Midnight Oil - Bedlam Bridge Lyrics
In this city with no footpath theres a building with no peopleThere is crime and gun decisionsTheres a street of heat and hawkers, theres a house of hope driftersTheres a gang that shoots then listensTheres a place that knows no poverty, a town without pollutionTheres a soul with good intentionsThere are canyons full of movie stars, churches made of metalThere are mountains made of muscleWe have leaders who are anxious, we have captains not courageousCaptains tumbling into madnessBut theres a main who makes no enemies, a body never breathlessNo ambition ever hopelessUp on bedlam bridge somebody is waitingUp on bedlam bridge Im shot to heavenOh, up on bedalm bridge, waitingIn these locked and shackled neighbourhoods, bridge and tunnel diplomatsSee the golden ghettos creeperCrazy flags from history, songs for the white house gangstersGuns for hellgate railway sleepersBut theres a main who makes no enemies, a body never breathlessNo ambition ever hopelessSo how stands the city on this winters night?The city on the hill or so they saidThe snow is falling down around the armouryThe citys closing in around my headUp on bedlam bridge...Drive, wont you drive the engines harder, driveDrive, wont you turn the engines over, drive(hirst)
