On a return visit to Louth with a friend during the second winter of a harsh drought, we visited the monument to take some photo's and retell the story. The friend we had with us, a city girl, looked around the landscape and asked 'what would make a woman come out here?' It was just a few day's later we went to a barbeque beside the river and were both struck by the beauty of the scene, the wonderful outback winter sun and the glorious Darling.

Mathews himself is noted to have said 'I should not like to close…without bearing emphatic testimony to the salubrity of the climate of the North Western interior. The children born there are healthiest in the world, and if we have some very hot and scorching days, we have many more cool and pleasant ones.

 

Reason

This is the reason I will stay
I won't go away
The change of the season, the end of the day
Twilight turns to grey

The Southern sun could burn you deep
Or put your heart to sleep
And you are the one, you carried me
You made me see

You're the one,
You're the one …For me
You're the one …For me

Lived under the ceiling, could touch the cloud
Couldn't sing out loud
Now I feel I can breathe the sky
I believe that I can fly

I can follow the sun, it flames within
I feel it on my skin
And you are the one who brought me here
Threw away my fears

You're the one,
You're the one …For me
You're the one …For me

The life I left behind
Is just a cloudy echo in my mind
Never was the kind
To go
And not know
What I would find

Promise me you'll leave me here
Another thousand years
I'll turn the night into the day
Turn the clouds away

I believe it could be done
I believe you are the one
You could build the sun in stone
And I'll never be alone

You're the one,
You're the one …For me
You're the one …For me

©2002. Words and Music, Andrew Hull and Tonchi Macintosh

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