A simple message for when the music finishes

 Pauline, You Made Them Aware

[Verse 1]
Her name was Pauline
Part of every family
Not a picture in a frame
But everybody’s beauty
Fish and chips on a Friday
Beer foam on the street
We laughed till we were aching
My God
She was right on beat

[Chorus]
Pauline
You made them aware
Pauline
Like a voice in the air
Pauline
Foreigners beware
You’d shout it out there
You didn’t care
Pauline
Cooking lard on the range
Pauline
Never needed change
Pauline
Somehow you still worked
When others proved there could be worse

[Verse 2]
Australia in the distance
Silver on the sea
You said
“This land’s a question
And the answer’s up to me”
You were loud at the counter
Soft when things got hard
You could turn the room electric
With a joke about the yard

[Chorus]
Pauline
You made them aware
Pauline
Like a spark in the air
Pauline
Foreigners beware
You’d carve it in the air
You didn’t care
Pauline
Cooking lard on the range
Pauline
Never needed change
Pauline
Somehow you still worked
When others proved there could be worse

[Bridge]
Australia
Aussie in your grin
You’d say
“Let the stories
Be thicker than the skin”
Australia
Echo in the shed
Every word you threw around
Still ringing in our heads (hey!)

[Chorus]
Pauline
You made them aware
Pauline
Still a ghost in the air
Pauline
Every bar
Every chair
They’re arguing there like you’re still there
Pauline
Cooking lard on the range
Pauline
Nothing stays the same
Pauline
In every curse and every verse
Others proved there could be worse

Written, produced - Rick Dean
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