Battlesick
1989 · Dominator DOMA006 · Adelaide, Australia
- Artist
- The Mark of Cain
- Title
- Battlesick
- Release
- Battlesick
- Year
- 1989
- Label
- Dominator # DOMA006
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Adelaide, Australia
- Genre
- Rock · Noise Rock
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Australian Post-Punk group formed in August 1984, in Adelaide, South Australia. The core members were the brothers John Scott (guitar, vocals) and Kim Scott (bass), accompanied by a rotating line-up. They released the song "Battlesick" (Dominator Records # DOMA 006), also the name of the album, about a Vietnam veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - frequently referenced in post-war 1980s songs about US veterans, often connected in songs to stress, shell shock, flashbacks, nostalgia, and feelings and dreams related to an event: "torn apart inside...our head in your hands". The image on the front cover was a David Hume Kennerly portrait of an American soldier in Vietnam.1 The group also released the song "Viet Vet" on the 1994 single Tell Me ( Insipid Vinyl # IV-27).Sources1beat.com.au: The mark of cain 2↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Feeling like a man / Wanna go for a ride / Sweet memories will fade / When you're torn apart inside / Welcome home hero / Battlesick loner / With your head in your hands / Could be no-one understands / Well it's gone the wrong way / I don't want to be saved / Seeing what you see / Stoned in your dreams / Going home alone / Always the same song / Well it's gone the wrong way / I don't want to be saved... / Welcome home hero / Battlesick loner / Everything will burn / I can't breathe, I can't breathe / I don't wanna be afraid / I don't wanna be saved / I'm in Hell / Let's go!
About the artist
Australian rock band formed 1984 in Adelaide, Australia. [Source: Wikipedia]