© Glen B Powell 1985

Audio: From the album ‘Burn’ by Quick and the Dead (1996)

Great Australian Dream – Lyrics

The TV fills the vacuum in the back room

Voices raise the volume in the bedroom

Second mortgage, second car

Mice run the wheels of the credit card

Hills hoist and a lemon tree

Dad’s not the man he used to be.

My mum’s always hiding from the neighbours

Our dirty linen up and down the street

But she never misses out that lotto form

If she skipped one week her lucky numbers would fall.

Daddy’s home, daddy’s pissed

Will he raise his voice or just his fist?

Wipe your shoes, come on through

Welcome to the Great Australian Dream.

Argue, sweat and bleed to feed the loan

Working all ten fingers to the bone

I see so many people like you

Hoping to hell you’ll find a way through

I see so many people like you

Down on their knees trying to make ends meet.

Pressure’s building in this precious building. The pressure’s building.

Pressure’s building in this precious building. The pressure’s building.

Pressure’s building in this precious building. The pressure’s building.

Wipe your shoes, come on through

Welcome to the Great Australian Dream