Providence

Steve Kilbey / Grant McLennan
(Yeblik Songs/Complete Music)

Appears On:

Jack Frost - Jack Frost (1991), Track 6
Jack Frost - As Seen On TV (2025)
- LP: Side A, Track 6 / CD: Disc 1, Track 6 - Album Version
- CD: Disc 1, Track 16 - U.S. Television Broadcast
- CD: Disc 3, Track 1 - Live at the 9:30 Club, Washington DC, 23 March 1991
- CD: Disc 3, Track 13 - Live on KCRW SNAP Radio Show, Santa Monica, CA, 27 March 1991
Steve Kilbey - Acoustic & Intimate (2000), Track 1 (Live Acoustic Version)
Steve Kilbey - Bespoke Wheels and Winged Heels (2024), LP: Side C, Track 1 / CD: Track 11
Steve Kilbey and the Hoffmenn with Strings Attached - Live at the Fly By Night Club (2013), Track 2 (Live)
Steve Kilbey [and the Hoffmenn with Strings Attached] - Satellite (2024), Track 1 (Live)
Videos:
- Steve Kilbey - Steve Kilbey Live (2008), Track 1
Compilations Featuring Jack Frost:
- Karmic Hit Previews And Rarities Volume 2: Limited Edition 10th Anniversary CD (2003), Track 14
Covers:
- David Lane - Eleven Reasons To Sing (2003), Track 11
- Matthew Ryan - From A Late Night High Rise (2007), Track 5

Lyrics (unofficial)

[rev. Apr. 22, 2018]

Different lyrics are marked in red.

Jack Frost version:

Remember when I told you
You were pretty lost
It seems you had it up to here
You just paid the cost

All I have, all I need, all you got is providence

You're looking pretty tired
Seems you lost some weight
You made it through, I don't know how
That's what you can do

All I have, all I need, all you got is providence

The pines smell sweet in the frozen air
And their silhouettes just fading there
The wolves crouch close against the snow
But where we're running I don't know
In villages and soft sad towns
The candles sway as night comes down
Cold boats creak and strange beasts cry
Watching shadows in the sky

All I have, all I need, all I got is providence
All I have, all I need, all I got is providence

Remember when we were lovers
The things we used to do
The way the wind came through the door
The way you pulled me through
It was over before we knew it (all I have, all I need, all I got)
Gone from both our minds
If you get the inclination (all I have, all I need, all I got)
Just think of me sometime

All I have (all I have), all I need (all I need)
All you've got (all you've got) is providence
All I have (all I have), all I need (all I need)
All you've got (all you've got) is providence

Just providence
Just providence
Just providence
Just providence

Steve Kilbey: Acoustic & Intimate version:

Remember when I told you
You were pretty lost
It seems you had it up to here
You just paid the cost

All I have, all I need, all I got is providence

You're looking pretty tired
It seems you lost some weight
You made it through, I don't know how
That's what you can do

All I have, all I need, all I got is providence
All I have, all I need, all I got is providence

The pines smell sweet in the frozen air
Their silhouettes just fading there
The wolves crouch close against the snow
But where we're running I don't know
In villages and soft sad towns
The candles sway as night comes down
Cold boats creak, strange beasts cry
Watching shadows in the sky

All I have, all I need, all I got is providence
All I have, all I need, all I got is providence

Remember when we were lovers
The things we used to do
The way the wind came through the door
The way you pulled me through
It was over before we knew it
Gone from both our minds
If you get the inclination
Just think of me sometimes

All I have, all I need, all I got is providence
All I have, all I need, all I've got is providence

Just providence
Just providence
Just providence