Australian '80s indie rock lyrics, now.

[reddragdiva]

And related. If you are Engrish, you should probably give up now. Google probably won't help with these. I just wish I had my records here so I could check the half-remembered words I really wanted to put in.

1. "It is neither fair nor reasonable to expect sadness to confine itself to its causes. Like a river in flood, when it subsides and the drowned bodies of animals have been deposited in the treetops, there is another kind of damage that takes place beyond the torrent."
2. "I'm not an elephant/Or a kangaroo"
3. "For sixteen years you've been hanging around/Trying to bury me in a hole in the ground"
4. "You've gotta make up your mind/She's grooving everything you see"
5. "My heart rips open 'cause you're my all/Staring at my blank white wall/The old clock is getting heavy-handed/Waiting for a plane that never landed"
6. "Drifters and dreamers in the pit of my heart/Dragging me deep down to their warning"
7. "Don't give me back that/It was a corner way back/I saw it/You took it/It turned"
8. "I stand by the fire/I stand by the fire/While a solid gold guitar swings a heart throb of carnal desire"
9. "Just because I watch Dinah Shore/Doesn't mean I need a facelift"
10. "My house is a mess. My head is a mess. My bedroom is disgusting, my mind is obscene."

Some of those are tricky, some you will kick yourself for missing. Oh, and there's no Birthday Party.

Essential purchase: Various Artists - Do The Pop!

Update: 8. might be "solo guitar" rather than "solid gold guitar" - the perils of not having the damn records. (Though that one is presently available, at least on a compilation, and I REALLY SHOULD get it forthwith ...)

Comments

[missjanette.livejournal.com]

i love you so much for # 1.
you do know of my obessiveness with this band, yes?
Care to join me in geeking out over them at some point?

here's one for you, dont think i see anything of theirs there.

" somebody's hand was up your dress/ you were showing off everything except your finesse"

[reddragdiva]

I didn't recognise that one, but Google had it. They were early '90s and somewhat out of the ambit of the quiz - though, having included something from one member's band, I could well have included something from the other member's.

I was not aware of this aspect of your vast and ever-expanding geekery :-)

[missjanette.livejournal.com]

ah, crap. I think I got the dates confused due to the popularity of the other member's band in the 80s. Alas.

But yes, I am a huge geek for that band.
If I can ever managed to dig up my review of a gig they played in chicago, I will send it your way.

I cried. Thru the whole show. I am such a dork.