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Streets Of Your Town Lyrics
Chorus
Round and round, up and down
Everyday I make my way
Through the streets of your town
Don't the sun look good today?
But the rain is on its way
Watch the butcher shine his knives
And this town is full of battered wives.
Chorus
I ride your river under the bridge
I take your boat out to the reach
Cos I love that engine roar
but I still don't hnow what I'm here for.
Chorus
they shut it down
they closed it down
they shut it down
they pulled it down.
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Round and round, up and down
Everyday I make my way
Through the streets of your town
But the rain is on its way
Watch the butcher shine his knives
And this town is full of battered wives.
I take your boat out to the reach
Cos I love that engine roar
but I still don't hnow what I'm here for.
they closed it down
they shut it down
they pulled it down.
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Excellent song. Simply flawless.
Grant acknowledged in interviews at the time that the song was about his love/hate relationship with Brisbane. The 'striped sunlight sound' of the music is in stark contrast to the darkness of the lyrics, i.e, everything looks beautiful, but scratch away at the surface and....
Yeah, not bad at all. A very underated band
The quintessential 80s Brisbane song. Everytime I hear this it I am flooded with memories of growing up in Brisbane in the 80s. Very few songs stir so many emotions within me.
I have to disagree with everyone so far. I view it as a negative song. The streets of your town refer to where his lover lives. 'The rain is on it's way' is a euphamism as rain symbolises gloominess. 'Watch the butcher shine his knives and this town is full of battered wives' refers to the roughness and violence of the area. 'They shut it down, they closed it down' I view as a reference to the fact the area had nothing going for it so whatever was still operating there the people in power terminated. He goes everyday to the streets of your town to see his lover but everytime he does he is touched as it is so different to the normal lifestyle he is used to. If it was a reference to Brisbane then it would be the streets of my town not your town and it wouldn't be unusual for him to walk through it every day if it was in reference to where he lived.
As much as I try to like their songs out of loyalty to Brisbane (theirs & my home town), this is the only one of their songs I have ever really liked.
It is about Brisbane & always makes me think of Brisbane in the 80s - a fun place for me because it was the "big smoke" where I went on holidays & also reminds me of the the female Lord Mayor back then who always seemed very glamourous to me . I think it was the theme song to a daily/weekly show about Brisbane on TV too. the stuff about being full of battered wives was a bit rough, but then its always been cool for The Go-Betweens and other Bris-bands of that era to shit on Brissy. I happen to love the place tho.
dont think grant was trying to insult brisbane when he said this town is full of battered wives, he was just describing the town as he saw it, and what he saw, and yeah domestic violence does occur in brisbane, as well as a lot of love, and a lot of fun, and a lot of different people of different ages and cultures, all in all, its a good town, with the good and the bad, and i think thats what grant was trying to encapsulate about this, our town
dont think grant was trying to insult brisbane when he said this town is full of battered wives, he was just describing the town as he saw it, and what he saw, and yeah domestic violence does occur in brisbane, as well as a lot of love, and a lot of fun, and a lot of different people of different ages and cultures, all in all, its a good town, with the good and the bad, and i think thats what grant was trying to encapsulate about this, our town