Welcome to travels with Todd

The music puzzle has a different form for this trip than in trips past. In every post with a parenthetical either following a section header or used as one (there are at least three that don’t have parentheticals but do have a reference) I’ve extracted a line of lyrics from a song. The songs and artists are listed below. If I could find a digital record – either video or audio – I’ve included it. Another difference from past references is that I didn’t necessarily know and don’t necessarily like every song cited. All I’m providing is the post title, the artist, the song title, and the lyric that’s in the post. I encourage you to try to work out the connection on your own. If you remain puzzled and curious, you can ask in a comment or send me an email and, if you catch me in the right mood, I’ll answer.

Perhaps to solve another mystery, the title of each post subsequent to the second post titled I’m a Carton and I’m in Sydney but that doesn’t make me Sydney Carton is taken from the Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities. As it is with the song references I’m going to leave it to you to discern the connections.

I hope you enjoy both quests and the music that follows.

Note: If you are using the text to speech feature, you will have to manually put it on pause if you want to listen to any of the linked videos without the feature talking over them. You will then have to manually restart the TTS.

until the stream absorbed it.

5 Seconds of Summer – End Up Here (How did we end up here).

A dream, all a dream.

INXS – Original Sin (To find your dreams have washed away).

a beautiful city and a brilliant people.

INXS – Building Bridges (Building bridges for the living).

every one of those darkly clustered houses.

Divinyls – Heart of Steel (You’re gonna need a heart of steel).

Restored to Life.

INXS – New Sensation (Perfect light and promises).

Every living creature there.

INXS – Wild life (I’ll be your one, Your one and only).

the last dream of my soul.

INXS – Kiss the Dirt (These passions never seem to end).

a multitude and yet a solitude.

AC/DC – Sin City (Bring on the dancing girls and put the champagne on ice).

Crush humanity out of shape.

AC / DC Night Prowler (A chill runs down your spine).

a sanctuary in their hearts.

AC /DC – Highway to Hell (Nobody’s gonna slow me down).

It could never be set right. 

AC /DC – Through the Mists of Time (Mystic voices conjure up our dreams).

glimpses of buried treasure.

AC /DC – What you do for Money Honey (All your digging for gold).

I travel in a circle.

AC /DC – Through the Mists of Time (Through the Mists of Time).

other things submerged.

Paul Kelly – Ghost Town (Every night the curtain falls upon the day gone down).

Old voices impelling me upward.

(No music reference).

The light was playing on the surface.

Sia – Beautiful Things Can Happen (I’m watching the dust as it falls and settles on my fate).

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Sia – Courage to Change (World I want to leave you better).

the inscription on the baker’s shelves.

Paul Kelly – Hello Melancholy, Hello Joy ((We’re the quick who’ll soon be dead).

Then tell the wind and the fire where to stop.

Paul Kelly – Tonight our fires are burning (No video) (Tonight our fires are burning all across the plain).

Tonight Our Fires Are Burning

The sea did what it liked.

Paul Kelly – Morning Storm (all the walls fall inside our slow moving storm).

sister of the shield and trident.

Paul Kelly – Every Step of the Way (And all blessings come with a curse).

The spring of hope.

Gurumul – Bayini (North wind coming in my way).

the swift river ran.

Gurumul – Wiyathul (Oh the place Guwalilna, Warradika, Yuma).

The sunset struck so brilliantly.

Archie Roach – Get Back to the Land (You got to get back to the land).

In the name of all the angels or the devils.

Archie Roach – We Won’t Cry (We won’t cry).

yet not a footstep was there.

Archie Roach – Far Away Home (Far away in another life/I walked my land proud and free).

and they were prophetic.

Gurrumul – Djarimirri (Sleeping fully formed  Ŋoya ḏimitmi Djarimirri (Child of the rainbow serpent).

Your suspense is nearly ended.

Archie Roach – Native Born (Familiar things are strange).

and a desert all around.

AC DC – It’s a long way to the top (Ridin’ Down the Highway / Goin’ to a show).

and the sun touched the tops of the still trees.

John Williamson – Raining on the Rock (And a shower has changed the lustre of his land).

I hear him tell the child my story.

Aunty Sharron mirri Bell – I am Me (We are the Children of this sacred Mother Land).

The age of wisdom.

Shane Howard and Archie Roach

A Secret River (Running deep beneath our world).

is not, as you know, my own.

Paul Kelly From Little Things Big Things Grow (From little things big things grow).

No more can I look into the depths of this unfathomable water.

Ziggy Alberts Days in the Sun (I am singing to the seas).

And a beautiful world we live in.

Bee Gees How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (And misty memories of days gone by).

and the forest-trees flourished.

Archie Roach – Weeping in the Forest (and the tree were looking after little spirits dancing there).

such a fatal darkness.

Archie Roach – Took the Children Away (Like the promises they did not keep).

in the direction of the sanctuary, “to the Devil!”.

Don Spencer – The Smart Galah (Ooh, ooh he’s a smart galah).

it will surely yield the same fruit.

Yothu Yindi – Tribal Voice (But I know there is no other way).

far from its frowning walls.

Sia – Unstoppable (I put my armor on, show you how strong I am).

the quiet pause was audibly expressive.

Kylie Minogue – Edge of Saturday Night (I didn’t come to hold up the walls).

A moment more. An hour, if you please.

Little River Band – Reminiscing (Hurry, don’t be late, I can hardly wait).

walking up and down, walking up and down.

Tones and I – Fly Away (No one seems to think that I fit in).

as I draw closer and closer to the end.

Men at Work – Down Under (Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder?).

The Footsteps Die Out For Ever.

Little River Band – It’s a Long Way There (I’m on the road to see If anything is anywhere).

And those are my songs from Australia. But here’s your bonus track.

In the post I travel in a circle, I included a video of The Seekers singing “We Are Australian” – a song some believe should become the country’s national anthem. The great Judith Durham was the group’s lead female vocalist. That she sang the way she did suffering from the chronic lung disease, bronchiectasis makes her accomplishment all the more remarkable. I couldn’t identify a song by the Seekers that I could comfortably fit into the section headers. But, this is my blog and, just as I sometimes add a performance by Eva Cassidy simply because I want to and you can never hear enough Eva Cassidy, I’m going to do the same with The Seekers and include two of their hit songs – Georgy Girl and Another You – because listening to Judith Durham is always a joy.

And have some fun with the intro.