I once felt passion I once felt pride But not these 7 years I have felt anger And disbelief All through these 7 years I once saw vision I once saw drive But not these 7 years I have seen bias Dishonesty All through these 7 years And when it comes to voting Will the people's vote have changed? What I'm seeing is displeasing But are they the things  People want to see Reflect society? I don't know I once saw drive But not these 7 years I once heard reason I once heard truth But not these 7 years  I have heard liars Hypocrisy All through these 7 years And when it comes to voting Will the people's vote have changed? What I'm hearing is disturbing  But are they the things  People want to hear  People far and near  Friends and neighbours  Kith and kin  Associates and peers? I don't know I once heard truth But not these 7 years But not these 7 years Not these 7 years

No one in this country Has to fall like Humpty Dumpty To hurt  A little like me No one in this land Needs a mind-reader at hand To know As much as I As much as I A little like me Living in the Lucky Country  Life can be a bitch But there's no need for perfect pitch To hear A lot like him No need to tap the nation's  Synesthesic sensations  To feel As much as her As much as her A lot like him A little like him A lot like her As much as I A little like me Living in the Lucky Country  So please don't act Like 'She'll be right' So laid back Like you're taking tranquilisers And don't tweet Like it's all ok And please don't vote Like you're really none the wiser No one needs to buy A pair of superhuman eyes To see A little like them Nowhere near as hard As gaining a Mensa Card To understand As much as us As much as us A little like them A lot like him As much as her As much as I A little like me Living in the Lucky Country  So please don't act Like 'She'll be right' So laid back Like you're taking tranquilisers And don't tweet Like it's all ok And please don't vote Like you're really none the wiser 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 Every voter matters when we're righting wrongs 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Counting down the days til this Government's gone No one in this country Has to fall like Humpty Dumpty  To hurt A little like me No one in this land Needs a mind-reader at hand To know As much as I As much as I A little like me Living in the Lucky Country  As much as I A little like me Living in the Lucky Country  Living in the Lucky Country Living in the Lucky Country

'Forget about your carpentry Forget about your family tradition' The teacher crowed 'I went to university And no one takes that piece of paper from me Believe me I know When I say the world's your oyster Don't bother with a trade (Toiling through all weather; snow, rain and hail) A BSc, a PhD and you're made' As a member of a junior team I thought that maybe one or two were odd Not a big deal But as a senior executive There seriously was something in the water So unreal The higher the salary The less integrity Values that you might have held Left beside the tree How on earth could mathematics Help me deal with sociopathic fools? But it didn't matter to me It didn't matter to me It didn't matter to me It didn't matter to me For I left all that skulduggery And got a job working in the forest Chopping wood I loved the smell of timber I loved the way it felt between my fingers Felt so good Then I noticed the plantation Grew bigger by the year Buying up land wrecked by Fire, drought and fear And rivers and streams Where wildlife seemed to disappear And it kinda mattered to me It kinda mattered to me It kinda mattered to me It kinda mattered to me So back I go in government To play a lead role in a solution Something with teeth We diagnosed the problem And everyone agreed that the right action Was Option B Allocate resources Responsibility Delegate the duties Accountability But 9 months down the track What's reported back was Option G With figures that show That the budget's been blown by a factor of 3 And all of the money Has gone to some offshore company And the project won't deliver Even if we were to give it a century But it doesn't matter to me It doesn't matter to me It doesn't matter to me It doesn't matter to me I'm living on an island Living off the land and off the ocean But as beautiful as it is I swear that the water's getting warmer And closer to my door

Dolly the Sheep has been brought back to life I could take a robot for a husband or a wife We can roll out new highways like butter from a knife Doesn't help us beyond the tipping point Our economy depends on coal-fired power Wouldn't dare constrain our tonnage by the hour Alternative thinkers came down in the last shower Won't help us beyond the tipping point Why is it so precious maintaining a party line? Why is it so hard to eat a little humble pie? We might be in bed with the USA We might train a monkey to surf the Milky Way We might have the weapons to blow a small country away Won't help us beyond the tipping point Feeling oddly privileged, I'll get to watch the race go bye Nothing helps us beyond the tipping point

Kirribilli House on New Year's Eve Drinks and appetisers If I can't put on fireworks The Prime Minister shouldn't either And it's hey, hey One rule for me, for them another Hey, hey Parliament at Question Time Bickering and feuding Workers have behavioural codes Politicians are excluded And it's hey, hey One rule for me, for them another Hey, hey Coronavirus taken hold No gatherings from Monday If I can't gig on Tuesday night Why can Hillsong on Sunday? And it's hey, hey One rule for me, for them another Hey, hey Holidays, speeches at church Political expenses Not in my tax return I wonder what their defence is And it's hey, hey One rule for me, for them another Hey, hey Kirribilli House on New Year's Eve Drinks and appetisers If I can't put on fireworks The Prime Minister shouldn't either

Never should we forget that The chains of economy Rattle and distract us  From keeping sight of humanity Those in teaching and nursing Those in emergency aid It takes a pandemic to show The undervalued and the underpaid So if you choose to sing, sing together If you choose to bang your pots and pans If you choose to clap, clap forever Keep the world in safest hands Safest hands When we come through this Let it be clear what we serve Let the right things endure Beyond the flattened curve So if you choose to sing, sing together If you choose to bang your pots and pans If you choose to clap, clap forever Keep the world in safest hands So if you choose to sing, sing together If you choose to bang your pots and pans If you choose to clap, clap forever Keep the world in safest hands Safest hands Safest hands Safest hands Safest hands If you choose to clap, clap forever Keep the world in safest hands Safest hands Safest hands Safest hands

