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Killermont Street Lyrics
As the city asleep
Shares its dreams and desires
Every wish that we keep
Will trace a line to other times, other places
Though the song of the proud
Howls and dies, never fall for defeat
Take a trip to reprieve
Every hour they leave
From Killermont Street
Drink a drink to before
And our memories spill
Adding on as they pour
From our Saturdays and secret sensations
Drink a drink to tonight
Whiskey words tumble down in the street
With the pain that they cure
Sentimentally yours
From Killermont Street
And with collar upturned
I made it south to see
That the love I had spurned
Was just the hate in me
As the ships and the steel
Slip away to the cry of "Compete"
There's a message for us
We can get there by bus
From Killermont Street
There's a message for us
We can get there by bus
From Killermont Street
Shares its dreams and desires
Every wish that we keep
Will trace a line to other times, other places
Though the song of the proud
Howls and dies, never fall for defeat
Take a trip to reprieve
Every hour they leave
From Killermont Street
And our memories spill
Adding on as they pour
From our Saturdays and secret sensations
Drink a drink to tonight
Whiskey words tumble down in the street
With the pain that they cure
Sentimentally yours
From Killermont Street
I made it south to see
That the love I had spurned
Was just the hate in me
Slip away to the cry of "Compete"
There's a message for us
We can get there by bus
From Killermont Street
There's a message for us
We can get there by bus
From Killermont Street
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once again, i'm not sure what it means, but i think it's absolutely beautiful.
The song was written and originally sung by Roddy Frame of Aztec Camara. Killermont street is the location of the major bus station in Glasgow and is about the demise of heavy industry in the west of Scotland 'As the ships and the steel Slip away to the cry of "Compete"' and how it affected Glasgow
The song was written and originally sung by Roddy Frame of Aztec Camara. Killermont street is the location of the major bus station in Glasgow and is about the demise of heavy industry in the west of Scotland 'As the ships and the steel Slip away to the cry of "Compete"' and how it affected Glasgow
Killermont Street was first recorded by Aztec Camera (Roddy Frame) on the Album 'Love' in 1987.
Killermont Street is a street in Glasgow, Scotland (where Roddy Frame comes from), where traditionally buses would leave for London (the 'south').
In 1987, the British Government, led by Margaret Thatcher had privatised the traditional nationalised industries of Glasgow, ship building and steel manufacturing (the ships and the steel), forcing them to 'Compete' on a free market. As a result the industries collapsed and hundreds of thousands lost their jobs.
Many headed to the booming south of England economy that Thatcher created, many would have got there by bus, from Killermont Street.
A bus station remains on Killermont Street, (although it's called Buchanan Street Station)
Killermont Street was first recorded by Aztec Camera (Roddy Frame) on the Album 'Love' in 1987.
Killermont Street is a street in Glasgow, Scotland (where Roddy Frame comes from), where traditionally buses would leave for London (the 'south').
In 1987, the British Government, led by Margaret Thatcher had privatised the traditional nationalised industries of Glasgow, ship building and steel manufacturing (the ships and the steel), forcing them to 'Compete' on a free market. As a result the industries collapsed and hundreds of thousands lost their jobs.
Many headed to the booming south of England economy that Thatcher created, many would have got there by bus, from Killermont Street.
A bus station remains on Killermont Street, (although it's called Buchanan Street Station)