Say Your Prayers Lyrics - Midnight Oil

Don't want to live in a prison cell 

Don't want to live in a smoking room 

Independence just won't come to you 

In the brief of a diplomat 

Say your prayers for the future 

Say your prayers for the past 

It might be round the corner 

It might be all we have 

Say your prayers 

Don't want to live with a compromise 

Don't want to live with hypocrisy 

Bureaucracy doesn't have to win 

Breaks the cage of the beast within 

Say your prayers in the boardroom 

Say your prayers on the stairs 

It might be catastrophic 

It might be too damn bad 

Say your prayers 

I got the cure for compassion fatigue 

Spend a week with the Timorese 

Running scared from the military 

You can share you can share your disease 

Now we don't live with an absent master 

We don't live on an island divided 

Don't want my kids to grow up in shame 

In a country with a different name 

Had to throw them out, had to break the chains 

I got the cure for compassion fatigue 

Spend a week with the Timorese 

Running scared from the military 

I come to you with a plaintive plea