Midnight Oil - Gunbarrel Highway Lyrics
Ill give you something to write home aboutAnd Ill take you somewhere, show you aroundWe burnt all the cars that laid down and diedWe burnt all the trees to keep us aliveSat round the fire, sang like a choirWith the ashes of civilisation in our eyesI come alive, I read the signs on the gunbarrel highwayFar off a dull radio beats for the young uninvolvedThe meanings a footballA stick and a can and a kakadu manWill the speaker speak up or the talker talk downThe world is no oyster and here in this townShit falls like rain on a world that is brownI come alive, I read the signs on the gunbarrel highwayI come alive, and the children will sing as theSatellite swings down that highwayNothing could be longer than that corrugated roadNo ever follows where the road trains goAnd no where in the country do the dust storms blow so hardSo hardI come alive, I read the signs on the gunbarrel highwayI hear the sound, its the wheels as they driveAnd the cultures collide on that highwayAh, its a hard day, the children will sing as theSatellite swings down that highway
