Midnight Oil

It's a lonesome away from your kindred and all By the campfire at night where the wild dingoes call But there's nothing so lonesome, morbid or drear Than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer Now the publican's anxious for the quota to come And there's a...

I'm a snow plough I must now plough on I'm a snow plough I'm a settler's son I'm a storm cloud Rain myself all over the place I'm a storm cloud Wipe that smile right off your face There must be one place left in the world Where the mountains meet the...

You're watching people fighting you're watching People losing on Armistice Day You're watching people fighting You're watching people losing on Armistice Day The watchers do the wincing reporters so convincing But the two never lies I went looking for a...

I don't want to grow anything in my heart I don't want to write all these things int he sand I don't wish to listen and not understand I don't want to tramp up the footpath of stares Don't want to be an advocate Don't want to be a momument There is noth...

From the bar to the bedroom I'm swimming in the neon Lighted pictures of a redhead, plasticoated hot on And sometimes when that mirror shows The smile of disbelief Stained signature of nightmares They're stolen by the thief I'm back on the borderline Y...

I am gone, can't waste more time I said, not quite joking The fire has gone the big trees stand The underground is smoking Remember nothing you've been told Means anything to me And everything you hold is mine In the barest degree I walked up to the...

Must be time for a second chance I can't escape this basement flat Writers cramp and claustrophobia Must be time for a better place My sink leaks and the rats have won the race Over and over What can I do There must be some solution Must be time for...

In this city with no footpath There's a building with no people There is crime and gun decisions There's a street of heat and hawkers There's a house of hope and drifters There's a gang that shoots then listens There's a place that knows no poverty A t...

Out where the river broke The blood wood and the desert oak Holden wrecks and boiling diesels Steam in fourty-five degrees The time has come to say fair's fair To pay the rent, to pay our share The time has come a fact's a fact It belongs to them let's give i...

Fresh air soft landing So good to be home This bruised world's got it's beauty It's where I belong. The sight of those green curves Quickens my heart Break the grip of Leviathan Now I'm ready to start. Have I been away too long Have I been away too...

The Southern Aurora was late again As I waited at central to take you home Winking spinning sparkling lights on our flat earth You talk about the old groundling ways Where the suburbs summer pulse and play in wrinkled sand and never never never neverland...

You say times are tough We've got the best of both worlds here Things are rough We've got the best of both worlds here Times are tough We've got the best of both worlds here The real world is not as calm as it appears to be from here The real world is...

You the mothers who sent your sons Wipe away your tears For those who fought and those who fell Become our sons as well. You the warriors with your words Throw away your spears You talk of times of peace for all And then prepare for war. All the peopl...

Welcome stranger listen in The presumption of innocence was buried again Carve up-selloff Triumphalism gotta be a curse or even worse It's inherited it's recurring, oh God I have walked I have swum I've hitchhiked and I've run do you know what I mean I...

There'll be food on the table tonight There'll be pay in your pocket tonight My gut is wrenched out it is crunched up and broken My life that is lived is no more than a token Who'll strike the flint upon the stone and tell me why? If I yell at night there's...

I've seen faces in the window, I've seen faces in the street They talk and walk of nothing I've known many restless summons the sand dunes I imagine A place without a postcard Flower people were so beautiful but straight and louds the way Good luck the be...

Here comes the angel of death You may not remember her yet Concrete all over her face Child bride of the human race Until you see life in the forest Until you hear you’ve been abolished Forget everything that you think you’ve been promised Bring...

In the desert in the dry before the breaking of the rain the temperature in the shade had reached a hundred and ten again In the desert in the dry on the overland telegraph line don't take the law into your own hands don't go looking for a fight I've heard t...

Brought up in the world of changes, part time cleaner in a holiday feat I stare out to sea at the ships at night No anaesthesia, I'm going to work on it day to day No zephyr, no light relief it seems But maybe it's a dream I'm lying back in a row of tim...

