Returning to Melbourne after two and a half years on the road, where else would you go to live but St. Kilda? That is, if you were going to be able to live anywhere. At the time St. Kilda was a marvellous mix of old and new: bohemians, artists, musicians, prostitutes, junkies, cops on the take, remnants of the old Jewish community and of course the Espy. A curiously safe place for someone who did not fit in, to slip around the streets, taking it all in. Hoping to not have to confront the past, feeling the optimism of a return fade, but nevertheless fascinated by this most characterful of places; a character sadly much faded as the money that gravitated to the inner city began to talk.
lyrics
CITY SLIPPER
Hunting for the action, all of the roads lead home
Sunk into reaction, from all of the folks I've known
Glancing into parkland, all of the trees are bare
Hard for me to understand, the fig leaf that I must wear
Gripping insanity making me mad
Mirror my vanity making me sad
Well, I couldn't see how the good would turn bad
Waving by the sea-side, to all of the girls down there
Hoping they would open wide, smiling at me they stare
Dashing down a backlane, someone I know I've seen
Don't want to see the look of pain, remember what I have been
Gripping insanity making me mad
Mirror my vanity making me sad
Well, I couldn't see how the good would turn bad
Walking onto nowhere, dead-end in front of me
Now I'm tearing at my hair, people will let me be
Hunting for the action, all of the roads lead home
Sunk into reaction, from all of the folks I've known
Gripping insanity making me mad
Mirror my vanity making me sad
Well, I couldn't see how the good would turn bad
No, I couldn't see how the good would turn bad
No, I couldn't see how the good would turn bad
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