Music Video
Music Video
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Midnight Oil
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
MOGINIE
Composer
John Garrett
Composer
Martin Rotsey
Composer
HIRST
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Glyn Johns
Producer
Sean Fullan
Assistant Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Speed
And
And this
There's a feeling I get when I look to the sun
Love
It's so tough
'Cause it raises your hopes and then it makes you run
[Verse 2]
We're all looking for a shorter day
We're all looking for an easy way
Even when the debts are dead and gone
[Verse 3]
Down
Down the stairs
And an eight mile drive waits for you to turn on
Hear
The time clocks sing
And the smoke in the distance reaches the eye line
[Verse 4]
We're all working on a shorter day
We're all looking for an easy way
Even when the debts are dead and gone
[Verse 5]
Even when the debts are dead and gone
Even when the debts are dead and gone
[Verse 6]
No conversation as you go
There's so much space the heat moves you
Terra-cotta homes
Backyard barbecue and eucalyptus smell
It's fine on the clothes line
It's fast food and slow life and red roof
[Verse 7]
My silence
Comic interruptions
Surely there's some relief from the atomic art
And the fragile state of world events
With clowns who love the kings and power and the mutant media babes
Wanking on dreams and fashions and toilet paper flowers
Don't talk to me in this backyard
It's clandestine, it's nuclear smell of space and now forever, I wanna go
Go straight down the exit
Eight mile attraction
U-turn is up and the time clock sings let's go
[Verse 8]
Lucky
Country
Where the geckos are paid to live in the sun
On and
On
On and on
There's a ribbon of road and a mile to spare
[Verse 9]
Small talk, small talk
Lucky country
Lucky country
Lucky country
Lucky country...
Written by: HIRST, John Garrett, MOGINIE, Martin Rotsey, Peter Garrett, Peter Gifford