The Ramblings of an Over-Active Mind

No more plans for nowhere

Now I am sitting here on a truck to nowhere kicking my heels upon the boards,

The sun in the sky is asking why my girl ain't by my side,

I've got no reason to tell him she left my arms that self same night

And now all that keeps me going is this eastbound restless aimless flight.

Its not as if I have plans for somewhere

Somewhere I should be

Got no more plans for nowhere this side of eternity.

I have been a hero in a far forgotten land of arabian nights,

Fighting a crazy political fight I did not understand

But when I came on home I  was not the man who went away

I'd found me a new fangled religion where I didnt have to pray.

Its not as if I belonged to somewhere

Somewhere I should be

Got no more plans for nowhere this side of eternity.

She said I had changed somehow lost my loving heart of fire

She would always love me but I had to learn to care again.

This carefree man had always had the outback at his back

But after four long years in that desert war I had started to crack.

Its not as if I have plans to be there

Somewhere close and free

Got no more plans for nowhere this side of eternity.

That big bold ute of mine went where rocky plains turned red

Then turned south past Mildura where wheatfields carresed the sky

This selfless man was hardened to the gun and to the war but now

I couldn't stop thinking of the girl I'd left behind because I couldn't cry.

Its not as if I have plans for anyone else

Apart from by her side

Got no more plans for nowone this side of eternity's hide.

As the days passed by me and distance got in the way

I got around to thinking it did not have to be this way

I knew I wanted to love again, to learn all over again

But would my girl have me back, would she love me still?

I made my plans and rang her, waited on the line

Asked her please be ny one and only

I would cross the Black Stump to be there for eternity.

My girl is now my wife, I have nowhere else to be

I'm home where my heart runs free

Got only plans for this where, this side of eternity.

Its not as if I have plans to be somewhere else

Its been a couple of years eternity set me free

Our son is crawling in the yard, there's another on the way

But to get this far I had become a man, admitting I was wrong.

I'm not in the place I grew up

Or any I have been

I've a single plan for my family and my wife

From now to eternity.

Got only plans for my family this side of eternity.