Midnight Oil "Song a Day" 1 "Lucky Country"

OK, let's see if I can keep up the pace, from today, through holidays in a few weeks and on into the local homecoming leg of "The Great Circle Tour" for Midnight Oil!!! "Song a Day" to drive my friends crazier than normal.

This offering is from the legendary Capitol Theatre gig [1982] which I know from many friends and stories must have been a mind-blowing night... This song is "Lucky Country" It's not quite national anthem material but it's pretty close. Warning, it's not just best but should ONLY be played up loud!

"Lucky Country"
Speed, and this
There's a feeling I get when I look to the sun
Love, it's so tough
Cause it raises your hopes and then it makes you run
We're all looking for a shorter day
We're all looking for an easy way
Even when the debts are dead and gone
Down, the stairs
And an eight mile drive waits for you to turn on
Hear, the time clocks sing
And the smoke in the distance reaches the eye line
We're all working on a shorter day...
No conversation as you go
There's so much space the heat moves you
Terracotta homes, backyard barbeque and eucalyptus smell
It's fine on the clothes line
It's fast food and slow life and red roof
My silence, comic interruptions
Surely there's some relief from atomic art
And the fragile state of world events
With clowns who love the kings and power and the mutant media babes
Wanking on dreams and fashions and toilet paper flowers
Don't talk to me in this backyard - it's clandestine, it's nuclear
Smell of space and now forever I want to go
Straight down the exit eight mile attraction
you-turn is up and the time clock sings lets go
Lucky country
Where the geckos are paid to live in the sun
On and on there's a ribbon of road and a mile to spare
Lucky country .......

Songwriters: Moginie/Rotsey /Garrett/Gifford /Hirst