Opportunities are available in all walks of life in Australia
So if you're young and if you're healthy
Why not get a boat and come to Australia
Australia, the chance of a lifetime
Australia, you get what you work for
Nobody has to be any better than what they want to be
Australia, no class distinction
Australia, no drug addiction
Nobody's got a chip on their shoulder
We'll surf like they do in the U.S.A.
We'll fly down to Sydney for our holiday
On sunny Christmas Day
Australia, Australia
No one hesitates at life or beats around the bush in Australia
So if you're young and if you're healthy
Why not get a boat and come to Australia
Australia sha-la-la-la sha-la-la-la
Australia sha-la-la-la sha-la-la-la
Everyone walks around with a perpetual smile across their face
Australia sha-la-la-la sha-la-la-la
Australia sha-la-la-la sha-la-la-la
Everyone gets around and nobody can ever get you down
We'll surf like they do in the U.S.A.
We'll fly down to Sydney for our holiday
On sunny Christmas Day
I don't know if I'm tired and I don't know if I'm ill
My cheeks are turning yellow
I think I'll take another pill
Praying for the wave to come now
It must be for the fifteenth time
I've been here for much too long
This is the past that's mine
I want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words in Australia
I want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words in Australia
In Australia
Praying for the wave to come now
It must be for the very last time
It's twelve o'clock till midnight
There must be someone to blame
I want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words in Australia
I want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words in Australia
In Australia
Australia, in Australia
I want to fly and run till it hurts
Sleep for a while and speak no words in Australia
In Australia
In Australia
You never listen to me, I know I'm better off alone
Everybody knows it's true, yeah, we all see through you
No, it won't be hard to do
To go and waste myself on you, ooh
And I'll wait for her, to come
And she won't break my heart
Because I know
She'll be from Australia
She is so, beautiful
She's my dream girl
La, la, la, la, la, la
She's my dream girl
You were the one I thought I needed, I'm better off alone
Everybody knows it's true, they know all your secrets
The only thing you knew was true has just walked out of your life
How does it feel?
So, I'll wait for her, to come
And she won't break my heart
Because I know
She'll be from Australia
She is so, beautiful
She's my dream girl
La, la, la, la, la, la
She's my dream girl
And she will be there, it's not that you care
And no, there's no need to worry, the girl of my dreams
Who I know will be there to hold me when I'm down
Till she's around
I'll just wait for her, to come
And she won't break my heart
'Cause I know
She'll be from Australia
She is so, beautiful
She's my dream girl
La, la, la, la, la, la
She's my dream girl, oh, yeah
So, I'll wait for her, to come
She won't break my heart
Because I know, she'll be
From Australia
She is so, beautiful
She's my dream girl
La, la, la, la, la, la
I could do the dishes while talking on the phone
I could ask you for an answer but you want to be alone
I can never do the dishes a single dish at a time
It’s too much of a commitment so I close my eyes and fire
I could calamine your insides
I could wind them all around me I could
tiptoe on a tightrope made of fear and looking down see
all the people do they see me I can wave or
I can carry all the silverware I’m holding that is
Keeping me steady
Or I could go to Australia
And carry a bowie knife
and wear my hair like Hepburn parted on the side
And learn card tricks and buy
Everyone drinks and take boxing and write
songs about my bowie knife
I could do these dishes I could try
To do these dishes
Time to decide
I could make a cake
My kitchen is small but I could clear the space
I could write my name
Cos practice makes perfect yes that’s what they say
I could rearrange my room and draw a bath and wash my wolf suit
I could make a button out of plaster
That said finished I could nail it in my closet
To the right side of the lightswitch
I could walk down to a restaurant and try drinking to forget it
but then come home less afraid and then press it and press it
Or I could go to Australia
carry a bowie knife
and wear my hair like Hepburn parted on the side
And learn card tricks and buy
Everyone drinks and take boxing and try
Eating things only with chopsticks and write
songs about my bowie knife
I could do these dishes I could try
To do these dishes
I could try to do these dishes
Time to decide
or i could go to Australia
And carry a bowie knife
and wear my hair like Hepburn parted on the side
and learn card tricks and physics and buy
everyone drinks and take boxing and try
eating things only with chopsticks and finally
be like a person I think you’d like
I could do these dishes I could try
To do these dishes I could try to do these dishes
Time to decide to do these dishes
Time to DECIDE….
Fuck it
I’m gonna go to Australia
I’m gonna go to Australia
I’m gonna go to Australia
Time to put the earphones on:
Born to multiply, born to gaze into night skies,
All you want's one more Saturday.
But look here, until then
They're gonna buy your nice time
So keep your wick in the air and your feet in the fetters
To the day.
