Midnight Oil - Gunbarrel Highway Lyrics

I'll give you something to write home about
And I'll take you somewhere, show you around
We burnt all the cars that laid down and died
We burnt all the trees to keep us alive
Sat 'round the fire, sang like a choir
With the ashes of civilization in our eyes

I come alive
I read the signs on the Gunbarrel Highway

Far off, a dull radio
Beats for the young uninvolved
The meaning's a football
A stick and a can and a Kakadu man

Will the speaker speak up or the talker talk down?
The world is no oyster and here in this town
Shit falls like rain on a world that is brown

I come alive
I read the signs on the Gunbarrel Highway
(Oh, crazy days)
I come alive
And the children will sing
As the satellite swings down that highway

Nothing could be longer than that corrugated road
No ever follows where the road trains go
And nowhere in the country do the dust storms blow so hard
So hard

I come alive
I read the signs on the Gunbarrel Highway
I hear the sound
It's the wheels as they drive and the cultures collide on that highway
Ah, it a hard day (I come alive)
The children will sing as the satellite swings down that highway
Oh, yeah