In my shoes, in my shoes There is so much to remind me As the stars come out above me, home Cool wind, clear my head Bright sun grow my food Strong rain clear my heart Fill my land It's a new day I don't know why it is sold Don't know why it's so co...

Capricornia, Capricornia, Capricornia don't walk away Show me to the back of your hand Capricornia don't leave me here Dying in the back of your land In the evening things all fall apart They crawl away dying in the bushes alone In the morning, well, I...

Locked in the mall in a state of fright Looking for salvation in a car headlight But you can't have what you can't buy Tomorrow is better than yesterday, tomorrow is better than today, tomorrow is better than yesterday they say Cemetery in my mind Cem...

Cold cold change, we were so excited But you came and went so soon Cold cold change, we were not invited We smiled all the while we were taken in Cold cold change, bringing in the winter Freezing up the water, closing up the mind One more danger, gonna...

Comfortable suburban home Too afraid to go out on your own Comfortable place on the couch Natures a stranger keep it out Haul away So you got coastline for fence It could be your first line of defence You'll never be ready for this Ignorance is bliss...

These are not dispassionate words of the cool The headline still rules the editor’s a fool Shall we douse out the flames or will everybody fuse And leave us stranded here tomorrow I heard a calling out, a cry from the heart From the towns of cement and th...

In the city the heart still whispers Flaking metal a silent witness There's chemical fields and cathode clouds The milky way is emasculated as exhaust fans and smart cards shrink wrap the coloured air and send it coughing to eternity We can see the brigh...

I'm an innocent victim, I'm just like you We end up in home units with a brick wall view I can't believe the perfect families on my colour TV If I don't make it to the top it'll never bother me And I don't wanna be the one And I don't wanna be the one...

The Breakfast Creek Hotel is up for sale The last square mile of terra firma gaveled in the mail So farewell to the Norfolk Island pines No amount of make believe can help this heart of mine End, your dreamworld is just about to end Fall, your dreamworld...

Here comes the olive branch man He'll press it any way he can He tries so hard to understand Here comes the tired statesman Heavy lidded bearded nowhere left to land He makes the jigsaw fit With a hammer in his hand It's just a drop in the ocean Here...

By the time the luminous descent of the bright star unfolds And tablets of strangelove are shattered and bruised By the time the oleander is falling from blloom And tears of the crocodile water the sun By the time you make up your mind I ever you do I h...

It's 2am in Town Hall Station Black walls and sleeping drunks Are bad companions Ice is there Fear is there Everyone is nowhere there's too much of nothing Take me away It' 9am in Town Hall Station Flashing faces and grey herds no comparison So sorry...

There is a place we're coming to It is not green it is not blue I hope that you understand The devil was a dancing on the old foreshore Hitting up on bright lights and the liquor stores Save me, please save me We got to prick that bubble in the shoppin...

In the morning we will wake up and take to the air Look back at the planet - I'm glued to my chair Southern half is burning as we climb through the sky Sea-birds softly falling, smoke way up high There's the contours of the mountains, the deserts and the...

Well I'm as old as the hills And young as the day Nobody sees things, in quite the same way Computers and shovels, churches and brothels Mannequins and skeletons, cities and dustbowls Here we go here we go again Hear the clamour of the feeding pen New...

Few of the sins of the father Are visited upon the son Hearts have been hard Hands have been clenched into fists too long Our sons need never be soldiers Our daughters will never need guns These are the years between These are the years that were hard fought...

All the screens are filled with heroes and losers But the sky's still filled with stars This junky palace might be on fire Til the winners lose desire Let it go let it go So tell me what you see Tell me what you hear If it's the same as me it's the golden age...

I'll give you something to write home about And I'll take you somewhere, show you around We burnt all the cars that laid down and died We burnt all the trees to keep us alive Sat 'round the fire, sang like a choir With the ashes of a civilization in our e...

