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Building Castles Lyrics
Another typical day in this typical town
Dried up grass, three trees to every garage
And there's a weathered old man every ten houses down
His sun stroked eyes seem lost in fantasy
Another typical day in this typical town
Cars driving past create a waste of sound
And there's a weathered old man every ten houses down
With a rusted barbecue and some old records inside
We're building castles, in the sky
It's not like we have a choice in the matter
We're dumbstruck, competing, fighting with our friends
Oh, perhaps it's all just mechanical
As we race to embrace another sunny afternoon
We're building castles
Dried up grass, three trees to every garage
And there's a weathered old man every ten houses down
His sun stroked eyes seem lost in fantasy
Cars driving past create a waste of sound
And there's a weathered old man every ten houses down
With a rusted barbecue and some old records inside
We're dumbstruck, competing, fighting with our friends
Oh, perhaps it's all just mechanical
As we race to embrace another sunny afternoon
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Sounds like the dried up Australian version of the American dream at the end of WWII, when everyone wanted the latest gadgets, two kids and a white picket fence, and everyone had to be better than their neighbours. They were building unrealistic expectations of themselves, ie, building castles in the sky.