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Capiocity - written by Bernard Fanning/Powderfinger
This song is about the relationship between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski.
"honesty is out of style so hammer in the coffin nails" - they know that what they are doing is wrong, and dishonest, but don't care.
"a message sent across to land with kisses for you" - they think that they are in love or something.
"we?ll tell them nothing our little secret they?ll never make us ever open up" - they are hiding their seedy romance.
"tradition in and out the door family our fatal flaw" - if they didn't have things like family well they could bonk freely, however it is a tradition for American presidents to sleep around.
"when this feeling fades it?ll all seem like a waste" - When Bill gets over his infatuation with Monica and gets sprung and is having his impeachment and stuff, he will feel like maybe he should have thought with his brain for once.
"fragile bond has shaken loose" - he is over her.
"this secret love a shrinking noose suffocated on the truth left with nothing" - now that he is over her and doesn't want her, he finds her restricting, and is scared that she will make trouble for him.
Belter - written by Bernard Fanning/Powderfinger
This song is about groupies.
"you go I feel like dropping bombs between your eyes but not today" - they want to kill them, but are too polite to be mean.
"too slow I feel like stopping arrows with your mind it?s all the same" - they want the groupie to take the hint to fuck off, but they don't. It seems like they get this alot.
"something come along gonna make a change" - a bigger band has come along, so they are going to be groupies for them now.
"you don?t have to reveal it you get trouble concede you don?t have to reveal it" - perhaps groupies should be more considerate of bands, and not hassle them.
"a defeated sight are you feeling right" - they feel bad if they tell a groupie to bugger off, because then they look all sad and it crushes their faith in the friendliness of the music industry in general, and them in particular.
"you go soaking up your public appetite" - they think that people are only nice to them because they are famous.
"I tell you once again you're not my type You're all the same" - They don't like the type of girl who would sleep with a guy just because he is in a band.
Celebrity Head - written by Bernard Fanning/Powderfinger - Thoughts on Celebrity Head
"at quarter to nine my plus one decides to make her arrival" - Ok, so this song is supposed to be about the shallowness and vacuousness of the street beat wrtier type person, and presumably this line is to show that they have no qualms about turning up late to a gig, well really I don't think a quarter to nine is particularly late, in fact I would say it was very early. I don't know, maybe they do things differently in other places than they do here in Melbourne, but I would think that the bands wouldn't even have finished soundchecking by then.
