Jimeoin Never Meant To Stay
whenever i first came out to australia i brought two pairs of dms and three pairs of jeans a ticket to australia with a head full of dreams and there was tears at the airport and i wrote a letter on the way and i stopped off in singapore but only for a day but i never meant to stay no it was only meant to be for for a holiday oh but i've i've overstayed now and i pray now for an amnesty the plane landed in at botany on a day that was very hot and this time the irish had invaded the place without having to fire a shot and i went to the hotel bondi if you know it and bought a schooner of new and sitting drinking it in the sun that's when i knew but i never meant to stay no it was only meant to be for for a holiday oh but i i've overstayed now and i pray now for an amnesty two hundred years ago they were shippin' us out nineteen eighty-eight they were flyin' us back there's no guards or chains a-keepin' me here but if they caught me they'd probably send me back but i never meant to stay no was only meant to be for for a holiday oh but i i've overstayed now and i pray now for an amnesty i had a backpack but i just ended up gettin' a job i never got round to travelling i just hit the grog then i moved to the suburbs and i got married, with a kid i've got rms instead of dms now the jeans no longer fit but i never meant to stay no was only meant to be for for a holiday oh but i i've overstayed now and i pray now for an amnesty
