Midnight Oil

[Powderworks] lyrics help?

Julian Shaw julian at monkeyfamily.freeserve.co.uk
Tue Apr 13 12:52:41 MDT 2004


It's sixteen verses - the song would be 2 hours long! Excellent...! :-)

Julian Lewis Shaw
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mathias Hermansson" <hermanator51 at hotmail.com>
To: <jhbond at nc.rr.com>; <sena.reisenweaver at verizon.net>;
<powderworks at cs.colorado.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Powderworks] lyrics help?


> HEY! These are lyrics! Why don't anyone (Julian?) make a song out of THAT
> poem!? :-)
> /Herman
>
> >
> >http://www.majormitchell.com.au/htah/htahpharlap.html
> >
> >or google "phar lap history"
> >
> >Rgrds, Jeff
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Glitch
> >   To: powderworks at cs.colorado.edu
> >   Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 9:19 PM
> >   Subject: Re: [Powderworks] lyrics help?
> >
> >
> >   Personally, I've always wondered what "phar lap floating in a jar"
was.
> >   ???
> >   -GB
> >
> >
> >   ----------------------------------------------------
> >   got your last meal filled up with pesticide
> >   hamburger chain third world infanticide
> >   got robot car your job will disappear
> >   it's called the politics of a brand new year
> >   some say that's progress i say that's cruel
> >
> >   --midnight oil
> >   ----------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >   > Cheryl,
> >   > 1.  Reckon it still is "Is he a Soul Man" on the original CD
> >   > That 2nd one is indistinct despite repeated playings . I always
> >thought to
> >   > my old ears it might be "Three strikes surr...ender"
> >   > 3. Definitely "sounds like an ending"
> >   > Lew and Anna
> >   >
> >   > -----Original Message-----
> >   > From: powderworks-bounces at cs-lists.cs.colorado.edu
> >   > [mailto:powderworks-bounces at cs-lists.cs.colorado.edu]On Behalf Of
Jeff
> >   > and Jane Scott
> >   > Sent: Sunday, 11 April 2004 9:37 AM
> >   > To: Cheryl H; Powderworks
> >   > Subject: RE: [Powderworks] lyrics help?
> >   >
> >   >
> >   > g'day Cheryl
> >   >
> >   > Here's my take on them (maybe right, maybe not!)
> >   >
> >   > First one I always thought was "Is he a soul man", but the sound on
> >the
> >   > new Goat Island DVD is very clear, and I now think it's "Is he a
song
> >   > man"
> >   >
> >   > Second one I have as "Three strikes to every god", but that's the
one
> >   > I'm least sure of.
> >   >
> >   > Third one: "Sounds like an ending".  I'm sure of that one.  Also on
> >the
> >   > demo version of the song, the next line is followed with "Could be a
> >   > beginning" (which became "minutes to midnight" by the time it was
> >   > recorded)
> >   >
> >   >
> >   > jeff...
> >   >
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