Where Ya Gonna Run To Lyrics - Redgum Anthology 1976-1986 - Redgum

Mother and child playing on the lawn 

It's a middle class home on a Sunday morning 

And the mother says, son, where ya gonna run 

Where ya gonna run to now? 

I just jumped bail on a dope bust mum 

I'm saying goodbye and then the drug squad come 

And in the name of the law 

They punch him in the jaw 

Where ya gonna run to now? 

He did it for a dare on the day he turned 11 

His first shop break - Magnum 357. 

Frightened young cop 

and the kid doesn't stop. 

Where ya gonna run to now? 

A long white car out of Tullamarine 

A government member to the Carribean 

And a man with a broom 

Yells across the room 

Where ya gonna run to now? 

Will you have to tell lies when the kids ask you why 

The horizon's a blanket of gloom 

When the battle lines draw 

Which way will you turn 

South West Tassie's got a dozer track 

We'll never ever get Lake Pedder back 

A director and a graph 

And a million dollar laugh 

Where ya gonna run to now? 

Enrich the oxide out of Port Pirie 

The toxic gases they won't even see 

But where ya gonna go 

When the North wind blows 

Where ya gonna run to now? 

And your loungeroom is screening Nationwide 

And you've just given blood to the bank 

And the books on your shelves 

Are a measure of all that you've learned 

Will you have to tell lies when the kids ask you why 

The horizon's a blanket of gloom 

When the battle lines draw 

Which way will you turn 

Shake me, wake me, tell me it's a dream 

I've got a B-52 on my TV screen 

And a man in a tie 

Pointing to the sky 

Where ya gonna run to now? 

Mother and child playing on the lawn 

It's a middle class home on a Sunday morning 

And the mother says, son, where ya gonna run 

Where ya gonna run to now?