DEEP CREEK
(listen and watch HERE, or just listen HERE)
When the wind comes up you'd better brace yourself
It can catch you unprepared and sweep you down to the valley below
Where your fears lie unprotected and your demons stalk too close
You're gonna need a guide to help you that's never walked on a city street
And as you look back up you no longer stand above
All those fears you've been hiding lie awaiting round the next bend
Of the creek that's deep and winding on its journey to the sea
The water has gone before you and cut you out a path to see
You're standing there with nothing but yourself and the water to show you
The way you must go with those fears inside your head
About those other people and what they might think of you
You step into the icy water and it chills you to the soul
You're losing all your history as you begin to start to know
That you can't sink any lower so it's onward you must go
Your eyes caress the mountains as you begin your slow sojourn
It all looks so familar but you have lost control
Of everything that's happened in that life on those city streets
You get a taste of future wisdom as you go down Deep Creek
You're gonna need a guide to help you that's never walked on those city streets
You get a taste of future wisdom as you flow down Deep Creek
Go down
Flow down
Go down
(1992)
COMMENTARY: Deep Creek is a national park reserve south of Adelaide that is quite rugged, remote, and spectacular. This song is about facing demons and doubts and how the unfamiliar world of the bush (for a city boy) can either assist or trigger that process. It deserves a good recording ....)
