| The Drones – Luck In Odd Numbers Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think the song involves a little more than just personal relationships. I think Liddiard is drawing on the album title here to make reference to modern Australia's mining boom and the social consequences of another 'gold rush'. Obviously, he's tying that into a relationship story and it can be read as a personal relationship or, in this reading, perhaps a transnational one. Perhaps Joe Byrne is a modern fly-in, fly-out miner digging coal/iron ore for the 'Cantonese', giving up lifestyle for cash. But... "Which way if my luck deserts?/Dig deeper in that rock and dirt/Which way when the good luck dies?" And maybe that's the folly of pitching your tent at 'Havilah', where working/living in the 'golden' sands of Australia's mining towns is really missing the point of life. "And if it's all supposed to mean something It's nothing he's interested in One thing Joe Byrne won't never know Is you only get what you let go He pitched his tent down Havilah So he would never have to travel far It don't matter Chinese or Afghan All that he wants grows on dry land" |
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