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THE REAL THING (2000)

CDCBS465563
[The Real Thing]
  1. The Real Thing
  2. Say Your Prayers NEW SONG
  3. Spirit Of The Age NEW SONG
  4. Feeding Frenzy
  5. Tell Me The Truth
  6. The Dead Heart
  7. Tin Legs And Tin Mines
  8. Short Memory
  9. In The Valley
  10. Blue Sky Mine
  11. US Forces
  12. Warakurna
  13. Truganini
  14. The Last Of The Diggers NEW SONG
Produced by Warne Livesey and Midnight Oil
Live tracks recorded at the Metro Theatre, Sydney
Engineered by David Nicholas

The Real Thing


words by Johnny Young
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Say Your Prayers


(Moginie)
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.
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Spirit Of The Age 

(Moginie / Garrett)
There s an SOS of real distress, baby tears at the best address
Ambulance chasers won't confess, sun comes up and you're stuck
The ones and the zeros are flushing your pores,
You've been flamed in the dark and you're feeling sore
The dripfeed rattle lures the innocent cattle
It s the only job around
Yeah I know spirit of the age is coming home 
A 747 is landing on your head
A hand reaches out and you find you're dead
Scared of the tarot and scared of the score
But you went in deep cos you needed more
But karma is a boomerang and here it comes again
Feels like the country is a going round the bend
There were a few blue singlets at the garage sale
But no-one was cheering at the treasures they were clearing
Desperate fictions are in my book
Howl of the dashboard culture that shook
But karma is a boomerang and here it comes again
Feels like the countrys just a going round the bend
Yeah I know spirit of the age is coming home
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Feeding Frenzy

(Moginie / Garrett)
see original version from Earth and Sun and Moon

Tell Me The Truth

(Moginie / Garrett)
see original version from Earth and Sun and Moon

The Dead Heart

(Hirst / Moginie / Garrett)
see original version from Diesel And Dust
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Tin Legs And Tin Mines

(Rotsey / Moginie / Garrett / Gifford)
see original version from 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

Short Memory

(Garrett / Hirst / Moginie)
see original version from 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

In The Valley

(Moginie / Garrett / Hirst)
see original version from Earth and Sun and Moon
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Blue Sky Mine

(Rotsey / Hirst / Moginie / Garrett /Hillman)
see original version from Blue Sky Mining

US Forces

(Moginie / Garrett)
see original version from 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

Warakurna

(Moginie)
see original version from Diesel And Dust
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Truganini

(Hirst / Moginie)
see original version from Diesel And Dust

The Last Of The Diggers

(Hirst )
Who will march for peace
Now that the last of the diggers has gone
All those who were released
From Suvla Bay and from the Somme
The Mallee s whipped by sand
A great new silence blankets the land
We sure need the Stone Age
In the coming century
Who will feed the poor
Now that the saint of the gutters is gone
Who will hear the call
You lately come or native born
For the touch of the master's hand
The eye of the master still watches the lamb
We sure need the Stone Age
In the coming century
The last of the diggers
The last of the diggers
The last of the diggers
The last of the diggers has won
Who gets sent to war
Who'll lose a child to a foreign coast
Who will leave our shore
And come home rattling like a ghost
This country can be cruel
It'll leave you with scars that never heal
We sure need the Stone Age in the coming century
Still gonna need some Stone Age in the coming century
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The Real Thing / Midnight Oil
Copyright © 2000 Midnight Oil
Music Copyright © Sony Music Australia