| The Drones – Luck In Odd Numbers Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"Perhaps Joe Byrne is a modern fly-in, fly-out miner..." Quite possibly, but it also refers to Joe Byrne -- the Kelly Gang member -- who known for speaking Cantonese and associated with the Chinese community. Like many of the rural poor, Byrne came from a social sector that sought to make a living by panning for gold. At the very least, the song references this and the rural poor in north-east Victoria in the time of the Kelly Gang, even as it uses this to tell a story on different levels. The lines "And I, I hear a knock on my door. Someone's waiting outside. Waiting outside, what for?" suggests the possiblity the song is about, or those lines at least are meant to evoke, Aaron Sherritt, who was a close friend of Byrne's and a supporter of the Kelly Gang. When the Kelly Gang found out he was receiving money as a police informer (though it is unclear whether he was deliberately misleading police or not) Byrne knocked on his door late at night and shot him dead. The song, at least, seems to refer to Byrne and possibly to Sherritt's killing, even if it also works of different levels and refers to relationships in general -- an quite possible in the context sof modern day miners and transnationals. |
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