Bill Beare - Back to the Backbeat Lyrics

Maxed out in the outback, sacred ground
Got my fill of surreal, serene surrounds
A sense of space, so profound
This place is a must for the outward bound
Deep in the red dust with your head spinning around
Then whisper silence within you like you're six-foot down
Out in the outback. Out, out in the outback

It has its pluses, but for me not for too long
Long enough for the rushes from back where I belong
Back to the urban, the CBD
A city burning at a thousand degrees
Turning, churning, about to OD
Get back to the backbeat, get that backbeat back in me
Back to the backbeat, get back to the backbeat

I loved what I found when I was away
But I'm from this town - born and raised
The crowded beaches and the feel of the streets
The towering creatures of steel and concrete
A mix of races, all part of a brew
Of anonymous faces doing just what they do
Seething chaos in some ordered fashion
A free-wheeling paradox of madness and passion
In the backseat to the rhythm of the backbeat

I saw a million stars in the blackness of night
And I felt a billion more that were just out of sight
And the lights of the city can never compare
But the lights are a shadow of the brightness there
Ricocheted feelings, reflected ideas
Human beings making sparks appear
A shared explosion of a shared trust
In that anything can happen and if it can, then it must!
And the fever there with 'em at the heart of the song
Is that backbeat rhythm that keeps it all pumping along
Back to the backbeat, where I belong
Back to the backbeat, get back to the backbeat