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Alice Springs Lyrics
See the sun rise
So loud,
This whole town
Gets drowned out.
Sky writing with the sweep of a flashlight
I'm driving over that way
Some pot of gold, it's just a carpeting store on opening day.
See the moon rise
So slow,
And shallow,
It burns halos in my eyes.
It's harder to swallow,
It's harder to breathe,
So many opals, nobody here knows what to believe.
They've got me underground.
So loud,
This whole town
Gets drowned out.
Sky writing with the sweep of a flashlight
I'm driving over that way
Some pot of gold, it's just a carpeting store on opening day.
So slow,
And shallow,
It burns halos in my eyes.
It's harder to swallow,
It's harder to breathe,
So many opals, nobody here knows what to believe.
They've got me underground.
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Life in a disappointing town that smothers you? That's what I always thought it was about.
Alice Springs is a town isolated way out in the Australian desert, near areas where opals are mined. Seems to back up that interpretation...
I totally agree! I love the verse "So many opals, nobody here knows what to believe." I come from a small town where no one thinks for themselves.
it's about liz phair's situation after exile in guyville, being carried by hype and anticipating backlash (i'm driving over that way, some pot of gold, it's just a carpeting store..). but i always thought it's a song about a funeral seen from the eyes of a corpse.
this song kind of reminds me of cheyenne. it's so small and...shudder. i spent a crappy new years there in 2003 in a bathroomless crud shack apartment.
blair23 is right.
This song was literally added at the last minute. If you look inside the CD case, you will see that this song isn't even listed there.
I love the last line of the song: "They've got me underground." Clearly a reference to how Guyville and the people around her made her the indie queen.