Lyrics

Clean Slate (A New Beginning)

Verse 1
I watched this old man leave the railway station
Off the early train passing through our town
He looked a little lost
Shuffling through the frost
To where he?d find hot coffee to sip down

I set my hottest coffee down beside him
Passed the time of day with country glow
He loosened off his tie
Took in the clear blue sky
Began to tell me more than I should know
Chorus
He said I?ve come with a clean slate
A new beginning
There?s no baggage haunting me on my return
Conscience fee I'm heading back
To a cosy country shack
A clean and open slate, a new beginning

Verse 2
I told him though it?s no part of my business
It seemed to be okay on second thought
What he'd gotten off his chest
Was probably for the best
It was only coffee that he sought

Bridge:
As he sipped hot coffee down
He looked me over
Approving what he saw in me it seemed
He said it's hard to say
But I've come this way today
To chase the wildest dream a man can dream

Chorus
He said I?ve come with a clean slate
A new beginnin?
There?s no baggage haunting me on my return
Conscience free I'm heading back
To a cosy country shack
A clean and open slate, a new beginning

Verse 3
He told me how he?d married in the country
Then left his wife and child to join the fight
There?s a picture of them here
Nineteen-somethin? was the year
As I looked up close my thumping heart took fright

I knew then I was talking with a father
Who?d not been heard from since he went to war
Mum still looks the same today
In a kind and country way
It was her smile in the photo that?s for sure

Verse 4
I raced out back to ring my mum and tell her
She grabbed the keys and drove down in a trice
Then buckets full of tears
Flowed for all those long lost years
In a scene just as unreal as it was nice

Finale
He said I?ve come with a clean slate
A new beginning
I?ve come with a clean slate
A new beginning

A new beginning

A new beginning