1955 Lyrics - Hilltop Hoods

You know when you're doing a song about a small town 

You gotta start it with a cliche, you know what I'm sayin' 

Time moves a little slower here 

The paint peels cause the summers here are so severe 

And we're nowhere near no where you would know of 

Locals here pride, they show up just to show off 

Four men take a load off, just to watch the day go by 

Philosophising with their friends like they're Plato 

They prophecise on the bench by the main road, right 

They gotta [?] if you say so guys 

But what do they know, Fox News got 'em lit 

They're shockers, fundamentalists, the new communists 

A girl with a shopping list, clutch her handbag close 

I'm like "damn man [?]" 

Cause I'm a gentlemen, but then again most of are 

First name basis in the bank, the post-office, the bar 

The grocery, parks, hey lady I ain't tryna grab your pension 

The old men on the bench 

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"Direct from the transistor radio in your lounge room. It's the entertainment that the whole family can enjoy." 

"Well I say looking slick will do the trick so try Barry's Brylcreem cream today!" 

Well lets go, lets go 

We're living in the days when everybody sayin' 

"What a time to be alive" 

But I'm feeling out of place like I live in outer space 

Cause it seems I'm stuck in time 

It's like we ride through life 

Right in the shadow of the cold war 

It gets so quiet at night 

Like martial law took a hold of '55 

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Time moves a little slower here 

A day feels like a week, a weekend feels like it could go a year 

And we're nowhere near nothing, man so true 

I don't tell 'em where I'm from, I tell 'em where I'm close to 

And I can go through an Atlas and show you on a map and 

You'd still look me sideways and treat me like I'm backwards 

But that's just fine, it so happens I'm 

Happy living in a city that is trapped in time 

While you're lined up in traffic I'm 

Not panicked by transit, I'm back in time 

For a TV dinner and an early night 

Cause we get dressed to travel, got an early flight 

Been doing laps of the Earth, we're doin' laps of the sun 

Tryna put where I'm at on the map cause where I'm from 

Would never get a mention, but all that and then some 

Once again the old men on the bench 

"[?] across the country they came in waves. Thousands upon thousands of flying discs descending from the planet Mars." 

"For the closest shave try a Wilson's razor today." 

Well lets go, lets go 

We're living in the days when everybody sayin' 

"What a time to be alive" 

But I'm feeling out of place like I live in outer space 

Cause it seems I'm stuck in time 

It's like we ride through life 

Right in the shadow of the cold war 

It gets so quiet at night 

Like martial law took a hold of '55 

Where I go, where I go 

This will always be home, no matter 

Where I go, where I go 

This will always be home, no matter 

Where I go, where I go 

This will always be home, no matter 

Where I go, where I go 

This will always be home 

"If you can't beat the summer heat then what you need is a Wordell's. Wordell Refrigerators: the cooler choice." 

"The dieting revolution taking the world by storm." 

Well Montaigne lets go 

We're living in the days when everybody sayin' 

"What a time to be alive" 

But I'm feeling out of place like I live in outer space 

Cause it seems I'm stuck in time 

It's like we ride through life 

Right in the shadow of the cold war 

It gets so quiet at night 

Like martial law took a hold of '55