Redgum - Where Ya Gonna Run To lyrics

Mother and child playing on the lawn It's a middle cla** 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? He did it for a dare on the day he turned 11 His first shop break - Magnum 357. Frightened young cop and the kid doesn't stop. 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 cla** home on a Sunday morning And the mother says, son, where ya gonna run Where ya gonna run to now?