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 ...

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 ...

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 T...

I don't wanna grow anything in my heart I don't want to write all these things in the sand I don't want to listen and not understand I don't want to tramp up th...

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 disbel...

Must be time for a second chance I can't escape this basement flat Writer's cramp and claustrophobia Must be time for a better place My sink leaks and the rats...

Rob Hirst) 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 hou...

Out where the river broke The bloodwood and the desert oak Holden wrecks and boiling diesels Steam in forty five degrees The time has come To say fair's fair T...

Fresh air soft landing so good to be home this bruised world's got its beauty it's where I belong The sight of those green curves quickens my heart break the g...

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...

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 bot...

Hirst/Moginie) 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 y...

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 ...

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 mo...

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 with...

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 overl...

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 ...

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 ...

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 apar...

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, Tomor...

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 cha...

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 fen...

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 We don't s...

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...

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...

The Breakfast Creek Hotel is up for sale The last square mile of terra firma gavelled in the mail So farewell to the Norfolk Island pines No amount of make beli...

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 bloom ...

It's 2 am in town hall station Black walls and sleeping drunks are bad companions Ice is there Fear is there Everyone's nowhere now, there's too much of nothing...

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 li...

In the morning we will wake up and take to the air Look back at the planet - Im glued to my chair Southern half is burning as we climb through the cky Sea birds...

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-bird...

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-bird...

Well I'm as old as the hills And young as the day Nobody see things in quite the same way computers and shovels churches and brothels Mannequins and skeletons c...

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 d...

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...

Skating down the street just beware; people dropping dirt bombs everywhere when you smell that asphalt grin and you feel it burn your skin Its gravelrash! burn...

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 aspi...

The empire burns The umpire's not laughing The president's resented, The ambassadors's a night clu You cannot get it out It's stuff you cannot taste or see It'...

I'm head over heels You know how it feels to be in love I'm head over heels Holding back the chills of love I think I like the sound we're chasing I'm giving it...

I'm head over heels You know how it feels to be in love I'm head over heels Holding back the chills of love I think I like the sound we're chasing I'm giving it...

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 belo...

Moginie/Garrett/Hirst) My life is valuable thing I want to keep it that way I won't cry My life's such a valuable thing And some things don't fade away But I ...

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 Swee...

Hollow threats and a great adventure So much business, towns in the dirt Company cars and efficient Americans Three black boys sit in the corner White woman wa...

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 tim...

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 sho...

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...

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 dark...

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...

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 Y...

It's a long way from Chatswood to the top of the gulf I'll be hitching pacific when the morning sun's up It's mile after mile on the long coast road Smell of fr...

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 En...

Hold me up I'm waiting Oh yeah, yes I'm waiting Waiting now to save for shopping days I'll pretend that I'm a rich man And I'll carry it away Oh yeah, it sounds...

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 sh...

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 ...

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 ...

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 thr...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ha...

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 t...

In my world there are sorrows That I'd rather drown in happiness Come the morning When the darkness' through That story's bound to change And in my world and i...

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 shov...

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 tha...

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, look at me, I've been broken up and...

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 ...

W - Moginie 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 ...

Yeah, people of australia, sing this song See many faces from many places, yeah We all live in one country But we all come from many others you see United we de...

Midnight Oil) I just want to walk through paradise I just want to see that clear, clear light Don't want to be a member of species that's deceasing Keep on mak...

Here comes the mechanical sun working on the bones in the dry old creek bed mist on the old river bend yellow box hangs like it's dead the emerald silo is rusti...

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 bouncin...

There's a shit storm a'coming I feel it coming soon There's a time and a place There's a moment in space When the fat boys call the tune There's a bubble a'boun...

People, wasting away in paradise Going backward, once in a while Moving ahead, falling behind What do you believe What do you believe What do you believe is tru...

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 ...

Moginie/Garrett) 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 ca...

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...

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 aspi...

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...

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 ...

Rob Hirst/Jim Moginie) So you cut all the tall trees down You poisoned the eart and the sky You've taken what's good from the ground But you left precious litt...

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 wi...

W - Rotsey/Moginie/Garrett 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 L...

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...

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 fa...

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 ...

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 Becam...

Conquistador of Mexico 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...

Racism) On the fringes of torso and lips Strained to hear the voice of gospel choir Pummeled plains and beaten fields We're never broken in spirit within And ...

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 t...

Breaking me down - lunatic noises Breaking me down - desperate voices Breaking me down - phone is blistering Breaking me down - death by listening Somebody's o...

Breaking me down - lunatic noises Breaking me down - desperate voices Breaking me down - phone is blistering Breaking me down - death by listening Somebody's o...

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 sa...

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 hea...

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 flush...

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...

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 sp...

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 ...

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 fro...