LyricMeaning

Brown Rice and Kerosene
Redgum

Julie did three years' trade school
I served my apprenticeship time
We made a modest living, but we were upstaged
Because computers don't strike or need holidays

Our parents ate bread and dripping
Stole wood from the park to keep warm
We're eating by the heater in threadbare jeans
Brown rice and kerosene

Life wasn't meant to be impossible
Spare us the indignity
Two cheers for progress, reason denied
Whitewash and platitudes are all I can find

Our parents ate bread and dripping
Stole wood from the park to keep warm
The cupboard's bare, all we can share's
Brown rice and kerosene

Sometimes I think about cocktails
Update Molotov's recipe
Forget the gravel ballast and stink of benzene
Use rice and kerosene
A major change of scene
Like 1917
With people before machines.


  Purchase "Brown Rice and Kerosene"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "Brown Rice and Kerosene" Video   Play Spotify "Brown Rice and Kerosene" Song   View Wikipedia "Brown Rice and Kerosene" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Redgum Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "Brown Rice and Kerosene"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Redgum

  100 Years On   A.S.I.O.   Beaumont Rag   Beyond Reason   Carrington Cabaret   Caught In The Act   Critique in G   Domination Quickstep   Fabulon   Friday Night   Gladstone Pier   H.M.A.S. Australia   I Was Only 19   I've Been To Bali Too   Just Another Moment On Your Own   Killing Floor   Lear Jets Over Kulgara   Letter To B.J.   Long Run   Maria   Midnight Sun   Nuclear Cop   One More Boring Night In Adelaide   Parramatta Gaol 1843   Peter The Cabby   Poor Ned   Running With The Hurricane   So Goodbye   Spark Of The Heart   Spirit Of The Land   Stewie   Still Life   Ted   The Diamantina Drover   The Federal Two-Ring Circus   The Last Frontier   Virgin Ground   Where Ya Gonna Run To   Women In Change   Working Girls   Yarralumla Wine   Your O.S. Trip

