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Lights Out!

from Running Late by The Gatekeepers

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I wrote this in my first year in Brisbane as a reaction to the repression of the street marches which at the time were illegal...or just...repressed. The lyrics now strike me as passionately ostrich-position and even though I probably intended it to be witty it now comes across as quite convincingly intimidated. Maybe that's how I felt at the time although from 18 to 19 I swang from right to left and have pretty much stayed left ever since.

Musically, the chief influence on this was Elvis Costello's Get Happy album. 20 tiny scaled songs with major power. It zapped me. The guitar riff is heavily influenced (but NOT ripped off) an earlier Costello song: You Belong To Me. I was young.

Probably the first thing I offered to the Pits when I joined them in 1981. It was recorded and released on the Pits Go Home cassette but in a jokey version. I still like that one and had to listen to it about a million times to get the words right (thanks to Peter Mac for dropboxing me a copy). This is something like the version I imagined when I wrote it and closer to the way we played it live. So, here it is.

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from Running Late, released February 27, 2013

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