Well krispychick69... it is undoubtably up there with the best of Augie March. It'll be interesting to compare the album to Sunset Studies, which, i believe, is up there with the best of the best Aussie albums of all time.
Anyway, i was just looking at the lyrics while listening to the song, and i think you're on the right path... but (and people i'm sure will disagree with this, i'm not sure myself) but i have an incling it could be about a teenage fling that went wrong, and perhaps he (not necessarily Glenn, who quite often rights from afar...e.g. Owen's Lament) didn't realise how wrong it went.
I'm thinking that he had a child on a one night stand for few reasons and the girl gave it up (i.e. adoption) without ever telling him.
'Should you expect to see something that you hadn't seen in somebody you'd known since you were sixteen': a child that you didn't know about
'Far from these nonsense bars and their nowhere music it's making me sick. And I know it's making you sick': this could refer to the fact that they may have met in a bar, which led them to sleeping to gether which 'i know it's making you sick' and the fact that she is pregnant makes him feel sick... perhaps... it would have to link to point 4 below too..
'That night, the silence gave birth to a baby
They took it away to her silent dismay And they raised it to be lady Now she can't keep her mouth shut': the most literal evidence i guess that there was this child who is now a lady and wants to find her parents.
You said, "What is this six-stringed instrument but an adolescent doom?"
And one crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin: i think this links everything together. The music, the band (perhaps she was a muso; 'green-eyed harpy of the songland'?) leads to the act which would create the baby... one crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin.
As i said, i'm not too sure about this interpretation, but i thought i would explore it anyway... maybe? If it wasn't for that one verse about the baby it would all seem quite simple.. Simply, as krispychic said, 'the guy thought he found love and it wasn't there' and they both tried to keep convincing themselves of the fact that it was indeed real: She says, "Boy I know you're lying Oh but then, so am I," And to that I said "Oh well."
Regardless, it's a fantastic song and i can't wait to see these guys in action again soon!
NO, NO, NO, It is not an adolescent doom but an 'adolescent loom'.
Like a weavers loom. His guitar is what he uses to weave. Possibly contributed by Deborah Conway, he was house-sitting her place when he wrote this.
NO, NO, NO, It is not an adolescent doom but an 'adolescent loom'.
Like a weavers loom. His guitar is what he uses to weave. Possibly contributed by Deborah Conway, he was house-sitting her place when he wrote this.
Well krispychick69... it is undoubtably up there with the best of Augie March. It'll be interesting to compare the album to Sunset Studies, which, i believe, is up there with the best of the best Aussie albums of all time.
Anyway, i was just looking at the lyrics while listening to the song, and i think you're on the right path... but (and people i'm sure will disagree with this, i'm not sure myself) but i have an incling it could be about a teenage fling that went wrong, and perhaps he (not necessarily Glenn, who quite often rights from afar...e.g. Owen's Lament) didn't realise how wrong it went.
I'm thinking that he had a child on a one night stand for few reasons and the girl gave it up (i.e. adoption) without ever telling him.
'Should you expect to see something that you hadn't seen in somebody you'd known since you were sixteen': a child that you didn't know about
'Far from these nonsense bars and their nowhere music it's making me sick. And I know it's making you sick': this could refer to the fact that they may have met in a bar, which led them to sleeping to gether which 'i know it's making you sick' and the fact that she is pregnant makes him feel sick... perhaps... it would have to link to point 4 below too..
'That night, the silence gave birth to a baby They took it away to her silent dismay And they raised it to be lady Now she can't keep her mouth shut': the most literal evidence i guess that there was this child who is now a lady and wants to find her parents.
You said, "What is this six-stringed instrument but an adolescent doom?" And one crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin: i think this links everything together. The music, the band (perhaps she was a muso; 'green-eyed harpy of the songland'?) leads to the act which would create the baby... one crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin.
As i said, i'm not too sure about this interpretation, but i thought i would explore it anyway... maybe? If it wasn't for that one verse about the baby it would all seem quite simple.. Simply, as krispychic said, 'the guy thought he found love and it wasn't there' and they both tried to keep convincing themselves of the fact that it was indeed real: She says, "Boy I know you're lying Oh but then, so am I," And to that I said "Oh well."
Regardless, it's a fantastic song and i can't wait to see these guys in action again soon!
NO, NO, NO, It is not an adolescent doom but an 'adolescent loom'. Like a weavers loom. His guitar is what he uses to weave. Possibly contributed by Deborah Conway, he was house-sitting her place when he wrote this.
NO, NO, NO, It is not an adolescent doom but an 'adolescent loom'. Like a weavers loom. His guitar is what he uses to weave. Possibly contributed by Deborah Conway, he was house-sitting her place when he wrote this.
@pods September and June are nine months apart, so I wonder if that has meaning for this interpretation...
@pods September and June are nine months apart, so I wonder if that has meaning for this interpretation...