Illy - The Space Between lyrics

Yeah this a song about life
And all the space at the heart of it
Between what we can't predict and
What we can't forget
Went from On The Bus to on stage at the ARIAs
Shit, I guess growing up's a part of it
Turned a bandwagon to a tour bus
Had to put in leg work, it ain't a small jump
Highlight reel like I fantasised that
And life like the train wheels
On Frankston line tracks gotta roll with it
Ain't always easy but it's easier
Than throwing it in
Dust yourself down, go again
Sometimes life remind you so you don't forget
Sometimes just surviving is a
Show of strength
I went number 1, partied, woke up
And went to work on the next
'Cause you earn what you get
But fuck ballin, my measure of success


Was when mum retired I could promise
Her she'd never need to stress
Someway somehow it all worked out
A lotta hard lessons but
They're sure learnt now
Me and Southside Melbourne are always bound
No matter where on this little
Blue ball I'm found
Never needed y'all to say I'd do it
Cause I knew it you get what you give
And I gave my life to it
And if I had the time over again
I'd do it all, yeah, every last thing, yeah
Every last thing

Ah man, what a trip what a trip
Guess I could, guess I did, so
Tell 'em it can wait it
Ain't over nowhere close
Nah man, don't you blink, don't you blink
'Cause you could miss, yeah you could miss
All the things that matter most
So pour up cause

Here's to where we going and where we been
And everything still waiting
In the space between

Do you remember? I told ya long time ago
That when I get there you'll know
And I ain't there yet, I'm
Still down for the ride, so I'mma roam
I'll see you where the rubber meet the road
People asking where you been
Between here and now and there and then
Where to start, fell apart, and rebuilt again
Got a few less friends, got back a brother
So my other brother got married
With two best men
Lost love, yeah and fell back in
Wrote the album, rewrote the whole album
Rewrote it again i gave my all cause Brig
Said like hell I'd quit
Years from now these the stories
I'll tell my kids and yeah, this the truth
Whole country had my back when
I only had a voice so, this for you
A man now but I swear
I'mma always be your boy
I grew up in front your eyes
My stories right there between
Highs and bottom lines
But we're so fixated on making our time count
Chasing dreams nearly forgetting
It's right now, yeah
And these are times we don't
Get to have twice so one day we can sit
Back, talk about our lives, and
All that we did, and how far we done came
Maybe one day, but not today

Ah man, what a trip what a trip
Guess I could, guess I did, so
Tell 'em it can wait it
Ain't over nowhere close
Nah man, don't you blink, no don't you blink
'Cause it goes quick, yeah it goes quick
And it's gone before you know, so pour up and

Here's to where we going and where we been
And everything still waiting
In the space between in the space between

Everything we got and all we gained
Everything we lost along the way
Every path has it's price
In between beginnings and the ends
Between regrets and everything ahead
Yeah, there's so much left to write

So here's to where we going
And where we been
And everything still waiting
In the space between
Here's to where we going and where we been
And everything still waiting
In the space between in the space between