If I Close My Eyes-John Schumann

[ti:If I Close My Eyes] [ar:John Schumann] [al:Portrait - The Very Best Of John Schumann] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.69]If I Close My Eyes - John Schumann [00:06.12]Written by：John Schumann [00:08.85] [00:32.67]If I close my eyes [00:34.23] [00:35.17]I can see the river red gum rising green against the dawn [00:39.49] [00:40.56]I can hear the sacred silence of Wilpena in the morning [00:45.14] [00:46.72]All I have to do is close my eyes [00:49.10] [00:53.97]If I close my eyes [00:55.82] [00:57.25]See the sunlight tumbling down between the native pines [01:01.26] [01:02.27]Broken by the breeze splashing red and orange light [01:06.60] [01:07.54]I can see the wedge tailed eagle climbing stairways in the sky [01:11.99] [01:13.42]All I have to do is close my eyes [01:15.97] [01:19.01]All I have to do is close my eyes [01:21.47] [01:24.24]I close my eyes [01:25.52]I'm flying 40 000 years [01:28.16] [01:29.04]To Wilpena in the dream time [01:31.59]Where the rock sweeps to the air [01:33.49] [01:34.38]And the hills run from the mountainside into a haze of blue [01:38.73] [01:41.95]All I have to do is close my eyes [01:44.29] [01:49.54]If I close my eyes [01:51.06] [01:52.08]Underneath the windswept southern sky [01:54.58]Wilpena's ancient shrine [01:56.41] [01:57.81]Running down the centuries [01:59.20] [01:59.96]Leaving this one far behind [02:01.85] [02:03.19]Touch the starlight streaming from the blackness of the night [02:07.31] [02:08.84]All I have to do is close my eyes [02:11.27] [02:40.63]If we close our eyes [02:42.35] [02:43.21]There'll be black and whited waiters serving cocktails on the green [02:47.58] [02:49.09]Whirring motor driven cameras drinking in the scene [02:53.11] [02:54.38]People running credit checks behind a silver screen [02:58.45] [03:01.61]If we close our eyes [03:02.87] [03:05.25]If I close my eyes [03:06.52]I'm staring into endless night [03:09.22] [03:10.12]And in the hissing of the campfire [03:12.18] [03:12.78]As the smoke curls to the night [03:14.61] [03:15.32]I hear Nepabunna angels chanting out Wilpena's plight [03:20.03] [03:24.52]If I close my eyes [03:25.61] [03:28.16]If I close my eyes [03:29.55]I'm flying 40 000 years [03:32.19] [03:33.19]To Wilpena in the dream time [03:35.86]Where the rock sweeps to the air [03:37.61] [03:38.69]And the hills run from the mountainside into a haze of blue [03:42.75] [03:45.83]All I have to do is close my eyes [03:48.33] [03:51.25]All I have to do is close my eyes [03:53.68] [03:56.63]All I have to do is close my eyes [03:59.03] [04:02.04]All I have to do is close my eyes