| Verse 1 | |
| I went out walking through the city centre | |
| It happened just the other day | |
| Sometimes the harbour in the winter | |
| Blows a little luck my way | |
| I stood around like John Lee Hooker | |
| Waiting for my ship to come in | |
| But when you're down on your last twenty dollar | |
| The view is such a beautiful thing | |
| Verse 2 | |
| I've seen a girl of twelve sit and shoot herself | |
| Higher than a national dream | |
| And sleep it off just a spit away | |
| From the tires of a limousine | |
| I may recall another world | |
| Where money never had no sting | |
| But right here she's a big girl now | |
| The city's such a beautiful thing | |
| Her eyes are as cold as a centrefold | |
| And her mouth has come undone | |
| And like a child conceived on new years eve | |
| She don't belong to anyone | |
| Verse 3 | |
| You don't need to hold a lot of money | |
| To figure how the world goes round | |
| You don't need to climb on anybody | |
| To get a feel for what goes down | |
| She could be on the colour TV | |
| Teachin' all the world to sing | |
| But out here on a black and white pier | |
| It ain't such a beautiful thing | |
| Verse 4 | |
| Now I'm a Northern Territory man | |
| The territory lives in me | |
| And I fail to understand | |
| The silly bloody things I see | |
| I went out walking through the city centre | |
| Thinking back to Alice Springs | |
| This place is harder every winter | |
| And home is such a beautiful thing | |
| Verse 5 | |
| I went out walking through the city centre | |
| It happened just the other day | |
| Sometimes the harbour in the winter | |
| Blows a little luck my way | |
| I went out walking through the city centre | |
| Thinking back to Alice Springs | |
| This place is harder every winter | |
| And home is such a beautiful thing | |
| This place is harder every winter | |
| And home is such a beautiful thing |
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