The Top End of northern Australia is the second northernmost point on the continent. It covers a rather vaguely-defined area of perhaps 400,000 square kilometres behind the northern coast from the Northern Territory capital of Darwin across to Arnhem Land with the Indian Ocean on the west, the Arafura Sea to the north, and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the east, and with the almost waterless semi-arid interior of Australia to the south, beyond the huge Kakadu National Park.
The Top End, though less frequently visited and less well-known overseas than the arid southern part of the Northern Territory, referred to by Australians as the Red Centre and the largest town of which is Alice Springs, contains the Territory's other major towns, Darwin, Katherine and Palmerston.
The landscape is relatively flat with river floodplains and grasslands with eucalyptus trees along with rocky areas and patches of rainforest, and in western Arnhem Land a high rugged sandstone plateau cut through with gorges, much of which is in Kakadu National Park. The rivers that form the wetlands include the South and East Alligator Rivers, Mary River, and the Glyde River. The climate is tropical monsoon with a wet and dry season, bringing the highest rainfall in northern Australia (over 1200 mm per year). Temperatures do not fluctuate widely throughout the year.
David Gordon "Slim Dusty " Kirkpatrick AO, MBE (13 June 1927—19 September 2003) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter and producer, with a career spanning nearly seven decades. He was known to record songs in the legacy of Australian poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson that represented the Australian Bush Lifestyle, and also for his many trucking songs. Dusty was the first Australian to have a No. 1 Hit song with Gordon Parsons (Pub With No Beer). He received an unequalled 37 Golden Guitar and two ARIA awards and was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and the Country Music Roll of Renown. At the time of his death at the age of 76, Dusty had been working on his 106th album for EMI Records. In 2007 his domestic record sales in Australia surpassed seven million.
David Gordon Kirkpatrick was born on 13 June 1927 in Kempsey, New South Wales, the son of a cattle farmer. Kirkpatrick adopted the stage name "Slim Dusty" in 1938 at eleven years of age. His earliest musical influences included Jimmie Rodgers. In 1945, Dusty wrote When the Rain Tumbles Down in July and released his first record that year at the age of eighteen. In 1946, he signed his first recording contract with Columbia Graphophone for the Regal Zonophone label.
BLACK MONDAY
The sun bled to death today
So I wont be coming round
I had to get away
From these ugly hours
And drive from this place
To divide the day
From the kiss that still chills my face
This morning silence twists like a knife
I cant tell you how or why
But its eating me up inside
Too many times I lied
To keep your dreams alive
but now theres no where to go
theres now where to drive
Dont forget me
Dont forget me
Dont forget me
Dont forget me
DIVIDE THE DAY
The sun bled to death today
So I wont be coming round
I had to get away
From these ugly hours
And drive from this place
To divide the day
TEAR IT OUT
WHY DONT YOU TEAR IT OUT
TEAR IT OUT
If I knew youd be back someday
Would have buried you in a deeper grave
So if you wanna piece of this right now
Tear it out
Tear it out now
Should have moved far away
Should have changed the locks on my place
Got some nerve, lets get something straight
Listen now
CHORUS
Oooo, you better watch out
Better watch your mouth
Before you walk right thru that door
You better watch out
Better watch your mouth
Before you walk right thru that door
Youre a date from hell
Youre a date from hell
Youre a date from hell
Date from hell
Spent a lot of time by myself
A lot of time hating myself
Took a while but im different now
Check it out,
Check it out now
Disection surgurey
I lived in misery
If you thinkyou can break me
Come around.
CHORUS
I prayed to unlucky moon
For the deathouse to sing to you
I had my doubts,
But I gotta tell you now
Go to hell
I prayed to unlucky moon
For the deathouse to sing to you
I had my doubts,
But I gotta tell you now
Go to hell
ZOMBIE KIDS
Everytime Im dying to give this board a beat
I jump the redline to the LA city streets
Were ditchin death from the 9 lives that we spent
Zombie kids
On the street
Were ditchin death to party
Tear it up
Burn it down
Tear it up
Burn it down
Stealing cigarettes and food samps that we found
Looking pretty sharp in clothes when your not around
Wed eat your brains if you had some sort of memory
Zombie kids
On the street
Were ditchin death to party
Tear it up
Burn it down
Tear it up
Burn it down
Tear it up
Burn it down
Tear tiup
Burn it down
Burn it down
Burn it down
Well bum a cigarette everytime we meet
Well be the last to leave cuz we never fucking sleep
We may be dead, but we still need beer to drink
Zombie kids
On the street
Were ditchin death to party
Were the kids on the street
Were the kids on the street
Were the kids on the street
If we see you down a dead end street
Say no word, just beat your feet
And watch your back, we dont care about you
walk the night the razors edge
got to thinkin bout the words you said
we dont care, we dont care about you
We dont care, we dont care about you!
