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One Of Those Days

by Billyana

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This bluesy song (complete with 'gravel-flu style' voice) highlights the cruel detention of innocent refugees by our callous Australian Government for too many years. I dedicate this song to Joy Tatnell (dear mum), who worked tirelessly for release of refugees, well into her 80s. Joy was nominated for South Australia's senior citizen of the year for her work.

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ONE OF THOSE DAYS - Bill Tatnell

Wake up, wake your sleepy head
Wake this land of the living dead
Down hearted, feeling shame
Guess its one of those lockdown days

Locked in a prison by catch 22
Numb, abandoned, what can they do?
Captured image, front page news
Perpetual lonely lockdown blues

Chorus 1
Guess its one of those days
Shipwrecked souls in a red tape maze
Small change, no change, same old same
Another one of those perpetual lonely lockdown days

A seven-year hell, no end in sight
No crime, no justice, or human rights
‘Fair go’ mate, what’s going on?
When we know a week of lockdown is way too long

Chorus 2
Families running from a civil war
Detained for years off our tropical shore
‘Lucky Country’ lost its way
With ‘a fair go’ fading every single locked down day

Refrain
Desperate faces through a window pane
My mum says its torture by any other name
‘A fair go’ fading, the wattle is stained
By every single one of those lockdown days

A day seems a lifetime, nights are forever
Traumatised families should be together
Like endless lockdown, a bad taste stays
Swallow every minute every lockdown day

Chorus 1
Guess its one of those days
Shipwrecked souls in a red tape maze
Small change, no change, same old same
Another one of those perpetual lonely lockdown days

credits

released April 25, 2022
Music and Words by Bill Tatnell (Billyana)
Vocals, electric guitar, keyboard: Bill Tatnell
Recorded at home studio
Recording finalised: Terry Latham at Impromptu Studios, Newcastle Australia
Photo credit (cropped): Darren England AAP file

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Billyana Newcastle, Australia

Music inspired by the desert, the coast, and its people.

Written and performed by Billyana on a range of stringed, wind and skin instruments.

Influences include: Ben Howard, Cohen, Knopfler, Young with some Spanish and Irish undertones. ... more

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