Written In The Heart Lyrics - Midnight Oil

The God forsaken rifleman stands rigid at the bar 

The kids discover victims in the rubble and the tar 

They're married to ambition to the slogans of the war 

Slogans that used to be scrawled on the wall 

Are written in the heart 

A woman bows to Mecca and she struggles to her feet 

It's better since the president took shooting off the street 

She pictures all the poverty the cursed Holy War 

The pictures that used to be scrawled on the wall 

Are written in the heart 

The elders make a promise and they forge it in the fire 

The general's car is sabotaged, four bullets in the tire 

With the burning of the words there goes the scorching of the earth 

The words that used to be scrawled on the wall 

Are written in the heart