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Artist/Band: Midnight Oil
Lyrics for Song: Burnie
Lyrics for Album: Scream In Blue - Live [1992]



Brought up in a world of changes


Part time cleaner in a holiday flat


Stare out to sea at the ships at night


No anaesthesia, I'm gonna work on it day to day


No zephyr no light relief it seems





But maybe it's a dream


I'm lying back in a row of timber cases placed out


On the dock with nightmare faces looking at me


And I can see now, and I want to be free now





This is my home


This is my sea


Don't paint it with the future, of factories


I want to stay, I feel okay


There's nothing else as perfect


I'll have my way





Brought up in a world of changes


Waste product, pedestrian, limb from limb


Short changed by the surfing priest again


Two children in the harbour


They play their game stormwater drain


Write their contract in the sand, it'll be gray for life





But you can draw the blind


But you can't stop the sun


From shining on and on and getting you there


Tide forever beckons you to leave


But something holds you back


It's not the promise of the swell or a girl


Just a hope that someday someway it'll be okay


So you stop and say





This is my home


This is my sea


Don't paint it with the future of factories


This is my life


this is my right


I'll make it what I want to


I'll stay and I'll fight





(Moginie/Garrett)


Album Lyrics: Scream In Blue - Live [1992]


Midnight Oil
"Scream In Blue - Live [1992]"


1. Burnie
2. Powderworks
3. Sell My Soul
4. Stars Of Warburton