Album: Blue sky mining, by Midnight Oil, 1990

River Runs Red

So you cut all the tall trees down,
you poisoned the sky and the sea
You've taken what's good from the ground
But you've left precious little for me

You remember the flood and the fall,
we remember the light on the hill
There should be enough for us all,
but the dollar is driving us still

River runs red, black rain falls,
dust in my hand
River runs red, black rain falls,
on my bleeding land

So we came and we conquered and found
Riches of commons and kings
Who strangled and wrestled the ground
But they never put back anything

Now I'm trapped like a dog in a cage
Wherever the truth is pursued
It must be the curse of the age
What's taken is never renewed

A song that describes the destructive effects of colonization to indigenous people and their territories in Australia. The greed of the conquerors only took and never give. They took their freedom, they destruct their selfsustainable social networks, they polluted their lands and now they are b-class people working like slaves in polluting mines and industries.

Antarctica song

I'm a snow plow
I must now plough on
I'm a snow plough
I'm a settler's son
I'm a storm cloud

Rain myself all over the place
I'm a storm cloud
Wipe that smile right off your face
There must be one place left in the world
Where the mountains meet the sea
There must be one place left in the world
Where the water's real and clean

I'm a landslide
I'm a downhill run
I'm a landslide

Open season's just begun
There must be one place left in the world
Where the skin says it can breathe
There's gotta be one place left in the world

It's a solitude of distance and relief
There's gotta be one place left in the world
I'm a snow plough
There has to be one place left in the world
I'm a snow plough

One place
One place left in the world
I'm a short fuse
I'm a snow blues
I'm a landslide hummin' I'm a downhill runnin'

There must be one place left in this world
Where we can be

A search for a place untouchable by the avalance of the civilization of destruction and pollution. That is only Antarctica, a hostile place for humans, but for how long will be?

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Rivers run red

Antarctica song