Midnight Oil - Maralinga lyrics

I come from a land of wide open spaces

Where the world turns around us and we just follow suit

There's heat in the air and peace reigns supreme

Got white flags on the clothes lines and the deals are new

In the wind

The ashes fly

The poison crown

The charcoal ground

And if you can't see the smile in me, that's where I wanna be

There's only God

There's only Christ

Think I'll lie down for just a while

And the grass became granite

And the sky a black sheet

Our bed was a graveyard

We couldn't feel our blistered feet

And the moaning and groaning and sighing of death

And the silence that followed

And the very harsh reality

So watch and check them out and listen as we learn

Throw the pearls before the swine ebb and flow, turning tide

Yes we watch and catch them no matter how they jump

The pigs will have to come to ground, we've got to make it happen

It's really not that new, try and make it happen now

'cos what are we to do, maybe there's a chance for you

All around

An eerie sound

Their dreams a cloud

Their world in shrouds

In the wind

The ashes fly

Not much time

But time to try

And if you can't see the smile in me, that's cos I wanna be

I want to be here at the end. I have to be here at the end