Reef – English Lyrics

• By: Midnight Oil
• Album: Resist

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

We've got the green light

We're gonna dynamite

A world heritage site

Scientific recourse

Try to keep them so short

Hey, never read the details

Said it needs protection

But we've got elections

Coal-fired erections

We're gonna make it pay

We'll do it our way

So how about a railway?

The sky is a mirror

The sea and the breeze

The sky is a mirror

Of self-interest and greed

It really fits with our brand

Lumps of coal in our hand

Welcome to Tomorrow Land

Environmental injury

Trashing our ecology

So simply valedictory

Coral reefs are history

Bring on the artillery

It doesn't belong to the government

It doesn't belong to the mine

It belongs to the people

People like you and I

The sky is a mirror of self-interest and greed

Take them down and throw them out

Vote them in and vote them out

Consign them to purgatory

Cash on delivery

All coral reefs are history...

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