Midnight Oil 'Song a Day' #40 "Forgotten Years"

Watching brilliant snippets from River Stage in Brisbane and just marvelling at the crowd, like last night's epic gig at the Big Pineapple!! This song speaks for itself and always reminds me of two nights "for the homeless" at Newcastle's old Palais, well before it was knocked down... small venue, meat market length of venue bar, one flat floor, no seats, Oils just blitzed it!!!!!
Searing clip from 8 deep in Canberra... a few years ago now...

"Forgotten Years"
Few of the sins of the father, are visited upon the son
Hearts have been hard, our hands have been clenched in a fist too long
Our sons will never be soldiers, our daughters will never need guns
These are the yrs between
These are the yrs that were hard fought and won
Contracts torn at the edges, old signatures stained with tears
Seasons of war and peace, these should not be forgotten yaers
Still it aches like tetanus, it reeks of politics
How many dreams remain? This is a feeling too strong to contain
The hardest years, the darkest yrs, the roarin' yrs, the fallen yrs
These should not be forgotten yrs
The hardest yrs, the wildest yrs, the desperate and divided yrs
We will remember, these should not be forgotten yrs
Our shoreline was never invaded, our country was never in flames
This is the calm we breathe, this is a feeling too strong to contain
Still it aches like tetanus, it reeks of politics
Signatures stained with tears, who can remember
We've got to remember
The hardest...
Forsaking aching breaking yrs, the time and tested heartbreak yrs
These should not be forgotten yrs
The blinded yrs, the binded yrs, the desperate and divided yrs
These should not be forgotten yrs, remember