Hole In The Ice
Neil Finn/Lisa Coleman

Take it down, mess it up, light a match, make a fire
Walk away as the money burns, it might just save your life
I play the happenstance, oh, I see my fortune fly
Every time you lift the cup, another long day goes by

And I won't travel into the straw daylight desire
I wrote that, some Eskimo gave me the line

Sit back and watch the money burn, five days in a hot house hell
Once you're gone there's no return but I never wanna let you lie
I want my love to burn, hotter than a comet's tail
I want my bed to cry, I never wanna let you down

And I won't travel into the straw daylight desire
I wrote that. some Eskimo gave me the line

And all I ever do is therapy, one on one, one on one
And you and I, we might want the same thing, one on one, one on one
I don't want a teacher to remind me, one on one, one on one
How to get something better out of my life, life, life, yeah

I play the happenstance, I see my fortune fly
Every time I lift the cup and another long day goes by

And I won't travel into the pale moonlight desire
I wrote that, some Eskimo gave me the line

Your freedom, is so precious that it makes me hurt
I learnt tha,t my teacher was my loneliness
And wisdom can be passed on by the one who's left
Your freedom is so precious that it makes it work

Song appears on:

Neil Finn - One All (remix) (US/Canada album, 2002)

“The song is, lyrically, the most jumbled on the record, but I went with it because those lyrics all poured out at the time we made the song. But there are some nice images in there of a kind of loose manifesto for myself - ‘I play the happenstance, I see my fortune fly’ - I like those kind of random elements. As a performer, i like being influenced by what’s going on on the night. I don’t like to be too rehearsed, and it’s a bit fraught with danger, that approach.”

— Neil Finn