Who Can Stand In The Way Lyrics - Midnight Oil

Well oh well I feel I'm in decay 

John Laws is on the air again 

It's heavy traffic, jacarandas, eye in the sky and foot on ground 

I see a million sand speck'd ants in mortal combat hand to hand 

And I feel that I 

Yes I feel that I 

Seem to live this life long distance 

Gaze at the things surround me 

People rolling in and out 

Those circles and tides confound me 

And there's just one thing 

Yes there's just one thing 

Who can stand in the way 

When there's a dollar to be made? 

I was hanging round off Dobroyd Point 

When the first fleet chain sailed in 

Looked into the clearest blue 

The scurvy smell, the convicts cry 

And we just carried on, 

Yes we just carried on 

Now choppers strafe the supermarket sky 

And people wonder why 

Chopping down tons of trees 

Got seas of print not a soul can read say 

Why do I drown you build brick boxes 

One by one now they block my sun 

But it's metal on metal 

It's the dance of TV 

If Christ were here he'd camera check 

He'd cry so loud the planes would stop 

He'd cry so loud the earth would shake 

And men would fall in tinsel town 

There's just one thing 

Yes there's just one thing... 

Who can stand in the way 

When there's a dollar to be made? 

Precious moments, precious few 

When that dollar's more than me and you 

It's the joy of forgetting, 

Such a joy to forget 

But we killed all our firstborn 

And we slashed and we burned 

And we sold off the paddocks 

And we raped and we gouged 

On the wings of a six-pack 

Will we ever learn?