If I Close My Eyes (Schumann) If I close my eyes I can see the river redgum rising green against the dawn I can hear the sacred silence of Wilpena in the orning all I have to do is close my eyes. If I close my eyes I can see the sunlight tumbling down between the native pines broken by the breeze splashing red and orange light I can see the wedge-tail eagle climbing stairways in the sky if I close my eyes And if I close my eyes I'm flying 40,000 years to Wilpena in the dream-time where the rock sweeps to the air and the hills run from the mountainside into a haze of blue all I have to do is close my eyes If I close my eyes underneath the windswept southern sky Wilpena's ancient shrine running down the centuries leaving this one far behind touch the starlight streaming from the blackness of the night all I have to do is close my eyes And if we close our eyes there'll be black-and-whited waiters serving cocktails on the green and whirring motor-driven cameras taking in the scene and people running credi-checks behind a silver screen If I close my eyes And If I close my eyes I'm staring into endless night and in the hissing of the campfire as the smoke curls to the night I hear Nepabunna angels chanting out Wilpena's plight If I close my eyes And if I close my eyes I'm flying 40,000 years to Wilpena in the dream-time where the rock sweeps to the air and the hills run from the mountainside into a haze of blue all I have to do is close my eyes |