Come alive in the dead of night
We dont care if we see daylight and go
And we dont care, we dont care about you
Creatures on a dead end street
Vampires and we need no sleep, and oh
we dont care, we dont care about you
We dont care, we dont care about you
We dont care, we dont care about you
We dont care, we dont care about you
We never liked you
We should advise you
Were gonna find you down
Late at night when the city sleeps
Hear the voices that back this beat, and oh
We dont care, We dont care about you
Taste of blood is on our mind
Youll be lucky to make it alive, and oh
We dont care, We dont care about you
We dont care, we dont care about you
Take a while to get to you
When we do, youll be thru, and go
We dont care, We dont care about you
Grab a knife to the devils eye
Hear you scream to the dead of the night and go
We dont care, We dont care about you
We dont care, We dont care about you
We dont care, We dont care about you
We dont care, We dont care about you
We dont care, We dont care about you
We never liked you
We should Advise you
CHRISTFUCK
Hes not my god
Hes a liar in disguise
And hes coming for you
With tears in his eyes
To rape your life
With bullshit lies
Hes not my god
Sittting on his god dam cross
Its been a parade
To celebrate
His massacres
As his blood flag waves
Scream the murders
In my ears of massacres
Of native skin
And witch burning
He killed our gods
And our children
Aint life so grand
In your stolen land
Built on bones
Of murdered men
Drowned with blood
And white urine
CHORUS
Theres no passion
Theres no passion
Theres no passion
Theres no passion
In god you trust
To deliver you from evil deeds
And history
Of murdering
Our sacred land for your god damn scam
Fuck your streets of gold
Your preaching greed
Has grown old
With prejudice
And ignorance
Your streets of gold
So pleased to meet you
He sais
Under the skin
Its been a long time
Since you welcomed me in
You see this old place
Is a wasteland
For all your last hours
Out of place
Out of place
It was
It was
I was feeling all right
Take it back
Take it back
Under your knife
Within the sheets
A killing season
Your love is weak
Stillborn and beating
Hold on to your dreams
That will die
By the morning light
Out of time
Out of time
It was
It was
I was feeling all right
Take it back
Take it back
Take it back tonight
It was
It was
I was feeling all right
Take it back
Take it back
Under your knife
Within the sheets
Of surgery
Thats under my knife
Catch your breath
And forget what happened last night
You dont my face
You dont my name
Gone by daylight
You dont know my face
You dont know my name
Under the knife
It was
It was
I was feeling all right
Take it back
Take it back
Take it back tonight
It was
It was
I was feeling all right
Take it back
Take it back
The Calling
The wicked flicker of your evil eye
Shown me your bad side, your bad side
The stolen vision of the fiction you memorize
Are knives that sharpen up my sky
I fell in your spell
Thrown drunk to drown
In my wishing well
And strangled by the knives that were there to help
One day Ill be back around
Youre wearing thin on skin you infested
Youre a legend to the grave of guests you left undead
CHORUS
So keep your fingers crossed
And watch your back when youre down
Their ain't no magic to the spell Im casting now
Superstition keeps on calling
Superstition come around
Youre a Phenomenon in your cold skin
A vision incisionary and yore swollen
Your words sit knee deep in broken blades
But that aint as bad as your overlong stays
Theses seven years in the halls of broken mirrors
And living in fear is gone
Cause the thrill of the fear I found
Was a knife in the back I found
You can only bury someone so far down
Before they grab your neck and twist it around
CHORUS
Superstition keeps on calling
Superstition come around
And take em back to hell
You&re; wearing thin on skin you infested
Youre a legend to the grave of guests you left undead
BREAKDOWN
Superstition keeps on calling
Superstition keeps on calling
Superstition keeps on calling
Superstition keeps on calling
CHORUS
Superstition keeps on calling
Superstition come around
Superstition keeps on calling
Dont mean a thing to me
Just dont theaten me
Im sick of the sound of yourself
I gotta leave
Im getting out
Were the teenage rejected now
Whoa
Whoa
TEENAGE REJECTED
TEENAGE REJECTED
We got to scream (scream)
We got to shout (shout)
Were the teenage rejected now
We got to scream
So fucking loud
Were the teenage rejected now
Disrespect
Degenerate
Good for nothing
Get away right now
Disrespect
Degenerate
Good for nothing
Get away right now
Whoa
Whoa
TEENAGE REJECTED
TEENAGE REJECTED
Breakdown
I walk alone
In the darkness
Overdosing in the morning sun
I got my friends
I got my demons
From oakland to boston
Were not alone
And were not afraid
Of the world they put us on
Were not alone
Were not infected
From their world of rejection
So put the records on
Sing my favorite song
Die die my darling tonight
To another round
to those in everytown
Who been rejected like us tonight
Whoa
whoa
TEENAGE REJECTED
TEENAGE REJECTED
TEENAGE REJECTED
It's after midnight when they erased my mind
They took me into the sky in service of mankind
Don't you be telling me that I ain't feelin well
A new monsters come and they're mad as hell
Get away
Get the hell out of here now
Don't tell me you don't see
There's no time for you, and your ****ing life
They brainwashed us with disease to make us drink and
drive
They implant us with the chips to have sex with their
kind
This town ain't big enough for you and my kind
I got a gun and I aint fraid to die
Get Away
Get the hell out of here now
Get the hell out now
Don't tell me you don't see
There's no time for you, and your ****ing life
Invasion
From outer space
Experimentation has opened my eyes
The true enemy of mankind
There's nothing worse than you by my side
You're the alien of the worst kind.
