Written by keyboardist Don Walker, it was released as a single in 1979, peaking at number 63 on the Australian charts.
[2] "Sweethearts" was a cafè in the middle of Kings Cross, Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s, "cramped between strip clubs and sex shops, patronised by the hookers, pimps and drug dealers and the lost and lonely debris of the night,"[3] where author Don Walker would frequently eat.
"[5] Elsewhere, it was noted the song, "wasn't a cliched, red-light story of the night, it painted Kings Cross in its morning-time, aftermath rhythms.
There was a beautiful middle-aged woman who used to serve coffee there and never said anything and she was reputed to be the girlfriend of quite a dangerous guy," he claimed.
[7] The song first appeared in performances in 1978, after the chorus was written on an organ while recording demos for the album.