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Thu Jul-31-08 08:03 PM
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Canciones tales como "One Country", "Blue Sky Mine" y "Forgotten Years"... You Tube video |
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http://www.deadheart.org.uk/media/lyrics/l7.htm#4">Forgotten Years
By 'Midnight Oil'
Midnight Oil - Forgotten years (1986) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTfsftGkjek
Few of the sins of the father, are visited upon the son Hearts have been hard, our hands have been clenched in a fist too long Our sons will never be soldiers, our daughters will never need guns These are the years between These are the years that were hard fought and won Contracts torn at the edges, old signatures stained with tears Seasons of war and peace, these should not be forgotten years Still it aches like tetanus, it reeks of politics How many dreams remain? This is a feeling too strong to contain
The hardest years, the darkest years, the roarin' years, the fallen years These should not be forgotten years The hardest years, the wildest years, the desperate and divided years We will remember, these should not be forgotten years
Our shoreline was never invaded, our country was never in flames This is the calm we breathe, this is a feeling too strong to contain Still it aches like tetanus, it reeks of politics Signatures stained with tears, who can remember We've got to remember
The hardest... Forsaking aching breaking years, the time and tested heartbreak years These should not be forgotten years The blinded years, the binded years, the desperate and divided years These should not be forgotten years, remember
(Hirst/Moginie)
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'Bedlam Bridge'
By 'Midnight Oil'
In this city with no footpath there's a building with no people There is crime and gun decisions There's a street of heat and hawkers, there's a house of hope drifters There's a gang that shoots then listens There's a place that knows no poverty, a town without pollution There's a soul with good intentions There are canyons full of movie stars, churches made of metal There are mountains made of muscle We have leaders who are anxious, we have captains not courageous Captains tumbling into madness But there's a main who makes no enemies, a body never breathless No ambition ever hopeless
Up on bedlam bridge somebody is waiting Up on bedlam bridge I'm shot to heaven Oh, up on bedlam bridge, waiting
In these locked and shackled neighborhoods, bridge and tunnel diplomats See the golden ghetto's creeper Crazy flags from history, songs for the White House gangsters Guns for hell gate railway sleepers But there's a main who makes no enemies, a body never breathless No ambition ever hopeless So how stands the city on this winters night? The city on the hill or so they said The snow is falling down around the armory The city's closing in around my head
Up on bedlam bridge...
Drive, won't you drive the engines harder, drive Drive, won't you turn the engines over, drive
(Hirst)
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The lyrics to a lot of these songs are as current as todays issue's.
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Thu Jul-31-08 08:10 PM
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Edited on Thu Jul-31-08 08:25 PM by Breeze54
'Blue Sky Mine'
http://www.deadheart.org.uk/media/lyrics/l7.htm#top
Blue Sky Mine - 4:20 - beautiful pictures of western Australia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xj5jm14eF4
Hey, hey-hey hey There'll be food on the table tonight Hey, hey, hey hey There'll be pay in your pocket tonight
My gut is wrenched out it is crunched up and broken A life that is led is no more than a token Who'll strike the flint upon the stone and tell me why If I yell out at night there's a reply of bruised silence The screen is no comfort I can't speak my sentence They blew the lights at heaven's gate and I don't know why
But if I work all day at the blue sky mine (There'll be food on the table tonight) Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine (There'll be pay in your pocket tonight)
The candy store paupers lie to the share holders They're crossing their fingers they pay the truth makers The balance sheet is breaking up the sky So I'm caught at the junction still waiting for medicine The sweat of my brow keeps on feeding the engine Hope the crumbs in my pocket can keep me for another night And if the blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue If the sugar refining company won't save me Who's gonna save me?
But if I work all day...
And some have sailed from a distant shore And the company takes what the company wants And nothing's as precious, as a hole in the ground
Who's gonna save me? I pray that sense and reason brings us in Who's gonna save me? We've got nothing to fear
In the end the rain comes down Washes clean, the streets of a blue sky town
(Midnight Oil)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Still looking for a video...
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