Don't tell me you don't see
There's no time, for you, and your ****ing life
Invasion
SONG FOR SINNERS
We dont give a fuck about my bad attitude
Your rules cant stop us and neither will you
Save your prayers for someone who cares
Made up our mind, and we dont need you
Whoaaa
Come sing along
Whoaaa
To the sinners song
Whoaa
Get rid of us
BEFORE WE TAKE YOU DOWN
We dont give a damn what you think about us
So waste your breath to try and change us
We got a messege for your godamn school
Were the devil and we dont need you
Whoaaa
Come sing along
To the sinners song
Get rid of us
Sometimes I feel alright
Sometimes Id rather die
Your kiss is passonite
But theres something else in your eyes
Should have wait, but its too late
From the three words I said last night
I think im better off dead
And youll never take me alive
Alive
Alive
CHORUS
Casualty of love
Casualty of love
Casualty of love
Take one for me
Theres strangers on the streeet
And strangers paralized
Translucent love interest
Washing over neon lights
I got a sinking feeling
From those 10 steps behind
Sometimes im better off dead
Than a casualty tonight
Tonight
Tonight
CHORUS
Casualty of love
Casualty of love
Casualty of love
Take one for me
Took a risk with your black lipstick
Cause I thought youd be alright
Your voice is in my head
With an accidental sign
I must admit, im a bit addicted
To the poisen in this wine
I want to play it safe
But Im running out of time
Out of time
Out of time
CHORUS
Casualty of love
Casualty of love
Casualty of love
SIK OF YOU
Hey, im the guy YOU THREW AWAY
Thanks to you I FEEL NO PAIN
You sucked my blood FUCKED WITH MY BRAIN
STOP COMING AROUND
You buried me IN A SHALLOW GRAVE
Youre apologies ARE A LITTLE LATE
Just load your gun AND SHOOT IT STRAIGHT
KILL ME NOW
CHORUS
Everytime you walk on by
And when I see you with other guys
I bite my lip
And I close my eyes
The pressures on
And I dont know why
I dont know why
I just want to cry
Whos that guy YOURE SEEING NOW
Hell screw you up SO FUCK YOURSELF
Im sick of oyou and ILL TELL YOU WHY
Youre a killer in disguise
So if you wanna fight LETS GO OUTSIDE
Ill get you back, JUST GIMME TIME
I hate your smile, ITS REALLY FAKE
Now I, LOVE TO HATE YOU NOW
CHORUS
Everytime you walk on by
And when I see you with other guys
I bite my lip
And I close my eyes
The pressures on
And I dont know why
I dont know why
I just want to cry
I got you flowers FROM A GRAVE
You stole my heart THREW IT AWAY
Got tatoos WITH YOUR NAME
LOVE TO HATE
Christian zombie VAMPIRE
No one moves, OR YOULL GET HURT
I aint like you, DONT WANT YOUR LOVE
I aint like you, CANT HATE ENOUGH
CHORUS
Everytime you walk on by
And when I see you with other guys
I bite my lip
And I close my eyes
The pressures on
And I dont know why
I dont know why
I just want to die
Everytime you walk on by
And when I see you with other guys
I bite my lip
And I close my eyes
The pressures on
And I dont know why
I dont know why
I just want to die
LOVE TO HATE
LOVE TO HATE
LOVE TO HATE
Sitting on a grave with no where to go
I wait for the day my skin grows cold
She wont love me till the day I die
Cuz there's no life in her graveyard nights
Cuz she likes skulls
I'm taking a run
I see the horror
And I see no love
Cuz she likes skulls
13 days past the day I die
Her witchcraft keeps me warm at night
My friends say she's my bloody bride
I'd slit my wrist for that chance tonight
Cuz she likes skulls
I'm taking a run
I See the horror
And I see no love
Cuz she likes skulls
Now she cuts me up and she cuts me good
Her lips kiss my organs and
She charms my bones all of the time
Be my girl on Halloween night
Cuz she likes skulls
I'm taking a run
I see the horror
And I see no love
LONELY WOLVES
Drink it up
With the wolves tonight
Nailed to that cross
So my hands are tied
Im calling off
Your demons in my head
Dont wait up for me
Note that I left
Get out
Get out
Get out
Get out
Witches burning
Im under your spell
Caught in your web
Its too late now
Dust to dust
No sympathy
Shooot me down love lies bleeding
CHORUS
Im goin out with the wolves tonight
The lonely wolves tonight
You said wait for things to fall in line
But it hurts tonight
Drink it up with the wolves tonight
AND GET OUT
GET OUT
GET OUT
GET OUT
BRIDGE
Oooo the devil texture stole my soul
