Jenny came home from her trip away last winter.
No-one knew what had got into her.
Soon you could not go two steps without getting word of her.
And there were a lot who wished they never heard of her.

It was a big fish that caught her,
Just under the water,
And out here the tide it runs so strong,
When you turn round the fish has gone.

She danced in the fires that we lit for her returning,
Even when her suitcases started burning.
You're mad if you go back her friends had all said,
They were right in ways they had not expected.

It was a big fish that caught her,
Just under the water,
And out here the wind it blows so strong,
When you turn round the fish has gone.

Now she's flying high above Australia,
With a new job and a house of her own.
Whatever it was that had her, she has left here.
It comes to the surface now and then to show us we're not alone.

It was a big fish that caught her,
Just under the water,
And out here we swim between the sea and the air,
Though we don't look down, we know it's there.

The big fish.