Brave Faces Lyrics - Singles - Midnight Oil

I've seen faces in the window 

I've seen faces in the street 

They walk and talk of nothing 

I've known many restless summers 

The sand dunes I imagine 

A place without a postcard 

Flower people were so beautiful 

But straight and loud's the way 

Good luck the beatnik spirit 

The talk of politicians 

The sentences of cynics 

Are the sentences of childhood 

They're all talking shit to me 

Out-talked by the mass media 

to pay the bills it lies 

And the lies we eat for breakfast 

Brave faces face the boardroom 

the oak stained walls fall silent 

They leave lined with defeat 

And they got those tears in their eyes 

Well it makes no sense to me 

Why don't they understand 

We're so ordinary too 

I saw the exits closing now 

Pain and passion's my point of view 

Well there's nothing like the truth 

I've seen men that have been marked out 

Ruled out by grim assassins 

They fell hard on instant replay 

And I'm never going there Well the place I see so much better 

'cause it makes no sense to me 

I saw the exits closing now 

Burning mountains, burning paper 

Burning all around and later 

(Moginie/Garrett)