Go Away
Go Away. (Click on the blue arrow to listen while still on this page.)
This is the 2007 version, scroll down for the 1998 flavour and the lyrics.
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This song has some very Adelaide-centric lyrics and is basically about hanging out in the Rundle Street area before it became completely gentrified (and ruined forever).
The lyrics “The walls of the pub were painted green … ” referred to a period in time where somebody painted the inside of the Exeter Hotel a grotesque aqua-green, and the other “bar with a little more grace” I referred to is, like the girl’s name, long forgotten.
Since then it has seemed appropriate to believe (inaccurately) that I was referring to the Grace Emily Hotel. Unfortunately this is almost certainly not true as at that time the Grace either wasn’t up and running yet or I wasn’t frequenting it yet. Now it is basically the only Adelaide pub I ever go to when I am home to visit or gig.
Here’s the 1998 version:
Quite a bit different. Maybe I sang it so much harder because I could, back then, remember the girl’s name that I wrote the song about … maybe it was just because I was 24 rather than 34 …
Lyrics
Go Away
By Séamus
It was rainin’ cats and dogs outside,
And I was goin’ nowhere with my life,
Getting pissed with teenage sycophants,
Last night’s vomit decorating my pants.
Well that’s when I laid my lucky eyes on you.
The walls of the pub were painted green,
Of a hue that was ghastly and obscene.
I thought to myself “I’m outta this place,
Gonna find myself a bar with a little more grace.”
And you read my mind like those Berlin angels do.
Where’d you come from anyway?
Why don’t you just go away?
Now what am I gonna do about you?
Where’d you come from anyway?
Why don’t you just go away?
Just go away.
The next thing you know we’re walking ’round hand in hand,
And I’m walkin’ round like some Goddamn haunted man.
Ah, fuck this fucked up fucking-curse,
Yeah to be Love’s lover is worse.
Now what am I gonna do?
