January 1st

Midnight hangs with my girlfriend

Watching the world spin

Around again

Spin

Around again

January 1st

There's a party going on

Watching fireworks

Love is in the streets

While a fire burns a country to its knees

I can smell the summer heat

Choking up the trees

Blood is on the leaves

In Mallacoota they're on high alert

Slumber on the beach

Ashes fill the whole sky

While our government's sucking the teat

Of Adani coal mines

Struggle to see

Why we've let these old guys

Treat us like fumbling sheep

This fucking whole time

Oi

Did they sell you lies?

Did they lift you up?

Still from hell you climb

Witnessin' this life

Our wings get plucked

And I can't tell you why

Oh what a tangled web we weave

No leadership

No hope tonight

It breaks my heart

Like a phoenix

Let's see how well you rise

Is it too little too late?

They said there'd be days like this

Kinda strange watch the fire and the flames

On a day like this

Midnight hangs with my girlfriend

Watching the world spin

Around again

Spin

Around again

Midnight hangs with my girlfriend

Watching the world spin

Around again

Spin

Around again

January 1st

Has got me thinking

Is it ever gonna rain again?

If there's really a God

We better pray to him

Middle finger to Scott

No, I won't shake your hand

I don't think you do your job

You just get paid for it

So we grit our teeth

We get this done

But what will I tell my daughter

When and if the future come?

They gonna sell our water

Till they use it up

Stolen land is slaughtered for resources

And all we do is shrug

What the fuck?

Black fellas

Tryna warn us

But we never listen

And all we do is judge

While our judges get them sent to prison

First Nation tryna warn us

But we never learn it

"How do we sleep when our beds are burning?"

These are just some thoughts

That are rollin' round my head

While last second of the year

Ticks closer to the end

Can you hold my hand?

Can you stay right here?

They always said there'd be days like this

Midnight hangs with my girlfriend

Watching the world spin

Around again

Spin

Around again

Midnight hangs with my girlfriend

Watching the world spin

Around again

Spin

Around again

Is it too little too late?

They said there'd be days like this

Kinda strange, watch the fire and the flames

On a day like this