Heres blood in your eye
Ooo im upstairs to nowhere now
Wont be back tonight
Dont have time
For it too fall in line
GET OUT
GET OUT
GET OUT
GET OUT
Telephone rings
late at night
Callin from the grave,
gimme another pint
Listen ot he words
Whispering
Not coming back
So dont look for me
CHORUS
Im goin out with the wolves tonight
The lonely wolves tonight
You said wait cuz it will take some time
But it hurts tonight
Drink it up with the wolves tonight
To drown the love thats died
Raise it up with the wolves tonight
And get out
Get out
Get out
Got the devil in my highway tonight
Dont give a fuck what I left behind
Take back that black magic in your eyes
You cant stop the creatures of the night
So count it out
your beautiful
but your killing me
So count it out
your beautiful
and your killing me
HELL ON WHEELS and the devil inside
BORN TO KILL but you on my mind
Im calling out the spirits of the night
Is anyone here, just gimme a sign
So count it out
youre beautiful
and your killing me
So count it out
your beautiful
and youre killing me
whoa
whoa
whoa
whoa
Midnight temperature from the graves
Black desert wind is in my face
I know your there when lightening strikes
You cant stop the creatures of the night
So count it out
youre beautiful
and your killing me
So count it out
youre beautiful
I saw it on the news
The victims had no shoes
Their home was gone
The lights left on
The fireman suspects "FOUL PLAY"
I saw it through my lens
The suffering never ends
I zoom in on their tears
Tragedy feeds your fears
High ratings feed my kids
I saw my house burn down
The neighbors stood around
My things are gone
I stand in my lawn
Sometimes it seems so clear
Then the logic disappears
All alone and dumb again
Find it then forget again
So much fucking futility
Emptiness in the world I see
The life I find is the life I make
Not another cheap escape
Never happy never sad
Breakout of this self-destruction path
Anger can't disappear
Inspirational, Interpretive, Improvisational, Intuitive, Intellegent,
are just some of the words that offer some insight
as to the lyrical content of this baby
COME HERE LITTLE BOY
C'mon everybody shout. We all know how it feels
To be propositioned by a Diseased, Decrepid,
Disgusting, Disfigured, Depraved old man.
She wears yellow, she wears pink
Got her underwear in the sink
Sisters rot sisters bleed
Sisters something I don't need
All day hagging on the phone
Eats all the yodels before you get home
Nags, annoys you all day long
Scratches your records, runs over your board
CHORUS
SLEEZE such a SLEEZE
Sisters rag the hell outta me
SLEEZE such a SLEEZE
Perfect printout for society
Goes to a frat party drinks too much
Lets Joe Rockhead knock her up
Joe's so gnarly cute as can be
Next day ballin cause she's got VD
Sissy is so pretty cute and nice
Can whine better than me knows a parent's price
She know she'll never fall from grace
Next time she tries to sleeze me
Did all the things kids are supposed to do
Played mini golf ate chinese food
Drugs Movies Video till I drop
All this fun stuff has got to stop
Sick of having fun
There's gotta be something more
My pleasure center is sore
Fun shouldn't be a chore
BORE
Then I sat in my room and thought
Of all the crummy lies I'd bought
Salvation in ignorance I cannot see
I will not be a casualty
Sick of having fun
Time to contemplate
Redirect the hate
Now the plan is clear
Things are all coming at me
They're not even real
I cannot grasp their existence
If they're things I cannot feel
I'm trapped in indecision
Hesitant to condemn
I'm not righteous
I can not be extreme
All of these ideas
Seem to have no value
I can't distinguish right from wrong
In a world I cannot view
There are no solutions
To the problems they present
If I take no positions
I'm someone they resent
Labeled as inactive
What the FUCK can I do
I'm not your savior
I'm only more confused
I have no desire
To perpetrate the greed
I won't change anything
Don't need anyone
In touch with myself
Why would you do anything
Just to join the rest
Relationships why even try
Just another place for you to hide
Wonder why you're in constant pain
When you look at people in terms of personal gain
Start to make bonds when you're in touch
But a friend as a friend not a crutch
Don't try and buy people you'll get your turn