Pop ballad about Sydney, Australia with nifty 12-string guitar intro by Dave Edwards (who co-wrote the song and arranged it too.)

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Several weeks spent in Sydney, Australia with family who lived there

Leaving This City Too Soon


A dinner party in a home in Alexandria
A Sunday picnic in the Centennial Park
The Harbour Bridge,
it looks so pretty in the dark
And I'll be leaving this city too soon.


A solitary figure on Coogee Beach
after sunset
The Powerhouse impressions,
well, they took my breath away
And then the view out over Botany Bay
And I'll be leaving this city too soon.


Chorus
It's vast but it's slow
In this city don't you know
With lots of things to do
And places to go
While in England there's snow
Here the sun seems to show
Every minute of each day now
Didn't you know didn't you know?


Vacleuse House I saw just after Gerard Depardieu
Then an ocean liner in the Circular Quay
A Javanese Buddha in the art gallery
And I'll be leaving this city too soon


Took the ferry across the harbour over to Manly
Then the bush country, well,
it's not too far away
The gum trees and the crickets seem to say
Well, I'll be leaving this city too soon.


Chorus


Every palm tree and lizard adds
to the flavour of
A sub-tropical cosmopolitan metropolis
you could grow to love.


Chorus