Who Can Stand In The Way Lyrics by Midnight Oil

Who Can Stand In The Way Lyrics

    Well oh well i feel i'm in decay
    John laws is on the air again
    It's heavy traffic, jacarandas, eye in the sky and foot on ground
    I see a million sand speck'd ants in mortal combat hand to hand

    And i feel that i
    Yes i feel that i
    Seem to live this life long distance
    Gaze at the things surround me
    People rolling in and out
    Those circles and tides confound me

    And there's just one thing
    Yes there's just one thing

    Who can stand in the way
    When there's a dollar to be made?

    I was hanging round off dobroyd point
    When the first fleet chain sailed in
    Looked into the clearest blue
    The scurvy smell, the convicts cry

    And we just carried on,
    Yes we just carried on

    Now choppers strafe the supermarket sky
    And people wonder why
    Chopping down tons of trees
    Got seas of print not a soul can read say
    Why do i drown you build brick boxes
    One by one now they block my sun
    But it's metal on metal
    It's the dance of tv
    If christ were here he'd camera check
    He'd cry so loud the planes would stop
    He'd cry so loud the earth would shake
    And men would fall in tinsel town

    There's just one thing
    Yes there's just one thing...

    Who can stand in the way
    When there's a dollar to be made?

    Precious moments, precious few
    When that dollar's more than me and you
    It's the joy of forgetting,
    Such a joy to forget
    But we killed all our firstborn
    And we slashed and we burned
    And we sold off the paddocks
    And we raped and we gouged
    On the wings of a six-pack
    Will we ever learn?

    (moginie/garrett)

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