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Dreamworld Lyrics
The Breakfast Creek hotel is up for sale
The last square mile of terra firma gavelled in the mail
so farewell to the Norfolk Island pines
No amount of make believe can help this heart of mine
End - your dreamworld is just about to end
Fall - your dreamworld is just about to fall
Yours dreamworld will fall
So shut that buckle and turn that key again
Take me to a place they say the dreaming never ends
Open wide drive that mystery road
Walk through eden's garden and then wonder as you go
Sign says honeymoon to rent
Cloudland into dreamland turns
The sun comes up and we all learn
Those wheels must turn
The last square mile of terra firma gavelled in the mail
so farewell to the Norfolk Island pines
No amount of make believe can help this heart of mine
Fall - your dreamworld is just about to fall
Yours dreamworld will fall
Take me to a place they say the dreaming never ends
Open wide drive that mystery road
Walk through eden's garden and then wonder as you go
Cloudland into dreamland turns
The sun comes up and we all learn
Those wheels must turn
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The "Breakfast Creek Hotel" was on the Gold Coast of Qld. This song is about the destruction of our coastal environment (durrr) for the sake of progress - the music video was filmed at Coalcliff in NSW.
The Breakfast Creek Hotel is in Brisbane... the same place it's been for over 100 years.
Sloane - are you sure the Brisbane hotel's the one that theyr'e referring to?
Could there be more than one BCH ? as the song has a coastal theme ?
BCH deffinitely in brisbane, on the highway down to the gold coast though...
The Breaky Creek Hotel is on Kingsford Smith Dr. Right in Brisbane city. It fronts the Breakfast Creek which runs into the Brissy River, just after the Story Bridge. Nowhere near the Gold Coast...google it if you don't believe me.
Anyway, BCH is a Brisbane landmark, so was Cloudland. The song is about how nothing ever stays the same and that people are prepared to knock down landmarks to make a buck. BCH sold, but fortunately never got knocked down. Unfortunately, it was highly renovated and is now longer a place to drop in for a drink, it is upmarket and expensive and certainly not working class anymore.
I always wondered if this song was referring to the two Brissy landmarks. Was prob too young to remember BCH being sold. My mum always told me though about Cloudland (it was a dance hall). The story goes that the Dean Bros (a famous Brisbane demolition company) knocked it down during the night (I think in about 1981) and all of Brisbane woke up to a city without Cloudland. Funny thing is I now have a freind who lives in one of the aparments now standing on the site.
Sorry - Deen Brothers. Demolished 7th Nov 1982. So I was 1 year old - so give me a break - i was close. :)
The song is about Brisbane and more generally the SE corner of Queensland. Continuing the great Australian tradition of singing about places in our wonderful land.
In their day the Oils' biggest fan base was here, when they visited they played multiple consecutive gigs at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre; a venue the band hated because of the dreadful acoustics and the time it took to sound-check.
Play the "scream in blue" live version of "Dreamworld"; in the background are 10,000 screaming Brisbane fans (and the massive slap-back from the back wall).