The empire burns The umpire's not laughing The president's resented, The ambassadors's a night club You cannot get it out It's stuff you cannot taste or see It's stuff you cannot smell It's stuff that's twenty times as hot As the hottest stuff...

I'm head over heels You know how it feels to be in love I'm head over heels Holding back the chills in love I think I like the sound we're chasing I'm giving it all and you're reciprocating I'm head over heels Turning back the wheels of love We're ste...

Look at all the toys I got Look at all the things I need Look at all the toys I got Look at all the mouths I feed Have I got a wonderful deal for you What belongs to me belongs to you I understand what you're going through I know the point to pu...

My life is a valuable thing I want to keep it that way, I won't cry My life's such a valuable thing Some things don't fade away, I don't mind We give the best we can give We won't forget, we can't forgive Keep us radioactive free Strike a bell in Hiroshima par...

There is a place I was born It is a place I’ve never seen Don’t even know where it is Don’t even know my name Where is home, where is my home? I’m searching far and wide It’s a bastard song It is the feeling that everything’s wrong We are alive, we t...

Tell all your friends I'm the cure Tell them again and again Watching the walls, spinning in doors I can bring you peace of mind Use me whenever you please Sweeter than sweet memories Everything's neat, avoiding the heat I can give you peace of mind A...

Hollows threats and a great adventure So much business, towns in the dirt Company cans and efficient Americans Three black boys sit in the corner White woman waiting to talk Lots of intention but no understanding If Ned Kelly was king He'd make those...

Sorry I am for the hurt I caused Grieving I still do over careless words As I move freely to a place The debris I left behind comes back into my day Out of time disconnected Plagued by senses sweet desire, out of time Out of time deluded I plung...

My grandfather went down with the Montevideo The rising sun sent him floating to his rest And his wife fled south to Sydney seeking out safe harbour A north shore matron she became with some paying guests My father went down with the curse of big cities T...

There's a man who walks the lonely field at midnight He wears a matching suit, steel tipped shoes and the diamonds And he holds the dying flame, the loaded dice and the answer He stalks the open road that leads form here to there You'd better look out, wat...

From the red dust north of Dalmore Downs Sharman's tents roll into town Twelve will face the auctioneer Sharman's boxers stand their ground Their days are darker than your nights But they won't be the first to fall Children broken from their dreams But...

Walking through the high dry grass, Pushing my way through slow, Yellow belly black snake, Sleeping on a red rock, Waiting for the stranger to go. Sugar train stops at the crossing, Cane cookies cursing below, Bad storm coming, Better run to the top of the mo...

Creature rise up from the deep And walk on dry land on all fours Throw your demons to the wind, Matinee crowd they want to see you crawl I can't explain the difference Between a tadpole and a frog Somewhere in the marshes, See a toxic cocktail has been spawned...

On a knife edge razor day If you listen long enough they've got nothing to say It's a time warp place don't change The rhythm of the night, the beating rain You move fast to get off of that merry-go-round There's one gun, probably more And the others...

An air from it echoes of the night Concrete cabins catch the sky and they hold the stars for ransom A thousand dreams it's getting late A thousand runners standing still, I can smell the sand and sea again I've had enough away City times down down, I've...

Older than Kosciusko Darwin down to Alice Springs Dealers in the clearinghouse The settlements explode High up in the homelands Miners drive across the land Encounter no resistance When the people block the road Old than Kosciusko Dry white seasons...

Everbody says that loves on special and sale And everything you've ever wanted, you've got to pay for It seems so easy and gettable, yes it's real If you've got money, it's such a steal Everybody says that life is the number one But everytime you try to...

Speed and this there's a feeling I get when I look to the sun Love it's so tough 'cos it raises your hopes and then it makes you run We're all looking for a shorter day We're all looking for an easy way Even when the debts are dead and gone Down the st...

