Name: Dragged Down By The Riptide by Sid & Doris Bonkers
Duration: 3 min 44 s
Description: Struggling songwriter trying to make ends meet

Run Into The Flames'

IN DIE KRAAL

Yesterday was my daughter Anna's birthday. Happy Birthday, shining one! "Earth Song" Used with permission.

To My Daughter

To My Daughter (feat. Earth Song By Frank Ticheli)

Struggling songwriter trying to make ends meet

Dragged Down By The Riptide

Wasp

Unidentified

The days end draws near
The body it cant stand
Stress defeat and fear
Poison the minds of man

Prepare for the attack

The echoes of the blast
Resound through hollow lands
The monster of the past
An epitaph to their failed plans

and we’re never going back

A sky of endless gray
Where sunlight used to gleam
The hopes of yesterday 
 haunt our minds and live in our screams

Incinerated

Devastated
Decimated
Eliminated
Illuminated

Annihilated
Exterminated
Our dreams have been
Totally Obliterated

In the ruins that we tread
In search of what we've lost
The memories of the dead
Evaporate In nuclear holocaust 

We’ve nothing left to loose

The rodents rule the streets
The end of all we’ve known
The chaos of defeat
Our kingdom has been  overthrown

Embrace the awful truth

The shrapnel in your face
The stench of melting skin
Decay in the wasteland 
of radiation

Incinerated

Devastated
Decimated
Eliminated
Illuminated

Annihilated
Exterminated
Our dreams have been
Totally Obliterated

Obliterated

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Broadcast 2025-07-28

This is a very clever song. 

It piggybacks on to the Dry July alcohol free campaign to raise money for supporting people affected by cancer.

It seeks to remind us that there are people for whom Dry July means something beyond giving up drinking for a month.

As you can guess from the instrumentals, this is about the issues in rural Australia, where a dry July means something completely different.

It’s about the bleak reality of facing first hand the impact of drought on rural Australians.

It’s a perspective that only seems to get more than a headline when you watch Landline on the ABC.

Songs about the effect of drought have been a staple of the Australian folk scene, for example, Eric Bogle’s “Now I’m Easy” which emphasises that split between the city and the country.

“there’s no drought or starving stock on a sewered suburban block”

Big Delicious takes that to the next level, 

“I hope I see you next Dry July.”

Because, there’s no guarantee, is there? When there’s no rain, there’s no crops, no pasture, no stock.

Every time you see those headlines, remember there are people who see no future, for their farm, their family or themselves.



Big Delicious - Dry July - Tempo Review

A new rough cut exclusive on soundcloud for feedback on improvements.

Sprung outta nowhere

Escaping from the pages of Private Eye, Sid & Doris Bonkers experienced a musical metamorphosis during Covid lockdown, and emerged blinking into the light to share their creations with the world.  Ethereal, poignant and deeply moving, their music is none of these things, but they decided to put it out there anyway.

Dragged Down By The Riptide

Sid & Doris Bonkers

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