Alison McCallum (who actually spells her name and was sometimes credited as… Read Full Bio ↴Alison McCallum (who actually spells her name and was sometimes credited as Alison MacCallum) (born 1951, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian rock singer who had a string of singles in her home country in the late 1960s and 1970s.

McCallum's pop music career began in 1967 at the age of 16, as the singer to a succession of Sydney bands. She began with the Jeff Bulls Jazz Band soon leaving to join the Big Apple Union, a Sydney soul band, which evolved into Dr Kandy's Third Eye, in which she shared lead vocals with Gulliver Smith, later of Company Caine. Considered to be an "underground" band, they were one of the first psychedelic bands to use strobe lighting and smoke at their gigs.[citation needed] In June 1969 she joined the 7 piece blue eyed soul band This Hallelujah Chorus, sharing lead vocals with another male vocalist, Ed Mayne. It was also during 1969 she recorded a version of The Bee Gees song "To Love Somebody" with Tully for the ABC-TV show Fusions, however this was not be released commercially until 1979 on the "Alberts Archives" compilation, compiled by Glenn A. Baker.

At the end of 1970 she joined Freshwater, a progressive band, who had achieved a certain level of notoriety with their controversial 1970 single "Satan", a song about the Sharon Tate murders. Originally sharing lead vocals with Ian Johnson, by September 1971 she was sole lead vocalist. November 1971 saw the release of her first recorded release with her lead vocals on the bands final single "I Ain't Got The Time", a track that reached the top 20 in the Sydney charts and the top 30 in Australia. After the demise of Freshwater in November 1971 she briefly joined Ray Brown's band One Ton Gypsy before going solo in early 1972, at the age of 21

Excuse Me
Alison MacCallum Lyrics

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You, afloat in a lost world of dreams.
A mystical maker of schemes.
Emotion beyond my means.
Me, no more than a grain of sand.
And lost on the beach of your land.
Unable to understand.

When your near, reality loses its hold.

And loneliness tears at my soul.
But what goes on inside your mind.
And while I know, that fantasy drives us mad.
It really can't be so bad.
To let it take me one more time.

Love, the chances seem so very few.
Excuse me for the strange things I do.
I'm drowning in an ocean of you.

When your near, reality loses its hold.
And loneliness tears at my soul.
But what goes on inside your mind.
And while I know, that fantasy drives us mad.

It really can't be so bad.
To let it take me one more time.

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Alison MacCallum's song "Excuse Me" delve into the concept of love and how the feeling of being in love can often make one feel lost, mystical and unable to understand their emotions. The song explores the singer's feelings of being just a small grain in their lover's world of dreams and schemes. The singer is overwhelmed by the presence of their lover and feels that reality loses its hold when they are near. However, the singer is left wondering what goes on inside their lover's mind and decides to succumb to the madness of fantasy again because love is a rare chance that they are unwilling to let go of.

The opening line 'You, afloat in a lost world of dreams' describes how the person being addressed is in a world where they feel lost but in charge of their dream world. The line 'Me, no more than a grain of sand. And lost on the beach of your land' suggests that the singer is small and not significant in their lover's world. The line 'To let it take me one more time' suggests a yearning to go back to fantasy and to be in love even if it may drive the singer mad. The lines 'Excuse me for the strange things I do.I'm drowning in an ocean of you' convey that the singer wishes to explain their strange ways of thoughts and emotions and embraces how deeply in love they are with their lover.

Line by Line Meaning

You, afloat in a lost world of dreams.
You are lost in your own world of dreams.

A mystical maker of schemes.
You create mystical plans in your mind.

Emotion beyond my means.
Your emotions are too complex for me to decipher.

Me, no more than a grain of sand.
I am insignificant to you.

And lost on the beach of your land.
I am lost in your world.

Unable to understand.
I cannot comprehend your thoughts.

When your near, reality loses its hold.
When you are close to me, my grip on reality weakens.

And loneliness tears at my soul.
I feel lonely and empty inside.

But what goes on inside your mind.
I am curious about your thoughts.

And while I know, that fantasy drives us mad.
I recognize that indulging in fantasies is unhealthy.

It really can't be so bad.
But it can't hurt to let myself dream a little more.

To let it take me one more time.
To let myself fall into the fantasy one more time.

Love, the chances seem so very few.
The opportunity to love is rare.

Excuse me for the strange things I do.
Sorry for my unusual behavior.

I'm drowning in an ocean of you.
I am consumed by you and your world.

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You, afloat in a lost world of dreams
A mystical maker of schemes
Emotion beyond my means
Me, no more than a grain of sand
And lost on the beach of your land
Unable to understand

When your near, reality loses its hold
And loneliness tears at my soul
But what goes on inside your mind
And while I know, that fantasy drives us mad
It really can't be so bad
To let it take me one more time

Love, the chances seem so very few
Excuse me for the strange things I do
I'm drowning in an ocean of you

When your near, reality loses its hold
And loneliness tears at my soul
But what goes on inside your mind
And while I know, that fantasy drives us mad
It really can't be so bad
To let it take me one more time