There's no highway to Luritja way I listen, I listen for it now There's no turnoff to Luritja way One moment, one moment for me please I'm reaching out for you across a thousand years I'm reaching out for you, ooh yeah, yeah Joining the dots at Luritja...

I come from a land of wide open spaces Where the world turns around us and we just follow suit There's heat in the air and peace reigns supreme Got white flags on the clothes lines and the deals are new In the wind The ashes fly The poison crown...

Everybodys say god is a good man Ah, clock on the world Driving a dump truck up to the sun A sigh in the human heart I look at the clock on the wall It says three minutes to midnight Faith is blind when we're so near Phar Lap floating in a jar...

When they march When they march over fields of green When they march When they march over fields of green When they march When they march over fields of green Walking in the wilderness No future to the question You might get a simple answer Get a sim...

The tucker box is empty now The heart of Kelly?s country cleared The gangers on the southern line Like the steam trains have disappeared Pelicans glide Miracles up in the skies We vote for a government With axes in ist eyes Mountains of Burma The roa...

Was it just a dream, were you so confused Was it just a giant leap of logic Was it the time of year, that makes a state of fear Methods, were their motives for the action And did I hear you say My country right or wrong My country right or wrong My cou...

"This is a mad house," she goes straight for the palm "You'll be luck to make it till Tuesday" I say "You must be joking, the idea's absurd" But the picture's hanging on her every word But she comes right back, her black velvet cat Has gone smiled all ov...

No love, no dreams, oh my lady The bells were ringing on that day I'll not be back, I'll not be seen I am the soldier sent away Lost in a cold forgotten war A war for some forgotten cause Because of some forgotten words About something I'd never heard...

What do we want, we are going to be the winners or the losers? And who do we hear, do we listen to the beggars or the choosers? We're getting no reaction We haven't heard a word You're almost (but not quite) More than we deserve So what do we want, are...

The raising of children, the rearing of young Used to be simple but look what it's become The choice of career, the proper vocation Out of your hands, all for the needs of the nation No inhibitions with the modern child Wasted lessons or pleasure or...

In my world there are sorrows I'd rather drown in happiness Come the morning, when the darkness through That story's bound to change And in my world And in my world It's all the same And nothing's ventured, nothing's gained And nothing's lost and noth...

I grew tall in this lucky land And I thank god for that, but there's needles in the sand Ozone in eucalypt and on the steppes tonight There's pushing and a shoving on the throne tonight It's a rhythm of the sea Lost islands of hope It's a rhythm of the s...

Who’d like to change the world Who wants to shoot the curl Who gets to work for bread Who wants to get ahead Who hands out equal rights Who starts and ends that fight And not rant and rave Or end up a slave Who can make hard won gains Fall like the...

She was the golden summer wine And now she?s black and blue resigned He took advantage like the spider, helpless One too many times You had to go ahead and sing You had to steal that diamond ring Upon the headstone so inscribed, they cried One too many...

When I'm locked in my room I just want to scream Now I know what they mean One more day of eating and sleeping Speak to me, speak to me, I'm not spoking for, I'm ready to talk Look at me, Look at me, I'm at the edge of myself, I'm dying to talk Speak to...

The world is crashing down on me tonight The world is crashing down on me tonight The walls are closing in on me tonight The walls are closing in on me tonight 'Cos I know this is the end of the Beginning of the outbreak of love The stars come falling do...

There's a wind on the eastern side Ghost Gums dance in the moonlight night Mopoke mourns the racketeers The bosses they can sense you mind All in place to a hand that rules They all want to deal you out I can see the outside world Everything's...

I just want to see that clear clear ight Don't want to be a member of a species that's deceasing Keep on making those promises that they aren't keeping Oh I was a talking to the people next door Said they don't want to die in a nuclear war Now we went wa...

There's a shit storm a'coming I feel it coming soon There's a time and a place And a moment in space When the fat boys call the tune There's a bubble a bouncing And it's bouncing my way There's two sticks in the powderworks I think it's gonna blow toda...

