Thread: Mixed up lyrics

Originally Posted by springwater

yeah I'm struggling too, most modern (you know, last 50 years) music was inaudible, so I'm better at humming

yeah! You only know the lyrics if you've studied the record cover.

Originally Posted by tea lady

yeah! You only know the lyrics if you've studied the record cover.

yeah but then you found the lyrics didn't make any sense anyway

For some reason I'm thinking of Great Southern Land (Icehouse), prolly wrong.

Originally Posted by Grumpy John

For some reason I'm thinking of Great Southern Land (Icehouse), prolly wrong.

A quote from the writer who is sadly no longer with us (well in body anyway) may help with direction:

I wrote (the song) to please my mother. She hasn't heard it yet because my mother and stepfather live (on a cattle station) and they can't get 240 volts electricity there, so I have to sing it over the phone to her [...] I don't like the word nostalgic; to me, it's a sloppy yearning for the past, and I'm not trying to do that in that song. I'm just trying to put three vignettes of a person, who's a lot like myself, growing up in Queensland, and just juxtaposing that against how I am now.

Cattle and Cane, by The Go-Betweens. A truly under appreciated band.

I recall a schoolboy coming home
Through fields of cane
To a house of tin and timber
And in the sky
A rain of falling cinders
From time to time

Originally Posted by Grumpy John

Cattle and Cane, by The Go-Betweens. A truly under appreciated band.

I recall a schoolboy coming home
Through fields of cane
To a house of tin and timber
And in the sky
A rain of falling cinders
From time to time

It would have been a give away if I hummed the intro to that one Well done GrumpyJohn, I went back to compare again and thought it a lot harder than I first imagined it would be, sorry about that. They were very quite, no hoopla. I still recall where I was when I first heard their music for some reason.

I must admit that the only way I got it was trolling the Oz music web sites for late 70's bands, hence the Icehouse guess. I thought of the Go Betweens but didn't know their songs well enough. It was the quote that gave it awau, I remembered reading it whilst looking at a Wiki article about them, they deserved a lot more success than came their way.
Anyway on with the game, another Aussie band from the '70's. I think it's easy, but then I know the answer .

I look at your surface once more, it has gone? The transport where the car and the taxi of the street-car like the wax passed me and always moved the girl it is young can be used, but is none of those

Originally Posted by Grumpy John

I must admit that the only way I got it was trolling the Oz music web sites for late 70's bands, hence the Icehouse guess. I thought of the Go Betweens but didn't know their songs well enough. It was the quote that gave it awau, I remembered reading it whilst looking at a Wiki article about them, they deserved a lot more success than came their way.
Anyway on with the game, another Aussie band from the '70's. I think it's easy, but then I know the answer .

I look at your surface once more, it has gone? The transport where the car and the taxi of the street-car like the wax passed me and always moved the girl it is young can be used, but is none of those

Easy, oh yeah!, I'm sleeping on it...then I'll look at the surface once more...see if its still there

An "angel" like you should be able to work that one out TL. I'm sure you sang the refrain on more than one occasion .

Originally Posted by Grumpy John

An "angel" like you should be able to work that one out TL. I'm sure you sang the refrain on more than one occasion .

I was more into punk and alternative stuff. But I'm not good at trivia about that either.

Originally Posted by tea lady

No way, you say. Get f%#%, you say. F#$$ off, you say.

Originally Posted by Grumpy John

An "angel" like you should be able to work that one out TL. I'm sure you sang the refrain on more than one occasion .

Originally Posted by Grumpy John

An "angel" like you should be able to work that one out TL. I'm sure you sang the refrain on more than one occasion .

An ex-Collingwood punk ceramicist woodturning angel rare as

It got all religious, I was thinking Saints, then Angel's appeared

Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again

"Trams cars and taxis, like a wax-works on the move
carrying young girls past me, but none of them are you"

Your go springwater .