We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Botany Bay

from Always Fancy The Day by Bud Petal

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 AUD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

On the clay brick fence he sat, waiting for the plane to pass;
You can’t talk over that.
The sombre browns and terra cotta were hot to the touch.
And the grinding white light of the Sydney summer swept away at Botany Bay.

The wind leapt out of the bushes, the sky was oddly beclouded,
The heat was blowing a gale.
His eyes, suffused with dryness, the sun pinked his cheeks.
And back and forth, hither and yon, the planes edged away from Botany Bay.

It’s getting hot out here, the air is baking the insects,
But inside it seems so much worse.
The fan is off until payday, at least I have half a meal in the fridge.
And the poor are too poor to die, at least so they say in Botany Bay.

The heat played the heavy but the cause was known:
It was entirely man made.
Examples are legion, if we look: we are flaying the planet.
And as the excuses rang hollow, the pollution did splay out of Botany Bay.

Playing with the climate is an old game, it’s never won;
Oh lord, here comes a plane again.
What with one thing and another, we need to get off the coalface.
And therein lies the task ahead: avoid laying waste to Botany Bay.

credits

from Always Fancy The Day, released January 27, 2023

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Bud Petal image

Bud Petal Sydney, Australia

Bud Petal’s music has been described as “cerebral art-folk”, “a true outsider, a freak-folk wunderkind”.

contact / help

Contact Bud Petal

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

Bud Petal recommends:

If you like Bud Petal, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featured guests are the golden-voiced Baby Rose and psyche soulsters Brainstory.
listen now