Midnight Oil 'Song a Day' #32 "Dreamworld"

I couldn't help but choose this Marrickville Bowlo mobile phone cam version... such typical energy, even after all this time!!! This is no nostalgia tour...

#32 and now really counting... a couple of bigger venues coming up to show our UK/Europe and US 'powdies' just how crazy it's gonna get!!!

   When my youngest daughter was still being driven around in the car in a booster seat 7-10 years ago this was her song of request on the iPod plugged into the car stereo... "... the breakfast creek hotel is up for sale..." would be sung from the back of the car as we drove around trying to get her to have a nap. Here it rounds out a segment of the setlist of D&D classics... I share it today on #stopadani day in the wake of the Oils Reef Benefit gig last night with a small crowd in Cairns ahead of their bigger venue concert...
   It's a song about the 'cost' of development and the need to get out and experience and enjoy the wide open expanses of Australia's bush, space to breathe and connect with the creation and the 'dreaming' or ongoing natural story of the land as opposed to over developed urban wastelands...
   IT's just a great singalong song of warning, lament and protest!!
"Your dreamworld is just about to fall..."

"Dreamworld"
The Breakfast Creek hotel is up for sale,
The last square mile of terra firma gavelled in the mail,
So farewell to the Norfolk Island pines,
No amount of make believe can help this heart of mine.
End, your dreamworld is just about to end.
Fall, your dreamworld is just about to fall,
Your dreamworld will fall.
So shut that buckle and turn that key again,
Take me to a place they say the dreaming never ends,
Open wide drive that mystery road,
Walk through eden´s garden and then wonder as you go.
Sign says honeymoon to rent
Cloud-land into dreamland turns,
The sun comes up and we all learn
Those wheels must turn.