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Blues for Skip Lyrics: Babe, there's no water in the well / Babe, there's no water in the well / I got a funny feeling we're in for quite a spell / Babe, I can't find a vein / Babe, I can't find...
Blues For Skip. Babe, there’s no water in the well. I got a funny feeling we’re in for quite a spell. Babe, I can’t find a vein. I’m digging and I’m digging, I got the shaft again. Little cloud, little cloud way up in the air. Well I just ain’t receiving, little cloud’s moved on somewhere. Babe, there’s no water in the well.
Blues For Skip Lyrics by Paul Kelly- including song video, artist biography, translations and more: Babe there's no water in the well Babe there's no water in the well I got a funny feeling we're in for quite a spell B…
Paul Kelly - Blues for Skip Lyrics. Babe there's no water in the well Babe there's no water in the well I got a funny feeling we're in for quite a spell Babe I can't find a ve
- ‘Before Too Long’
- ‘Careless’
- ‘Sure Got Me’
- ‘Finally Something Good’
- ‘Look So Fine, Feel So Low’
- ‘Leaps and Bounds’
- ‘To Her Door’
- ‘And Death Shall Have No Dominion’
- ‘From St Kilda to Kings Cross’
- ‘You Can’T Take It with You’
Sometimes it takes hearing a cover version for you to comprehend the brilliance of an original. The charms of ‘Before Too Long’ were never in doubt, but listening to Alex Cameron’s stripped-back cover from 2018 revealed how impeccably crafted Kelly’s 1986 original is. The melodies are so insistent and delicious that you can almost ignore the stark ...
I’ve previously argued that if ‘Careless’ had come out of somewhere like Manchester or Liverpool, it’d be an indie jukebox staple alongside the likes of ‘There She Goes’ by The La’sand James’ ‘Laid’. It’s a peach of a tune. So sweet, in fact, that you’d expect to feel bloated after repeated listens. But Kelly’s trademark lyrical depth prevents this...
Paul Kelly best-ofs tend to focus on his mid-to-late ‘80s period when he was backed by the Messengers (nee The Coloured Girls). But his tunesmanship hasn’t faltered on the other side of Y2K. In fact, his partnership with the Boon Companions – featuring guitarists Dan Luscombe (The Drones) and Dan Kelly, bass player Bill McDonald and drummer Pete Lu...
Kelly turned 60 years old in 2015. Two years later, he released Life Is Fine, which revived the sound of his classic Coloured Girls/Messengers records. This sort of ploy can often expose how a songwriter’s softened with age. But songs like ‘Finally Something Good’ not only trumped the work of any contemporaneous pop songwriters, but appeared no les...
Not many songwriters can render heartbreak and emotional contradiction with as much animation as Paul Kelly. The narrator of 1986’s ‘Look So Fine, Feel So Low’ has it all – the girl, the garb and the envy of his peers. So, why does he feel so bloody down in the dumps? Kelly and the Messengers deliver this tale of dissatisfaction with a giddy since ...
Find me an Aussie expat who doesn’t crumble with homesick yearning upon hearing the rising synth tone that introduces ‘Leaps and Bounds’. One of Kelly’s terser compositions, the first chorus simply consists of the words “I remember”. The hook expands the second time around to include the tail, “I go leaps and bounds.” But Kelly’s lyrical restraint ...
The 2012 documentary film Paul Kelly: Stories of Mefeatures a bunch of footage taken during Kelly’s performance at the 2010-11 Falls Festival. It’s a New Year’s event that typically welcomes a lot Gen-Y partygoers. On paper, a guy who started his career in the late 1970s doesn’t seem like the ideal candidate to amplify the crowd’s hedonistic desire...
‘And Death Shall Have No Dominion’ is based around a Dylan Thomas poem of the same name. It’s not one of Kelly’s better known concert staples, but it proves his penchant for catchy melody persists even in his more overtly poetic moments. Although rife with literary incantations such as “Under the windings of the sea / They lying long shall not die ...
Released in 1985, ‘From St Kilda To Kings Cross’ was Kelly’s first great song. It displayed his ability to bind biographical detail with poetic evocation and lick-your-lips melodies. Like the rest of Post, the arrangement is spare and unfussy with guitarist Steve Connolly adding sophisticated detail to Kelly’s plainspoken lead vocal.
Kelly brought the 1980s to a close with his sixth album, So Much Water So Close to Home. It’s possibly the most underrated entry in his expansive catalogue. It mightn’t have the emotional depth of later records like Comedy or the genre-bending enthusiasm of Gossip and Under the Sun, but Kelly’s pop song acuity is on full display throughout. ‘You Ca...
Paul Kelly is one of hte most storied musicians in the history of Australian music. So we took apart his career, one song at a time. No other modern musician has managed to both reflect and alter the tastes of our nation.
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