Background:
The ‘I don’t care about the break up anymore’ song….I was walking along the beach one late afternoon, and for some reason realised that it was the date of my wedding anniversary – 18 July (1980). I think I said out loud, “It doesn’t matter anymore”. I then proceeded to write the lyrics for 1-8-0-7-8-0.
My ex-husband and I were married on Scott Creek Station outside of Katherine, Northern Territory, and bougainvillea flowers decorated the gum tree that we were married under. Whilst the marriage was not to last, I am forever grateful for our children and the amazing experiences we had working together on cattle stations in Queensland and the Northern Territory. It was quite an adventure and all a part of my journey.
Lyrics:
I still remember flowers
In that shady gum tree
And the minister who married us
And how much you loved me
Seems like that was just a promise
That you never meant to keep
Not sure if I’d change it now
How it turned about to be
Chorus:
Now I think about you sometimes
And that promise on a kiss
Was one I truly believed in
And that I surely missed
But somehow the future for us
Was never to be
Now 1-8-0-7-8-0
Doesn’t matter any more to me
I no longer want to care
About what used to be
It’s just another love lost
In a faded memory
Only a mark on the page
Of a love that’s history
Now 1-8-0-7-8-0
Doesn’t matter any more to me
Chorus
1-8-0-7-8-0
Doesn’t matter any more to me