Foreign Land Lyrics
Shut out the world's demands,
Just get the facts down; do you understand
So try to understand me; do you understand?
Even when it's not your home
Melting as it hits the ground,
I touch my hand up to the air
So do you understand it? Do you understand?
Even when it's not your home
Just reading these lyrics has me all choked up. There is such a powerful and beautiful message behind this song - to care and mourn for someone you may not even know personally, for a reason as simple as that you are both sons or daughters of the same country. ("If this is what it feels to love, then I can feel that.")
though i can't see too much of this in the verses;
"It had just started snowing. It was a magical moment. That night we had to do this Australian gig, and when we got to it we found out that Heath Ledger had died. He'd died two blocks from where I was walking. He was from Perth and we were in New York, this big foreign city, and I felt this immense loneliness of this kid from my hometown dying by himself there."
This song is for Heath Ledger. Makes sense if you look at the lyrics: "Dying in a foreign land" and "I smell the blood of an Australian"
The acoustic version of this song goes off :D
only two comments? this song is great :) about the death of heath ledger, when the band was staying in new york, close to where he died
I have a feeling that this song is about gallipoli. The turkish feel to the intro and throughout the song the pipe or whatever it is is turkish. Then it talks about dying in a foreign land and the blood of an australian
finally got around to correcting the lyrics per the lyrics on the website and album booklet. :)
I thought it was about aussies dying in Afghanistan but i like the ledger interpretation
Apparently this is about Heath Ledger as they were in the same city he was in (New York I believe) when they heard that he had died.