Mother and child playing on the lawn

It's a middle class home on a Sunday morning

And the mother says, son, where ya gonna run

Where ya gonna run to now?



I just jumped bail on a dope bust mum

And I'm saying goodbye and then the drug squad come

And in the name of the law

They punch him in the jaw

Where ya gonna run to now?



A long white car out of Tullamarine

A government member to the Carribean

And a man with a broom

Yells across the room

Where ya gonna run to now?



Will you have to tell lies when the kids ask you why

The horizon's a blanket of gloom

When the battle lines draw

Which way will you turn



Terania Creek's got a dozer track

And we'll never ever get Lake Pedder back

A director and a graph

And a million dollar laugh

Where ya gonna run to now?



Enrich the oxide out of Port Pirie

And the toxic gases they won't even see

But where ya gonna go

When the North wind blows

Where ya gonna run to now?



And your loungeroom is screening Nationwide

And you've just given blood to the bank

And the books on your shelves

Are a measure of all that you've earned

Will you have to tell lies when the kids ask you why

The horizon's a blanket of gloom

When the battle lines draw

Which way will you turn



Shake me, wake me, tell me it's a dream

I've got a B-52 on my TV screen

And a man in a tie

Pointing to the sky

Where ya gonna run to now



Mother and child playing on the lawn

It's a middle class home on a Sunday morning

And the mother says, son, where ya gonna run

Where ya gonna run to now?