Basement Flat

Midnight Oil · Place Without A Postcard [1981]

Must be time for a second chance

I can't escape this basement flat

Writer's cramp and claustrophobia

Must be time for a second chance

I can't escape this basement flat

Writer's cramp and claustrophobia

Must be time for a better place

My sink leaks and the rats

Have won the race, over and over

Must be time for a new idea

Pack up my things, get away from here

They're never gonna trace me

People upstairs make so much noise

Drive me mad with their electrical toys

Louder and louder

What can I do?

There must be some solution

What can I do? Oh

There must be some solution

Must be time for a second chance

I can't escape this basement flat

Got writer's cramp and claustrophobia

Must be time for a better place

My sink leaks and the rats

Have won the race over and over

What can I do?

There must be some solution

What can I do?

There must be some solution

What can I do?

There must be some solution

Staying by rent outside, no radio out loud

No drinks, no friends, no animals

No TV set, no girlfriends there

That'll come down, just be around

[Incomprehensible]And once they stop