Yarra Park
Yarra Park (35.469 hectares) is part of the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct, the premier sporting precinct of Victoria, Australia. Located in Yarra Park is the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) and numerous sporting fields and ovals, including the associated sporting complexes of Melbourne & Olympic Parks. The park and sporting facilities are located in the inner-suburb of East Melbourne. In the late 1850s, many of the earliest games of Australian rules football were played at Yarra Park, which was known at the time as the Richmond Paddock.
Tree-lined paths run parallel to Punt Road and Swan Street, and criss-cross the park. Some of the lawns are used for parking for sporting events. Two footbridges allow pedestrians and cyclists to cross the railway lines to the different sporting venues and easy access to the Yarra River Trail.
Around the MCG are sculptures of Australian sporting heroes including: Australian rules footballers Ron Barassi and Dick Reynolds; cricketers Sir Donald Bradman and Keith Miller; athletics "golden girl" Betty Cuthbert. Nearby is an old eucalyptus scar tree which shows a big scar caused by harvesting of bark for a canoe by the original inhabitants of the Yarra River Valley, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation.
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by Atomic Potato
We Are Broke
by: Atomic PotatoWe drove two hundred miles
To play to fifteen kids
Who didn't appreciate the sound
(play hardcorrre!)
Our heads were pointed to the ground
Got promised some money
But the show we played was free
Kids started to leave.
And my fingers start to bleed
We'll never be on Fuse TV
We'll never be on the cover of AP Magazine
So what?
I guess we're taking a chance.
And I guess I'm bold.
Because I'm gonna teach this dance.
I'll leave it all behind
The promises and memories, the thoughts of another time and
I'll make it! Even on my own
You said to me I'd never change,
But on the road I'll never be alone
We drove three hundred miles
To play to 200 kids
Who wanted just to hear more
(play an encore!)
My back is feeling kind of sore
Someone took all the money
that I think we'll never see
Then Clint quit the band
And all the blame comes back to me
We'll never be on MTV
We'll never be on the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine
So what?
I guess we're taking a chance.
And I guess I'm bold.
Because I'm gonna teach this dance.
I'll leave it all behind
The promises and memories
the thoughts of another time and
I'll make it! Even on my own
You said to me I'd never change
But on the road, I'll never be alone
Never be alone!
Twenty Minutes in, I broke another string
What am I doing here? I can't even sing!
I can't stop this rushing sensation!
Stop dreaming start living your real life now!
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