Our love was quite the whirlwind Married by the time I was 19 Living in a prefab out in Cremorne The force of a fire front was raging in you We fucked like we fought, ripped the flesh from the sinew No greater fever between any two And you'd say, darling, sometimes I feel dangerous Darkness stretching, no light nowhere, dangerous You quit the navy, got your Union tatts And with your land legs your great thirst came back While your children grew up quiet in another room You packed it in when I packed up the kids Said you were terrified of all those things I told you that you did Said you didn't understand the rage that could devour you And you said, darling, sometimes I feel dangerous Darkness waiting, no light nowhere, dangerous When there's fighting in the factions There's no decisions, just a set of reactions We drove the camel pelt country down the shimmering Hume To where your aunts rode trams in Wisteria hue And you set about hosing the tiles in your sticky soul You weeded out those rotten roots from down in the marrow Taught the Union boys the power in the straight and the narrow To them you were a father, a healer, a tower, a force ♪ Your own father, you couldn't talk to easily To say, there's something in you, and I'm terrified it might be in me So you grew up pushing it away But I'm so proud of you, and my love is a monster Ain't luck that got you through You earned everything that belongs to ya Our kids will come 'round, they gotta find out for themselves That darling, the truth is sometimes, it's dangerous Darkness stretches, there's no light nowhere, dangerous But there are floodlights hiding, waiting for us to do the deciding There is hope under the heavy, high tightrope We're all walking over our brevity There is bounty in the burden, a freedom in never being certain Dangerous Dangerous