Newcastle Jam
Neil Finn/Paul Hester/Mark Hart/Nick Seymour
He goes down now
With his feet up
He goes brown now
In the southern sun
He walks out there
He knows who his friends are
He walks out there
He knows them by heart, by heart
I wanna make some noise
Where you goin’
I want to break some heads
Down the phone
All the way down they crawl
Crack the eggs right open now
Don’t turn your back
’Til you’re safe from harm, from harm
There’s a price
Beyond your reach
I could rest
But I could not sleep
Broken vows
Are made in Heaven now
Ironclad promises
That you can’t keep from now on
Newcastle Jam was a studio remake of a song made up by the band on stage in Newcastle, Australia, earlier in the year.
“I remember that show being a specially good Crowded House show. Just a top night in part because we’d been for a swim at the beach at Newcastle. I always thought that that’s a fantastic thing to do before you go on stage, to all take a swim in the ocean together. We wrote that song on stage and attempted to make it into a passable studio track”
Song appears on:
Studio version: Crowded House - Together Alone Deluxe Edition (2016)
Live version: Crowded House - Recurring Dream Special Live Edition (bonus disc 1996)
Unreleased alternative studio mix with extra lyrics, broadcast on Fangradio 7 May 2020