Cruiser's Creek Lyrics
we only have this excerpt:
Cruiser's Creek yeah
Watch the shirt-tails flapping in the wind
Sidewalk running
See the people holding from the back
Hat-boaters tilting
There's a party going down around here
Cruiser's Creek now
From what I've taken
There's a party come around annual
Cruiser's Creek now
And Bianco on the breath guaranteed
Cruiser's Creek yeah
Cruiser's Creek now
Cruiser's Creek
Crisp bags turning
See B&H cartons laughing in the wind
Road-litter turning
Spent forty-five minutes last night
Parallel crease, pow!
There's a good mid-afternoon breeze
In the air now
Welcome treats from party
My brain is clear now
No more Red Wedge in the pub or ZTT stuff
At Cruiser's Creek now
Cruiser's Creek yeah
Next to Freedom street
Get the last of the poison off my chest
Cruiser's creek
It's for what I'm yearning
And there's a dim chance it's what I'm gonna get
At Cruiser's Creek yeah
At Cruiser's Creek now
At Cruiser's Creek
Cruiser's Creek yeah!
Checkpoint, main gate
As I lit a number 6 cigarette
Like a wick, burning
Cruiser's Creek.
Turn the tap off.
My name is Big Hero, mate
Cruiser's Creek
Avoid disaster
And I imagine
The sound of its blast, yeah.
Cruiser's Creek now
sidewalk running
See the people holding from the back
Hat-boaters tilting
There's a party going on around here
Cruiser's Creek now
Cruiser's Creek yeah
Cruiser's Creek
Annual!
Freaks limited!
Cruiser's Creek!
In the liner notes to the 50,00 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong compilation, it says this is about a party held by trendy hipsters that ends in disaster when there's a gas leak and someone lights a cigarette. I had to wiki these references, but ZTT was a new wave/dance record label that signed bands like Art Of Noise and Frankie Goes To Hollywood, while the Red Wedge was a collective of labour-party supporting musicians including Billy Bragg and Paul Weller. I guess Mark E Smith was a fan of neither.
the above interpretation is probably true (although the video depicts it as a kind of debauched office party), but is slightly affected by the fact that the single version (ie the one on this nation's saving grace and 458489) doesn't include the party bit at all!
@cutlunch No, that\'s not right, you have it backwards. The single version is the longest version, in fact, at over 6 minutes. \r\n\r\nThe version included on reissues of TNSG and various compilations including 458489, 50,000 Fall Fans Can\'t be Wrong and 58 Golden Greats (the full version was included on the TNSG box set and the 7CD singles boxset) is not the original single version at all, but an edited version lasting only just over 4 minutes. \r\n\r\nThe party is in the lyrics of both versions. What\'s missing from the truncated version is the bit...
@cutlunch No, that\'s not right, you have it backwards. The single version is the longest version, in fact, at over 6 minutes. \r\n\r\nThe version included on reissues of TNSG and various compilations including 458489, 50,000 Fall Fans Can\'t be Wrong and 58 Golden Greats (the full version was included on the TNSG box set and the 7CD singles boxset) is not the original single version at all, but an edited version lasting only just over 4 minutes. \r\n\r\nThe party is in the lyrics of both versions. What\'s missing from the truncated version is the bit about the gas leak.
Yeah, it sounds like a revenge fantasy to me, getting back at sleek New Pop-ists and anti-modernist politicos like Weller and Bragg by writing them into a "teenage party disaster"-type story. Not that Paul Weller or Trevor Horn were teenagers, mind. But you get the idea.
If you read it, it's quite obvious that the disaster is actually averted.
@dannyno It could be read either way. He;s just giving last minute instructions on how disaster could be averted, but there's no certainty that it actually was.
@dannyno It could be read either way. He;s just giving last minute instructions on how disaster could be averted, but there's no certainty that it actually was.