The Big Sell Out

Verse 1

White lines on the dusty bitumen

Running through a land they keep on selling away

Foundry smoke and a pocket full of nothing

Politicians in the city looking the other way

While the working man is starving on his feet

Pre-Chorus

Taxing every breath

Broken promise

Broken ground

Chorus

They don't care about the red dirt

They don't care about the true blue heart

Tear it down

Yeah rip the whole thing apart

Our voice is buried in the paper

Stolen by the men in suits

Tear it down

Back to the deep Aussie roots

Verse 2

Border gates swinging open wide

Farms drying out while the foreign banks gain

Hard truth hurts when you're looking for a hero

Finding only liars laughing in the pouring rain

Selling off the house to pay the debt

Pre-Chorus

Taxing every breath

Broken promise

Broken ground

Chorus

They don't care about the red dirt

They don't care about the true blue heart

Tear it down

Yeah rip the whole thing apart

Our voice is buried in the paper

Stolen by the men in suits

Tear it down

Back to the deep Aussie roots

Bridge

Stop the rot

Tell 'em no

Where's our nation supposed to go

I am shouting for the quiet

I am screaming for the lost

Chorus

They don't care about the red dirt

They don't care about the true blue heart

Tear it down

Yeah rip the whole thing apart

Our voice is buried in the paper

Stolen by the men in suits

Tear it down

Back to the deep Aussie roots