Related Songs

  Groovy Little Hippie Pad - ZZ Top  Pretty - Gregory Porter  Into White - Becky Taylor  Into White - Cat Stevens  Phenomena - Akron/Family  Kerosene - Big Black  Kerosene - Pitchshifter  Kerosene - Bad Religion  Kerosene Man - Steve Wynn  The Glow of the Kerosene Light - Allison Crowe  Kerosene Kid - Jimmy Wayne  Needle in the Rice - Diamond Nights  Calypso Sweetheart - Hank Snow  Drowning Lessons - My Chemical Romance  White Rice, Brown Heart - Man Man  White Rice, Brown Heart - Man Man  Kerosene - Sara Hickman  Lady Kerosene - Spin Doctors  Beautiful Food - Edan  Into White - Carly Simon  Kerosene Hat (acoustic Reprise - Secret Track On K...  Kerosene - Crystal Castles  Old Poe - Molasses  No Meat - Stephen Lynch  Fire and Kerosene - Logan Square  Cigarettes and Kerosene - Earlimart  Kerosene - The Vanished  Kerosene - The rhythm junks  Kerosene - Joe Purdy  Kerosene - School Of Fish  Kerosene - Brother Cane  Kerosene - The Transit War  Kerosene - Touche Amore  Kerosene - Simon Joyner  Kerosene - Maná  Kerosene - Mad At Gravity  Kerosene - Miranda Lambert  Kerosene - Maná  Kerosene - Baroness  Kerosene - Bionic Jive  Kerosene - Vanished  Tim Westwood Freestyle 2013 - Childish Gambino  Safer on the Outside - American Hi-fi  Cane and Rice - Sodastream  Rice And Bread - Against Me!  You Are Fired (Take This Job) - Anti-flag  Brown Sugar - Ray-J  Rice Rice Baby - Richard Cheese  Rice, Rice Baby - Weird Al Yankovic  Red Beans & Rice - Spearhead  Red Beans and Rice - Spearhead  Red Beans & Rice - Michael Franti & Spearhead  Red Beans Rice - Spearhead  Automated - Victim's Family  Rice - Dan Bern  Light It Up - Aaron Pritchett  Cook The Rice - Porno For Pyros  Firehose - Audrey Horne  Curry Ballad - Dualshock  Rice Traitor - Crucial Unit  Gasoline - Kicking Harold  Chinese Food - Biz Markie  Back to Beginning - Lamb  Rice Fight Song - Rice  Kunta Fly Shit - Ghostface Killah  Kunta Fly Shit - Ghostface  Kunta Fly Sh** - Ghostface Killah  Chicken Soup With Rice - Carole King  Bananas And Cream - Kinky Friedman  Desolation Row - My Chemical Romance  I'm Throwing Rice (At the Girl I Love) [From Hoedo...  I'm Throwing Rice (At the Girl That I Love)...  Ghostown - Zox  Rice Is Nice - Lemon Pipers  Rice Is Nice - The Lemon Pipers  U.S. 41 - Tom Petty  Sleep Baby Jane - Over The Rhine  I'm Throwing Rice - Kitty Wells  Leave Your Light On - Cordelia's Dad  Kunta Fly Sh - Ghostface Killah  Shotgun Seat - Gluecifer  Windowsill - Coast Jumper  French Fries - Calvi John  Wake Up In The Morning - Rolling Stones  Water And A Seat - Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks  Desolation Row (Bob Dylan cover)...  Noel - All Time Low  Red Beams And Rice - South Park Mexican  Red Beans and Rice - Bernard Purdie  Red Beams And Rice - South Park  High prices going down - The Deadly Snakes  I'm Throwing Rice (At The Girl I Love)...  Rice Paper - David Usher  Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon - Michael Johnson  Kerosene Smile - Kid Gorgeous  Kerosene Hat - Cracker  Kisses & Kerosene - Otep  Kerosene Lamp - Chantal Kreviazuk  Kerosene Heart - The Happy Bullets  Kerosene [DVD] - Miranda Lambert  Kerosene Dreams - X Ambassadors  Kerosene Dream - Brian Martin  Sweet Kerosene - Four Year Strong  Blackbeard’s Delight - Taken To The Sky  Benzin (English) - Rammstein  Read My Lips (I Dig Your Scene)...  Read My Lips (i Dig Your Scene)...  Read My Lips (i Dig Your Scene)...  Read My Lips - Terence Trent D'arby  Not My Scene - Useless I.D.  Ragin’ Cajun - Munly And The Lee Lewis Harlots  Rice Out - Riff Raff  Burn It Down - Halfway To Hazard  Beaten In Lips - Beartooth  Because He Himself Is An Addict - Hospital Haunts  Sushi Girl - The Tubes  Christine Keeler - Phil Ochs  Fire - Autumn Hill  You Tell Me Your Dream, I'll Tell You Mine...  I'm Throwing Rice (at The Girl I Love)...  The Greed In You - Blinded Black  Dissidents - Dolby Thomas  Got Rice? - AZN  Sex, Guns & Gasoline - Black Star Riders  I'm Throwing Rice - Jerry Lee Lewis  I'm Throwing Rice - Jerry Lee Lewis  Cold Youth - Cut Copy  Food Song - Buck 65  I Don’t Want To Throw Rice - Dolly Parton  I Don't Want To Throw Rice - Dolly Parton  I Don't Wanna Throw Rice - Dolly Parton  I Ride My Bike (secret Track 88 On Kerosene Hat)...  Dissidents - Thomas Dolby  Light Up The Sky - Zebrahead  Black Rice - Women  Recoil - Vampire Rodents  If You Can't Let it be, Might as Well let it Bleed...  As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still - Soft Machine  Sexual Healing [Original Vocal Version][#]...  Third World Girl (Alternate Vocal Mix)...  Cereal Killer - Quincy Punx  Hold Tight, Hold Tight - The Andrews Sisters  Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food Mama)...  Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food) - Andrews Sisters  Got Rice? - AZN Pride  Where Do My Bluebird Fly?...  Throwing Rice - The Hibernauts  Beef Rice - Pintandwefall  Rice Pudding - Jeff Beck  Rice Cakes - The Irish Front  Rice Pudding - Sufjan Stevens  The Rice - David Gray  Rice Pudding - Rod Stewart  Fried Rice - G-Eazy  Rice Queen - Superhumanoids  King Of A Dead End Road - Motorjesus  Angelic in G# - Kerosene 454  Natalis Solis Invicti - Kerosene 454  Spookin the Birds - Kerosene 454  On Exit - Kerosene 454  Pay Attention - Kerosene 454  Electrics on the Rise - Kerosene 454  Automatic - Kerosene 454  Heroes - Kerosene 454  Negatives - Kerosene 454  Diminishing - Kerosene 454  In for Even - Kerosene 454  Anti-Magnet - Kerosene 454  Asian Pride - Alizee  F Is For Forensics - The Bled  Light Heist - Chief Keef  Nowhere Man - Bryce Vine  Loosie - Danny Brown  Life Is Beautiful - England Dan & John Ford Coley  Cranberry Lake - Ari Hest  Azian Pride (Got Rice) - Azian Pride  Azian Pride (Got Rice) - Azian Pride  The Fire Sermon - A Storm Of Light  Witchhammer - Sodom  Bellyfull - The Gladiators  Family Tree - Boondox  Come On Song - Lee Aaron  This Modern Man - Reclinerland  Chronicles Of A Bee Keeper...  Where Do My Bluebird Fly...  Rocks Instead Of Rice - Kellie Pickler  If You Can't Leave It Be - Dashboard Confessional  Chinese Food - Alison Gold  Would You Believe - George Morgan  Hi-Desert Biker Meth Lab - Cracker  Aeon In Cinders - The Code  Son Of A MacHine Gun Ptiii - American Me  Brown Brown Brown - Paul Baribeau  On the Road Again - Bob Dylan  JKF 1962 - Brad Paisley  JFK 1962 - Brad Paisley  Rebirth - Afterlife Parade  Black And Brown - Danny Brown  Pink and Brown - Headphones
  Please consider supporting this site by Clicking Here and Bookmarking whenever you search and shop Amazon. It costs you nothing but it supports us and gives us credit and we appreciate it greatly.