Sunrise in Richmond

by The Offtopics

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Sunrise in Richmond is a time travel song – it casts back 25 years ago to seeing bands at the Great Britain Hotel on Church Street every Sunday night. “Going to these gigs made it very difficult to get to my 8:30 technical drawing class at RMIT on Monday morning but I think in retrospect I had my priorities right,” says Polash. “Sunrise in Richmond is a reworking of a song I wrote back then, but the intervening years made the imprint of the original a little faint. I remembered the chords but not the words. That’s as it should be. The song is about one of those late nights after the GB closes and we stumble back to someone’s house post gig. We’ve spent all our money on beer and have to pool our funds to line our stomachs with stale convenience store pastries at three in the morning. Right now, I can’t think of anything less appealing than being awake and drunk at dawn. Nevertheless, the nostalgia is real.”

lyrics

SUNRISE IN RICHMOND

Intro: Gm7 C9 x4

Verse 1
Didn’t get back home ‘till 4am in the morning.
Eyes aren’t heavy and no one seems to be yawning.
Pops tells us Frankie thinks he’s a muffin.
A sevlev donut and we all lick out the stuffin.

Chorus
Sunrise in Richmond x 4

Verse 2
230 Swan – the good times are piling.
Love doctor’s new friends – in they’re filing.
Danny stammers ‘cos he’s smiling
Girls are impressed with the wall unit styling
We made it ourselves – and

Chorus
Sunrise in Richmond x 4

Bridge
Ebmaj7 Bbm7 Fm7
Even though there’s heaps and heaps of sugar plum dumplings around
Ebmaj7 Bbm7 Abm7 Gm7
Not a peep from the geek as he finds something’s gonna – beauty’s gunna bring him down.

Solos over chorus repeat to end.

credits

released September 25, 2017
Polash Larsen: Guitars, Lead vocals
Mark Bretherton: Keyboards, Backing vocals
Linc Yow Yeh: Drums, Backing Vocals
Tim Webb: Bass, Percussion
Omid Shayan: Saxophones
Howard Norsetter: Trumpet

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The Offtopics Melbourne, Australia

From Bourbon Street in New Orleans to Memphis and Jamaica via the bars of Brunswick, The Offtopics deliver infectious songs that will make you tap your feet and bring a smile to your face. Fronted by funk dynamo Polash Larsen, these are some of Melbourne’s most talented musicians working their basses off to show you a good time. ... more