Gunbarrel Highway Lyrics - Midnight Oil

I'll give you something to write home about 

And I'll take you somewhere, show you around 

We burnt all the cars that laid down and died 

We burnt all the trees to keep us alive 

Sat 'round the fire, sang like a choir 

With the ashes of civilization in our eyes 

I come alive, I read the signs on the Gunbarrel Highway 

Far off, a dull radio beats for the young uninvolved 

The meaning's a football 

A stick and a can and a Kakadu man 

Will the speaker speak up or the talker talk down? 

The world is no oyster and here in this town 

Shit falls like rain on a world that is brown 

I come alive, I read the signs on the Gunbarrel Highway 

I come alive and the children will sing as the 

Satellite swings down that highway 

Nothing could be longer than that corrugated road 

No ever follows where the road trains go 

And no where in the country do the dust storms blow so hard 

So hard 

I come alive, I read the signs on the Gunbarrel Highway 

I hear the sound, it's the wheels as they drive 

And the cultures collide on that highway 

Ah, it's a hard day, the children will sing as the 

Satellite swings down that highway