Memorable Moments

"...the early and mid eighties were the last days of the sharpies and skinhead teen gangs... nothing cool about it, usually a bunch of misfit kids hanging out in the shadow of some wacky angry older bloke. Flinders Street Station in Melbourne was one of the places you'd watch your back... it was also the popular place to meet up with your girlfriend. I got to know a few of the gangs, understood their anger, it just didn't do anything for me I was never a group sorta bloke. You'd feel their sadness, it was heavy and palpable..."

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That's All The Idea In The Rain Skies of My Mind State of Crime We Must Fight On Australian Dream You Could Be Wrong Running Red Moonlight in Chicago

The teenage gangs are running faster, Faster than they've ever run before, The city streets are bleeding dreams, They're spilling from the pavements to the gutters, And you wonder why, We're living in a State of Crime, Do you wonder why, It's just another sign of the times, Another high school drop-out junkie, Dons the colours of some back-street sharpies, The politician never sees the knife, But in the street, as he lies, my heart bleeds And you wonder why, We're living in a State of Crime, Do you wonder why, It's just another sign of the times, Teenage lovers in the park, Make frantic love as darkness turns to morning, The boys in blue tear them apart, Long before their love can come to glory, And you wonder why, We're living in a State of Crime, Do you wonder why, It's just another sign of the times, And you wonder why, We're living in a State of Crime. "State of Crime", words/music Kieran 'Kip' Davies (Strummer), ©1983-2005. All Rights Reserved