He was just a friend of mine   I'd run in to from time to time   And long before he moved away   We used to share a taste for wine      Still I never knew that he was sad back then   He said, the time had come, for him, to take a holiday      And he says it's brilliant there   There's something in the air   And sunshine everywhere   He's on the beach      I know he's changed somehow, he sends us postcards now   I'm not sure where he is, but he is out of reach      When he called me up one day   And said that he was going away   I thought he meant a week in France   And not 12,000 miles to Sydney Bay      Still he had to take his chances   He said, the time had come for him to make a move away      And he says it's brilliant there   There's something in the air   And sunshine everywhere   He's on the beach      I know he's changed somehow, he writes us postcards now   He's on his own again and he is out of reach   (I bet he gets it on the beach)      And I don't blame him   Leaving was the best thing he could do   He longed for changes   I just hope he's happy when he does the things he thinks he has to do      And he tries, and he tries, yes he tries   But he's a little bit hard on himself   So now he's trying to be someone else      And he says, he says, he says it's brilliant there   There's something in the air   And sunshine everywhere   He's on the beach      I know he's changed somehow, it's in his postcards now   He's on his own again, so far out of reach      And he says it's brilliant there   There's something in the air   And sunshine everywhere   He's on the beach      I know he's changed somehow, it's in his postcards now   He's in Australia, so far out of reach   And he says it's brilliant there