Back In The Hole
 Versions
Commentary
Lyrics
The Single
Released In: [Australia / NZ]
Release Date: June 1994.
Australian Chart Position: [Did Not Enter]
Front Cover:
Back Cover:
Disc:
Promotional video screen shots:
Single Availability: Moderately rare.
Value: A$6-A$20.
Single also includes "Yes Man" and "Too Good
Looking To Lose".
Versions
| Version |
Length |
Source |
Availability |
Studio
 |
4:30 |
Demon Flower album. |
Extremely common. Available new in Australia on CD. |
| Studio
|
4:27 |
Natural
Selection album. |
Extremely common. Available new in Australia on CD. |
| Studio |
4:30 |
Australian Back In The Hole single. |
Moderately rare. |
| Live Acoustic [1] |
4:07 |
Living In Large Rooms &
Lounges album. |
Extremely common. Available new in Australia on CD. |
| Live Acoustic [2] |
3:37 |
Mark Seymour Titanic album. |
Moderately common. Available new in Australia on
CD. |
| Live [1] |
4:21 |
Under One Roof
album and video. |
Extremely common. Available new in Australia on CD
and DVD. |
| Live [2] |
3:40 |
Mark Seymour From
Bondi to Bedlam video. |
Moderately common. Available new in Australia on DVD. |
Recommended Version.
Commentary
Comments from the "Natural
Selection" liner notes (by Mark Seymour):
Victorian politics. A prison warden arrives home from
Pentridge where the inmates have been kept in 'lock-down' for the previous
twenty-four hours. This state of affairs is a direct result of government cost
cutting. The prison system is about to be privatised. A Melbourne daily
newspaper is interviewing the warden. He insists on anonymity for fear of losing
his job. At the end of each shift he sits in his car in the driveway and waits
for the waves of frustration to pass.
Lyrics
When the day shift is over
There'll be fear in the pipeline tonight.
All the prisoners are restless
Locked up from dusk to daylight
Well how can you blame them?
I get pretty close myself sometimes…
I know the score, I know the feeling
Isolation for canteen crimes
Still I gotta keep my shirt on
Gotta wait for the nerves to unwind
I gotta get control again
Gotta let the blood boil in my mind
But you don't take it out on your children
Honey I won't take my work home tonight
On the weekend I'm gonna have a good one
'Cos I'll be back in the hole in the morning light
When the schoolboy's witch hunt is over
He's gonna tell us that the system is wrong
But I'll still be working in the cold Coburg air
We've had it too easy for too long
I'm on my way home now
To face up to the rest of my life
Hot water and a home cooked meal
And send kind regards to my wife
But you don't take it out on your children
Honey I won't take my work home tonight
On the weekend I'm gonna have a good one
'Cos I'll be back in the hole in the morning light
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