Midnight Oil

Redneck Wonderland

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I don't want to run I don't want to stay
Cos everything that's near and dear is old and in decay
Emergency has gone, apathy rolling on
Time to take a stand
Redneck wonderland
Got you in my sights, spotlit by the fence
If your small you're faking, it's just common sense
Brick and tile for miles, rolling in the aisles
Rifle in my hand
Redneck wonderland
Well the streets are clean, nothing gets away
I can see the beauty treatment draining from your face
It is vision free, it's poor bugger me
Something less than grand
Redneck wonderland

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golgotha On Jul 06, 2002

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2002-07-06 17:13:05

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by chrisb1

21y ago

Pauline Hanson types pining to go back to the '50's...

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by chrisb1

15y ago

Update re: Pauline Hanson. She threatened to leave Australia. However after a 2 month holiday in Europe she discovered to her horror that there's just as much multi-culturalism and racial diversity over there as there is here! Indeed the first 2 lines of the song apply as much to Pauline Hanson now as they do to Peter Garrett, albeit for vastly different reasons!

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by tvsinesperanto

5y ago

It's leftist dicktards that make rightist dicktards necessary, and vice versa.

You're all as irrational and biased as each other. I want nothing to do within of you

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