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Did you save your face?
Did you breach your faith?
Women, there were children at the shelter

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We're all looking for a shorter day
We're all looking for an easy way
Even when the debts are dead and gone

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Ga ŋee ŋerrk
Ŋee ŋerrk
Ga ŋerrk ŋerrk ŋerrk ŋerrk ŋerrk ŋerrk
(The crying sound of the White Cockatoo)

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One unjust, ridiculous steal
Ain't no doubt about it

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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

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In the morning well I see myself
See myself as a Christ-like figure walking

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Here comes the tired statesman
Heavy-lidded, bearded, nowhere left to land
He makes the jigsaw fit
With a hammer in his hand
It's just a drop in the ocean

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Hold me
Hold me
Endless century

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It's always there in the distance
Never been known ever to close
Except for Christmas and funerals
Hughie's gone and nobody knows

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Well they were grazing in the black stalls
Their faces filled with false tears
And he says, “I’m getting out of here
Off to that last frontier”

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And they live so fast
But they die so young
And we just keep wondering
What the hell went wrong

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No wild acres you can see
You're yearning to breathe
Concrete, you don't free my soul

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In the morning well I see myself
I see myself as a father mother brother sister

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I can't explain the difference
Between a tadpole and a frog
Somewhere in the marshes
See a toxic cocktail has been spawned

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Standing up to those who sell fear
With a polite insistence to hear

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The fixers do the fixing
The locals do the lynching
The papers deny

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A woman bows to Mecca and she struggles to her feet
It's better since the president took shooting off the street
She pictures all the poverty, the cursed Holy War

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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

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I was factory-made and settled
Safe from storm and broken earth

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So many genuine things surround you
Wild weather man well it still confounds you
Cast away the greed and death machine and bytes
And abacus and lights and hold onto your dreams tonight