White Skin Black Heart

CD Aus

Thou Shalt Not Steal

White Skin Black Heart (Rusty Wheel Mix)
Frontier, What Frontier

CD Promo Aus

White Skin Black Heart

White Skin Black Heart (Rusty Wheel Mix)

22nd Sept 1997. From forthcoming Greatest Hits album.

All titles Midnight Oil except track 2 "Thou Shalt Not Steal" by Kev Carmody

Track 1 recorded at Sing Sing Studios, Melbourne. Assisted by David Davis. Mixed at 301 Studios, Sydney. Assisted by Louis Mitchell. Engineered by Magoo. Produced by Magoo and Midnight Oil.

Track 2 recorded at Megathon Studios Sydney. Produced by Paul Hayes. Engineered by Shane Fahey and Guy Dickerson. From the Larrikin album "Pillars of Society".

Track 3 remixed by Mark Ovenden at Timelock Studios, Sydney. Assisted by Liza Balner

Track 4 recorded and programmed by Midnight Oil and Vince Pizzinga. Mixed by Jim Moginie. Made at 301. Narrative on Frontier...What Frontier? taken from the ABC documentary "Frontier" used with kind permission, Thanks to Bruce Belsham.

Proceeds from the sale of this single will go towards advancing the process of reconciliation. All enquiries and donations to the State Reconciliation Committee c/- the Aboriginal Educational Consultative Group Inc., 37 Cavendish St., Stanmore, N.S.W. 2048.

Cover Artwork design by Kevin Wilkins/Midnight Oil. Additional artwork: Ethan West/Steven Cohen. Painting "Let's Be Friends" (Learning from each others culture) 1988 by Robert Campbell Jnr. courtesy of the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Lovingly mastered by Don Hartley at 301 Studios.
Thanks to Kev Carmody and the family of Robert Campbell Jnr.

Tracks 1,3 and 4 published by Sprint Music/Warner Chappell.
Track 2 "Thou Shalt Not Steal" published by Larrikin Music.

"I am convinced that until true reconciliation with its indigenous peoples is reached, Australia is a diminshed nation."
Sir William Deane Governor General

Management: Gary Morris

Yeah, whatcha gonna do now, now that you started?
Whatcha gonna do now, now that it's done?
The words got out there, they float around and are coming right back down.
You gonna leave us lying here
Dealing with the consequences of a bad sound
Of a bad sound.

White skin black heart
White skin black heart

Whatcha gonna do now, that it's spoken?
These words of a habit of not fading away.
Our memory is clear, conscience gets opened like a wound.
If you can't conceive a better line and better times,
Then let silence bury you, in the end.
When you feel it
You're condemned.

You see the Boston Strangler on the freedom road! You 
think ........................of something a long time ago!  You 
[spewed it out you were so] insecure!  It was like ............. on 
the toilet floor!  You're a nazi drunk,  ...............  and 
you say you want something, ..........    you heard the rednecks 
roaring for blood and then they wanted more! Life was so small, you 
couldn't get enough.  You made a start.

White skin black heart
Dripping,
White skin black heart

Drag your eyes from [aurora] black heart!
Drag your leg, get outta here [my sight]!
You didn't have to start
White skin black heart
White skin black heart