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Wild Colonial Boy Lyrics
I am a wild colonial boy
My name you'll never see
My land is ruled by Anglophiles
And forces foreign to me
I do not curse your referees
In boardrooms far away
Yeah who am I to question these
Who plan their final day
I've never known the jealousies
The overcrowded pain
I live and breathe the silences
The dust where no man reigns
I'm in love,
I got blazing light
Ten thousand miles of ocean
I'm alone
And there's more like me
Ignoring the end of their show
And when they shaft my brother dear
And pay him off with lies
I fill my hand with the Union card
And aim between their eyes
And if I smile,
When they crawl around
Too condescending to blame me
I am young,
Baby they're so old
Gothic, religious and tame
I am just a wild colonial boy
My name you'll never see
I breathe the silence that destroys
All their desperate harmony
My name you'll never see
My land is ruled by Anglophiles
And forces foreign to me
I do not curse your referees
In boardrooms far away
Yeah who am I to question these
Who plan their final day
The overcrowded pain
I live and breathe the silences
The dust where no man reigns
I got blazing light
Ten thousand miles of ocean
I'm alone
And there's more like me
Ignoring the end of their show
And pay him off with lies
I fill my hand with the Union card
And aim between their eyes
When they crawl around
Too condescending to blame me
I am young,
Baby they're so old
Gothic, religious and tame
My name you'll never see
I breathe the silence that destroys
All their desperate harmony
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I love this song. Patriotic and masochistic at the same time. "I'm in love, I got blazing light Ten thousand miles of ocean"- Cold Chisel's best lyrics
Chisel's best lyric. I occasionally find myself sitting in meetings with boring pricks and silently singing the lyric:
And if I smile, When they crawl around Too condescending to blame me I am young, Baby they're so old Gothic, religious and tame
Yes an amazingly powerful, spiritual and patriotic song! So much double meaning, protest and comment that one doesn’t know where to start. It cuts right to the core of being ‘real’ Australian! So much so that I wonder if the ‘Wild Colonial Boy’ is actually Australia itself! … I am Young, baby they’re (who are they … old Europe/UK?) so old. Gothic, Religious (as in traditions etc..) and Tame! Yes, like a lot of great prog rock songs, lots of independent, self-identifying double or even triple meanings!! Such is the art of great contemporary song writing… to appeal to the varied individuals in their own varied ways???