You come in doing cartwheels
We all go out by ourselves
And your shape on the dance floor
Will have me thinking such filth and gauge my eyes.
You'd be damned to be one of us girl
Faced with a dodo's conundrum
Ah, I felt like I could just fly
But nothing'll happen every time I try.
A dual tone under wall
Selfish fool and hoped you'd save us all
Never dreamt of such sterile hands,
You keep them folded in your lap,
And raise them up to beg for scraps,
You know, he's holding you down,
With the tips of his fingers just the same,
You'll be pulled from the ocean,
But just a minute too late,
Or changed by a potion,
We'll find a handsome young mate,
For you to love.
You'll be damned to pining through the windowpanes,
You know you'll change your life for any ordinary Joe,
And though your night will go on,
Your nightmares only need a year or two to unfold.
Been in love since you were twenty-one,
You haven't laughed since January,
You try and make this up this is so much fun,
But we know it to be quite contrary.
Dare to be one of us, girl,
Facing the Android's conundrum,
Ah, I feel like I should just cry,
But nothing happens every time I take one on the chin,
You're humoring your cote,
You don't know how long I've been,
Watching the lantern dim,
Starved of oxygen,
So give me your hand,
We can make it
(We can make it)
Yeah we can make it
Through fog and rain
We can make it
(Yeah we can make it)
In the Adelaide
Australia
Whoa
We try to belong
We travel alone
(You know how we do)
We travel alone
We can make it
(We can make it)
Yeah we can make it
Through the Melbourne heat
We can make it
Yeah we can make it
(Yeah we can make it)
Down a gentle stream
Australia
Whoa
From Adelaide we'll)
Whoa
We travel on still
(Yeah we representing)
We try to belong
(The gold coast, Brisbane, where you at?)
We try to belong
(We'll make it to Perth one day)
We try to belong
(To all the girls in Sydney)
Australia
Whoa
Adelaide we'll travel on
(Australia)
Time to put the earphones on:
No!
Born to multiply, born to gaze into night skies,
All you want's one more Saturday.
But look here, until then
They're gonna buy your nice time
So keep your wick in the air and your feet in the fetters
To the day.
You come in doing cartwheels
We all go out by ourselves
And your shape on the dance floor
Will have me thinking such filth and gauge my eyes.
You'd be damned to be one of us girl
Faced with a dodo's conundrum
Ah, I felt like I could just fly
But nothing'll happen every time I try.
A dual tone under wall
Selfish fool and hoped you'd save us all
Never dreamt of such sterile hands,
You keep them folded in your lap,
And raise them up to beg for scraps,
You know, he's holding you down,
With the tips of his fingers just the same,
You'll be pulled from the ocean,
But just a minute too late,
Or changed by a potion,
We'll find a handsome young mate,
For you to love.
You'll be damned to pining through the windowpanes,
You know you'll change your life for any ordinary Joe,
And though your night will go on,
Your nightmares only need a year or two to unfold.
Been in love since you were twenty-one,
You haven't laughed since January,
You try and make this up this is so much fun,
But we know it to be quite contrary.
Dare to be one of us, girl,
Facing the Andrum's conundrum,
Ah, I feel like I should just cry,
But nothing happens every time I take one on the chin,
You're humoring your cote,
You don't know how long I've been,
Watching the lantern dim,
Starved of oxygen,
So give me your hand,
And let's jump out the window.
In the early 80's when I washed up on the shore
I could breathe a little more then I would realise
You can call me crazy, you can call me what you will
You could take the bitter pill, if it helps you sleep at night
CHORUS
It's a long long way my crooked friend
Such a long long way back home..........home.........hooooome
So close, yet we've come so far
So close, still we've got so far
I can safely say we feel as safe as we like
Lest we forget those who die, I never will
Such a perfect Island, tucked away in the sea
The real land of the free, do you hear me
It's a long way home my crooked friend
But i do appreciate the time we spent
It's a long long way back home
Such a long long way back home..........home.........hooooome
So close, yet we've come so far
So close, still we've got so far
Repeat 3 times
Now you're off in Australia
Have you opened new doors
We said keep in touch but we don't write so much
Have we nothing to say anymore
There were tears at the airport
There were jokes and goodbyes
We said it is clear, just the whiskey and beer
Gone to water our eyes
Then you're gone and I'm thinking
Would I see you again
I felt part of me follow you over sea
I'd lost more than a friend
Does the food taste so good there
Does the air smell so sweet
Is there greener grass
Water clear as glass
Does your life feel complete
They say the world's getting smaller
But at the moment we seem worlds apart
It could have been different
It could have been me
That made the new start
Now you're off in Australia
Now you've opened that door
We said keep in touch but we don't write so much
I saw sunshine
I saw gold
Down that old coastline it was the best time that i'd known
Tell me how far should i go for your love
Oh Australia
My old friends
Ten cardboard cameras to remember what i did
A coaster from a bar
A poster from a show
Oh!!!!
