Midnight Oil

[Powderworks] The Dead Heart

Jeff and Jane Scott jscott@iinet.net.au
Sun, 22 Sep 2002 17:31:30 +0800


At 21-09-02 11:01 PM -0400, Bawolski@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 9/21/2002 5:04:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>ghostie@snail-mail.net writes:
>
>
>>There's a movie playing on TV called the Dead Heart, it takes place
>>in an aboriginal community in Australia. I was wondering if there is
>>any link between the song and the film. Anybody know?
>
>
>I don't know about the movie but I was checking out a book on Australia
>recently and it used the term "Dead Heart" to describe the interior of  the
>Australian continent (and the book was published before the song came
>out).

and indeed, the Oils themselves used the term "Dead Heart" in that context 
in a lyric several years before the "Dead Heart" song.


jeff...