Bedlam Bridge Lyrics - Blue Sky Mining - 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 bedalm bridge, waiting 

In these locked and shackled neighbourhoods, bridge and tunnel diplomats 

See the golden ghetto's creeper 

Crazy flags from history, songs for the White House gangsters 

Guns for hellgate 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 armoury 

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)