People, wasting away in paradise Going backwards, once in a while Takin' your time, give it a try What do you believe, what do you believe What do you believe is true? And nothing they say makes a difference this way Nothing they say will do You take all the...

Look up on the ledge, there's a bomber diving on the golden street Down below the crowd is falling, bullets under feet Don't tell me, don't tell me, hey don't tell me We're under the beat of a brand-new marching order Ears to be ground there's a party pla...

Say yes to real life ambition Say yes to our hopes and our plans Forget about your indecision Let's get the beast off our land A tree that can grow no longer A beach that has got no sand I would pay out a king's ransom If we could just understand Got...

Under the waterline no place to retire to another time the eyes of the world now turn And if we think about it and if we talk about it and if the skies go dark with rain can you tell me does our freedom remain Put down that weapon or we'll all be gone you ca...

The bar was crowded in the arvo din and the voices got higher and higher For the man at the back with the tickets in his hat, He would have to do more than aspire to A place with some light on the sand near a beach, A place near some green running water...

The rich get richer The poor get the picture The bombs never hit you when you're down so low Some got pollution Some revolution There must be some solution but I just don't know The bosses want decisions The workers need ambitions There won't...

I don't want to run I don't want to stay Cos everything that's near and dear is old and in decay Emergency has gone, apathy rolling on Time to take a stand Redneck wonderland Got you in my sights, spotlit by the fence If it's love you're faking it's just...

Well I told you about the forest and trees and the chlorophyll green Yes I told you the birds will endure flutter wings dance on leaves Hold onto dreams, hold onto dreams tonight Well I told you about the high pressure cell coming down on the breeze An...

Well I want to return to my sender Well I want to return There is so much that I can't remember But there's so much to choose We are laying the tracks for the company Across all space and all time Any insinkerator will remind you What can happen to you...

So you cut all the tall trees down You poisoned the sky and the sea You've taken what's good from the ground But you left precious little for me You remember the flood and the fall We remember the light on the hill There should be enough for us all...

I'm on the whiskey flying, and I'll run by night I'm on the whiskey running, and I'll run by night I'm on the winter cycle, shut my eyes to the bite I'm on the winter cycle, shake my fist at the bite I'm on the whiskey flying, and I'll run by night I'm on...

Hanging on like hell to the safety chain Lifebuoy crash lands in a vale of tears All the lovers are in retreat Out on the edge of the nervous street So deaf to the call of the wild Deaf to the first born's whispering plea Expanding frame the city is in...

Don't want to live in a prison cell Don't want to live in a smoking room, Independence just won't come to you In the brief of a diplomat. Say your prayers for the future Say your prayers for the past, It might be round the corner It might be all we hav...

Come to me now Be careful what you say Don't make a sound, there's noise enough in this Come with me know, let night move into day Let sheets keep secrets that no-one else could know I could kill for this one time and not be caught She said to me t...

(Bus to Bondi) Push start that car tomorrow I'll take it to the tip yard Well I'll leave it as a metal wreck For cats to sleep Then I'll catch the bus to Bondi Swim the beach and wonder Who can wear the fashion when The place is oh so hot I'm just p...

I was asleep with both eyes open Dream freeze sprinklers in the sun Beer soaked mansions block the sky, dingos howl and white flags fly The future's put on hold and you're still young But I know seeing is believing I can't believe what I'm seeing I wa...

Let's begin, I am ready, let's begin Sell my soul to him Shed my skin, I just wanna shed my skin I don't wanna sell my soul to him Mechanize, city bursts and farmers die They cry Sell my soul to him Sleep face down in a goods train heading south i...

Won't you come down the line Away from barren ground The harlot and the autocrat Are they driving you further down The season's rhymes, they anchor me Against the raging tide Take you to the last wild place Skin and the stars they embrace A caveman c...

