Pretty obvious meaning.
What gets me with this song is the passion and sincerity from the performance between Ian and Jimmy, although they dont write the songs they seem to really understand and penetrate the meaning of each song and really belt it out behind the mics.
When this was written in 1980's Australia, it was pretty standard expectation that factory workers put in massive hours. Alot of young workers were drawn by the high pay and mountains of over-time incentive (often the overtime was the bulk of the income). But the veterans of the business had learnt from this aspect and were jaded and fed up. Since the pub culture was so strong in rural and industrial Australia, it was also common place for alot of that income to fund beer, minute steak dinners and pokie machines (Australia had nearly no communal or legal policies on gambling back then) as theres only so long anyone can live that life of 72hour working weeks and not slip into an unhealthy comfort zone, prompting the line "pissing all my money up against the damn wall".
Anyones Bow river is essentially anywhere luxurious away from this lifestyle, idealy in the past before it happened.
Pretty obvious meaning. What gets me with this song is the passion and sincerity from the performance between Ian and Jimmy, although they dont write the songs they seem to really understand and penetrate the meaning of each song and really belt it out behind the mics. When this was written in 1980's Australia, it was pretty standard expectation that factory workers put in massive hours. Alot of young workers were drawn by the high pay and mountains of over-time incentive (often the overtime was the bulk of the income). But the veterans of the business had learnt from this aspect and were jaded and fed up. Since the pub culture was so strong in rural and industrial Australia, it was also common place for alot of that income to fund beer, minute steak dinners and pokie machines (Australia had nearly no communal or legal policies on gambling back then) as theres only so long anyone can live that life of 72hour working weeks and not slip into an unhealthy comfort zone, prompting the line "pissing all my money up against the damn wall". Anyones Bow river is essentially anywhere luxurious away from this lifestyle, idealy in the past before it happened.