Lyrics Who Can Stand In The Way - Remastered Version - Midnight Oil
Well, oh, well, I feel I'm in decay
John Laws is on the air again (go, Sydney)
It's heavy traffic, jacarandas, eye in sky and foot on ground
I see a million sand-specked 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, ha
People rolling in and out, those circles and tides confound me
And there's just one thing
Yeah, 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
Yeah, we just carried on
Now choppers strafe the supermarket sky and people wonder why
And choppin' 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 they're blockin' 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
Just one thing
There's just one thing
There's just one thing
There's just one thing
And a just one thing
And a just one thing
And a just one thing
Who can stand in the way
When there's a dollar to be made?
Who can stand in the way
When there's a dollar to be made?
Take 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
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?
(Will we ever learn? Will we ever learn?)
When the spinifex hit Sydney, it was the last thing we expected
When the desert reached to Gladesville, we tried to tame it
And when the emus grazed at Pyrmont, it suddenly dawned on us all
Hah, everybody, the world was silent and the door was shut
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