| Allo, Darlin' – Tallulah Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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On a drive from St Lucia to Surfers In my old university car We had the windows down for our aircon' The door was so hot that you burned your arm It was the tail and over summer And the heat washed in with the breeze And you were searching something to sing to As the radio played another terrible song But lucky for me, you found the tape with Tallulah on And it's been a long time Since I've seen all my old friends But I really love my new friends I feel I've known them a long while Then last summer you wrote me a letter On the back of a surf magazine You said you didn't have any paper maybe you wondered what could have been So I sent you a postcard from Berlin of a fat man eating a sausage It hid the fact that I was hiding As the DJ played another terrible song But lucky for us, we found a bar with the Matels on And it's been a long time Since I've seen all my old friends But I really love my new friends I feel I've known them a long while I'm wondering if I've already heard all the songs that'll mean something And I'm wondering if I've already met all the people that'll mean something. But I find myself daydreaming of the places where we used to stay Used to brush them away St Kilda, Coolangatta, Bondi Beach & Coogee Bay Like the sound of their names And I wonder if you would wanna go there with me When I'm finished over here If you're not finished with me Notes for non Australian people: St Lucia is a inner suburb of Brisbane Australia, Surfers the Australian colloquial for Surfers Paradise, a popular holiday destination in Queensland, Australia- aircon short for Air conditioner, St Kilda is a suburb of Melbourne, Coolangatta is the southernmost suburb of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Bondi Beach is a famous inner city beach in Sydney as is Coogee Bay. Tallulah is the 6th Album released by Queensland band the Go-betweens and the precursor to the seminal “breakup” album 16 lovers lane. Can't be sure how far this retro Australian music quirk goes, but in my car, backseat navigators have for some decades been know to offer direction advice in song, from Tallulah track one, “right-here”. |
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