| Midnight Oil – Back on the Borderline Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[Sunnyhill:37680] I love this song and I've been thinking about its meaning for a long time. Peter Garret studied law at ANU in Canberra. Midnight Oil was formed in 1976. In those days, and maybe now too, brothels were not allowed in the ACT, so horny blokes had to cross the boder line to Queenbeyan, a town in neighbouring NSW. The first verse seems clearly about having sex in a brothel. I agree with your assessment that "Diamond day" refers to marriage, and it sounds like it was an unsatisfactory one from the second verse. In the January 1985 "Oils on the Water concert", Garrett sings clearer and after the word laminex he says "touch wood, she looks good", and in the next line I think he says "alright now, I'm high". So clearly he is hoping the marriage will work, but when things don't go to plan, he finds himself back on the border line, on his way to see the Queenbeyan girls. |
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