Reckless

Album: The Final Wave (1986)
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  • Meet me down by the jetty landing
    Where the the pontoons bump and sway
    I see the others reading, standing
    As the Manly Ferry cuts its way to Circular Quay
    Hear the Captain blow his whistle
    So long she's been away
    I miss our early morning wrestle
    Not a very Happy way to start the day
    She don't like That kind of behaviour
    She don't like That kind of behaviour

    So, throw down your guns
    Don't be so reckless
    Throw down your guns
    Don't be so

    Feel like Scott of the Antarctic
    Base camp too far away
    A Russian sun beneath the Arctic
    Burke and Wills and camels
    Initials in the tree
    She don't like That kind of behaviour
    She don't like That kind of behaviour

    So, throw down your guns
    Don't be so reckless
    Throw down your guns
    Don't be so Writer/s: GILLES BOUSQUET
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 7

  • Dan from Australiaexactly Xennex.. thats y he's sweaty an pastey looking in the filmclip.. looks dazed n sleepy at times too..
  • XennexIt's about heroin. James Rayne mentioned this in an interview (sorry, can't find the source, might have been a magazine). The 'early morning wrestle' refers to addiction. The trip on the ferry is to get a fix in the city.
  • Allan from AhistoI think he’s been ‘reckless’ causing her to leave. The difficulty he has in getting her back and making up, is illustrated by Scott of The Antarctic, The Russians in the Sub and Bourke and Wills. None survived.
    Brilliant lyrics!! A sad love song.
  • AnonymousWhat a load of crap. If you were a woman, it goes like this.. a guy always has a horn in the morning, and she gets pressured for sex before she’s even half awake... ( miss that morning rumble) she’s sick of his persistance( she don’t like that kind of behaviour).. (sad way to start the day, )hey boys??..and it’s like those explorer dudes, so close, but cut before real joy of ( discovery). Frigid, or just over the morning horn??
    James Reyne wrote right about frustration
  • Rick from Brisbane, AustraliaThere was a parody song on the east of eden storyline due to david reyne playing the lead role of the husband who kicks his wife into crocodile infested waters. The main line was "She don't like, that kind of a gator" i think it was played on hey hey it's saturday, but yes everytime the song comes on I keep singing the parody.
  • Grant from Port Pirie, AustraliaInteresting ancedote, was listening to Triple J on the way home from work one day (Merrick & Rosso I think), and they played a small part from an Australian Crawl song, and asked if anyone knew what Reyne was saying as some of his words were very hard to interpert, and a caller rang them and said I know what he is saying, and they asked how he knew and the caller replied 'because I'm James Reyne'! .........................very funny.
  • Angela from Melbourne, AustraliaThis is killing me...... I have images of crocodiles mauling someone when I hear this song, was this song ever played through any of the series of east of eden or return to eden???
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