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Midnight Oil – Best of Both Worlds (Official Video)
Taken from the album Red Sails in the Sunset
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Best of Both Worlds - Lyrics
You say times are tough
We've got the best of both worlds here
Things are rough
We've got the best of both worlds here
Times are tough
We've got the best of both worlds
The real world is not as calm as it appears to be from here
The old world is not as safe with the new world closing in
The great south land can be as great as the one it could have been
The one it could have been
The real world is not as calm as it appears to be from here
The small world is not as strong and the testing ground is near
The old world is not as strong as the one we could have seen
The great south land can be as great as the one it could have been
The one it could have been
We've got the best of both worlds
#MidnightOil #BestofBothWorlds #RedSailsintheSunset
Midnight Oil – Best of Both Worlds (Official Video)
Taken from the album Red Sails in the Sunset
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Best of Both Worlds - Lyrics
You say times are tough
We've got the best of both worlds here
Things are rough
We've got the best of both worlds here
Times are tough
We've got the best of both worlds
The real world is not as calm as it appears to be from here
The old world is not as safe with the new world closing in
The great south land can be as great as the one it could have been
The one it could have been
The real world is not as calm as it appears to be from here
The small world is not as strong and the testing ground is near
The old world is not as strong as the one we could have seen
The great south land can be as great as the one it could have been
The one it could have been
We've got the best of both worlds
#MidnightOil #BestofBothWorlds #RedSailsintheSunset
![Midnight Oil - Terror Australia (feat. Alice Skye) [Official Video]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tXjTFGktzIw/mqdefault.jpg "Midnight Oil - Terror Australia (feat. Alice Skye) [Official Video]
Midnight Oil - ‘Terror Australia’ (feat. Alice Skye)
Written by Peter Garrett & Bones Hillman
Taken from THE MAKARRATA PROJECT, out now: https://midnightoil.lnk.to/TheMakarrataProject
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Directed and filmed by Robert Hambling @ Rancom St Studios and Oceanic Studio, Sydney
The Uluru Statement From The Heart was written by more than 250 delegates from all over Australia gathered at Uluru, Northern Territory, on the lands of the Anangu people, at the First Nations National Constitutional Convention in 2017. After centuries of struggle for recognition and justice, the statement calls for the establishment of a ‘First Nations Voice’ enshrined in the Australian Constitution and the establishment of a ‘Makarrata Commission’ to supervise agreement-making and truth-telling between governments and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. For more info visit https://ulurustatement.org/ + https://fromtheheart.com.au/.
LYRICS
You cant think about the future still running from the past
Tall tales lie in history and flames burn through the memories
Theres a country that is aching for a way to call its own
You can feel the mansions shaking as the first real seed is sown
Now you cant talk about the future if youre running from the past
It’s a terror in Australia, jails and guns and failure
Can you see the ships a coming, stately through the heads
And arched out over the white sails is the merchant’s flag of red
Now Captain Cook spawns Captain Coke and beer flows over rum
In a twinkling of an eye my friend they spent your dollars so very well
And those traditions they cant sell sit silent in the sun
Where ignorance and wealth combine to crush the fruit upon the vine
It’s a terror in Australia
#midnightoil #terroraustralia #themakarrataproject
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![Midnight Oil - First Nation (feat. Jessica Mauboy & Tasman Keith) [Official Video]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wU77EBykmiY/mqdefault.jpg "Midnight Oil - First Nation (feat. Jessica Mauboy & Tasman Keith) [Official Video]
Midnight Oil – First Nation (feat. Jessica Mauboy & Tasman Keith) [Official Video]
‘FIRST NATION’ OUT NOW – https://midnightoil.lnk.to/FirstNation
Taken from the mini-album THE MAKARRATA PROJECT out now
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Directed and filmed by Robert Hambling @ Rancom St Studios and Oceanic Studio, Sydney
The Uluru Statement From The Heart was written by more than 250 delegates from all over Australia gathered at Uluru, Northern Territory, on the lands of the Anangu people, at the First Nations National Constitutional Convention in 2017. After centuries of struggle for recognition and justice, the statement calls for the establishment of a ‘First Nations Voice’ enshrined in the Australian Constitution and the establishment of a ‘Makarrata Commission’ to supervise agreement-making and truth-telling between governments and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. For more info visit https://fromtheheart.com.au/.
First Nation - Lyrics
First nation first nation
First to deserve an explanation
First nation first nation
Last to receive an invitation
First nation first nation
When we gonna start the conversation?
When we gonna start the celebration?
When we gonna end the exploitation?
When we gonna say the word invasion?
Out loud
We’re waiting
Still waiting
Nation within a nation
Nation within a nation
Earth black the church lacked the first fact
80 thou turned demon days and a dirt nap
Generate the trauma that made a kid rage
Now the ment’ capat be filled with all that
Fall back
Why my cousin commit?
Why my uncle locked up?
Why my aunty forget, how to put a glass cup down?
Fighting the fit
We done been brainwashed into fighting the temptay
Fought Armageddon and I be out the next day
Of course I’m a get em till the spirit run empty
My corpse full of venom outcome of the invade
How dare you try to put me up in grave
Strong vision
Tradition
No ticket no admission
No government indecision
No token recognition
First nation, so ancient
Let’s sit down and talk about appropriation
Let’s sit down and talk about compensation
Let’s sit down and talk about reconciliation
Out loud
We’re waiting
Still waiting
Nation within a nation
Still waiting
Nation within a nation
Nation
Nation within a nation
When will the light switch
24/7 in a crisis
White noise killed black thoughts
I sense
theres a shift, it’l come by the nights end
When will the light switch
24/7 in a crisis
White noise killed black thoughts
I sense
theres a shift, see the ship sink like this
#midnightoil #firstnation #themakarrataproject")
