Who Can Stand in the Way chords by Midnight Oil

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Well oh well I feel I'm in decay
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John Laws is
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on the air again
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It's heavy traffic,
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jacarandas, eye in the sky and foot on ground
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I see a million sand speck'd ants
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in mortal combat hand to hand
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And I feel

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Verse 2

that I

Yes I feel that I

Seem to live this life long distance

Gaze at the things surround me

People rolling in and out

Those circles and tides confound me

And there's just

Verse 3

one thing

Yes there's just one thing

Verse 4

Who can stand in the way

When there's a dollar to be made?

Verse 5
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I was hanging round off
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Dobroyd Point
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When the first fleet chain sailed in
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Looked into  the clearest
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blue
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The scurvy smell, the convicts cry
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And we just

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carried on,

Yes we just carried on

Verse 7
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Now choppers strafe the su
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permarket sky
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And people wonder why
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Chopping down tons of trees
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Got seas of print not a soul can read say

Verse 8
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Why do I drown you build brick boxes
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One by one now they block my sun
But it's metal on metal
It's the dance of TV
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If Christ were here he'd cam

Verse 9
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era check
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He'd cry so loud
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the planes would stop
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He'd cry so loud the earth would shake
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And men would fall in
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tinsel town

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There's just one thing

Yes there's just one thing...

Verse 11

Who can stand in the way

When there's a dollar to be made?

Interlude 1

Verse 12
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Precious moments, precious few
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When that dollar's more
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than me  and you
It's the joy of forgetting,
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Such a joy to forget

Verse 13
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But we killed all our firstborn
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And we slashed and we burned
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And we sold off the paddocks
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And we raped and we gouged
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On the wings of a six-pack
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Will Will we ever learn?