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Artist: Midnight Oil
Canonical path: /midnight-oil/tarkine
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Tarkine
Read Tarkine lyrics by Midnight Oil on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Tarkine
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There's a red bridge in the mountains
Where Tarkine trees touch multi-coloured skies
They cast shadows on the painted ground
And to get there, well, I just close my eyes
Well I lost myself when I walked through you
All that I have now is a souvenir of you
There's a lexicon of forest giants
Coachwood, Myrtle, Blackwood and Turpentine
In this hi-viz world I must have missed the turn
Because all I found were billboards, flyers and merchandise
Well I lost myself when I fell for you
I can't remember, but the love is, oh, so true
Well I lost myself when I walked through you
All that I have now is a souvenir of you
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Midnight Oil performs "Tarkine", and this lyric page sits inside the Midnight Oil catalog on LyroVerse.
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