Have you heard about COVID19? Everything is so serene  Making the most, making the most of Lockdown Listen now to what I say Time to venture out and play Making the most, making the most of Lockdown The air and the river water So incredibly clean The streets in the city and the suburbs The quietest ever seen Gather the herd and off we go Take a tip from the goats of Llandudno Making the most, making the most of Lockdown Cut across the M25 No need to check, no need to hide Making the most, making the most of Lockdown So hungry, could eat a horse Head for the greens at the new golf course Making the most, making the most of Lockdown Crash through to the allotments With its rows of garden peas Lettuces, beetroot Cabbages and kidney beans Some of us are hungry still A fresh rose bed in Harold Hill Making the most, making the most of Lockdown Parked cars got us excited Ripping off trim and windscreen wipers  Making the most, making the most of Lockdown My antlers smashed through shop windows Left calling cards all through Tescos  Making the most, making the most of Lockdown While you watched from isolation We marked our territory  I rubbed my groin and urinated  On some fella wearing PPE The virus made me do that! Stuff the human habitat! Make the most, make the most of Lockdown Making the most, making the most of Lockdown Making the most, making the most of Lockdown

We're still in isolation But the country's gone mad Insisting on returning To the things we always had Now life and art are like Chicken and egg But reality TV Hasn't caught up with us yet Like flies, like flies People are dropping Like flies, like flies People are gathering in crowds again You know there aren't no stopping Extraverts and introverts Unite for company Swarming shopping centres Forming mosh pits in the street Getting hit with a snogging stick Has become the latest craze In the nightclubs and the markets And the local village fete Like flies, like flies People are dropping Like flies, like flies People are gathering in crowds again You know there aren't no stopping Like flies, like flies People are dropping Like flies, like flies People are gathering in crowds again You know there aren't no stopping So we're told The Government is not sold On herd immunity But we're voting with our feet To give it a good go ourselves Still in isolation But the country's gone mad Insisting on returning To the things we always had Now life and art are like Chicken and egg But reality TV Hasn't caught up with us yet No, reality TV Hasn't caught up with us yet Like flies, like flies People are dropping Like flies, like flies People are gathering in crowds again Not knowing if this strain's the same As the one they dodged the other day And still there aren't no stopping

We've walked 80,000 years This land  All you see and hear Mapped in stories told Alive through songs of old Now we battle broken ancestral lines But that's fine It's for the sake of the Adani Mine We've worked generations long This land Families made strong Year in and year out Learned how to manage drought Now less water flows through artesian lines But that's fine It's for the sake of the Adani Mine We've scorned over centuries This land Far as you can see Spanned logistically  By road, rail, air and sea Environmental risks at every line But that's fine It's for the sake of the Adani Mine But that's fine It's for the sake of the Adani Mine

We apologise, apologise we've inconvenienced  Everybody in the country But until we have a vaccine, until we have a cure Follow our simple rules Download the latest greatest version of our app It'll help with contact tracing Our mantra is available on iTunes and Spotify And there's the YouTube video  Click play And gently sanitise  Rewire and rewind Let it wash For 20 seconds  And retrain your brainwaves It's alright, it's ok  We'll return to normal any day now If you've travelled to New Zealand or mingled with the working class Practise self isolation  Mainstream media has been whittled back But we've kept News Corp  No social security, trade unions are shut Any non-essential service And if you mistakenly feel your welfare is in jeopardy  You know exactly where to go Click play And gently sanitise  Rewire and rewind Let it wash For 20 seconds  And retrain your brainwaves It's alright, it's ok  We'll return to normal any day now Where our schools are open And we've replaced all the books Where our borders are open To the wealthiest of crooks Where our economy is back In black but never green  And if this feels unpalatable to you We've got the perfect thing for you to do Click play And gently sanitise  Rewire and rewind Let it wash For 20 seconds  And retrain your brainwaves Let it wash For 20 seconds  And retrain your brainwaves It's alright, it's ok  We'll return to normal any day now

It's got into our psyche Our value's measured by the Amount of money we spend Spend it we must Free market we trust To trickle down in the end Things are never too wrong to right Things are never too wrong to right Never too wrong to right Big business purses Chapters and verses From the Bible of John Galt Rewarded, slavened Economic equations Selfish to a fault Things are never too wrong to right Things are never too wrong to right Never too wrong to right Time to find unity Seize the opportunity Start from a different page Regain a social conscience Leave behind the nonsense Redefine the modern age Things are never too wrong to right Things are never too wrong to right Never too wrong to right Glimpsed the possibility Alternative normality A blueprint for how to be Context global Actions must be local That's the key to prosperity Things are never too wrong to right Things are never too wrong to right Never too wrong to right Never too wrong to right

How could we be selfish? How could we ignore How could we forget all Of what had came before? Though I say we It was not I I am certainly excluded So I'll revise Why were you so selfish? Why did you ignore Why did you forget all Of what had came before? Oh, it was not you? And no one here? So where exactly does that leave us? We need to be clear How dare they be selfish? How dare they ignore How dare they forget all Of what had came before?  Well evidently   It's simple sums  They're clearly in majority But I've met none So who chose to be selfish? Who chose to ignore? Who chose to forget all Of what had came before?