chisel fan - you're close to being right, and that may be a literal translation, but I've read (on the liner notes of a Chisel CD) that it was a story about Don Walker going back to Grafton (on the NSW North Coast) to look for an old flame.
The Flame Trees also refers to Jacarandas, which have a magnificent purple flower emerge in October. The entire city of Grafton holds the "Jacaranda Festival" around that time, and Grafton is one of the only places in Australia which the Jacarandas are so profuse.
It's really a story of love, regrets about "the one who got away", and realising that you can never go back to the way things used to be.
Exactly right. I heard an interview with the band and their version of the meaning of the song is as tarrant 7575 states. Being a Graftonian we need all the credit we can get.
Exactly right. I heard an interview with the band and their version of the meaning of the song is as tarrant 7575 states. Being a Graftonian we need all the credit we can get.
chisel fan - you're close to being right, and that may be a literal translation, but I've read (on the liner notes of a Chisel CD) that it was a story about Don Walker going back to Grafton (on the NSW North Coast) to look for an old flame.
The Flame Trees also refers to Jacarandas, which have a magnificent purple flower emerge in October. The entire city of Grafton holds the "Jacaranda Festival" around that time, and Grafton is one of the only places in Australia which the Jacarandas are so profuse.
It's really a story of love, regrets about "the one who got away", and realising that you can never go back to the way things used to be.
Exactly right. I heard an interview with the band and their version of the meaning of the song is as tarrant 7575 states. Being a Graftonian we need all the credit we can get.
Exactly right. I heard an interview with the band and their version of the meaning of the song is as tarrant 7575 states. Being a Graftonian we need all the credit we can get.