The Light
Words & Music: Pat Drummond
Dateline: Hawkesbury Heights Lookout, Blue Mountains, NSW

Council 1 Lovers Nil
They put a light on Hawkesbury Hill
In the parking bay to steal away the stars
Shining on young lover's cars
Depriving young love of it's start
It was a tribute to the bureaucratic heart
There comes a time in every life
when a man's forced to decide
And when Law and Love collide
I'm still on the lover's side
So I took my .22 and I put a bullet through
that fancy argon tube that cooled the lover's nights

Council 2 Lovers one
they fixed that tube and they took my gun
but it seems that I'd begun a local war
For the very next weekend
Someone buried it again
but this time my friend they used a big 12 bore
Council 10, Lovers 10
for the next 16 weekends
They sent out the council men
to repair that light again
but though the ranger lie in wait
Friday night at half-past eight
Another rifle sealed the fate
of the council's light.

And The 'Law and Order' Freaks
said someone'd breached the peace
That such disrespect must cease. Well that's alright
If the Law must win the day
Let it win and that's OK
Just as long as lover's hearts still rule the night

The lovers won. Yesterday
they came and took that light away
The insurance wouldn't pay for another one
So I guess the final score
in that long protracted war
was a rousing victory for
the lover's guns
They put the stars back in the sky
They put the stars back in their eyes
Love 30, Love 40, Love won
They put the stars back in the sky
They put the stars back in their eyes
Love 30, Love 40, Love won

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