[INTRO] TK's caravan... Winter 1996... [female voice, soft and close]: I remember... [VERSE 1] Winter had teeth the night we met again at uni 18 and pretending we knew how to be free She wore a burgundy velour jacket and sparkling skirt Long red hair past her waist into the winter cold We made a pact there on the cold campus that night Spoke in bad French accents annoying the bouncers All-nighter engine running no surrender no flight Two sharp-tongued kids who just refused to go home [PRE-CHORUS] Standing at the bus stop I tore my jacket pocket I laughed and that was that out in the cold [female voice, quiet and certain] Neither of us said home Neither of us said quit [male voice enters softly beneath her] Chasing down a party that was already spent [CHORUS] We didn't know what we were building We just didn't want to go home Two kids who barely knew each other [both together, warm conversational melody] Making somewhere feel like our own TK's caravan Margaret Street at dawn That is where we landed That is where we belong [BRIDGE] TK was all kind hands grunge coat easy laugh Pointed down the road disappeared into the night His grandma's weatherboard house on Margaret Street Caravan out the back and the door was unlocked Old blankets piled up, hiding from the dark Just two kids trying to make a little start Still learning how to leave the past behind The caravan held us till the morning crossed the line [female voice, one quiet breath] Crossed the line... [FINAL CHORUS] We didn't know what we were building We just didn't want to go home Two kids who barely knew each other [both together, a little fuller] Just wanting to stay out all night TK's caravan Margaret Street at dawn That is where we landed [both voices, equal, steady and certain] That is where we belonged [OUTRO] Old blankets in the caravan [female voice, fading out behind him] Old blankets... [male voice] Barking dog at dawn [both voices, gentle final whisper] And dawn let us go [both voices, final breath together] TK's caravan... "Winter 1996" [The crowd roars]
