Well Katy said she'd always dreamed of learning to play guitar
Three sheets to the breeze and dancing in a festival bar
A style torn from the movie screen, eyes like the northern lights
And the kind of smile that made you want to wake up by her side
She took me home to meet the demons of an empty hearted girl
Who'd lost at love back in South
Australia now just wanted to see the world
She spoke with longing, lust and envy about this rambling life I led
And let my own words not defend me, like a rambling fool I said
Take my hand and just start running
What we chase here I don't know
Understand all that we're becoming
Is the sum of every heart we can't let go
So starry eyed and awe inspired we set out driving north
A shot gun rider with the dark
Behind her and a dream to steer our course
From the pacific cliffs of Sydney, through the sunburn Western plains
My fears pouring out within me like the Northern Queensland rains
Beneath these Southern skies we
Traded lies as if we'd found love's mark
Oh but X don't claim the spot if
You've ever tried to map somebody's heart
I think she pointed out the
Difference in asking why I always hug the road
And I think I just did whatever I
Do as soon as distance starts to show
I said
Take my hand and just start running
What we chase here I don't know
Understand all that we're becoming
Is the sum of every heart we can't let go
And there's something quite symbolic about the great dividing range
That does its best to hide the desert from the shore line
Cause the parts of me she didn't want
To see were the same that I can't change
And now there's one less heart that I can call mine
Katy used to dream of highways back when life was just pretend
But I bet she never thought she wind up losing me to them
I heard she moved back to where her
Folks live up in Northern New South Wales
And me I'm still out here acting
Like there's some hellhound on my tail
So take my hand and just start running
What we chase here, darling, I don't know
I hope you understand all that we're becoming
Is the sum of every heart we can't let go