MIDNIGHT OIL - Mountains of Burma lyrics

rate me

The tucker box is empty now, the heart of Kelly's country cleared

The gangers on the southern line, like the steam trains have disappeared

Pelicans glide, miracles up in the sky

We vote for the government, with axes in his eyes

Mountains of Burma, the road to Mandalay

In the mountains of Burma, light years away, mountains of Burma

Will the sons of Solidarity, still march on May Day

And will the sisters of the seventies, still fight for equal pay

There's no on eon the Reeperbahn, no more blankets handed out for land

We feed an economy, that's got blood on it's hands

Mountains of Burma...

Pack your bags full of guns and ammunition

Bills fall due for the industrial revolution

Scorch the earth till the earth surrenders

Soldiers of armies, storm empty fields

In a traveller's trance, on the way to the high frontier

Sleepwalkers stumble, cable cars run aground

Imaginary enemies, form high above the clouds

In the Mountains of Burma...

(Hirst)