NO PLACE LIKE HOME
IN STUART'S OWN WORDS
SO BIG Country have got a new album ready to go eh!? We all love new albums, but often have a
"bugger" of a time working out what the bloody words are about. 1 mean, how many people out there
actually knew that 'The Red Fox' was a story of one of Mark's legendary nights on the piss in
Amsterdam with Benny from Abba? See what we mean! Well here's the great scribe himself to tell you
some of the delightful stories he's written for the new opus. Over to you Stu...
THE DYNAMITE LADY
"I was watching one of those dodgy sports magazine programs on screens part on the old satellite telly and
this rodeo thing came on, you know they have all those rodeos in the South of the U.S.A., and as well as
all the cowboys and stuff they have these 'speciality acts' that come on and one of these was a woman
called the Dynamite Lady. She came on with one of those horrible, stupid crash helmets that looks like
a soccer ball cut in half, and a leotard with a beer belly sticking out and her entire act consisted of
climbing inside this box and have these people blow it up! I love things like thatl"
REPUBLICAN PARTY REPTILE
"That's about those politicians, not necessarily American, y'know like here it would be a Northern
politician, the bitter-drinking, baby-kissing fat guy with the Burton suit that's always creased when he
stands up on the telly! In America it would be one of those Republican guys going around with a big ten-
gallon hat on and wearing a poly-viscose suit and tan loafers! It's just about one of those characters
really, a corrupt politician."
WE ARE NOT IN KANSAS
"The line comes from the 'Wizard Of Oz' film where Dorothy says "I guess we're not in Kansas Tow". It's
like thinking my God, where are we - what are we doing here?!"
YOU, ME AND THE TRUTH
"This is a kind of lovesong but not neccessarily a sexual relationship type of lovesong. How relationships
shift but still stay the same."
THERE COMES A TIME
"I haven't got a clue what this is about! It's a bit of the old word association"
SHIPS
"Ships is just about people that think they get passed by by things, because everybody does at certain
times."
FREEDOM SONG
"I wrote that at the end of 1989 just after all that stuff was happening in Berlin, so it kind of evolved
from that. Lay the old ghost of European socialism for rest for once and for all!"
BEAT THE DEVIL
"Beat The Devil is just to do with questioning your own faith and beliefs and things and thinking
spiritually."
THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
"This is about how you can find cool things in the most fucked-up places."
LEAP OF FAITH
"Leap Of Faith is kind of talking with someone and trying to tell 'em that they should have belief in
themselves to take things on and to take chances and not to worry about it."
KEEP ON DREAMING
"If you dream your life you can live your dreams - you've got to have things to shoot for.
THE HOSTAGE SPEAKS
"I wrote this yonks ago before the war went off in the Middle East. It's about all the hostage situations
that are going on in Beirut.
