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Forgotten Years

Track Listing
    7" UK, Holland, 3" CD Holland
  • Forgotten Years
  • You May Not Be Released
    CD Austria (also 12" Holland)
  • Forgotten Years
  • Basement Flat
  • Don't Wanna Be The One
    CD Promo USA
  • Forgotten Years
Credits

From the 1990 album "Blue Sky Mining".

Forgotten Years produced by Warne Livesey and Midnight Oil.
Engineered by David Nicholas. Assistant Engineer: Brendan Morley. Recorded at Rhinoceros Studios. Mastered by Leon Zervos
You May Not Be Released produced by Midnight Oil
Engineered by Paula Jones. Recorded at Rhinoceros Studios. Kalimba inspired by Glad Reed.
Illustrations: Michael Leunig. Layout: Denise Officer Brewster.
(Copyright of Sprint/Columbia)

Lyrics

Few of the sins of the father
Are visited upon the son
Hearts have been hard
Our hands have been clenched in a fist too long
Our sons will never be soldiers
Our daughters will never need guns
These are the yrs between
These are the yrs that were hard fought and won
Contracts torn at the edges
Old signatures stained with tears
Seasons of war and peace
These should not be forgotten yaers
Still it aches like tetanus
It reeks of politics
How many dreams remain?
This is a feeling too strong to contain

The hardest years, the darkest years
The roarin' years, the fallen years
These should not be forgotten years
The hardest years, the wildest years
The desperate and divided years
We will remember
These should not be forgotten years

Our shoreline was never invaded
Our country was never in flames
This is the calm we breathe
This is a feeling too strong to contain
Still it aches like tetanus
It reeks of politics
Signatures stained with tears
Who can remember
We've got to remember

The hardest...
Forsaking aching breaking years
The time and tested heartbreak years
These should not be forgotten years
The blinded years, the binded years
The desperate and divided years
These should not be forgotten years, remember

(Hirst/Moginie)