January Rain
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Commentary
Comments from the "Natural
Selection" liner notes (by Mark Seymour):
The shock of poverty. Flinders Street Station, under the
clocks, sacred site, home of the homeless, the temporarily deranged, the
permanently transfixed. The merciless northerly has swung to the south west
bringing rain across the bay. Steam rises from the tracks of platform two.
Lyrics
They say everything that rises
Will be brought down
And anyone who's anybody
Is getting out of town
The high heels of the long weekend
Clatter in the street below
Somebody got pinned again
Underneath my window
The crowd roars on the wind
I call out your name
They're keepin' score on the radio
But it all sounds the same {home away
game}
You never build to high
In January Rain
You never build to high
In January Rain
Punters on the platform
Stagger throughout the yellow light
Force the door and slash the seats
We're all goin' home tonight
Up and down the nature strip
The Sunday drinkers ride
Faith is flowin' down the Esplanade
Drip tray and lemon tide
It's perfect one day
That's when it's raining again
Crouched upon the ocean
It's the city that I live in
You never build to high
In January Rain
You never build to high
In January Rain
They say everything that rises
Will be brought down
And anyone who's anybody
Has already left town
The high heels of the long weekend
They clatter in the street below
Somebody got pinned again
Underneath my window
It's perfect one day
That's when it's raining again
Crouched upon the ocean
It's the city that I live in
You never build to high
In January Rain
You never build to high
In January Rain
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