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ABOUT THIS TRACK

I want put out pretty quickly that this track is not autobiographical.

Well some parts of it sort of are but really it stitches together a whole bunch of bad traits that I saw in the people around me and gives them all to the guy telling the story.

Sometimes you watch friends in relationships and you think 'Christ - you should just finish it'. This song is about people that can't bring themself to end a relationship even when it is obvious to everyone else around them.

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The highlights of my life have been this Friday night existence,
I woke up still drunk and full of cracks,
There's two things I can't buy back off this late night television,
One is you, and the other one, it's coming back.

Heaven keeps a secret forever, but sometimes let's it go.
I don't think this should be overblown.
Heaven kept your secrets from me so I pray it saves your soul.
I don't think this should be over, but it's probably over, this has been overblown.

All my friends keep saying things that I had not considered, so I hold them back.
But thy're obvious, like passed out in my next door neighbours driveway, come on now - hold me back 'cos I've been drinking.

I'll find him out and I'll beat him down and you'll know I love you because all this jealousy will show.
I don't think this should be overblown.
Nothing says 'Hey girl - I'm thinking of you' like when I'm going through your phone.
I don't think this should be over, but it's probably over, this has been overblown.

Entitlement's a modern part of my middle class condition, but I can't have that.
All I got is these cheap shot, sweat-shop-fall-apart decisions and they're all my bad.

You see I still can't admit to anyone - not even my best friend - that you moved out of our home.
I don't think this should be overblown.
I can' see how far I've fucking fallen until I wake up on the kitchen floor alone.
I don't think this should be over, but it's probably over, this has been overblown.

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from Means What It Means, released July 4, 2011
Written by The Ellis Collective
Recorded and mixed at Infidel Studios by Duncan Lowe
Mastered at Studio 301 by Steve Smart

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The Ellis Collective create a patchwork of emotion that recounts the sadness, sickness, love and indecision that weaves its way through the fabric of everyday Australian life.

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