A late-80s Australian pop song about a one-sided love that never quite connected.
Telephone / The only bridge onto the isle of you
'The Other Side' came out in 1988 from the Australian band 1927. The lyric keeps circling back to the same few phrases, 'the only love that ever existed,' 'you never ever really cared,' 'feeling blue', like someone stuck on a thought they can't shake.
The 'telephone' line is the sharpest image here. 'Telephone / The only bridge onto the isle of you / Isle of love' makes the whole relationship feel like a failed call to a remote place. It's a lonely kind of geography.
It turns the whole idea of reaching someone into a fragile, solitary act. There's no answer on the other end of that bridge.
This isn't a song about a breakup so much as a song about realizing there was never a real connection to begin with. The 'never-ending run-around' feels more exhausting than dramatic.
The way 'feeling blue' gets repeated and stretched out at the end, almost dissolving into 'Mmm, feeling blue,' gives the whole thing a worn-out, late-night radio vibe.
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