I am still waiting for lyrics to ‘In The Morning’ – Well, I only heard about Anika Moa three days ago, when a friend from New Zealand gave me Stolen Hill.

I could relate and understand ‘In The Morning’ the first time I heard it. It is an honest and moving song, there should be more songwriters like this. Taboo subjects have been in the dark for too long.

I would love to find the lyrics to the song.

Now that I’ve got the CD, the best I can do is try to transcribe. I think these are the words. They don’t parse exactly but then a lot of songs don’t.

All this conversation has lifted my spirits
I will go to the park to make up my own mind
Silly silly future it sits inside my spine
It will make a family resolved in your own kind

All I ever wanted was to be near a face
In the morning, in the morning
After the operation my heart will become erased
And I will miss you, I will miss you

Beat beat beat beat that’s all I ever do
I’ve built in some room for everyone to frame
I’m so lucky to have a great career
But after all the fuss I just wanted to have you

All I ever wanted …

I haven’t thought enough to cry, oh
No I haven’t thought enough to cry, yeah

All I ever wanted ..

I haven’t thought enough …

All I ever wanted…

For extra credit, figure out what the title song ‘Stolen Hill’ is about:

And to save you for something
You could watch me die
And love this world without me on this stolen hill
I would multiply
Into a thousand words
And fill your heart and come back to you and tell you to move on

(A happy little love ballad or a song about a murder/suicide?)