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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Jim Moginie
Keyboards
Martin Rotsey
Guitar
Peter Garrett
Lead Vocals
Peter Gifford
Background Vocals
Rob Hirst
Drums
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Jim Moginie
Songwriter
Peter Garrett
Songwriter
Peter Gifford
Songwriter
Rob Hirst
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Midnight Oil
Producer
Guy Gray
Engineer
GREG HENDERSON
Mixing Engineer
Nick Launay
Mixing Engineer
Tim Young
Mastering Engineer
Warne Livesey
Producer
Lyrics
I'll give you something to write home about
And I'll take you somewhere, show you around
We burnt all the cars that laid down and died
We burnt all the trees to keep us alive
Sat 'round the fire, sang like a choir
With the ashes of civilisation in our eyes
I come alive, I read the signs on the Gunbarrel Highway
Far off a dull radio beats for the young uninvolved
The meaning's a football
A stick and a can and a Kakadu man
Will the speaker speak up or the talker talk down
The world is no oyster and here in this town
Shit falls like rain on a world that is brown
I come alive, I read the signs on the Gunbarrel Highway
I come alive, and the children will sing as the
satellite swings down that highway
Nothing could be longer than that corrugated road
No ever follows where the road trains go
And no where in the country do the dust storms blow so hard
So hard
I come alive, I read the signs on the Gunbarrel Highway
I hear the sound, it's the wheels as they drive
And the cultures collide on that highway
Ah, it's a hard day, the children will sing as the
Satellite swings down that highway
Writer(s): Robert Hirst, Peter Gifford, Peter Garrett, James Moginie, Martin Rotsey
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