From their 1985 album, Mars Needs Guitars! The song did not chart in the U.S. but did chart in Australia, It reached #10 on the Melbourne Record chart.
From Medialoper
From its slow opening build to its all-hands-on-deck fadeout, “Bittersweet” is everything I could want from a pop song: smart, catchy and ever-changing while hewing to a steady central riff.
A musical descendent from the always-fruitful “Sweet Jane” tree, “Bittersweet” establishes its basic riff early on as Dave Faulkner sings about a relationship gone sour and at exactly the right moment, his bandmates lend him support.
Bittersweet
You are my sword.
Your love is its own reward.
My heart, I have found,
Gets carved surely by the pound.
Your love is its own reward.
My heart, I have found,
Gets carved surely by the pound.
God knows. I tried,
Tried to hold you with all my might
But time has won,
And I could never be that strong.
(Don’t cry) I couldn’t be that strong,
(Don’t cry) That used to be my favourite song.
(Don’t cry) Tears so bittersweet
Fill my eyes whenever we meet,
It’s always bittersweet.
Tried to hold you with all my might
But time has won,
And I could never be that strong.
(Don’t cry) I couldn’t be that strong,
(Don’t cry) That used to be my favourite song.
(Don’t cry) Tears so bittersweet
Fill my eyes whenever we meet,
It’s always bittersweet.
I cut and I bleed.
You seem to find that so hard to believe!
That’s just too, too bad.
You could never touch the love that we had.
You seem to find that so hard to believe!
That’s just too, too bad.
You could never touch the love that we had.
For the love we had,
(Don’t cry) Sometimes we try to take it back.
(Don’t cry) Tears so bittersweet
Kiss my cheeks whenever we meet.
It’s always bittersweet.
(Don’t cry) Sometimes we try to take it back.
(Don’t cry) Tears so bittersweet
Kiss my cheeks whenever we meet.
It’s always bittersweet.
For a love-gone-wrong
(Don’t cry) That used to be my favourite song
(Don’t cry) Tears so bittersweet
Kiss my eyes whenever we meet.
Anyway…
(Don’t cry) That used to be my favourite song
(Don’t cry) Tears so bittersweet
Kiss my eyes whenever we meet.
Anyway…
We’ve grown and times change.
When we meet now it feels so strange.
I hold you like a sword
You won’t cut me like you did before.
It’s always bittersweet.
When we meet now it feels so strange.
I hold you like a sword
You won’t cut me like you did before.
It’s always bittersweet.
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Dave Faulkner
Free Fallin' 
I was going to cover one of their songs on a Friday…I like the guitar and the backups.
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The guitar sounds a little like Tom Petty’s Your Jamming Me.
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