Distant Sun
Neil Finn
Tell me all the things you would change
I don’t pretend to know what you want
When you come around and spin my top
Time and again, time and again
No fire where I lit my spark
I am not afraid of the dark
Where your words devour my heart
And put me to shame, put me to shame
When your seven worlds collide
Whenever I am by your side
And dust from a distant sun
Will shower over everyone
Still so young to travel so far
Old enough to know who you are
Wise enough to carry the scars
Without any blame, there’s no one to blame
It’s easy to forget what you learned
Waiting for the thrill to return
Feeling your desire burn
And drawn to the flame
When your seven worlds collide
Whenever I am by your side
Dust from a distant sun
Will shower over everyone
Dust from a distant sun
Will shower over everyone
And I’m lying on the table
Washed out in a flood
Like a Christian fearing vengeance from above
I don’t pretend to know what you want
But I offer love
Seven worlds will collide
Whenever I am by your side
Dust from a distant sun
Will shower over everyone
As time slips by
As time slips by
Song appears on:
Crowded House - Together Alone (1993 album)
Live: Fangradio broadcasts 2020-2021
“‘Seven worlds collide’... A lot of the time, the first lines that I get just pop out, so I don’t really remember what happened with that. It’s a reference to the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters, which I must have been talking about with somebody. It’s a likely place for extra-terrestrials to come from, supposedly, for people who follow those kind of leads, and is a significant cosmological part of the night sky.
Apart from that, I don’t know really. ‘Tell me all the things you would change; I don’t pretend to know what you want’ - it’s just wanting to get to know somebody, the unknowability of people, and the different influences that come from way, way out there in the universe that we don’t even know about.”
Crowded House playing Distant Sun at Spark Arena, Auckland, March 2021