Thought one day I'd make my fortune Like the ancient cavalcades From the shipyards of New Zealand Chasing history I left home Moving west into the sunset Became the sunset of our lives I was factory made and settled Safe from storm and broken earth T...

The Zulu and the Navaho The Belgians in the Congo Plantation in Virginia The Raj in British India The deadline in South Africa The story of El Salvador The silence of Hiroshima Destruction of Cambodia Short memory, must have a short memory...

On the fringes of torso and lips Straining to hear the voice of gospel choir Pummelled plains and beaten fields We’re never broken in spirit within But I feel like we’re coming around Yes, I feel like we’re coming around Tell me Cloud burst teeming, i...

So you got the blues The evening wore out your shoes To a shuffling beat It's a colourful crowd Spray can information Cover the lonely station Checkpoint for the state of the nation On the missionbeat beat The radio drug Wayward destinations Secondh...

Breaking me down - lunatic noises Breaking me down - desperate voices Breaking me down - phone is blistering Breaking me down - death by listening Somebody's out there, somebody's waiting Somebody's trying to tell me something Somebody's trying to...

Watch me sweat, watch me crawl Stretch me on the table up against the wall You can see for yourself But you better not say You're working four more hours every other day See me suffer see me pain Must be somone else to blame See me suffer see me pain...

I know that the sunset empire shudders and shakes I know there's a floodgate and a raging river I say see the silence of the ribbons of iron and steel I say hear the punch drunk huddle drive hammer and wheel Sometimes you're beaten to the call Sometimes...

There's an SOS of real distress, baby tears at the best address Ambulance chasers won't confess, sun comes up and you're stuck The ones and the zeros are flushing your pores, You've been flamed in the dark and you're feeling sore The dripfeed rattle lures...

Oh get down, getting down, so much money in the ground For the people who don't deserve it now It's a circus we're the clowns as the giant ones disown Every bit of something we call home Said it's a pity 'bout the middle class Holden mass We get a bit to...

Hope you're a God, your turn to pray Hope you've a God, it's your turn to pray Light on the hill so far away The light on the hill is so far away Boy, where are you now With skin so brown, get out of town Star of Hope, star of Glory Shine upon this hal...

I - I was I was shaken down in a toy town He - He?s out there You know it?s Kennedy?s shadow From White Cross to Michigan ATMs in the air Oh yeah machines they are spinning out everywhere The speaker is speaking Can you hear the sound The listener is...

Wherever the wind blows When it blows over the sea The moon’s sitting high Waves will rise Water shapes Waves will take you, take you there Surf's up tonight Summers on hold It will go running away You’ve gotta move now Get inside Take that dive...

Well you knew from the start That a one way loving wouldn't last You think I'm moving slowly girl i tell you, you're moving way too fast Working in the city from 9 to 5 Traffic on the highway gonna blow my mind Surfing with a spoon all the rest of the t...

I believe we're crossing the great ravine Still yearning half-way a stranger I believe in our multiplicity Still part-blind no reason for anger I believe we pull up our roots and retreat A new crop of aerials in Dacca and Canberra Why won't you tell me t...

We don't serve your country Don't serve your king Know your custom don't speak your tongue White man came took everyone We don't serve your country Don't serve your king White man listen to the songs we sing White man came took everything We carry in...

From the Great Gibber Plain, to the Indian ocean From the stones at my feet, to my sawnoff in motion Already come, its already been We're free From Galipoli's cliffs, to the banks of the Thames For those that are nameless, their memory remains How can w...

Who will march for peace Now that the last of the diggers has gone All those who were released From Sulva Bay and from the Somme The Mallee is whipped by sand A great new silence blankets the land We sure need the stone age In the coming century Who will feed...

Come and see the real thing Come and see the real thing Come and see Come and see the real thing Come and see the real thing Come and see Is there a meaning here Is there a meaning here Does it really mean a thing? Come and see the real th...

