wild place 
   D5           E5            A5 
Skin and the stars they embrace 
    A5       D5       A5       F#5 
A caveman could a saint become 
       D5        E5           A5 
In a hospital ward on the Somme 
E5        F#5       B5       F#5 
We can dive into distant amoebas 
      D5                       B5   F#5 E5 F#5 E5 
Our wings could melt in the sun 
 
CHORUS 
        F#5   E5 
I can shake 
        F#5   G5 
I can move 
        F#5           B5        F#5  E5 
But I can't live without your love 
        F#5   E5 
I can break 
       F#5   G5 
Over you 
        F#5           B5        F#5    D5 F#5 D5 F#5   E5 
But I can't live without your love 
 

A5     D5              A5    F#5 
Our poet Henry Lawson he named them 
D5            E5       A5 
The lay 'em out brigade 
  A5         D5     A5        F#5   A5 D5 A5 D5 
Here they come there they go 
A5          D5      A5      F#5 
Oh great god of development 
        D5       E5      A5 
Don't really know you yet 
A5           D5          A5         F#5 
Coastline hosed down washed away 
     D5            E5              A5 
Economics, now there's nothing left 
E5            F#5     B5          F#5 
Tomorrow's child takes concrete footsteps 
              D5                     B5      D5 A5 A5 E5 
And they'll drink champagne or be damned 
 

          D5         A5          E5 
And the storm is breaking now 
           D5         A5          E5 
Yeah the storm is breaking now 
          D5         A5          E5 
Yes the storm is breaking now 
 
CHORUS 
 
CHORUS 
 
(intro part)