Тексты песен «Midnight Oil»

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...

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 sleep face down in a goods train heading...

(Jim Moginie/Peter Garrett) Won't you come on 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...

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...

Conquistador of Mexico, the Zulu and the Navaho The Belgians in the Congo, short memory Plantation in Virginia, the Raj in British India The deadline in South Africa, short memory The story of El Salvador, the silence...

On the fringes of torso and lips Straining to hear the voice of gospel choir Pummeled 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...

So you got the blues The evening wore out your shoes To a shuffling beat It7s a colourful crowd Spray can information Cover the lonely station Checkpoint for the state of the nation On the missionbeat beat The radio...

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...

Tell for yourself Watch me sweat, watch me crawl Stretch me on the table up against the wall Up against the wall You can see for yourself But you better not say You're working four more hours every other day CHORUS...

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...

Spirit of the Age There is 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...

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...

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...

(Jim Moginie/Peter Garrett) I I was I was shaken down in a toy town He He's not there You know it's Kennedy's shadow >From White Cross to Michigan ATM's in the air Oh yeah machines they are spinning out everywhere The...

Wherever the wind blows When it blows over the sea The moon's sitting high Waves will rise, water shades Waves will take you, take you there Surf's up tonight Surf's up tonight Summers on hold It will go runnin'...

Wherever the wind blows When it blows over the sea The moon's sitting high Waves will rise, water shades Waves will take you, take you there Surf's up tonight Surf's up tonight Summers on hold It will go runnin'...

Well you knew from the start That a one way loving wouldn't last You say you're moving slowly Girl, I tell you You're moving way too fast CHORUS Working in the city from nine to five Traffic on the highway gonna blow...

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...

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...

From the great gibber plain To the indian ocean From the stones at my feet To my sawn off emotions Already gone We've already been We're free free To secede From gallipoli's cliffs To the banks of the thames For...