Common Ground Lyrics - Midnight Oil

These are not dispassionate words of the cool 

The headline still rules the editor's a fool 

Shall we douse out the flames or will everybody fuse 

And leave us stranded here tomorrow 

I heard a calling out, a cry from the heart 

From the towns of cement and the beauty 

A whisper its turned howl, man he didn't know 

He was standing waiting for tomorrow 

Nothing's left, nothing's found, there must be some common ground 

I could never figure the calendars flow 

Nor can I work out how the wild, wild wind blows 

But we're ready from within and we're starting to go 

Away from the place of no tomorrow 

Nothing's left, nothing's found, there must be some common ground 

Nothing's left, (???) I see there must be some common ground 

Oh the wrecking fields are a terrible place 

With a sulphurous smell and a frightening pace 

And the Hook goes early and the critic is king 

It's hard to stay human and stand in the ring 

There's no time to be absent, a clown or a fool 

While Shylock is smiling we're loaded like mules 

If we surrender ourself to industrial rules 

We'll wake up in the wreckage of tomorrow 

Now 

Nothing's left, nothing's found, there must be some common ground 

Nothing's left, something's found, can we see some common ground