Middle of the Hill-Josh Pyke

[00:13.53]When I was a kid I grew up in a house on a hill [00:17.41]Not the top, not the bottom, but the middle [00:20.10]And I still remember where I cracked my head [00:23.04]In the vacant lot, there's a row of tiny houses there now [00:27.16]And we used to light fires in the gutters [00:29.86]And I could cool my head on the concrete steps [00:32.86]But the girl down the street hit my sister on the head [00:36.05]With a stick and we hid behind my father [00:38.98]As he knocked on the parents' door [00:41.30]To tell the them what she did [00:42.92]But the parents were drunk so they really didn't give a **** [00:48.79] [00:49.30]And the girl down the street said a dog couldn't bark [00:52.93]'Cause a man with an axe cut its voicebox out [00:56.14]But my older sister told me that it prob'ly wasn't true [00:59.20]And I believe what she said 'cause she took me by the hand [01:02.39]One time when a coupla men drove down the hill in a white van [01:06.92]Said there was a phone box filled with money 'round the corner [01:10.80]And I woulda gone along but she took me by the hand [01:13.99]To the house in the middle of the hill [01:16.92]In the middle of the hill, in the middle of the hill [01:20.80] [01:22.42]And my mother knew the words to a lot of different songs [01:25.36]And we'd always sing the harmonies, yeah we'd sing along [01:28.61]She had cold, cold hands when the fever hit [01:31.86]And then the noises that the trains made sounded like people in my head [01:36.24]And the stories that the ceiling told [01:38.43]Through the pictures and the grains in the pine-wood boards [01:41.74]And let me stay outside 'til the sky went red [01:45.05]And I could cool my head on the concrete steps [01:48.30]And you could never really see the top from the bottom [01:51.11]But I don't pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em [01:55.24]And you could never really see the top from the bottom [01:58.11]I don't pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em [02:01.80]I don't pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em [02:04.80]I don't pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em [02:07.94]I don't pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em