Isolation
Neil Finn/Nick Seymour/Mark Hart/Matt Sherrod
You arrive
Like a dragonfly
Float above the grass
Trembling still
Think you might
Open up your heart
Open up your heart
Someday you will
Yes, there’s always a way
Yes, there’s always a way
To end this isolation
When you rise
Like the Milky Way
On a luminous night
The epic unknown
Though I try
Try to find a sign
Of another life
I am alone
There’s always a way
Yes, there’s always a way
To end this isolation
One step away from everyone
If you could open it up
You could connect it to us
One step is more than enough
To get a look in
You could be already gone
I wish you would take me along
To end this isolation
To end this isolation
I try so hard to get it right
Look for something in your eyes
And I see it
But you won’t let yourself feel it
I wait for you to make a sign
Let the door open in your eyes
And I believe it
That one day you’ll step inside
Song appears on:
Crowded House - Intriguer (2010 album)
Live: Various 2010 live shows available at Nugs
Live: Fangradio broadcasts 2020-2021
Sharon Finn at side of stage with monitor engineer Paul Jeffery.
“Sharon has an innocent approach in a sense that it’s not affected, her voice isn’t mannered or stylized, it’s just a lovely tone, beautiful simple honest singing which I really like, and it suited the song ‘Isolation’. She can sound breathy and ethereal, so it worked out really well.”
“‘Isolation’ went through a pretty large transformation. The original song was a folky thing and is now vastly different.”
Isolation (early studio demo)
Neil Finn
I’m the kind of man that wants to know what’s going on
And I watch the news to find out where it’s going wrong
You tell me there’s no worldly use in knowing that
It’s a garbled message from a world that’s going mad
She lies in isolation
One step away from danger
And I can tell she’s different
Do you hear the dragging of a chain
Upon the ground
It seems to me that Marley’s ghost
Is in the sound
I fear that questions will be asked
What have you done?
So I circle round and I beat the ground
’Til kingdom come
She lies in isolation
One step away from danger
And I can tell she’s different
From the rest
From the rest
When you hunger
For knowledge from the deep
Must remember
To look before you leap
We’re all thinking
With our lives set on repeat
But you’re in tune
What’s going on
She lies in isolation
One step away from danger
And I can tell she’s different
From the rest
For the best
All the best
…
I’m the kind of man that wants to know