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Men All Settle Down

from Undivided Heart by Cymbeline

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Can you remember when men wore their hair long?
Can you recall, was the day long ago?
Women weren’t beauty queens, house-wives or pipe-dreams.
Time catches up to ideas don’t you know.

Men all settle down. Women stop ranging.
Then they get the ground and the house and the car.
When they look around they find that they’re changing.
Some things are set, some uncertain, some sure.

Many men give in. They’ve sworn to never join in,
The rat race, the wife chase, the corporate climb.
Much is appealing in the offer that’s given.
‘Hard to say no to the ways of the time.

Men all settle down. Women stop ranging.
Then they get the ground and the house and the car.
When they look around they find that they’re changing.
Some things are set, some uncertain, some sure.

Must we be locked into the nature we’re born in?
Should we stay true to the company line?
Waking or sleeping we’ll go on repeating.
Day after day. Life after life.

Men all settle down. Women stop ranging.
Then they get the ground and the house and the car.
When they look around they find that they’re changing.
Some things are set, some uncertain, some sure.

Why contemplate ever making the world change?
Patterns are set and so rigid the bind.
Try as you might to, the future’s cast for you.
Dice have been loaded and the hustler is time.

Men all settle down. Women stop ranging.
Then they get the ground and the house and the car.
When they look around they find that they’re changing.
Some things are set, some uncertain, some sure.

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from Undivided Heart, released June 1, 2014

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Cymbeline Melbourne, Australia

Cymbeline is a group of musicians who assisted in the recording of these albums, written and sung by Simon McDonald. Chris Hutchins: lead guitar. Tony Hunt: bass. Ken Stephenson who played any instrument when needed. Drums by Lee Davidson and Matt Darcy. Others musicians included Amanda Pope, Margaret Ayers and Genevieve Ryan, plus vocalists Kirsty Morphett, Olivia Drake and Georgina Docherty. ... more

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