In the cities and the towns The word is coming down No more doubt, no more pain There's been a dragging of the chain Now there's a price we gotta pay No way out, no way round Where is the town that we lived in, brother’ Where is the sound of the church...

I'm gonna wait for the moment to come I'm gonna wait till we all stop from running Boxed in like candles, polar bear pride Turning to terror as the script is read out Unwilling actors, accomplished protractors will shout I'm gonna wait till we reach the...

Like a heat wave breaking as you smell warm rain We can fade away or start over again In a high five season in a cut-price land The southern cross don't shine on that invisible hand Where will you live when the fields are falling? Where will you live whe...

Haven't had so much fun since my daddy took the V8 away Light a spark in the dark, take a mark, it's resurrection day It's a breeze, Timorese, APEC speak, wear batik, seen not heard Well, we do the same things that we always do Nothing changes but the color c...

There's a road train going nowhere Roads are cut, lines are down We'll be staying at the Roma Bar Till that monsoon passes on The backbone of this country's broken The land is cracked and the land is sore Farmers are hanging on by their fingertips We cursed a...

Oh the news will travel slowly Over broken glass And I'll bet you've heard that story Under the overpass Got no time to weep for something You?ll never get back If your feeling cold and lonely Under the overpass Hallelujah hallelujah Under the overp...

Scanning at the blue bended headlands White flurry scudded, a dark silhouette flashes by, in the wet It is glistening flesh In the deep marine, in the deep marine There is room for make believe out in the ocean There is room for make believe out on the la...

US Forces gives the nod It's a setback for your country Bombs and trenches all in rows Bombs and threats still ask for more Divided world the CIA Say who control the issue You leave us with no time to talk You can write your own assessment Sing me songs of n...

I was taken downtown for my part in the demonstration I was used and abused with the light in my eye at the station I said No no You got the wrong man No no Don't pick on me again No no I'm going home to my Family and friends I'm too busy making a livi...

There is enough for everyone in Redfern as there is in Alice this is not the Buckingham Palace this is the crown land this is the brown land this is not our land Some folks live in water tanks some folks live in red brick flats There is enough, the law is ca...

Old man down Way down down, Down by the docks of the city Blind and dirty, Asking for a dime, A dime for a cup of coffee, I got no dime but I got some time to hear his story My name is August West, And I love my Pearly Baker best More than my wine,...

One things for sure that it's still the same That young folk die from some noble aim And they live so fast and they die so young And we just keep wondering what the hell went wrong Cos they live so fast but they die so young And we just keep wondering ......

Up there on the platform He is speaking to the people The people are responding With clapping and a cheering But the meaning of the message Not revealed to those assembled They're taken for a ride Taken in his stride When the generals talk Y...

What are you gonna do now, now that you started What are you gonna do now, now that it's done The words got out there they're floating around and coming right back down Are you going to leave us lying here, dealing with the consequences of a bad sound...

Well oh well I feel I'm in decay John Laws is on the air again It's heavy traffic, jacardandas, eye in sky and foot on ground I see a million sand speck'd ants in mortal combat hand to hand And I feel that I, yes I feel that I Seem to live this life long...

The lord is my temple God is by my side you pay the rates on that temple build materials at the side he gives reasons to get through the day he doesn't have rinse action he just says Whoah - oh don't wanna see you back here again Girls are not smiling the st...

In a country that we call home In a land that's skin and bone There's a place that's hardly known. Mountains appearing with the sun Rivers of light they westward run Night is draining from the firmament. Railway fettler broken down On a branch line so...

The god forsaken rifleman stands rigid at the bar The kids discover victims in the rubble and the tar They're married to ambition to the slogans of the war Slogans that used to be scrawled on the wall and written in the heart A woman bows to Mecca and sh...

I understand things aren't often planned Under the bridge Pushed to the edge That's the way the story often ends There's always love You must understand You may not be released You must understand You may not be released Do you believe it So many t...