Will i be back again?
Will i be back again?
I don't know
I'll save my money up
I'll go for a Holiday
Winfield's and P.J.'s
Though i would like for more
Making understand mystique history,
Magic Everywhere, for suspending me
The fire is on, we go to Australia.
Freedom of the sun, freedom of the night,
come into the light, if you walk behind.
The fire is on, we go to Australia.
Listen to the sound, feel the mystery,
Listen to the song of eternity.
The fire is on, we go to Australia.
Even another land, in a former time,
people had a dream, and they set a sign.
The fire is on, we go to Australia.
PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, EVERY NATION,
coming for the one celebration.
It's everyones win, let the games begin !
The fire is on (and it's shining bright!)
It's everyones song (and it sounds allright!)
The spirit so strong (And the fire is on!)
AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA (OH AUSTRALIA !!)
Catching for the stars, for the golden price,
who's the one to fall, who´s the one to rise.
The fire is on, we go to Australia.
Every finger's crossed, every prayer send,
everything okay to the very end.
The fire is on, we go to Australia.
Can you hear the voice, can you hear your name.
Can you see the lights on the walk of fame.
The fire is on, we go to Australia.
Play the halls
See the stalls tonight
Open roads the like
Across the dateline change will never strike
Australia lies ahead
Australia, we head for the mainland
Clutching our gifts from the East
Only to find out
Planes and the highways
STrain the paths and the by-ways
Remain, still it's leading me
Closer to you
Australia, we're leaving you behind
Australia, we're taking the easy way out
From now on
"Come to," can't get away from ya still
"Come to, we'll take good care of ya."
Australia, you save your face while fashions slip
Australia, you're balanaced between
The powers' tightening grip
I've been to, it's a long way for ya still
All the lies
All the pain
All the days that make me strain
Now I want
To keep out
All these fights and all about
Ayer's Rock,
Sacred truth,
Calling me, I feel it's true
In a dream
With open eyes
I have no more alibis...
I wanna go to Australia
All the love
That I faked
With my most sincere headaches
Now I see
My real face
As i'm acting my disgrace
Leave my mind
Leave the crowd
I will reach my native star
In the meantime
Park my car
Let's take off to travel far...
I wanna go to Australia
And it makes me feel I'm living all my life
Like a passenger who has not so much time...
I wanna go to Australia
All the lies
All the pain
All the days that make me strain
In this dream
With open eyes
Five months and counting, Its been a while,
its been a long time coming around.
No board for sounding this time around,
coming back down.
I thought I knew just what I wanted out of this,
I haven't seen her face in ages, haven't heard her
since she said,
That I'm going to Australia cause I'm already down
below,
maybe I can learn to swim against this undertow.
She said I'm leaving in the morning, because I need a
little change,
And now she's riding on a wave thats bringing her back
around this way.
Five oaths and counting, its been a while,
its been a long time since i've made this sound.
In five days she'll make it back around,
shes coming back down.
I'm not quite sure of where I'll find myself in this,
haven't felt this way in ages, I haven't seen her since
she said,
That I'm going to Australia cause I'm already down
below,
maybe I can learn to swim against this undertow.
She said I'm leaving in the morning, because I need a
little change,
and now shes riding on a wave thats bringing her back
around this way.
She don't know that I haven't changed,
No She don't know, cause she's too far away.
She don't know that I haven't changed,
She don't know, no
She said I'm going to Australia cause I'm already down
below,
maybe I can learn to swim against this undertow.
She said I'm leaving in the morning, because I need a
little change,
and now she's riding on a wave thats bringing her back
around this way.
She said I'm going, oh I'm going
oh, I'm going, and I...
She said I'm going, I'm going,
I'm going...
We can make it
(We can make it)
Yeah we can make it
Through fog and rain
We can make it
(Yeah we can make it)
In the Adelaide
Australia
Whoa
We try to belong
We travel alone
(You know how we do)
We travel alone
We can make it
(We can make it)
Yeah we can make it
Through the Melbourne heat
We can make it
Yeah we can make it
(Yeah we can make it)
Down a gentle stream
Australia
Whoa
From Adelaide we'll)
Whoa
We travel on still
(Yeah we representing)
We try to belong
(The gold coast, Brisbane, where you at?)
We try to belong
(We'll make it to Perth one day)
We try to belong
(To all the girls in Sydney)
Australia
Whoa
Adelaide we'll travel on
