@ALBUM: Red Sails in the Sunset Artist: Midnight Oil 1985 Columbia Records All selections by Midnight Oil. ------------------------------------ @SONG: When the Generals Talk Up there on the platform He is speaking to the people The people are responding With clapping and a cheering But the meaning of the message Not revelaed to those assembled They're taken for a ride Taken in his stride CHORUS When the generals talk You better listen to him When the generals talk You better do what he say There's a rumour in the ranking Someone talking insurrection So the general has a purge 'Cos he wants to win elections With the certain satisfaction That the people are appeased Long live the revolution The general's very pleased CHORUS Sitting othe fence both ears to the ground The fat cats still push the thin cats around CHORUS -------------------------------------------------- @SONG: Best of Both Worlds You say times are tough We've got the best of both worlds here Things are rough We've got the best of both worlds here Times are tough We've got the best of both worlds here The real world is not as calm as it appears to be from here The real world is not as calm as it appears to be from here The old world is not as safe wit the new world closing in The great South Land can be as great as the one it could have been The one it could have been CHORUS The real world is not as calm as it appears to be from here The small world is not as strong and the testing ground is near The old world is not as safe as the one we could have seen The great South Land can be as great as the one thit could have been The one it could have been We've got the best of both worlds ---------------------------------------------------------------------- @SONG: Sleep So you got the blues The evening wore out your shoes To a shuffling beat It7s a colourful crowd Spray can information Cover the lonely station Checkpoint for the state of the nation On the missionbeat beat The radio drug Wayward destinations Secondhand sensation In the back of the cell The plug and the cord Cross my hear in confusion Bruised in isolation In the eye of the storm Writing on waalls Cross my heart confusion Looking for a new solution It's the heat of the land Swallowing sweat Say those dreams can shake me Dawn come down and save me CHORUS Take this heart Break this heart Wrap it up and let me sleep ----------------------------------- @SONG: Minutes to Midnight Everybody say God is a good man Ah, clock on the world Driving a dump truck up to the sun A sigh in the human heart I look at the clock on the wall It says three minutes to midnight Faith is blind when we're so near Phar Lap floating in a jar Seas full of submarines, A.W.A.C.'s like flies Truth gets harder to define Talking in tongues But the dancer's hand grips the rail And fingers will blister on the 88's Hope drains out the side of the page CHORUS But ears can't hear What eyes don't see And you can't see me Everybody say God is a good man Everybody say 1, 2, 3 Set up those gunsights in H. G. Wells' backyard I.C.B.M.'s, S.S. 20's they lie so dormant yet they got So many CHORUS Remember your childhood Remember the journey Hope is what you say and do -------------------------------------------------------------- @SONG: Jimmy Sharman's Boxers >From the red dust north of Dalmore Downs Sharman's tents roll into town Telve will face the auctioneer Sharman's boxers stand their ground Their days are darker than your nights But they won't be the first to fall Children broken from their dreams But they won't be the first to fall Fighting in the spotlight Eyes turn blacker than their skin For Jimmy Sharman's boxers It's no better if you win Standing in the darkness Lined up waiting for the bell The days are wasted drinking At the first and last hotel CHORUS Why are we fighting for this? Why are you paying for this? You pay to see me fall like shrapnel Tobthe floor What is the reason for this? There is a reason for this? Wht isthe reason they keep coming Back for more? The blows now bring him to his knees But still the crowd calls out for more The drums are burning in his ears The man keeps counting out the score CHORUS ------------------------------------------- @SONG: Bakerman ---Instrumental--- ------------------------------------------- @SONG: Who Can Stand in the Way Well oh well I fell I'm in decay John Laws is on the air again It's heavy traffic, jacarandas, eye in the sky and foot on the ground I see a million sand speck'd antas 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 CHORUS Who can stand in the way when there's a dollar to be made I was hanging round of 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 Tsel Town There's just one thing, yes there's just one thing CHORUS Precious moments precious few It's the joy of forgetting, such a joy to forget But we killed our first born and we slashed and we burned And we sold off the paddocks and we raped and gouged On the wings of a six-pack will we ever learn -------------------------------------------------------------------------- @SONG: Kosciusko Older the Kosciusko Darwin down to Alice Springs Dealers in the clearinghouse The settlements explode High up in the homelands Miners drive across the land Encounter no resistance When the people block the road Older than Kosciusko Dry white seasonns years ago Darkness over Charleville The fires begin to glow CHORUS No end to the hostility Now they wanna be somewhere else No stranger to brutality Now they'd like to be someone else Older than Kosciusko Driver back to Alice Springs Endless storm and struggle Marks the spirit of the age High up in the homelands Celebration 'cross the land Builds up like a cyclone Now the fires begin to rage CHORUS Call off the ultimatum No don't turn away Call off the ultimatum until yesterday Call off the ultimatum, no don't turn away Bind up the brokenhearted No don't turn away Call off the ultimatum until yesterday ------------------------------------------------ @SONG: Helps Me Helps You Look at all lthe toys I got Look at all the things I need Look at all the toys I got Look at all the mouths I feed Have I got a wonderful deal for you What belongs to me belongs to you I understand what you're going through I know the point to push you to My policy helps me helps you Generosity helps me helps you Conspiracy helps me helps you Put your trust in me I'll help you too Look at all the thins I've done Look at all lthe rights I wrong The means will justify the end For you to save and me to spend 'Cos I've got a great idea you see What belongs to me belongs to me I know jsut what you wanna do I know how I can get there too Hypocristy helps me helps you Democracy helps me helps you Ideology helps me helps you Put your trust in me I'll help you through ---------------------------------------- @SONG: Harrisburg The Empire rings The umpire's not laughing The President's resented The ambassador's a night club You cannot get it out It's stuff you cannot taste or see It's stuff you cannot smell It's stuff that's twenty times as hot As the hottest stuff in hell Harrisburg oh Harrisburg The plant is melting down The people out in Harrisburg Are gettng out of town And when this stuff gets in You cannot get it out The company said it would not blow The government said it might Harrisburg oh Harrisburg I wonder who is right Who can leave it behind, the curtains are drawn There's something I must say to you You cannot get it out ----------------------------------------------------- @SONG: Bells and Horns in the Back of Beyond ---Instrumental--- ----------------------------------------------------- @SONG: Shipyards of New Zealand Thought one day I'd make my fortune Like the ancient cavalcades >From the shipyards of New Zealand Chasing history I left home Moving west into the sunset Became the sunset of our lives I was factory made and settled Safe from storm and broken earth There's so much to do everyday Dreams keep on disappearing We cling to the walls of our heart Keep us from coming undone Now danger lurks behind the spreader And Charlton Heston casts the first stone User interference birthmarks Clever, not very wise Let the lamplights keep on shining now While those searchlights in skies they are turning We climb to the top of the heap, I wish I could fly I can't get lost I can't get confused Something's misplaced Maybe for good ---------------------------------------------------------- GO SUNS GO SUNS GO SUNS GO SUNS GO SUNS GO SUNS GO SUNS GO SUNS GO SUNS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Wincentsen "Greetings from the Humungous- 267@ef.gc.maricopa.edu The Lord Humungous!" Glendale Community College, -The Road Warrior Glendale, Arizona ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ALL THE WAY IN '93!!!!