Flame Trees Lyrics
And I'm just savoring familiar sights
We share some history, this town and I
And I can't stop that long forgotten feeling of her
Try to book a room and stay tonight
After all this time you boys look just the same
Number two is the happy hour at one of two hotels
Settle in to play "do you remember so and so?
Number three is never say her name
And there's nothing else could set fire to this town
There's no change, there's no pace Everything within its place
Just makes it harder to believe that she won't be around
Takes more than just a memory to make me cry
And I'm happy just to sit here a table with old friends
And see which one of us can tell the biggest lies
With a young local factory out-of-worker just holding hands
And I'm wondering if he'll go or if he'll stay
In our day
And there's nothing else could set fire to this town
There's no change, there's no pace
Everything within its place
Just makes it harder to believe that she won't be around
And there's nothing else could set fire to this town
There's no change, there's no pace
Everything within its place
Just makes it harder to believe that she won't be around
Flame Tree's are not Jacarandas as many has stated.. but Illawarra Flame Trees which grow on the east coast of Australia and often line roads, they turn vivid red late spring when flowering... the Wikipedia page on Flame trees states that this song is about the Illawarra Flame Tree. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachychiton_acerifolius
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chisel fan - you're close to being right, and that may be a literal translation, but I've read (on the liner notes of a Chisel CD) that it was a story about Don Walker going back to Grafton (on the NSW North Coast) to look for an old flame.
The Flame Trees also refers to Jacarandas, which have a magnificent purple flower emerge in October. The entire city of Grafton holds the "Jacaranda Festival" around that time, and Grafton is one of the only places in Australia which the Jacarandas are so profuse.
It's really a story of love, regrets about "the one who got away", and realising that you can never go back to the way things used to be.
Exactly right. I heard an interview with the band and their version of the meaning of the song is as tarrant 7575 states. Being a Graftonian we need all the credit we can get.
Exactly right. I heard an interview with the band and their version of the meaning of the song is as tarrant 7575 states. Being a Graftonian we need all the credit we can get.
This song touches me more deeply the older I get. Funny that I was never a real fan of cold chisel or this song when I was younger.
I think any older person who has left the town they grew up in can relate.
To me, it is clearly about an older bloke who has returned to the hometown of his youth and is feeling nostalgic. He recalls a girl that he could have spent his life with but moved away. Most of his mates haven't because nothng much changes in the old town.
Unfortunately the girl is now gone (I would say left not dead) and I would imagine he is reminiscing about what might have been.
He looks at the girl near the pianola stand with the factory worker and wonders if "he" will go or stay...just like himself many years ago who decided to go......
Song is about c.c. band member travelling back to Grafton to look up an old flame.About how young guys cope with a break up and heartbreak and all the walls they put up in the process. Conveys the emotional aspect of that time of life they are going through, which may be prolonged and painful.
Fantastic song
Isn't it great? I think it's about reminiscing with your mates - over the girl that got away, over the old antics, and watching all the young people embarking on their lives, all the while remembering the old days. Such a richly evocative song.
I think it's a beautiful song... I personally think it might be about someone who goes back to their old hometown after hearing of the death of a girl they used to be friends with... altho im not sure at all! either way its absoloutely beautiful. great version used in new aussie movie 'little fish'.
great song. I agree with angel about the death of a girl. There is also a really good cover of this song by sarah blasko
oh yeah, what do the flame tress mean?
A flame tree is literally a tree. It's a type of tree that was planted in a lot of Australian small towns in the early part of the 20th century. Go to just about any Aussie country town and you'll see thousands of them lining the roads.
A flame tree is literally a tree. It's a type of tree that was planted in a lot of Australian small towns in the early part of the 20th century. Go to just about any Aussie country town and you'll see thousands of them lining the roads.
They are called flame trees because in Autumn the leaves turn a bright orange and are kinda shaped like flames.
They are called flame trees because in Autumn the leaves turn a bright orange and are kinda shaped like flames.
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@tim_54321 Flame Trees, refers to the bright red flowers of the Illawarra Flame tree (not the leaves) planted along many roads throughout the east coast of Australia, the bright red flowers are what is referred to and at times can be overwhelming when the sun is in the right position http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTMwWDUyMA==/z/O3wAAOSw2XFUjZXv/$_57.JPG?set_id=880000500F
@tim_54321 Flame Trees, refers to the bright red flowers of the Illawarra Flame tree (not the leaves) planted along many roads throughout the east coast of Australia, the bright red flowers are what is referred to and at times can be overwhelming when the sun is in the right position http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTMwWDUyMA==/z/O3wAAOSw2XFUjZXv/$_57.JPG?set_id=880000500F
@tim_54321 You are correct, it is the flowers, not the leaves. Thanks for the correction.
@tim_54321 You are correct, it is the flowers, not the leaves. Thanks for the correction.
Great track and always creates a feeling of melancholy in me whenever I hear it. I reckon it's partyly saying that you can go back to the haunts of your youth but don't expect a guarantee that all will be the same. Puts me off doing just that!